since the 19 seventies. and in the last 12 gubernatorial reelection s in virginia. only one has ironically enough, mcauliffe s narrow victory back in 2013. here s the basic situation. when a party is in power, as democrats are in the white house, it s often mobilizes the opposition party. part of the political gravity is held for decades. heck, look back to the 1930s. 1934 side which was an anomaly situation, when the democrats under roosevelt, got absolutely blown out in the 1938 midterm election. that s after they did all the new deal stuff everybody, loved it was so popular he was elected president four times, and even he went through the same kind of political backlash to his presidency, that were seeing last night. in many ways it s an unavoidable part of our political reality, in a divided country. here s another interesting angle in virginia, which is that, in many ways, republicans kind of turn back the clock a little, they nominated a very bush era style candidate.
shoddy. he said in facts. libelous under british law to say he knowingly, for one, used forged materials. he sued her over those claims that she made about him in her book. and they went to trial. and it ended up being a remarkable thing, that trial, because in that libel trial, she and her legal team literally had to prove the holocaust happened. over the course of ten superintense weeks, they systematically went through all of the fake sudo scholarship and all of the conspiracy theories and all of the forged junk, all the garbage promoted by these holocaust deniers on the far right. and they proved it all wrong in court. they proved that the holocaust happened and these far right nazi sympathizers were lying about it for political reasons. the holocaust denier guy, the guy who had brought the lawsuit, brought it specifically in england so his claims could have this kind of a trial, because he was so sure he would be vindicated and everybody would have to believe him now, he
iii time european cup winners real madrid are also in action later as they travel to germany to face rb leipzig. carlo ancelotti s side will be without england starjude bellingham who s out with an ankle injury after picking up a knock in their 4 0 win over girona in la liga on saturday. the spanish club haven t put a timescale on his return and say his recovery will be monitored . chelsea s slim chances of returning to european competition next season were given a boost after they came from behind to beat crystal palace 3 1. they were trailing after a first half goal from palace sjefferson lerma. but chelsea came out stronger in the second half with conor gallagher scoring twice against his former club, and enzo fernandes completed the comeback with his second goal in two games. chelsea are nowjust two points off a potential european place. it is our challenge to be consistent in every single game. this type of victory helps us to raise our confidence. when you are in the
officials say at least 78 people have been killed and more than 100 other injured in a stampede at a school in the yemeni capital sanaa, during distribution of charity for ramadan. there is some footage emerging allegedly from the incident a warning: some viewers may find it distressing. this is video footage from al masirah, a tv station linked to the houthi rebel group which controls sanaa. the video was picked up by the reuters news agency and it purports to show the incident in the bab al yemen area of the city. as you can see, it s an apparent crush of people, many of whom look to be in distress. we will have more on this story as it updates. now to sudan where the latest ceasefire has failed. these are pictures from the capital, khartoum. witnesses say gunfire was still being heard across the city. both sudan s army and the paramilitary group its fighting, the rsf, had agreed to the ceasefire, and it s not clear which side, or both, has broken it. civilians like these