us president elect donald trump begins the process of selecting his future government, as president biden prepares to address the nation. kamala harris concedes the race promising to help ensure a �*peaceful transfer of power�*. we'll be looking at the new political map of the us, looking at how donald trump are one and what went wrong for kamala harris. at what his presidency might mean for america and the rest of the world. i'm rajini vaidyanathan in london, also coming up... the scene live in budapest, where keir starmer is set to arrive at a security summit.

more air strikes in southern beirut, israel says it hit hezbollah command centres and weapons stores. the bank of england is widely expected to cut uk interest rates again with the decision due in an hour. a warm welcome to you from florida the day after the presidential election. the political transition now gets under way. mr trump is said to be considering candidates questions are being asked about whether elon musk will be named

to the cabinet. donald trump has said that donald he could clear things up. here is tiffany trump alongside other members of the family. another name in the running isjfk kennedyjunior. rfkjunior kennedyjunior. rfk junior could serve kennedyjunior. rfkjunior could serve in a health agency. some comments in the past from him about vaccines, he is a vaccine sceptic. he has spread misinformation about hiv. he has said he would look to ban some vaccines. today we have had an invitation from president biden to president elect trump tojoin president biden to president elect trump to join him at some point at the white house. that is traditional and that invitation was extended. that was not the case for present biden in 2020, donald trump did

not extend that invitation. this morning president biden will address the nation from the rose garden. for more on all of this from washington our correspondent. the walk to the podium to deliver the speech that no politician wants to give. but kamala harris owed it to the country to concede the election. a fundamental principle of american democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. that principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honour it. at the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the constitution of the united states. the party—like atmosphere from tuesday vanished. now, people unable to hide their disappointment.

as the first female vice president, kamala harris has shattered glass ceilings. but one of the last remaining bastions of male privilege in america, the white house, remains intact. her history—making run for the white house coming to a crushing end. ms harris left consoling her supporters. to the young people who are watching, it is... we love you, kamala! cheering. i love you. to the young people who are watching, it is ok to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it's going to be ok. a message of optimism they needed to hear. she did everything that she needed to do. like, she really helped me feel better about the results, as i was feeling down, i was upset. i was lost, i cried, i didn't know what to do. so she really helped me to feel better, get some sense of confidence. even though things didn't go particularly in the way that we wanted it to,

there's still hopes and things still have a positive side. i'm from pennsylvania, so seeing it turn red like, oh, it broke my heart knowing that we were blue in 2020, we were progressive, we elected a democratic governor in 2023. and itjust...| just don't unders... i was lost, i was hurt, i was heartbroken that this qualified woman, so perfect as a president, wasjust not chosen by our country. and ijust... it hurt me, it really did. chosen by the party, but not by the electorate. samira hussain, bbc news, washington. as america begins the process of transitioning to a second trump presidency will we be hearing later from trump presidency will we be hearing laterfrom biden in the rose garden later and from there i'll correspond and barker has more.

we haven't had any indications of exactly what president biden may say. i think perhaps you might hear some of the language reflected from when kamala harris made her concession speech. she talked about amongst other things how important it was to see the peaceful transfer of power in a democracy. perhaszoe biden will refer to that. i think democrats are keen to make that point particularly of course after donald trump back in 2020 refused to concede that he had lost that election tojoe biden. i think it will be a difficult moment for the outgoing president. joe biden wanted to run in this election, reluctantly pulled out after a disastrous debate performance. now he faces the prospect of handing over power to a republican. he himself is a democrat. a republican, too, who could really start to demolish or change or untangle some ofjoe biden's legacy, whether that is on green policies, onjoe biden's approach as we were just

hearing, to the war in ukraine. a painful prospect probably forjoe biden as he hands over power. the mechanics of that are already getting under way in the sense that you see world leaders calling donald trump to congratulate him because they know this man will soon, as ofjanuary the 20th, be taking residence in the white house, taking over the most powerful nation on earth. my colleague lewis vaughanjones has been analysing donald trump's path to the white house. in part it was a case of fine margins across large areas. keep a night on these midwestern states at the top lets go back to the last

election, blue this time donald trump flip then read. let's take a look at how that happened. wisconsin took over the line to 270 electoral couege the line to 270 electoral college votes and took into the white house. look at this map again, read for donald trump in the largely rural areas. the blue areas here are largely urban democrat areas. let's play a game of spot the difference here. this is the 2024 election, let's go back to four years ago and we seejoe biden won it but did you see any differences here. let's do it again let's see who says politics can't be fun. very little change. the one flipped there is one that donald trump took. he increased his percentage of the vote by one or two percentage points. kamala harris couldn't beat or match the effort ofjoe biden

and that led to the results that we have seen here. there were cases of things that there were cases of things that there were cases of bigger swings or flips. 0ne remarkable story here this is star county, donald trump winning comfortably. look at the previous elections here, this was four years ago, biden won it quite comfortably four years ago. 2016, hillary clinton 79.1%. a remarkable transformation. this area at the bottom of texas here at 2016, keep and i have that on the change, the blue shrinking and now read for republicans, donald trump taking over. a remarkable change. this is the map as we have it. these last bits of grey are three states that we are waiting for the results. two of them swing

states, nevada and arizona. not enough data yet to project a win but these are the seven swing states we started the election west, five of them called. trump is ahead in both of the last two but we don't have a projected winner in those states just yet. that is the state of the new us political map under president elect donald trump. it will be interesting to see how those last two states go. we can talk more now about the situation on the world stage because we have heard from the kremlin saying that it is not ruling out the possibility that russian president vladimir putin may speak to president elect donald trump before he is officially inaugurated on the 20th of january. we officially inaugurated on the 20th ofjanuary. we haven't officially inaugurated on the 20th of january. we haven't yet

had official comment from russian president vladimir putin with regards to donald trump returning to the white house but he is due to speak at a news conference later and he may take question so we will see if there is any mention. we can discuss more about this now with bbc monitoring is russia chief. great to have you with us. we haven't heard anything official from vladimir putin, what do you think he will be making of the fact that somebody he knows and somebody he has spoken to fairly frequently will be returning to washington? i frequently will be returning to washington?— washington? i think it is remarkable _ washington? ithink it is remarkable that - washington? ithink it is remarkable that the - washington? i think it is i remarkable that the mood washington? i think it is - remarkable that the mood music that we are hearing from the kremlin this time around is so much more restrained, unlike 2016, nobody is uncorking champagne in the russian

parliament and the official message that we have been hearing over the past couple of daysis hearing over the past couple of days is that america is still an unfriendly country, we need to wait and see what donald trump says and does. that is what officials have been saying and that is what russian media has been saying. if you scratch the surface you begin to realise that what they are saying in public may not necessarily be what they are saying in private in the corridors of power in the kremlin. for example, the spokeswoman for the foreign ministry in moscow yesterday posted on telegram quoting from kamala harris but suggesting that this applies to donald trump, she quoted from the bible saying that, now is the time to rejoice, hallelujah is aware that she used. 0n television one commentator said that, they may not be our

friends but things are going our way and they can be our partners, that's the way they used,in partners, that's the way they used, in negotiations. negotiations is the way that keeps coming up. recently the former russian defence minister who is now secretary of the russian security council says that now the west needs to sit down and talk to russia. the word negotiation and talks clearly alarms kyiv. what is there to talk about? that is there to talk about? that is the question that keeps being asked in ukraine, will donald trump force kyiv to cede territory to russia? will any ceasefire or piece, however permanent or temporary it may be, come at the cost of ukrainian territory? these are the questions that people in

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president vladimir putin and we also will hear from the current us presidentjoe biden, speaking on the rose garden and we will wait to hear more about how donald trump might start to fill his cabinet around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

let's turn to the middle east and officials in lebanon say 55 people were killed on wednesday during israeli raids in the eastern baalbek region. the culture minister said damage was caused to historic buildings. southern beirut was also hit, about an hour after the israeli

army called for residents to leave 4 districts, including an area near the capital's international airport. meanwhile, a rocket fired by hezbollah fighters from lebanon killed an israeli man in northern israel. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, is injerusalem and has the latest. in the midst of this earth—shattering news which has affected developments here in israel and across the middle east as well, watching the election which will bring donald trump to power in the white house in january for the second time, the other major news continues unabated, and as you mention the israeli attacks in lebanon focusing on the east on the historic city of baalbek where lebanese officials are expressing concern that an 0ttoman era market, a historic landmark has been damaged in israeli bombing. more bombardments in the capital of beirut. real concern yesterday during those bombardments about what was hit and what the damage would be and what would be the civilian cost of yet another bombing in the densely populated capital.

there is no sign yet this will come to an end anytime soon. just before the elections took place, in the united states, presidentjoe biden sent his top officials to the region to try to make one last push to get a ceasefire in lebanon. it didn't work. the question now is with president trump coming to power again and his very close relationship with prime minister netanyahu, what will be the pace of these wars in gaza and lebanon and of course what will happen with expected strikes against iran? we know donald trump and benjamin netanyahu do have a good relationship. what is the israeli government hoping and expecting from a trump presidency? this morning the israeli media are full of analyses about the gamble netanyahu made, the accusation

is and there is evidence to support it, that prime minister netanyahu was delaying decisions on how to wind up the gaza war, what to do in lebanon, what targets to hit, what would long term goals be of the attacks against iran? waiting until there was a trump presidency because israelis who in the majority were hoping for a trump win in these elections, they saw in the first term donald trump really carried out some of the long—standing israeli demands, to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, to recognise the annexation of the golan heights, to pull out of the landmark iran nuclear deal, and very much expecting more of that now. he was one of the first foreign leader if not the foreign

leader to speak to trump last night, and there is a sense not only does he be excited by the prospect of working with donald trump, he also knows he is very unpredictable and can be quick to anger. netanyahu hasn't forgotten that when he quickly congratulated joe biden on his election victory in 2020, donald trump was infuriated, he likes loyalty. let's turn to politics in germany and the country's main opposition party is calling for a vote of confidence, the christian democrats say snap elections should be held as early as december, following the collapse of chancellor 0laf scholz�*s coalition government. the chancellor is from the social democratic party all of this happened because he fired one of his ministers. christian

linda is delivering a news conference now. let's have a listen in. apologies we don't have a translation but he is speaking now to the country and we will stay across that because it will be interesting to hear what he has to say after he was fired by the german chancellor. there has been a lot more pressure on chancellor schultz following regional elections as well. there has already been pressure on germany's economy as well and this member of the free democratic party had left the coalition so the government is hanging on a thread. the chancellor is saying he will call a confidence vote and elections could be by the end of march next year. a lot hanging by the balance next.

nato secretary general, mark rutte, says he hopes that america's allies will be able to work together with mr trump. he made this commentjust before a summit of european leaders who are discussing donald trump's victory and its impact on the security of the continent. mr rutter expressed particular concern over russia enlisting north korea's help in the war in ukraine. they are delivering technology to north korea which is now threatening in the future the mainland of the us, continental europe but also our parties on a specific, japan for example and the republic of korea. these are really dangerous new developments and we need to discuss that today but i also look forward to sit down with president trump and to navigate how collectively we will make sure we face this threat and that we keep our part of the world safe.

0ur europe editor, katya adler is in budapest. this was always going to be a big meeting, these meetings between eu leaders and non—eu european leaders. so sir keir starmer, the uk prime minister will be here as you said, president zelensky as well. they happen twice a year. and they were started up by france's president after russia's full scale invasion of ukraine to look at challenges towards europe. you may be wondering why i'm in a football stadium it's being hosted here in the hungarian capital, budapest, 1548 00:23:30,035 --> 00: