covering. one step at a time. hot part of the view find out in latin america. is there. i'm not here to that we want. but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winner. democratic contender joe biden flips to battleground states to take him a step closer to the white house. hello i'm still roman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up donald trump demands a recount and files lawsuits in key states as his path to victory narrows. also the

outcome of the election now hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are being tallied. in other news the u.n. calls for an immediate deescalation intentions ethiopia's prime minister calls in troops into the tikrit province following in attack on a military base. welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 electoral college votes away from the u.s. presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 electoral college votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the western georgia and north carolina in the south and up there in the northeast as pennsylvania powers lot of legal action in several states over

the votes still being counted well let's look at georgia state stream really close race there doldrums initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which generally lean towards the democratic party north carolina is one of several states where trump's claimed victory but the result. too close to call here mail in ballots postmarked by election day are accepted until november the 12th then we're still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born donald trump's leaders shrinking and the remaining male ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and their suburbs giving biden a good chance to catch up well trump's filed a lawsuit here to calling for an end to the counting of mail in ballots of the 4 remaining states biden would only really need to cling on to nevada to claim

victory nevada has 6 electoral votes which would take biden from $264.00 to the magic number of $270.00 he's now really in the lead there and so once more this is the state of the race so far joe biden with 264 electoral votes so far just a few away from the 270 needed for victory joe biden is urging his supporters to be patient insisting that he's on track for victory shortly we'll get the latest from our team of correspondents across the u.s. but 1st particle hay wraps up developments so far. former vice president joe biden projecting confidence he will be the next president and he may have taken a step closer to press declaring he's won the state of wisconsin and michigan giving him 10 more electoral college votes and an easier path to the to 70 that will get him to the white house and now after a long night of county it's clear that we're when you know state to reach

270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency i'm not here to where that we've won but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. but u.s. president donald trump is demanding a recount in wisconsin after falling short by around 20000 votes even his most ardent supporters doubt that will change anything former wisconsin governor scott walker tweeting out a recount in 2016 trump's numbers went up by 131 and the counting continues in the states that will decide the election with state officials asking for patience give the public servants the opportunity to do their job and what i will tell you is that karen pennsylvania we're going to follow the law and we will respect the will of the people and the crop her victory will be certified based on who got more votes the president is suing to stop the counting in some states his surrogates saying falsely that the election is being stolen to win for

a republican to win here how many votes do we have to be at 400000 is not enough with 80 plus percent counted i think there's only 14 percent of the vote to go if you think we're stupid you think we're falls the president is complaining on twitter they're finding biden votes all over the place in pennsylvania wisconsin and michigan so bad for country to be clear they're not finding ballots but counting ones that come in on time according to state laws. and there is a question about whether the postal service run by a trump loyalist interfered in getting ballots delivered on time define a federal judge's order tuesday to do a sweep for ballots they refused potentially leaving hundreds of thousands not counted the one thing this election has clearly shown america is a nation divided it really does seem like people live in 2 different realities

given like the news they consume and with the surround themselves with so i i not bad surprise that a lot of people decided to vote again for a president who has brought us to where we are with several cases winding their way through the courts as the votes are counted and america and the world waits to see who eked out a win in this fractured country patty calling out to 0 but we have correspondents in all the places that matter kristen salumi is standing by for us in philadelphia and is in miami we have mike hanna in his home state of delaware but 1st let's have more white house correspondent kelly how it is in washington d.c. and of course kimberly the campaign not accepting these roles it's something we expected but it always comes as a surprise to. it's not really a surprise given the fact that donald trump said that he wasn't sure if he would accept the results of the election and was willing to fight it in the courts what

donald trump is counting on is that he might be able to take this to the supreme court and of course that is where he has judge amy kone barrett who was 6 appointed and confirmed there just in recent weeks so this is all part of the strategy now at the same time this strategy this legal strategy cost money so what we've seen already isn't even being sent out to supporters of donald trump saying that they have launched a legal fund particularly wisconsin in order to try and fight back now according to the white house press secretary and also adviser to the trunk campaign kelly mcenaney what the concern is is that in democrat controlled states or in democrat controlled cities where some of this recounting is taking or counting rather is taking place the feeling is particularly in states like pennsylvania in philadelphia there has been a history of corruption in the past also in detroit and so what they're asking for they say is transparency something that they say has not been afforded to them but

that the democratic side says how so this is where the dispute comes in what is certainly clear is that no matter who ultimately wins or loses this election half of america will not be happy for the update thanks so much complete in washington for us that's my kind of who's in biden's home state of delaware joins us from wilmington with the very latest and mike clearly the vote count is an. excuse me a winner hasn't been declared yet the legal challenges as we're hearing are beginning on that strums come this making the 1st move. yes indeed world the trump campaign and trump organizations in various states have launched a whole series of legal challenges many of them have been unsuccessful mediately a number of judges and courts in various counties and states have actually thrown up the claims by those associated with president trump legal adviser to joe biden

has described many of these actions as baseless and stupid as he puts it pointing out for example that the move to suspend the vote in michigan would actually or suspend the count would actually count against donald trump because joe biden is leaving there so by suspending the count joe biden becomes the victor but there is one case in which some traction has been granted the trump campaign petition the supreme court to allow the campaign to be intervene as a petitioner in a case involving the pennsylvania secretary of state now this is a case that was held and the 1st pennsylvania supreme court decided on before the election took place it went to the supreme court the supreme court said because of the narrowness of time it would not allow the motion by the republican committee in pennsylvania so it pushed it back to the court and allowed to the counting of votes

after election day to go ahead but 3 of the justices on the supreme court at that point said it's something they may have to revisit and indeed now the trump campaign has petitioned the supreme court the supreme court has now sent a letter to the pennsylvania secretary of state instructing her to respond to the trump campaign's requirement to be added as a successful petitioner by 10 pm tomorrow night now whether this is significant or not we'll see basically it would open up that case again in the pennsylvania supreme court should the tram campaign succeed. in its attempt to be put on as a petitioner so it could indeed go back to the supreme court at some stage however and this must be stressed there is a legal position here so which is very very important in this and was mentioned in the original supreme court decision and that's called reliance interest basically that is a legal concept that the supreme court is very very hot on and has used on

a number of occasions which basically anybody who takes an action that they believe to be legally acting on information that they believe to be eagle illegal cannot be punished for that so in the case where a voter has in his or her best interests and in his or her belief that they are acting legally because they received certain information they cannot be punished in other words those votes got to be counted according to the supreme court dictum so this is all illegal but joe biden has responded to the same self in quite a tactical way he's leaving all of these fights to his lawyers to the various democratic lawyers that have been put on what he himself says let's just count the vote let's just get on with this pushing away any thought of legal action indeed a very complicated situation unfolding there in pennsylvania for the moment mike thanks very much well let's go over to miami now and to gallagher joins me now to

discuss really the state north of florida and that's georgia where there's also a controversy there as well as the vote count continues. we began wednesday morning trumpet about a 300000 lead over biden over the past few hours joe biden the former vice president has been eating into that late so it's now less than a percentage point between these 2 candidates but what's key here is they are counting mail in ballots but they are counting 1000000 ballots from the suburbs of atlanta which lean democratic if you look at all those of the counties around the ones that have yet been counted the overwhelming be gone for the democratic candidates so there is a chance here that the biden campaign could take georgia now that is something i don't think anyone in fact had for a vice presidential nominee a democratic presidential nominee has not won that state since 1992 and that was

bill clinton the trump campaign's lawyers have already launched legal action saying that one of their observers saw 53000000 ballots handed in after the 7 pm deadline 53 that just shows you how desperate the trump campaign is getting they did not factor into anything going on over the past couple days that they would lose a state like georgia that has been so red for so many years so if joe biden wins the state of georgia that is 16 electoral college vote which puts him way over 270 and he may not even need it if he wins a state like nevada it would just be ice cream on top of the take on top of the cake so 5 that is pretty significant watching very closely officials in the state of georgia saying in the next few hours they should finish counting those final ballots what about 100000 mark maybe 130000 but that eating into that all the time . for the moment turn to go together in miami thanks so much. know there have been

demonstrations near the white house and selections hang in the balance protesters march through washington d.c. demanding that every vote is counted some activists carried signs reading the world is watching hundreds marched through central chicago again calling for all those to be included but they also highlighted issues that are flared up during trance presidency including police brutality racism and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and there was a similar sentiment in philadelphia about 200 protesters rallied near independence hall they're angry after the trump campaign filed a legal challenge in the state of pennsylvania over the processing of ballots that we've just heard about from mike hanna. joins me now live in that battleground state of pennsylvania and christine you know we're hearing from rudy giuliani the president's lawyer very combative individual in philadelphia a short while ago accusing the democrats of stealing the elections i mean what

seems to be happening in the state why is there this dispute right now. well in the midst of this heated rhetoric the vote count is continuing in the convention center behind me and as more and more ballots are counted the lead by president chomp is getting narrower and narrower with about 88 percent of the votes counted he is now ahead by less than $200000.00 votes and that's leaving vice president joe biden within striking distance here in pennsylvania as you mentioned the president is attempting to shut down the vote counting here in pennsylvania he's filed suit to that effect claiming that there's an attempt to disenfranchise voters here claiming that rudy giuliani claiming his attorney claiming that these ballots are coming from mars and possibly from dead people although they're citing no evidence to back that up he's asking in the legal team is asking that the

counting be stopped until more republican monitors can be allowed to observe they've also asked the supreme court as mike hanna was talking about to allow their petition to be heard on an attempt to or on an earlier court ruling here in pennsylvania that allows ballots to be counted up to 3 days after they're submitted here as long as they're postmarked by election day the officials in pennsylvania are calling this a partisan attack they claim they're following the law here and working quickly and accurately to make sure that every vote counts and saying that they will take as long as it takes in order to get to that point and it could be a couple more days before things are fully wrapped up but in the meantime the race is getting closer and closer here what the president hoping to quit while he's ahead this is an amy thanks very much for joining us from philadelphia brunell's

joins us now from the other side of the us in los angeles rob one state really you might say tipped the balance that it's time to lies and be close. yes exactly we're talking about nevada a state that. is very very close at the moment joe biden is leading. president donald trump by less than $8000.00 votes or about 0.6 percent now there are cans of thousands of mail in an absentee ballots most of them from clark county in the southern part of the state that includes a lot of vegas which is by far the largest. population center in nevada and it also is a democratic stronghold now the election officials in clark county say that they will release more results from their ongoing count of these ballots on thursday in a at

a press conference and they will then add those to these totals the fact that these are from a democratic stronghold las vegas the fact that they are mail in ballots both would tend to favor joe biden those are the kind of ballots that are cast by voters who vote democratic now the mail in ballots are valid if they were received by election day and they could be counted up to the 10th of november if things go right down to the wire at stake 6 electoral votes from nevada the silver state doesn't sound like a lot compared to pennsylvania's 20 or. georgia 16 but in the race to reach 270 electoral votes that magic number every single vote counts so rob runnels thanks very much for the up to rub runnels that for us in los

angeles let's get more on this from melanie sloan joins me live on skype from washington d.c. she's a former federal prosecutor and lawyer with expertise in government ethics good to have you with us mislaid and live on al-jazeera kind just begin really with how do you react to these potential legal cases being brought by president trump's legal team in trying to get the courts to stop postal vote counting. well it's a pretty much a last ditch effort and it's not even that serious i mean the main lawyer the president has on this is rudy giuliani this is a g.o.p. that has many sophisticated lawyers some of the best lawyers around have been busy suppressing votes for decades and here they have nobody really except for rudy giuliani who's big allegation is that some of the ballots come from mars so that litigation just isn't really serious at this point and i don't think the biden team is taking it very seriously they aren't making any really good cases they want to

argue in some places that they shouldn't count votes anymore and in other states they want to say oh you're not counting enough votes and so they have very inconsistent messaging as well for international audience will be quite confused by this whole scenario of votes being counted. with a certain postmark on them i.e. november the 3rd in other countries to say it's not over until the fat lady sings all the votes have to be counted why is this so contentious in the united states about a cutoff point. well the republicans have made it a very contentious issue one of the most interesting things is we're talking about ballots in michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania and republicans pushed to have state legislatures say that the ballots had to all the accepted they had to be in by november 3rd election day but they could be counted after that and the reason the president why did this is now the president is coming in and arguing really we

should just count any vote that was counted by election day rather than all the ballots that already came in and all of those early ballots all the mail in ballots were largely by democrats because the president spent much of the summer and fall telling his voters that the voting by mail wasn't a good idea and so all of these votes that are still to be counted that are still in process are largely democratic and that's why the president is so eager to shut those those numbers down out he knows that when those ballots are counted it is very likely that biden will have an insurmountable lead in pennsylvania by some projections are about 100000 votes if that's a sign already that's the scenario then what is the what is the protocol in terms of legal challenges for example if the if the trump company gets no joy from states' courts come the. jump jump over them and go straight to the supreme court i mean is there

a route to getting legal to getting his voice basically heard at the highest level or will it be cost within each respective states that he's tried making a challenge in. it's likely to be caution each state in order to get to the supreme court i think we'd have to be talking about a very only one state and we'd have to be talking about a number of votes that would make all of the difference and in this case we're not looking at that because we're looking at several different states it looks like biden will get the $270.00 electoral votes and then stop it so it will not be that close so i don't think mr trump has any pashley to the supreme court melanie sloan obviously the night dare i say it is still young lots of twists and turns thank you very much feel insights joining us from washington d.c. .

to some other news now the u.n. is calling for a deescalation of tensions in ethiopia's northern tier gray region the to the federal government launched a military operation prime minister declared a 6 month state of emergency integrate and accused the region's ruling party of attacking federal troops but local authorities dismissed that accusing the noble peace prize winner of the prime minister of plotting conflict but the conflict in tikrit has sparked fears of a civil war and further instability in the horn of africa welcomed where has been following developments from nairobi in neighboring kenya. ethiopia was due to hold nationwide elections in august that they were postponed the central government said because of coded 19 grain regional government said that that meant prime minister. and his government would no longer legitimate to grain regional government when

they had an order organize their own region of elections in september the central government didn't accept the results of that elections have already had a situation where these 2 or thirty's weren't recognizing each other the central federal government and threatened to cut funding to the to gray region it's also significant that the majority of ethiopia's armed forces are stationed in the to grave region including most of its tanks and its heavy artillery to gain regional government has said that part of the military known as the northern command has defected to its side to the central government refutes that certainly any split within ethiopia's military along with the grain aligned militias already on that side do pose a very high risk a very dangerous thing. war and now the reason so much of the military being based in part of the countries because of decades of conflict between ethiopia and

neighboring eritrea now that conflict was finally resolved 2 years ago when prime minister came to power he was even given a nobel peace prize for ending it so now we have a situation where eritrea is allied with the central government in addis ababa a conflict between addis ababa and to great could see eritrea being drawn in on addis ababa side risks spreading the conflict around the region and destabilizing the whole of the horn of africa. england has gone back and a lot done to curb a 2nd wave of crude virus infections many try to enjoy the last day of freedom on thursday before shops and restaurants shut for a month it's a move the prime minister has promised to avoid but as jonah hill reports the country is better prepared this time around. not long ago you could get a haircut and a cocktail at blade clubbing in london so a concept that proved so popular the owners were about to open

a branch in new york here's your it wasn't. we we had to take you to actually to go 19. 20 everything just went up in the air and the 1st lockdown destroyed a dream despite government help the 2nd may prove lethal full livelihoods. still shock and. it was such a shock. it's been so quiet. we were just trying to reach everybody and now for the last few days is just so many people used to see us and we hoping it's only 4 weeks we are going to be closer. so we can try. everything we can to. get something the government said wouldn't happen and repeat national lockdown just last week the prime minister said it would be disastrous. for the economy. but new modeling predicted soaring hospital admissions and many thousands more deaths he was persuaded otherwise we have to face the reality that in common with many other

countries in this part of the world we are now facing a surge in that virus which this house must tackle with the measures we've outlined they will expire as all of the members know on december the 2nd soho by night the optimism of summer long gone the gloom of a winter lockdown setting in the mood one business owner told me is one of panic many people don't believe these restrictions will be lifted as promised in a month's time raising the prospect of lost revenue all the way up to christmas the hope is that lockdown will bring the virus reproduction rate down and lift pressure on the national health service buying time to build better coping strategies in the northern city of liverpool for instance a pilot program from friday will offer every person regular testing with new rapid turnaround tests a possible pathway back to normal life. and there is

a glimmer of hope for the arrival of a new vaccine the n.h.s. sees putting local doctors on notice to prepare for vaccine distribution by christmas or early in the new year jonah al-jazeera london. one of the greatest footballers in history diego baradar has had successful surgery on a blood clot in his brain in argentina david stokes reports. diego marathoner drawing a crowd like only he can even while lying in a hospital bed fans gathered outside a private clinic and saddest to cheer is named after hearing surgery termly the brain clot on his brain had been a success. you. don't know if they did the surgery last approximately one hour and 20 minutes minutes to remove the chronic subdual hema thomas successfully diogo coped very well with the surgery he was awake and very well. the doctor

said the court was likely caused by an accident but that marathoner does not remember what happened it initially been admitted to hospital in la plata on monday with anemia and dehydration but as things turned more serious he was transferred firm urgency surgery marathoner is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time and almost single handedly led argentina to the 986 world cup he may not have played for 23 years but it's clear how much he still means to the country and call out of it boy the people's player the one that gave his life for the white and light blue shirt diego is the icon among argentine football players the best of all times. marathoner is currently the coach of argentinian club yeah he looked frail at the game on friday his last public appearance on what was also his 60th birthday he also left before half time which raise questions about his health there have been messages of support from around the football world napoli

the italian club where he spent 7 years tweeted this picture with the hash tag strength diego and the message 2 from the real madrid coach the nadine's the dan a fellow world cup winner. we all know the kind of person he is and the player he was i wish things go well for him but that is all we wish for him and his family. because the fans continue to chant his name outside hospital doctors say marathoner will remain inside resting in his room for at least 48 hours david stokes al-jazeera. watching others are moving still running a reminder of our top stories democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house he's now won the state of michigan giving him 264 electoral votes just 6 shy of the 200.