attempts to overturn the election result have potentially been dealt a final legal blow — the us supreme courtects a lawsuit aimed at throwing out the votes in 4 states. borisjohnson and the eu say they're unlikely to strike a post—brexit trade deal by sunday — with differences over how a new relationship might look. plus... a song released 26 years ago — and a christmas favourite — finally tops the charts here in the uk. the us food and drug administration has authorised the pfizer biontech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. the agency had come under intense pressure from the trump administration to approve the vaccine's use. president trump has released a video on twitter to explain what happens next the first vaccine will be administered in less than 2a hours, the governors decide where the vaccines will go in their state, and who will get them first. we want our senior citizens, healthcare workers and first responders to be first in line. i promised that we would produce a vaccine in record time, before the end of the year. they said it couldn't be done, but with today's announcement w

the us supreme court rejects a lawsuit aimed at throwing out the votes in four states.vid—i9. a new study in the journal nature looked at more here in the uk, the period of self isolation for those who have had contact with somebody who has tested positive for coronavirus has been cut from 14 days to ten days. contact tracing in action here in peterborough. local authority staff going door—to—door to find people who've been recent contacts of those who test positive. they're following up after initial attempts by the national test and trace service. the numbers that they've obviously been given, they can't contact them on, so we just have to make that final call to their house. 0h, hello, i'm calling... for those contacted by the tracers, there's better news. they won't have to self—isolate for so long, after a review by health officials of scientific studies. all of those combined together show that the tail end of infectiousness, if you like, is the one where an individual is least likely to transmit infection. so allowing somebody out of self—isolation a short time e

president trump's attempts of overturning the election result have been dealt a final blow — the us supreme courtejects his lawsuit aimed at throwing out the votes in four states. "get it done": the trump administration puts pressure on regulators to approve a coronavirus vaccine, asking it to do so in the next few hours. borisjohnson and the eu say they're unlikely to strike a post—brexit trade deal by sunday, with differences over how a new relationship might look. plus: making music courtesy of social media. how a classical musician used ambient sound from people stuck at home for her new composition. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas, seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. the ruling is yet another blow to republicans supporting donald trump's attempts to overturn election results in key states which were won by the democratic president—electjoe biden. the bbc‘s nomia iqbal is in washington with more details. it was a very brief, unsigned one

our top stories: the us supreme court rejects a legal application seeking to invalidate voting in four key states in yet another blow to donald trump's attempts to overturn the election result. "get it done" — the trump administration puts pressure on regulators to approve a coronavirus vaccine, asking it to do so within hours. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. the ruling is yet another blow to republicans supporting donald trump's attempts to overturn election results in key states which were won by the democratic president—elect joe biden. the bbc‘s nomia iqbal is in washington. as far as as farasi as far as i can see the supreme court dismissed this in, what, less tha n court dismissed this in, what, less than a single page and to be more precise just less than a single page and to be more precisejust two paragraphs really big spaces between the lines. tell us more. yes, it was very brief, unsigned, one sentence order. it bas

attempts to overturn the election result have potentially been dealt a final legal blow — the us supreme courtejects a lawsuit aimed at throwing out the votes in 4 states. borisjohnson and the eu say they're unlikely to strike a post—brexit trade deal by sunday — with differences over how a new relationship might look. plus: # all i want for christmas is you... a song released 26 years ago — and a christmas favourite — finally tops the charts here in the uk. the us food and drug administration has authorised the pfizer—biontech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. the agency had come under intense pressure from the trump administration to approve the vaccine‘s use. president trump has released a video on twitter to explain what happens next. through operation warp speed my administration provided a total of $14 billion to accelerate vaccine development and to manufacture all of the top candidates in advance. this included a nearly $2 billion investment in pfizer to produce 100 million doses of their vaccine, with an option to produce 500 million additional doses. and i am proud to say that w

the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, which were won by the democratic president—electjoe biden. borisjohnson has chaired a meeting with senior ministers to assess the uk's readiness for a no—deal brexit. mrjohnson‘s attempts to hold direct talks with the leaders of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed — ahead of the deadline this sunday for a significant development in trade negotiations. secondary schools are gearing up for mass testing in areas where coronavirus cases are rising — that's london, kent and essex — regardless of whether pupils have symptoms. the health secretary matt hancock has said the biggest rise in cases in these areas was among 11 to 18 year olds. sarah campbell reports from dagenham in east london. year eight, can i ask you to open up... making the best of learning during a pandemic. the pupils are in school, the teacher is at home self isolating. down the corridor, the english teacher is the only person in the classroom. more th

the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate votinggan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. the ruling is yet another blow to republicans supporting donald trump's attempts to overturn election results in key states which were won by the democratic president—elect joe biden. texas had sought to stop electoral college votes from those states being counted. the electoral college is due to vote on monday. we will speak to our correspondent in washington shortly for more on this. despite the imminent approval of a coronavirus vaccine for use in the united states, thousands of people are likely to continue to die each day from the disease for some time. there have been nearly 2,000 deaths counted today already. the us food and drug administration says it's working hard to issue an emergency use authorisation for the pfizer biontech vaccine. president trump has repeatedly criticised them for not speeding up the process. and today, he took to twitter to describe the organisation as a "big, slow, old turtle," and accuse them of "playing games." final

the us supreme court has rejected a last—minute effort by president trump's allies to overturn the electiony allowing universal mail—in voting. the justices offered no reasoning in their order, and there were no noted dissents. the case was just one of many brought by mr trump's supporters as they try to reverse joe biden‘s election victories in a series of key states. prosecutors in the trial of french ex—president nicolas sarkozy have called for him to be sent to prison. they're seeking a term of four years, of which two would be suspended. mr sarkozy is accused of trying to bribe a judge in exchange for inside information on an inquiry into his campaign finances. a european champions league football match in france will have to be completed on wednesday, after both teams walked off the pitch, accusing a match official of racism. 1a minutes into the game, players from paris st—germain and istanbul basaksehir refused to continue. basa ksehir accused the romanian fourth official of racist behaviour during an argument with their assistant coach, pierre webo, a former cameroon player. let's g

the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, which were won by the democratic president—elect joe biden. the trump administration has increased pressure on the us food and drug administration regulators to approve the pfizer—biontech vaccine. final clearance is expected this weekend, which means the first americans could get their innoculations early next week. there have been nearly 2,000 deaths counted on friday already. borisjohnson has chaired a meeting with senior ministers to assess the uk's readiness for a no—deal brexit. mrjohnson‘s attempts to hold direct talks with the leaders of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed, of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed. now it's time for a look back at the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. coming up: ahead of last—minute talks to try to get a post—brexit trade deal, the labour leader reckons borisjohnson is between a rock and a hard place. he's absolutely stuck an

graduation speech only about law but it's the great speech you could put nine clones on the us supreme court supposedly just like justice scalia and they still disagree with other lawyers? they will find ways to separate. look at the fdr court only when he did it was a fellow traveler that's called the scorpion court. you cannot be too sure that won't happen but he did lay out some workers maybe this is the very best thing he did as a judge when i tried to do through my capacity as a judge to let the world know his scorecard was which is another way to say he let the world know how he should be judged and that's what matters he writes the dissent you can look at it and say yes. that follows contextualism and regionalism. or you look at it and say wait. that doesn't look as original as i'm used to seeing and if that is a fair point of criticism. we have new justices they may or may not have scorecards i hope they do and if they do justice spirit says she is an originalist and i strongly suspect should have no problem with the american people judging her decisions on the scorecard. whether the

our top stories: the us supreme court rejects a legal application seeking to invalidate voting in fourturn the election result. "get it done" — the trump administration puts pressure on regulators to approve a coronavirus vaccine, asking it to do so within hours. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin.

attempts to overturn the election result have potentially been dealt a final legal blow — the us supreme court in four states. borisjohnson and the eu say they're unlikely to strike a post—brexit trade deal by sunday — with differences over how a new relationship might look. plus: # make my wish come true, # all i want for christmas is you... a song released 26 years ago — and a christmas favourite — finally tops the charts

the us supreme court has rejected an attempt by president donald trump and the state of texas to overturn results in the presidential election justices ruled that texas didn't have the right to challenge how obvious states run their elections the suit was a lot just ditch effort rather to seize victory from president elect joe biden. world leaders will gather today for a virtual un summit on climate ambition the report on what they've done since the paris climate accord was a great 2 exactly 5 years ago but progress toward achieving the deals goals is not so encouraging. about. 5 years ago the historic powers agreement was adopted at the climate conference called 21 the goal is to keep the global temperature rise well below 2 degrees celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. since then 10990 have ratified the agreement but 5 years on progress has been slow but the biggest emitters have yet to submit goals that would put them in line with the accord. some countries have committed to becoming cop a neutral by 2050 you'll have. that includes the world's 2nd biggest emitter the united states

court said no, they aren't taking it. the fact this was taken up tells us what? >> the fact it was taken up tells us the supreme court could be taking a very hard look at this. as this case says, either the constitution matters or it's just a piece of parchment in the national archives. one thing though, sean, really interesting in this case, i encourage everyone to read this paragraph, we know there is a mass influx of mail in ballots. in georgia, 94 increase in mail in ballots. you'd expect the rejection rate to be higher this time around then in 2016 with all these new voters. but instead of being higher, it was 70 times lower and the statistical analysis done here in this case by an expert shows that if you had the same rejection rate as in 2016 in georgia, we expected to be higher. but if you just had the same, that would be a net gain of 25,587 votes for president trump, more than doubled the margin he'd need in georgia. a concise history of how democrats change the laws, eliminated safeguards, mass mail out ballots to change the system in the mass mail in experiment. >> sean: i'm having a hard time getti

the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate votingesults in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, which were won by the democratic candidate, president—electjoe biden. borisjohnson has chaired a meeting with senior ministers to assess the uk's readiness for a no—deal brexit. mrjohnson‘s attempts to hold direct talks with the leaders of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed — ahead of the deadline this sunday for a significant development in trade negotiations. now in a few minutes it'll be time for newswatch. but first, here's click. hey, welcome to click! hope you're doing 0k. it may be getting cold up here in the northern hemisphere but this is the year when we're all being encouraged to spend as much time as possible outside — ventilation and all — and one person who spends a lot of time outside is lara lewington. yes, i've been running outside more than ever. i think itjust gives you a sense of freedom and at the moment, some sort of sense of normality — although i have been getting very annoyed. this week, peo

shannon: coming up the trump campaign back at the us supreme court over pennsylvania's election results, will it go anywhere? our legal panel is standing by but first our real news roundup. hundreds of protesters at the oregon state capitol calling for end to covid-19 restrictions and the resignation of democratic governor kate brown, protesters smashed the glass doors, at least two were arrested. the statue of confederate general robert e lee removed after standing in the us capital for more than 100 years. it is expected to be replaced with a statue of the civil rights icon barbara john. jupiter and saturn appear to be close to each other, closer than they've been since the year 1623. they are visible around the world. in reality they are more than 450 million miles apart. the event call the christmas star because some astronomers think it could have been the biblical star of bethlehem at the time of the birth of jesus. >> at the white house plenty for the president contemplate in terms of legal challenges including a filing at the supreme court, the ongoing attorney general has no pl

well the us supreme court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of texas to overturn the results of last month's presidential election president trump and scores of republican officials and lawmakers had supported the suit which challenge president elect joe biden's victories in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin the justices ruled that texas didn't have the right to challenge how other states run their elections the fake marks a huge setback for trump in his bid to seize electoral victory from joe biden. so is this the end of the road for don't trump's campaign to stop joe biden from taking office next month we put that question to michael morley he's an election law expert at florida state university. well this one of the things that made the texas suit so unique and again the court held they didn't even have jurisdiction a lot of commentators had pointed out the numerous procedural and jurisdictional hurdles that it faced but one of the the unique aspects of the texas suit is that it essentially sought to bring the entire election before the supreme court that it iden

questions in parliament hours before he's due to fly to brussels for a last ditch talks the us supreme court has rejected a last ditch attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania the state's result has been certified in favor of biden and in the one line statement the supreme court refused to call that certificate process into question directly as an attempt by donald trump's republican party to have as many as 2 and a half 1000000 votes dismissed iran's president hassan rouhani says that the u.s. sanctions are making it difficult to access medicines including covert 19 vaccines iran is suffering the worst corona virus outbreak in the middle east what is fear of 0 after witness next. be the hero the world needs right now. washington. the bones are known as county sonar out of narcan cotton pan-am little girls all 3 come. from more. than nothing and are going after new people from the don't go to disney movies a little shanty. by a bus on the bus all are not children with each other when there. is a lot those 1st is the loved ones

it's a justice of the supreme court or a number of justices of the supreme court let's see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right well joining us from birmingham is scott lucas he's the co-founder of america unfiltered that's a news analysis site on u.s. politics and foreign policy thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so trump and his team defeated in that supreme court decision on pennsylvania is it over or can donald trump try and fight this does he have another viable path forward. even if donald trump doesn't realize that it's over i thought this would go on all the way to january 20th and indeed before the election donald trump said i will take this to the supreme court and i will have them throw out these mail in ballots but that one line rejection from the court which didn't even bother to discuss the merits or lack of merits of the truck camp's lawsuit but simply said look we're not intervening on your behalf that shuts the door on it there's still one more look for a lawsuit which was filed bizarrely by the texas attorney general yesterday to try to delay the electoral college vote next monday that's the formal c

well the us supreme court has rejected an attempt by president donald trump and the state of texas to overturn results in the presidential election the challenge to president elect joe biden's victories in michigan georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin justices ruled that takes this didn't have the right to challenge how other states run their elections to defeat a huge setback for trump in his bid to seize electoral victory from biden. from all that's go to orlando and speak to professor michael t. morley and election and constitutional law expert from florida state university professor welcome it seemed to be widely expected that this challenge by texas would fail which turned out to be correct why did the supreme court dismiss it. the supreme court held that texas lacked standing to challenge the results of the other states elections the presidential election in the united states we often think of it as a single nationwide unitary event when in reality it's conducted as a series of $51.00 separate elections within each of the 50 states as well as the district of columbia and so the su

the eu and uk agree to keep on talking, the us supreme court declines to hear, and borisjohnson sees ovid crisis because of christmas — provided it's a little one. joining us this week, ian martin whose columns appear in the times newpaper. jeffrey kaufmann, a former network news anchor in the united states. here in the studio with me is celia hatton, asia—pacific editor for the bbc. it was the english puritans who cancelled christmas. borisjohnson is no puritan. in the 17th century, the festival had become an excuse for licentiousness, or — to use the argo of 2020 — failing to observe social distancing. this week, the welsh government departed from the uk—wide consensus brokered just last week — up to three households able to meet indoors. in wales, it will be two households. mrjohnson didn't sing it, but he did plead with people around the uk to "have yourself a merry little christmas". celia, is this a case of boris johnson wanting to have his christmas cake and eat it? it's tricky, we are seeing political leaders around the world struggling with this issue. in some issues, germany

the only place we can go is the supreme court so we are pleading with the supreme court please hear our case. give ushance to argue what we think is right. >> reporter: arkansas, alabama, louisiana, missouri supporting this case. it is a longshot at best as democratic election lawyer mark elias blasts the effort. >> so many cases i described as press releases with filing fees. i am not even sure there was a filing fee in the state of texas. this was an act of some bizarro world of desperation. >> a major blow to the efforts in pennsylvania. it is a case brought by congressman mike kelly who argued it was unconstitutional. that case was viewed as the president's best shot at turning the tide. congressman kelly had this to say. >> we were not granted injunctive relief. a temporary injunction relief, that has been taken away and appoint electors. >> the rnc launching a preemptive strike in the senate runoff races. soon the state ahead of the polls on january 5th to enforce election laws to grant proper access to the polls. jillian: what the clock ticking, jonathan turley says they need to get a move on

conspiracy theory for about a month now yes the texas attorney general filed a lawsuit with the us supreme court on tuesday alleging that under the cover of code would leaders in the state of pennsylvania georgia michigan and wisconsin usurp their legislatures authority and unconstitutionally revise. ised there's state selection statue it's all in enough hurts to steal the election for one joe biden it goes on to declare that without dependent states combined $72.00 electoral votes president trump presumably has 232 electoral votes and for a vice president biden presumably has $234.00 thus these defendants states electors will determine the outcome of the election. when the minute you known some something seems off of. this the attorney general put in there some of the feel right you know you know what you know what. oh it would appear the texas attorney general paxton forgot to double check his electoral math as supreme court legal reporter lyle denniston points out on key point it says it is challenging for states combined $72.00 electoral votes but those 4 only have 62 electoral votes pennsyl

the eu and uk agree to keep on talking, the us supreme court declines to hear, and borisjohnson sees ded it's a little one. joining us this week, ian martin whose columns appear in the times. jeffrey kaufmann, a former network news anchor in the united states. here in the studio with me is celia hatton, asia—pacific editor for the bbc. it was the english puritans who cancelled christmas. borisjohnson is no a puritan. in the 17th century, the festival had become an excuse for licentiousness, or — to use the argo of 2020 — failing to observe social distancing. this week, the welsh government departed from the uk—wide consensus brokered just last week — up to three households able to meet indoors. in wales, it will be two households. mrjohnson didn't sing it, but he did plead with people around the uk to "have yourself a merry little christmas". celia, is this a case of boris johnson wanting to have his christmas cake and eat it? it's tricky, we are seeing political leaders around the world struggling

the convicted killer brandon bernard has been executed in spite of a last minute appeal to the us supreme court presidential transition, in more than a century. us president—electjoe biden and his vice president—elect kamala harris have been chosen as time magazine's 2020 person of the year. the pair were chosen ahead of the other finalists — frontline healthcare workers, anthony fauci, the racial justice movement — and president donald trump who biden defeated in november's election.

the us supreme court has rejected an attempt to overturn the election results — which was backed by presidents of congress. the state of texas had filed a lawsuit arguing that voting results in the battleground states of georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin — all won by president—electjoe biden — were invalid. but the court said texas didn't have a good reason to bring the case. in a tweet, mr trump accused the court of letting down his republican supporters, and showing neither wisdom or courage. police in weston—super—mare are appealing for information after the body of a newborn baby was found in a garden earlier today. officers were called to victoria quadrantjust before 9am this morning after a member of the public found the body in a private garden. police say they are ‘extremely concerned' for the welfare of child‘s mother and are making a direct appeal to her. reports from iran say the journalist ruhollah zam has been executed. he was accused of stirring up violence during anti—government protests in 2017. ruhollah zam, whose amad news feed had more than a million followers,

the us supreme court has rejected an attempt to overturn the election results — which was backed by presidents. the state of texas had filed a lawsuit arguing that voting results in the battleground states of georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin — all won by president—electjoe biden — were invalid. if but the court said texas didn't have a good reason to bring the case. in a tweet, mr trump accused the court of letting down his republican supporters, and showing neither wisdom or courage. the pfizer biontech coronavirus vaccine has been authorised for emergency use in the united states — by the us food and drug administration. the agency had come under intense pressure from the trump administration to approve the vaccine. 0ur washington correspondent nomia iqbal has more. this emergency authorisation has taken a bit of time. the fda has approved the vaccine after being advised to do so by an outside advisory group of independent medical experts. they had analysed the effectiveness of the vaccine. it also looked at the potential side effects, including those reports of two british pat

the us supreme court has rejected an effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in the state of pennsylvania it signals that the nation's highest court which includes 3 judges appointed by president trump may not go along with his if it's to overturn his defeat in last month's election to support now in paris months champions league i'm with. you here was abandoned after players left the field in protest having accused a match official of using racist language the incident happened in the 1st half of the game at nil nil a member of the stumbles coaching stuff was sent off after which players reacted to the 4th officials choice of words the game will be played on wednesday now with different referees the turkish side were out of contention for the last 16 but p.s.g. can finish 1st or 2nd in the group. well mcnamara let's hear from they to be sport to tell us more on next what exactly happened to spot the wolf well luckily it was an empty stadium so we actually heard virtually every word and it all began with the bush actually here coach being yellow carded early on in th

the us supreme court rejected a challenge to mr biden‘s victory in four key battleground states, on fridayue to take office, to donald trump ‘s dismay, in just over is due to take office, to donald trump ‘s dismay, injust over a month. let‘s look at some of the day‘s other news nigerian security forces said they have located the kidnappers of hundreds of students abducted from their secondary school. the students were abducted on friday night from an all—boys secondary school in the kankara area of katsina state. a military—led offensive to rescue the children is reportedly under way. 2i migrant workers who were being exploited at a second hand clothing business in southern spain have been freed. police found the vulnerable workers hidden behind bundles of clothes in a warehouse in fuente alamo. three men were arrested and will appear in court next saturday. plans to start commercial flights to the edge of space have suffered a setback. virgin galactic had to abort the first crewed test flight of its suborbital plane after an engine malfunction. the pilots and the vehicles returned to eart

on friday, the us supreme court rejected a challenge to mr biden‘s victory in four key battleground states, injust over a month. nigerian security forces said they have located the kidnappers of hundreds of students abducted from their secondary school. the students were abducted on friday night from an all—boys secondary school in the kankara area of katsina state. a military—led offensive to rescue the children is reportedly under way. 0ur nigeria correspondent, mayenijones, is in lagos. what is the latest? do we think there is a rescue operation under way to find the schoolchildren? yes, the government has released a statement saying they are determined to look into all the missing students. we do not yet know how many are still missing, but it could be as many as 400, about half of the 800 pupils who attended the secondary school in kankara in the north—west of nigeria. the army said they exchanged gunfire with the armed men and they got additional support from the air force. who would have been responsible? it is horrific, kidnapping schoolchildren, but not the first time something li

if the us supreme court does not act and we know it did not act in terms of helping donald trump legallyould declare some extent of martial law. now, that was under airwaves. are you going to tell me that it is legitimate to have opinions like that on a newsmax? are you responsible for everything that people say on the hardtalk on the bbc? i think strongly if we put a platform to. he is one of the most respected attorneys of the most respected attorneys of the united states. he is famous asa the united states. he is famous as a lawyer and has been on all the other major networks. we had no idea she was going to make that statement and i believe that statement is insane, it's crazy, it is possibly illegal, but it is certainly inappropriate. no one at newsmax is a record for that. but somebody said this in your promoting that and i think it is grossly unfair we have no history, we have said consistently and i have said publicly that if joe consistently and i have said publicly that ifjoe biden wins the electoral college, he is president and newsmax will respect it as the united states and

the us supreme court has rejected a lawsuit brought by allies of donald trump, seeking to overturn theismissed the request to discount more than 2.5 million postal votes, without stating any reasons. it's the latest of dozens of legal cases brought by the trump camp to fail in the courts. a european champions league football match in france will have to be completed on wednesday, after both teams walked off the pitch, accusing a match official of racism. players from paris st germain and istanbul basakshir stopped playing 1a minutes into the game, and refused to continue. i'm joined by our reporter paul hawkins. what exactly do we know about the incident? the 14th minute of the match, the referee goes over to the basakshir assistant coach who was from cameroon, shows him a red card, he is objected to the decision stopping he then turns to the fourth match official who stands between the two teams' managerial sites in the dugout, he turns to them and he says, why are you referring to me by the colour of my skin, i am paraphrasing here. the fourth official, he is using the romanian word

the us supreme court has rejected a legal application by the state of texas seeking to invalidate voting results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin, which were won by the democratic president—electjoe borisjohnson has chaired a meeting with senior ministers to assess the uk's readiness for a no—deal brexit. mrjohnson‘s attempts to hold direct talks with the leaders of germany and france have reportedly been rebuffed — ahead of the deadline this sunday for a significant development in trade negotiations. secondary schools are gearing up for mass testing in areas where coronavirus cases are rising — that's london, kent and essex — regardless of whether pupils have symptoms. the health secretary matt hancock has said the biggest rise in cases in these areas was among 11 to 18 year olds. sarah campbell reports from dagenham in east london. year eight, can i ask you to open up... making the best of learning during a pandemic. the pupils are in school, the teacher is at home self isolating. down the corridor, the english teacher is the only person in the classroom. more than a th

the us supreme court has rejected a lawsuit brought by allies of donald trump seeking to overturn theresidential election in pennsylvania. the court dismissed the request to discount more than 2.5 million postal votes. five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in the french alps. the pilot, who was able to eject, raised the alarm shortly after the aircraft went down in the savoie region. it's not clear what brought down the helicopter, which belonged to a private search and rescue company. a prominent american cyber—security firm has revealed that it has been hacked. fireeye has blamed what it called a nation with top—tier offensive capabilities. in a blog, its chief executive kevin mandia said sensitive hacking tools had been stolen and the fbi had been informed. ceremonies are taking place in new zealand to mark the first anniversary of the deadly eruption of the white island volcano. 22 people died when the volcano spewed out ash, acidic sludge and poisonous gases. venice has flooded once again, after its $7 billion flood barrier system was not activated, as a result of mi

large voter turnout will make matters worse the elections had already been delayed once the us supreme court has rejected a last ditch attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's elects world victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania on the state's results has been certified in favor of biden and in a one line state and the supreme court refused to call these certification process into question at the rails an attempt by donald trump's republican party to have as many as 2 and a half 1000000 votes dismissed or even has a supreme court deliverance that ruling against the republican party trump earlier said he is hopeful you will remain presidents. we were rewarded with a victory down let's see whether or not somebody has the courage whether it's a legislature or legislate sure's or whether it's a justice of the supreme court or a number of justices of the supreme court let's see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right now the british prime minister heads to brussels later on wednesday for a make or break a meeting with the european commission chi

including one to the us supreme court.the term campaign is insisting that it will continue to file legal challenges in the days ahead. it's a rather strange process , ahead. it's a rather strange process, isn't it? the elect oral college signing off seven copies have to be signed and then posted to washington. then counted in washington. could trump and his lawyers try and question that? it's possible. that will be a joint session of congress on the 6th of january. but the house and the senate and it is possible and there are rumours to this effect put around by stephen miller who is one of the presidents most senior advisers that republicans could send their own slate of electors to that congressional meeting on the 6th of january. it's congressional meeting on the 6th ofjanuary. it's not congressional meeting on the 6th of january. it's not going to come to anything. we've gone too far down this road so far. it's the last roll of the dice after the dice has been rolled quite a few times already. it isa sign quite a few t

the convicted killer brandon bernard has been executed in spite of a last minute appeal to the us supreme court. he becomes the ninth federal inmate to have been put to death sincejuly — and the first during a presidential transition, in more than a century. us president—electjoe biden and his vice president—elect kamala harris have been chosen as time magazine's 2020 person of the year. the pair were chosen ahead of the other finalists — frontline healthcare workers, anthony fauci, the racial justice movement — and president donald trump who biden defeated in november's election. now on bbc news — hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to the un agency dedicated to feeding the hungry and fending off mass starvation — the world food programme. this week, the award will be handed to my guest today, executive director of the wfp, david beasley, in recognition of the agency's worldwide effort to overcome the challenges of conflict and covid—19. 2020 has been a terrible year for those experiencing extreme hunger. is there a real danger 2021

texas's attorney general ken paxton explains. >> our request, the only place we can go is the us supreme court'sare pleading please hear our case. give us a chance at least to argue what we think is right under the constitution. >> attorneys general, arkansas, alabama and missouri but unclear if the high court will hear the case as democratic election lawyer mark eli a sports the effort. >> these cases i described as press releases. i'm not even sure there was a filing fee in the state of texas. this was an act of some bizarro world of desperation. don't know if it is politics. todd: the supreme court delivers a blow denying a petition to nullify certification in a case by congressman mike kelly, that it was unconstitutional. widely viewed as the president's strongest case and kelly says it is not over. >> not granted temporary injunctive relief. it is not me that our lawsuit does not go forward it means the temporary injunction relief has been taken away and will allow appointing the electors but by no way is this over. todd: they are geared up for a fight in georgia, the are in see launching a

the us supreme court has rejected a last—minute effort by president trump's allies to overturn the electionults in pennsylvania. the lawsuit argued that the state's general assembly exceeded its power by allowing universal mail—in voting. the british prime minister and the president hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me are deputy political editor of the telegraph, lucy fisher and political commentator and former labour party director of communications, lance price. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the mirror says ‘one down, 5a million to go‘ — reporting on the news that 90—year—old margaret keenan has become the first person in the world to get a clinically approved coronavirus vaccine, as the uk starts its mass vaccination programe. the metro reports on an emotional day, ‘cheers and then tears‘. the paper says prime minister boris johnson watched patients receive the vaccine at guy's hospital in london, hailing the covid—19 vaccination programme as "‘a shot in the arm' for the world. the mail calls those who received a

on friday the us supreme court rejected a challenge to mr biden's victory in four key battleground statesver a month's states. he is due to take up office in just over a month's time. back to brexit and the fact that the eu and the uk are to continue talking. it was thought talks on a trade deal would end today but boris johnson and ursula von der leyen have agreed to go the extra mile. let's talk to the former permanent secretary to the brexit department and a specialist partner in a firm helping companies in their dealings with the eu. thank you for being with the eu. thank you for being with us. do you think... it sounds like there is good news that the two sides have agreed to keep talking. are you optimistic there can be a deal? we are bouncing around between optimism and pessimism. not entirely surprised they have stretched the deadline again. deadlines have proved very elastic. the formal legal hard stop on this is not actually until the end of the year, the 31st of december. the fact they have found a bit more space must be a good thing. if the talks can continue. there is hope. t

in protest meanwhile this battle over the protests and the laws is moving to court and the us supreme court is going to hear a plea on wednesday asking authorities to clear the highways to remove farmers saying that farmers are causing a disruption to traffic by blocking highways and that such protests shouldn't be held during a pandemic a law student who filed the petition is asking that the farmers be moved to a ground that was designated by the government for protests meanwhile far as you know themselves have asked the supreme court to wood to draw these 3 laws saying that they were passed without enough debate and that the deregulation of the agriculture sector is going to leave them at the mercy of large corporations so both the protests and the north and now being challenged in india's top court. a growing number of activists in hong kong are facing a difficult choice as authorities crackdown on dissent many are deciding by either to risk serving a prison sentence or flee the territory idiom bransby meeting one activist zone facing an uncertain future. there was a time when hong kong

people like the attorney lin wood who, on your airwaves just a few days ago, said this — "if the us supreme courtnow it didn't act in terms of helping mr trump legally, "i think," said lin wood, "i think the president should declare some extent "of martial law." now, that was on your airwaves. you're going to tell me that it's legitimate to have opinions like that on newsmax? stephen, are you responsible for everything that people say on hardtalk or the bbc? i think very hard about who we bring on to hardtalk, who we give a platform to and what kind of messages... lin wood. ..it sends. lin wood is one of the most respected trial attorneys in the united states, he's famous as a lawyer. he's been on all the other major networks. we had no idea he was going to make that statement. i believe that statement is wacko, it's crazy, it's possibly illegal, but it's certainly inappropriate. no—one at newsmax has ever called for that. so to suggest... for you to say, "somebody said this "and therefore you're promoting that," i think, is grossly unfair. and we have no history of ever... we have said consisten

on friday, the us supreme court rejected a challenge to mr biden‘s victory in four key battleground stateserian security forces said they have located the kidnappers of hundreds of students abducted from their secondary school. the students were abducted on friday night from an all—boys secondary school in the kankara area of katsina state. a military—led offensive to rescue the children is reportedly underway. our nigeria correspondent, mayeni jones has the latest. we don't yet know how many students are missing but eyewitnesses say it could be as many as 400, about half of the 800 pupils who attended the secondary school in the north—west of nigeria. the army said that they exchanged gunfire with the armed men and they have got additional support from the air force. who would have been responsible for this? it is an horrific act had not been school children from their school. it is not the first time that something like this has happened in nigeria and who do we think might be to blame? yes, it is not the first time at large numbers of students have been kidnapped in nigeria, especially

on friday, the us supreme court rejected a challenge to mr biden's victory in four key battleground statesjoshua has retained his three heavyweight boxing titles after beating bulgarian, koubrat poolev last night. a thousand fans were allowed to watch at the wembley arena asjoshua knocked his opponent off his feet several times over nine rounds, before the referee called time. his victory paves the way for a potential fight against britain's other heavyweight champion, tyson fury. adam wild reports. anthony. . joshua! this was anthonyjoshua's moment. heavyweight champion of the world. but the man with it all had it all to lose. pressure, perhaps, or motivation. whatever it was, joshua cut a determined figure. kubrat pulev now looking to upset the odds. the fans were back, 1,000 of them, all instantly aware this was a real battle. joshua starting quickly, pulev taking it with a smile. but moments later, pulev was down, the end seemingly not far away. incredibly, pulev battled on until the ninth round. the finish, though, when it came, as swift as it was brutal. commanding, impressive, joshu