as donald trump it good for america everything is in disarray the media of course take in every bit of bait that they can to demolish the fact that america has been a force for good in the world. half of the american people get inspiration from him and the other half cringe you weekly take on us tone it takes time and society that's the bottom line. al-jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up . the breakthrough in the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine interim results from pfizer's vaccine candidate show it's 90 percent effective. the u.s. president elect welcomes the news as he assembles his coronavirus task force. a

high profile dismissal president donald trump announces he's fired defense secretary marc esper on twitter. thousands leave the regional capital in nagorno-karabakh as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia intensifies. terms in doha with only sports news 27 team asas champion sergio garcia withdrawals from this week's tournament after testing positive for corona virus. american drug maker pfizer has released interim results show its vaccine is effective against the corona virus the news has been welcomed by scientists and world leaders and triggered a surge on global markets the vaccine developed by pfizer and german start up by on tech was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing covert 19 among study participants no serious safety concerns were observed among the more than

43000 party percent across the globe a study showed just 94 confirmed cases of kevin 19 of the news has been called a great day for science and humanity and while the world health organization says the results are very positive it's added that there is still a lot of work to be done charlie engineer reports. $1300000000.00 doses by the end of the year that's the claim from drug makers pfizer and biotech after announcing their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective theirs is the 1st successful data from a large scale clinical trial and widespread vaccinations could roll out by the end of december following an application for an emergency use approval from regulators within weeks german company biotech admit they're still waiting on more results to further predict safety. it's true that this type of medication has no

approval yet which is why we are carrying out this compatibility study with more than 40000 test persons to find out if there is any intolerance even a rare one what we can prove with this study is that the vaccine is compatible and that side effects are mild to moderate and that there are no severe side effects the news of the vaccine sent global stock markets soaring scientists welcome the news of the 90 percent effectiveness much higher than been expected but also raised questions we have to know who received the vaccine in this 1st try you know and evaluate if this is some task tick results will be extended also to add the populations which are matched more than in needs for relaxing the they mean all the people people with. who are at risk of severe infections and probably were not included in the 1st trial you as the world health organizations decision making body met in

a largely virtual conference questions were already being raised about how any vaccine would be distributed especially to developing countries the world has come together as never before to usual these lifesaving to resign a devil or fraud abuse and i'm not going to be fairly as lot with. not private communities that people are why and what reasons some people. behind 1200000 people have now died of the virus and more than 50000000 people have reported 10000000 of them in the u.s. but the pandemic shows no signs of abating with hungry in portugal the latest countries in europe to reimpose strict measures the assembly did have one reason to celebrate the victory of joe biden means the u.s. will be reestablishing its relationship with the w.h.o. of the trouble began withdrawing in july the funding the u.s. brings is key as the organization revealed although the world's expectations of the

w.h.o. have grown dramatically the budget hasn't charlie and al-jazeera who want to talk to chris smith he's a consultant virologist at cambridge university and joins us live via skype thanks very much for being with us so these are every interim results when will we know whether the confidence has been projected by the makers is justified. well we need more data as your report highlighted that still to come and so far we are halfway through what's called a phase 3 trial and face serious the final sort of gate keeper before something is approved or not by regulator real thorough tease now what they've returned so far is data from having given the virus the vaccine to 40 plus 1000 people what they're demonstrating is that in the group of people who got the placebo in other words a nonfunctional version of their vaccine there was a very high rate of infection compared to the people who got the real deal the real

vaccine and that gives us confidence that it appears to be protecting that group much more than the placebo which you would expect but what it doesn't tell us for instance is a 90 percent success rate means a 10 percent failure right so we need to know who that 10 percent are who didn't respond to the vaccine because remember this virus actually has a mortality rate which is down below one percent and about 20 percent of people tend to get more severe they are well with it so if you end up with that 10 percent strongly mapping on 2 of the most vulnerable people having this vaccine doesn't really move this much further forward on the other hand that might not be the case and so we need to know that so that this is early days it's encouraging but there is a number of commentators have said a lot of work still to do and this actually is quite different from some of the other candidates explain to us how it works it into layman terms and why it might be different from

a normal kind of action and that and the safety associated with it. you know this is a 1st of its kind in the past when we've made vaccines we've made them by either growing a virus or a bacterium blitzing it so you destroy it chemically having brutalized it you inject the ensuing shrapnel into the body to educate the immune system what that thing used to look like so you can make an immune response well this new vaccine actually uses the genetic code or at least part of it from the virus what they've done is to take a short piece of the genetic message the virus uses to make part of its al to coat the so-called spike or s. protein that it uses to engage with and invade our cells they've wrapped that genetic code up in a layer of oil so you end up with a small oily bubble and you inject millions of these oily bubble particles into the body into a muscle and immune cells and other cells picked these are and in the same way that if i sent you a u.s.b. stick through the post you could the envelope get the u.s.b.

stick and put it in your machine and be able to read what was on it the cells that pick up these oily bubbles can read the genetic code and they then know how to make the outer coat of the virus which they then display to the immune system which makes a corresponding immune response it makes antibodies chiefly and those antibodies are there to defend you if you encounter the corona virus for real because they're already washing around in your blood and were you to encounter the virus for real those antibodies which are sticky molecules would glue themselves to the virus and then the cells that got infected and deactivate the virus and stop it spreading through your body now all of this is based presupposes that a that this can be rolled out quite quickly in large numbers but also that there's enough public take up what kind of levels of public confidence do you need in order to achieve. success with a vaccine. well the interesting thing here is unlike say measles where the way in which we protect the population of which everyone is vulnerable for measles is we go for a very high vaccination right we try and vaccinate 95 percent of people there.

gives her the protection or herd immunity protection to the newly born children who haven't been vaccinated yet or people who've lost their immunity or can't be vaccinated but with this corona virus there's a very discrete group of people we know who are a very high risk they're almost exclusively older people and people with preexisting health conditions that we know will mark them out as a high risk so therefore the best strategy here is to go in certainly in the initial phases of this with our limited supplies of vaccine up front and target those people who need it most because they've actually got the most to lose they're also more likely to be engaged with and have the greatest buy in to having the vaccine because they've got the most to gain through having it talk to chris smith thank you very much indeed it was so good to talk to you thank you pleasure all the all this is the number of corona virus infections in the u.s. passes 10000000 and the virus continues to spread unchecked in many states

president elect joe biden has made dealing with the outbreak his 1st major priority assembling a task force of scientists and medical professionals i was there no effort to turn this page demick a room once was sworn in january 20th to get our kids back to school safely our business is growing and our economy running for speed to get it again approved x.e. manufactured it distributed as quickly as possible to as many americas to as many americans as possible free of charge will follow the science. why can't i joins us live from wilmington delaware so might president elect biden very much focusing on how he'll tackle the pandemic. very much so and it's been months in the planning he's been sitting down with health advisors for a long period of time now a few months ago he released a plan of action that he wanted to institute when he becomes president now that

looks exceedingly likely now he use the president elect that plan will be instituted he says immediately he's sworn in on january the 20th certainly it is a wide ranging plan the basis of that is that it will have an overarching strategy what we've seen under the trumpet ministration is basically a scatter shot gun type approach leaving every state to sort out its own strategy and country in the pandemic biden wants to introduce a national plan that will give everybody a common way in which the pandemic can be fought incidentally he warmly welcomed the potential new vaccine the news of which he was given by his health officials late last night but at the same time he's repeated the words of the director of the c.d.c. saying that for the foreseeable future a mask remains a far more potent antidote to the virus then does a vaccine he had an impassioned call once again for people to wear masks saying

that masks could save the lives of everybody around could save tens of thousands of lives in coming months particularly as cases spike across the united states as we move through winter and might kill the transition in the extra challenging as president trump has not conceded yet. indeed no and the whole process of transition obviously a very tough move but particularly because of certain stumbling blocks now one of these very importantly is a body known as the general services administration now this is the body it's a supposedly nonpartisan which actually gives the signal when the formal process of transition begins its formal task is to basically police buildings within washington d.c. but this is the body that will give for example office space to the biden.

ministration as it moves in it has to organize security clearances this huge amount of detail that has to be supplied for an incoming administration however the head of this body emily murphy is refusing to sign off on the transition process at this particular point now this means that nothing can formally begin and to all the general services administration signed off on the process not to put this into a context when the bomber administration moved in post to bush the letter of administration but the letter signaling the beginning of translation was actually given at 1 o'clock in the morning after the election this is a major stumbling block to the biden administration the incoming administration because unless that transition process is formally started then what they can do is incredibly limited mike hanna thank you very much. u.s.

markets have rallied following the announcement of that major development in pfizer's coronavirus vaccine yes and p. 500 ended just shy of a record on monday after the close of the trading day industries hit hardest by the pandemic have seen the biggest gains including airlines and hotels commuters on do is in new york for us as folks i'm quite big moves are on the market as a result of this. there was one trader said as soon as news came out about this possible coronavirus vaccine he said it was a light at the end of the tunnel he said suddenly there is hope in the financial markets that was the word of one trader at least and we saw that on the markets all day the markets opened with that with the dow up almost $6500.00 points or 5 percent and we pretty much sustained that throughout most of the day now in the last half hour of trading in the markets closed about 1510 minutes ago or so in the last half an hour of trading it did slide just

a little bit but it still closed in the green the dow finishing a day $835.00 points and almost 3 percent up which is still very good that's the best the dow has finished and a trading day since june 5th now the sectors that benefited the most as you can imagine are travel leisure and hospitality these are all things that saw big big gains or to be an example carnival cruise lines up 39 percent just on monday the marriott hotel chain up 14 percent united airlines one of the biggest airlines in the world based in the united states up 19 percent and disney up 12 percent it just gives you an idea of how the travel industry hospitality is all seeing this potential covert back seen as a as a return to normal if you will in the near future and that's why you're seeing these the run on these stocks of these companies now there are some squat unquote stay at home companies that did take

a hit for example companies that have done very well over the last 6 to 12 months because of the krona virus such as zoom for example they dropped 16 percent amazon 5 percent and core ox down 10 percent but the big story on wall street on monday was euphoria for lack of a better word because there's really a sense that for the short term this potential vaccine is good but also for the medium and. long term as well but there were some traders out there that were saying listen probably won't get the vaccine readily available until early 2021 maybe even a 1st or 2nd quarter of 2021 and so some traders at the end of the day were backing off saying listen probably is not going to be a lot of unnecessary travel or what have your people returning to the office in huge numbers at least until this vaccine is readily available that still is several several months away so bottom line though is the markets reacted very positively to

this news to thank you this is the news hour live from london still to come protesters and police clash on the streets of georgia claims a very intriguing in the form of soviet republic. iraqi security forces hunt the gunman who opened fire on a baghdad army post. and swedish star striker is not time even a bitch shows no signs of slowing down and it's really tough for the. u.s. president donald trump has sacked his defense secretary. making the announcement on twitter as for disagreed with chum's decision to send military troops to disperse black lives matter purchased in june he's being replaced by the head of the counterterrorism center christopher miller. joins us live from washington d.c. i mean what do we know about.

but we know that it got probably about 5 minutes notice from the chief of staff mark meadows who called them to say that the announcement was coming from the president that gives a cause of what happened to the former secretary of state rex tillerson when he got the same call on a foreign trip certainly we know that mark air and donald trump have not been getting on well even though donald trump described them as mark yes for essentially saying that he was always happy to please the president but the 2 went different ways particularly over the summer one on the renaming of some bases after confederate generals certainly mark esper was in favor of looking at the process of renaming some of these places but also just on the fact that donald trump had considered putting american troops on the street using the insurrection act because of some of the protests that we're seeing and mark esper had said a number of events that that was not something he wanted to see so there was talk

before the election that mark esper had prepared the resignation letter knowing that the axe was going to come particularly if donald trump got a 2nd term but no matter what the result of the election was he was expecting to go and it came on monday there's a couple of other people in the administration that donald trump has expressed concern about the head of the cia the head of the f.b.i. both of them will probably be frantically checking twitter over the next couple of hours as well and allan in the meantime president appears to be still confident that his legal challenges will be successful. exactly he's been preaching out in the last hour various things about some of the states that are still being disputed he said of wisconsin it's looking very good needs a little time statutorily but we will. will happen soon so what that means we're not entirely sure they describe the vibe as being a cesspool he said george it will be

a big presidential when like it was on election night a lot of these tweets have already got the usual warning attached to them by twitter and he also said that in pennsylvania observers from his team or stop watching the ballots for some time that's simply not true and that was challenged in the court a judge even asked them or someone from donald trump's campaign in the room when the counting was going on and the trump campaign had to at the end of last week admit that was the case but that certainly shows donald trump's attitude that he's not going to let this go mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate just in the last hour has been talking about the election result and said donald trump is absolutely within his rights to mount legal challenges to some of these counts and that the democrats should not be what he'd about receiving extra scrutiny mitch mcconnell also pointed out to the fact that hillary clinton before the election said that joe biden should not accept the result in the under any

circumstances so much mcconnell throwing that back at the democrats so it seems as if most of the republican party is on the side of donald trump at the moment we know that many of the 70000000 people who voted for donald trump are very much on his side so if anyone was expecting in the next day or so donald trump to throw his hands up say you know what this is lost and give a concession speech that's simply not going to happen he's clearly very combative and very keen to continue pursuing this in the course annotation thank you very much indeed. a new round of talks is aiming to bring an end to libya's years long conflict it's hoped that meeting in the tunisian capital can set the groundwork for elections and bring stability to the region for harriet's reports from tunis. the native nations has invited 75 delegates from libya chosen to represent an array of political viewpoints regional interests and social groups they've gathered here in

tunis to find a way forward acting un envoy stephanie williams is clear on the aim of the talks in tunis so. we are going to work with the 75 participants on our on the road map going forward the political roadmap going forward with the key objective being the scheduling of national elections. cycles of violence for nearly a decade after the tribes and groups brought don't market afy turn on each other. and it has morphed into a conflict in which regional and global rivalries are being played 8. libya has had 2 rival administrations for years with the un recognizing the government in tripoli and the warlord khalifa haftar are leading his forces in the east last month

libya's domestic warning sade's agreed to a permanent ceasefire such deals have failed in the past to stop the fighting but the un says the military officers have shown a sense of duty and responsibility and so it hopes for the same from the 75 delegates involved in the political talks here in tunis. their host president case saved and said it was imperative libya remain a unified nation. that. libya is unified nation some people talk of western and eastern libya but we told him that libyans are one people this kind of rhetorical could lead to the division of libya's the tunisian people refuse this because they know that all libyans refuse it to us it's a danger on the region as a hornak as it could open the door to division in other neighboring nations with libya already desperate for normalcy the global pandemic has made worse the situation in the words of the u.n.

envoy covered in 1000 has colluded with conflict libya is geographically nearby but a world away from the grandeur of this luxury hotel in tunis where in the next sixty's 75 delegates will attempt to chart its political future clearheaded it. to us. officials in the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh say the key city assur share has been taken by azerbaijan forces claims of years ery advance had initially been denied thousands of armenians are fleeing as a very forces close in on the regional capital a long line of traffic were seen on the outskirts of the capital to panic out as people try to escape the fighting. but i have to meet has more from. this statement of the spokesperson i'm not going to cry about which was posted on facebook would actually be deferred admission from the armenian side things did not

go so well in shushi over the past 24 hours ever since president. in back who said that. she was now under the control of the forces or what we heard on this side were deny both the ministry of defense and your event and the authorities in the going to care about saying that the fight was ongoing this morning actually saying that they were managing to put up a strong resistance and had managed to push back the their way forces from this south of shushi now now over here is the opposite from the spokesperson. but he actually also added that he is very forces were within reach of the pine occurred that would be. another huge blow for armenian over the past 48 hours we've actually seen civilians fleeing in large numbers as they penned i could i spoke to some of them who described really very frightening situation from

their point of view constant fighting calls that shelling and they said that life was it was not possible anymore in that town foreign journalists were also allowed asked to evacuate as defined occurred over the past 48 hours. as about john has apologized for shooting down a russian military helicopter over armenia killing 2 russian personnel so on and generators live in the as area capital what more can you tell us about the incident . what we've heard from the years there by joining foreign ministry saying that this is an accident which happened in the natural area an autonomous part on the other by john i mean your border of nestled between turkey armenia and iran where a russian m.-i $24.00 was flying at low altitude it was dark and this is when because of heightened tensions in the nagorno-karabakh region as

a bridge joining forces in the front lines decided to engage that helicopter with. mobile air defense system known as man pads and they were able to shoot down this helicopter and killing 2 servicemen one injured servicemen has been taken to safety but this has come as tensions have been flaring between these 2 countries as a by johnny saying that the russians were not the target of the thought they have not seen russian helicopters in the area operating before and that is why their forces are engaged with the russian helicopter the foreign ministry in its statement not just apologizes but also says that it is sending its condolences to the russian servicemen who lost their lives and their families and is willing to pay compensation for it on the other hand the armenians have come out and said that this is a flagrant violation they do not accept that this was in the disputed territory and in their statement they say that we strongly condemn the use old 2 words the russian armed forces by the other by johnny forces within the sovereign territory

of our renia we have been convinced that the use of for force against the armed forces of the russian federation is going to receive an adequate response this is something again fortifying the position that the other by johnnie's have been saying for months now that the armenians are trying to engage foreign forces they have been able to. take much of the terror around. a multiple districts dozens of villages have been taken in the last few days as well and as you heard the importance of city of fuchsia as well so they are trying to downplay this saying that this was an accident they are willing to pay all sorts of compensation and the armenians obviously want to engage 3rd party that is russia in this instance which has a powerful sway over both sides in this conflict. thank you very much. the. president.

has just become the champion. hello we've got some very lively weather started to push its way in from the atlantic now more bands of cloud and rain and that was streaming as we go on through the next couple of days a turning increasingly unsettled here at least the days on the mild side things a good deal quater into central and eastern pas high pressure in charge here that acts as a lid on the atmosphere so the skies tend to be clear but this time of year it's also cool so single figures for many and for some wintry weather there into that western side of iraq but some places of shabby right just around the black sea pushing down tools bulgaria through that eastern side of the med it's right about

here comes that western weather will see some cherry right now moving through france through the low countries and then runnable persistent rain will gradually make its way in across western areas as we go into the middle to latter part of the weeks the cladding of attending increasingly wet and at times when the there for ireland wales the west is out of england and scotland but is still getting up into the teens his own little colder than of late but so too bad in terms of those temperatures northern africa we got some showers there are more than parts of libya northern areas of egypt of the central areas there we go with the usual seasonal showers a sinking further south was so the piles of nigeria say some heavy downpours and they stretch all the way through liberia. and ethiopian hours to crack 10 to communist travel only to be disappeared. a family's tragedy and twined with a violent chapter in the country's history. when you see the blood. you see is that

going to be my but i do not want to. be. a lifelong satchmo anstice and clinician finding some weakness on al-jazeera getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often dangerous but it's absolutely vital for stories to be told about. that's the side of this area we push this fall forward as we can to the front line now the smell of day is over powering a lot of the stories that we cover all highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can to as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to.

i don't enter one of the top stories when i was there the american company pfizer says its coronavirus vaccine developed with a german firm biotech is more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials when a 1000000000 doses could be administered next year. u.s. president elect joe biden has hosted an initial meeting of his coronavirus task force a meeting to roll out a vaccine as soon as possible he says he'll follow the science to reopen his country's economy. markets around the world of hit levels not seen for months on the back of the news shares in travel and hospitality companies rose protect firms which had done well during up down and fell. u.s. president donald trump is still refusing to concede the election despite official results showing joe biden has an insurmountable lead with almost all votes counted

on monday senator susan collins was one of only a handful of republicans to congratulate biden a smooth transfer of power to speak to karen helped professor of political science at virginia tech nick institute and state university and a member of the end of the advisory board on the watch house transition project she joins us live from blacksburg by skype thanks very much for being with us tell me how much difference you think this will make to the transition not having a concession from trump. well what a concession from mr trump would you feel would lead the general services administration in the u.s. federal government to be able to write a letter saying that president biden is indeed formally the president elect and what that does that is to open up a range of transition resources financial office space and so on to the biden biden transition group what that means that is that mr biden and his transition team will be able to meet with officials in the white house and the executive branch of

government. at the moment to how much can they actually do without that funding and those kind of enabling moves ms that is there much they can achieve in this period actually there is there also is another statutory law that was that was passed earlier in the decade that allows actually asks both candidates running for the presidency to agree to sign a memorandum of understanding with the general services administration in september of this year moreover instep temper once the 2 parties nominated their candidates officially that those candidates had access to some pre-election federal money they have office space in the reagan administration reagan ronald reagan building in washington d.c. and they have money and staff as well as secure phones and a range of resources right now so they have been really working on the transition on both sides since at least this spring but they don't have access to currently are the actual documents that they'd like to see yeah i mean we've we've seen that

president trump. is in no mood and that was as far as we can tell to concede and we've just seen him just firing his defense secretary can some of those things i mean national security an area where actually having a new secretary of defense right at the last minute can cause problems what kind of issues do you foresee with that particular. well i think the replacement for now is former secretary for they had at the national counterterrorism directorate is well prepared in these issues it would be better of course if there were continuity it would be even better if the agency review teams from the biden transition team were able to meet with the folks in the defense department but i think there will not be very much change out of the circumstances i think the real concern for for everyone in terms of national security and the incoming biden transition team is getting access to folks in the defense department to talk to about current situations around the world so you mean it can effectively mean information being withheld

from the from the new chain well at least not sure because we know right now that no one in the defense department who has been caring for the handoff is willing to meet with anyone from the biden transition team until the general services administration says yes indeed this is the president elect just briefly what's your timeline expected for when we'll know clearly what what what the result is i think as you said at the at the outset we do know what the result is because of the complex and arcane system with which we elect a president in the united states the next deadline probably december 14th it is december 14th where the electrophoresis from each of the states will be meeting in their state capitals and casting their votes for president of the united states once that happens that the very clear who the next president will be press a current house thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us thank you yes. oh a last ditch talks between the u.k. and the european union on

a post trade deal have resumed officials are trying to bridge significant differences on fishing rights and competition issues but now there's another aspect to negotiations election of joe biden in the united states under simmons report. michel barnier the hughes chief negotiator on a post trade deal has a spring in his step now he has a new bargaining chip the views of joe biden the president elect thinks breck's it was a mistake and the u.k. prime minister barr is johnson who had counted on the support of donald trump as a weaker hand like johnson trump has no liking for the e.u. biden will follow policies that embrace the e.u. france and germany may well become more influential allies of the us than the u.k. the u.k. being outside the e.u. is no longer the main interlocked for washington in the e.u.

it is outside so the special relationship is not what it used to be and people that think that it is for you so how salvage their relationship i basically believe all ahead of the u.s. election joe biden had already sent a warning shot and johnson who he's never met it was over the possibility of a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland the e.u. warns that could be the outcome if the u.k. government presses ahead with a plan that breaches international law it would contravene part of the e.u. withdrawal agreement the u.k. could change or ignore export rules on goods moving from the u.k. to northern ireland biden who has irish roots believes like the e.u. the good friday agreement of 998 which brought peace to northern ireland would be endangered by a hard border another issue at stake is johnson's plan for a trade agreement with the u.s. under biden that could all go up in smoke if there's a no deal brecht's it all revisit a distant prospect of

a hard irish border. some analysts believe a us trade deal has been overhyped by the british they seem to want that to prove that rex it has worked in some way i guess maybe it can have that impact in domestic politics but from an economic standpoint what what the u.k. needs is an effective deal with the e.u. and ends where its economic future. cam there be a wind of change in u.k. policy on brics it with biden as u.s. president right now there's no sign of it but it could well be that the u.k. government is pondering its position andrew symonds al-jazeera london. riot police in georgia have used water cannon to disperse protesters outside the central election commission in tbilisi they're demanding a rerun of october's parliamentary poll accusing the governing party of rigging the ballot the georgian green party received nearly 50 percent of the vote in farsi

workers in tbilisi and says both sides are blaming each other for the violence. as not quite clear at this stage what happened who threw the 1st shot that say but. that the police that were gathered in large numbers right police used water cannon to disperse protesters the police saying that they were attempting to storm the building but the opposition stating that they were peaceful and that they had no intention of committing any violent acts but certainly a lot of anger and frustration at the way in which the situation seems to have been handled we've seen people who received injuries not clear from whether it was from water to the power of the water cannon or other things being thrown or or other things being involved but the reason the opposition did this march is that they wanted an ultimatum for the government to me which was for the resignation of

the head of the central election commission and for new elections to be called well obviously those demands have not been met and now the opposition group which is basically all the political parties that came in behind the governing party. now saying you know we will get a boycott parliaments because we don't believe the results have been free and fair and they think up to 10 percent of votes may have been manipulated somehow. let's go straight to the republican national committee in washington d.c. where they are and see chairman run and daniel and the white house press secretary than any are discussing the election challenges have only begun the process of obtaining an accurate honest vote count we are fighting for the rights of all americans who want to abstain in confidence not only in this election but in the many elections to come there is only one of the party in america that opposes voter

id one party in america that opposes it is very. refining signatures citizenship residency eligibility there is only one party in america trying to keep observers out of the count room and that party my friends is the democratic party you don't take these positions because you want an honest election you don't oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count you don't oppose our efforts at sunlight and transparency because you have nothing to hide you take these positions because you are welcoming fraud and you are welcoming illegal voting our position is clear we want to protect the franchise of the american people we want an honest accurate lawful counts we want maximum sunlight we want maximum transparency we want every illegal vote to be counted and we want every illegal votes to be discarded unlike our opponents we have nothing to hide. the

integrity of our election matters the constitution of the united states matters what we have seen across the country is democrat officials systematically trying to do an end run around the constitution to tip the scales of the election in their favor as justice course it rodin d.n.c. versus wisconsin state legislature our oath to uphold the constitution is tested by hard times not easy ones last minute changes to longstanding election rules risk other problems too inviting confusion and chaos and eroding public confidence in electoral outcomes pennsylvania is a case study in just this allow me to just broadly review 3 points that have happened in pennsylvania number one and philadelphia poll watchers who are legally permitted to be there and observe the vote count were blocked from observing the counts our poll watchers were put behind barricades in

a massive room they were many feet from the counting process and in fact when you look at all of the tables many hundreds of feet in fact from the tables in the very back they were completely in the dark completely unable to oversee the vote count as was their legal rights an observer on the scene described it this way imagine being on a football field you're on the 10 yard line and expected to make the call in the end zone on the other side of the field it is unacceptable and intermediary court ruled on the side of the campaign on the side of transparency and allowing the poll watchers to observe the count but what did the democrat pennsylvania supreme court do they issued an administrator's stay effectively pushing back our poll watchers and denying them the access they deserve to sit and watch the counts ask yourself this what are pennsylvania democrats hiding why can't poll watchers simply observe the count's seconds article one section 4 of the united states constitution

clearly states that the time place and manner of holding a. actions for senators and representatives so he prescribed in each state by the legislature there of that's right the state legislature is constitutionally the one making the decision but the supreme court of the commonwealth of pennsylvania kathy books are in the democrats' hilted pennsylvania supreme court have continually disregarded the constitution making decisions clearly in the domain of the pennsylvania legislator. in fact maybe there's a reason the secretary of state took barkeep substituting her will for that of the legislature and in a completely unconstitutional fashion perhaps it's because she has motive in fact she has shown her partisan hatreds tweeting this using the title quote president before the word quote trump really just means the office of the presidency we see where her motives stand and finally a mere survey of the facts shows that voters in blue counties like philadelphia county were given certain privileges that voters in red counties were not afforded

the constitution's equal protection clause requires uniform standards but democrat election officials created disparities depending on where citizens lived and where they voted in the state some counties set up satellite offices for back to early voting whereas other counties did not some county allowed pre-canceled seeing where other counties did not voters in some counties were allowed to cure their ballots whereas voters in other counties were not what pennsylvania has done is provide a case study into how to tip the scales of an election to functionally favor at the democrat party this has gone on nationwide and i'll leave you with this in d.n.c. vs wisconsin state legislature in another attempt to calculate ballots that arrived after the election justice for ssage wrote nothing in our founding document contemplates the kind of judicial intervention that took place here nor is there precedent for it in 230 years of the court's decisions he went on to say no one

doubts that conducting a national election and made a pandemic poses serious challenges but none of that means individual judges may improvise with their own election rules in place of those the people's representatives have adopted they have taken a global pandemic and turned it into a nationwide electoral at the demick. they have taken based on what they call a natural disaster if you use that and turn this into a national disaster and with that i'll turn it over it's not morgan general counsel for the campaign. thank you caylee. as caylee stated the election is not over tabulation in canada seen continues across the united states and today in the united states district court for the middle district of pennsylvania the chum for president in 2

representative voters filed suit against the secretary of state and select counties alleging 2 things number one of violation of equal access based on a lack of meaningful observation in transparency particularly in democrat controlled counties and secondly a violation of equal protection based on disparate treatment between republican voters and democrat voters but what does this mean in layman's terms what does this mean for all of you what this means is if you are a democrat in philadelphia you are allowed to. work outside the bounds of the restrictions on fixing defective ballots sometimes referred to as curie but if you're a republican counties in the state of pennsylvania you are not allowed to do that because there are strictly following the text of the statute in pennsylvania secondly if you are a republican in the city of philadelphia for example you're not allowed meaningful access to the observation of the vote tabulation process if you're a democrat and

a republican leaning county in the state of pennsylvania you were allowed that access to meaningfully review the ballots as they are being counted. there are in philadelphia in allegheny county there were over 682000 ballots that were tabulated outside the view of our observers who were entitled by law to review those ballots and we believe that a meaningful review of those ballots could discern that there were ballots that were legally counted. our relief that we're seeking at this point is to enjoin the secretary of state from hurrying to certify the results before they are completely tabulated or canvass so that we can team that meaningful review in discern within the $682000.00 ballots at least and maybe more throughout the state whether or not there is disparate treatment for republican voters and democrat voters in the states and whether democrat voters are disproportionately allowed to cure or fix their ballots in some locations in the state and not others and for example even at

a minute level here today we are very close we are very close to the automatic recount statute in pennsylvania in this lawsuit itself could could change that or swing that small discrepancy so this is the relief we're seeking at this time but i would also urge the press and those out there that this is step one of a process we are within our rights to look into these irregularities we were in our rights to observe the votes as they're being tabulated we will observe those and we believe that this lawsuit takes us one step closer to closing the gap in the vote differential in pennsylvania and at this time i'll turn over to the republican chair woman if you can. you offer coming i'm going to start with some of the irregularities we've seen in the state of michigan specifically and then i'll go a little bit broader but michigan it's my home state and the county wayne county republican will poll watchers were denied their legal right to monitor the election

and purposely kept in the dark both literally and figuratively pull locker poll watchers our poll election workers locked windows and padlock doors obviously that's that's not going to instill confidence and there are thousands of reports of poll watchers being intimidated and unable to do their job and as of 4 pm this afternoon 131 affidavits have been completed just in michigan with over 2800 incident reports that have been submitted to us since election day 2 new lawsuits were filed. today by people who were working who were working in detroit and a whistleblower who has gotten their information we have gotten their information of the eastern district court of michigan as you guys can understand with 2800 incident reports this is a lot to track down it means we're interviewing these people we're getting their statements and we're turning them into affidavits but that takes a lot of time and effort and as matt has mentioned there's a campus process and a certification for reason but i will just tell you the distress that i'm hearing

in my state from people who were at t.c.f. and the way they were treated is deeply alarming i hope you go and look at this i hope you look at these affidavits and i hope you hear from the people that were there who feel like they were denied transparency and solid wrongdoing in detroit we should all be alarmed by this no matter where you are in the political spectrum . in addition to that we've heard hundreds of and instances of election workers who were virtually accosted our poll what they verbally accosted our poll watchers and refusals to let them challenge questionable ballots election workers were wearing biden t. shirts and applauding when our poll watchers were kicked out imagine volunteer ing and going and spending your night because you care so much about the integrity of the election and then to be kicked out and to be cheered as you were leaving this is not instill confidence in our democracy and these are good people i know most of these people of the few ballots that democrat election workers did allow us to challenge our observers say those ballots were then moved back into the regular

pile after our poll watchers were intimidated and pushed from the process there is a canvas for a reason there is a certification process for a reason and unlike election day we need these processes to be transparent already in detroit we are hearing incidents and we will have affidavits to this effect of people not being able to meaningfully candace and canvass and discrepancies that we're seeing in detroit specifically so just after a week after the polls closed democrats and the media want to ignore these clear. irregularities and rushed to cost states as $1.00 and the certification and campus process we're hearing we need to unite we need to come together well for the thousands of people who spent time in our own. home national committee chairwoman running mcdaniel as well as the white house press secretary and the legal team they're discussing some of their concerns over the election in any accuse the democrats of quote welcoming fraud and illegal voting and said that the campaign wanted honest and accurate not accurate count and that the integrity of our

election matters let's bring in our official who's live for us from washington d.c. so this is quite big the accusations being leveled that the democrats. what did you make of that that some of the court the cases that they're bringing there with all the things that they are discussing. a couple of points to me kelly mccann in the is acting she says in the capacity as a private citizen that is because under government laws particular the act she is not allowed to take a political position given that she's paid by taxpayers here's another interesting thing fox news don't transfer every news channel one tends to skew to the right. of that news conference within just a couple of minutes saying the could not continue to broadcast with un verifiable evidence on behalf of the republicans what is interesting is that what we hear that the star wars and the airing of grievances the republicans talking about voter id

citizenship proving all that sort of thing this is things they've been talking about for years has been tested in the courts and has obviously been rejected no they're talking about the actions that they're bringing these see this is a process here's the problem they keep talking about people told us and they are putting in affidavits but they're not producing evidence at the moment and they've got to do that in the courts they already went to a judge in pennsylvania on weapons there thursday last week it's been a long week and suggested the observers were not being allowed to see the count that the judge asked someone from the trump campaign and said so you're saying there is no one there that representing donald trump and the joy of the lawyer replied it isn't as either or some number so the judge said so there is someone there there method that there was and he said so i don't see what your problem is

this is the difficulty they've got to keep making allegations but not putting up any evidence no it'll be interesting to see if hear the produce any evidence of this see this is what we have phone this is what we have pooled together sounds as if they're walking in the process by getting affidavits from people that say there was issues. what they've had in the past is a problem when they went to a judge who through one of the earlier cases busy because he said what you're bringing to me is someone saying they had someone who'd been told about something and that is hearsay evidence and cannot be counted no they're also talking about going to recounts let me just tell you 2016 hillary clinton asked for a recount in wisconsin at that point she was 20000 votes behind roughly where joe biden is ahead of donald trump at the moment they decided that they would have a recount and at the end of the recount the phone to just 200 more votes for

hillary clinton recounts don't tend to produce the huge swings that we're seeing in the votes that donald trump is behind at the moment so there's a lot of bars for the republicans to pass they believe that they can do this they believe that this election is still up for grabs we have the right at the start from killing mccain only so it seems the republicans are quite prepared to see this go on for a matter of weeks just remember back in 2000 when there was a challenge which was much more focused in florida that went on to the beginning of december before we got a ruling and of course it was a ruling that went all the way to the supreme court and to a degree that donald trump is banking on because of course he appointed 3 of the 6 conservative justices of the court and has said several times in the run up to the election that he wanted this to go to the supreme court if there was any question

about his reelection thank you very much indeed alan fischer. and that said there's news on the balcony thanks george. gang life this was our foundation. i tried to do some to different when i met daisy it was the best day of my life. i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with me.

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