Donald Trump will meet with sitting President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Mr Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris have been seen together for the first time since Trump’s election. Listen to the Sky News Daily podcast as you scroll.
Monday 11 November 2024 17:37, UK
The fight against climate change is “bigger than one election”, US envoy John Podesta has said.
Mr Podesta was speaking at the UN COP29 climate talks after his party lost the White House to Republican and climate sceptic Donald Trump.
The re-election of Trump, who is expected again to pull the US out of global climate treaties and efforts, had a chilling effect on the two-week summit in Azerbaijan that started today.
But a defiant Mr Podesta said: “This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet.
“Facts are still facts. Science is still science. The fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle in one country.”
Joe Biden is speaking at a Veterans Day service at Arlington National Cemetery.
He says today is about honouring the veterans who “literally saved the world”.
“We ask everything of our veterans and we ask everything of their families,” he says.
“To all those with a loved one missing or unaccounted for. To all Americans grieving the loss of a loved one who wore the uniform, Jill and I want to say we see you and we thank you.”
The president continues: “This is a moment to come together as a nation.”
“Keep honouring the men, women and families,” he adds.
“Keep protecting everything they fought for.”
Earlier, reports emerged that Donald Trump was expected to announce that his immigration adviser Stephen Miller will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy (see post at 4pm).
Now, JD Vance appears to have confirmed the appointment by congratulating Mr Miller on the top White House position.
Mr Miller was a White House senior adviser for policy during Trump’s 2017-2021 presidency and the driving force behind the Republican’s wide-ranging immigration crackdown.
Policies included construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border, banning people from certain Muslim-majority nations and elsewhere, and a contentious 2018 border policy that separated thousands of migrant families.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have attended a Veterans Day ceremony in Arlington, Virginia.
The president and Harris laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery as part Armistice Day commemorations that are being held across the world to mark the end of the First World War.
This is the first time the pair have been seen together since Donald Trump was elected as the next US leader.
Donald Trump is expected to announce that his immigration adviser Stephen Miller will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, CNN reports, citing two sources familiar with the plan.
Mr Miller served as senior advisor to Trump during his first term and played a significant role in shaping Trump’s immigration policies.
At a rally in New York City ahead of Election Day, Mr Miller had told crowds: “America is for Americans and Americans only.”
The Kremlin has denied Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin in a phone call the day after the presidential election.
The US president-elect reportedly urged the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of America’s sizeable military presence in Europe during the conversation on Thursday, according to The Washington Post and Reuters, citing sources familiar with the call.
According to several other sources, the pair went on to discuss the goal of peace on the continent, as well as the prospect of a further call soon to look into the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.
But today, the Kremlin denied the reports and spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin has no specific plans to speak to Trump at present.
“This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it’s just false information,” Mr Peskov said. “There was no conversation.”
Asked if Putin had plans for any contact with Trump, Mr Peskov said: “There are no concrete plans yet.”
Joe Biden, who will hand over power on 20 January, will urge Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine when the pair meet on Wednesday, the White House has said.
The president-elect and sitting president will meet this week at the Oval Office.
In an interview with CBS News, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: “President Biden will have the opportunity over the next 70 days to make the case to the Congress and to the incoming administration that the United States should not walk away from Ukraine, that walking away from Ukraine means more instability in Europe.”
Under Biden, Washington has provided tens of billions of dollars of military and economic aid to Ukraine – funding that Trump, and some of his supporters, have repeatedly criticised and rallied against.
Trump insisted last year that Putin never would have invaded Ukraine if he had been in the White House at the time and has repeatedly said he could settle the war “in one day” if he was re-elected again.
Donald Trump has announced former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan will be the new “border tsar” in his administration.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social late last night that Homan will return to government to be in charge of the US’s borders and the deportation of illegal immigrants.
The president-elect said “there is nobody better at policing and controlling our borders” than his new “border tsar”.
Homan served as former acting ICE director during Trump’s first term, and was an early backer of the president’s “zero tolerance” policy – which NBC News reported led to at least 5,500 families being separated at the southern border in 2018.
Earlier this year, he also told a conservative conference he would “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen”.
Homan was also a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership book.
Hello and welcome back to our live coverage as the world continues to react to Donald Trump’s stunning election victory in the US.
Last week saw Trump snatch all seven of the crucial swing states to secure what is surely the greatest political comeback of all time.
He secured the presidency while his party took control of the Senate and is on the verge of taking the House of Representatives.
Over the weekend, we learned that Trump and sitting President Joe Biden will meet at the White House this week, as preparations for a transition of power continue.
Trump famously refused to host Biden in 2020 after the Democrat beat him in that election, but Biden has promised to observe all protocol to ensure a smooth transition of power.
It also emerged that Trump reportedly spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, with the pair discussing the situation in Ukraine.
That came a day after Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Joe Biden will himself make a plea to both Trump and Congress to keep backing Kyiv.
We also brought you reports that Trump has not yet signed a key presidential transition document amid concerns over the mandatory ethics pledge.
That pledge sees a president-elect vow to avoid conflicts of interest once sworn into office.
As the fallout from the election continues, heavyweight Democrat Nancy Pelosi revealed she thinks Biden should have stepped aside as the Democratic candidate earlier to allow for an open primary process – which could have seen a different nominee step forward instead of Kamala Harris.
And internationally, Iran strongly denied any suggestion of a plot to assassinate Trump after a man was charged.
Here are some of the other key stories you may want to browse through this Monday afternoon to get you fully up to speed:
Thanks for following along, that’s all for our live coverage tonight.
Today, it emerged that Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin on the phone earlier in the week.
Sources said Trump warned Putin not to escalate the conflict, and reminded him of the US’s sizeable military presence in Europe.
According to several other sources, the pair also discussed the goal of peace on the continent, as well as the prospect of a further call soon to look into the resolution of the war in Ukraine.
It comes as aides said Joe Biden would make a plea to Congress and to Trump himself to continue funding and military support for Kyiv.
In the early hours of the morning, we also learned that Trump had secured the state of Arizona – meaning he won all seven of the swing states.
We’ll be back tomorrow with more news, reaction and analysis.
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