Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
together they have been targeted over 150 times, since october 7, by iranian linked proxies. yesterday the target was tower 22, a us outpost onjordan s north eastern border with syria. an enemy drone hit the living quarters on base killing three soldiers and injuring at least 3a others. according to cbs, the drone was flown in at the same time as a us drone was returning to base from a mission. reportedly the air defence system had been switched off to allow the american drone in, but that also let in the enemy drone which flew in on a much flatter trajectory. washington has blamed iranian backed militant groups with president biden saying this weekend the us would choose when and how to hit back. i want to point out that we had a tough day last night. we lost three brave souls on an attack on one of our bases. we shall respond. in the last hour, the white house national security spokesman, john kirby, said washington was not seeking a wider conflict in the middle east. we do
welcome to bbc news. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collasped but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, as our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, steve rosenberg, reports. and it was under attack. steve rosenberg, reports. an explosion at dawn. steve rosenberg, reports. this was the result. steve rosenberg, reports. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel
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the united states run of dominance in the discipline. a little earlier, i spoke to zoi s parents, sean and robin, and they gave me their reaction to her historic win. we were just astounded at the outcome and that was a big - that was a big inaudible - dropped that third run and pull it off after being inaudible| medal position, so you have to dig deep for that. i bet you did. i was going to say for her to come well, she s 20 now to reach this level i mean, she is top of the world i want to know how she did it. here s new zealand, never won a gold medal in winter olympics before. i know you have some ski resorts not that far probably from you, but are you sort of past kings and queens of the slopes yourselves, or has she done all this of her own bat? off her own bat? no, we re both avid sort of skiers and snowboarders back in the day, but more recreational and zoi just