If you say no, the twoparty system is not working, your line is going to be 202 7488001. If you are unsure what you still want to talk about this issue, your number is going to be 202 7488002. You can alwaysd text us your opinion at 202 7488003. Keep in mind, we are always reading on social media, on. Witter, and cspan we are going to have live on the two current thirdParty Candidates running for president. Coming up at 8 00 we are going to hear from Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins. Coming up at 9 15, the jorgensenn nominee jo will discuss her platform and strategy for this years election. If you want to hear directly from those candidates, keep watching the show. First, we want to hear from you about the twoparty system in the United States. Do you think the political system is working . There is a story from cnn that talked about this earlier this year. Even if they are down on the independent candidates being presented, nearly 40 of americans think a third local party is needed
Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Guest we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected 19 people to their bundestag, their congress, and people around the world said maybe we in 1984 inhat we met st. Paul, minnesota and said, we cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. We got on over 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. Andave been here 35 years currently have 100 29 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, more than any independent Progressive Party has. You have to go back to the heyday of the socialist party before the 1940s. What has changed as we have a lot of ballot lines running local candidate,
Nationalising british business. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is in lancaster to deliver a speech in the next few moments on the broadband announcement. Mrjohnson has also denied claims by Brexit Party Leader nigel farage that the conservatives offered his candidates peerages to try to get them to stand down. Im anita mcveigh. Live in aberdeen. At the Maritime Museum. This is a city fuelled by the sea and oil. Just as the Election Debate here is fuelled not only by brexit, but by independence. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The labour party says it plans to deliver fast and free full fibre broadband to every household and business by 2030. They say they would part nationalise bt to deliver the policy, and tax tech giants to help cover the cost which labour estimates to be about 20 billion pounds. Jeremy corbyn is set to outline these proposals at a speech here. At lancaster university. Well bring you that as soon as it starts. 0ur poltiical correspondent nick eardley i
Had a dramatic impact on afghanistans president ial election the estimated voter turnout was less than 25 percent of saturdays vote there were nearly 70 attacks across the country at least 5 people were killed and hundreds of others injured but its in the u. S. Response to those attacks that has angered many afghans tell me both the reports. Show the u. S. Retaliation for the talibans election day attacks was swift but according to locals in gaffney province a bomb from an american drone attack killed 6 men and injured 2 others. I dont think they were all civilians 5 of them were killed on the spot and the 6th one was told the hospital where he died one is my son and the other one is my brother amongst them that. On sunday angry locals protested by carrying the bodies of the men to the governors house in the provincial capital. They say the victims were not taliban fighters. Never you know these 5 civilians were killed intentionally in the drone strike the cornets were provided by an A
Triumph in courts for start by parliament in may now in september he returns with more votes more seats and he believes a bigger mandate to govern figure later you have no mayhew guns guns here i would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all our voters as a federal government we were voted out of office in may it was a difficult 4 months and today the voters voted us back in thank you very very much for your support and thank you very very much for your trust. Contrast that with his former Coalition Partners in the far right Freedom Party whose vote share has plummeted seemingly punished by the people for the Corruption Scandal their former leaders plunge them into in the spring. I think that in general the scandal and afterwards the question of Party Expenses is going to be an obstacle for the election result but im used to carrying some of the around with me but the other big losers are the social democrats who worked with their ideological opponents in the far right to