katty: that is the situation in spain.nce has also introduced new rules, including closing some restaurants and bars. officials there are running into resistance as well. joining me now is a french journalist from marseilles. thank you for joining me. one of the places that has been shut down is marseilles. what was the reaction there? reporter: the mayor, newly elected by local bar keepers and restaurant owners, who feel this is the last nail in their coffin. they have not worked during the lockdown and they were just beginning, and they said, we won't just closed down forever. there's also a feeling of paris against the provinces. we know that a large cluster was created at the time of the victory of the marseilles football club a couple of weeks back. they won against the paris football club. you could see people dancing in the streets and kissing each other. the result was predictable. but they say it is punishment. the professor decided to impose in his hospital in marseilles hydroxychloroquine. there's really an illu

katty: the u.n.tary general antonio guterres has appealed to the nations of the world to help fund a global vaccine plan. earlie i asked him how much it would help to win the commitments of the united plan.a, and much of the sec.-gen. guterres: it would be important to have the commitment of all countries. some of announced they have made available their own vaccines, and this is par of the process, and we believe there will be an effective coordination of the facility that was put in place with those countries that will not only produce for their own citizens, but are ready to produce also developing countries. we have strongly appealed to thne able to develop their vaccines to be part of this effort. i'm not asking for countries not to proct the runitizens. of course it is the duty of eac coun protect their own citizens. but everybody will only be protected when the countries in the developing world will also be able to vaccinate their citizens katty: there have been new warnings that lebanon could

katty: what do you think the risks are for joe biden tonight?the biggest riff for him is a major gaffe. the trajectory is very well set. very americans at this point are undecided. what could swing them is a major mistake by biden. some demonstration that for some reason he is not capfle o being president. . those would be nightmare scenarios from the biden campaign. aside from that, i don'n't see o pinions being altered by what is said and seen tonight for the most part. katty: you prepped marco rubio when he was running back in 2016. of course he wnat up against trump. he kind of tried at one point in the campaign to out trump trump, if you like. does it worfor a candidate running against someone like donald trumpo take on the mannerisms of the person they are opposing? >> as you say, it is difficult o trump donald trump. you will not win that contest. the question is, is there anything that can knock trump off of his game? heto is so useeing all that qui, that distraction will not com from the opponent on the stage. the most difficult part of

katty: i'm katty katy in washington. >> is increasing tension ins places where ge never far away.atty: president trump flight to inspect the virus. he says it is forest management. joe biden says it is climate change. the people want the flames to stop imigrants want to move on from lesbos. local residents want them gone, too, but the prime minister wants them to stay. you know if he in planet of women and love, but it could also be the planet of life. we will explain. katty: welcome to "world news america" on pbs and around the globe. when a huge blast in the nearly 200 people, it alsolled exposed long-standing struural issues and a country long in crisis. a blend of corruption can distrust of politicians, and crippling poverty have led to factionalism and violence on the streets. afsix weekr the blast from our middle east editor jeremy bowen has returned tot to look at how and if the country can heal. jeremy: povty and pain run through this stronghold for sunni muslims in beir. apart and died--grew apart and died young, shot dead in a street battle with arrival family. like most

katty: that's thekatty: situation in france.et's go to south korea which has just extended a lockdown they are the toughest measures the city has seen since the start of the pandemic. health officials have set a curfew for businesses, schools are closed, and nearly 25 million are being urged to stay-at-home. for many months, south korea was seen ashe poster child for how to handle the crisis. they had an early impressive testing program that cap the virus for the most part under control. cases first surged in february and after an initial peak, the country brought case down for most of the spring and summer, but recently infections have shot up again. joining me from soul is the bbc's laura bicker. you managed to escape most of the lockdown, but now you are in it. reporter: yes, the 9:00 p.m. curfew. all restaurants, bakeries, anywhere young people would hang out have been told to close strictly at 9:00. the streets here are usually vibrant at night. lots of loud noises and conversations. now you are wondering around and it is e

katty: what a girl.ore we go, speaking of overcoming obstacles -- james patterson is a high school senior who plays on his football team in iowa, and otherwise remarkable tale,xcept that when he waser you doctors declared james legally blind. he still found a way to play the game that he loves, with his teammates giving him audio cues on where to go. even off the field, james doesn't let his visual impairment get in e way. he has great grades in class. his coaches and teammates call him an inspiration. narrator: funding r this presentation of this program is provided by... language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. raymond james. the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from ers like you. thank you. yuyi: i came to the uniteds. states when i was 24 years old. i did not speak any english. i felt very, very lost, really not knowing what to do with my life. one day on tv there was

katty: thank you very much.ion.y interesting, this when i say i wouldn't go out in the restaurant with 20eople, but iw kere are places in america where people aren't following the guidelines as much, and i'm sure if everyone around me was going out, i would be temptedo t follow that. this coronavirus story is filled with grim milestones, and today, the united states marked 200,000 people dead from this dease. the latest figures are compiled by johns hopkins university,l nd the officath toll stands at 2,5, although cases are still rising in aumber of states, including north dakota and utah. in march, president trump said if deaths were beten 100000 and 200,000, then the country would have done a ved job. the bbc has been speakingow with rs and directors of funeral homes who have reflected on how this huge losof-life in the country has affected families and communitiethey serve. a warning, viewers may find some of these stories upsetting. it is so disturbing because 200,000 is just too many. it really is. it's jus

katty: this is the kind of million dollar question.you think that what is happening in singapore could be replicated here in the united states or in europe? are they societies that could follow or things we could follow so my kids could go to school? absolutely. the day my children went to school, i felt that same sense but it point -- it is worth pointing out that sie is a very small country. it is tightly controlled. there's a big degree of followinghat the government says. there has been rte political in power since independence. this was also an election year which parallels to the united states as well. the government was under a l of pressure to get the response right. we talk a lot about how singapore is the poster child for the restf the world, but it didn't get it completely right in the beginning either. there was a msive outbreak in a low-paid workers dormitory here. mthe governmesed it and then they had to put the government in a strict lockdown to address the issue. i think there are lessons. things like testing, contact t

katty: what will the west do?ngela is an expert on russia and foreign policy and the author of the book "putin's world" and professor at georgetown university. what more did you learn from what the german governme declared today? >> first of all, i have en following russian-german relations for a long time and i have never seen chancellor merkel that robust and direct and angry at russia. they obviously have incontrovertible proof it was novichok, and they are demandini first, and i. the russian government says they willte coopebut one has to be extremely skeptical. the only reason we know about whatd happe in salisbury was because british authorities and other western colleagues were able to identify the poison and ultimately who did it. at the moment, i think the first step is to reports t as the chancellor said today, to the organizaons for the prevention of chemica weapons, an international organization that could sanction russia. but that ofrs c won't get us closer to the question of who did this, and why. at

and by contributions to this pbs station from katty: i'm katty kay in washington and this is bbc "worldews america." a potential rescue operation is underway in lebanon amid reports that a person could still be alive in the rubble after last month'sru blast. ia rejects accusations that it was behind the poisoningf o opposition politician alexey navalny and has warned others against jumping to hasty conclusions. joe biden travels toha k wisconsin, to meet with the family of jacob blake, and spoke mr. blake himself by telephone. in the literary race begins. we look at how the pandemic made it a tougher competition to become a christmas bestseller. welcome to "wor news america." rescue workeni in lebanon t are searching for a possible survivor from the port beast iut that devastated the city a month ago. a sniffer dog arted rescuers in the rubble of a collapsed building and the beirut fire department said pulse has been detected, although the likelihood of anyone surving for four weeks is incredibly low. our international correspondent is there enjoins me now from beirut it sounds almost u

katty: i'm katty kay. this is "bbc world news america." the impact of mass migration in europe. look at what changed and what has no >> earlier this year when tensions rose between turkey and europe, s turkeyt more migrants towards greece. it could do it again. right now, it is gree's actions are also causing concern. katty: as president trump tries to paint democrats as weak on law and order, joe biden makes it clear he does not support violence. looting and burning andce a destruction of property -- i want to make something absolutely clear. rioting is not katty: and we meet that shepherd from england whose new book set t his vision for the future of farming. ♪ welcome to "world news america" on pbs and around the world. greece has been in harbor for migrants seeking a better life. nearly 9000 hundred people arrived there back i 2015, throwing european politic into disarray. today, those numbers are lower but they have started to trend upwards again. the e.u. border forces the balkans is now the most active out for migrants, with more than 9000 people making the journey this y

katty: katy joins me now. went literally to what looked like the end of theoad to fin those cases. how are they coping with both the fires and covid? >> it is a different reality from here in sao paulood. everis wearing masks here, there is a quarantine. when youd travel hours urs along roads, dirtel roads, it like people have almost given up, that very few people are wearing masks. there is concern. speaking to the doctors, they say they haven't seen the curve fall. they a still very busy. it is fire season now and the fire season looks like it isg go be as bad. there are concerns it could be worse than what we saw last year. katty: can we have a look around the continent? we haven't really taken a look at some of the other latin american countries. some of them really are in a terrible state.t let's look peru. they have a recorded cases of 691,000, deaths of 29,000, but look at h this. theye a fatality rate of 93 deaths per 100,000. compare tha to the u.s., which only has a for tally rate of 57 deaths per 10

katty: this is "bbc world news america."s there a better way for europe to deal with migrants than this? the european union has a new planet hopes will fix the crisis. >> the residents of this place were living in conditions that were the opposite of the values europe rejects. katty: a grand jury charges only one officer in the killing of breonna taylor, and not the officer -- and nothing killing itself. as covid cases sore in the u.s. and europe, africa seems to defy a global trend. we are live in nairobi to find out why. ♪ welcome to "bbc world news america," on pbs and around the globe. the european union is proposing a w system to deal with the refugee crisis that is overwhelming parts of the confident. southern countries have accused their wealthier, northern neighbors of failing to share the burden, as migrants and refugees continue to seek a new life in europe. earlier this month on a greek island, 12,000 migrants were left homeless after a fire ravaged a refugee camp. to make matters worse, a new camp on the island i

katty: i'm katty kay in washington. this is "bbc world news america."istory at the white house as israel signed a peace deal with two arab countries. it's an important victory for president trump. pres. trump: these agreements prove that the regions of the nation are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. today's signing sets history on a new course. katty: india passes a grim milestone. it now has 5 million cases of the coronavirus. we are live on the ground in mumbai. a u.n. report warns the world has failed to meet a series of goals to halt loss of habitats and wildlife. picking up wi-fi in the parking lot -- when school is out, this is the only way that some kids in america can get online to carry on learning. ♪ welcome to "world news america" on pbs and around the globe. at the white house today, president trump presided over the signing of a historic deal that normalizes relations between israel, the uae, and bahrain. it paves the way for diplomatic, economic, and travel links between the countries. it's a big win for president trum

katty: you're watching bbc "world news america." to come on this program, a harrowing video appears to show a naked woman being stalked and killed in northern mozambique. an investiga looked into who is responsible for the atrocity. ♪ katty: a former chinese real to 18 years in ja been sentenced corruption charges. he disappeared from the public eye after critizing president xi's response to the coronavirus. here is bbc's china analyst carrie allen. carrie: if you asked me who he was in 2014, he was a really powerful figure online. he had a lot of influence and tens of millions of followers, and he really challenged t status quo.he was very outspoke. he sometimes made of barbed comments about the communist party, and they struggled to rein him in. in relation to corruption, it is hard to tell in china because hm was alionaire. he was a huge business tycoon. we are not entirely sure. what we do know is that for a long period of time, thent govern was unsettled with the growing voice he had online, and the fact he had this dissent beh

katty: hugh edwards reporting.generation is dying off and it forces us to keep their memory alive. there is always that one family or person ingh the nrhood who puts up halloween decorations ridiculously early. in a town in kansas his name is kenneth torres. he uses early decorating to remind people to wear masks. he puts up skeletons & store my people to be safe. heven pulled out snowmen and other holiday decorisions to makeoint. the spooky pubunc service ancement has caught people narrator: funding for this presentation of this program language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. raymond james. the freeman fountion. by judy and peter blum kler undation; and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. dat the height of the conflict. into vietnam he became a single parent of two young children. we moved a lot. we slept in rest areas. slept in our car. i didn't realize that we were actually homeless. it makes your world really small. if we happened to stay in a motel that happen

katty, i think you had a question. i was just view. katty, i think you had a question.rtly that the trump campaign went into this saying they were going to offer a positive view for the future and the president himself did set most of the interrupting pattern of that debate, ron, so i don't think trump can change, can he? he was the same trump that he has been in previous debates in the primary campaigns back on the 2016 campaigns. if you can't change then is it worth having the next two debates? i think it is worth having the next two debates. trump is clearly going to be trump but as one who has beenin to be trump but as one who has been in the debate room, to prepare the candidate and get on that stage, you have to be disciplined, you have to do have a message. you have to have a message. you have to have a message. you have to have a statement or a roadmap to the american people and say this is why, if you are president st trump, why you need to re—elect me. here is my vision for the second term. he had a large opportunity to sway voters and say, ok, what is the tru

katty: thomas, so interesting.s is a thing people are not europe.the sentiments in thank you for joining the program. the city of kenosha, wisconsin has found itself the unwanted o centattention ever since the police shooting of jacob blake last month. there have been violent protest and two people killed in the clashes that followed. today president trump went to kenosha, though officials urged him to reconsider. aleem maqbool is there and has this report for us. aleem: officials here feared a t by donald trump would reignite tensions. as he rolled into town, people .took to the streets aga arguments flared up between black lives matter protesters and trump supporters. >> i d was asked the oth by somebody, do you think it is good trump is coming? i said, yeah. theynk said don't you tt will call dissension? i said, have you seen our city? aleem: when he arrived, the preseent did view damage d during the protests. orhe met with law ement agencies and called the demonstrations ai-police and ti-american. pres. trump:

with me to discuss all the katty kay and washington. the fa ct katty kay and washington. fact that crowds have gathered there outside the supreme court clearly shows what an important moment this is for america. yes, and the affection with which ruth bader ginsburg was herself, it's actually interesting, president trump came out and was told the news by reporters not long ago, in the last half hour or so, and he said, we had our differences but she was an amazing woman andi but she was an amazing woman and i think there is a recognition, we can get into politics later, that here is this woman who overcame huge hurdles this is not a place that was thickly friendly to women, she was only the second woman on the supreme court and she had battled gender discrimination her whole career, made it onto the supreme court, she's been battling cancer for years, and she was much loved and she became this iconic figure, she had these famous workout routines where she would do push—ups and lift weights right into her mid 80s, the rbg workout began a following and so workout began a fol

bob woodward talking to katty kay and christian just now.this is the shot in cleveland, ohio. summer like 100 million americans expected to tune in to watch. 0nly americans expected to tune in to watch. only 70 in the actual room because of covid —— something like. five weeks until the election on november three. many americans voting already. polls are suggesting only about 40% of voters undecided. the election will probably be decided by the 11 states that swing between the republicans and the democrats are —— 14%. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. we will be back in a moment. hello there. most parts of the country enjoyed some sunshine on tuesday — temperatures reached 21 celsius in kent. today, though, we are going to find cooler and wetter weather arriving across the uk, and sunshine will be in short supply. and that's because all this cloud has been massing out in the atlantic and is now starting to stream in, and these weather fronts are bringing with it some outbreaks of rain that

i'm katty kay, and this is world questions: us election 2020.'m in washington dc and i am video linking to leading politicians and members of the public from across america, all brought together to discuss the big issues of this election. members of the public will be putting their questions to our panel, remotely of course, it's the world we live in, and as this extraordinary election approaches injust over a month's time, there is an awful lot for us to discuss. the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken so many lives here, and changed even more, law and order, black lives matter, division, unrest, and of course the deeply changed state of the united states economy. so, let me introduce our panel. in kansas city, missouri, we have mayor quinton lucas, he is a democrat. in washington, we have republican congressmen bruce westerman of arkansas just in the city at the moment, and over on the west coast we hope to be joined from california, compton california, by the city's mayor, aja brown, who is also a democrat, but we're sorting out technology.

katty kay? >> hi. >> hi.e the only person on the planet who has debated against mike pence in a vice presidential nominee situation. so let's get your thoughts on that. what are the stakes this time around? are they different from back in 2016 when you debated? what do you see as the challenges and the opportunities for kamala harris? >> first, to be humble, we all went through the history of vice presidential debates before that debate and realized not one ever made any difference. and there was only one -- >> that's why i asked if it was different this time around. >> if the vice presidential nominee allows unchecked shots against the presidential nominee and doesn't respond, that's the weakness. so what you have to do in a vice presidential debate is you're like a goalie you have to keep pucks out of the net. you can't have an attack on hillary clinton or a joe biden you don't respond to. here's the difference in this debate. remember in 2016, there wasn't an incumbent. it was two candidates, hillary and d

katty and i are clearly missing the boat on this trend. katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. the chief executives of nine drug companies around the world published a statement in the wall streetjournal today promising they won't push through a coronavirus vaccine before it's ready and safe. in theirjoint statement, the heads of the world's biggest drugs companies — the companies that are actively working on a vaccine — said they would "only submit for approval or emergency use authorisation after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a phase three clinical study." the unusual public response was designed to counter public misgivings, in the past week president trump has repeatedly promised a vaccine would be ready before the election on november third. thomas cooney is the director—general of the international federation of pharmaceutical manufacturers, which represents the companies who signed the pledge. we can expect some results of this large clinical trials may be by the end of october, but you still need to loo

katty asked him what was going through his mind during that clip. and that there were going to be some very tough things i said about him and make some judgements and then he went, the market is doing well and how sad, how outrageous that a president who oversees, at that point, almost 180,000 deaths in this country and is talking about the stock market. yes, the stock market is part of the story but the grave and historic miscalculations he made in dealing with this virus is going to go down in the books that are written decades from now. which i guess is why at the end of the book, you make a judgement about this president in your opinion in a way that you haven't about previous presidents. is that why? yes, and the overwhelming evidence and when you do a book like this, you are so immersed in donald trump world and the administration and i got lots of new information and it's a book about the truth and i have to face the truth. i cannotjoin the ranks of republican senators in the united states who know that donald trump, who say privately that he

katty kay, final thoughts this morning?os this morning and whether it helps donald trump or whether it doesn't help donald trump. i think alex has just laid it out for the more chaos there is here, we know there's one beneficiary. we know there's one person that likes it, and that person is sitting in the kremlin. >> yeah. i think for those who may know somebody or may have family members who can't really understand why many of us have very strong, concerning feelings about this president, read the atlantic this morning. read jeffrey goldberg's article. it is really a look into his soul, into his core, who he really is as a person. he's told us along the way, but i think this really boils it down in terms of who we are as a country, as americans, as patriots. this president's quotes point to the fact that he is anything but. and there's no if, and or but about that. it is very clear that he is something very different, and what he is drawn to is very different than the core values of this country. and that's the choice in n

congressman richard neal speaking to katty kay. more on dominic raab's visit from our washington correspondent, nomia iqbal. brexit is really high on the agenda here in washington, dominic raab has been visiting to try to reassure us politicians on the latest british developments, he had a press conference with the us secretary of state mike pompeo and when asked a question by the bbc about the concerns around it, mr pompeo said that he trusted the uk to get it right. but nancy pelosi a very powerfulfigure here has her reservations, she said there is no chance of a uk—us deal getting through. she is a very powerful woman here. her party controls the lower house of congress. joe biden also adding his viewpoint in saying if he becomes president on november the 3rd, he will not allow peace in northern ireland to become a casualty of brexit. nomia, i want to also put to you something that president trump has said a short time ago. president trump was claiming about a vaccine being rolled out imminently in the us. let's have a listen to

let's cross to the bbc‘s katty kay in washington.omeone dies there is a few hours of pause while reflect on their life. not this time. some of that is happening and colleagues are remembering her and chiefjustice roberts has sent out a nice tribute to her saying that the whole nation is in morning and what an extraordinary woman she was. as laura pointed out there, pointing to the ashtray hurdle she had to overcome to get where she was, professional hurdles in particular. but you are right in your question, in that list has moved very quickly into intensely political territory, i just had a long conversation with a democratic strategist, who was saying to me that look, we have the prospect that we could win the prospect that we could win the presidency in november, when the senate in november, but if we leave —— lose the supreme court, 6—3 republicans and democrats, we may as well have lost everything, that is how democrats are feeling tonight. i have just how democrats are feeling tonight. i havejust been acting —— texting with some

what are they saying katty?g was that they were speechless. i do know that senior advisers to joe speechless. i do know that senior advisers tojoe biden over the weekend have been talking about this notion of expanding the supreme court. perhaps 211 in order to redress some of the balance. they failed very firmly that two seats potentially have been stolen from them. that merit garland seat back in 2016 when president obama was president and then potentially this seat. they feel because of hypocrisy of the republicans, that would also be stolen. they feel that this is something very worth looking at. just in terms of pure politics was up just in terms of pure politics was up interesting hearing from the trunk campaign over the weekend. they think this helps them. and only one narrow sense that it changes the conversation away from something that we are about to start talking about which is covid—19. the more americans are focused on abortion rights, gay rights, gun control, those kind of cultural issues, they th

hello, i'm katty kay in washington, james reynolds is in london.foreign secretary dominic raab is in washington today pressing for closer ties with the united states. his trip has become something of a rescue mission. that's because four members of the us congress have written to prime minister borisjohnson — threatening to veto any trade deal between the two countries if the uk fails to uphold its commitments to northern ireland. the uk government admits that its proposed new bill — which addresses northern ireland — would breach the divorce agreement with the eu. in a concession designed to win over some of his own doubting mps, borisjohnson has now agreed to secure parliamentary approval if the government decides to go ahead with its plans. speaking in washington — foreign secretary raab and secretary of state mike pompeo insisted the countries were on the same page. to the good friday agreement and to avoid any infrastructure on the border between north and south is absolute. yes, we trust united kingdom. i am confident they will get it right.

hello, i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london.ching two white men in their 70s might sound like a boring premise for a political debate, but when one of them is donald trump, the most unusual debater in us presidential history, and the other isjoe biden, who has his own history of gaffes, you can expect drama. there are not many moments left for either of these candidates to persuade undecided americans to vote for them. but the three presidential debates, with their huge national audiences, can have an impact, especially the first one. going into tonight's match up there's a clear dynamic. democrats want the election to be all about donald trump, and republicans want it to be a choice, trump or biden. laura trevelyan is in cleveland, ohio for us, where tonight's debate is taking place. normally i would be there, christian would be there, the whole american political world would be there, but this is not a traditional american presidential debate tonight as it? not at all because of coronavirus there will only be 80 — 100 people i

hello i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london.onald trump believes the fires raging through the west coast are the result of poor management of forests — in largely democratic states. the elected democratic officials in those states say the blazes are largely caused by climate change an issue the president prefers to ignore. and so the politicians go round in circles while houses burn. hundreds of thousands of houses. a record three million acres have already burned out west this year. mr trump is there today, to see the damage for himself still blaming forest management and not the world's changing climate. with regard to the forest, when trees fall down after a short period of time about 18 months they become very dry. they become really like a matchstick. and they get up you know there's no more water pouring through and the become very, very, theyjust explode. through and the become very, very, they just explode. they through and the become very, very, theyjust explode. they could explode. leaves, when you have years of leaves

hello, i'm katty kay in washington. james reynolds is in london.d trump has presided over the signing of a historic deal that normalises relations between israel and two arab countries. what's being called the "abraham accords" paves the way for diplomatic, economic, and travel links between israel and the uae and bahrain. the three countries are driven by common foe — iran. and that's partly why they've come together. it's worth noting that the deal does not address the conflict between israelis and palestinians. but it is a significant win for the white house. since the creation of israel in 1948, only two arab states — egypt and jordan — had made peace with israel. today that number doubled. here's donald trump announcing his deal. we're here this afternoon to change the course of history. after decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new middle east. thanks to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries, we take a major stride towards a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and

it was 90 minutes, quite frankly, a disgrace for our country and, katty kay, the world was watching.e? >> yeah, i was texting with friends in south korea who stayed up in the uk to watch this. it's not a good look for america to see that on a stage. and there's concern. you've got president macron in france today saying that the european union just has to accept it can't rely on america anymore. people have watched what they saw last night. they're concerned about the -- the tone of the debate are a farce. i don't know that other people are laughing at america. they're sad about the state. that debate won't have done anything to cheer anybody up. people are looking around the world and thinking, well, where there's a loser, there's a winner. so, who wins when american democracy is diminished in the way that it appeared to be diminished last night. you have to look to china and russia, two countries that benefit from america's power being degraded. i don't think anyone could look at the democratic process at the moment and imagine what's going to happen over the next two months and th

you re watching bbc news with me, katty kay, in washington. christian fraser is in london. winsconsin. catapulted into the spotlight. we speak to chasten buttigieg about campaigning with his also in the programme.... we'll hear from a democratic candidate in ohio on the day it's re—classified by one polling expert as a toss—up state. why the humble chicken wing has become an emotive issue the town of lincoln, nebraska. when chasten buttigieg was scrolling through a dating app in august 2015, he couldn't never have imagined where the whirlwind romance he stumbled upon would lead him. chasten was a middle—school humanities teacher, pete was the mayor of a small town in indiana. so far, fairly conventional. but then, in 2019, things began to change when mayor pete announced he was running for president. his outsider campaign to become the first openly gay occupant to the white house morphed into a fundraising juggernaut that in less than a year catapulted mayor pete into first place in iowa's democratic caucus. all that time, chasten buttigieg, hoping to become the nation's fi

katty kay has been giving us her thoughts on the debate.ery much and so you had donald trump coming to it, seven or eight points, behind. by relentlessly attacking joe biden and interrupting him, whichjoe biden biden and interrupting him, which joe biden ended biden and interrupting him, whichjoe biden ended up doing as well, he did not change any perception of himself. the american public know who donald trump is. they either love him or really hate him and very few people in the middle, perhaps in the suburbs and perhaps women are undecided and wavering and one thing that concerned about is a character and by playing to type, donald trump reconfirmed his character andi trump reconfirmed his character and i am not sure it helped him very much. the bar was set very low by describing joe biden as seen, suggesting he was on drugs, suggesting he was getting instructions from an earpiece. and by being there for 90 minutes and pushing back against the president fairly forcefully, he was quite effective and he spoke directly to camera and to the

hello, i'm katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london.is a tricky balance to strike — responding to a public health crisis while trying, simultaneously, to defend the fragile uk economy. in june, the british government was telling people it was their civic duty to go to the pub. injuly, they were instructed to return to the office. by august, the chancellor himself was serving pizza, even offering to pay half the bill. and today? well, what a different story it is. an avalanche of new rules, stricter penalties, dire warnings of where the coronavirus curve is heading. no wonder the great british public is confused. in fairness, borisjohnson had warned us back injune these freedoms might be reversed. and other european governments are reacting in similar ways. these new rules could be with us for six months. and tonight, in his television address to the nation, the prime minister reserved the right to impose even tougher restrictions if people fail to comply. i'm deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe an

katty kay is in washington for us. you have a long experience of these campaigns.write it more, on the one hand you have a president who apparently has the blood of hundreds of thousands of americans on his hands and imminently faces a financial ruin and is done in the polls. another man who the president claims is senile, geriatric and on the widerfringes claims is senile, geriatric and on the wider fringes of the internet, there are claims he cannot function without serious drugs and an earpiece. what are you expecting out of all of this? i think if i could write a movie script, i wouldn't be speaking to you in the middle of the night, mike, i would be somewhere else. in some ways, you could look at these and you have two white men in their 70s up have two white men in their 70s up on have two white men in their 70s upona have two white men in their 70s up on a stage together having a political debate and perhaps that doesn't sound like the most thrilling contest but both of them have so much at stake and one of them is probably the most unusual debater in americ

hello, i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london.or five years, donald trump has defied us tradition and refused to release his tax returns. now, five weeks before the election, the new york times has exposed them for him. the financial records show mr trump was amazingly succesful at not paying taxes. possibly, even criminally so. the leaked returns have caused an uproar in the campaign, but the president himself has dismissed them. here he is speaking yesterday. it isa it is a total fake news, made it is a totalfake news, made up. we went through the same stories, you could have asked me the same questions. i litigated and talked about it. total fake questions. i litigated and talked about it. totalfake news. questions. i litigated and talked about it. total fake news. let's ta ke about it. total fake news. let's take a look at some of those numbers. he paid $750 in federal income tax in 2016, the year he won the presidency and then he bed sediment but when you're as well. compare that to the number of how much the average american

you're watching bbc news with me, katty kay, in washington. christian fraser is in london. make the next presidential debate more orderly. donald trump says the rules should not change in the middle of the game. donald trump rolls back on his comments about white supremacy. we'll be talking to the man whose job it once was to help him get his message across — his former press secretary anthony scaramucci. also in the programme... the un secretary general tells this programme that the world needs to pull together to fund a covid—19 vaccine. we absolutely need $38 billion in order to make a vaccine effective and available for everybody everywhere. last night's debate was politically polarising — but the internet? entirely unified. we've got some of the memes that capture the chaos. after last night's fiasco, the commission that runs presidential debates said today that it will try to make the next one less chaotic. cbs news is even reporting that they will consider "cutting off a candidate's microphone if they violate the rules." for the poor 6% of voters who really are hopin

hello i am katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. brexit talks are dangling precipitously over the edge tonight. the eu has asked for an emergency meeting with borisjohnson‘s government to discuss the new uk legislation, published today, that would seek to over—ride parts of the withdrawal agreement, signed in january. by the british government's own admission, there are elements of this new bill that will break international law.the uk agreed two things injanuary. there would be some checks on goods moving between britain and northern ireland — essentially checks in the irish sea. and to prevent customs checks at the irish border — northern ireland would continue to follow some eu rules and in some areas remain aligned with the eu's single market. but today's bill gives the british government the option to unilaterally change which goods are checked. which goes right to the heart of how the whole thing works. borisjohnson says, in the event of no deal, his government is merely tidying up legislation, to protect the uk's internal mar