Century on to the point we asked trump all by how divided is the United States. Thanks very much for joining us my guests today here in the studio are Soraya Sarhaddi nelson from k c w radio maine who says the results show how disconnected American Voters are for be jhumpa and from politicians pollsters and journalists. Also with us is mostly secret freelance journalist and currently a fellow at the American Academy here in burlington he argues that a deadly pandemic months of racial upheaval and scandal after scandal have done little to diminish trumps popularity polls and a warm welcome to to Matthew Carney chief europe correspondent for. Politico who believes whoever wins in the end says the result shows that neither candidate its all policy has a clear convincing monday. Thank you all 3 for being here great stuff id like to begin with you sariah america has voted to walk one leading financial broadsheet cold a bitch us election that resolves little but seems like an option fed desc
Hong kong make good on their threat to resign on mass up to 4 of their colleagues are expelled from parliament. China condemns what it calls a blatant challenge to it. So far, im still gala welcome to the program. Germanys Public Health institute is warning that covered 19 infections could spread uncontrollably and some parts of the country case numbers are still increasing despite a partial national lockdown. Despite this, they robert coherence issued says the infection is likely to start flattening sim. Germany is in its 2nd week of a 4 week partial shutdown, but the covert 900 situation remains serious. More than 20000, new infections have been recorded in a single day. The head of the countrys Disease Control agency, the robot cock institute, warned of more deaths to come from. And you need to accept that the situation is going to get worse over the coming weeks. Some clinics could reach the limits of their capacity and it is possible that patients will not be able to receive optim
Restrictions that were put in place are actually having the desired effect or whether authorities have to tweak them and maybe increase them as well in the next few days. There are Big Questions as to whether this is being effective in particular, because germany continues to record very high numbers of new cases over 20000, for example, in the last 24 hours. And that is something that is obviously concerning for thors at the same time. There is a big concern among german hospitals. Many saying that the situation is even worse now than what it was in april, for example, during the 1st wave of the pandemic. So yes, there may be some positive signs, but the situation remains very serious and thats something the German Authorities have been very clear when they talk to the friends about these kinds of things. Christmas is only 6 weeks away and no government wants to go down in history as the one that canceled it, untold millions of people. They can go home and see their families. So tough
A record turnout we hear from commentators on the key issues. Sort of so they want to stop the killing over so if you want to continue tell me its a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big board our system is the worst we also see that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all welcome to the international on to our coverage of the u. S. Election counting in key battleground states continues. The contest for the white house could be over in the coming hour was with a Democrat Joe Biden looking more and more likely to be declared the went on increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving america on tenterhooks attention is focused on a handful of states and well still waiting for crucial results and nevada on. To have the democrats hold a slot and. Well as it stands this is how it. Has 264. 00 alexis if you include arizona which some say is too early to cool but if we assu
With hit or miss showers. Mike, how is it looking now getting out the door for work . Very different than ten minutes ago. The camera shows you all lanes now backing up toward the toll plaza itself. We have the backup that just formed again as folks flooded in towards that area. We also have slowing for highway 4 through concord which has been there early morning. I thought it would clear as the construction cleared but that is cleared from the roadway. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. There are razor thin margins in several battleground states as the final outcome of the election still unknown this morning. Just confirmed within the last few minutes joe biden ahead by a very slight margin in pennsylvania. Hes ahead by just more than 5,000 votes. Battleground states are still to close to call. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in wilmington with reaction from both campaigns. Tracie . Reporter theres a lot of anxiety building, a lot of excitement building, particularly on