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The places and the person who will likely decide the most consequential until election of our time. Thats tonight on these lines good evening im abby phillip in new york and welcome to the official start of the general election is shaping up to be a rematch for the history books. In the red corner is donald trump twice impeached, indicted insurrectionist, depending on who you ask. And the blue corner, joe biden, older, unpopular and beset by questions about his ability to do the job for four more years but there is a third man in the ring to robert f. Kennedy jr. More on him in a moment. But first, a reminder, this election will be close and it will be decided by a few thousand votes in roughly a handful of states. Six to be exact. So here is where it could all come to a head. This november six states where lets face it, each ballot might make a bigger impact than in the rest of the country. Nevada, arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. These are the swinging list of ....
their celebrations, that s for sure. also celebrating today, is kate cross. she s been named in england s squad for the ashes test with australia after recovering from illness. the pace bowler needed multiple rounds of antibiotics to treat a parasite infection, but has been included in a is player squad for the four day test at trent bridge starting on 22nd june. she said on social media, it s always so special . the test is followed by three t20s and three one day internationals. full details of the squad are on the bbc sport website and app. it s a huge day for women s sport in england. last year was the baroness this morning euros. this summer at the ashes. the winners of the ashes in particular, for us, i think is much as we can we would encourage people to get out. and watch what we are hoping will be some really entertaining cricket. meanwhile, the men s ashes starts in four days time and australia got the perfect warm up by beating india on sunday to become wor ....
big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating ou ....
the north west we have areas of cloud across southern and eastern england as well but most places looking dry through the night. temperatures about 6 10 but we could see temperatures of 3 or 4 with clearer skies. a little bit fresh first thing tomorrow, slightly cooler with the wind is coming from a more northerly direction. more cloud through the morning across northern ireland and scotland, a few spots of light rain in the far north and more sunshine south but you could catch a rogue shower. temperatures at about 20 degrees for the warmest spots and a touch could close to the east coast. we have got moderate to high levels of uv out there where you see the sunshine breaking through. tuesday night into wednesday stays dry and settled with more cloud once again on wednesday working from the north west. most places with long spells of sunshine and wednesday will be a little bit warmer than tuesday so top temperatures at 21 degrees. high pressure holding on as we look tow ....