Good evening from the clerk Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts and boston. Im jim of the news hour of pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90 minute debates between the democratic candidate for Vice President , president , are gore and the democratic candidate traditionally bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to buy the commission and the campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. As moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular given take it another three and a half minutes. But even then those who go answer can exceed to minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements and each candidate may have up to timmins for closing statement. The questions and the subjects were ch
Alex savidge. Lets look at the numbers here. Throughout the day, joe biden has been widening the lead in the undecided states that could get him to 270 electoral votes. In georgia, he is up by 4400 votes. In nevada, the margin is more than 22,000. In pennsylvania, the lead is up to 29,000 votes. As more votes are trickling in, the map has not budged. Joe biden leads the president ial race with 264 electoral votes. President trump has 214. High turnout, and a huge number of mailin ballots, and slim margins have contributed to the delay in naming a winner in this race. We get more from our political reporter, greg lee. You are tracking where each state dance tonight. Reporter good evening. The nation is continuing to wait to see who will win the election. The campaigns are anxiously awaiting a final call. Joe biden and Kamala Harris were hoping for a call tonight. They land the campaign thought would be a victory speech. With remaining states too close to call, they adjusted the message.
In central minsk on sunday Security Forces arrested dozens of demonstrators mass protests demanding the resignation of longtime president Alexander Lukashenko have been held every sunday since august so just spewed at president ial election. Rescue workers have pulled a 70 year old man off from a collapsed building in the western turkish city of izmir 2 days after a strong earthquake in the agency struck turkey and neighboring greece but hopes of finding more survivors are fading the quake has killed at least 69 people and injured more than 100. This is g. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website did appear dot com. Many millis moves and precise choreography you ought to trademarks the french dont screw you retain the value you have more of that later and with that very well ball come to a new edition of euro backs lets see what else we have in the show today. Europe next report of macks merrill take left and weve gone for a year in revenue an
With both the chair and vice chair now consigned to a virtual waiting room, Jackie Weaver asks whether they should be let back in, but the other members arent in forgiving mood. Im afraid that i would be loath for that to happen, because weve got work to get through, and i can only see everything being. Even more disrupted. Hundreds of thousands of views of the lively scenes have awakened what would normally be a sleepy Parish Council meeting into an internet sensation, with one Presenter Tweeting out loud, but what happens next . mark lobel, bbc news. In a moment well get the snowy weather forecast, but before we do, lets take you to somewhere in the uk thats had plenty snow over the last month. In the village of tomatin in the scottish highlands, the pearson family have been getting comfortable in the cold. They made this igloo and even managed to spend a night in it. Well, when youre locked down with arctic conditions, there are ways to make the most of it. Time for a look at the we
May look like a scene from a bygone era. These young people are part of a community present day Central America they belong to a Christian Group known as mennonites, ultra conservative protestants, who shoot the modern world. Hit a, a new school house will sit on one side voice on the other, the recession, passages from the bible in on touch and their this morning, the youngest children. And then in the alphabet i look at the letter. I am pointing to god the older children are reading the new testament, printed in front of the traditional german script, and not to history, geography or foreign languages. The bible is the only text book saying, and baden, i teach them to read, saying, pray, recite poetry right here, count. Thats it. The children begin their schooling at age 6 and finish from the 13th long enough to learn the basics. But this is we learned from when i went to school, when the father of my grandfather went to school of every hour with you know, in a very thick not in a hi