I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
defend it signs of disagreement at the cop27 climate change summit over plans by several african countries to extract more natural gas. and the jackpot that seems to get ever bigger the powerball prize now worth nearly $2 billion. of america s crucial midterm elections today. a strong showing for the republicans will put them in a position to block any ofjoe biden s legislation, and would encourage donald trump to run for the white house again in 202a. here s our washington correspondent nomia iqbal. that s certainly the hope by president biden and the democrats that they can work together. the moment president biden became president two years ago, he made a big point of bipartisanship. he is friends with a lot of republicans so he had made a big thing about how we can all get on. when the ukraine invasion happened, there was a rare glimpse of bipartisanship, because both parties agreed that sending aid to ukraine was a good thing. however, many republican candidates runn
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can see lots of isobars on the charts driving the showers in. some of the heaviest ones we can expect affecting more southern counties of england, towards the south west and wales and some running of the receipt to north west england. some of the showers will push northwards and eastwards forming bands, some of them heavy and rumbles of thunder. in between, good spells of sunshine and the wind is still a feature. temperature 12 to 15, 16 degrees which is very mild for the time of year. this evening and overnight, showers rattle through on a fairly brisk south westerly as the night wears on the winds will ease down somewhat and the shower activity eases through central and eastern areas. still going across the south on the west and some of them could be quite heavy. temperatures four to 11 degrees. nowhere particularly cold because of the strength of the breeze. on wednesday, probably fewer showers around for much of the country with the low pressure system sitting to the west