chris page, bbc news, belfast.here has been a success. he said he'd seen evidence that the rate of transmission fell, and the number of people in hospital with covid—19 is stabilising. let's speak to our correspondent, tomos morgan. explain more about the somewhat upbeat news from mark drakeford. very upbeat today, mark drakeford. the last government measuring success based on three things, among a number of things, three main things, the number of positive tests, the number of the rate of transmission and hospital admissions. the rate of transmission, that has eased across the country. in merthyr tydfil where it was the highest in the uk at one stage, 770 per 100,000, it was the highest in the uk at one stage, 770 per100,000, down to it was the highest in the uk at one stage, 770 per 100,000, down to 215 l. percentage rate still fairly high but has come down on hospital admissions seem to have eased off. a word of caution, when it comes to the weight of transmission, still in triple digits as an average across wal

chris page in belfast.rding to its boss, despite the uk government banning all but essential travel. michael 0'leary said if a flight was operating, passengers would not get their money back but they could change to a later flight without paying a fee. ryanair has reported an 80% slump in passenger numbers during the coronavirus crisis. prince william was unwell with covid—19 earlier this year but it was not publicly announced. palace sources have confirmed the duke of cambridge had the virus around the same time that his father prince charles was self—isolating. jon donnison reports. prince william appearing on itv‘s pride of britain awards last night. you've had it in your own family as well? yeah, my father had it very early on. it turns out it wasn't just his father who was infected. the prince made no mention that he had also fallen ill with covid—19 last spring, but paid tribute to nhs workers. the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic has reminded us as a nation of how much we owe to the tho

chris page, bbc news, belfast.rport says that a strike planned by the unite union is going to go ahead on december the 1st. next tuesday. protesting againstjob cuts as well as three higher bring on reduced pay. the strike is going to involve firefighters, engineers, campus security, baggage operations, operational and the airside workers, it will effectively close heathrow airport and a further tweet from heathrow airport saying that there will be further days of strike action which are planned for later in the month. you can see them plan for monday, thursday the 17th the 18th of december. restrictions are being re—introduced in wales next friday to tackle the recent rise in coronavirus cases. indoor entertainment venues and hospitality will be affected by the tightening of measures. the announcement was made today by the first minister of wales, mark drakeford. the cabinet has agreed to take further, specific and targeted action to reinforce the current national measures we have in place. we will focus on those p

chris page, bbc news, belfast.s next friday to tackle the recent rise in coronavirus cases. indoor entertainment venues and hospitality will be affected by the tightening of measures. the announcement was made today by the first minister of wales, mark drakeford. the cabinet has agreed to take further, specific and targeted action to reinforce the current national measures we have in place. we will focus on those places where we meet and where coronavirus thrives, drawing on the recent evidence from sage about those interventions that have the greatest impact on the virus. any additional actions we take will build on that sage advice, but will be designed to meet the unique circumstances we face here in our country. cinemas, bowling alleys and other indoor entertainment venues will now close. there will be new restrictions in the hospitality industry which will come into effect on friday of next week. now, i knowjust how hard the sector has worked to put measures in place to protect the public and i know that this

chris page is in belfast.s and investigations and everything else. what was the reason given for today's delay, because it was not ever, not yet, wasn't it? yes, the northern ireland secretary brandon lewes made a statement to the house of commons a couple of hours ago where he outlined the reasons why he said he wasn't ordering a public inquiry at this time. he said that there were other processes under way. there was a review coming up by the police service of northern ireland to our conducting ongoing reviews of the unsolved killings from the troubles, so that review will begin in the new year. also, there is an investigation by the police ombudsman for northern ireland, the policing watchdog care which has been going on since 2016. mr lewes's argument was that it was important to let those processes take their course and that nobody should prejudice the work of either the psi night or the police ombudsman, but he said he wasn't taking a public inquiry off the table at this stage. now, as you've heard they'

chris page, bbc news, belfast.ve of retail ni. good to have you with us. ijust wonderfirst of all, good to have you with us. ijust wonder first of all, because we had that period of one week between the last lockdown and this new circuit breaker, was there a notable difference in the number of people getting out and about to shops to ta ke getting out and about to shops to take advantage of that window, if you want to call it that? good morning. there certainly was, if you like, a storm before the camp this week and it was entirely predictable that would happen because obviously people wanted to try and get their christmas shopping completed before the circuit breaker and of course there is also a significant amount of shoppers that were not confident that we would be able to reopen on the 11th of december as well so that fuelled this surge that we saw in the past few days. obviously, that has implications for the r figure in the transmission of the virus but it was entirely predictable that we would have this surg

let's take a look at the situation in ireland with our correspondent chris page. e food ready, they are brewing coffees and other drinks, but in seven days' time they are going to have to shut again and go take only once more, all nonessential retail will have to close, places of worship will not be able to hold regular services, leisure facilities such as gyms will have to close in those restrictions will be in place for two weeks. let's speak to the owner here. what do you think of what is going on? devastated to get that news last night, sadly not shocked, there doesn't seem to be a plan for our industry especially. it feels as if they have a duty of care and there is no duty of care towards us which is no duty of care towards us which is really disappointing. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us on bbc breakfast. i think you will hear plenty of criticism from business owners today. ministers say the restrictions are necessary because without them hospitals would be overwhelmed by mid december but for the likes of business people it is not so mu

chris page, bbc news, belfast.assessing the astrazeneca oxford university coronavirus vaccine, but some scientists have expressed concerns after the firm provided two sets of data. they say that the highest efficacy — the 90% efficacy shown after people were mistakenly given a low dose then backed up with a standard one — might not be a robust enough finding for permission to be granted for use. astrazenica acknowledge that further trial data might be needed. a blood test designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer at an early stage, is to be trialled by the nhs in england. more than 165,000 patients will be offered the tests from next year — officials say early detection has the potential to save many lives. jim reed reports. checks for many types of cancer currently mean this, an mri or ct scan, to look for a tumour and then a biopsy. often, though, that can mean treatment is left late. some diseases like pancreatic and ovarian cancer are typically diagnosed at stage three or four, when the disease may have s

they were allowed to re—open, following another period of restrictions. 0ur ireland correspondent chris pagere there is usually seasonal shopping, there is now shut down. the devolved government in northern ireland has told most shops to close because it has classified them as nonessential. last night, the belfast city centre seemed to be much busier than normal. shoppers rushed to buy gifts in store, while they still could. it will not be long until they are opened up again. i think people are going crazy at the minute, shopping. they think they are under pressure, but they are not. with the pressure, everybody going in and out, people are going on with no masks on and not sanitising themselves. retailers criticised the timing of the lockdown. the owner of this jewellery shop says the closure could not have come at a worse point. we will happily close from the 24th to the end of february. i would not bat an eyelid. but to take away too weeks out of the four, before christmas, that is just a wrecking ball to retail. close contacts services such as hairdressers were previously closed from mid

our ireland correspondent chris page is in belfast. what do we know? of the death toll, the worst terrorist attack carried out in great britain linked to the northern ireland conflict. in november 1974, bombs exploded into pubs in birmingham killing 21 people and injuring 220 others. in the last few years there have been fresh inquest held into the murders and the families of those killed have been calling for a public enquiry. the ira never said it was behind the bombings but it's widely believed that that organisation did carry out the attacks. west midlands police have been carrying out an investigation and as a result of that, today, in belfast, a 65—year—old man has been arrested. it's understood he was detained in his home in the south of the city and is being questioned by detectives at a police station in the city centre under anti—terrorism legislation. it is1:20pm. the it is 1:20pm. the top story. even more effective than first thought — and ready for approval. more good news on the pfizer covid vaccine. coming up — sir geoff hurst calls for

chris page, bbc news, belfast. says the two week firebreak there has been a success. he said he'd seen evidence that the rate of transmission fell, and the number of people in hospital with covid—19 is stabilising. the chief medical officer issued a statement last night that said that the evidence is now good enough to say that the firebreak period did succeed. we have had ten consecutive days of numbers coming down in wales, positivity rates coming down in wales. and a number of people going into our hospitals is stabilising and we hope to see that dropping now over the week to come. so, all in all, the week to come. so, all in all, the firebreak achieved what we hoped it would. whether we can sustain it depends on how people behave in the post—fire break period. what we all have to do either simple things we know about already. we should minimise the number of people we are in contact with because coronavirus thrives on human contact. we should only travel when it is necessary. we should work from home wherever w

chris page is there. good morning.rthern ireland today after an extended half—term break but that is just part of the jigsaw of restrictions. other restrictions are still in place. what sort of effect have they been having so far? the infection rate in northern ireland has been coming down but it is still much higher than anybody would like. just over a fortnight ago, the devolved government here brought in a series of measures designed to deal with what at that time we are breaking away there from chris page to bring you news from the high court that the hollywood starjohnny depp has lost his high court libel action against the sun newspaper over an article published in the paper which had labelled him a wife beater. that news just coming in on the last few seconds. johnny depp has lost his high court libel action. we can go to our correspondent who has been following the case and is at the royal courts of justice. what more can you tell us? a highly anticipated judgment from the high court, it has been handed down el

held by counter—terrorism officers at his home in belfast this morning. 0ur ireland correspondent chris pagell, the worst terrorist attack carried out in great britain linked to the northern ireland conflict in november 197a. bombs aploded at two pubs in birmingham killing 21 people and injuring 220 others. in the last few years, there have been fresh inquests held into the murders, families of those who were killed have been calling for a public inquiry. the ira never said it was behind the bombings, but it was widely believed that that organisation did carry out the attacks. west midlands police have been carrying out an investigation and as a result of that, today in belfast, a 65—year—old man has been arrested. it was understood he was detained in his home in the south of the city and he is now being questioned by detectives at a police station in the city centre under anti—terrorism legislation. let's get a little more now on the announcements made by the prime minister today as part of his ten—point plan to create jobs and address climate change in the uk. joining me is professor ben s

hospitality sector can reopen on friday, november 20, and that comes from our ireland correspondent chris pagene more when we have more on that here on bbc news. one more update i wa nted on bbc news. one more update i wanted to bring you, the transport secretary grant shapps has done his weekly update of the travel corridor, and he says that now all of greece, apart from corfu, crete, rhodes, zach and thos and kos are removed from the travel corridor, so apart from those areas i have just outlined, all the other areas will be subject to quarantine for people returning. the travel ban on denmark will be extended for another 14 days, and other countries that have been added to the travel corridor list, so these are countries where you don't need to self—isolate when you don't need to self—isolate when you return, they are bahrain, chile, iceland, cambodia, lagos, qatarand the turks & caicos islands. so that is the latest weekly update from grant shapps. now, around 100,000 new covid cases were occurring in england at the start of the lockdown, new research suggests. the study by university coll

let's go straight to belfast to hear more from our correspondent chris page.ood that that meeting has been within the last hour and ministers have agreed to a tougher appeared on restrictions which will kick in from next friday so nonessential resell will close and all shops here have been open i like england, they will have to shut for two weeks from next friday. —— unlike england. also that includes gyms, they will be closing to come and places of worship including the both regular meetings and weddings and funerals and those sorts of ceremonies can still go ahead. hospitality sector, there has been a shutdown since the middle of october, but that is actually partially coming to an end tomorrow, unlicensed premises. premises they don't serve alcohol like cafes are able to open and they still will be able to open and they still will be able to open however that reopening will only last for a week. and then they will have to close again. it has been thought that the they had indicated last week that the rest of the hospitality sector, hotels, pubs and the hosp

let's get more on this from our ireland correspondent chris page, who joins us from belfast.inancial package from the devolved government here. early the afternoon, £95 million going to this voucher scheme so that works out and about £200 per household. the reason why say is the precise details of this including the exact amount which every house is going to get is being worked out still by officials in particular by the department economy. the economy minister diane dodd to the dup. but the idea is it will stimulate spending on the high street. northern ireland is giving into a two week lockdown on friday so all nonessential retailers are shutting. 0nce so all nonessential retailers are shutting. once again businesses had been very critical of the timing of this lockdown and the way the decision had been arrived at by ministers in the devolved government. they said they are being very poor munication but today they been more elementary about what the executive has been doing. they think this is going to be a successful scheme. as regards resisting ethical people would spend

let's speak now to our correspondent in belfast, chris page. chris, hello to you.iven that lots of things will be reopening today, yetjust a week from now they will have to shut down again. so what is the rationale behind that, chris? yes, well, there is not a small amount of politics behind the way for how things have turned out here. last week the devolved government, the stormont executive, after four days of pretty intense talks, voted to partially lift the restrictions which are currently in force today. so as you have mentioned, this morning, cafes we re have mentioned, this morning, cafes were able to reopen, close contact services like hairdressers and beauticians are allowed to have customers as well but they are now going to have to close again in just a week's time. that's because yesterday the stormont executive decided to impose tougher restrictions than the ones which we re restrictions than the ones which were partially lifted this time last week. it is pretty confusing, many here are saying today, so we have had some pretty angry criticism from the

chris page, bbc news, belfast.l legend diego maradona has been buried in a private ceremony on the outskirts of buenos aires. his death at the age of 60 has triggered a huge outpouring of public grief in argentina. tens of thousands of people queued up to view his coffin in the presidential palace. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, reports. followed to the end by his loyal fans, so many of whom couldn't believe or accept that the superstar footballer was dead. in the end, though, maradona, a man so often in the limelight, had a very private burial, laid to rest next to his beloved mum and dad. these past few days have been emotional in argentina. there's been a very public outpouring of grief for a man people saw notjust as the world's greatest footballer, but the country's finest ambassador as well. translation: it's a loss notjust for argentina but for the entire world. there won't be anyone like him ever again. as a kid, we all wanted to be maradona. i was born in the same hospital as him. translatio

let's speak now to our ireland correspondent, chris page, who joins us from belfast.t from takeaway services because of the coronavirus restrictions. there have been four days of talking involving politicians in the five parties that make up the power—sharing devolved government in northern ireland. the talking was often tetchy but eventually last night they struck a deal of sorts. the restrictions will be extended for a week but after that, cafe and restaurants that do not serve alcohol will be able to reopen and the rest of the in hospitality industry will be opening in two weeks. so non—licensed places next friday, everywhere else, the friday that. i am joined by harry crawford, a company which is a major food supply to businesses like hotels and businesses like restau ra nts. hotels and businesses like restaurants. what you make the decision? first and foremost, the fa ct decision? first and foremost, the fact that they have made a decision is clarity which means we don't have to get any stock over the next two weeks. that's fine but we need to look towards how we

our ireland correspondent, chris page, is in belfast. yes, some business owners here...rn ireland. leisure facilities will be closed. schools and childcare facilities will stay open. business leaders are facilities will stay open. business leaders a re really facilities will stay open. business leaders are really very angry about the way the government has handled this situation. an organisation that represents independent retailers say these measures will not kill the virus but will kill small businesses. the reason they are particularly critical is that this new lockdown is being imposed a week after the stormont executive voted to partially ease the restrictions, hence the be opening of coffee shops today. the party of the five parties that most pushed for that reopening was the democratic unionist party, the biggest party. yesterday, rather, they met with the four parties and all agreed that the time was now right to impose the tightest restrictions northern ireland has seen restrictions northern ireland has seen since the lockdown in march. the first minister said t

arrested over murders of 21 people in the birmingham pub bombings in 1974. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page the attacks. 21 people we re history of the attacks. 21 people were murdered, 220 injured, it will be the worst death toll of attacks that happened in britain between the end of the second world war and the london bombings in 2005. the provisional ira never said that it carried out the bombings but it is widely believed that it was the organisation that did plant the bombs in birmingham in two pubs on that night. in terms of the ira's campaign therefore in britain, outside northern ireland, it was the worst attack that the organisation ever carried out. so we know that in the last few years, there have been fresh inquests into the killings, the families of those who are killed have been calling for a public enquiry and also the police in investigation has been continuing which has led to the arrest of a 65—year—old man who is now being questioned under anti—terrorism legislation. new figures from the ons legislation. new figures from the 0ns shown... new figures from the office for na

just getting that from chris page, our island correspond them.closes at five tm but today there is hope. this announcement that a test and release programme which could then quarantine after just five programme which could then quarantine afterjust five days could make us travel again. this is the stansted could make us travel again. this is the sta nsted airport could make us travel again. this is the stansted airport departure lounge where today only 13 flights have left the terminal. this is the stansted airport departure lounge where today only 13 flights left the terminal. tomorrow there's six, the day after five. usually at this time of year there would be hundreds as people escape for some autumn—winter sunshine but hoped this new testing regime will bring back some desperately needed passengers. after months of having to quarantine for two weeks, the government now believes cutting that period by more than a half is safe. having consulted very extensively with medical experts, we believe that five days plus a very reliable test is suffici

in a moment we'll speak to chris page, who is in belfast. we can go to cardiff and our correspondent tomos morgan. tomos, there's just one week to go on the lockdown in wales. what happens next? today, the first minister mark dra keford today, the first minister mark drakeford will come here to the welsh government building in cardiff and outline the plan, really, for wales up until christmas. we know that the nonessential businesses that the nonessential businesses that have been closed, thejims, bar and restaurants, will open a week today. we don't know how it will affect travel and mixing households. we have not had much detail, but i have been assured by people within the welsh government that there are no plans to extend this so it will come to an end a week today, but what we will be looking for is what is in the blueprint. how many people will be able to mix together indoors and outdoors, will people be able to travel further afield, i think one thing to look out for is at the moment there is a travel ban in wales and anyone coming in

pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the telegraph's chief political correspondent chrisayesha hazarika, columnist from the evening standard & times radio presenter. tomorrow's front pages, starting with, the new york times shows both us presidential candidates carrying out last—minute campaigning. the daily telegraph reports that more than 100 million americans have voted early, indicating the highest turnout in more than a century. the gulf news ponders who will will steer the country through the surging pandemic that has killed over 237,000 people, destroyed jobs and reshaped nearly every aspect of american life. arab news is predicting a close result and — and says the us is braced for possible unrest — in the coming days. while the straits times points out that donald trump is seeking to avoid becoming the first incumbent president to lose re—election since fellow republican george w. republican george hw. bush in 1992. the frankfurter allgemeine reflects on last night's terror attack in the austrian capital, vienna. while le figaro asks why austria should be targett

to do and the fact that you and some other people, john, have said it was a page turner and a thriller. i'm thrilled. >> chris father after it was a b-29 pilot in the army air force so i was riveted as you can imagine which are followed doesn't need to be in the army air corps to like this book so really well done. you put us in the room for happens on many occasions and that's just a masterful job, so well done. >> thank you. that's exactly what i've tried to do. there are so many dramatic moments. truman has has been meeting wis war cabinet on june 18, and henry stenson, the secretary of war is there, george marshall the general of the arm is there, all of the top brass and their discussing now that the nazis have surrendered on may 8, how they're going to finish in when the war against the japanese. for about 45 minutes there's a long discussion of the invasion of japan, how many troops that will take, how long it will prolong the war, how many hundreds of thousands of casualties there will be on both sides. at the end there's quite a junior men in the room, assistant secretary of war named john mccoy who

james and former senior official at health and human services, also out with a 73-page report, by the way, late last night, chrisi got this morning and flipped through it as much as i could. startling headline you've got which is basically a million cases a day is looking like a promise not a threat we look at the numbers, case counts are up. hospitalizations are up. thankfully it does appear fatality rates have come down as well exactly where do we stand right now? >> yeah, that's a great question and at the end of the day we've been saying since the beginning of this virus it is between 0.5 and 1% early on it looked much worse partially because we weren't testing enough people so we had no idea really how many cases were out there we have a much better idea now and more than 100,000 a day. in june dr. fauci said if we don't change behavior we could reach a point this fall where we have 100,000 a day now that seems like the goal to try to reach rower than what the threat is because we're just blowing through the numbers. now we may have 100,000 hospitalizations a day i think the vaccine news is extremely encour

if you go to his instagram page, he also says he's looking for a wife. congratulations, chris to get a check. i like this guy. [laughter] amazing. that's the way it should be. i want to wish happy birthday to the united states marine corps. they turned 245 years old today. that is three joe bidens. established november 10, 1775. remember the service and sacrifice of all marines. that's it for me. >> dana: on this day in 1999, my husband and his friend from england got so drunk in san diego with a bunch of marines and they came home and i had to clean it up. i'll never forget it. juan. >> juan: we are a little more than two weeks away from thanksgiving. take a look at people lining up for a turkey giveaway. thanksgiving is a joyful time but this year due to the pandemic and its effect on our economy, lots people her having to struggle -- lots of people are struggling to pay for a big bird. they have a goal to hand out 9,000 turkeys to families in need. they are also hitting out all the side dishes, stuffing and cranberry sauce. as you can see for the long line of cars, there's

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. >> or maybe he will turn the page and go with mayor pete buttigieg, who was one of his strongest surrogates. christhank you so much. a good reminder that the obama pl playbook that was handed off to the trump team. >>> coming up ahead, we have to answer the question, how did we get here? we will break down joe biden's path to victory. he perfect time for us to change it. >>> it has been less than 24 hours since joe biden was projected to be the president-elect, with the calls of pennsylvania and nevada, putting him at 279 electoral votes. that obviously puts him over the top. president trump has just 214. alaska, north carolina, georgia and arizona have not yet been called. joining me to break this down is richard louie. let's get technical. how did we get here? >> we were hearing we're going to get some sort of report coming out of pennsylvania at 9:00 a.m. we didn't know what it was. we're going to get some traunch of votes. what it was when we drilled down into pennsylvania, looking at the eight batches we got between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., those batches were going heavy biden, biden. when w

chris, to you and yours. >> thank you. >>> we've all got to get on the same page.w, the stock market crossing 30,000 for the first time. great. why? trump takes credit for it. maybe it was the biden transition. who cares? millions of americans are hungry. food anxiety. pc non-sense. hungry or afraid of going hungry sometime in the future. very few of you own stock. that's not the metric for your safety and your family. how do we get food on the table? i know you care. i know that you haven't heard about it enough. i have a father of two joining us. he had a good job. he had a good living. and in a moment things changed for the worse and he had to learn how to survive. let's not look away from the need. let's look at the people living it, see the dignity in helping one another and figure out just how bad the situation is. next. don't worry, they're going to love you. oh my gosh you made it! oh shoes! i thought y'all got lost or something. did you put some ah, kale in the greens? oh thank you! we didn't forget about you! welcome to the family. thank you. wooooow. i l

country what chance is there of people getting on the same page to do things that have been completely politicized? >> it's not going to be easy, chris. it's sometimes very frustrating because we know what works. i mean, you heard the numbers that we gave at the press conference today. they're daunting. they're very serious. but we can do something about it. i mean, that's the important thing that's so frustrating. if we had everybody pulling together as a country doing the fundamental things that we've been speaking about, the mask wearing, the keeping the distance, the avoiding congregate settings and crowds, doing things outdoors much more preferential than indoors. that's not big stuff. it's easy to do. and i'm not talking about shutting down the country. i'm not talking about locking down. because when i say that some people come back at me and say oh, you want to lock down the country. i don't want to do that. i just want everybody uniformly, when we're dealing with such a difficult situation right now, to do that. and you know what, chris? we can turn it around. we can stop that. i mean, you saw the curve that dr. birx showed

page. >> right, yes. >> and we just talked to pa, i'll tell you very briefly, chris, arizona had a very weak sharpie caseas tossed. nevada had a case about the procedures for authenticating signatures. they denied the request to block things, what's called a tro. georgia had a case about absentee balloting, dismissed. north carolina, no major cases, wisconsin, no major cases, just for a recount. finally michigan they requested them to stop counting ballots in detroit. as you know, chris, the legal theory you don't want detroit to vote against you, and that was tossed. there's not a lot of good, juicy stuff here. >> thank you for saying it that way. that is very, very well expressed. you know, because sometimes, look, sometimes there are big juicy, you know, and can be scary legal issues that come before the court. we're not really seeing that. and what strikes me here is that what we're seeing, the legal architecture of a democracy in free and fair elections in transition of power is distinct in some ways from the sort of performance of it, through democratic traditions. it is the case that the law doesn

chris, let me be clear. when we were looking at the map in 2017, the two states that jumped off the page as states that were going to be opportunity states in 2020 were georgia and arizona. and that's one reason why everybody, including but not limited to the dnc, invested so early there. we also knew that texas was trending in the right direction. and let me remind all the viewers. barack obama in 2012 lost texas by double digits. >> yeah. >> hillary clinton cut that margin into the high single digits. we've now cut the margin further. i think it's 5% at the moment. folks, take this to the bank. texas in '24 is a real battleground state. and in '22 we are going to continue climbing up the mountain. what i'm most proud of, chris, we've become a 50-state party. when we don't make it to the mountain top one year, whether it's this year in texas, we keep climbing the mountain. we keep investing for long-term, not short-term. >> there are different ways to lose in politics. some are genretive, some are not. when you look at the 2018 gubernatorial race in georgia, that's an example of genretive loss. tom perez,

have talked about this before but i think when we were i'm chris leiden's show together and one thing if i made that you say in the early pages which what i thought about which would be fun to talk about i'm paraphrasing. i didn't have a chance to look before we came on. he said something like only in fiction can we ever really get to know a person deep inside and i thought about that as jack kennedy many people think and maybe it's true he's somewhat elusive. some people warned me early on you were never going to be up to get close to this guy because of the nature that he has. he has his mother's emotional -- and i think you are so right in this and i hope readers will have to tell me, but i think i can get, given your parameters and only in fiction can we ever really know, i hope i get fairly close. >> i think you do. i wrote this to you personally and i think it's sitting in this book jacket now. it brings us so close to jfk. it really gives us a picture and we should talk about how you achieve that. i think it's engrossing and it's a page-turner and that's because you are always right there in the middle of the scene or

a report from chris harrington and you can watch it unfold on line at day w dot com, as well as on the topics twitter and facebook pages was the day as ever the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter at d. w. news now for hindu festival of lights to watch, gets underway on the people of the city of your dia. i've retained their world's record by lighting 558-4072 laps. take a look to the point. strong opinions, clear positions of international perspectives. the dust has not really settled on america's presidential election, but one thing seems certain if and when joe biden enters the white house, he's going to adopt a very new and very different foreign policy. find out more come to the point shortly. to the point of threats to him, not going to us on g.w. where i come from. we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised to me. it's how the painter ship adjusts one to the chateau. and if you missed a forest, one official information, as a journalist, i had walked off the streets of many cantrips and they had all those are almost the same color to the social inequality, a lack of the freedom

page is a public historian with prince william county, virginia. she is here today to talk about the carnage in the medical field of the civil war. >>> thank you, chris, for having me and thank you all for listening in and watching these videos and joining us for the virtual ssymposium. so i'm going to talk to you about the fight for life and death in the aftermath of these battles. we have heard a lot of talks today about the battles, the prison camps, and the raids. and the aftermath of the battle and in the years and days and months following was a war in itself. it was a war against bat wounds and once against dsz. one historian wrote that doctors were the unsung heros of the civil war. they were forced to practice tirelessly and the field hospitals were treating the dieing and the wounds after these ror rihorrific battles. so what was four years of war cost 700,000 casualties. so we will talk about the challenges it created and some of the fights that had to take place in this fight of war and death. what results and what good came out of this result for life and death that a lot of us today take for granted in the medical field. so for the purp

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chris christie isn't alone here. we also have a slate of republican lawmakers who have also begun to say a transition needs to begin taking place. they are not on the same page. we are hearing different things from different congress members. liz cheney, a member of house leadership. she says while the president has the right to continue pursuing these legal challenges, she says if he doesn't soon present that evidence in court, it's time for him to concede. others like senator mitt romney, senator ben sasse have recognized joe biden as the president-elect have have made very clear they are concerned, deeply concerned about what the president is doing here in terms of drawing this out. you also have several key republican governors who have from the get go acknowledged the president is president-elect, clg governor hogan, governor dewine, saying the president needs to allow the transition to begin taking place. the president, fredericka, is making very clear that as republicans begin to recognize joe biden as president-elect and criticize him and saying that he needs to concede, he is going to strike back. that is one of the reasons why you are still seeing