rediscovering. a moment of reflection at church for us president elect joe biden as he pivots to building a plan for his incoming get been straight. with donald trump after another day on the golf course and still refusing to concede defeat citing legal challenges and recounts. and given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.

as areas celebrate after their government announces the capture of a city in that disputed region where it's fighting with armenia. people in argentina voiced their anger at the government over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and heading home after a year in exile former president to be former alice is on his way to bolivia after his protege won the elections. u.s. president elect joe biden is moving forward with transition plans says the congratulations at home and abroad continue to come and on sunday he visited a church cemetery where family members saberi including his late son this week he will meet with his advisors to build a plan for combating coronavirus in the u.s. and reviving the economy donald trump meanwhile golfing outside of washington is

refusing to concede defeat tweeting about legal challenges and vote recounts final tallies are still being done in several states and he insists without evidence that the election was fortunate but fellow republican and former president george w. bush says the vote was fair and its outcome clear and sent his congratulations to biden mike hanna has more on biden's plans to tackle covered 19 when he takes over at the oval office. they have been preparing for this for months particularly with regard to the pandemic which joe biden continually describes as his absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours he'll be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron plame who was the at both czar and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by big murphy who's

a former surgeon general appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and drug administration david kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his coronavirus task force as he and his. vice president elect come harris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and he's made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pender make is to follow the science. as i mentioned earlier u.s. president george w. bush issued a note of congratulations to the president elect when she posted on instagram he thanked biden for the patriotic message that he delivered on saturday night adding that it also called komla her 1st to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency he goes on though we have political differences i know joe

biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country and i offered him the same thing i offered presidents trump and obama my prayers for his success and my pledge to help another republican senator mitt romney believes trump will accept the result of his legal challenges fail but he cautions trump on the language that he's using. i think one has to be careful in the choice of words i think they 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 that 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. the u.s. is seen 4 straight days of new coronavirus in fiction records or the 126000 cases

and about 1000 deaths were reported on sunday at least 230000 people are known to have died from covered 9000 in the u.s. it's total infection count is nearing 10000000. well bred only looks at how bottom will tackle coronavirus into other pressing problems when he deals with what's likely to be a divided congress. once the celebrations by joe biden and kamel 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 19 pandemic now rampaging virtually unchecked throughout the country as his most urgent priority are work regathered getting covert 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 i

actually takes control if the current administration doesn't do an about face we will see much more misery much more unnecessary deaths infectious disease specialists say biden must work hard to convince the millions of people swayed by trump's rejection of science and mask wearing to change their behavior needs to gather the right people around him. which i know he will do he needs to get rid of those individuals who have been voicing 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 bill limited 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 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 sort 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 pamela 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. biden looks ahead to president donald trump and his lawyers not admitting defeat has some of the legal maneuvering that

they're working on at the moment of requested a recount of votes in places like wisconsin one of the states joe biden flipped from republican to democratic and possibly georgia where biden is narrow in a head they're also fighting various lawsuits and other battleground states such as pennsylvania nevada and arizona they made allegations out that mail in ballots which in leaned to inspire didn't have been subject to widespread fraud and that republican campaign observers were not given sufficient access to vote counting sentence there's no or no evidence has been provided to support these claims joe walsh is a former republican congressman and was a 2020 presidential hopeful he believes the republican party is now irreversibly tied to trump and it's in serious trouble. look donald trump has been attacking our democracy for months he's been telling his supporters not to accept the results of the election and i can tell oh you most of his supporters will not accept his

loss and i think that's going to lead to ugliness in america and that's on donald trump these are people who for a long have felt ignored by our politics 4 years ago a long game and ugly down like i said i'm going to build the wall and brown people lot of this country and that was horrible but decent people believed it and now they've clung to him and they're not going to let go of him because they now believe he won and it was stolen from him this is a scary time in america. but i think now to john net and to a democratic strategist and former communications director at the democratic national committee he joins us on skype from washington d.c. . what do you think about what joe walsh there was saying that the republican party is a better. irreversibly now tied to donald trump. i think you definitely

right i think we've seen for a long time now the reality that people who watch certain conservative news sources in america and get their news through certain channels their reality looks more and more different from the reality that the rest of us live in and or see through are and so for those folks they're not aware that 1st of all that don hunt was never a popular president that he would actually never in his in dire term in office the favor person of a majority of americans never had that support of maturity of americans but that those folks who are his people he's a guy who's going to save them all from all of that will be men that they hear about on their news sources and so. it's more than just the usual sort of stages of grief i lost an election this is the whole moral view. that is now crashing and that reality that joe biden is one of more than $4000000.00 more american votes in

the election than their guy has and it's not clear exactly where that energy goes for that if we look at the legal challenges being brought by by trump and his team showing joe biden cannot ignore what donald trump is looking to do in the courts how likely i mean how is he likely to play this do you think as it goes through the courts to assure donald trump supporters that their calls for a fair herring in the courts are being listened to. yeah i think there are you get your security considerations here donald trump the legal challenges his legal options are kind of dwindling at this point he can make the case that there was widespread fraud of some sort but he had it's been a been a few days now and he has really really come up with nothing in terms of evidence to support that and so what you see are more and more it's due to tional republicans cutting him loose they've got the senate they've got the supreme court even though he has the allegiance of his followers institutionally he's not getting

a lot of traction with this or joe biden of course he very concerned with the general tenor of the country how these people who are going to be his constituents in january are reacting in handling this and what kind of will eat their soup possibly outside of the ports but generally i think the advice for the biden camp and from the biden camp is for them to go about their business and for them to be offering the american people if we turn to a stable more mole presidential and ministration just trying to do the job so that the court quite as much as they can separate and there are other folks doing handling that as we have been reporting the coronavirus pandemic and sort of the number one priority for joe biden coming into power how difficult do you think it will be for him to unify people around his coronavirus plan given that how many

trump support is it seen as sort of a nibble at afraid of issues. yeah i mean it is one of the tragedies of this is that even just wearing a mask has become a political gesture in this country and it's it is seen through that lens of these 2 separate realities and so our concern is that there are 2 months before joe biden had any official power over anything and did very little suit you know and he had the most recent couple of months to address the spreading coronavirus endemic at all which is why we've seen our record base level call a cross the country and so what's going on the next 2 months when this president is current president is not invested at all in the future and the outcome here are so things could get very bad for joe biden that has a chance to begin to address this so we're really heading into a very uncertain period of not just with politics and with these court cases and

with the 70000000 people who voted for donald trump and now aren't sure what any one with this virus as well if we add it to to foreign policy how do you think that joe biden will look to reshape u.s. relationships and the way also that the u.s. is seen internationally. yeah we've already seen this even on twitter within hours of the race being officially call for joe biden we've seen leaders world leaders across the world leaping to congratulate him and senator now vice president elect terrorists on their victory and i think that will be a very quick to restore the status quo ante prior to president trump and basically did treat the trumpet ministration from a foreign policy point of view as a little bit of an aberration as a blip and try so that it's time to return to normal realize that they're still on

resolving issues about russia's role in president trump original election and so i think the whatever one makes of that i think there's going to be a return to the continuity that we saw in american foreign policy really across both parties to some degree prior to president trump's elevation presence as being thank you so much we have made it. a democratic strategist and former communications director at the democratic national committee thank you can. still to come here on al-jazeera we will have the rest of the day's news including patients in central america and the caribbean rush to help those made homeless by. and we'll tell you about a political standoff in the west african nation i'm getting.

hello we've got something of a north south split in the weather across the middle east where you're surprised because i'm right in the fall costs here that is the case across northern parts of the region a fair amount of cloud actually just spilling across the caucasus between the black sea in the caspian sea and we could see some right grassy pushing in across the levant syria lebanon maybe seeing some showers here possibly down into jordan out west or whether eking its way across into iraq northern parts of saudi arabia yeah that could be some rain here as well and that will continue to drive its way further east which iran could come into the picture with some wet weather as we go through chews day and even a chance of a shower 2 in kuwait south of that it is generally fine in trial lovely weather here in doha temperatures getting up to 29 degrees celsius in the sunshine might catch the odd shower just around the southern end of the red say greatest out of seeing showers across central parts of africa could see some showers anywhere from central and southern parts of somalia through ethiopia pushing

a rod across the rift valley all the way across into the gulf of guinea some larvae downpours and be a possibility into uganda lovely possibility of showers to just pushing across into the eastern side of tanzania to the south of that it is generate dry windy by the end of the way we'll see some heavy rain for the east and south africa. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the. on the ground realities affect you the news coverage what's the lay of the land stripping away the spin ripping story about presidential corruption it is real it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line we all decided we need to tell our story we don't want to they're lying on the authority and it's media listening post on al-jazeera . the you.

are watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his administration's 4 big priorities including the coronavirus pandemic he and the vice president elect are pushing ahead with transition plans. donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of cults. fellow republican and former president george w. bush says the vote was fair and its outcome clear if it is congratulations to biden . well as we mentioned earlier international reaction to biden's win is still coming in saudi arabia's king solomon and crown prince mohammed bin salma have

joined will be this congressional asian biden and common interests they were the last of the gulf leaders to do so ties between riyadh and washington have been exceptionally close on the trump chose riyadh as his 1st overseas destination as president. palestinian president mahmoud abbas pictured here with biden and 2016 says he looks forward to working with the new administration has refused to deal with the white house since trump's decision to recognize drucilla as the israeli capital and move the u.s. embassy there. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his message to biden also paid tribute to donald trump. for myself and for all citizens of the state of israel i again func president trump for the great french shown to the state of israel and to me personally i congratulate him for recognizing jerusalem and the golan for standing up to run for the historic peace accords and for bringing the american israeli alliance to unprecedented

heights so thank you president trump. and the head of the world health organization has tweeted saying that he and his colleagues look forward to working with the president elect's who has pledged to rejoin the w.h.o. on his 1st day in office he went on to say that crises like the pandemic show the importance of global solidarity in protecting lives and livelihoods together. in argentina people angry with their government's handling of the pandemic have been protesting more than 33000 people have died and i was at a demonstration one aside this. was one of the longest lockdowns in the world this one's been going on here in argentina since march it's often difficult to gauge people's feelings but when it comes to demonstrations like this monthly protests in one of cyrus and in towns and cities across the country you get some idea of people's anger their feeling about the way the government is handling the culvert 19 crisis they're also protesting against plans to introduce vaccinations there

about rising crime about corruption in the government they say this present government and the government before last of christina for the ndis the kitchen so a whole bunch of frustration oh go bang go which is uniting these people these monthly protests that are growing by the. who are problematic were angry because this is the end of the republic this government is walking all over our democratic institutions the justice system seems to favor these delinquents. argentina is living through difficult times the messages from president fernandez are only dividing origen times we are on the streets to say we've had enough of this government. a few weeks ago we had a pro-government demonstration in exactly this spot civil the numbers of people which gave us some idea of the polarized nation in argentina as the summer months approaches the days get hotter and the frustration that people feel against the lingering culprit 19 pandemic rescuers in guatemala have found more bodies dumped

in landslides triggered by a tropical storm the death toll stands at 27 but at least 100 others are still missing and feared dead and it devastated areas in some of the country's most remote mountainous regions of artie's are using helicopters to reach areas where road access has been cut off. in neighboring 100 euro saida has displaced around a 1000000 people a storm has damaged thousands of homes and forced many people to take cover in shelters the calling for more support from the government. well we need help because we're left on the street everything is flooded people are asking to be taken out of their houses because they were trapped. there are cases your divorces in searching for attackers have killed at least 11 people police say gunmen in 4 vehicles opened fire on an army post in western baghdad they used to grenades and automatic weapons at least 8 other people including soldiers were injured. have used water cannon to disperse protesters and. the results of october's

parliamentary election thousands of demonstrators demanded a step vote after the opposition accuse them of rigging the election. 50 percent of the ballots it's held a strong majority in parliament. steadily economic problems. turkey is congratulated by john's president who says his forces have seized a key. region shusha is one of the most important cities and. john is fighting with media. reports from. quickly turned into a big street party the country's president. was once again under their control. dear brothers and sisters it is with great pride that i announce 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 mountaintop occupies a key location connecting with armenia the claims of victory were dismissed by the go in a car or bus administration defense ministry says heavy fighting continues and it's not surprising to hear that no they are not accepting the liberation of. johnny army but as it has been stated by the head of the state we are ready even today to sit behind the negotiations table and start political settlement but for these the important. makes and to take some commitment on the. with all its forces from still. killing civilians in indiscriminate attacks

the no letup in fighting despite several. brokered by the minsk group which include russia france and the united states in baku celebrations continued in the night despite restrictions. people also with turkish and pakistani flags to thank 2 of us are by john. tens of thousands of people have been displaced from the city and have dreamed of returning home. to the city of which they see the country. most of the war is over but they're hoping that this is. closer to victory in the whole disputed region. there are. prime minister. and 2 others at the top of his government as casualties mount from conflict in the north the foreign

minister the head of intelligence the army's top commander were moved 5 days ago ordered to a military operation against separatists in the northern region of he accuses them of trying to break up the country. the main opponent in guinea's disputed presidential poll has called for a general strike after the incumbent was declared the winner of the constitutional court. had one observers from african countries have backed the official result but the e.u. and u.s. have both customers main rival. says he won the election shows widespread fraud at polling stations. my dear fellow countryman the union of guinea's democratic forces and the national alliance for change and democracy invites you to take part in a dead city operation on november 9th in the conakry region to protest against the electoral hold up and demand respect for the truth of the ballot box. after

a year in exile the livia's former president evo morales is on his way home the 61 year old was greeted by supporters that in time airport on sunday he plans to fly into a border town and then drive into bolivia. left by libya last november amid violent protests and accusations of toral fraud. that took the plane the same day one of his former cabinet members was sworn in as bolivia's new president the west has promised to rebuild the country but critics fear his policies will be influenced by his former boss that is about reports. a new precedent for bolivia after a year filled with unrest and violence we said acing was sworn in on sunday surrounded by members of the country's indigenous communities and foreign representatives out of his says he wants to govern an inclusive bolivia. we want a government for everyone with no discrimination we will stick you need to live in

peace in this road democracy is crucial so we can get people's vote free and fair elections for everyone. accusations of fraud in the elections last year. ended with the resignation of bolivia's 1st indigenous leader in what alice it whatever it is returning from war libya on monday after being in exile here in argentina for almost a year it's not clear yet which role if any he's going to play in the new government of we thought of who will have to show he think charge and not a puppet of the still popular and influential morales outgoing interim president anyone yes who took office after more than his resignation last year was not present at the ceremony but out of sight made clear his view of her leadership. was going to be a matter of. the 2 objectives of the defacto government were to pacify and call for elections that did not fulfill them instead to begin persecuting and kill political

opponents. of this little girl during the night you ration the president called for a minute of silence for those killed during the protest last year. bolivia is deeply divided between poor and rural sectors in the highlands and the richer lowlands indigenous communities play a crucial role in the new administration of lucetta saying. yes almost what we are mayans. is we were i model and pitch was we are people of the culture of life that sparked a wise rebellion now there is a new dawn in our history or empathy for others and collective good replace individual is a. resurfacing will rule a divided country that is struggling with the impact of called it 19 he was economy minister while mandalas was in office and responsible for the economic growth that empowered millions of people in the country but analysts say the situation is different now. when the mass party was in power in the past there was an economic

boom that gave them money to help the population latin america and bolivia are in crisis bolivia has a 13 percent deficit so it's not going to be easy and there are other problems like concerns over racism and region i rivalries have remarriages in the past year small protests have been on the rise in recent days but ours his presidency is viewed as a guarantee for bolivia's indigenous majority the baby will be left behind. i'm convinced with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined his administration's priorities including the coronavirus pandemic he and the vice president elect a pushing ahead with transition plans biden has named to members of a covert 19 working group he's expected to announce the others on monday for

a 4th day of u.s. reported a record number of infections. president on trumpet still refusing to concede defeat.