ban. so these the muslim travel ban. so these will send very, very strong m essa 9 es to will send very, very strong messages to america's traditional allies stop he will, i'm sure, adopt a more consular tree tone on trade talks, the belligerence that has characterised trade talks not just with china has characterised trade talks notjust with china but has characterised trade talks not just with china but the european union as well, don't forget, has really started the relationship. we've already seen today, for example, the secretary general of nato welcoming joe biden's victory in the election. nato and the relationships with the nato countries, huge damage and distrust has been sown in that relationship over the last four yea rs relationship over the last four years so relationship over the last four years so there are a whole lunch of different axes which people among america's allies will be breathing a sigh of relief, quite honestly, because they really didn't know how to deal with the united states. united states as a reality was

still the most powerful country in world and it had a leader who seemed not to value it's allies. our thanks to gary there. earlier, i spoke to michael carpenter. he is managing director of the penn biden centre for diplomacy and global engagement. he was former assistant secretary of defence during the obama administration also director for russia at the national security council. iasked him how a biden presidency would approach china. with regards to a number of america's competitors, you will joe biden handle this from the position of strength and he is going to work with our allies and partners. ithink going to work with our allies and partners. i think that's what has been missing from the approach over the last four yea rs. approach over the last four years. in donald trump's approach to china, a very narrow preoccupation with the trade deficit without looking at some of the systemic abuses that china uses to vantage itself in terms of trade and

investment, giving subsidies to state owned enterprises, not giving equal market access to foreign companies and so on and so foreign companies and so on and so forth. fact —— theft of intellectual property. i think what a biden presidency will do in response to these issues, will work with partners throughout the world, to put up a united front and end this systemic manipulation of trade and investment. 0k, and let's go for a wider look now. those traditional alliances, the way the us will work with big international organisations and its allies. how does this change now, contrast from donald trump to joe change now, contrast from donald trump tojoe biden? well, i think what you will see from the hyden administration is much greater emphasis —— biden administration is a much greater emphasis on democratic norms and values and standing up norms and values and standing upfor norms and values and standing up for institutions in countries where they are under threat, working together much more closely with our aquatic friends and allies on things like fighting climate change, on infectious diseases, on a

whole range of global threats and challenges and i think strengthening nato is going to be crucial. you've had a president for these past four yea rs president for these past four years who has questioned whether america would come to the defence of its nato allies, who has really damaged the solidarity within the alliance so solidarity within the alliance so you solidarity within the alliance so you are solidarity within the alliance so you are going to see i think joe biden as president emphasising how we can work together with our allies and partners instead of maligning them and working against them. so more unity, essentially echoing the message of his speech just a couple of hours ago. i will get you now going specific again on your areas of expertise, russia. how does that relationship develop now over the next four years? once again you will see mostly a biden administration that approaches russia from the position of strength. that means increasing and strengthening the defence and assurance capabilities of the nato alliance, it means that when russia does undertake

hostile actions with regards to the us or undercuts the sovereignty of other countries that abided administration would work with our allies and partners to impose costs on russia for those actions, but i think it also, vice president biden or now president—elect biden, as emphasised the importance of maintaining dialogue with russia on issues like arms control, crisis management, risk reduction and similar topics so i think what you'll see is an emphasis on strategic stability but from a position of strength and working once again together with our allies and partners. last pop quiz question, specific country i would love to get your thoughts on and thatis to get your thoughts on and that is a run. -- iran. resident elect biden has said he would like the us to rejoin the comprehensive plan of action on iran's nuclear programme stop if iran comes

back into compliance with the terms of that agreement, what we have seen again over the last few years is that the us has adopted a unilateral approach so now the us is isolated on the world stage, rather than iran being isolated on the world stage prior to the agreement. so what you are likely to see from biden administration is once again the us working with its european partners and others, including europe and china, to try to get iran to recommit to those programmes where there are viable checks on the expansion of its nuclear programme. and ensuring that its only used civilian purposes. all those questions a nswered u nless purposes. all those questions answered unless a specific countries. you can relax a little bit now. i do have one more question but i won't put you on the spot like that again. this idea of america first over the last four years, isolationist approaches from the us was not for many people around the world, donald trump

was seen as a around the world, donald trump was seen as a powerful leader, a figure of strength for others around the world, that us are disengaging from the world was a sign of decline. how doesjoe biden go about changing the image of the us's role in the international affairs?” image of the us's role in the international affairs? i think what we have seen over the last four years is that really the emperor is wearing no clothes. if you look at opinion polls across world, confidence in the us president is an institution asa us president is an institution as a person has declined to those we have never seen before and this is very dangerous for america's go national security interests and our ability to work with our partners so once again, ithink work with our partners so once again, i think you are going to see a biden administration seeking to rebuild our relations with crucial allies in europe and east asia, in latin america, indeed, around the world and partnering on issues was not i mean, you have already is heard the news, one of your previous speakers spoke

about the fact that a biden administration's likely to rejoin the paris climate accord on day one. it is likely to rejoin the world health organization, it is going to end trump's immigration ban from muslim majority countries so from muslim majority countries so it is going to reassert america's moral standing on the world stage and that, i hope, will allow the united states to work more closely with our allies and partners so that we can achieve common goals. many world leaders have been reacting to the news that joe biden will be the next us president and kamala harris his vice—president. our reporter paul hawkins is here. what have leaders been saying? i suppose they all communicate via twitter now. of course, it is the only medium by which you would want to give your congratulations to kamala harris and joe biden. on that note, actually, michael was talking about joe note, actually, michael was talking aboutjoe biden reaching out and rebuilding

relations with european allies. and on that note, they have a ready started. at least trying to reach out. angela merkel the german leader, justin trudeau, canada's leader, french president emmanuel macron, all tweeting their congratulations tojoe biden tweeting their congratulations to joe biden and tweeting their congratulations tojoe biden and saying they look forward to working with him in the future and of course thatis him in the future and of course that is the general thing for a lot of world leaders reaction when residents and prime ministers come into office or win their elections, at least. interestingly, india's prime minister narendra modi picking up minister narendra modi picking up on kamala harris's background. she is of south asian origin, her mum was indian,. chittis being the tamil word that she used when she received the democratic nomination for vice president, it was kind of an acknowledgement that she is as much there, thanks to the

indian part of herfamily as herjamaican side, speaking of which, the jamaican brand minister andrew holness has issued a statement saying america will have its first female pride —— vice president, kamala harris, we are proud,... then of course, joe biden, very proud of his irish heritage, the irish taoiseach, the prime minister michael martin saying he looks forward to welcoming joe biden back to ireland when the circumstances allow and borisjohnson, the the circumstances allow and boris johnson, the uk the circumstances allow and borisjohnson, the uk prime minister, as well as giving the normal congratulations to joe biden, also calling kamala harris', winning the election of vice president, calling it a historic achievement. messages, lots of them coming in for the president and vice president—elect. any messages mentioning the current incumbent, donald trump? not many, not many. straley‘s

minister scott morrison gave his congratulations tojoe biden and kamala harris but before that, he did thank president trump and vice president trump and vice president mike pence and many other members of his cabinet with whom they have had a very good relationship over the yea rs. good relationship over the years. spain's deputy pm, pablo iglesias, from the left side of the government there, the left wing, says trump is confirmed to have lost the election, this is good news for the planet as the globalfar is good news for the planet as the global far right loses its most powerful political asset. the belarusian president, resident lukashenko who of course has been through protests in his own country and the re—election of himself which was criticised as not being fairand which was criticised as not being fair and transparent, he has called the election a comedy, a mockery of democracy and iran, ayatolla hs, comedy, a mockery of democracy and iran, ayatollahs, any tweeting. ..

then of course, interesting there has been no reaction from israel, from the prime minister benjamin debt —— netanyahu, no official reaction from the russian president vladimir putin as well. thanks for that round of the international reaction. taking a back to the us. the bbc‘s yalda hakim caught up with some very excited biden fans in wilmington earlier. we're very excited. very excited, very thatjoe's income are very happy that donald trump is leaving. yes, my heart jumped when they called him as resident elect, number 46, joe biden! i'm so excited. and then kamala harris is like ice cream

on the cake! lots ofjubilation and joy here but you actually know and joy here but you actually knoinll biden. yes, jill biden was my daughter's 10th grade english teacher at brandywine high school before she became doctor jill brandywine high school before she became doctorjill biden. so we're excited about her educational programme for all of us. we're going to be a smarter country too! just tell me, this has been a very difficult, divisive period. throwing the pandemic because of what has life been like over the past year? it's not been good, 70 people have missed so many things. we have 70 people who have passed away and it just didn't have to be if donald trump had taken care of this in the beginning because ofi this in the beginning because of i don't blame him for the pandemic, i blame him for the way he handled it. yes, we have had friends and family who have had friends and family who have had covert, had friends and family who have had cove rt, we had friends and family who have had covert, we had friends and family you've lost people ——

covid. we know people today who are sick with covid personally. we know nurses and other medical professionals who have been sick trying to help people and so we really believe that joe president biden is going to help us bring down the curve. and i have found actually a lot of people have been referring to him as joe. of people have been referring to him asjoe. do you feel like you know him? well that's why we call him joe because he you know him? well that's why we call himjoe because he is one of us. you can we call himjoe because he is one of us. you can see we call himjoe because he is one of us. you can see him in the home depo, you can see him around town. i go to the wawa, the governors here every day for these local politicians are just like us. yes, we call him joe. you knowjoe. we know him for eight years before donald trump. if you love bro raack obama, how could you not love joe biden? —— barack.

america's new president elect, joe biden has said he wants to restore the soul of the country and work towards bipartisan cooperation. in his victory speech in wilmington in delaware, mr biden said he had a mandate to govern with fairness and decency and promised to spare no effort in turning around the coronavirus pandemic. my colleague ros atkins has a summary of howjoe biden won this election. sor) to become president of america, you need a majority in the electoral college. this is a system where candidates compete for individual states. if you win a state, you get a certain amount of electoral college votes, to become president, you need 270 electoral votes. because of the reasonable predictability of a lot of states in america, we always knew thatjoe biden would take california, joe biden would take new york. it was the states that we couldn't predict that really decided which way the selection went and in the hours that followed the polls closing,

actually, the news was better for president trump. he took florida early on, later on ohio and iowa. he also took texas which the biden campaign had given some attention to, but that is really where the good news stopped for president trump. then the biden campaign started getting better news. we know there was a huge focus on the midwest. hillary clinton lost all the key states in the midwest. joe biden was to try and win them back. and he took wisconsin, he took michigan, which meant that when the day started, he was on 253 electoral college votes, he needed 17 more to become president. there were various routes, either via the south—west — nevada and arizona, or simply through the state where he grew up, pennsylvania. he grew up in scranton. and a few hours ago, that's what happened. he took pennsylvania, that took him over 270 to 273. we're still waiting on some states — north carolina, georgia, arizona, actually, nevada's been projected as well. he currently stands on 279. it doesn't matter what happens in these other states, he already has enough to be the president elect. now, one of the things that

will define his presidency is how much progress he can make with congress. let's look at both houses of congress. the senate matters more because it's a tighter political contest. the democrats have 46, add in two independents who tend to vote for them, they're on 48, so are the republicans. there are four outstanding, two of those, north carolina and alaska, we expect to go in the direction of the republicans. the thing we're all focused on is the two run—offs for the two senate seats in georgia, they will happen in january. if the democrats take them, it will be 50—50 and then the deciding vote goes to the vice president and of course the vice president elect is kamala harris, a democrat. that is why there will be a huge amount of attention on georgia in the coming weeks and that's notjust because of the fact that we still don't know who won the state in the presidential election. i'll quickly mention the house as well, the lower house of congress, less politically dramatic, the democrats controlled it before election day, they still control it now.

the republicans made some gains but that will not have any impact on the fact that the democrats on the whole control the lower house. though it is the senate that is the unknown at the moment but we know about the house and we know who's going to be president, too. here's daniela relph with a profile of the president—elect. joe biden had waited a long time for his run at the white house. now, 77 years old, most of it spent in politics, few could match him on experience, and nobody had a personal back story quite like his. his early career was overshadowed by tragedy. he was elected to the senate in 1972. six weeks later, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident. his two sons were badly hurt. in this extraordinary moment

that mixed the personal and political, at their hospital bedside, joe biden took the oath of office and never forgot those who rescued them. a guy driving a tractor trailer broadsided my wife and children and killed my wife and killed my daughter. and guys i grew up with, the people that got me elected, they were the ones there with the jaws of life in their hands saving the life of my two sons. the personal torment almost drove him from politics. but family and influential friends persuaded him to stay. his focus became foreign affairs, tearing into ronald reagan's policy on apartheid in south africa. our loyalty is not to south africa, it's to the south africans! and the south africans are a majority black and they are being excoriated! it is notjust some stupid puppet government over there!

he married again and ran for president in 1987 but pulled out after using an extract of a speech by britain's former labour leader neil kinnock. america's intervention in the balkan wars was partly due to his pressure on bill clinton. we're told we're not taking sides. i'm here take sides! mladic is a war criminal! the leader of the bosnian serbs, he is no better than hitler! joe biden! in 2008, he ran for the presidency again. his campaign lost steam but his popularity, blue collar roots and foreign policy expertise impressed the eventual winner barack obama. as a vice presidential nominee, he said goodbye to the senate after nearly 40 years. i say for the last time with more gratitude than i can express,

i yield the floor. i will bear true faith and allegiance to the state. joe biden was a forceful voice at the heart of the administration. sceptical on sending more american to iraq, in favour of gay rights and same—sex marriage, despite a deep catholic faith. this also gives the internet one last chance to... laughter. ..talk about our bromance. his strong relationship with barack obama was plain to see. when his son beau died of cancer in 2015, joe biden sat out the next presidential race. hello, detroit! but in 2019, he decided to give it one last try. in a campaign dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, most polls had put him ahead and there was that bad tempered debate with donald trump. will you shut up, man? who is — listen, who is on your list, joe? who's on your list? gentlemen... well, it's hard to get any word in with this clown.

there were gaffes, forgetfulness, donald trump continued with the sleepyjoe attacks. he was also accused of being over tactile with female colleagues. but he is a natural politician, connecting to people through his experience of both public life and personal tragedy. often saying, "it's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how quickly you get back up". daniela relph, bbc news. as vice—president elect, kamala harris has made history, many times over. she will be the first woman, the first black and the first asian american to hold the position. nomia iqbal looks at her rise to the second highest office in the country. the nation was born with the words ‘all men are created equal‘. it's taken more than two centuries for that promise to begin to be

realised by a woman. kamala harris struggled when she ran to be the democratic party's pick for president, but later found a role as the progressive counterweight to joe biden's more establishment candidacy. joe biden and i are proud, patriotic americans who share the values with the vast majority of the american people who want a president of the united states who speaks truth. she was born in california to immigrant parents of jamaican and indian heritage. there would be a meaningful discussion... she was elected to the senate four years ago off the back of a successful period as a prosecutor. something that later damaged her support among some liberals who thought she had been too tough on african—american defenders. she graduated from this university, where her elevation to the nation's second highest office is viewed as hugely symbolic. i have to admit i am still in a bit of

shock about it, i am thrilled, i wanted this to happen, i imagine she will take all of the things you learned in her lifetime and put them into policy which will make her again more than a simple, it will become a politician of substance. kamala harris. but she still had to teach the country how to say her name. i'm kamala harris. she was openly attacked by the president. i thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody on the us senate. if kamala harris had been born more than 100 years ago, she would not have been able to vote, and as a black woman, she would have had no rights, but now, she is set to become the most powerful and influential woman in american's political history. nomia iqbal, bbc news. so now we have it, a new vice

president elect and a new president elect and a new president elect and a new president elect as well injoe biden, and he gave his first speech since attaining that position, he now knows that thatis position, he now knows that that is where he will be heading, the white house. at the moment of course donald trump is still inside, still based there and has not conceded, what now happens is legal challenges, but there has been no evidence really presented on the basis of those legal challenges so what is expected to happen is a transition period and in january, joe biden will take occupancy for the next four yea rs of occupancy for the next four years of the white house. in his first speech as president he said the people of this nation have spoken, he said he seeks not to divide but unify, he does not see red states or blue states, he said, but the united states. so, it was tuesday, the election started, day after day, vote after vote, we now finally have a result,

we now finally have a result, we know who will be the new occu pa nt of we know who will be the new occupant of the white house, 74 million people chose a new direction for the country, and let's look back now at a historic day for america. we have shown the world that we are united. donald trump did not divide us as he thought he did. when we did the recount, we need to fight it in the court, it is not over — we need to do a recount. we did it joe!

you're going to be the next president of the united states! hello there. autumn can often bring with it contrasting weather conditions. that's exactly what we had on saturday afternoon. for some, lots of blue sky, sunshine and even some warmth. across northwest wales, a high of 19 degrees. eastern scotland, some of the fog lingered for much of the day and as a result, temperatures really struggled, just a daytime maximum of four degrees. now, we could see further dense fog patches once again across eastern scotland and north—east england through the night. it could be a different story, though, further south, turning much milder but cloudier, and you can see that on the satellite picture. an area of low pressure is going to start to push in from the south—west, introducing cloud, showery bits and pieces of rain. but circulating around that low pressure in an anticlockwise direction, the wind, so that means a southerly wind and that's driving in milder air from the near continent. so, we could start off then with some fog around

across the far north—east first thing in the morning. that will lift quite readily away. the rain quite light and patchy into the south—west first thing in the morning. it's going to drift its way steadily northwards throughout remembrance sunday, but eastern england mayjust see the odd spot or two of nuisance rain, really. the rain pushing its way out of northern ireland into scotland, allowing for some brightness in the afternoon, and if that happens, temperatures once again will respond, 15, 16, maybe even 17 degrees for some if you keep that sunshine. now, as we go through the evening hours of sunday, that showering rain will continue to move its way north out of scotland, but it will do so only then to be replaced by another area of low pressure, almost in a repeat performance of what we saw on sunday. so, monday morning, more showering rain into the far south—west, certainly more cloud across the country and it does look as though that cloud for some could be here to stay. so, be some showers, particularly sharp ones down across the south—west.

dodge the showers, keep some sunny spells, temperatures on the mild side, 11—16 degrees the high. as we go further ahead into the week, an area of high pressure will block the low pressures coming in off the atlantic, so they're not really going to push right across the country. they could just stay out to the west and you can see that with the week ahead city forecast. there will be some outbreaks of rain at times. further east, it stays drier and brighter.

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. us president—electjoe biden addresses supporters for the first time since his election win. mr biden says he aims not to divide but to unify. for all those of you who voted for president trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies, they are americans. kamala harris, who will make history by becoming the first female vice president, says voters have sent america's children a clear mesasge to dream with ambition. says voters have sent america's children a clear message to dream with ambition. see yourselves in a way

that others may not,