but extremist violence means many voters won't be able to cast their ballots and play richardson welcome to the show. readers of the world's wealthiest countries are meeting online for a g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. the online gathering is dominated by efforts to end the covert, 1900 pandemic. and to deal with its economic fallout, china has pledged to step up international cooperation over the virus while russia is offering to make it sputnik vaccine available to countries that need it. opening the virtual summit, a saudi king, solomon called for equal access to vaccines. we have a duty to rise to the challenge together during this summit and give a strong message of hope and reassurance to our peoples by adopting policies to mitigate this crisis. the theme of our presidency is realizing opportunities of the 21st century. for all follow the covert, 19 pandemic has forced us to adjust our focus rapidly to face such repercussions. let's bring in correspondent, teri schultz for the view from brussels. hi, terry. saudi arabia is hosting this weekend's g. 20 summit. so let's talk abou

i'm claire richardson. welcome to the show. leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply covert nineteen vaccines and testes affordably to all the world's people. a virtual gathering of the g. twenty, a group hosted by saudi arabia, aims to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. as the pandemic, a deepens, divisions between rich and poor for climate change and the environment are merged as the other main. a seam on day two of the summit, u.s. president donald trump defended his decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. meanwhile, german chancellor angela merkel stressed the need to help poorer countries deal with the economic fallout from the crown of virus crisis. let's have a listen. this is something else that for the first time in a long time, we see an increase in global poverty. we need to act resolutely against this in our meeting today, we therefore stressed the importance of private investments in particular in africa . we stressed the importance o

player richardson, welcome to the show. leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply, covert one thousand vaccines and tests affordably to all the world's people. now the virtual gathering of the g. twenty, a group hosted by saudi arabia and to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. as the pandemic deepens, divisions between rich and poor climate change and the environment emerged as the other main aim during the summit. a first for an arab nation, has to give summits of the leading industrial countries, even if it was a virtual gathering dominated, of course, by the pandemic group with the environment. also high on the agenda. grammar jane must be for not but in india and all is to me the g twenty should continue to take the lead in tackling climate change. we need to follow the guidance of the united nations and push for the full and effective implementation of the paris agreement on climate change. most of the leaders made the right noises about the need to

i'm claire richardson. welcome to the show. while makers in germany have voted to give the government's new powers, meant to make it easier to tackle. the coronavirus crisis include new measures that would make it possible to impose restrictions on social contacts and shut down shops and sporting events. although most germans find the restrictions justifiable, thousands of demonstrators came out to protest the move to find bands and clashing with police in berlin. i, water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstrators. thousands gathered near the german parliament building a crowd, including anti-government protesters, coronavirus skeptics, and members of far right groups. many were not wearing masks or maintaining social distancing. they were protesting against coronavirus restrictions, which they see as a violation of their civil rights. but a little while, in my opinion, the restrictions are disproportionate. surely it should have been possible to come up with other measures that don't cause so muc

and play richardson welcome to the show. the united states has announced it will be, bringing some troops home from iraq and afghanistan by mid january. u.s., president donald trump had earlier suggested he want to trade, celebrate the troop withdrawal from both countries. by the end of his charm in office, the pentagon says just 2500 troops will remain in each nation respectively. now, these conflicts have lasted through 3 american presidents. he's with u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan since 2001, and in iraq since 2003, u.s. national security adviser, robert o'brian says, the troop drawdown fulfills an election pledge important to the outgoing president . before years ago while president promise to put a stop to america's wars. today it's just announced that the pentagon president trump, is keeping that promise to the american people for president. trump understood that the way to end those wars was a dot to adopt a peace through strength approach to the world. he rebuilt the american military, which had been decimated

richardson, welcome to the show. leaders of the world's wealthiest countries are meeting online for a g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. the online gathering is dominated by efforts to end the covert, 19 pandemic. and to deal with its economic fallout, china has pledged to step up international cooperation over the virus or russia is offering to make it sputnik vaccine available to countries that need it. opening the virtual summit, saudi king solomon calls for equal access to vaccines. we have a duty to rise to the challenge together during this summit and give a strong message of hope and reassurance to our peoples by adopting policies to mitigate this crisis. the theme of our presidency is realizing opportunities of the 21st century. for all follow the covert, 19 pandemic has forced us to adjust our focus rapidly to face such repercussions. let's bring in correspondent, teri schultz for the view from brussels. hi terry, at saudi arabia is hosting this weekend's g. 20 summit. so let's talk about the elephant in th

sydney reports, it's hot as november night since records began and clay richardson welcome to the show. now sources say more than 100 people have been killed in a brutal massacre in the country's north west. why witnesses said militants on motorcycles rounded up until farmers who were bringing in their harvest in northern a borno state. in nigeria, no one has claimed responsibility, but jihadist groups have attacked the area in recent years. the victims of that reached the massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. the 13 pool say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. while they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. it is that there were 6 of us in the bush. then we headed back into the village. we were shocked when we got there. like on the move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. then we went through a nearby village called good though. we met so many people fleeing from our village without knowing where they were going. a huge amount of harvested rice was set on fire. you see a lot of love. this i

richardson, welcome to the show. we start in the united states with a grim evidence of the country's worsening coronavirus crisis. more than 250000, people have now died of covert 90. since the start of the pandemic, by far the highest toll worldwide, the u.s. has been struggling to stem a surgeon infections across the country. its largest city, new york city, has decided to close all public schools in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. it's an unseasonably early last week of school for children across new york city. classrooms are shifting to online learning until further notice. it's the latest in a series of new restrictions in the state. parents and students alike are unhappy. it's super unfortunate that these kids are going to be denied an education, but we can go eat dinner inside a restaurant or general to be the last thing in the world. the kind of dog are a little sad, it's close by. if that's what's best for the cats, we'll go with that. the city's man feels the same way workers i want to for and as muc

i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show french police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of an orthodox priest in the southern us city of the on the priest was gunned down as he closed his church and is said to be in a critical condition just 2 days before a suspected islamist militant killed 3 people in a catholic church in the french city of nice but the merrily on us says the motive for this latest incident is still not known. the priest a greek national was just closing up this orthodox church around 4 in the afternoon when the assailant shot him twice. the police kept the area cordoned off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. the 3rd party at this stage we don't know what the motive at the attack is. no line of inquiry years referred to or ruled out so i won't comment on the target on what sort of attack it is we don't know yet all of the local residents was shocked. to have a basket stuck out there i'm appalled because it's a very quiet neighborhood a good place to live through that we have markets

read each and every day and play richardson welcome to the show. lawmakers in berlin have voted to give the german government's new powers, allowing it to introduce restrictions to tackle the coronavirus crisis. german president frank falser steinmeyer signed the law that's set to take effect on thursday. in response, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest. as politicians debated the legislation. i, i am water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstrators . thousands gathered near the german parliament building a crowd, including anti-government protesters, coronavirus skeptics, and members of far right groups. many were not wearing masks or maintaining social distancing. they were protesting against coronavirus restrictions, which they see as a violation of their civil rights. by little, by little, in my opinion, the restrictions are disproportionate. surely it should have been possible to come up with other measures that don't cause so much suffering. you still believe i am here for my children and my

so cannot take from the not go out and play richardson. welcome to the show. the united states says it's reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. by mid january, the deployment will be reduced to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. bringing american troops home was a key pledge of the trump presidency, but that situation has also triggered a backlash. the sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. american soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule. but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. troop numbers have winked. now, outgoing president donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. in light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formally announcing that we will implement president trumps orders to continue our repositioning of forces from those 2 countries by january 15th, 2021. our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops,, or 4 sides in iraq will also be 2500.

i'm claire richardson, welcome to the show. leaders of the world's wealthiest countries are meeting online for a g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. the virtual gathering is dominated by efforts to end to the coronavirus and demick and to deal with its economic fallout. a draft a declaration declaration, excuse me, shows that the biggest economies will pledge to pay for fair distribution of covert $1000.00, vaccines and testing. so that poor countries are not left out of debt relief is also likely to be extended denied the opportunity for a face to face pageantry. this was how so dia rebiya opened the g 20 a 7 plane fly over of riyadh to mark the ever summit hosted by an arab country. on the grown king solomon beckoned the world's most powerful leaders, bureaucrats, and despots. to meet the challenge of their generation. it is unfortunate that we are unable to host you in person due to the exceptional circumstances we are all facing. as he spoke, flanked by the all powerful crown prince, some participants were running late, the

i'm claire richardson. welcome to the show.leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply 1000 vaccines and tests affordably to all the world's people. a virtual gathering of the 20 group hosted by saudi arabia into to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. as the pandemic, a deepens, divisions between rich and poor, our climate change and the environmental merge as the other main theme on day 2 of the summit with us are president donald trump, a defending his decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. meanwhile, german chancellor angela merkel stressed the need to help poorer countries deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. this is some estimate for the 1st time in a long time, we see an increase in global poverty. we need to act resolutely against this. in our meeting today, we therefore stressed the importance of private investments in particular in africa . we stressed the importance of the g 20 compact with africa, which began under t

guy richardson, welcome to the show. leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply 19 vaccines and tests affordably to all the world's people. and the virtual gathering of the g. 20, a group hosted by saudi arabia, aimed to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. as the pandemic deepens, divisions between rich and poor, the climate change and the environment emerged as the other main theme during a sign. it's a 1st for an arab nation, posting a summit of the leading industrial countries, even if it was a virtual gathering dominated, of course, by the pandemic. but with the environment also high on the agenda. primer jane must be for not being but in india and or least agree the g 20 should continue to take the lead in tackling climate change. we need to follow the guidance of the united nations and push for the full and effective implementation of the paris agreement on climate change. most of the leaders made the right noises about the need to protect the pla

and play richardson welcome to the show. the united states has announced it will be, bringing some troops home from iraq and afghanistan by made in january u.s., president donald trump had earlier suggested he wanted to accelerate the troop withdrawal from both countries by the end of his charm and office. the pentagon says it just to choose hours and $500.00 troops will remain in each nation respectively. these conflicts have lasted through 3 american presidencies, with u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan since 2001. and in iraq since 2003, national security adviser, robert o'brian says, the troop drawdown fulfills an election pledge important to the outgoing presidents . before years ago, while president trump ran on a promise to put a stop to america's endless wars. today it's just announced that the pentagon president trump, is keeping that promise to the american people for president. trump understood that the way to end those wars was a dud to adopt a peace through strength approach to the world. he rebuilt the americ

m k richardson a welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesday's election trump is holding campaign rallies in 5 battleground states meanwhile joe biden is focusing on the key state of pennsylvania most major polling shows biden ahead in the critical battleground states needed to win and to win but trump believes he can defy the polls once again and pull off a shock victory. the final dance before the big election day on tuesday. u.s. president donald trump addressed frenetic fans in 5 different swing states on sunday visibly fighting the cold but with his usual self confidence. we are going to win 4 more years in that very beautiful white house. with your vote we will continue to cut your taxes cut regulations and ensure that bore products are made and raised and grown in the usa. with only a couple of days left to complain trump focused on crucial swing states like michigan and iowa before heading to georgia and florida. despite i

i'm claire richardson a welcome to the show french police say they have arrested a suspect over the shooting of an orthodox priest in the southern city of the on the priest was gunned down as he closed his church and is said to be in a critical condition just 2 days before a suspected islamist militant killed 3 people in a catholic church in the french city of nice but the merrily on says the motive for this latest incident is still not known. the priest was just closing up this greek orthodox church late saturday afternoon when he was shot twice. police kept the area fenced off warning the public to stay away prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder. at this stage we don't know what the motive is behind the attack no line of inquiry is preferred all rolled out so i won't comment on the target of what sort of attack this is. we don't know yet. residents express their shock i'm appalled because it's very quiet neighborhood a good place to live view v.c. was you have markets the synagogue a little further away the orthodox church everyone knows each other it's a small vil

i'm claire richardson a welcome to the program and our very special coverage of this breaking news democratic candidate joe biden has won the u.s. presidential election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania major u.s. t.v. networks and the associated press have called the race in his favor the 20 electoral votes of biden won in pennsylvania have allowed him to surpass the 270 votes needed to win at the election according to projections by the associated press he has received 284 electoral votes to republican president donald trump's 214. well joining me in the studio is stacey begins from the d.w. u.s. election team so you see now it's official joe biden is president of the united states what can we expect to come next well let's just try to take it and for a moment this is very exciting and we've been waiting for several days to get a result but let's just make no mistake this has been historic run joe biden seemed like an unlikely candidate he was the oldest in the defeat of democrats the. extremely white and old and people are like oh we don't want this we want so

i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesday's election trump is holding campaign rallies in 5 states on sunday including michigan north carolina georgia and florida biden meanwhile is focusing his attention on the pivotal state of pennsylvania our record 19000000 early votes have all. already been cast as the contest heads toward the biggest turnout in at least a century. well joining me now is our chief political editor in washington d.c. we're nearly there only 2 days until election day why are biden and trump visiting these states in particular well because they know they need to options of pasta was the presidency this size of the rust belt or the sunbelt by the south now joe biden decided on the rust belt states of pennsylvania today where he really had to make a cause for getting him elected this is off to his comments that are critical of a continuation of fossil fuels here and in the united states and that

and a richardson and welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters ahead of tuesday's election trump is holding campaign rallies in 5 battleground states meanwhile joe biden is focusing on the key state of pennsylvania and most major polling shows biden ahead in the critical battleground states needed to win but trump believes he can defy the polls once again and poll. a shock victory. the final dance before the big election day on tuesday. u.s. president donald trump addressed frenetic fans in 5 different swing states on sunday visibly fighting the cold but with his usual self-confidence. though you win 4 more years in that very beautiful white house. with your vote we will continue to cut your taxes cut regulations and ensure that bore products are made and raised and grown in the usa. with only a couple of days left to complain trump focused on crucial swing states like michigan and iowa before heading to georgia and florida. despite its breath at le

and clay richardson are welcome to the program the ana has been targeted in what austrian authorities say is a terror attack with multiple armed gunmen 6 locations where attacks in the city center close to a synagogue on 2 civilians have been killed and several others seriously wounded one attacker was also shot and killed and at least one other is on the run police have now ordered the public to remain indoors. panic on the streets of vienna the shooting began around 8 pm armed police quickly flooded the city center it was an unseasonably warm evening and bars and restaurants were crowded ahead of a partial lockdown beginning tuesday gunmen opened fire at least 6 locations the 1st reports came from near the city's main synagogue it was closed at the time but a rabbi watched the horror unfold from his window. i saw the attacker running in through various bars and restaurants we. on our street. and people running away in. one or 2 attackers armed chasing them or the street they were shooting at least 100 rounds just in from the. police sealed off the city center urging people to stay a

i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show joe biden has become his 1st has begun his 1st full dayas u.s. president elect of by getting it down to work biden went to mass at a catholic church in his hometown wilmington delaware where his son of bo is very tight and is planning an overhaul of government with a task forces have. in a virus pandemic as his top priority earlier he used his victory speech to reinforce his message that it's time to heal a divided nation meanwhile a defiant president donald trump has returned to the golf course where he was playing when u.s. networks declared that biden had won the election trump has yet to concede defeat he insists the election was stolen from him and he's vowing to press ahead with legal challenges. straight to washington and our correspondent sumi so misconduct who's been following this for us so maybe we've just seen pictures of the morning after you want to call it that trump on the golf course while biden is going to church oh what are we to make of all this. well we're seeing different sundays unfolding for these 2 men you know joe

i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show. german chancellor angela merkel has failed in her initial bid to push through tougher coronavirus restrictions. after meeting resistance from the leaders of germany's 16 states during a video summit, leaders insisted on delaying fresh curbs in order to allow more time to see if current measures were having an impact. germany is currently 2 weeks into a limited lockdown aimed at slowing a surge of covert 19. this cool in the homburg has learned to cope with a pandemic masks, social distancing, and even a live stream for pupils to tune in from home. but with over 300000 school children currently in quarantine, the coronavirus needs to be contained fast for schools across the country to remain open. it's just one of the reasons medical was keen to add new measures to the lockdown already in place. but in marathon talks on monday, state leaders refused to sign off on a new list of restrictions. there were some differences of opinion. i would have liked us to implement rules on reducing co

claire richardson from details us elections we welcome claire. let's start with those from the president have we seen anything like this before this talk of corruption there's talk of an election being stolen from a sitting u.s. president will feel as. paths to victory are closing and we are seeing him. we see him continue to cast doubt on the legitimacy of this election making baseless claims as you say but it is not really surprising because he's been doing this since the beginning of his campaign with particular regard to those mail in ballots he said mail in a voting it could lead to fraud now that those late ballots are coming in and they seem to be going mostly toward joe biden in those crucial states he's asking how can that be how can they all go to joe biden well the answer is he's been telling his supporters throughout this campaign that that is not the way to vote so this week we've heard state election officials say his supporters have been harassing poll workers who are in the process of tallying those votes all the even in states wh

welcome to fox news at night. richardson looking at the state of affairs one week after election day. >> reporter: mike pompeo promising a steady transition in the state department as their are concerns the delay in transfer of power could impair national security. the details of the secretary's proposed transition were a surprise. >> is the state department preparing to engage with the biden transition team and if not at what point does it delay hampering a smooth transition pose a risk to national security? >> there will be a smooth transition. we are ready. the world is watching what is taking place. we will count all the votes, we're in good shape. >> reporter: president-elect biden has field calls from leaders of the united kingdom, canada, france, germany and others discussing plans to cooperate after january's inauguration, according to ask you is this afternoon moral leaders called biden to offer congratulations then have republican senators were mostly quiet on biden's election or support the trump campaign's lawsui

i'm going to richardson welcome to the show. leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit with a pledge to supply covert 1000 vaccines and tests affordably to all the world's people. the virtual gathering of the g. 20 group hosted by saudi arabia, aimed to ease worries that poor countries could be left behind. as the pandemic deepens, divisions between rich and poor climate change and the environment emerged as the other main themes on day 2 of the summit. and u.s. president donald trump defended his decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. meanwhile, german chancellor angela merkel stressed the need to help the poor countries deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. this is the 1st time in a long time. we see an increase in global poverty. we need to act resolutely against this in our meeting today, we therefore stressed the importance of private investments in particular in africa . we stressed the importance of the g 20 compact with africa, which began under the german leade