:00:11. > :00:16.The polls open in the United States as Americans choose their President
:00:16. > :00:20.for the next four years. These are live shots from Virginia.
:00:20. > :00:25.The Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, extends campaigning into
:00:25. > :00:31.election day itself. The door to a brighter future is
:00:31. > :00:35.there. It's open. It's waiting for us. I need your work, I need your
:00:35. > :00:40.help, I need your vote. President Obama arrives back in
:00:40. > :00:45.Chicago after telling his supporters his work is not yet done.
:00:45. > :00:48.Our fight goes on because America's always done best when everybody's
:00:49. > :00:54.got a fair shot and everybody's doing their share. Greeks take to
:00:54. > :00:59.the streets as a 48-hour general strike begins in protest at a new
:00:59. > :01:05.wave of spending cuts. Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this
:01:05. > :01:15.programme: President Putin sacks Russia's defence chief over alleged
:01:15. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:27.fraudulent sale of military assets. More than just a pretty boy, how
:01:27. > :01:29.this cockatoo has surprised scientists.
:01:30. > :01:33.Polling stations are now opening in several states and millions of
:01:33. > :01:37.Americans are heading to the polls in one of the most tightly fought -
:01:37. > :01:40.and expensive - elections in recent US history. The race between Barack
:01:40. > :01:45.Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is still close and the
:01:45. > :01:48.outcome will be decided in a handful of key states. Mr Romney
:01:48. > :01:58.has announced two extra events in Ohio and Pennsylvania on polling
:01:58. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:08.day. Our Washington correspondent Adam Brookes reports.
:02:08. > :02:15.Opening for the President of the United States, this was Jay-Z
:02:15. > :02:19.reving up the crowd during frantic last-minute campaigning in Ohio. Mr
:02:19. > :02:23.Obama needs all the star power he can get. This election is very,
:02:23. > :02:27.very close. Americans are deeply divided on Mr Obama's record,
:02:27. > :02:32.they're not sure if they believe his argument, that America's
:02:32. > :02:35.economy is mending. Today, our businesses have created nearly 5.5
:02:35. > :02:40.million new jobs, we have made real progress, Ohio, but the reason why
:02:40. > :02:45.we are here is because we've got more work to do. The Republican
:02:45. > :02:49.challenger was in Ohio, too. Mitt Romney's supporters are energised,
:02:49. > :02:53.but do voters trust his pitch of tax cuts and deregulation and the
:02:54. > :02:58.power of markets to heal the American economy? Does it sound a
:02:58. > :03:03.bit like the economics that caused the crash? Talk is cheap. But a
:03:03. > :03:10.record is real and it's earned. Change can't be measured in
:03:10. > :03:14.speeches, it's measured in results. The political future of Barack
:03:14. > :03:18.Obama now hangs in the balance. Has he done enough to persuade voters
:03:18. > :03:24.he deserves another four years in the big house behind me? Or will he
:03:24. > :03:29.find his name added to that sorry list of one-term Presidents? Mr
:03:29. > :03:34.Obama has argued furiously for his second term. He seems now to hold a
:03:34. > :03:40.very narrow lead in the polls. But the challenger, Mitt Romney, says
:03:40. > :03:50.he is confident he can snatch the presidency from Mr Obama and return
:03:50. > :03:53.America to the conservative road. The small New Hampshire village of
:03:53. > :03:56.Dixville Notch - population 10 - has maintained its record for being
:03:56. > :04:01.the town that always declares first at a Presidential election. This is
:04:01. > :04:08.what happened a short time ago. Seven votes for President, this has
:04:08. > :04:17.never happened before. We have a tie. Five votes each... I wonder if
:04:17. > :04:22.that's a prediction? Barack Obama has arrived in Chicago, with his
:04:22. > :04:26.wife, Michelle, probably doing TV and radio interviews to keep his
:04:26. > :04:29.voice out there. Mitt Romney, of course, also announced two new
:04:29. > :04:33.campaigning events, very unusual that, to campaign on polling day
:04:33. > :04:38.itself. But it's a reflection perhaps of how tight this race is
:04:38. > :04:41.and these are live pictures from the swing state of Virginia,
:04:42. > :04:47.Arlington is where we are looking. You can see early votes being cast.
:04:47. > :04:49.It's very early, of course, there. Arlington County, people in the
:04:50. > :04:54.cold keen to get their votes out. Predictions of a lot of queuing
:04:54. > :04:57.ahead. Virginia, of course, like many of the southern states started
:04:57. > :05:01.off being Democrat, switched to being Republican and now the
:05:01. > :05:05.Democrats have come back. Both parties have targeted it again,
:05:05. > :05:09.trying to get turnout up now today, that's the thing that both parties
:05:09. > :05:15.have been very much focused on in the last few days and you can see
:05:15. > :05:19.those keen to get started are queuing up to cast their ballots.
:05:19. > :05:22.The final result will be determined by the unique workings of the US
:05:22. > :05:26.electoral system, with everything hanging on the votes in the
:05:26. > :05:29.electoral college. Jeremy Vine explains.
:05:29. > :05:33.Welcome to our election situation room, here is the map as the last
:05:33. > :05:37.American election left it. American elections are decided by electoral
:05:37. > :05:41.college votes. Each state has a certain number of them, according
:05:41. > :05:45.to its population size and the winner of the most electoral
:05:45. > :05:49.college votes takes the election. Barack Obama did last time. It
:05:49. > :05:55.means this result comes down to a handful of states really. States
:05:55. > :06:00.like Colorado, and Ohio in the east, Virginia and Florida. Mr Romney for
:06:00. > :06:04.the Republicans really needs to get those states back, some, if not all
:06:04. > :06:09.of them, from the Democrats. What are the polls saying? Back to the
:06:09. > :06:12.start of the campaign, you will see it started not that tightly. Obama
:06:12. > :06:17.quite some way ahead. It looked as if Romney was struggling. Then the
:06:17. > :06:21.crucial date to focus on is right here, October 3rd, the first debate.
:06:21. > :06:24.Watch what happens. Romney is suddenly back in contention and it
:06:24. > :06:27.stays very tight until the end. That doesn't mean it's necessarily
:06:28. > :06:34.going to be a close result, because it depends on those states I showed
:06:34. > :06:41.you. But my goodness, what an exciting election. The BBC will be
:06:41. > :06:45.bringing you full coverage of the results as they come in with a
:06:45. > :06:49.special election programme here on BBC News. Let's catch up with the
:06:49. > :06:53.business news. Greece is our other big story today
:06:53. > :06:56.because we have got lots of people out on the streets, austerity
:06:56. > :06:59.measures - more measures pushed through and Greece still left with
:06:59. > :07:03.a massive debt. Absolutely, it's an enormous day
:07:03. > :07:07.over there. Two days worth of strikes coming up. A huge deal
:07:07. > :07:12.happening there. By this time tomorrow we should have a good idea
:07:12. > :07:15.of exactly what's going on in Greece. First a look at the US
:07:15. > :07:23.presidential elections. We are going to have a good idea of who is
:07:23. > :07:25.going to be President over the next four years.
:07:25. > :07:28.While that's generated interest in the election, for business and
:07:28. > :07:31.investors it's a source of concern. The US has pressing financial and
:07:31. > :07:41.economic problems and the business world wants clarity over who will
:07:41. > :07:45.tackle those problems, and how. From New York, here's Ben Thompson.
:07:45. > :07:49.On Wall Street today today there is just one question - who will run
:07:49. > :07:54.America and its ailing economy for the next four years? The answer
:07:55. > :07:59.could be just hours away. Yet whilst Americans go to the polls,
:07:59. > :08:05.business is already looking beyond the election. For months firms have
:08:05. > :08:09.put off investing and delayed hiring new staff. They're waiting
:08:09. > :08:13.for clarity on what their next leader will bring. Top of that to
:08:13. > :08:18.do list is tackling the fiscal cliff, the tax rises and spending
:08:18. > :08:21.cuts that many fear could push America back into recession.
:08:21. > :08:27.There's also the big issue of creating jobs, with the
:08:27. > :08:32.unemployment rate at 7.9%. Republicans accuse President Obama
:08:32. > :08:36.of stifling growth through tough regulations, introduced after the
:08:36. > :08:41.financial crisis and they've also questioned the role of America's
:08:41. > :08:45.Central Bank and its chairman, Ben Bernanke. With so much on the to do
:08:45. > :08:50.list, where should the new President start? Traders say the
:08:50. > :08:54.priority is restoring confidence in the economy. Once we have clarity,
:08:54. > :08:58.businesses are going to invest if they see that in demand and what we
:08:58. > :09:04.have seen over the last couple of months with the US data is
:09:04. > :09:08.strengthening in a housing market, stronger user demand overall from
:09:08. > :09:11.consumers, higher consummer optimism than we have seen since
:09:11. > :09:15.the financial crisis. businesses like this green energy
:09:15. > :09:20.firm they're less worried about who takes the top job, but the
:09:20. > :09:23.President's ability to push through tough decisions. I assume the
:09:23. > :09:28.Senate will be deadlocked for the next four years, so independent of
:09:28. > :09:33.who is elected President, neither will really get much done to help
:09:33. > :09:38.us. I am not expecting a lot of help. Here on Wall Street it
:09:38. > :09:42.appears the markets have already factored in a victory for President
:09:42. > :09:46.Obama. But nonetheless, a real impact will come from Congress.
:09:46. > :09:50.Unless there is a significant change in the make-up of the House
:09:50. > :09:55.or Senate, the new President's powers will be limited and so as
:09:55. > :10:02.Americans vote for their next President, business is hoping they
:10:02. > :10:12.deliver one with the power to get things done.
:10:12. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:15.Let's go back to that story in Greece. It's going to be a day of
:10:15. > :10:18.disruption and protest in Athens. The main unions representing public
:10:18. > :10:20.and private sector workers have started a 48-hour strike. It means
:10:20. > :10:23.public transport will be shutdown, including taxies and ferries. There
:10:23. > :10:26.could be delays to healthcare and shops are expected to close too.
:10:26. > :10:28.Unions say that the latest austerity measures, due to be voted
:10:28. > :10:37.on tomorrow, are destructive to society and impoverishing their
:10:37. > :10:41.members. Thomas Costerg is a European economist at Standard
:10:41. > :10:43.Chartered Bank. Let's start off by asking just how serious is the
:10:43. > :10:49.situation in Greece and could it all be over today if the Government
:10:50. > :10:55.does pass this budget? Well, I don't think so. You have this
:10:55. > :10:59.problem of tranche fundings, Greece is waiting for the next or it will
:10:59. > :11:03.run out of cash. There is this issue of debt, Greek debt is
:11:03. > :11:08.unsustainable, the I phfpblt F -- IMF is worried about that and a
:11:08. > :11:13.risk the IMF will suspend its share of the next tranche if it does not
:11:13. > :11:17.see Greek debt back on track. this situation has has been going
:11:17. > :11:22.on and on, the Greek people if they're out on the streets for 48
:11:22. > :11:26.hours, both private sector and public sector workers on strike,
:11:26. > :11:31.what exactly do we need to do to draw this to a conclusion? I think
:11:31. > :11:35.you have two things, there is huge pressure on the Greek parliament to
:11:35. > :11:40.pass those austerity and reforms in parliament but you have also this
:11:40. > :11:45.question of debt. I think governments should find a way to
:11:45. > :11:53.cut Greek debt. It will be politically painful, but that's
:11:53. > :11:56.necessarily solution at this stage. Is that going to be palatable to
:11:57. > :12:02.Germany? Germany is one of the main people financing this? You are
:12:02. > :12:05.right and exposure of - the Greek debt is mostly owned by the German
:12:05. > :12:09.Government and French Government and that's in stark contrast with
:12:09. > :12:15.what was the case in the past, with the first Greek default in March of
:12:15. > :12:18.this year the debt was owned by the private investors, by banks and
:12:18. > :12:28.shinance companies. -- insurance companies. Now it's owned by
:12:28. > :12:32.taxpayers money from Europe. It's more sensitive, yes. Thank you.
:12:32. > :12:35.Nissan has slashed its profit forecast for the year by 20%. It
:12:35. > :12:38.now expects to make almost $4 billion this year. It blamed weak
:12:38. > :12:41.sales in Europe and China. Other Japanese companies have also been
:12:41. > :12:49.suffering in China, following a dispute between the two countries
:12:49. > :12:55.over islands in the East China Sea. In contrast, BMW is enjoying a
:12:55. > :12:59.strong year. Profits in the third quarter rose by 16%. Sales were up
:12:59. > :13:02.nearly 14% on last year. Sales were strong in China which is now the
:13:02. > :13:08.firm's biggest market and one of the world's largest markets for
:13:08. > :13:12.cars. Suzuki is shutting down its US
:13:12. > :13:17.business which is losing money and has big debts. In fact, the firm's
:13:17. > :13:21.subsidiary, American Suzuki Motor Corporation will file for chapter
:13:21. > :13:25.11 bankruptcy protection. The The firm blamed the strong yen and
:13:25. > :13:32.strict US safety regulations for the demise of its American business.
:13:32. > :13:39.It's a big day for the video games industry, the latest in a series of
:13:39. > :13:47.Halo shoot-em Games, Halo4 is out today. The creaters are confident
:13:47. > :13:52.it will be the biggest selling game of 2012.
:13:52. > :13:56.That's it for all the business news. We will be back later. Thank you
:13:56. > :14:06.very much. Something more gentle coming up.
:14:06. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:16.You are watching BBC World News. Hundreds of Ukrainian opposition
:14:16. > :14:19.supporters have confronted riot police in the capital, Kiev.
:14:19. > :14:21.They're demanding a recount of votes placed in last week's
:14:21. > :14:23.parliamentary elections, and claim the results were rigged by
:14:23. > :14:28.President Viktor Yanukovich's ruling party. Kimberley Soekov
:14:28. > :14:33.reports. An uneasy standoff in the capital
:14:33. > :14:37.Kiev. Opposition supporters rallied outside the election commission
:14:37. > :14:44.headquarters chanting and shouting at police. Then, tensions boiled
:14:44. > :14:48.over. Riot police struggled with the large group pushing and shoving.
:14:48. > :14:52.A much larger but more subdued crowd had gathered earlier in the
:14:52. > :14:57.day. They claim last week's parliamentary elections were
:14:57. > :15:00.fraudulent and say the delayed vote count is being rigged in favour of
:15:01. > :15:07.pro-Government candidates. TRANSLATION:
:15:07. > :15:12.There are a lot of falsifications, both on party lists and in
:15:12. > :15:22.individual constituencies. whole of the Ukraine was robbed.
:15:22. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:26.All pensioners were robbed, except Buoyed by their supporters outside,
:15:26. > :15:30.Ukraine's United opposition liersd went to the opposition demanding a
:15:30. > :15:35.recount for a French vote. International observers agreed the
:15:35. > :15:40.election was marred by abuse of power and the excessive roll of
:15:40. > :15:43.money. President Viktor Yanukovych's chief rival, the
:15:43. > :15:46.former Prime Minister, is in prison and was barred from running
:15:46. > :15:52.altogether but all authorities deny the claims of vote-rigging and say
:15:52. > :15:58.the opposition is only trying to intimidate election officials.
:15:58. > :16:03.The UN has ordered international sanctions against the Pakistan-
:16:03. > :16:09.based Islamic militants known as the Haqquani network. They have
:16:09. > :16:14.been blamed for targets on military installations in Afghanistan.
:16:14. > :16:17.The Malawi Government says it has officially suspend anti-
:16:17. > :16:23.homosexuality laws and ordered police not to arrest gay people.
:16:23. > :16:27.Authorities say it is pending a decision on whether to
:16:27. > :16:33.relenchshraigs. Homosexuality is banned in Malawi. -- repeal the
:16:33. > :16:38.legislation. The British Prime Minister has been
:16:38. > :16:41.in the United Arab Emirates trying to persuade the country to buy 60
:16:41. > :16:46.Typhoon fighter jets. Campaigners say he should not ignore human
:16:46. > :16:53.rights in the push for business deals.
:16:53. > :16:56.This is BBC World News. The headlines: US polling stations
:16:57. > :17:02.have opened on the US East Coast, as Americans choose their President
:17:02. > :17:05.for the next four years. President Obama is back in Chicago
:17:05. > :17:11.after making his final appeal to voters, though Republican Mitt
:17:11. > :17:15.Romney is campaigning on. Of course we don't yet know the
:17:15. > :17:19.results of those elections. One thing we do know is that it is all
:17:19. > :17:23.change at the top of another super- power, China, this week.
:17:23. > :17:27.Preparations are well under way in Beijing for 18th Party Congress
:17:27. > :17:32.which starts on Thursday which will rubber stamp a once in auto decade
:17:33. > :17:37.change in the Chinese leadership. - - once in a decade change
:17:37. > :17:41.You can't go anywhere in Beijing without seeing the Chinese flag.
:17:41. > :17:46.There are huge floral arrangements up but also a security crackdown.
:17:46. > :17:51.We know that more than00 dissidents have either been detained or put
:17:51. > :17:56.under house restrictions. -- 100 dissidents. But in the coming days
:17:56. > :17:59.this party Congress will get under way. It will get under way on
:18:00. > :18:04.Thursday. More than 2,000 delegates are arriving in town. Security is
:18:04. > :18:07.very tight. The reason that it is very tight is the authorities don't
:18:07. > :18:11.want anything or anybody to spoil what is the most important
:18:11. > :18:15.political event in China, over the last decade.
:18:15. > :18:23.How much is already known about the new political leaders that are
:18:23. > :18:27.going to be named now? Well we know that jing jing jing will be
:18:27. > :18:33.appointed President. -- Xi Jinping will be appointed President. We
:18:33. > :18:37.also know that the Premier will be Li Keqiang. But as to who will come
:18:37. > :18:41.after them isn't clear. What effectively you have is the
:18:41. > :18:45.standing committee of the poll it bru. That's currently a anyone-
:18:45. > :18:49.member body that rules the country. -- Politburo. We know that Xi
:18:49. > :18:52.Jinping is in it, he will be the next leader. We know the Premier,
:18:52. > :18:58.who will be number three. The question is whether or not that
:18:58. > :19:01.body will be cut from seven to nine? We don't know that. We don't
:19:01. > :19:05.know how long the party Congress will actually last for. This in
:19:05. > :19:09.some ways is pretty extraordinary. What was seen in China over the
:19:09. > :19:14.last decade is remarkable change. We have seen remarkable economic
:19:14. > :19:19.growth and growing personal freedoms for people around the
:19:19. > :19:23.country, but when it comes to the political system it remains
:19:23. > :19:27.unreformed and as secretive as ever. A suicide bombing in Iraq has left
:19:27. > :19:31.27 people dead. The bomb exploded at the entrance to the Taji
:19:31. > :19:36.military camp, an army base which is 20 kilometres north of Baghdad.
:19:36. > :19:39.Police say 19 soldiers are amongst those killed. Insurgents in Iraq
:19:39. > :19:43.frequently target members of the country's security forces to try to
:19:43. > :19:47.undermine confidence in the Shia- led government. The attack was the
:19:47. > :19:52.deadliest in Iraq in several days and the second targeting soldiers
:19:52. > :19:54.near Taji in less than 24 hours. It's rare for the Russian President,
:19:54. > :19:59.Vladimir Putin, to sack his top ministers but that's what has
:19:59. > :20:02.happened to the man in charge of defence. Anatoly Serdyukov has been
:20:02. > :20:06.dismissed amid a fraud investigation into a company that
:20:06. > :20:09.he once chaired. Russian investigate ost suspect that a
:20:09. > :20:13.state-controlled military contractor sold military assets to
:20:13. > :20:20.commercial firms at a loss of nearly $100 million. Mr Serdyukov
:20:20. > :20:24.has been replaced by the former Emergencies Minister and loyal ally
:20:24. > :20:31.to Mr Putin, Sergei Shoigu. It seems that Anatoly Serdyukov's
:20:31. > :20:35.career is now over. He was found ten days ago in the flat of the
:20:35. > :20:39.director of this company at the centre of these allegations of
:20:39. > :20:43.fraud. She's a 32-year-old woman and the flat was raided at 6.00am.
:20:43. > :20:46.He was in the flat at that time which of course raised a lot of
:20:46. > :20:50.eyebrows about the possibility of there being some kind of affair
:20:50. > :20:54.between the people but much more seriously for him, it looked as if
:20:54. > :20:58.he was going to have to be questioned at least as a witness in
:20:58. > :21:02.this case of multi-million dollar fraud and possibly he will become a
:21:02. > :21:07.suspect in it. It obviously got to the point where his career was no
:21:07. > :21:14.longer sustainal and he becomes really the first many in many, many
:21:14. > :21:18.years, to simply lose his job. -- sustainable. A trial is being held
:21:18. > :21:22.in Turkey today which will accuse four Israeli military commanders of
:21:22. > :21:25.causing the death of nine activists as they tried to reach the Gaza
:21:25. > :21:29.Strip by boat in 2010. The defendants will not be present at
:21:29. > :21:32.the hearing. The boat was stormed after it attempted to get to Gaza
:21:32. > :21:39.by breaking Israel's blockade of the territory. James Reynolds has
:21:39. > :21:44.been following the story. The rift opened up in May 2010 when
:21:44. > :21:47.Israeli commandos stormed the boat, the Mavi Marmara, that rift has not
:21:48. > :21:53.been mended. Turkey still insist that Israel must apologise and pay
:21:53. > :21:56.compensation to the families of the nine victims but Israel says its
:21:56. > :22:00.Commandos acted in self-defence, Israel had a right to storm the
:22:00. > :22:05.boat in international waters and this this particular trial, which
:22:05. > :22:08.is now going ahead in Istanbul, is politically motivated a unilateral
:22:08. > :22:12.act Israel says and has no judicial credibility. The argument between
:22:12. > :22:17.the two sides continues and may even be made worse by the opening
:22:17. > :22:24.of this trial. Now, as we bring you more on the US elections, you will
:22:24. > :22:27.probably have heard the phrase many times "swing state", a state where
:22:28. > :22:31.no one candidate has overwhelming support. One such is Arlington in
:22:31. > :22:35.Virginia. A number of seats up for grabs here and voting has begun.
:22:35. > :22:40.You can see a steady stream of people have turned up very early in
:22:40. > :22:45.the day there to cast their ballot, having been bombarded now for
:22:45. > :22:52.several weeks and months by leaflets and phonecalls from both
:22:52. > :22:56.candidates and now it is, of course polling day, finally. We will hope
:22:56. > :23:00.to get a result tomorrow although lawyers on both teams poised in
:23:00. > :23:03.these key battleground states, like Virginia, in case it is very tight
:23:03. > :23:07.and they need to challenge any results. Another such state is
:23:07. > :23:14.Pennsylvania. It voted Democrat in river election since 1992 but it
:23:14. > :23:18.was a close call in the last two. David Botti explains why.
:23:18. > :23:26.It's the eve of the election and the national spotlight comes to a
:23:26. > :23:32.key county and a key swing state. The people of America understand
:23:32. > :23:38.we're taking back the White House because we're going to win
:23:38. > :23:43.Pennsylvania. There is is a saying, out goes Bucks County, as goes
:23:43. > :23:47.pence vainia. You could say, as goes Pennsylvania, so goes the
:23:47. > :23:50.United States. A month ago Pennsylvania was seen out of
:23:50. > :23:54.Romney's reach. That he is here in the final hours of the campaign, is
:23:54. > :23:59.a sign of how close the race is. When they are done training they
:23:59. > :24:04.will go and get a walk packet. at Obama HQ in the county seat, the
:24:04. > :24:09.hours are long and volunteers are from all stripes.
:24:09. > :24:14.REPORTER: Why do you think President Obama should be elected?
:24:14. > :24:17.Because Mitt Romney is dangerous. Dangerous? Yeah. Elsewhere in the
:24:18. > :24:23.county, some Democrats worried privately that the race is becoming
:24:23. > :24:26.too close for comfort. Here, expressed to the media at least,
:24:26. > :24:30.the confidence is strong. Everybody is fired up. Everybody is ready to
:24:30. > :24:36.go and it's just a matter of making sure they get there to vote and we
:24:36. > :24:42.feel good. The BBC has visited Bucks County
:24:42. > :24:49.for the last year. At the southern end is Levittown, one of the first
:24:49. > :24:52.iconic American subbeshes, a symbol of the post-war middle class. --
:24:52. > :24:56.suburbs. It has mostly voted Democratic for
:24:57. > :24:59.President. But that doesn't mean it is a sure thing. It is a very
:24:59. > :25:02.conservative Democratic voter, so it will be very interesting to see
:25:02. > :25:12.how they respond obviously on Tuesday to the messages from both
:25:12. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:18.parties. Even as crowds get fired up
:25:18. > :25:25.andville tiers hunker down, there is still a sense of disappointment
:25:25. > :25:29.in the tone of the past year. -- volunteers hunker down.
:25:29. > :25:34.bickering going become and forward is more than America needs. There
:25:34. > :25:38.is nothing accomplished in that way. It is more from an anti,
:25:39. > :25:43.perspective than it is from a promotion of kanddas sis. This may
:25:43. > :25:46.have been the worst I have ever seen. In Levittown both sides agree
:25:46. > :25:52.vote remembers liable to choose be a candidate's character over his
:25:52. > :26:02.party. -- voters are. This Congressman was born and raised
:26:02. > :26:06.there. They don't just vote based n upon party distinctions or partisan
:26:06. > :26:12.characteristics. It is character. So goes Bucks County, so goes
:26:12. > :26:17.America. Whether that's true, whale find out on Tuesday.
:26:17. > :26:20.Now before we go, I want to show you these from South Africa. They
:26:20. > :26:24.are brand new banknotes which have gone into circulation, bearing the
:26:25. > :26:29.image, for the very first time of Nelson Mandela, the iconic anti-
:26:29. > :26:36.apartheid former President. And this is the governor of the South
:26:36. > :26:39.African Reserve Bank, Gill Marcus, one of the first to use the notes.
:26:39. > :26:45.Lovely colours and the smiling face. The notes keep their original size
:26:45. > :26:49.but it is the first time that Mr Mandela has allowed him to use his