good sacrifice of that we made is going to be sound as can be remembered long tough on the come on the knife rage on al-jazeera. i'm not here to clear that we've won. but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winning. democratic presidential contender joe biden flips to battleground states to take him a step closer to the white house. also coming up counting continues in a few states with more projected results due in the coming hours. donald trump

demands a recount of wisconsin and files lawsuits in other key states as his path to victory narrows. the tram supporters converging on voting centers in michigan and in arizona calling for the counting of the postal ballots to be suspended. so it is 800 g.m.t. that is 3 am in the u.s. state of georgia that is one of several battleground states where the result of tuesday's presidential election remains in the balance have a look at these live pictures coming in from atlanta which is georgia's capital city that's where vote counting still ongoing stream a close race in this traditionally republican state and donald trump's initial lead has been steadily falling the u.s. president has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting and ballot counting in georgia is one of several states where republicans

are filing legal challenges over the election at trump's claims of a tea regularities sparked protest by his supporters in arizona and in other places police officers in phoenix could be seen preparing themselves inside a counting center as crowds gathered outside. all right let's see how the electoral map looks at the moment now biden remember has already flipped michigan and wisconsin up there in the north that donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago the democratic candidate now has a projected total of 264 electoral college votes while donald trump has 214 remember the magic number to become president is 270 and here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada there in the west there's georgia there in the south north carolina and up there pennsylvania now trying to leads in georgia by about 28000 votes but thousands of absentee ballots still in the balance still to be

counted and we're expecting more data in the coming hours and what might help joe biden here is that most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which lean democratic or north carolina is one of the states where trump's claimed victory but the result there is just too close to call in this state many ballots postmarked by election day accepted until november the 12th we're still also waiting on pennsylvania pennsylvania a state where joe biden was born in trump's lead here is again shrinking and the remaining male ballots a mostly from democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and that gives biden a chance of course to catch up pennsylvania another state where trump has filed a lawsuit and here is. novato where biden is naturally in the lead you can see about 8000 votes this western state has 6 electoral votes it could be crucial and it would be enough to get biden to the

magic number of 270 with our teams in place across the united states rob reynolds is standing by to talk all things nevada we also have our white house correspondent can be how could i she's in washington d.c. and mike hanna is in joe biden's home state of delaware but 1st let's hear from patty call hane as she 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 that you 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 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 false 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 a 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 0 i let's join right reynolds in los angeles and 1st we'll talk. some seem to protest that what's going on. well as you will recall last night so or early wednesday morning president trump said at the white house that democrats were trying to steal the election it's some of his followers in phoenix arizona apparently taking his words to heart so for several hours now a growing crowd of trump's supporters some of them carrying weapons have gathered outside a vote counting center in downtown phoenix the largest city in arizona they are chanting using bullhorns to shout slogans and generally making known their opinions

that the vote is either being improperly counted or being stolen in some way sheriff's deputies gathered to guard the entrances to the building and to escort the employees to and from the building as they came and went things got increasingly tense and the police ordered the news media to get out of the area and. they complied however the staff at the elections department tweeted that they would continue to do their job which is to count the votes and it's true to their word just a few moments ago really a few minutes ago they released a new batch of 62000 new votes that have been counted mostly from the city of phoenix and its environs and these this new information shows that joe

biden's lead is narrowing in arizona to about $10000.00 votes he is now by about $10000.00 votes i should say excuse me so joe biden is now $68000.00 votes ahead of trump 50.5 percent to $48.00 per. cent and there are 320000 votes remaining to be counted in the state of arizona with its 11 electoral votes rob the allies 2 on the neighboring states the bordering states of nevada to the west the too close to cool. too close to call joe biden continues to cling to a fairly slim lead in the state he's he's up by about. scuse me just looking at my notes here he is up by. less than $8000.00 votes at the

moment that's a 0.6 percent and there are tens of thousands of new vote votes or votes that are waiting to be counted most of those are mail in votes or absentee ballots most of them are from the city and environs of las vegas nevada and that is considered a democratic leaning area also mail in votes are considered to be tending to go democratic to go in biden's favor so we have a long way to go there with a lot more counting tens of thousands of votes however the authorities in that county where las vegas is situated say they will not be releasing any new information tonight we'll have to wait until tomorrow probably around 700 g.m.t. or rob thanks very much reynolds and the sounds was and let's cross united states

to washington the white house correspondent can see how good is what you will the action on fold there and. vote counts are ongoing very tight margins you wonder how soon we will get these critical results. yeah things are moving quickly and as rob reynolds report of there things are getting a little bit better for donald trump in arizona but again many of the networks in the united states that have already called arizona for joe biden are not changing their position so what i can tell you is that at the white house well it is dark behind me right now it is the middle of the night here in washington d.c. the president is still focused on winning so what we've seen is he's launched a series of lawsuits in various states trying to improve his chances and what we're hearing is that the white house still believes that in the trunk campaign still believes nick that they may be able to coopt back arizona even though some have

already decided that he has lost that state there's also this focus on the u.s. state of georgia where there are some signals things are getting worse for the president not better but still the white house believes that that state is very important a key to a reelection so the president has released his public schedule for thursday again for the 2nd day in the row he has no events on his public schedule it fits anything like it was on wednesday he's going to continue to make phone calls and continue to try and improve his chances the white house says the president's focused on winning or to me things look a can be how could there in washington d.c. let's go to joe biden's home state of delaware might have a joins us from wilmington has the latest from there and mike as we've discussed before legions of lawyers on both sides hard at it trying to get ahead of the game here tell us about how the biden team is responding to trump's donald trump's legal

advances. well the biden team has been really preparing for this for months the chief legal adviser to joe biden bob barr he's a former counsel in the obama white house and he was made very clear that the trumpet ministration that insisted that this was going to happen that should the results be disfavor able and favorable to the. white house then they were going to legally contest it they made no secret of that over a period of time and obviously the democrats were able to prepare for it so bob barr said what is called a boiler room a team of lawyers who are basically preparing to any of these allegations that the lawyers may be bringing and they have been dispatched to various states where these legal actions are taking place they are contesting each and every one of these

actions a large number of the actions have already been thrown out by judges or by courts in various states and various counties there is one major case that has gained some traction and that is the supreme court has accepted a from the trump campaign to intervene or to allow the trump campaign to become a code sewer basically in a case against the state attorney general of the state. attorney general of pennsylvania now the campaign asked to be able to join that case the supreme court has now instructed the pennsylvania authorities to respond to the trump campaign. message by 10 o'clock tonight so 'd there is some intervention there some traction where that goes very difficult to see basically at the stage it's legal maneuvering

but in the vast majority of cases they being defended there would appear very successfully by the biden legal team or my transformation to my kind of their undoing were. still ahead here on al-jazeera in other news taking office again tanzania as president is sworn in the middle occasions or forward in a crackdown on opposition. and the u.n. calls for immediate deescalation intensions ethiopia's prime minister sends troops into ukraine which. hello for the next few days much of europe despite the might of cloud will be a quiet and settled place all the weather around the edges is still windy and fairly wet in the media future in scandinavia and that weather is coming in from

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are going to watch al-jazeera remind about top stories this hour and the race to the white house is going down to the wire after flipping which again in wisconsin by now has projected total of 264 electoral college votes or donald trump has $214.00 it takes $270.00 to win the election. the u.s. president has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting in ballot county georgia is one of several states where republicans are finding legal challenges over the election. and trump's claims of voting irregularities are sparked protests in arizona and in other places police officers in phoenix could be seen pairing inside accounting center as donald trump's supporters gathered outside. that speech was gifted a lecture of political science at university college london he joins us now no one

realizes it was going to get this close and the margins are incredibly tight this could still go either way couldn't. well you're absolutely right that most of the pollsters really missed this i think in a substantial way most polls going into election day suggested that joe biden had a comfortable lead somewhere between 8 to 10 percentage points although it was showing in much closer race in some of these key swing states i think that very few experts expected donald trump to do as well as he did so the fact that this is still a race even if it's unlikely that donald trump will win at this point and the odds are looking better and better for joe biden i think that this really does surprise a lot of analysts and it suggests that there is a very sizable nontrivial fortune of americans who even despite all the controversies that we've seen over the past 4 years continue to maintain support for donald trump if it does get up to the magical figure of 270 electoral

college votes and makes rightful claim to be president how much the little suits brought in by donald trump's campaign team play the hand. well i think what it will do is just drag on the process for several weeks potentially up to a month or so and most experts suggest that the arguments that donald trump's campaign is making about election fraud and other forms of lacking in the integrity of election do lack basis so the claim is that these arguments are relatively thin but still donald trump can tie up some of these cases in the courts for several weeks they would start at some of the lower courts and then eventually could escalate up until the supreme court whether the supreme court would actually decide to take on a case like that is unknown but the very least i think we are in for several days if not weeks of quite a bit of controversy adjudication and ultimately we may see some of these cases get

resolved in the courts what do you think the you know this continuing narrative from the dulles team that the democrats are stealing the election what do you think that does for democracy in the united states. well it's not good for america's political and social fabric already we know that america is hugely divided along party lines we are seeing levels of polarization that we have not seen for decades potentially even dating back to the civil war some experts have suggested so the more we have this divisiveness the more that we have now one individual in particular stoking these divisions inflaming some of these cleavages in the electorate i think it's not good for american democracy one of the things that joe biden certainly has promised to do over the course of his campaign is heal these wounds bring americans together but it's going to be an uphill battle it's

a huge challenge simply because americans on the political left and the political right are so divided not just on policies but in terms of cultural issues and in terms of how ugly view politics nor general tell his gift appreciate that thanks very much thank you. now john mcafee really has been sworn in as tanzania as president after he won a 2nd term in last week's elections michael fullilove is declared the winner by the election commission with 84 percent of the vote opposition parties however according to protests alleging widespread vote fraud megacities party has been in power since tanzania gained independence in 1981 malcolm weapons following developments from neighboring kenya in the capital nairobi. the opposition have said this when the 84 percent just isn't plausible and isn't legitimate they complain of widespread ballot stuffing it was also quite

a lot of violence on election day and around the polls generally the electoral commission denies these kinds of a irregularities but the opposition's problems didn't begin there they complained of problems throughout the campaigning that their rallies were forcefully broken up by police and some candidates were blocked from running and the main opposition leader to do list to himself survived an assassination attempt 3 years ago few international observers were allowed to come to town dear to. the polls and almost no foreign press were allowed to monitor it but the electoral commission denies these allegations of any regularity and the swearing in is today going ahead i think is going to get increasingly difficult for the opposition because without a majority of 97 percent john mcafee really and his party will actually be able to change the constitution so there are many ways forward for them now the

u.s. embassy in tanzania did put out a statement. saying that complaining observed violence and irregularities that had marred the polls but otherwise with the locals a lot of the world's eyes focused on the polls in the u.s. . there hasn't been an awful lot of noise from tanzania's other international partners regarding the controversial poll. the u.n. is calling for a deescalation intentions in ethiopia's take away region after the central government launched a military operation prime minister accuses the northern regions ruling party of attacking federal troops and says they must be destroyed and we sue has this report . it was business as usual in the ethiopian capital but many here are on alert as an armed conflict simmers in the north of the country but to conduct and i say even yes i love me but we're not people who fight and kill each other therefore i personally feel that the 2 great and federal governments should solve their

differences through dialogue and negotiations and prioritize the interests of our nation. though at the moment i'm a good cause creates a perfect opportunity for robbery our country needs peace i'm now sick of this in a very disgusting time i'm telling you the truth the prime minister met launched a military offensive in the northern tigray regional accusing the opposition led local government of attacking federal troops and looting their assets in the regions ruled by the to grey people's liberation front or t p l f yes the ghats today the apostate ethiopian has stabbed ethiopia what makes this attack one of the most shocking attacks is that is viewing the ethiopian national defense forces as a foreign army i declare that we will do all we can to shame and destroy this force . be declared a 6 month state of emergency integrate and shut down electricity phone and internet

services there in a statement aired on to great t.v. a regional government spokesman accuses the nobel prize winning prime minister of cowering the people of to gray into submission by force. tensions between the 2 sides escalated in september went to gray went ahead with regional elections despite a ban from the federal government. postpone the polls citing the coronavirus pandemic but the t.p.o. of says he delayed them to stay in power. the dominated if the opium politics were more than 3 decades and says abby squeezed them out of the federal government when he came to power in 2018. analysts warn the conflict into gray could turn into a civil war. stabilization and the fracturing of the military to great offices. great. leadership so this could lead to. crises. freighted of all

of that. the un has called on both sides to deescalate tensions and find a peaceful solution to the dispute the secretary general underlined the importance of stability for it and the horn of africa a region with a long history of border conflicts and political unrest and they sue. the united states says it is deeply concerned over the arrest of a prominent journalist in hong kong it's accused beijing of crushing press freedom in the city choi killing was taken into custody for traffic violations but activists fear she's really been detained there a documentary she produced the film looked into police misconduct related to last year's anti-government protests has more from hong kong. 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 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 this journalist she contributed to a documentary that was put to wear. 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 has been an ongoing crackdown and certainly heightened fears from journalists since the introduction of the national security door here in hong kong in july and we've had the founder of next media as a pro democracy and media organization jimmy lie he was arrested we've also had a number of foreign news outlets funny you're 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. kenya's president has extended a nationwide nighttime curfew to contain a surge in coronavirus cases kenyatta said the measures will last until the 1st week of january curfew hours have been pushed up from 11 to 10 pm and will last until 4 am at the rate of infections ruse to 16 percent in october that's 4 times

what it was a month earlier. international pilgrims have begun performing for the 1st time in 7 months after completing a compulsory 3 day koren 2 planes carrying 400 people from pakistan and india needs it landed in saudi arabia on sunday under the new measures only pilgrims aged between 18 and 50 can enter the grand mosque in mecca for the ritual. so this is a desert these are the top stories in the race to the white house is going down to the wire after flipping michigan and wisconsin joe biden now has a projected total of 264 electoral college votes while trump has $214.00 it takes $270.00 to win the election the u.s. president has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting in ballot county georgia is one of several states where republicans are finding legal.