Identifying what the key issues are and taking steps to deal with that. And its expected hell serve quite some time in the role as chief of staff. Something that will be a real contrast to the trump white house, where weve had 4 in the last 4 years. Be wrong, claim that will be organizing calls with world leaders. Those calls that weve seen joe biden make just in the last few hours. Hes spoken to the leaders in japan in south korea under still. Yeah. So those 3 leaders have acknowledged that joe biden is the president elect in the united states. 15 of hong kongs prodemocracy politicians are expected to formally resign after chinas hardest Decision Making body disqualified. 4 of their colleagues, the government accuses them of being a threat to national security. The u. S. Is one china further sanctions off the move. The coronavirus turtle continues to mount in europe. The u. K. Has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours, while 623 new fatalities were recorded in italy. Restrictions are being
Trump updated americans on his response to the coronavirus pandemic. According to some estimates, a National Lockdown course 50000000000. 00 a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally, we wont go to a lot. I will not go, this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administrator will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. The United Nations says its concerned war crimes may have been committed in ethiopias, northern tigre, a region Government Troops are battling local fighters, but said they conflict has already killed hundreds of people. Thousands have fled to sit on. Rival factions in libya have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. The date is considered a sign of progress from talks in neighboring. Chad is here. Thats where 75 libyan delegates have been the go see it in a vote. Map of civil war. A 30 year
They see the are walking through their process. They are still gathering evidence and they still believe that in a number of these cases, they can convince the judge to throw out a number of these votes. Meanwhile, donald trump has banned americans from doing business with companies that could help the chinese military. He declared a National Emergency to facilitate the executive order. It says beijing forces Chinese Companies to help finance and modernize its military. But the ban takes effect on january the 11th, just days before trying to show you want to step down. Police in perus capital, lima, her block protesters from reaching government headquarters. Theyre marching against the impeachment of the former president , martin vickery. And he was voted out of office over corruption charges and replaced by the former head of congress. And well, you know, will serve as interim president until july. Ethiopias Prime Minister has declared victory in the Northern Region of t. Gray, where
To not genuinely swear, to uphold the basic law, and not genuinely plead their allegiance to hong kong. We have doubts about their ability to perform the duties if theyre unable to uphold the basic law and to support hong kong. Of course, in a qualified to be legislated, palestinians are bidding farewell to the territories chief negotiator, erekat who has died at the age of 65. His body is being taken from ramallah this hour to jericho, where his funeral will be held later. Erekat died on tuesday from complications far from covert. 19, he was a key figure in talks with israel for more than 20 years. Bahrains long serving Prime Minister has died in the us. Have been sound man and highly fellas. 84. It been head of government in the gulf kingdom for more than 50 years. The government has announced a week of mourning. The military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the countrys borders, and they are fears it could lead to a humanitarian crisis. Several 1000 people
Cooperate with president elect joe biden. China has congratulated biden on securing a win for the white house. It comes after trump bad americans from doing business with companies owned or controlled by the chinese military. It will take effect on january 11th days before trump is due to step down. Gabriel, arizona has more from wilmington, delaware on how biden might handle relations with china. So what you can expect is a couple things more multilevel approach to china, number one, and also more of an approach of Holding Things such as democracy and human rights on the same level as trade and economic issues. That would be something that would be a little different than whats been the u. S. Policy, the last 4 years. Last, the 0 point out there could be some points of cooperation between biden presidency with china. And that could come down to 2 things. Number one, Climate Change biden has said that is very much at the top of his list of priorities to deal with. And you cant deal wit