only youth detention center and travels to the remote outback towns where many of the digital image come from. what al-jazeera. president trump claims without evidence the election is being rigged by democrats as joe biden closes the gap in key battlegrounds. and give it al this is just the life of dog would continue coverage of the u.s. election. i asked everyone to stay calm all the people stay calm the process is work. provided urges patience but says he's confident he will become president.

during demonstrations biden and trump supporters trade calls to count every ballasts and protect the vote. plus another record jump to grow the virus infections in the u.s. more than $120000.00 new cases confirmed on thursday alone. joe biden is getting ever closer to securing the magic number of 270 required to clinch the u.s. presidency with president trump's of leads shrinking in 2 key states georgia and pennsylvania let's look at georgia 1st that's where joe biden is now fewer than 2000 votes behind president trump what was a solid republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta. we're also still waiting on

pennsylvania a very important state the state where joe biden was born translate has consistently been shrinking just over 26000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining mail in ballots mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and the suburbs getting biden a good chance to catch up as look at the overall picture a democratic candidate now has a projected total of $264.00 electoral college votes while trump is projected to win 214 remember a candidate needs 270 to win here in yellow you see the states still being decided nevada in the west and georgia of course both carolina in the south and up north of pennsylvania. lashed out at the time it's taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states claiming without evidence the election was being rigged and stolen saying further the legal action is imminent shortly we'll get the latest with our team of correspondents on the ground but 1st as well as enjoying counting

the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u.s. president on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from us if you count the votes that came in late we're looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but it's actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isn't just complaining he's suing in nevada the trump campaign is hoping this woman's story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count their right to vote in the cold ira vote i personally can matter and

you and yours are her it started in person this current been mailed out the ballot and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckey's charges saying they did everything possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trump's request to halt vote counting in that state around the clock trump supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his campaign staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process so you know i would continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is truly shannon harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and dad will know very soon so no declaration of victory

just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the trump campaign's legal challenges rosalyn jordan al-jazeera pennsylvania is one of the critical battleground states which could decide the election has on his those numbers to maria on why the stakes is so crucial. pennsylvania is famously joe biden's native state you probably heard him mention scranton pennsylvania more than a few times but it is important for anyone who wants to win the white house pennsylvania has 20 electoral college votes on offer and the pollsters believe the keystone state could in fact hold the key in deciding who wins this time around but if history for you here we go back 299246 straight presidential elections it has backed the democrats bill clinton and barack obama who won twice john kerry and al gore who didn't but pennsylvania still became part of the so-called democratic blue

wall but like so many things all of that changed in 2016 pennsylvania flipped red and he just when donald trump beat hillary clinton by less than one percent now we're going to bring up the 26 electoral map to see who did well where and you've got the democrats down in the southeast they did well the other cities in the suburbs the republicans who won in mostly rural areas did pick up some urban centers and then the 3 counties which we've colored in orange who switched from barack obama in 2 elections to donald trump in 2016 a quick look at some demographics for you and more than 80 percent of pennsylvania's voting population is white blue collar voters who have long been the democrats base non-college educated voters who favor donald trump also 10 percent of eligible voters are black and hispanics a little over 5 percent so it will probably come down to do is urban voters in pennsylvania and whether biden can hold on to them and then woo some back from

donald trump to decide who gets 20 vital electoral college votes and that is why pennsylvania matters. let's get the very latest on the results in pennsylvania pedicle hayne is still live for us in philadelphia i believe it's just going to 11 pm there petty and these results still getting closer by the hour what is it $26000.00 votes now in it will we get a result tonight. well tonight in the u.s. well we've got an hour and i know they're working hard and they lead to work through the night but they might not be able to get through the 175000 votes in the next hour but you're right it is remarkable every hour that passes donald trump is seen as leave here in this critical state simply steal it away 26000 votes now between him and joe biden and what's remarkable is we knew that the counties that they were county were likely to lean democratic but the votes are breaking for joe

biden and 80 percent so 80 percent of the ballots are cut there they're counting right now those are joe biden votes and it doesn't seem like there's anything that's going to come in that's going to change that momentum of course it's an election you never ever know what's actually going to happen but probably in the wee morning hours or possibly a little bit later in the day depending on how that count keeps going they could be able to say joe biden is in the lead now will they be able to say well that means joe biden ones that the state of pennsylvania probably not unless it's an overwhelming vote the reason why there is so that a geisha is in a different county and so they have you know how much. more. the state of pennsylvania for joe biden in less let's say the votes of philadelphia

back in he has $100000.10 vote lead then it's quite possible bill be able to call it but you're now seeing why from the beginning the biden campaign has said wait for the mail in ballots that we know more democrats than republicans used ballots they felt really confident about their numbers here and it looks like it's all headed in their direction. ok i've had a call hey man live for us and send the delphia thank you so much. georgia has become the unexpected toss up for donald trump was joe biden closing in on his lead as you mentioned earlier there are fewer than 2000 votes between him and he has the latest well look georgia has one of those states that not many people thought was even going to be at play in this presidential election but here we are we have seen that state as a republican state for decades the last democratic presidential nominee that one there was bill clinton back in 1902 but as these mail in ballots slowly come in you

can see the gap between biden and trump narrowing all the time as those votes come in and what is important is where those votes are coming from they're coming from counties that tend to lead democratic and with 16 electoral college votes in the state of georgia the stakes really couldn't be higher the gap between these 2 candidates couldn't be narrow and the officials in the state of georgia say they may be counting some of those absentee ballots into friday so a great deal at stake with the state of georgia something no one thought was going to be in play but here we are ok let's move west rob brannan science is live from los angeles on the latest developments in nevada and arizona let's start with nevada rob 6 electoral votes up for grabs powers in comparison to the likes of pennsylvania but as things stand now very very important where are we at. well in nevada joe biden is increasing the distance between himself and president

donald trump the margin is now $11438.00 votes most of those were most of the remaining votes to be counted are from the. area around las vegas that's clark county and as patty was noting with regard to the urban areas in pennsylvania the urban area in nevada also tends to favor the democrats that's a democratic stronghold so the clark county that's the county where las vegas is. registrar says that he's not aware of any kind of impropriety in terms of the ballots that have been processed at under his watch that's despite president trump's claims that there's something fishy going on all over the country trumps campaign has actually filed a court case in the vada alleging that people who do not reside in the state were

allowed to cast ballots and and other allegations now the. unlike georgia unlike pennsylvania nevada is a state that does not update its of voting tallies continuously they will do so once and they'll do that friday the 6th of november locally and they'll do that in the morning so we'll be watching to see what kind of changes may have occurred there different story however in arizona opposite story in fact because joe biden was ahead there and he's still ahead but president trump has been steadily chipping away with his lead as the votes are tabulated the latest numbers joe biden ahead by 46000 votes previously the last time that the officials reported it was 50. $6000.00 votes for biden ahead of trump so trump has gained so trump has gained some ground there we do expect more numbers. me to

come out of arizona again on friday in the u.s. that's november 5th in the u.s. in the morning around 14 or 15 g.m.t. and just to also note that for the 2nd consecutive night a fairly boisterous crowd of trump supporters has gathered outside one of the vote counting centers in the center of phoenix the largest city in arizona and they are making their voices heard also echoing president trump's. notions that there's fraud and corruption at will at play here however unlike last last night when they gathered right in front of the door of the building tonight they're being held back by a tall wall of steel that police arrested during the day ok thank you so much for that ted robbins said live from los angeles it's still ahead on al-jazeera scenes

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i.d.'s to be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table the police are now neutral and all of these cases here is to terrorize it gives the other part of this. consequence this dream on out is there. the. you're watching are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is closing the gap with donald trump and 2 key states trying now that it's by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia as the remaining votes are tallied after tuesday's election and there's less than half a percent between them and pennsylvania. trump is claiming without evidence that if

legal votes were counted he'd win the election at a white house news conference he said legal challenges his campaign has filed band up in the supreme court. biden is urging people to be patient he says he's confident of becoming the next president he has 264 electoral college votes to 70 needed for victory. adolfo franco is a republican strategist and the lawyer who joins us on skype from washington d.c. thank you for your time mr franco this seems to be good to have you this is a discrepancy between what republicans and even donald trump's own campaign team is saying and donald trump himself may say they only want votes counted that should be counted he's alleging for a lot and talking about stolen elections where do you stand. well i think they're one in the same except the president is is really speaking in layman's terms and i

know this for a fact from the campaign we're getting stand is the following the rules were changed and we believe on constitutionally and in pennsylvania and there are 4 votes that may be counted after 8 pm november 3rd that we're not postmarked by that day might be be are in fact being counted and could be counted and that would be a problem and then the other is in clark county and in other places where we know that a number of ballots up and sent out to an eligible voters who voted up or out of state we have that substantiated for the pleadings so i know what you're saying we want to vote with the president is seen as not exactly what the allegations of the campaign is formally making which is really what is controlling which is we want votes that are proper to be counted but those are ineligible should not be counted and he's calling that brought so i think when you talk about pennsylvania what you're talking about is the state's decision to count ballots as you said that

a postmarked by election day but arrive sightly later the supreme court was deadlocked on this before justice amy kone barry joined they declined to hear this so it could be heard off to election day but what the kind of position do you think donald trump is really in right now is say not at a disadvantage it with these numbers. well he is actually a little more complicated we would have required more time the supreme court actually had a stay on this which means that those ballots are supposed to be segregated and the problem is that the it's a constitutional issue those changes in pennsylvania were made by the executive branch the governor was a democrat and the democratically elected supreme court sided with him the constitution says that the state legislature which is republican made the rules controls so they change something on constitutionally and firm to cut the court will decide in favor of the republicans but the problem is that if we don't stop the counting it becomes

a mess because we don't and they are supposed to segregate the ballots but we don't know if they have and lastly they can accept ballots without postmarks so a ballot could be arrived today which we don't not know if it was postmarked before the 3rd and still can be counted or if it's in an eligible you cannot read it. out and vote and that is a problem that is in contravention with state law which the state legislature is in charge of enacting not the governor. look at it but there are legal solid legal arguments the court will eventually side of can assure you with pennsylvania where they will have an outcome in this election i do not know ok that is your perspective. what do these claims though that that i thought ok we're going to put this again to a professor of law and then later in the program but i want to come to it to you what they do ask him of the state legislature constitutionally that charged with making these these decisions not the executive branch if we come to the claims

though that donald trump is making that the ballots are being counted without it is that there's voter fraud. what do these do to the democratic process to the trust in the process that americans have with this election. well just a few days ago hillary clinton who was the democratic nominee not a significant figure said the election was stolen from her this is just this week and she asked the vice president to never concede before the election what does that say about our process so if you have a movement for gore years as of the president was a legitimate you had a democratic member of congress introduce articles of impeachment the day the president was inaugurated saying that he should be impeached and it was not a gentleman president the press doesn't seem to be asking those questions aren't they undermining democracy. ok we have to leave it there for time thank you so much for your perspective from adolfo franco there republican strategist and moira let's

go now to that yes hoffmeister who is a professor of law or at university of dayton he joins us on skype from washington d.c. thank you time mr hofmeister i think you heard our interview there with that adolfo franco a republican strategist and lawyer is there anything that you had that you disagreed with that you'd like to comment on in terms of that this a geisha and here well 1st i would know that the court so far have tossed the cases that georgia michigan if you notice these cases are only being filed in places where either donald trump is losing or and or the momentum is against him and so i don't think that they're going to have merit for the most part and so i think you know some of the things that a raise or more process oriented but the actual factual matters yet i've yet to see been completed so i think they're going to have salute challenges. in court on

these on these allegations so what happens then if let's just say joe biden is decay the when a but these cases a still going through the various courts what happens then. well i just want to i just want to step back 1st and just to understand sort of a legal. a legal doctrine we have here is that the courts for the most part don't want to get into political questions so that we would say there's not just a will that they would try to avoid that but let's just say they didn't get into it whatever reason the the votes would be certified by the secretary of state and i will note that there's also a. republican secretary of state in georgia this democrat secretary of state other in other states that are be contested but they will certify the vote they go forward they put this into an actual the electoral college we're actually going to take a final bow and decide who's the next president now they could try to stop that prevent that from going forward by going into the court asking for some type of injunction

but again i don't think they will be successful even with these pending cases as long as the boat is certified by the secretary of state it's going to go forward. as we talk about contested elections litigation going to the supreme court where often hearing about the election back in the year 2000 al gore and george w. bush how does this compare. i think this is a little little different in that there was really just once pacific issue they were discussing here in florida but back without with al gore invent bush but here the president has created some sort of left wing conspiracy that involves the state of this involves a state in a bad state of georgia state of michigan the state of pennsylvania so he's just doing that open wide to gotland of all these accusations were before there was really only one specific question that was was going down in florida but here he has created some some worldwide or nationwide conspiracy so you can kind of it

seems a little bit more desperate a little bit more grasping at straws and doors open against the wall see what sticks were before and bush v gore you saw one specific issue that was being litigated and i will say that for those who remember that no one really looked whether you agree or disagree no one really looked too far away on that decision because they don't want the courts to decide who's the next president i want to put a question to you that i had also put to adolfo what do you think of these claims of you know that ballots are being counted without observe those that there's voter fraud what do you think that these claims do to trust in the democratic process well i think i think it erodes the trust and i'm disheartened that the sitting president would do that and instead of just accepting the democratic process but doing everything he can to he wrote it even before it's even before we started

voting and he said the only way i can lose is to fraud so you saw his mindset from the beginning but it is unfortunate that he used it in these actions ok thank you so much for your time your perspective that is hoffmeister there professor of law at the university of dayton. 2 of the news in the u.s. is seen another record jump in new corona virus infections 2 days after the presidential election or the 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before as according to a tally by johns hopkins university an average of 850 people die from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago. a new nationwide lockdown has come into effect in england as it struggles to curb a 2nd wave of corona virus infections prime minister bross johnson says it will be lifted automatically in the next 4 weeks on wednesday night large crowds were seen gathered in london with very little xhosa will distancing the prime minister of

greece's audit and nation wide lockdown due to take effect from saturday care costs a tarkus spoke at a news conference with the government's infectious diseases experts he said the latest measures will be in place of the course of 3 weeks kosovo's president has resigned with immediate effect to face a war crimes trial at the hague. was indicted june by a special tribunal vesta gating the $99899.00 conflict with serbia but she is accused of nearly $100.00 murders when he was a commander of the costs of a liberation army group. the death toll from tropical storm ada has climbed to almost 70 as it pulls away from central america has been flooding and mudslides across nicaragua honduras and guatemala forcing thousands of people from their homes by new apollo has more on one of the fiercest storms to hit the region in 2 decades. emergency workers are carrying out critical rescue missions across

a large portion of central america heavy rains from the remnants of hurricane ada have caused widespread flooding and mudslides the north coast of honduras has been especially hard hit here flooded roads and collapsed bridges have made it difficult for rescuers to reach those stranded by the flood waters but he made out this this is the 1st time something like this happens but everything is flooded over there everything is flooded on tuesday ada slammed into the nicaraguan coast as a powerful category 4 hurricane despite being downgraded to a tropical storm the slow moving system has continued to drop to rental rains across nicaragua honduras and guatemala it's the worst natural disaster to hit this region in more than 20 years on thursday 100 officials issued evacuation orders warning citizens to move quickly as weather conditions continue to worsen what we need is they will not feel this amount of water falling on the mountains gives us the space of 2 hours maybe a little more but let's not give it any longer let's keep 2 hours in mind to be

able to evacuate to protect people's lives. in cities like lemme people waded through flooded streets many desperately seeking help for their families trapped by the rising water. this no no help has arrived with been calling 911 since this morning for them to come for the firefighters to come but no one has shown up. authorities in guatemala say trench will rains and mudslides have already claimed several lives to make matters worse weather forecasters say ada could regain force in the coming days as it now heads on a predicted path toward cuba and the florida peninsula when you add it up a little al-jazeera. the air quality in india's capital city has reached its most toxic level in a year on thursday the concentration of poisonous pm 2.5 particles is 14 times over the safe limits set by the world health organization delhi is the capital with the worst air quality worldwide worsening pollution coupled with the

coronavirus pandemic have raised concerns among the city's population of 20000000. dollars it is getting difficult to breathe because of pollution it is also causing irritation in the now it is like a double edged sword because when i face difficulty in breathing i get afraid if i have got covert 19 the double blow of covert 19 and pollution is making us very nervous so it's not all but the government has to find a permanent solution to pollution because every year such high levels will only add on to our health problems and in hearts pollution related health issues. watching al-jazeera reminder of the top story u.s. democratic.