this and. finding some weakness on al-jazeera. and. this is al-jazeera. well over 11500 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera santa maria welcome to the news hour. our work began to get a program to draw. your president elect joe biden outlines his top priority is he thanks americans for electing him their 46 present. the 1st woman to

win the 2nd highest u.s. office. writes down barriers and highlights sacrifices made by american women the president though donald trump remains defiant showing no signs of conceding we will look at what band could mean for the transition of power. in other news as a by john's president says his military has taken the 2nd largest city in the disputed region of. and in sports tokyo is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the city staged its 1st international competition at a games venue since the infix headspace i spoke to to coronavirus. it is just on 10 am on the u.s. east coast where the next president's promising to restore the soul of the nation while the current president still refusing to concede defeat joe biden has made his 1st address to the nation as president elect. speaking of an end to an era of

demonization and promising to heal america's deep political divide donald trump though threatening legal action in an attempt to overturn the election which was called in biden's favor around 24 hours ago so here is the team this hour alan fischer in washington d.c. . in joe biden's home state of delaware natasha her name is in atlanta georgia we will be with all 3 of you shortly we'll start with this report there from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett on how saturday unfolded. addressing the nation for the 1st time as president elect joe biden spoke to a divided america and appealed for unity. people of this nation have spoken. they delivered us a clear victory we won with the most rooms ever crash from presidential ticket and the 1st to the nation $74.00 america. he promised to be president for

those who voted for him and for the more than 70000000 who did not it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric blur the temperature see each other again missionary trail there again and i made progress we have to stop treating your opponents as our enemies they are not our enemies they're americans. wearing white in honor of the women who a century ago fought for the right for women to vote vice president elect col harris acknowledged her own historic accomplishment. the very soul of america at stake and the world watching you ushered in a new day for america in january harris will become america's 1st female and 1st woman of color to fill the office of vice president but while i may

be the 1st woman in this office i will not be the last. outside the white house and in cities across the united states crowds shunned social distancing restrictions to celebrate biden promises as one of his 1st acts as president he will set up a commission to deal with covert 19. but for now biden supporters packed the streets to mark the historical significance of the moment. the knowledge man of america that i care as a black woman that i matter. speaks volumes to me sends a message people. people voted for him you're hoping for something different. america decided after seeing 4 years of it we don't want a more world leaders have congratulated the president and vice president

a lot 1st on twitter canadian prime minister justin trudeau promised to take on the world's greatest challenges with biden president trump was on the golf course when the election was called for his rival he remains defiant and insists there have been voting irregularities observers were not allowed into the counting rooms i won the election he wrote trumps attorney says the campaign will keep fighting she just about the 700000 votes that president trump was ahead by 2 days ago that disappeared. and we have no way of knowing because we've been deprived of the right to expect that if a single one of those ballots is legitimate can really help get al jazeera the white house or ok let's start with alan fischer at the white house alan i'm thinking of an old tom petty song that's called i won't back down because that seems to be the mood of the president anything further coming out of the big house

behind you. well he's gone to play golf on a beautiful day like this who could blame him he has been tweeting mainly pundits from fox news 1st of all one who said that the whole entire election could be at risk because of some of the alleged your abilities and he said of course they have been problems in the past both in philadelphia and in detroit and retreating words of newt gingrich who were very supportive of the president saying all votes need to occur and we nor there are those in don't trunks orbit who believe a gracious step anywhere at the moment and a concession would help him no end particularly with his legacy and that is reporting which we cannot confirm that gerry. may well approach the president in the next couple of days and suggest he does just that fox news is reporting that the president might consider a handover an appropriate transfer of power under some conditions but of course

it's not up to him it's in the constitution there will be a transfer of power come on january the 20th 2021 when joe biden will become the $46.00 president of the united states that is baked into the constitution it's all tied up in laws and that's how it happens what is interesting is that just in the last hour mitt romney has been interviewed he says he sees no evidence of voter fraud he of course is a republican senator from utah but he also ran years ago against barack obama and lost and gave a concession speech on the night in boston i remember it because i was there and he said that perhaps the world and even the united states would appreciate a graceful concession and a graceful departure well it seems that donald trump is going to go to the courts he said that on saturday when he issued a statement saying that they were going to prosecute their case every possible way they're looking at voter fraud in the 4 states that are really contested at the

moment. he thinks he is the case but there's been no concrete evidence presented to any court at the moment and that's the legal bar that they've got to follow soon might have an idea of taking this all the way to the supreme court but this could fall long before there and of course as a see there's pressure on donald trump no to step away make a concession speech and leave with some grace alan fischer overlooking 1600 pennsylvania avenue where the occupant has gone to the golf course sunday thank you alan and on to delaware and. sunday morning and the bidens heading to church. indeed we're standing outside the church where he attended mass on the morning of those elections where he's expected to arrive in the next half hour or so security services have done a sweep of this surrounding area in preparation for president elect joe biden to arrive here he's expected to join that's mass and then also pay respects to is late

son who is also buried here it was his wish actually that convinced biden to contest these elections and therefore it is something that he will make a point of stopping by and praying for him in the meantime the website for the transitional team which is what we're now referring to president elect's team has been launched it's live build back better it's called build back better build back better results come the idea obviously that they want to essentially reconstruct the things that they believe have been damaged by the trump administration both in terms of social fabric here but also in terms of policy so for example some of the things that biden has promised to do as soon as he takes office on january 20th is to. ring gauge with the world health organization will remember that donald trump withdrew the u.s. his membership from that u.n.

body just a couple few weeks ago to resign the powers climate's treaty and also to reverse the muslim ban that was the ban on people seeking to come to the united states from for the monthly muslim countries before that's come out they are trying to set up a new strategy to tackle covert obviously he will be able to implement this by then he won't be able to meets with officials within the governments because he's still president elect but he will be coming together with experts to try and find a science based approach to dealing with this pandemic ok jamal shells in delaware do give us a shout jamal if you do see the bidens arriving there at church we'll come back to you finally down to atlanta georgia and here is natasha going because this week to get in touch with the vote count actually goes on. it does go on and we're told it's unclear how many ballots are left to be counted but that. now bitin is leading in the state by about 10200

votes and you can see some people are still holding out hope for trop i don't know if you heard that driver say go tromp it should give you though a sense how there are still a lot of trump supporters in the state of georgia 200 gathered at the capitol here in atlanta on sad saturday chanting the gates of hell 'd will dot prevail many of those supporters believe that the election has been stolen from trump others say that biden is not the president not until all the votes are counted one other protesters said if in fact that biden is a dog rated come january that he expects trump supporters to continue to rally along the periphery of that rally about 20 counter protesters showed up they were armed it's a reminder of the antagonism and rank or that still exists not only in the state of

georgia but in this divided country but right now the attention in georgia will move to january 5th that is because this state is going to have a runoff for its 2 senate seats so grassroots organizations are hoping to mobilize 30 to 40000 new voters here in georgia to get to the polls they hope they can get these people to help flip these senate seats from republican to democrat and of course what's at stake here is control of the government if in the unlikely event as political analysts say democrats actually flip these 2 seats in georgia the democrats could have complete control over the government and biden would have a very clear mandate. very very important stuff coming up in as you said jan you're natasha thank you natasha the name in atlanta georgia so just to go back to what president elect biden was saying earlier in this his number one priority dealing

with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact the u.s. is the worst affected country with more than 237000 are working to get through getting covert under control we can only purge the economy restore our vitality a relation lives most precious how good our grandchildren are jordan our birthdays wedding graduation all the moments that matter most to us until we get it under control on. monday i want name a group of ladies scientists an expert as transition advisor. the bright hair is colored pravin converter you know an actual blueprint that will start on january the 20th 2021 what we've heard from the head of the world health organization in a tweet which was congratulating joe biden here is my colleagues and i look forward to working with you and your teams to address crises like the pandemic show the

importance of global solidarity in protecting lives and livelihoods together i think the key would there at the end all scowling with us now chief program officer at the national association of county and city health officials on scott from new york nice to see you also i think that was the very pointed word from dr together because everything donald trump has done or said to do with the show has been very much a part. thank you very much and one thing we say in public health it is a team sport and for us it's never about the individual but more so how do we come together in a community and really strengthen and provide that support that we can least ensure our communities come out of this with a straight for perspective and a more optimal you know lens on life so joe biden is going to set up his own coronavirus taskforce they'll be 12 people on the panel lots of speculation about that we'll talk to found to be involved i'm just interested your thoughts on how

whoever those 12 people can operate because they are not working with the president they are working with the next president it does it all sort of happen in the background or given the way that donald trump a straight at the coronavirus do they just say you know what we're all in with you mr president elect yet so is the interesting thing about american society in this specially the role of transitions most public health jurisdictions and organizations do attempt when there is a transition of power to engage both parties both prior to or who have the candidates i may shake prior to the elections and of course throughout the transition period and they provide at least that context of recognizing that there are certain limits that are and are going to be you know actionable but still provide that degree of transparency in identifying what are some of those steps and what are those key critical stakeholders and policy initiatives that can be driven now hopefully there is a there's a warm handshake in between being argument straight and out of the hand over of the

next but it's very vital to important it is not about you know part of the ship but more so what can we do to improve the health and safety of our american population do you think the biden plan to tackle coronavirus can make a difference obvious specifics in there which could really put a dent in the number of new infections in the united states or actually does it just come down to a case of well doing something is better than doing nothing. well i think a couple things that are important in the plan that speaks to better rollout of testing and more specifically about ensuring that it's not just about taxing about men that are separable distribution so my organization for example represents a 3000 county city health department squaw's country and i'll be honest the workforce issues are tantamount to great concern because several of our members have been doing this for 9 or so months and the reality is that there's a significant stress on that workforce there's a lack of funding even though there's been cares that here is not dollars just the

the the bureaucracy respect to getting funded to those who are on the ground has been important so it will be very essential that this new task force does look at the larger picture and ensure that they are right at what it will stakeholders at the table and that there is this kind of camaraderie i should say in ensuring that we at least address in those significant deficiencies those critical meets not just vaccines but the crew cabin measures and how to really build back a base in public that in a that is anything out one of our biggest concerns and no one is going to listen to you if they don't have to pay for and trust in what you're saying ok a lot to look forward to then isn't there a line joining us from new york thank you thank you. our coverage continues in a moment when we'll look at the united states on the international stage and how that might change under a new president's also with no concession from don't trump what exactly could

happen next it would be uncharted territory for the so-called peaceful transfer of power and later on we'll have sport with the with the reigning english premier league champions are getting ready to take on one of their main title rivals that's coming up at about 10 to the hour. so yes the selection of joe biden could mark a shift in u.s. foreign policy governments across the middle east and beyond reevaluating their relations with the world's superpower we're going to be talking to our diplomatic editor james bass at the u.n. about that shortly also we've got natasha butler in paris to look through some reaction from europe where biden's win could also alter relations with nato the secretary general stoltenberg is hailing biden as a strong supporter of the transatlantic relationship which well it got a little strained under the trumpet ministration i can 2017 donald trump actually called it obsolete and went on to accuse members of not paying their fair share for

us protection he later caused further friction with berlin announcing he was reducing u.s. troop numbers in germany because of its quote delinquent contribution to nato but it is a relationship european leaders seem to get to repair in her congratulating measures joe biden the e.u. commission president us live on today and said as the world continues to change a new challenges and opportunities appear our renewed partnership will be of particular importance so let's start with natasha in paris for more on this one i mean it just must be a huge sigh of relief from european leaders that they will have someone who basically isn't going after them all the time. yes i think for leaders on the whole they are extremely pleased with joe biden as the next president of the united states has to be said the relations between the european union and the u.s.

have been particularly strained over the past few years i mean i think that several e.u. leaders will be now looking to joe biden to restart a more multilateral approach to foreign policy after years of donald trump's america 1st policy and his unilateral approach we saw for example pulling the u.s. out of the paris climate deal out of the iran deal the j c.p.o. way both dossiers that a very close to the hearts of many leaders have worked very hard to achieve them so i think the e.u. leaders will be certainly celebrating that's what we heard from many of them the french presence a man or mike role saying congratulations to biden and harrison that he looks forward to working closely with them on some of the big pressing challenges of the day the spanish and italian premiers doing the same the german chancellor talking about the irreplaceable relationship that there is between germany and the united

states in the foreign minister of germany perhaps in a way summing it up because he said that he is looking forward to a reach set a new deal if you like between the u.s. and germany but it almost could be seen as a new deal between the u.s. and e.u. and what he's talking about is a new type of transatlantic relationship wiping away if you like some of the past 4 years and having a relationship in which the u.s. acts more predictably is a more reliable partner has to be said though of course not all your leaders would feel the same because we have some leaders leaders of poland for example hungary venia who had openly supported donald trump. that is there in paris the view from europe thank you now over to new york james bay that diplomatic editor hi james there are. so many countries so many issues i could go through with you maybe want to go through some of them but i think you're iran is maybe a good starting point well iran certainly is one of the

priorities for this new administration generally the 20th the biden administration as it will be has said it will go back into the iran nuclear deal that might well be easier said than done now iran probably will want some concessions from the u.s. after 4 years of donald trump and although i think we're going to see all around the world countries seeing the u.s. is moving to a more traditional u.s. policy u.s. leadership in the world a more traditional type of president i don't think the 4 years of president trump are going to be forgotten and i think it's going to be in everyone's mind because going forward in 4 more years you could have don't trump back in the white house you could run again or you could have another champion can do that so i'm not sure entirely that it's business as usual as it has been since the founding of the

united nations at the end of world war 2 with the international order which very much had the u.s. in a global leadership role yes europe and others will like to see the u.s. back in that role but i'm not sure they're going to be able to rely on them the same way they have in the past good stuff james by that diplomatic editor at the united nations in new york. i want to talk about the peaceful transfer of power now because that is the whole mark of american democracy that now joe biden has won the election what if as it is at the moment donald trump refuses to accept defeat well this transfer of power has actually begun with a he likes it or not the biden harris transition team jamal was telling us about it before now in the process of filling 4000 rolls throughout the government as they prepare to take the reins after each state certifies its results electors then meet in december to cast their votes for president and vice president that's the the $538.00 people the results will then be certified by the new congress that happens

january 6th and then according to tradition donald trump would be expected to attend the inauguration ceremony at the u.s. capitol on january 20th when joe biden will be sworn in as president come to harris as vice presidents but trump's lawyers were somehow able to vacate the election will delay its results beyond that date the line of succession would be triggered you'd have the speaker of the house nancy pelosi who would actually become the president instead we're told brooks is the dean professor of law and government at their own law school in the u.k. you explains now what the next few months will look like in the lead up to a bind and administration. what's going to happen now is that biden will be certified as the president elect he. normally recounts can can lead to some variation in the numbers but but nothing close to the many tens of thousands across multiple states that that trump trump would need so the chance of

winning on recounts is nil and the in the legal challenges amount to nothing at all they've already been $11.00 courts i think it was constantly threw it out just a matter of hearsay and guessing and no new evidence or facts so i think that you know it's just a matter of time but will the president elect's and we'll be getting all this transition one of the main things of the transition will be back out that will be about appointing a number of people that had various agencies the united states the the head of all the different different departments are presidential appointees so he will be expected to be making about a 70 appointments for the next next week or so there might be $300.00 they think maybe by the end of the year he'll be coming on with this to getting support from the civil servants as he already has here in kemah harris the virtually vice

president elect now they've both been getting advice and sports and they'll be getting on with that they will see a lot of people expect from from biden's political career people who've been close to him but also people who are part of the obama administration. we're not done with the u.s. election on this news hour more reaction coming up to joe biden's when including why some world leaders are actually choosing not to congratulate the u.s. president. and the rest of the day's news too why millions and me and mine been denied the right to vote in the country's general election and your sports news christiana renaldo on target for you fantasize that and to close the gap on the italian league. hello we've got some wet weather in the forecast for the middle east is something

of a north south split you can see plenty of cloud across northern parts of the region and that cloud sinking is way down across iran northern areas of saudi arabia and there you go you can see some showers there through syria pushing across iraq more than possible saudi arabia south of that it is generally dry 32 celsius here in doha on monday. it'll kill me to go on into a cheese day but asked so he could be pleasant enough for bray starting to pick up a little but it won't be too bad the showers they continue to the north of that maybe seeing some wet weather also creeping into iran little drier than it has been recently across the eastern side of the mediterranean well listen what a weather not too far away from here to also want to show is to rally southern and all of the red sea western policy of yemen could see some showers and the showers continue unabated across central and southern parts of somalia or aud across central africa into the gulf of guinea more of those showers to just started to create further south once again it's in more than possible angle a bang got a not quite as wet as it should be at this time of the year some heavy showers

started to push their way back into tanzania as we go on through tuesday it's really heavy right across the eastern side of south africa but fine to the west. rewind returns with updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentary. the moving story of 2 young tuchman girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after views oppressive taliban occupation. but what has become of their dreams. rewind pencils and bullets. on al-jazeera. my name is not to cross i grew up jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation when politics can pass and my mom saw me at a protest in chicago carrying

a palestinian flag she told me i was no longer her son is it possible to be jewish i'm critical of zionism. i do palestinian solidarity work think it's the most jewish thing i can do what about the treatment towards the palestinians and the occupation i got him out easy in a correspondent. war room. on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories joe biden's delivered a message of hope and unity after declaring victory in the u.s. presidential election vice president elect is making history as well the 1st woman in a mine and mine are she to hold the job president donald trump meanwhile was playing golf when biden was declared the winner of the election is still not conceded and

says he'll go to the courts to make sure election laws are upheld and congratulations and messages of support have been sent to biden and harris by leaders so around the world countries like the u.k. india and culture of all expressed a willingness to work together to develop closer ties with the united states. european leaders as well congratulating the new president elect joe biden and council house as well as we were discussing with natasha relations between the e.u. and us really became strained on the donald trump's presidency tensions rose of issues like climate change and the coronavirus pandemic and as we heard earlier they've been disagreements over nato as well which trump threatened to withdraw from very pleased to welcome thomas hendrik ilves to the news are he was a stern u.s. president from 2006 until 2016 thank you for your time mr president talked through some of the well i was going to say issues with europe but maybe they won't be any

will maybe at least european leaders can just take a breath and think well we're not going to have to fight the united states any longer. well certainly they. both the nato and the european union front. many people really. believe when it comes to nato there has been a constant fear for the past 4 years given trump's behavior and his rhetoric that. he could weaken nato it went to the point where john bolton his former national security advisor in his book a memoirs suggested that trump would leave nato and in his 2nd term and of course on the european union side there was. never much a love for the e.u. or force individual member states in the hostility and rudeness toward uncle

america it was was probably the most prominent. in general the attitude of the administration towards the e.u. was extremely hostile recall that the. the trump's ambassador to the european union mr song. became famous for his shenanigans in ukraine and actually started his posting by telling a senior you infest officials that he was sent there to fulfill his job of destroying the e.u. so this when you have the 2 main. bodies in europe. that administration is hostile to why with the same time fostering very warm relations from say to putin. authoritarian leaders. was especially troubling do you think that nato

and or europe were weekend asshole by these last 4 years or were those latest willing to sit it out white until this point where donald trump could have been replaced and now will be or even just sort of sat there and thought well donald trump says a lot of stuff and doesn't necessarily follow through on it. the latter was probably not true because he was not known for his. in his an administration for his. wealth for his rational decision making and could make. all kinds of unexpected moves i think the attitude in europe was primarily one of hoping nothing bad really bad would happen until the election or rather let's let's hope that we can write it out for one term

but which is i guess exemplified by the lack of any real significant steps taken by the european union to increase their autonomy of course we know that. that in mind on the cross on the president of france did say some things but in general the attitude seems to be let's write this out and if he comes back then we will have to take some serious steps. on our own part. can i ask you something specific about is stony it's my understanding that is stony is one of very few countries where voting is done online now with all the fuss over voting and mail in ballots and now possible legal challenges to all of this can you tell us about your experiences in the stonier and if there is anything the united states or any other country in fact could learn from that. well it works and it works extremely well.

primarily because we use and echoes the ecological system as it were to vote there's italy here if you so desire it's not obligatory but going to that you use all the time anyway and but it's so we know it secures and all of your banking is then over. everything else that you can do in a stony and basically there are only 3 services you can't perform on line of those getting married getting divorce or selling buying and selling property real property but but it requires requires that everyone have an identity card or at least a chip based identity that requires a population registry these are things that are. i don't see ever happening in the united states so other countries in fact caton i mean

in the european union in every government is as is obligated to offer citizens a visual identity with which to perform the same kind of tasks and we have here but it's not really in most governments and not really perceived it along that path to the extent that we have been the ones that have done it are mainly sort of in the nordic countries all right so not something for the united states but interesting to learn about that thomas and the former president of a study of thank you for joining us we really do appreciate it thank you. let's move on to other news and an escalation in the conflict between us by john and mania azerbaijan's president ilham aliyev says his troops are now in control of show one of the most important cities in the fight in the disputed region of not going to cut about what makes capturing sure show such a big prize is that it has long played a pivotal role in the ongoing to go in

a kind of conflict it overlooks the regional capital step on a carrot and it's from there that azerbaijan shelled in the city in the 1st nagorno-karabakh war it also sits on the main highway connecting media to step on it i mean his capture of the town in 1902 was a turning point in the conflict and has been celebrated by armenians have a sense where are our correspondents on both sides of the story will be with hoda abdel-hamid and yet of on armenia in a moment starting there with a sama bin laden update from us in baku azerbaijan. but come on it's now coming up to about 7 hours since the other by johnny president announced that his forces have taken that. city of shushan ever since then it's like a street party here in the capital but almost everyone has come out despite the destruction than we can show you that how people live being celebrating coming out with their

families they being lied chanting slogans and saying that they are very confident that this is a conflict a long being in the making is now tilting in their favor they see that their forces have been able to take back the city and maybe if that's a precursor to their forces taking the rest of the disputed region of the goal of power about although did have been some claim from the armenian side that this is not the case but that does not seem to be taken into account in the other bike on top of most people you speak spoken to. standing behind their president. agree with him that this is the solution that will come from the back. since 1980 negotiations have failed to yield any results but we've also spoken to the foreign ministry spokeswoman who told us that the negotiation door is going to go up and they want the armenian side to come to the negotiating table but again the county that they

have to withdraw from the conflicted region according to united nations resolutions but they're not. party in by johnny cash. and. because it is. the city but people here forgotten about that at least one day and they think. ok asama been thank you for that from barker celebrations and as opposed to what's it like in yet a van and i mean in. a completely different mood now the message that's coming out from the authorities here is facing it's not over until it's over we heard from the ministry of defense here in europe on social media. that there was an ongoing fighting in and around as they call it and here in armenia we also heard along the same

lines from the many minister of defense of the. self-proclaimed republic or care about and i think you know for armenians it. is very important to say that it's also it's also a symbol from their side it is a town that they would like to keep now this is the reality is that many here know that at the moment at least militarily and has the upper hand and we have seen earlier in the day also. many reports from journalists who where instapundit which is the capital. where these journalists were saying that they had been told to leave the town they had to be evacuated because of the intensity of the shelling is defined by kate and they sort of this pride as something as the forces being getting closer and closer to the

city now did if it is the distance between. is about 10 kilometers we also so on social media about large numbers of civilians fleeing to panic and it's not clear for us whether they were told by the authorities to leave or because they felt the intensity of the shelling they left by the or and of course by certainly you do get the full picture there that it is a very difficult situation for i mean you know authorities are saying that she is not lost yet but you do get a sense that there is panic over there and certainly the fact that the civilians left in such large numbers does show point to the fact that the fight is becoming very difficult with the latest from i mean you're joining us from thank you. let us just bring you a few pictures just from a few moments ago whilst we were speaking to salma the biden family arriving at

church in wilmington delaware at about 10 30 in the morning this is from al jazeera camera outside the church there the bivens heading to church a quiet start for their day. ahead of some very very busy weeks and months coming up ahead now that the transition team is officially underway so those pictures just in from wilmington we talked about all the congratulations for joe biden in common harris one major player on the global stage who hasn't said anything yet as china's leadership jinping is katrina a year in shanghai with more on what to expect from china u.s. ties once biden takes charge. we may not hear from them until we have an official election result from the u.s. in joe biden staver but certainly there will be many people in beijing who are breathing some side of relief the past 4 years of the tremendous ration have been

really tough on the chinese government we've had the initiation of the trade war and those tariffs that just had those very tough technology restrictions that have put a lot of pressure on the chinese economy and of course this year especially we've had attack after attack from the trump administration on everything from carpet 19 to the treatment we use and shin john in hong kong's national security law and all of this has really brought the u.s. china relationship to the lowest point that we've seen in decades so many of us seeing biden presidency as a chance to reset the relationship between the u.s. and china they're expecting war a return to a more conventional style of diplomacy a less confrontational less unpredictable croce and also the opportunity for china in the u.s. to potentially going forward to collaborate on issues such as the environment and climate change with beijing and biden do seem to see eye to eye that being said that doesn't mean that beijing is likely to celebrate this indeed during my and it

is likely to present more challenges to china. in the sense that he is expressing interest in strengthening ties with european allies for example they may build a bloc and use that bloc to pressure china to take some actions regards to the economy regards to trade so that could be a real big challenge for beijing going forward. now africa where leaders of welcomed joe biden's election when many expressing hope that his presidency will boost times between the continent and the united states south africa's president cyril ramaphosa tweeted he looks forward to working with biden and deepening the bonds of friendship and cooperation condemned police brutality and discrimination towards black people in the u.s. nigeria's president $100.00 bihari praised biden for his track career track record adding his election is a reminder that democracy is the best form of governance we've also heard from zimbabwe's leader amazon who offered congratulations and said he hopes to increase cooperation between the 2 nations remember zimbabwe facing u.s. and e.u.

sanctions over rights abuses in a regular elections themselves is more from how to answer in harare. and the general sentiment in africa was that donald trump never made africa a priority he never personally travel to any sub-saharan africa he proposed troops pulling out from with african east africa u.s. troops that are working with those countries to defeat boko haram and al shabaab which would have been a blow to the war on terror and he even proposed cutting some aid to africa the relationship between africa and americas normally that of trade aid in terms of aid america has given billions of dollars in aid to africa long before trump was even president and even it's helped in things like buying food giving aid to countries in need and also creating the health care system by helping africa fight hiv aids in terms of trade i mean every country has its own trade agreement with america but the ishi africans had is that many thought that these trade agreements tend to

favor americans and leaders in this region have been trying to lobby or push america to remove sanctions imposed on zimbabwe back in 2001 these were placed on zimbabwe for alleged human rights abuses after the land reform program when farmers was from commercial white farmers to the region has been trying to say to american government that these sanctions that you say are targeted end up hurting the zimbabwean economy and hurting poor zimbabweans in general which actually has a ripple effect on the rest of the region so is joe biden going to be any different some are hopeful they hope that he's going to support the continental free trade agreement in africa they also hope that he is going to endorse africa's candidate to be director general of the world trade organization but some say listen at the end the day joe biden is the president of the united states of america his interest his priority will be putting america's interests 1st. mexico's president meanwhile

under arrest manuel lopez obrador says he won't congratulate any winner until legal challenges are over seemingly attempting to avoid friction with washington during the transition period other regional leaders across latin america are sending their messages of congratulations to the president is that a latin america editor at the scene human has more while latin american leaders may not have said so publicly most all along had been rude to include joe biden he begins from a concept which is very crucial to latino mediums is that instead of putting wars or building walls you have to work for the relevant. you know them because of cooperation and support. but there's an exception brazil's president jabe also noddle who's often described as the tropical trump vidas recent comments about deforestation of the amazon rain forest outraged also noddle who said publicly he

was cheering for donald trump. venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro on the other hand is hoping biden will consider reversing crippling u.s. economic sanctions. a new consciousness is rising in the united states of america in its youth and its people they no longer want to appear list wars they no longer want threats and alluding to. sources to al-jazeera the bidens regional aides are rethinking continued support for venezuela's opposition leader why they all as interim president reportedly described by one aide as a quote lost cause joe biden has visited latin america 26 times so he's certainly no stranger to this region for starters he's promised $14000000000.00 to central american countries to reduce poverty and violence as a way of tackling the immigration crisis

a very different approach from donald trump's. meanwhile many are commenting just how the latin american president trumps electoral challenges are sounding that then he got has had those sort of strong men who decided that they would vote for him or would change the results of elections because they wanted. that merica isn't likely to become a top priority for the next u.s. administration with perhaps the exception of the immigration issue but after 4 years of being largely ignored there's the expectation that it will again be on the radar you see a new an al jazeera sent the adul. we're going to keep talking elections me in ma this time with the polls of closed in the general election the 2nd since the end of direct military rule the national league for democracy led by anger is expected to win a 2nd term but with a smaller margin than 5 years ago or from florence 3. this is what voting looks

like during a pandemic mosques and physical distancing despite a surge in corona virus cases across myanmar voters were eager with some arriving even before polling stations had opened every movement even though the coverage 19 operate seems really bad right now i have made up my mind that i must vote in this election all my family members have voted to the national league for democracy led by aung san suu kyi is widely expected to win a 2nd term while her international reputation has suffered because of her failure to speak up for the rangar after they were targeted in a violent military crackdown in 2017 she remains hugely popular at home but the n o d is margin of victory is expected to be smaller this time economic growth has fallen short of expectations and ethnic conflicts persist in the country. the polls have been described as fundamentally flawed by rights group human rights watch more than

one and a half 1000000 people mostly ethnic minorities want to be able to vote voting has been cancelled in more than 50 townships in areas the election commission says are troubled by unrest some ethnic political parties have accused the election commission of trying to block votes in constituencies dominated by ethnic parties most of the ruling the minority are also excluded having been stripped of their citizenship and rights throughout the years. and whichever party wins they'll have to share power with the military which is guaranteed 25 percent of the seats in parliament enough to block constitutional changes but despite the challenges protests optimistic by louisiana. i think this election is very important and everyone who is already 18 should vote because one vote can change the result so everyone should vote regardless of which party they support the n l d s main opponent in this election as it was in the last is the military backed

union solidarity and development party florence li al jazeera and he's got your sports news in a moment looking at tokyo testing its ability to host a safe olympic games next year. do you feel validated in south way is a type of performative activism. let's go back to specifically you calling donald trump a white supremacist the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide join me richelle carey is up with the question so my special guest and challenge them to break talking political debate. front is on al-jazeera. a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt well in the case of. receive.

the worst truth or lies fact or fiction most of the documents are for people fighting against you on the al-jazeera world tells the story of a man of many secrets i shopped my one for the super spy on al-jazeera. wus warm. comfortable sports fans with andy thank you so much come our events a sieve drop points in our pursuit of its honey league ladies ac milan the 9 time defending champions healthy a $11.00 draw bilat c.e.o. chris arnold ahead given events an early lead in round valley so 6 gold in fort lee

games could have added to that title and made the game safe as dominates the action instead of going strike a flip i say i scored an equaliser here in the 95th minute event 3rd in the table 3 points adrift of no anthem now. a reigning premier league champions of the poor parents take on one of their faces title rivals liverpool away at manchester city kick off less than an hour away now a win will see lupul regain top spot in the table city but a mix starts the season i go into this game down in 12th each season completely surprisingly starts at nil so and we all have the same chance and it's about what what what what how go you through the difficult parts of the season how can you fight together as a team as a group how can you know how lucky i am with injuries and all those kind of things of for me it's that these 2 horse race thing was never a phrase i not only didn't use i didn't even think. the tokyo has been hosting its

1st international events at certain olympic venue since the games were postponed in march due to coronavirus. police gymnastics events had a reduced capacity for fans while foreign athletes arriving for the competition were required to test negative for corona virus within 72 hours of their arrival in the country. we're going to go there and thank the president thomas bacchus said this event is an example of how a sports event can happen safely despite the pandemic the games themselves organizers will be dealing with $15000.00 athletes as well as thousands of officials and media the delays spent cost spirally games already costing more than $12000000000.00 and this delay will add $2.00 to $3000000000.00 more to that title and fans from abroad are worried they won't even be allowed in such a pan the asian nation still has

a ban on visitors from more than 150 countries but earlier on we spoke to the live export right to stuart where he's expecting a diluted version of the games to go ahead next year i think as a group well. we hollered bar we. last month who broke. with him there are many reasons to be optimistic i really can't. get you couldn't very well go for on the show but there were real world would be worth. we were not all that we were going to get one or norland. or if you are. barking hope that off but mother might have thing of our needs i'm here consuming work will be over soon so i think we'll learn fact we aren't without. easy

fast results testing it isn't feasible but again i wonder if they will 5 would use the numbers so that you don't have this 50000 people living a sort of image nice and normal and it's probably not possible and then there's the whole question of whether we like niggers i mean the good news is that this weekend there were the mastic of them in pa where does the suspect. but you know in the midst of i still feel for no other forces can be operating without any like it as a whole and can you do it on the big without by curtis and then to all it sounds like dylan because it isn't and i'd be thinking. i would say richest days in horse racing have just concluded with the breeders cup classic is the last big race of the year in north america it was won by authentic you should come just the full force in history to claim the kentucky derby and the classic in the same season

$6000000.00 for the win is ok thank you mr richardson and we're back in just a couple of minutes time the latest news and updates on the presidential election in about. the latest news as it breaks it was never my found out loud which choice chileans would make but now it's official the chileans will be writing a new constitution details coverage through 14 and 15 year old students amongst those facing charges for prosecutors call complicity in

a terrorist assassination in-depth reports from around the world and while it was the biggest gathering in months the numbers are not what they used to be last year . in part 2 of especially best a geisha one o one east visits western australia's only youth detention center and travels to the remote outback towns when many of the indigenous inmates come from. 0. 1 counting the cost the end of austerity the ideology decimation of the weakest of society for the economic mismanagement of the rich and powerful to be consigned to history and the russian german gas pipeline opposed by washington and european capitals. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. our work to get through getting covert under control. this president elect joe biden outlines his top priority as he thinks americans for electing their 46 presidents. are going to come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the 1st woman to win the 2nd highest u.s.

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