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and here in the uk, kemi badenoch wins the race to become the new leader of the conservative party — the first black woman to lead a major political party in britain. to be heard, we have to be honest. honest about the fact that we made mistakes. that we let standards slip. we've made it to the final weekend of campaigning before the us presidential election, and democratic nominee kamala harris and her republican rival donald trump are busy crisscrossing the key election battlegrounds. right now, harris is in atlanta, georgia, and trump is in gastonia, north carolina. here's some of what the candidates had to say a short time ago. you know what we're going to do? we're going to drill, baby, drill like you've never seen before.
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cheering. straight down. and for the people in pennsylvania, we are going to frack, frack, frack. but we are going to drill, baby, drill, and we're going to frack in certain areas, we're going to frack like we've neverfracked before. because we have more energy than any country in the world, including russia, and we are lucky in that regard, including russia and saudi arabia. they have a lot of oil, we have more than they do. and we were energy independent four years ago, think of that. one of them is going to be to submit, basically, a package of proposals that are about bringing down costs. so, for example, housing — what we need to do in terms of creating a tax benefit for folks who want home ownership, what we're to create a $25,000, down payment assistance plan, what we are going to do for small businesses. all of that will require a lot of work. and day one is also me getting
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on the phone with members of the republican party, with leaders, with the private sector. a lot of my plan includes working with the private sector. my plan includes cutting through red tape. our correspondentjohn sudworth has more from atlanta, georgia, where kamala harris held her latest rally. well, kamala harris told this rally that she was going to win. the country, she said, is tired of the division and the grievance, and then the crowd led her in that now all too familiar chant, "no going back." but that confidence is not borne out by the polls. this remains a race too close to call across the key swing states, none more so than here in georgia. if kamala harris can hang on here tojoe biden�*s victory back in 2020, which he won by the slimmest of margins, just a few thousand votes, then that would be a major milestone on her road
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to the white house. but she is here because she needs to fight for every vote, and deep down they know that this is far from sewn up. there were two key messages today. first, kamala harris attacking donald trump on questions of his character and his record in the hope of maybe scooping up some of those undecided middle ground voters, and most importantly, drilling home with the concerns about donald trump's success in rolling back reproductive freedoms for women in america, clearly aimed at the audience here in the hope of galvanising and rallying the core vote, which will be crucial if she is going to hang on to this state. our correspondents have been reporting for us from battleground states throughout the day, as both candidates make their pitch to voters. helena humphrey has been at donald trump's rally north carolina, while carl nasman has been
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in milwaukee, wisconsin. well, this is it, the final stretch. you could feel that energy, you can see the crowds now have gone, but that is the point, the campaign moves on, zigzagging across the country at a frenetic pace. in terms of what was said here at this rally, we are in solid trump country here and it was the well worn refrains, topics such as the economy, immigration, donald trump saying that he considered emigration to be the biggest single threat to this country and promising once again to carry out a mass deportation from day one, he said. then he sought to tie those issues to the economy, for example, saying that it is undocumented immigrants come across the border who are taking, in his words, african—americanjobs. you may remember when he made such statements, talking about black jobs, during a debate a number of months ago. of course that stirred controversy. we even saw
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michelle obama at her speech saying, who is going to tell him? referring to her husband's job, of course, barack obama becoming the first black president of the united states, holding the highest office in this country. and other key referring to when it comes to the economy, we are going to frack like never before. one point i found interesting is when he spoke about women. we know in this election there is a gender divide, particularly when it comes to young women opting more frequently for kamala harris. he said to the crowd, where are my north carolina women? there was just a lukewarm response, really. one woman shouted back saying, they are coming later. he said, ok, they are scattered, where are they? i have never seen this before. we do not know whether that is indicative of what we are seeing at the polls, but interesting to observe. donald trump is now going to virginia, he will be back in north carolina in greensboro tonight.
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talking about that african—american vote, that will be important because harris has more support there. he has been courting support particularly with younger african—american men, in particular, but of course that will be a block that he wants to continue to win over because this state is important. kamala harris hopes that this is her best chance of winning back a battleground. helena, thank you. let's go to wisconsin now. tell us about the event you have been reporting on there. well, it is interesting, some of those issues that we heard about from helena, immigration, the economy, these are obviously important, but in the swing states like wisconsin, the conflict in the middle east is also a very important issue. we have seen how that has played out in michigan, but in wisconsin there is also a lot of anger with the current administration or over how they have handled the conflict, their support for israel. some 50,000 democratic voters cast a symbolic vote against the biden and harris administration for that very reason. that anger and dissatisfaction has not
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gone away. just about an hour or so ago, we were with some pro—palestinian demonstrators, a large protest staged just outside of a kamala harris office in milwaukee, the state's biggest city. they said essentially neither candidate represents their wishes and their desires for a ceasefire in gaza and for a weapons embargo by the us against israel. i was speaking with one of the organisers of that protest and i asked her how she might respond to people who would say that democrats are not voting for kamala harris in a crucial swing state like this swing state like this one over the issue in the middle east, whether or not they think that might be a good idea or might there be some anger among democrats. voters are willing to consider voting for kamala again if she just condemns this genocide, but she has yet to do, let alone if she were to call for an arms
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embargo or to make it happen. this is on them. this is on the democratic party for choosing to ignore the facts on the ground here, that voters are going to withhold their votes from voting for them, and the loss is entirely on them, and we were not except the framing that it is on us. we have been clear, this is supposed to be a democracy, they need to earn our votes. we are not here to rescue them, we demand better from our candidates, and the road map is there for them if they want to win on tuesday. every vote in this crucial swing state is going to matter. in 2020, wisconsin was decided by about 20,000 votes. any constituency, including arab americans and muslim americans, could make the difference. lets go to washington. thousands of women are marching to the white house in support of vice president kamala harris. these are the live pictures ftrom washington. several thousand women and men gathering at black lives matter plaza, matching the short
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distance to lobby for abortion rights over the overturning of roe v wade. the speakers during the rally include the high—profile american lawyer gloria allred. the organiser of the march said many women are marching for the right to choose an abortion after that historic overturning of roe v wade, equal pay, and federally guaranteed paid parental leave. other issues— the restoration of the pandemics, expanded child tax credit, they plan that welcomes immigrants to the united states and provides a path to citizenship. also a big show of support for vice president kamala harris. the polls saying that women overwhelmingly are choosing to vote for kamala harris, according to what they tell the pollsters. men are turning towards donald trump, so it is being called the most gendered us presidential election in history, so that is the scene in washington as those women march to the white house. north america correspondent rowan bridgejoined me from washington earlier.
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he compared today's events with previous women's marches in the capital. this started in after donald trump won in 2016, there was a march in washington at the start of 2017, just after his inauguration. the movement, if you like, started there, they are having another rally today. the first women's march, just after donald trump was elected, that got somewhere around 500,000 people turning out to it. we not expecting those sorts of numbers, it is expected to be more like 5000 today. the aim here is about energising women to go out and vote in the aim here is about energising women to go out and vote in this election because what they are clearly trying to do is encourage enough women to vote that that makes this election, stop donald trump winning the white house again. there seems to be such a gender divide, according to the polls for this election. a massive gender divide. kamala harris has about a ten point lead over donald trump in terms of the male — female split overall.
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and also the younger the voter, the more likely young women are to go for kamala harris, young men are for donald trump. we are in an election that is a coin toss with three days to go. both sides i really try to get their boat —— both sides i really try to get their vote out and persuade everybody they can to go and vote for them because they know building that coalition of small groups, of latino voters, of men, women, if you can pull together that coalition, that might be the crucial element that swings the overall result one way or the other. and this march, as you mentioned, against the overturning of roe v wade, people wanting abortion rights to be reinstated across the country. how much has the issue of abortion featured in the democratic campaign, particularly? kamala harris has seen that as an issue that plays well for her, notjust amongst the traditional base of democratic support, but also they believe for a moderate
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republican women, which is another group that they are hoping to peel away from donald trump. moderate republican women in the suburbs of places like philadelphia who may be turned off by donald trump and be concerned about the situation regarding abortion rights in the united states. that roe v wade judgment that was overturned means that there is no federal guarantee on abortion rights beyond 12 weeks, and the concern is that kamala harris has been saying is that donald trump will make it even harder to get an abortion. they feel that issue plays well particularly with women and moderate women, republican voters who they are hoping will come over to kamala harris and might be enough to tip the election in her favour. rowan bridge, our correspondent in washington. and you can watch live coverage of the results coming in here on bbc news, on bbc one in the uk, and on the iplayer at 10:40 gmt next tuesday fifth november.
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sumi somaskanda and caitriona perry will bring you a special programme from washington dc with our team of experts and correspondents. spain has deployed an extra 10,000 soldiers and police to deal with the country's worst flooding crisis in generations. the prime minister, pedro sanchez, said it was spain's biggest peacetime deployment. 211 people are now known to have died and many are still missing. in the worst affected region, valencia, spanish media are reporting that one woman has been rescued after being trapped in her car in an underpass for three days. the regional president carlos mazon spoke about the resources deployed to deal with the aftermath of the disaster. translation: there are now over 7000 troops working. _ every request for troops and additional reinforcement has been supported and backed by the emergency operational control at all times, every minute, every hour, when emergency workers
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are still working, and i will continue to request them, and i hope that the spanish government is able to meet these requests as it has so far. we have replaced 90% of the power supply, we are recovering the drinking water network. four town centres now have basic products and food. all towns, there have been sanitation points set up, a health centre, or an emergency medical centre. let's talk about the latest developments in the middle east now. a lebanese government minister has confirmed that a senior official has been abducted in a raid on a house near the city of tripoli by men believed to be israeli naval commandos. imad amhaz, who's reported to be a senior member of hezbollah�*s naval force, was taken from his home by more than 20 men
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in uniform on friday. lebanon's prime minister, najib mikati has called for an investigation into the kidnapping. israel has not yet commented on the incident. our correspondent injerusalem, joe inwood, has more. there is a lot that we don't know about this, but a few more details that we are having confirmed or we think we have got confirmed. now, this seems to have been an israeli raid, commando raid, it is being reported naval commandos, that took place on friday in the town of batroun. now, this is a christian majority town, sort of on the coast, equidistant from tripoli to the north and the capital beirut to the south. and what you can see from the cctv images, which as you say have been confirmed by a member of the lebanese government, show roughly 25, 20 to 25 men going in tactical formation. and amongst them is one person who is clearly appears to be a captive. now, as you say, that is
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believed to be imad amhaz. now, this is where the description of events differs, slightly because we are getting it from israeli sources and through israeli media that this man was a senior hezbollah commander involved in weapons transfers, involved in their naval command, and the phrase being used by the israelis is that they have captured him. however, a hezbollah—affiliated member of parliament, member of the government is saying that this man is a naval officer, and he has been kidnapped. and so we are getting differing reports, but what we can say pretty much for certain is that this man has been taken into israeli custody, captured by the israelis, and it is also the first action we think we have seen in this part of the country, to the north of the capital, an area which previously has been less affected by the conflict. meanwhile, four children were among six people injured in an israeli strike on a polio vaccine clinic in gaza city. the world health organization had resumed the second phase of polio vaccinations for children in gaza earlier today.
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the centre was struck while parents were bringing their children for vaccination after a humantiarian pause had been agreed with the israeli military. on that, again, our correspondent, joe inwood. i think it's worth reminding viewers exactly what a terrible virus polio can be. now, this is something which the world has been pretty successful in trying to eradicate. indeed, the incident that they found with a paralysed child in august was the first example of this in gaza for 25 years, and there were real fears that this terrible virus, which paralyses one in 200 and kills about one in ten of those, could have a resurgence, and so the world health organization started an emergency vaccination programme. that was pretty successful, we think, in september, in getting the first dose to people, but in order to get full coverage, you need two doses. and a few weeks ago, they tried to give those second doses out, they managed to get them to about 450,000 children in the south
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and centre of the gaza strip, but the north was inaccessible because of the fighting there. they have started to remedy that today. we know that there has been a pause in the fighting during daylight hours and they have used that to start to get vaccinations out, about 100,000 children over the three days is the plan. but you made the point there that they are unable to access may be 15,000 children who are in the more remote areas of the north of the gaza strip, that really matters because in order for a vaccination to be successful, you not only need the two doses, but you need there to be a high enough take—up. and if you have got a large population, 15,000 children is a large population, without any vaccination or immunity at all, well, the risk is still there that this could spread. and although the world health organization and everyone concerned will be happy that they are getting these vaccinations out there, there will be concerned that they are not getting them to everyone. now it's time for a look at today's sport with hugh ferris.
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liverpool are top of the premier league after a 2—1 against brighton. they're two points clear of manchester city, who lost for the first time in the league this season. liverpool were behind for a long time before goals by cody gakpo and mo salah made it eight league wins out of ten for arne slot�*s side. in the second half, it was not about tactics without the ball, it was just about keeping running. that is what they did, combined with us on the ball setting up a bit differently, what brought the game towards us. i probably must not forget our fans that really showed up today for us as well. city's defeat was their first in the league for 32 matches and their second in a row after being knocked out of the english league cup on wednesday. evanilson's goal proved to be the winner in a 2—1 victory for bournemouth. i know we have a problem. we have a lot of players with a lot of minutes and a lot of players with no minutes. so we have the situation that the balance is a
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little bit uncomfortable, but it is what it is. we play good in spots, but today we were not i think we could not handle the intensity they had and that's why we lost the game. there was a further blow for arsenal's title hopes. they were beaten at newcastle and are now without a win in their last three league games. alexander isak scored the only goal in a 1—0 defeat at st james' park. and arsenal are eight points off the pace. here's a check on all of saturday's premier league scores. nottingham forest's great run continued, they're up to third after a 3—0 win over west ham. southampton got their first league win of the season. ipswich were seconds away from getting theirs before leicester grabbed a late equaliser. wolves are still waiting for their first win, too, after drawing 2—2 with crystal palace. new zealand edged to a dramatic 2a points to 22 win over england at twickenham in the first of the autumn internationals. mark tele�*a scored a try in the corner on 77 minutes, and the conversion gave the all blacks a two—point advantage.
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george ford twice had the chance to salvage a win for england — first with a penalty, which hit the post, and then with a drop goal right at the death. but that went wide to leave england agonisingly short. elsewhere, scotland ran in eight tries in their 57—17 win over fiji at murrayfield. i don't think he has ever missed a drop kick in his life. probably a bit of emotion in the game. we showed a lot of character, stayed in the fight for a long time. 15 minutes down, coming from eight down to win is pretty special. we felt like we were in control of it. we kept attacking, that is the thing that we made sure we focused on and learned a bit from new zealand in the summer, was that we probably stop the attacking a bit. we kept attacking them and unfortunately george did not make the kick, but i tell you what, he hasn't missed many in his career, so we certainly can't blame him for that.
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qualifying for the brazilian grand prix has been delayted until sunday morning because of heavy rain in interlagos. earlier there was a boost for lando norris. the british driver further cut max verstappen�*s championship lead after winning the sprint race. norris' victory takes him now 44 points behind verstappen, who finished third in his red bull, but dropped back to fourth after being given a five—second penalty. england have chased down 329 to win the second one day international and keep the three match series alive against the west indies in antigua. captain shai hope was the mainstay of the home side's 328—6, with england achieving the second highest run chase in the caribbean for victory. with their skipper the match—winner. liam livingstone with 124 runs. much more on the website, including reaction to the day's sport. and that's all the sport for now. the grand final of one of the world's most popular
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competitive video game tournaments has been held in the uk for the first time. the league of legends world championship final packed out london's 02 arena, and with millions watching online could break records for the most watched e—sports event of all time. here's andrew rogers. there aren't many events where you can dress up like this, and also wear this. but you can here. this is league of legends worlds, one of the most popular global e—sports competitions. it is like super bowl for league of legends. it is, it is an amazing atmosphere, everyone comes from all over the world. you can see the amount of people there are here and a lot more probably wish to be here. so it isjust enormous, i don't know how to explain it, it's worldwide. the grand finals are being held in the uk for the first time at london's 02 arena, with almost 15,000 here to cheer on the best players in the world. it's a five v five online battle arena game. it's fast paced, it's highly tactical, and these fans absolutely love it. this year, korean side t1 raised the trophy,
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taking down china's blg. a fairy tale ending for a team that almost didn't qualify at all. just one uk—based team made it to the final 20, london—based fanatic, in a sport dominated by teams from asia. gaming generates more than tv, film, and music combined. it's the premier league to your sunday league playing in your bedroom. you will have some of the biggest companies in the world here today because they've seen how important it is. and with estimates from london's mayor sadiq khan, this event could add £12 million to the local economy through spending today and tourism tomorrow. there are hopes that london has made a lasting impression on t1's army of loyalfans back home. andrew rogers, bbc news. lets ta ke lets take you back to the us. lots of things going on today in the run—up to tuesday's presidential election. this is a women's march in washington,
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on the capitol, willing marking to the white house. thousands are expected to rally in cities across the us in a boost of support to vice president kamala harris. they are in favour of the restoration of federal abortion rights and many other issues. hello. it remains very quiet on the weatherfront, with rather cloudy skies across most of the uk. just a few breaks there in northern and eastern scotland where there's more of a breeze around this area of high pressure. but for most of us it's been a case of 50 shades of grey. and here's a picture from earlier on on saturday in london — the skyscraper the shard there with its tip inside the cloud at a height of 310m, meaning that the cloud base was around, say, 280, give or take. and we rather appropriately call this "anticyclonic gloom", the word anticyclone — another word for high pressure — cloudy, drizzly, but look on the bright side of life, at least it's not raging gales or torrential rain,
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rather usable weather, if you go out there. it's actually relatively mild, look at the morning on sunday, around ten or 11 celsius. but yes, once again, thick cloud across most of the uk. but look at the breaks there around aberdeen. there'll be a few glimmers of sunshine also across the pennines and perhaps elsewhere. and the temperatures will be about the same, middle of the afternoon, typically mid—teens across the south of the uk. and even if the sun comes out for any lengthy period of time, perhaps in some of these northern areas, temperatures may be a degree or so higher. so that's sunday's forecast. let's take a look at monday then. so the high pressure still with us. in fact, it's stretching all the way from the black sea, the balkans, across the alps into the uk and southern areas of scandinavia. that means more of the same on monday. but it could be quite misty, quite foggy for a time. that fog will disperse later in the morning on monday and then it'll lift into the stratus cloud. i'm optimistic there'll be a little bit more sunshine on monday, so certainly not all gloom, not all the way through, there'll be some decent
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weather, particularly around southern coastal areas, i think, on monday. temperatures about 14 degrees, i think, in the sunshine. now here's a positive thing around this area of high pressure, gloomy high, we've got winds blowing out of the south, so temperatures are expected to rise through the course of the week ahead, in fact, peaking sometime on wednesday and thursday, we could see highs perhaps up to around 17 or even 18 celsius. remember, we're well into november at this stage. so here we go, cardiff — cloudy, foggy, misty, a little bit of drizzle, perhaps some showers, but those temperatures hovering around 15 or 16 degrees, so at least it's not cold. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news, the headlines... the us presidential candidates continue their duelling rallies through battleground states — including georgia, virginia and north carolina — with three days to go until the election. more than 70 million people have already cast their vote — beating the early voter turnout record set in 2020. the head of the spanish region worst affected by this week's deadly flash floods has defended its emergency response, amidst criticism that it should have been better. 211 people are now known to have died and many are still missing as the clean up continues.
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and kemi badenoch wins the race to become the new leader of britain's conservative party. badenoch — the former business secretary — was up against the former immigration minister robertjenrick. she'll now have the job of rebuilding the party afterjuly�*s crushing general election defeat. kemi badenoch has been elected the new leader of the conservative party, replacing rishi sunak. she becomes the first black leader of a main political party in britain. in her acceptance speech, she said the party had to be honest about the fact it had made mistakes. here's our political editor chris mason. this way for the latest political drama. the conclusion of a conservative leadership race. yes, another one. anticipation and jeopardy for the spouses of the candidates. robertjenrick�*s wife clutching her seat reservation. kemi badenoch�*s husband hoping small talk will swallow
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these nervy minutes. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kemi badenoch and robert jenrick. just moments before, the two candidates had been told the result. now it was time for the rest of us to find out. kemi badenoch, 53,806 votes and robert jenrick, 41,000. kemi badenoch had won hugs, even tears in victory. smiles and magnanimous applause in defeat too. for so long anyway. oh, and then a bit more. there we have it, the new face of opposition and what a task kemi badenoch takes on. it is the most enormous honour to be elected to this role, to lead the party that i love. our first responsibility as his majesty's loyal opposition is to hold this labour government to account.
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our second is no less important. it is to prepare over the course of the next few years for government. it's a big moment. it's, um, it's an emotional moment. for people who may not really know kemi badenoch, why your zealfor her? because she has courage. and that's a rare quality in politics. back in 1997, it took 13 years and four leaders for the conservative party to find a prime minister. what makes you think this time is different? well, i think if you look at the early record - of this government and we | shouldn't get carried away, but they've not had a great start. - kemi is very charismatic. i think she will give the reverend starmer a run for his money at prime minister's questions. blimey, the blink of an eye. you were back in robert jenrick half an hour ago, but things move on, i guess. the tory party secret weapon is loyalty, and i try my best l sometimes in very difficult circumstances, to be loyal| to the leader. but to be loyal to kemi
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will be relatively easy. | she's got great - charisma, relatively, relatively easy compared. it'sjust important to be loyal to the leader. - watching on today, sizing up their new opponent, labour. i don't think that there's a particularly bright future with her as leader of the opposition. she was part of the chaos of the conservative government over the last 14 years. the conservatives haven't learned anything. for robertjenrick, a weekend to contemplate his future and for kemi badenoch... have you got a lot of work to do, miss badenoch? can you unite the party behind you? ..these questions and many, many more. the and many, many more. complements ready flow fr supporters the complements ready flow from supporters of kemi badenoch, not in an autopilot kind of way but out of a genuine conviction that she is the best of a political generation, that she has the guile and the conviction to be able to haul the conservative party back from near oblivion at the
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general election. the party has 121 mp5 general election. the party has 121 mps and needs 320 odd for a majority, and they lost to labour, the liberal democrats and to reform uk, so it will require really deft political shepherding to get people back. the big question tonight is a simple one, can she be prime minister one day? it is an almighty task but with the political volatility that exist these days, who knows? detectives investigating russell brand over allegations of historical sex offences have sent prosecutors a file of evidence so they can consider bringing charges. brand has been interviewed three times by police since an investigation in september 2023 revealed allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse against the comedian, all of which he denies. frances reed is with me. frances, what else can you tell us? well, this all came about after
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an investigation by the sunday times, the times, and channel 4's dispatches, and it revealed these allegations against russell brand. the allegations come from a seven—year period, when he was at the height of his fame, starring in hollywood films, he was holding several high—profilejobs, including a high—profile jobs, including a channel 4 high—profilejobs, including a channel 4 and at bbc radio 2 at the time. the met police said it had received a number of reports of sexual offences from women following the original investigation, and detectives investigating have sent prosecutors a file of evidence that the cps can consider whether or not it should bring charges. the cps says any decision to charge or not charge is made independently, based on the evidence and in line with its legal test. russell brand this evening has posted on social media but he hasn't mentioned anything to do with these files. he has breezily denied the allegations, calling them very, very hurtful.
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allegations, calling them very, very hurtful-— very hurtful. francis, thank ou. a ten—year—old girl has died after being bitten by her family's dog in the north east of england. police say the child in north yorkshire suffered serious injuries during an incident inside the family home in the malton area yesterday afternoon. the dog was removed by police has been taken to secure kennels. for the fourth day in a row, donald trump and kamala harris are campaigning in the same state as each other, days ahead of tuesday's us presidential election. this is the seen live. north carolina is the latest swing state hosting the two rivals. republicans see the state as a must—win and are pushing back against heightened efforts by democrats to pull off an upset. only one democratic presidential candidate — barack obama — has won north carolina in the last 50 years. north carolina is tied with georgia as the second biggest prize
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of the swing states. in one key swing state, campaigners are battling for the votes of ukrainian americans who could play a vital role in this incredibly tight presidential race. bbc ukraine's yevhenia shidlovska has been to washington and pennsylvania to find out more. flying the flag for ukraine in the heart of washington. these runners are all veterans who have been seriously injured in the war with russia. for the past six years, a ukrainian team has taken part in this race through the us capital. one of the team was a drone operator who was injured near bakhmut. his father was killed fighting in that war last april. translation: ,, translation: supported the american people, _ translation: supported the american people, american i american people, american state, is very important. the
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run�*s hope that by competing here, the country won't be forgotten during the us election. forgotten during the us election-— forgotten during the us election. ., ., , election. for some voters, ukraine — election. for some voters, ukraine is _ election. for some voters, ukraine is already - election. for some voters, ukraine is already a - election. for some voters, ukraine is already a major| ukraine is already a major issue. we are travelling to pennsylvania, a key swing state that has one of the biggest ukrainian american communities in the us. here, in the city of philadelphia, this demonstration has been organised in support of kamala harris. , , , ., organised in support of kamala harris. ,, ~,,' organised in support of kamala harris. ,, , ., , .,~ ., harris. the issues at stake for ukraine are — harris. the issues at stake for ukraine are existential. - harris. the issues at stake for ukraine are existential. in - ukraine are existential. in this state, there are 120,000 people of ukrainian descent, thatis people of ukrainian descent, that is more than the number of people that decided the last two elections.— people that decided the last two elections. harris wants to continue the _ two elections. harris wants to continue the us _ two elections. harris wants to continue the us financial - two elections. harris wants to continue the us financial and | continue the us financial and military support for kyiv but donald trump of my policy is very different.— very different. shortly after when the — very different. shortly after when the presidency, - very different. shortly after when the presidency, i - very different. shortly after when the presidency, i will| when the presidency, i will have — when the presidency, i will have the _ when the presidency, i will have the horrible war between russia — have the horrible war between russia and ukraine settled, we are going — russia and ukraine settled, we are going to get it settled and
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stop— are going to get it settled and stop the — are going to get it settled and stop the death.— are going to get it settled and stop the death. there are fears that a rapid _ stop the death. there are fears that a rapid wall— stop the death. there are fears that a rapid wall and _ stop the death. there are fears that a rapid wall and will- stop the death. there are fears that a rapid wall and will mean | that a rapid wall and will mean ukraine having to give up territory to russia. it means they think eastern european voters like polis americans will switch to harris anything tight swing state. but not everyone is convinced. aha, tight swing state. but not everyone is convinced. a lot of eo - le everyone is convinced. a lot of peeple who — everyone is convinced. a lot of people who supported - everyone is convinced. a lot of people who supported trump i people who supported trump tracy will continue to support trump in the future and i don't think many polls believe that trump will abandon ukraine. the foreign—policy campaign group concerned veterans for america thinks many in the us don't want the war to be prolonged. it is not in the us interests, and it will take more weapons and it will take more weapons and financial resources than we can afford. whoever comes in 1554 00:39:52,391 --> 00:3
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