the wound needs w.-h. and making healthy a wound. is really. the end of the at. the moment of reflection the church for us president elect joe biden as a long time political adversary joins those congratulating him. but donald trump and don another day on the golf course are still refusing to concede defeat citing legal challenges and recounts. hello i money this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. as very celebrate after their government announced the capture of

a major city in the disputed region where it's fighting with armenia. heading home after a year in exile former president evo morales is on his way to believe yeah after his process wins elections. u.s. president elect joe biden is moving forward with transition plans as a growing list of high profile figures at home and abroad congratulate him he visited a church cemetery where family members including his late son are buried topping his priorities that 19 as infections continue to spike. donald trump who's been golfing outside washington is refusing to concede defeat tweeting about legal challenges and recounts insists without evidence that the election was fraudulent but fellow republican and former president george w.

bush says the vote was fair and its outcome clear he's congratulated joe biden as have israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and saudi arabia's rula let's go straight to our white house correspondent kelly hulk it so biden's team already pushing forward with their plans for when he takes over office. absolutely hundreds of advisors have been working carefully for months to implement joe biden's agenda when he becomes president they say that they will be working with agency officials between now and inauguration day they will be doing a number of things but most dramatically will be on day one they say they will be undoing the trumpet ministrations policies now what does this mean well this could mean rejoining the paris climate of core this could also mean rejoining the world health organization and even taking apart that travel ban that exists for some

muslim majority countries but most significantly will be joe biden's plan to tackle covert 19 in fact as the projected president elect he says that on monday he will be putting together a task force to deal with the pandemic and to try and reduce the number of deaths that have been occurring in the united states but also the infections but there is one important point to note about joe biden's agenda and that is the control of the u.s. senate and that's why he may be turning to executive orders as his predecessors have and that's because currently it is controlled by republicans but of course there is a runoff election in the u.s. state of georgia that could change all of that that's why democrats are working very hard in that runoff election because it will really be critical to joe biden if he is ultimately the president as is the projected case that in fact he will

be able to carry out his agenda with the senate in tow meanwhile donald trump still insisting that there was a lot wrong with the selection. yeah and that's why we haven't had a concession from the u.s. president and so far no indications that's going to happen now we've just learned the president once again does not have anything on his public schedule so we can only presume that he is going to keep his word to launch a series of legal challenges on monday across a number of states in fact ready gotten a window into what some of these challenges will look like in terms of voter irregularity of u.s. state of nevada of the campaign had a press conference earlier where they allege that this is not a final result for the election because they say that there has been widespread voter irregularity they say they have a number of cases that they will be presenting in court that include people mailing in ballots when people have moved or they were dead now the critics would argue

that this is not enough to change the outcome of the election still there is a significant defense within the republican party by some of the more trumpy and republican party members who say that it's important to allow this to move forward lindsey graham ted cruz in the u.s. senate saying this and even the 1st lady who normally doesn't wade into controversy she's lending her voice saying that she believes that there must be to protect our democracy complete transparency so as of now no plans by donald trump to concede even as joe biden is pressing ahead with his transition committee a white house correspondent many thanks. has more a former u.s. president george w. bush's notes of congratulations which he posted on instagram he thanked spies and for the patriotic message that he delivered on saturday night adding that he also calls coming to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency he

went on to say though we have political differences i know joe biden to be a good man was one his open to see to lead and unify our country and i offered him the same thing on all the presidents trump and obama my prayers for his success and my pledge to help another republican senator mitt romney romney believes trump will accept the result if his legal challenges fail but he cautioned trump in the language that he's been using i think one has to be careful in the choice of words i think i think would you say that the election was corrupt or stolen or rigged but that's unfortunately rather rhetoric that gets picked up by authoritarians around the world and i think it also discourages confidence in our democratic process here at home and and with the battle going on right now between authoritarianism and freedom why i think i think it's very important that we not use language which which can encourage. a course in history which would be very very unfortunate

saudi arabia's king solomon and then crown prince mohammed bin solomon have joined world leaders congratulating biden uncommon horris they were among the last gulf latest to do so ties between riyadh and washington have been exceptionally close on the trump who chose riyadh as his 1st overseas destination as president palestinian president mahmoud abbas pictured here with biden back in 2016 says he looks forward to working with the new administration abbas has refused to deal with the white house since traumas decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital and move the u.s. embassy that. and benjamin netanyahu in his message to biden also paid tribute to donald trump. schmoo who some call it the things known for myself and for all citizens of the state of israel i again thank president trump for the great friendship shown to the state of israel and to me personally i congratulate him for recognizing giving slim under golan for standing up to run for the historic peace

accords and for bringing the american israeli alliance to unprecedented heights thank you president trump perry for that is in west jerusalem and he says nessa yahoo has a delicate balancing act after getting so close to trump he has to try and find a way to define himself a new not just to the new president of the united states next year but also to his own electorate because he has branded himself here as the one israeli statesman who could've secured the kind of concessions that he's got from the united states from his incredibly friendly relationship with donald trump and he's had some criticism for that for splintering bipartisanship in the united states between republicans and democrats when it comes to israel as well as a lot of credit as well 70 percent or service really is when polled said that they would see a donald trump presidency continuing as being best for israel as far as the

palestinians are concerned well this really does put in deep question if not totally dispensing with the idea of the trump peace plan and any imminent at least u.s. approved israeli an extension of the occupied west bank so there are many palestinian leadership figures who are very relieved and expressing that relief publicly and the world health organization boss has tweeted saying that he and his colleagues look forward to working with the president elect has pledged to rejoin the w.h.o. off to trump with your. ted rall scary yes went on to say that crises like the pandemic show the importance of global solidarity in protecting lives and livelihoods together us has seen 4 straight days of new coronavirus infection records more than 126000 cases and about a 1000 deaths were reported on saturday and it's 230000 people are known to have

died from cove and 19 in the u.s. as total infection count is now nearing 10000000. brunell's looks at how biden will tackle coronavirus and other pressing problems when he deals with what's likely to be a divided congress. once the celebrations by joe biden and kumble harris's supporters have faded the enormity of the task facing the president elect and his deputy looms ahead and i'm humbled by the trust and confidence you placed in me. biden has pointed to the covert done teen pandemic now rampaging virtually unchecked throughout the country as his most urgent priority our work to get through getting covered under control by the time he takes the oath of office the situation may be far worse than it is now there are several months between now and when biden actually takes control if the current administration doesn't do an

about face we will see much more misery much more unnecessary death infectious disease specialists say biden must work hard to convince the millions of people swayed by trump's rejection of science and math squaring to change their behavior use together the right people around him. which i know he will do he needs to get rid of those individuals who have invoicing nonscientific and unsound. bad advice some things will be relatively easy for biden to accomplish by executive action rejoining the paris climate accords reinstating environmental protection rules eliminated under trump and reversing the so-called muslim ban but if the senate stays under republican control biden may be forced to compromise on vital matters like the size of an economic stimulus and relief legislation even more

difficult to get through the senate will be biden's plans to increase taxes on high earners extend health care insurance to more americans and overhaul immigration laws we know one thing about president elect biden it's that he's somebody who has that instead of getting things done reaching across the aisle especially in a place like the senate and i think that's going to be exactly the set of attributes be so important to getting anything done at all it's an old cliche to say after an election victory now comes the hard part but for joe biden and campbell harris the path ahead is as steep and as difficult as that of any incoming administration in u.s. history rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. coming up often and whether we look at what's happening with the u.s. election no seats mellen votes and possible recounts. and the crown jewel of korea's tourist sites reopens often many 8 months of place then.

how is that the weather is largely set fire across a good part of asia but not exclusively got some wetter weather now making its way across japan some showers there on show a breeze through the sea of japan feeding those showers to that western side of honshu into kotto as well as some of the showers will be wintry in nature temperatures will struggle a little it's going to feel a little fresher than it has done recently seen celsius there in tokyo it's 12 but choose day at least in so light winds it won't feel too bad we're into the mid to high teens across the central and northern parts of china want to show it to the south of that towards taiwan and then we get into the real weather action where we've got

a couple of tropical systems in the process of developing tropical storm or depression that saddam has now weakened the final warning has been issued for that so not too much of an ac but we're still feeling a fair amount of shabby rain towards the coast of vietnam another system punching its way through the philippines feta some very heavy rain to wardes central and southern parts of vietnam as we go on through tuesday and then on the other side of the philippines here we go again another developing feature which will feed some very heavy right into those flood hit parts of the philippines as we go on through the way elsewhere across the region is the usual case of sunshine and chalice. frank assessments if other can public opinion pieces betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be the different cultures and if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion lucas and his dog anyway the protesters aren't going anywhere

either it's ability of the revolution people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines that's really out there on the screen inside story on al-jazeera. the in the end. he watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his administration's 4 big priorities including the coronavirus pandemic vice president elect the pushing ahead with transition it's the donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the counts. meanwhile more world leaders are

congratulating joe biden and come harris israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and saudi arabia's rulers are a moment. here are some of the legal maneuvering by trump his campaign and their lawyers their recount requests will include wisconsin one of the states joe biden flipped from republican to democratic and possibly georgia where joe biden is just narrowly ahead they're also fighting various lawsuits in other battleground states such as pennsylvania nevada and arizona their main allegations are that mail in ballots which lean towards biden have been subject to widespread fraud and that republican campaign observers weren't given sufficient access to vote counting centers so far little or no evidence has been provided to support these claims. let's get more on this we're joined by. who is in newark new jersey she's

a professor of law at rutgers university and directs the center for security race and writes many thanks for speaking to us and al-jazeera. so the president still very much cursing forward these legal challenges in a number of states in a number of lawsuits have already been dismissed do you think any of these legal cases have merit. very few of them do any even if he were to succeed it's not going to change the outcome so most of his challengers are alleging that either ballots should be counted after the elections when in fact the law does provide for that in these particular states or that some ballots were not counted that were in his favor and ultimately what he's going to be demanding is a recount and in some states that recount could be automatic if it's a very narrow margin like in arizona point 25 percent get it other states if it's

point 5 percent then the candidate can ask for one so it depends on the state but most of the analysts that have been looking very closely at the voting count have concluded that even if there is a recount which could be a result of a lawsuit that there will be no there will not be a significant difference in the outcome because they usually produce 800-2000 difference of votes and right now he's behind in georgia he's behind 510000 votes and pennsylvania 545000 votes and 17000 in arizona so not enough that a recount would make that big of a difference there was a lot of speculation before the election that donald trump was packing the supreme court in his favor in light of a situation like this do you think any of these cases could reach the supreme court and if so could that be a reason to be concerned. they certainly could and we saw with bush v gore they reached the supreme court in early december and that's an important time for him

because under summer 14th the representatives of the electoral college in each state have to vote and so usually the supreme court will expedite the review and i think he believes because he appointed 3 of the 6 conservative judges on the supreme court the somehow he will have an advantage but i doubt that because supreme court justices are very weary of getting involved in such purely political disputes it undermines a legitimacy it's outside their expertise and so usually when they get involved it's only when there is a particular large at issue that is alleged to have been violated or that is alleged to be unconstitutional and in this case most of these disputes are about counting and recounting and that can be resolved without the supreme court reviewing the case i make or deny a petition to be reviewed by the supreme court so it's unclear you are professor of law all these allegations that we've seen of very it's

a fraud what effect going forward to think it's going to have on the democratic process. could even say an impact on future elections. well when you do the elections are certainly filling with the internet intersection of law and politics and jury mannering voter suppression this is been going on in a sense for decades if not more than a century in the united states especially around race relations but what we're seeing now is much more of a political threat to democracy where it's not so much about the large it's about not trusting the system right not trusting the election monitors and the election counters not trusting the state attorney generals only when they produce an outcome that you don't agree with and as we've seen in other countries that don't have strong democracies when the people don't trust the electoral system when they don't think they're free and fair elections when they don't believe that the outcome is illegitimate then usually you start seeing disputes being resolved in streets

nobody wants and we've already seen that with the start of the steel movement where it gathered hundreds of thousands of followers on facebook before they closed down the group where they alleged right after the election last week that this is this is an attempt to steal the elections that by and the democrats are intentionally trying to steal the election and steal victory from truck so it's yet to be seen whether if trump loses in the courts which is likely will he then have surrogates or he himself try to mobilize people to go out to the streets and produce some form of violent reaction which even if you still lose the presidency he gives or he gives to biden a gift which is that he inherits instability and that's going to be very difficult to govern under and it's going to be a real political challenge for by an inherent. sarra as he is really good to get yes for your thoughts professor of law and rockets university thank you. let's take

a look at some other world news now iraqi security forces a searching for attack is who killed at least 11 people police say a gunman in 4 vehicles opened fire on an army post in western baghdad grenades and automatic weapons at least 8 all the people including soldiers were injured if europe is prime minister has sacked his army chief and to all those at the top of his government as casualties mount from conflicts in the north the foreign minister the head of intelligence and the army's top command were removed 5 days ago abi ordered a military operation against separatists in the northern region of to gray he accuses them of trying to break up the country turkey has congratulated azerbaijan's president who says his forces have seized a key city in a disputed region. she is one of the most important cities in the as a by john is fine. which denies that. osama bin.

they came out in their thousands. quickly turned into a big street party after the country's president said the strategic city was once again under their control. dear brothers and sisters it is with great pride that i now see that the city of fuchsia has been liberated from occupation is ours. is ours. limited to the capital people came out of the much anticipated announcement. in armenia is the 2nd largest city in the disputed region the mountain town occupies a key location connecting with armenia the claims of victory were dismissed by the going to administration i mean his defense ministry says heavy fighting continues and it's not surprising to hear that no they are not accepting the liberation of

shot by the army but as it has been stated by the head of the state we are ready even today just to sit behind the negotiations table and get a start political settlement but for these the important. makes and to take some commitment on the withdrawal of all its forces from still. killing civilians in indiscriminate attacks we know that have been fighting despite several cease fire agreements brokered by the minsk group which include russia france and the united states in celebrations continued in the night this might go with restrictions such people also wave turkish and pakistani flags to thank 2 of azerbaijan. in one. tens of thousands of people have been displaced from the city and have dreamed of returning home. but either like

the you've got to love the city a future which they see of the country right on. the motional they know the war is not over but they're hoping that this announcement moves them closer to victory in the whole disputed region of the there are. also a year in exile bolivia's former president evo morales is on his way home the 61 year old was greeted by supporters us and arjen time at ports on sunday he plans to fly into a border town and then drive into bolivia morales left last november amid a violent protest and accusations of electoral fraud votes are being counted in his 2nd general election since the end of military rule the national league for democracy led by ons on sujit is expected to win a 2nd term with a smaller margin florence louis reports. this is what voting looks like during a pandemic mosques and physical distancing despite

a surge in coronavirus cases across myanmar voters were eager with some arriving even before polling stations had opened. even 19 break 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 own son suchi is widely expected to win a 2nd term while her international reputation has suffered because of her failure to speak up for the rich after they were targeted in a violent military crackdown in 2017 she remains hugely popular at home. but the analogies 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 voters optimistic. 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 o d's main opponent in this election as it was in the last is the military backed union solidarity and development party florence louis al-jazeera. how

voles of tourists and visitors are trickling back into much of p 2 after the heritage site finally reopened hurries government made it off limits in march to coronavirus reports. much of picchu is not like any other place in the world as global covert 19 cases surge and lock downs cascade into effect it's in can ruins have reopened. much a big tournament but the 1st to enter much of peachey really is a thrill all i can tell all peruvians and all the world is to come we have all the security measures it is very safe to be here and you will be well received. unesco world heritage sites closed in march because of coronavirus restrictions it officially reopened to this week but with health checks and capacity limited to 30 percent or $680.00 terrorists

a day the 1st visit was just the yama in october the japanese tourist received a special exemption to into early after waiting for 7 months in a nearby town much you picchu sits 2400 meters above sea level where the peruvian andes meet the amazon basin archaeologists believe it was built in the 15th century as a century front in can empower it remains one of the most significant portals into inconsiderate eyes ation as peru's top tourist attraction the local economy relies on the travellers it draws especially foreigners its closure affected nearly a quarter of a 1000000 workers shopkeepers in nearby cusco say they lost more than 2 thirds of their income in yet it's been super terrible because there were no tourists you can only see resident tourists who live here who live nearby and nothing else. peru is closing in on 1000000 cases of covert 19 with nearly 35000 deaths for

a country of 32000000 people that's the high. as per capita mortality rates in the world but cases are now decreasing and restrictions are easing. it's been quite complicated for all of us who work in tourism the city basically lives off it and it's been a very hard blow many shops are closed many people lost their jobs now the gates have reopened proven so hopeful prices days are here shiela bellus al-jazeera. this is al jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his administration's 4 big priorities the coronavirus pandemic being the biggest among them he's named to members of a covert 19 working group and is expected to name the others on monday as the u.s. continues to report a record daily number and.