Unspun World: What does the US election tell us about America?

Unspun World:美国大选告诉我们关于美国的什么?

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2024-11-08

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John Simpson, in discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, examines how the US Presidential campaign has highlighted the deep divisions in the country, analyses the future for Hezbollah in Lebanon in the wake of Israel’s attacks, and looks at how difficult life is now in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

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  • Hello, this is the explanation from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm John Simpson, and you're listening to Unspun World, where we go behind the headlines with the BBC's unmatched correspondence to find out what's really going on.

  • A moment of jubilation for some and deep depression for others as Donald Trump sweeps to an extraordinary victory after one of the fierce and most divisive elections in American history.

  • How worried should we be by what's happened?

  • There still is concern that these divisions within the American public, cultural, social, political, they could be irreconcilable.

  • In Lebanon.

  • Is an armed Hezbollah now on its way out?

  • There is no room for an armed Hezbollah in the future of Lebanon.

  • And the question is, will Hezbollah accept.

  • And how difficult is life under the Taliban in Afghanistan?

  • They are very disappointed with the Western world.

  • They think that they are abandoned again.

  • So whatever all the pundits and the election Experts said, the U.S.

  • election wasn't a particularly close run thing after all.

  • Yet another reason not to believe implicitly in what the opinion polls tell us.

  • Within hours of the poll's closing, Fox News had declared victory for Donald Trump, who told the joyful crowds at his watch party in Florida that he'd been given an unprecedented and powerful mandate.