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Business Matters: Electoral College Confirms Biden Win

US election: Electoral college vote

15/12/2020 GMT

Electoral College Confirms Biden Win

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Electoral College Confirms Biden Win

The US electoral college have affirmed Joe Biden's presidential election victory.

Members of the US electoral college have affirmed Joe Biden's presidential election victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.

Joe Biden has been formally certified as the next president of the United States, with results from electoral colleges in all but one US state giving him 302 votes. This takes him over the 270 threshold required to win the presidency. The electors in each state are appointed to reflect the popular vote, which was won by Mr Biden in November. We get reaction from Washington DC and examine the US democratic process.

Two major cyber-incidents on Monday. The first you may well have noticed, the second will have almost certainly passed you by but may be in the long term far more significant. Google applications including YouTube, Gmail and Docs  suffered a massive service outage, with users unable to access many of the company's services. The second was a sweeping hacking campaign that may have attacked the US Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury and Commerce departments and thousands of businesses. We take a look at how working from home may be leaving businesses and government more vulnerable.

And we're in the Philippines where the country has been showing an interest in the very English game of cricket. Throughout the programme, Jamie Robertson is joined by analyst Tony Nash in the United States and social welfare expert Rachel Cartland in Hong Kong.

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