before the weeks of town of the police and manson event people will accelerate the spread of the coronavirus from indian cities to its rule hot. i'm not here that we've won but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners democratic presidential contender joe biden flips to battleground states to take him a step closer to the white house. the whole romany watching on his own life from our headquarters in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes donald trump demands a recount and files more suits in key states as his path to victory narrows.

also continue the count in the handful of states with more results to to be announced in the coming hours. plus a 2nd coronavirus knockdown in line with other european countries has come into force in england. welcome to the program it's $500.00 g.m.t. midnight in the united states and georgia is one of several battleground states where the result of choose days presidential election remains in the balance these are live pictures now from atlanta georgia capital city where the vote counting continues it's the extremely close race in the traditionally republican state trance initial lead has been steadily falling. now it's about $28000.00 votes and thousands of absentee ballots are still to be counted now we're expecting more data

in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of all is the remaining votes that are from atlanta and its suburbs which normally lean towards the democrats but winning georgia could be crucial for by news extended his lead in the race for the white house let's have a look at the map and he's already flipped michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a projected total of $264.00 electoral college votes while donald trump has $214.00 remember the magic number to become president is $270.00 here in yellow you'll see the states that are still in play nevada in the west and georgia of course north carolina as well in the south and up there is pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states over the votes that are still being counted well we're still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was form donald trump's leaders shrinking and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the

democrat leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and of course the suburbs giving biden a good chance to catch up trumps filed a lawsuit here too calling for an end to the counting of those mail in ballots well over north carolina well it's one of the states where trump's claimed victory but the results are still too close to call here mail in ballots postmarked by election day are accepted until november 12th and his nevada where biden is narrowly in the lead in other western states has 6 electoral votes more numbers are expected to be released on thursday night joe biden is in 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 united states but 1st particle haim 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 he sociate

a press declaring he's won the states of wisconsin and michigan giving him 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 where one knew enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency i'm not here to clear that we've won but i am here to report when 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 and 2016 trumps 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 tara 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 fools 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 well brunell's standing by for us to discuss nevada and other while we'll also be speaking to our white house correspondent kimberly how get in washington d.c. but 1st let's join mike hanna and joe biden's home state of delaware where of course awaiting for joe biden just speak he said

a few things but he's been speaking in the last few minutes as well. well indeed yes joe biden has been reassuring his supporters once again calling for patience insisting to as well that every single vote must be counted this is absolutely adamant about he hasn't mentioned the ongoing legal disputes being conducted by officials from the trump campaign in a number of states in all there are literally hundreds of actions that have been launched by allies of president of the republican committees in various states a large number of these have been thrown out by judges or courts in each of the states or indeed counties where the actions have been brought the actions over a large range of things such as the time in which it is taking to count the votes allegations for example that democratic help has helped up some of the votes so

certainly all these allegations out there a large number of them as i said already rejected by judges this is what one of joe biden's senior legal advisers had to say in response to this mess of legal action are both baseless and these do advise of imperialism assert that they have no legal basis at all they're stupid in the sense that one of the states where trump is suing to stop the vote count is michigan where he is behind so if the vote count stops we win so it is a particularly ridiculous legal strategy in the state of michigan look in the state of pennsylvania as steve said at the top of the hour donald trump had a formidable lead this morning 2 forwards of it has gone away over the course of today and we believe we are on track to win that state but 100000 votes or more. now the tramp biden campaign not taking any of this lying down it's understood that for weeks now there has been preparation for such a legal action being launched

a boiler room message his port of lawyers had been prepared they are being dispatched to various areas where these actions are being brought by the trumpet ministration to contest then but the word from biden's legal advisers is that they are there to ensure that the vote of every person is eventually come to my kind of in wilmington delaware thanks for joining us sir let's cross over to washington d.c. where our correspondent kimberly helka watching things unfold at the white house and of course the trump team not really accepting the results as they stand at the moment one wonders what their next move will be. well right now the president has released his public schedule and for a 2nd day we expect that on thursday the president will have no public events we did not see the president in person in front of the television cameras on wednesday however he did tweet even being and expressing concern about the fact of ballots

that some ballots had been dumped this was a tweet that was flagged by twitter but the president is continuing to cast doubt on the integrity of the u.s. election meantime i can tell you that there were many protesters in miller's about sort of just scattered around the white house that remains walled off with a number of primitive fences in the last few moments there was one lone protester shouting joe biden tear down this wall so already there is a sense that they are starting to believe that this will be joe biden president elect and not the former vice president but of course we still await the official and final confirmation of who will ultimately win this race and as long as that confirmation has not come the white house continues to add more specifically president trump continues to fight we know that on wednesday he was calling various governors around the united states seeing what his legal options have been and will

be and also as we've been reporting he has launched a number of legal actions in states where he still believes he has a chance pacifically well arizona has been called for joe biden donald trump believes that that could be clawed back and so that is what area that they are watching very carefully as well georgia the u.s. state of georgia one that the president believes that he must win in order to keep going and while the president remains optimistic and characteristically combative in terms of his efforts there is also a growing sense of resignation among some members of his staff and even some campaign members. although publicly they say and vow that they are still going to fight and did for the update can really help it for us there in washington d.c. thanks kimberly let's go over to the west coast now where rob reynolds is standing by in los angeles and rob 2 issues that we're keeping a very close eye on what we've been talking about are these protests in arizona

that you've been monitoring obviously is a situation that's developing. that's right it continues it's been going on for several hours now as a crowd of pro trump supporters has gathered outside a municipal building in phoenix arizona where inside election workers are counting the ballots the crowd has been chanting. pro trump slogans say chanting we love trump and generally making it known that they want the vote counting to stop which would be not in the president's interest because joe biden is actually ahead in arizona. some of the images that we're seeing coming from the area do indicate that some of the protesters are armed that's perfectly legal in arizona which is a so-called open carry state but nevertheless could be considered somewhat

disturbing especially to the poll workers there are sheriff's deputies surrounding the building keeping the entrances secured and they are also a scorching whole election workers the counters if you will. to and from their vehicles as they as they arrive or they depart in the evening and the counting is going on nonetheless so yes it is a developing situation there have been no reports of violence or any arrests as of now on the schools that could all be you might say worthless in pennsylvania children are is so new if nevada has anything to do with it because that could actually hold the keys to the white house. exactly nevada could be the key over the next say 24 hours the state is still too close to call but at the moment it looks like joe biden has the winning hand in nevada he's

got a small lead over donald trump less than $8000.00 votes about 0.6 percent of the total votes cast but there are tens of thousands of mail in and absentee ballots that remain to be counted these are mostly coming from the city of las vegas for the most part and that is a democratic leaning area and also as i believe my cantor was was explaining in his report the mail in ballots tend to be the preferred method by democratic voters to cast their vote so it would seem that the bulk of those votes may i emphasize may because no one knows go to joe biden and increase his lead in the state of nevada with its 6 electoral votes and we are

told that officials in the county where las vegas is located are going to come out tomorrow morning thursday morning with new numbers so we may get a much clearer picture of the situation in the silver state so the folks who wait to see what happens there for the moment rob reynolds in los angeles thank you. well let's say 2 staring down a long counting period the battleground state of pennsylvania kristen salumi explains. the vote count continues around the clock at the philadelphia convention center behind me even as president trump attempts to shut it down and protesters take to the street demanding that all votes are counted as more votes are counted his lead is getting narrower and narrower the republicans would like more monitors inside to be watching these ballot counts that's what they are suing for they've also asked to be heard by the supreme court which could weigh in on a state supreme court decision that allowed pennsylvania to continue to accept and

the amount of mail in ballots up to 3 days after the election as long as they are postmarked by the election here in pennsylvania the governor of the state tom wolfe a democrat has accused the president and team of partisan attacks he says that the count will continue slowly and accurately so that everyone is heard but it could take a couple more days. with me still run a reminder of our top news stories the democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house he's not won the state of michigan giving him 264 electoral votes just 6 shy of the 270 required earlier biden said that he was confident of securing enough states to the presidency. but

the truck campaign has filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in michigan georgia and pennsylvania while calling for a recount in wisconsin and it's also looking to intervene in a supreme court case to stop pennsylvania counting votes up to 3 days after the election. the count of absentee ballots continues in battleground states like pennsylvania george arizona is a tight race in nevada as we just heard where joe biden has a very narrow lead. actually pratt is a board member for republican women for progress she joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with us on what is really a bitterly fought presidential election i'm sure you're watching quite intently i mean has the incumbent president's strategy worked in part to sort of trying trying to psychologically invalidate the postal vote so that he can say to his base hey look we won that in person though to that that's all that matters everything else is wrong. well this is something that i think we've come to expect from this

president and he's been building up this campaign about if joe biden were to win the election it would be illegitimate and he was really trying to do legitimize and that basically went by and was leading in the polls and this is becoming a consistent narrative that we knew would play out if it became a very close race and what we're seeing right now is donald trump and his campaign very scared because right now joe biden in his campaign have remained steady and focused and they've been able to break through areas where donald trump was able to win in 2016 the key being those independents and simper of any voters that the i'm campaigning really focused on chipping away at because that was trying to support that really quick him over the edge in 2016 so i can't imagine we have a happy camper a gret 1600 pennsylvania avenue right now let me just pick a poem about vote because one thing that does seem to be evident in this product is in the truck on pain they have lost vital votes from been females of all walks of

life and if i just quote one report from the new york times the trend has been a long time in coming from the early 19 eighties from the women you've spoken to one of they've been saying to you about the way that you know managed to attract women in the 2016 election but they've seen 2 of the 2 way in the 4 years up to the point that we're at now. so i think in 2016 there were a lot of women who are willing to give donald trump a chance i was not one of them i was a never trump or in 2016 and i will say the board that i'm a part of republican women for progress they actually endorsed hillary clinton in 2016 and then biden in 2020 so that really does show you that women who civically have voted republican are further away from the party more than ever a lot have switched their political affiliations but still you know are trying to make some headway within the party to see if it rebuilds and i think you know we

definitely saw a shift there and that's all because the biden campaign was able to turn around those independent voters who came out to give trumpet chants and say you know what we're not doing this again and these were the very same voters that voted for obama in 2008 in 2012 and then again in the midterms in 2018 they voted democrat so i really do think in the future when you see a republican party that strongly needs to rebuild this specially when it comes to female voters and that's an outrage that i don't think they've been able to successfully meet with donald trump at the helm what specific issues then turned them off you might say a trump styled presidency and the trying to a biden style to potential presidency. i think the message is of unity over division and we have seen multiple instances of trouble over the last 4 years joking the flames of theirs and rather than inspiring unity and bringing us

together as americans and i think for many women that type of rhetoric is a complete turn out specifically when you look at the images of children in cages at the border i think that was when you really really lost a lot of the female support that really propelled him to victory in 2016 because most women saw those images and knew that that was 100 percent wrong in the way traffic has spoken about women spoken about minorities you know about any communities that he sees in opposition to him has really just then a complete turn up even in his campaign rallies you heard him cantering to suburban women telling them that we're going to get your husbands their jobs that not recognizing that a majority of women are a part of the workforce so i really do think his messaging was very tongued out to women and he's paying the price for that right now because they showed up to vote for joe biden on this election day i sleep out fascinating speaking to you and thank you very much for your insights and for joining us from washington d.c.

thank you. the u.s. says it's deeply concerned over the arrest of a prominent journalist at home call things accused beijing of crushing press freedom in the city. was taken into custody for traffic violations but activists fish he's really been detained different documentary that she produced the film looked into police misconduct related to last year's massive antigovernment protests. i think it's very ridiculous and the horrible that they happen in hong kong i think journalists never expect that such a pace such ridiculous. that so let's get more on this from sarah clarke who joins me live now from hong kong i do believe there has been a press conference in the last hour or so what's been said. well the arrest was on tuesday but on thursday here in hong kong we've had 6 media groups all media organizations that have come out and it's been general

condemnation of this particular a wrist and those charges they describe as you just heard the hong kong journalist association says the arrest is deplorable and ridiculous and i believe this is part of a more targeted effort by the police and by the government to crackdown and certainly a crackdown on the freedom of expression on media outlets in general now journalist about choice she was simply doing her job according to this group you mentioned this journalist she contributed to i document tree that was put to where by r t h k which is the public broadcaster here and now this particular documentary it's been quite controversial it exposed the police delayed response in a mob attack or sort of attending a mob attack on anti-government protesters in your long last july and now the police made the arrest of this journalist they say on suspicion of this journalist making false statements when trying to seek the identity darter or certainly the identification or license details of people who may have been within the vicinity of that particular incident now the journalists organizations they say that this is

a police abuse of the power to override public interests and they say the media has a duty to track down the truth now as we've mentioned it's been an ongoing crackdown and certainly heightened fears from journalists since the introduction of the national security law here in hong kong in july and we've had the founder of next media the pro-democracy media organization jimmy lie he was arrested we've also had a number of foreign news outlets funny or having trouble getting visas here in hong kong we've had the new york times leave hong kong and move to south korea now the unions do believe this is all part of a wider crackdown not just from the police but also the government to try and crack down on freedom of expression media outlets and heightened censorship here in hong kong so we have been so much so top for simple. now england has gone back on the lockdown to curb a 2nd wave of crown of iris infections many try to enjoy their 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 a strain of whole 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 a wish we had to take is to actually to go and then. it wasn't everything just went up in the air the 1st lockdown destroyed a dream despite government help the 2nd may prove lethal for livelihoods i'm still shocked and still. it was that. it's been so quiet since we were just trying to reach everybody and now for the last few days there's just so many people used to see us and we hoping it's only 4 weeks we're going to be close to having islam so we can try. everything we can to really is it 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 so ho by night the optimism of summer long wrong 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 his promise. 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. is putting local doctors on notice to prepare for vaccine distribution by christmas or early in the new year jonah how al-jazeera london. indonesia is facing some of tamia 16 weather events its southern regions have endured a prolonged drought while the capital home to always 10000000 people is bracing for severe flooding with more than 400000 an asian is infected with covert 19 there's growing concern the extreme weather could escalate the health crisis as jessica washington reports. in indonesia's southernmost province farm of the struggling

through a water crisis at the peak of the drive season was supposed to end in august but months later little has changed. because of this long dry season that we are all experiencing crop failure dried out from the inside none of these crops can solve. the fama say they've also been struggling financially because of coded 19 measures which saw their local markets restrict hours or close altogether but it got on because of covert 19 it is more difficult our income is almost nothing it's difficult to buy food. she says they haven't received any assistance from the government. indonesia's national disaster agency issued a warning this month for extreme weather caused by the money no weather phenomenon including lower rainfall than normal for some provinces. for this community it means walking 3 kilometers to access clean water. this school was shot for months

of the pandemic but because its taps had run dry. and they. are joining the pandemic children needed to continuously wash their hands but because we have no water we were forced to shut the school. it has finally reopened but there's still no water as some cities in georgia rouse others including the capital of preparing for the peak of the monsoon season and experts say local authorities need to start preparing now. regular clean ups are on the way to stop rubbish from clogging waterways so you've got any but islam is who happens to most heinous lee let me know will reach its peak and the rainy season will also peak somewhere warning all sides to get ready some areas have already experienced flooding the weather worsens the government has expressed concerns about possible infection clusters at

emergency shelters for people who have been displaced. indonesia the transitioning things in and the stream weather that comes with it just adds to the troubles of a country already struggling with the impact of the pandemic jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. your child is there with me said robin a reminder of our top stories democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house is now what the state of michigan giving him 264 projected electoral votes just 6 shy of the 270 required. and said that he was confident of securing enough states to win the presidency. i'm not here to clear that we've won but i am here to report when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners every vote must be counted.