Much of the voting was done before election day is held and the Global Pandemic forced states to adjust balloting and procedures. The counting of the votes to expected ormany hoped. Some of the final tabulations are not yet complete. To be determined which party will hold the majority in this chamber. We do know a few things. First, most important, former Vice President joseph biden will president of the United States. Our dear colleague, the distinguished senator from california, harris will be the next Vice President of the United States and on july 20 on gender 20th, the country will finally, finally turn the page on one of the most divisive and chaotic chapters in our history. President elect biden the country it is time to come together and heal, and there is no person better suited to the vicethan the former president. He will be a great president for all americans. Vice president elect harris has made history four times over. Firstll be the asianamerican woman, the first to serv
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Person voting has begun at polling stations on the east coast some Analysts Expect turnout the selection could be the highest in a century plus germanys intensive care units brace for a 2nd wave of code patients staff say that they have the beds but fear that if infection numbers arent stopped from brian saying they could be overwhelmed. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program austria has declared 3 days of National Mourning after a gun attack in central vienna killed at least 4 people suspected islamist gunman opened fire at multiple locations of the city center on monday Evening Police say that they shot and killed one attacker and are hunting one or more assailants still at large chancellor Sebastian Kurtz called it a repulsive terror attack but throughout not to let it divide the country. Panic on the streets of vienna the shooting began around 8 pm and Police Quickly flooded the city center it was an unseasonably warm evening and bars and restaurants were crowded ahead of a partial
Shock and disappointment as well but the overriding emotion here is shock followed by grief of course i mean you must understand that vienna has to be expedient Something Like this the last time they had attended a tackle of such a back to do it or any incident such as this was nearly 40 years ago so this comes as a very rude shock a very rude awakening for this country and also for this city and just to sort of give you an idea of how shocking this is for the indies and for this country im standing right now i dont want to step on spots Stephon Square which is essentially almost in the middle of the city and the square that you see in the distance behind me is only just chock full with people at the moment it is virtually empty that is the extent of the shock that people are experiencing over here im standing in front of also the well known stefans kick up where the bells are going off at the moment this is were talking about the heart of here and this is what was attacked and this is
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us its election day in the United States and today and all this week well be looking at the impact of the vote on countries across asia one of the most important relationships for the u. S. In the entire pacific is its in gage meant with india the 2 countries together with japan and australia from part of what is known as a quad for democracies in a clear counterpoint to china the regions large authoritarian state we sat down with indias foreign secretary harshvardhan to discuss regional politics we started by asking him whether thered be any change with a biden presidency especially given president dollar trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modis great personal admiration for each other. Other relations with the United States are really based on bipartisan support you see it in congress you see it in public lives we do believe that the force that elation ship that today is had visits to the test of time is very comprehensive and