In germany, the Centre Left social Democrat Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz narrowly fends off an electoral challenge in the eastern state of brandenburg by the far right afd which had been ahead in Opinion Polls before the vote. Sri lankas president ial election has been won in a political shift for the nation. The election on saturday was the first to be held since mass protests unseated the Countrys Leader in 2022. Ill a full bulletin at nine oclock. Now on bbc news, its time for americast. How can america keep its politics safe . Safe for everyone, but particularly safe for the candidates who are running for the presidency. It is, of course, a huge issue now. There have been two attempts on Donald Trumps life. There is a potential threat, of course, to everyone who is involved, and it has an impact on america because, in a practical sense, how do people go out and campaign if theyre unsafe doing so, but also in a kind of undermining of democracy sense, as well, that the whole natio
Of all, with their open borders and bad elections, they have made us into a third world nation, something which nobody thought was even possible. Americans deserve a campaign based on the issues. We try and keep it on the issues, and god has now spared my life. It must have been god. Not once, but twice. And there are those that say he did it because trump is going to turn this state around. He s going to turn this country around. He s going to make america great again, and maybe. So how does america protect its presidential candidates? welcome to americast. Hello, it sjustin in the worldwide headquarters of americast in london, england. I thought we d decided that wasn t funny any more. It s sarah here and i m in springfield, ohio. And it s marianna, aka misinformation. Also in london, also in what we are still very boringly calling the worldwide headquarters of americast. Ok, it s not funny, but we re doing it all the same, and there s quite a lot that falls into that category. Anywa
Now on bbc news, americast. How can america keep its politics safe . Safe for everyone, but particularly safe for the candidates who are running for the presidency . It is, of course, a huge issue now. There have been two attempts on Donald Trumps life. There is a potential threat, of course, to everyone who is involved, and it has an impact on america because in a practical sense, how do people go out and campaign if theyre unsafe doing so, but also on a kind of undermining of Democracy Sense as well, that the whole nation feels itself to be unsafe and unable to be properly democratic. Donald trump has been talking about the second attempt on his life and using it, its fair to say, for his own political gain. Theyre doing things in politics that have never been done before in the history of our country, and worst of all, with their Open Borders and bad elections, they have made us into a third world nation, something which nobody thought was even possible. I americans deserve a campai
Information, and then sent it to Biden Harris staffers. And thats where we are at the top of the new hour. Hello and welcome everyone. I am Sandra Smith in new york, and john is with us. John the fbi says that iran attempt to do reach out to staffers with phishing emails. They are looking into the incident. Sandra Gillian Turner is live from the State Department to kick it off for us. Gillian, do we know if any staffers opened the emails or replied to them . We can presume, sandra, they opened some of the emails, because they eventually figured out it was some kind of phishing attack. But none of the staffers, as far as we know replied to them. Big picture right now, sometime over the summer, iran managed to hack into the Trump Campaign. Stole information, and tried to share it with what was then the biden Harris Campaign. Listen to former President Trump talking about it last night. This is foreign Election Interference. This is Election Interference, not the phony crap they have trie
Jim sciutto In Washington will continue to follow Breaking News out of florida where the fbi is now investigating an apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump just two months after the former president was shot in the e. R. At a rally in Pennsylvania Trump is safe. He was not harmed in Sundays Incident at his Golf Club in West Palm Beach, florida a 58yearold man identified. You see him there as Ryan Wesley Rows has been detained he had weighed in on politics, on Social Media in the past at times criticizing trump a source says the Fbi Investigation has now gone global. As officials look into the alleged Assassins Background or attempted assassinate, the background earlier, the Palm Beach County Sheriff said the Secret Service fired shots at a man who was holding a rifle in the bushes along the perimeter of the trump international Golf Club. A source says trump had been playing golf at the time it is moving between the fifth and six holes his outing, we are told was a last Minute D