this is bbc news live from washington and london. america prepares for a change of leadership. joe biden is projected to be the 46th president of the united states, defeating donald trump. mr biden spent his first morning as president elect at church in his home town, after an address in which he appealed to supporters — and to tens of millions of americans who did not vote for him: i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify. who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the united states. president trump finds solace on the golf course, though on twitter he continues to assert that the election has been "stolen".

joe biden has encountered every british prime minister for the last a0 years. he described the incumbent as a clone of donald trump, a comparison boris johnson is keen to ignore. there is far more that unites the government of this country and governments in washington at any time and stage than divides us. and — kamala harris will make history by becoming the first female, the first black and the first asian—american vice—president. queen elizabeth attends a ceremony to mark remembrance sunday to honour the dead from the two world wars. people across the uk observe a two minute silence.

hello and welcome — i'm laura trevelyan in washington, lukwesa burak is in london. joe biden is wasting no time in making preparations for his move to the white house. the president—elect is preparing a series of executive actions reversing mr trump's decisions once he takes office injanuary. these include informing the un that america wants to rejoin global efforts against climate change. (london but first, global efforts against climate change. but first, he'll have to address the health of the nation. the covid pandemic has so far claimed 238,000 american lives. he's already announced he will form a coronavirus response committee to ensure it is ready to implement decisions from his inauguration day injanuary, previously he said he wants to provide free testing for all and hire 100,000 people to set up a national contact—tracing programme. mr trump has still not admitted defeat. he renewed his claims

that the election was stolen, without offering evidence. other senior republicans have largely remained silent. fresh from another round of golf — the president was back on twitter — asking ‘since when does the lamestream media call who our next president will be? we have all learned a lot in the last two weeks!‘ nomia iqbal is in wilmington, delaware — mr biden‘s home town. mecca when we hear that when he becomes president in january, joe biden will have a whole series of executive orders ready to sign. —— nomia, when hear. that is right. he won't need congressional approval for any of them. some of the ones we are expecting this to get back into the parish climate change deal was donald trump pulled america out of also expecting him to reverse that

withdrawal from the world health organisation. —— parish climate change. donald trump also withdrew. —— parish climate deal. and also the ban on muslim majority companies will be expected to see that reverse. anyway, joe biden will be going back into the white house that he served dinner with president 0bama. in helping to reinstate those policies that 0bama had put in place. —— paris climate change deal. for people in the united kingdom, they will be looking very closely how the relationship moves forward between the two leaders. what is your feeling from where you are? boris johnson has already congratulated president—elect biden, there had been a flurry of congratulations from world leaders for the president—elect andi leaders for the president—elect and i think one of the biggest

things that people will be looking to is the us trade relationship with the uk post the brexit. donald trump have frequently said that he would put the uk first although there was never any kind of substance behind any of that. there is an expectation joe behind any of that. there is an expectationjoe biden behind any of that. there is an expectation joe biden might behind any of that. there is an expectationjoe biden might do that. we don't know for sure. he has not indicated either way but that is something they will be looking at carefully and will get more of a sense of that at the start of tomorrow, this week when we expect to get more details on who will be in joe biden‘s administration. coronavirus cases are sobering to record levels here in the united states. what are we going to hearfrom united states. what are we going to hear from joe united states. what are we going to hearfrom joe biden specifically on that tomorrow? —— are soaring to record levels. we know mr biden has put this pandemic as a huge priority. we saw throughout his election campaign. it was a real scaled—back strategy that he had come a very small

gatherings, and he always wears the mask and really went after donald trump accusing him of not showing leadership. we are expecting him to announce that he will be listening to the scientist which i think will be a relief to a lot of people who did support donald trump. he will be putting together a group of more than 2a people, scientific technology experts to work together to try and get that crucial thing that americans and the whole world are americans and the whole world a re really americans and the whole world are really looking forward to come a vaccine that can be safely delivered to people. nomia, thank you very much. let's speak to ben wright who's in washington dc. the president still has not conceded. we haven't seen him in public or heard from him in public. since joe biden in public or heard from him in public. sincejoe biden wasn't predicted. but he will be appearing on a talk show with one fixed on supporters in about an hour. presumably not conceding. —— since joe about an hour. presumably not conceding. —— sincejoe biden

was predicted to win. we wait to see. the president has been another day coughing at his clu b another day coughing at his club just another day coughing at his clubjust outside another day coughing at his club just outside of washington where he found out yesterday that he lost his election and joe biden had been declared as the winner by the networks but we haven't heard from him. we seen his suites where is continue to dispute those results and make him something she edit claims about voter fraud. —— we have seen his tweets. we expected interview from him within an hour on fox radio station i think become a podcast with mark levin. and we will see what he has to say. i think it is unlikely that he will throw the towel at point and makea will throw the towel at point and make a statement of concession, that seems very unlikely. we've been hearing state m e nts unlikely. we've been hearing statements now from some senior republicans coming out and congratulating joe biden. thus president trump actually care what the party thinks about him? that is a good question.

what is very interesting is trying to gauge for the reaction of senior republicans what they think about him. and where they think the future of the republican party is. donald trump did get a huge number of votes around 70 million in many ways it is his party now. he still has a very invigorated base. you've seen senior republicans like ted cruz who have said in the last day, today that we should wait to find out precisely how the losses play out, discouraging president trump from conceding. —— at various lawsuits play out. a lot of senior republicans are sticking with the president for the moment. and he had the old guard like former president george w. bush you are giving their congratulations to joe you are giving their congratulations tojoe biden and consider this a matter close what it shows how split in the republican family is still about donald trump. thank you, ben. we are getting more results from arizona. 98% of the vote in. joe biden

maintainsa slim the vote in. joe biden maintains a slim lead. well — as we've been been reporting, president trump remains unwilling to concede defeat — and has vowed to contest election results on several fronts. in georgia where the margins are tight there will be a recount, althouthoe biden‘s lead has stretched in the past day tojust over 10,000 votes with 99% of the ballots now counted. mr trump also wants a recount in wisconsin — his lead there just over 20,500. and the trump campaign has now filed a lawsuit over ballots cast on election day in arizona that it says were incorrectly rejected. joe biden‘s lead there is 18,550 with 97% of the ballot counted. arizona's secretary of state, says the president is "grasping at straws". if the election result is challenged — it would require the president‘ legal teams to begin their fight

in the state courts, before it got anywhere near the supreme court. and so far no evidence has been provided for the alleged voter fraud. in the past few hours, the former republican president george w bush issued a statement congratulating joe biden on his election victory. president bush said... the statement will increase pressure on senior republicans to recognise the projected result. senior figures in mr trump's republican party have remained largely silent, but one report in the us media suggests his adviser and son—in—law, jared kushner, has tried to persuade him to concede. speaking on nbc‘s meet the press, utah republican senator, mitt romney, said mr trump was within his rights to question the results.

he has every right to call for recounts, because we are talking about a margin of 10,000 votes or less in some cases, so a recount could change the outcome. he wants to look at irregularities, pursue that in the court, but if, as expected, those things don't change the outcome, he will accept the inevitable. he is without question the most powerful voice in our party. he will have an enormous impact on the party going forward. i believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure his principles and policies are pursued, so yeah, he is not disappearing by any means. he is the 900lb gorilla when it comes to the republican party. 0ur north america editorjon sopel says that there is little chance for president trump conceding anytime soon. there is pressure. apparently, melania trump believes the president should get ready to concede.

that has been reported although she has put out a tweet that seems to deny that. jared kushner is reportedly, his son in law, believing that donald trump should call it a day. against that, you have got his two sons eric and donjr, saying you should fight on and some of the prominent republicans as well. but you also had against that george w bush, the only living former republican president coming out and congratulating joe biden on his election victory. president bush, who doesn't intervene that often in politics these days, choosing to make it very significant intervention as if to say i'm not waiting for donald trump's legal process to play itself through, i believejoe biden has won this election and the only thing to do in these circumstances is congratulate him and kamala harris. it looks as if these legal challenges are just going to keep coming. for some, it may well be a numbers game.

this really is going to to muddy the waters, isn't it? if he keeps throwing the challenges at him. yes. i think the other thing about this is, i read some commentary today saying that joe biden‘s victory was a repudiation of donald trump and tropism. donald trump picked up more votes in this election that he did in 2016. i don't think he feels repudiated. there is a sense that the american people have rejected him in those terms. and donald trump has always been much more interested in what his grassroots say and what the party establishment says. so i think if he feels that he has got the grassroots behind him and they want him to fight all the way, that is what he will do. do i think that it is imminent that he will pick up the phone and say tojoe biden, president—elect biden, i was wrong about the fraud and want to concede, i don't think that will happen anytime soon at all.

sources in trump world say these lawsuits are largely performative and so far they are ten for zero in the courts. they will run out of road this week unless they actually bring the evidence that trump allies are saying they should produce it they will persist with this. laura, a lot of allegations come a lot of suggestions that there was fraud and people voting that should have been allowed to vote in dead people voted come all the rest of it. where is the evidence? where is the evidence that is going to overturn, to go back to mitt romney, where is the evidence that will overturn a ten, 20,000 majority in the states? normally when you get a recount, you might find 100, 200 votes changing hands. if you look at the past elections where there were recounts, very small numbers of votes change hands. you will have to find fraud on what would seem to be a systematic scale that stretches from wisconsin to michigan, pennsylvania, arizona, nevada, to georgia. is there really a suggestion that that is the level of organisation of fraud that took place in this election?

stay with us on bbc news, still to come... queen elizabeth leads a socially—distanced service of remembrance at the cenotaph in london. the bombastic establishment outside of donald trump pacify the posters to take the keys to the posters to take the keys to the oval office. i feel great about the results with floated for him because i believe he ca res for him because i believe he cares about the country. keeping the candidates name always in the public eye that counts. success always in the public eye that coui'its. success or always in the public eye that counts. success or failure depends not only on public display, but on the local campaign headquarters and the heavy routine work of their women volunteers. heavy routine work of their women volunteers. berliners from east and west linked hands and danced around that liberated territory. with nobody to stop them, it wasn't long before the first attempts we re long before the first attempts were made to destroy the structure itself. he dominated the palestinian cause for so

long, he has died. palestinian authorities have declared a state of morning. after 17 yea rs of state of morning. after 17 years of discussion, the result was greeted with an outburst of jov- was greeted with an outburst of joy. women ministers who long for only grudgingly accepted among the ranks of clergy suddenly felt welcome. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... joe biden's team is pressing ahead with preparations for his time in office. on monday, the president—elect will announce members of a coronavirus task force. divisions are emerging in the us republican party over the presidential relection result. donald trump has posted another stream of tweets claiming the vote was stolen.

let's stay with the us election. the bbc‘s larry madowo has been speaking to supporters of of president trump in atlanta. i've here all afternoon at a protest by supporters of president trump would feel the election it was stolen from them. i have stacy with me, why were you here? i was here to support president trump. just based off all of his policies and procedures that he has put into place. whether we win or lose i want to show our support. do you believejoe biden won this election? i believe that is what it shows at this point. if he wins by honest integrity, then i am all for it because i will support whoever the president is. why do you like president donald trump? i like president trump because i'm actually... i've been a democrat my entire life. i'm even a registered democrat now. three or four months ago, i saw something in the news that alarmed me.

so i started doing the research myself. and i have a family of interracial family with both blacks and latinos, and i adore my family and when i dug, what i saw was more suppression than from joe biden then donald trump. what did you see in the news that alarmed you? i saw where he put past the law for the law to suppress the black voters, not the voters but black people, and where kamala harris, i'm disappointed in her because the laws that they put in place. where if you are injail for a drug charge, they extend those cases to a longer timeframe and i just don't believe in that. i think you do your time for the crime but after that, you should be able to go back into society. how we'll feel when joe

biden is inaugurated at the president? if he is i will support that 100%. i believe in america and our country. stacy, thank you. thank you for speaking to us. that if the reaction here among one of the more reasonable supporters who admits he might have lost and looking forward to what happens next. i've been speaking to a lot of trump supporters over the last week in pennsylvania and south carolina and north carolina and in georgia. he has the following that is very devoted, more than maybe any of the political leader i've seen and our covered elections in two continents and that is why they come out her every day to declare their support for him. what kind of relationship is president electjoe biden likely to have with boris johnson? the uk prime minister said he was looking forward to working with mr biden issues like climate change but as our diplomatic correspondent, james landale reports there are some tricky issues ahead. from the days of margaret thatcher, joe biden has been no stranger to britain, making it his business to know the prime ministers of the day.

at least, until now. for borisjohnson has yet to meet the president—elect and the two men have their differences. mr biden has described the pm as a "physical and emotional clone" of donald trump. and as for brexit... had i been a member of parliament, had i been a british citizen, i would have voted against leaving. views shaped in part by his ancestry. mr biden, a quick word for the bbc? bbc? i'm irish. he's made clear that peace in northern ireland should not become a casualty of brexit, with a uk—us trade deal very much on the line. a warning repeated by allies. there are of course significant concerns here about how any departure arrangement, final status, between the uk and eu might impact the border in northern ireland. from downing street,

the prime minister insisted the us was britain's closest, most important ally, and there was a good chance of a trade deal. there is far more that unites the government of this country and government in washington, any time, any stage, than divides us. we have common values, we have common interests, we have a common global perspective. there are issues where mr biden agrees with mrjohnson. being tough on russia, reviving the deal curbing iran's nuclear programme and agreeing new carbon reduction targets at a big climate summit in britain next year. above all, a president that supports multilateral organisations such as nato, unlike his predecessor. but... the hard truth is that britain outside the eu is less useful to washington, and so, whenjoe biden wants to influence europe, he will go to paris and berlin, not london. there was a time when american

presidents were so important to britain that 160,000 people paid a few pounds to build a statue of one, like franklin roosevelt here. but those days are gone. joe biden's priorities will begin at home, fixing covid and the economy. allies, trade deals, they have to take second place. so for now, a relationship, not as special as once, but more predictable than of late, with perhaps fewer tweets. james landale, bbc news. other news now — and here in the uk, the queen led the remembrance sunday commemorations — as people around the country paid their respects to the fallen largely from home — because of coronavirus restrictions. this year's events come 75 years on from the end of the second world war — and the queen was joined by other members of the royal family and political leaders at the cenotaph in london. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell was watching. music: nimrod by elgar.

the numbers were depleted, but for all that the massed bands and everyone else had to be socially distanced and the pavements were empty of crowds, the purpose was unchanged. 0n remembrance sunday, in a year when loss has been more keenly felt than most, the ceremony of remembrance at the cenotaph had a particular power and poignancy. as 11 o'clock approached, the queen took her place on a balcony, as the prince of wales led other senior members of the royal family to their places in readiness for the two minutes' silence observed in whitehall and around the nation. big ben chimes the hour.

music: last post. in whitehall, the prince of wales placed the queen's wreath against the cenotaph‘s northern face. other members of the royal family followed. absent, for their different reasons, were princes harry and andrew. the wreath—laying by the politicians, a small group of commonwealth high commissioners and the military chiefs would normally have been followed by the march—past by thousands of veterans. the record will show that in 2020, 100 years after the cenotaph was unveiled, things had to be done differently. the veterans were represented by a group of 25. yet, for all the changes

required by the pandemic, lives lost in war and more recently were recalled and honoured, for remembrance is carried in the heart. nicholas witchell, bbc news. finally. there have been celebrations in the vice president—elect‘s ancestral village in india. the people of thulasendrapuram, a small village in the indian state of tamil nadu, woke up early to celebrate the first south asian american to win the second—highest us office. carrying portraits of the vice president—elect, residents gathered around fireworks and took part in prayers. 0thers drew colourful kolams, calling her the ‘pride of the village'. harris‘ mother emigrated from india to the us aged 19. very much the american dream. that is all from us. thank you

so that is all from us. thank you so much. you're watching bbc news. hello there. southerly winds will bring us a mild start to the week but they are also bringing extensive cloud, damp weather, and we have seen mist and fog patches. murky conditions for a time. the satellite picture shows the area of cloud responsible for the drizzle with fog lurking underneath. low pressure to the south—west and a more substantial area of cloud that'll be coming in towards the middle part of the week. we will see rain over the next few days. for the early risers it'll probably be a damp start for the east coast of scotland, some eastern areas of england, with mist and fog patches dotted around across scotland, england and wales. murky conditions. then we will start to see further bits and pieces of rain working into northern ireland and wales and

south—west england. that rain is tied into this area of low pressure which will be pushing north—eastwards as we go through the course of monday. a cloudy start to the day on monday, pretty murky across scotland, much of england and wales, with bursts of rain for northern ireland, wales, western areas of england. through the day this rain will push north and eastwards. it'll gradually brighten up across western areas. 0therwise, scotland and most of england's day pretty cloudy. despite that it'll be mild. temperatures reaching a high of 16 degrees celsius in the south—east of england. through tuesday, the low pressure still on the charts, and we've still got a lot of cloud in the forecast, still with bursts of rain pushing north and eastwards. low pressure on tuesday will weaken significantly. that means the cloud will break up and we will see brighter weather pushing in from the west slowly. a chance of seeing some sunshine, and it is still mild, average temperature for this time of year, 15 degrees in london, still four above normal. tuesday, a more substantial area of rain will move in from the atlantic.

this will be accompanied by strengthening winds. heavy rain for northern ireland, heavy rain also developing through the day for west scotland, southern wales, and the moors of south—west england. a squally band of rain. notice it is dry for much of the day over eastern areas of england, it'll probably have brighter spells, as well. this band of squally rain will push eastwards as we go through wednesday.

this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak.

the headlines... joe biden has spent his first morning as us president elect at church in his home town. he is now preparing a transition team to decide key policies and priorities ahead of his inauguration injanuary. he's set to inform the un that america wants to rejoin global efforts against climate change. mr biden says a new strategy to fight the virus is his top priority. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the world passes 50 million, with over 100,000 new cases a day in the united states alone. the former american president, george w bush, has congratulated joe biden on winning the white house, calling the election "fundamentally fair". but donald trump is still refusing to concede. on twitter, he continues to assert that the election has been "stolen" without supplying evidence. now on bbc news, global questions.