Votes shy of victory. Votes are still being tallied Spectrum Campaign is already demanding a recount and one crucial battleground states. And in other news ethiopias Prime Minister or his troops into the 2 brain regions on an attack on a military base. And its 4 hours into the football hero Diego Maradona has Successful Surgery to remove a lot of calls from his brain. Just gone 800. 00 g. M. T. Thats 1 pm in the eastern United States and there is still uncertainty about who the next president will be the country is awaiting for a few key results with 43. 00 states counted results a neck and neck that leaves 7 states to decide the direction of the country and most could go either way while other states paused for the night counting continued in wisconsin we are expecting to have that result soon in the last few minutes the trunk Campaign Says it will request a recount there. And we have correspondents across the United States the seller john hendren is in lansing in the battleground sta
Boris johnson casts his vote in britains election jobsons conservative party saw its lead over the labor opposition narrowed in the final week of campaigning. Time sumi so whats got to thank you for joining us it is an issue that has been causing friction between germany and the us for years and now it has escalated the north stream to pipeline is being built to transport gas from russia to germany but the u. S. Says it is a National Security risk because it increases your dependence on russia as a result the u. S. House of representatives has now approved sanctions on the pipeline a move that has angered many here in germany the sanctions target the specialist ships that lay the pipes. Only a few companies in the world possess the technology to lay deep sea pipelines. None of them is russian if they continue to work on north stream too they could find themselves cut off from doing business in the us their assets there might be frozen and people working on the ships would no longer be
Its not only professional interviewers who ask tough questions. Heres an audience member on last fridays question time leaders special putting Boris Johnson on the spot. How important is it for someone in your position of power to always tell the truth . Laughter. Applause. I think its absolutely vital and i think its absolutely vital. But when that excerpt was played on the following days news at 1, the audience laughter following the question was cut out, eliciting these responses. Unfortunately, when the bbc changes or edits some footage, all it does is undermine its objectivity and independence. Bbc news, on that lunch time bulletin, did Boris Johnson a huge, huge favour. The excuse given that they needed to shorten the clip did not make sense at all, as it was only a couple of seconds. But cutting it out completely changed the context. It is actually quite startling watching question time. Watching the audience feel comfortable laughing at a Prime Minister discussing the importanc
England are chasing new zealands first innings score of 375 in the second test in hamilton as their hopes of levelling the series fade. Are bitterly cold start to the weekend with a hard frost and some fog out there. But, it is going to bea dry fog out there. But, it is going to be a dry story for many of us this weekend with lots of sparkling winter sunshine. All the details coming up shortly. Its saturday the 30th of november. Our top story the man who carried out a terror attack on London Bridge yesterday was a convicted terrorist. Two people, a man and a woman, were stabbed to death. The attacker named as 28 year old usman khan was shot dead by an armed officer. He had beenjailed in 2012 for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist Training Camp, but was freed on licence a year ago. Simonjones has this report. Terror returns to the streets of london. A man and a woman killed. Now the question is, how was this allowed to happen . Fit pictures of film from the
So general election his conservative partys lead over the Opposition Labor Party narrowed in the final week of the campaign. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us german Business Leaders have reacted angrily after u. S. Lawmakers approved sanctions against the north stream to gas pipeline the German Russian Chamber of commerce has called for retaliatory sanctions while the German Economics Ministry said it for gretz the moves now the sanctions passed by the u. S. House of representatives affect construction of the north stream to pipeline targeting the ships that lay the massive pipes u. S. Lawmakers and the white house believes that north stream too will make germany too reliant on russian gas and give moscow greater political leverage over berlin and the whole of the European Union. Our Political Correspondent simon young is covering this story for us and he joins us for more hi simon tell us more about some of the reactions that youve seen here in berlin this morning. Ye