that america has been a force for good in the world, from the american people get inspiration from him and the other half cringe,, your weekly, take on u.s., politics and society. that's the bottom line. i just think it's an embarrassment. quite frankly, u.s. president elect joe biden says donald trump's refusal to concede will not help his legacy or stop the transfer of power. there will be a smooth transition to a 2nd term, an issue. this as trump's allies refuse to back down, and instead focus on trump's legal challenges. balance the whole roman watching i was there a life my headquarters here in doha, also coming up clashes on the streets of lima, following the swearing in of the new peruvian president. and calls for

a cease fire in ethiopia is to grey region where hundreds of died and thousands are fleeing into saddam. welcome to the program, the u.s. president elect joe biden has called donald trump's refusal to concede the presidential election as an embarrassment. but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january, and that's despite the trumpet, ministrations reportedly refusing to assist the president elect's transition team. allan fisher has more from washington d.c. . well, donald trump is keeping a low profile. joe biden is putting himself front and center. this was an event to discuss the affordable care act. but the president elect questions on other topics and he had a message to the man he will replace. and his refusal to accept the result. i just think it's an embarrassment. great,

frankly. the only thing that how can we say this tax? i think it will help the president's legacy. i think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful that the united states democratic institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure. and, but i think at the end of the day, you know, it's all going to come to fruition in january 20th. all foreign leaders, a calling joe biden to congratulate him. trump, secretary of state america's top diplomat, has called the result into question. it will be a smooth transition to a 2nd term of mr. action. right, we're already at the world is watching what's taking place that we're going to count all the votes. when the process is complete, electors selected, there's

a process, the constitution lays it out pretty clearly. various government agencies and departments it's been reported have been ordered by the white house not to help with the presidential transition. because in its view, the result is still in doubt. that hasn't stopped joe biden, pushing ahead with planning for day one, even without the immediate assistance of the chump administration. and the leader of the republicans in the senate says the dili want to create problems. i don't think anything that occurred so far in iraq's an ordinary process of moving through the various steps that i indicated and allowing if there is a new administration to work through the transition, all of these steps to be taken at the appropriate of this election has already seen a lot of legal challenges there might be another one coming as the fighting campaign considers going to court to force donald trump's team to start planning for the handover of power. alan fischer. al-jazeera washington. bruce fein as

a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer joins us from washington. d.c. via skype. good to have you with us on the program again, mystifying the president is adamant that he's going to prove that there was election fraud. so from the facts, the evidence in the interviews presented to be it from a distance. what's your opinion of the strength of his case? the opinion is it's just hot air and noticed that he has his secretary of state who is not a lawyer. pronounce that they'll be a 2nd, trump administration, secretary of state has no clue the laws and procedures. the court case is under way . he attorney general, who would be inclined to make a statement like that. mr. barr, who is a loyalist, has made no such statement. i've looked at the case is there already been close to a dozen which have resulted in dismissals of the allegations because there isn't

evidence to prove illegal voting even in the cases that have not yet been dismissed or even the ones that may be filed in the future, the number of votes at stake is far, far too miniscule, to affect the outcome of the election in any particular state. take pennsylvania, for instance. probably the strongest claim that 3 day window that was extended past election day for receiving mail and ballots by the pennsylvania supreme court may have overstepped the bounds. but mr. biden has 50000 vote margin there. and if you discard all of those window vote, it's maybe 2 or 3000. so this is just campaigning to raise money, perhaps to help the georgia senatorial elections or keep trump relevant. but the legal cases are going nowhere. and mr. trump's statement that he's going to get the supreme court to intercede is completely facetious. the supreme court will stand aside. so,

as we watch the events unfold between the president and the president elect, it seems very annoying to announce to the view outside of the u.s. that the u.s. really calling get its house in order on this is jeopardizing your reputation as a nation. and joe biden, as alluded to that well, it to some degree, but it's partly because of understanding about how our electrolyse elect, our electoral college works. it's not a direct election, you get the one with the majority votes, and that's the end of the game. we have an orderly process on december 8th. these various states, 50 states in the district of columbia will certify the winners and send those documents to the secretary of state and to the leadership in congress on december 14th, about a month from now, the electors will meet in the various states and cast their votes and then january 6th, a joint session of congress will count the vote. so there's nothing that in the law

that requires a president to concede earlier than these dates other than his own decency. and you can't expect that from mr. trump, but we do have a very orderly process. things are moving forward. there's not been violence despite all the verbal pyrotechnics of mr. trump and sound business associates. we're going to make sure that not any illegal votes are counted and they haven't been. the process is working as it should work. in fact, myself, i'm in washington d.c. . i've been stunned at how peaceful, given the demonstrations after the george floyd killing and the rancor during the campaign. how peaceful it's been. didn't have any trouble voting. there's been no riots. no violence in the streets or anything like that. well, let's hope it stays that way for the forseeable future. bruce fein, always good to get your insights on. of course, we'll be monitoring this result in the ongoing count until it's set to fight until

december. thanks very much. thank you. now the u.s. supreme court heard republican objections to the affordable care act. on tuesday, donald trump has long pledged to scrap his predecessor's signature achievement, but some conservative judges have already signaled that and likely to strike down the law. she had pretense, he explains, estimated that some 23000000 people would lose their health coverage if the affordable care act was found to be unconstitutional. some gathered outside the supreme court as oral arguments were heard virtually by the justices to explain what was at stake. like maura riley, whose past seizures might make her ineligible for health insurance without obamacare and got hit with ambulance about $900.00 again for a one hour for a 5 minute ambulance ride and a hospital bill for almost $30000.00 for one night in the hospital. plus every idea of other medical bills from specialists and doctors, and thanks for that, you know,

maybe 30 hours and a half. but if the 8 struck down over the coming days coming weeks, i will finally be without health insurance. a particular focus of the protest as fears was the supremes, coots, newest member, amy kearney, barrett, she's been critical of 2, previous rulings upholding the a.c.l.u. against republican challengers. however, as it turned out, it was a different trump nominee who made the most significant contributions to the proceedings. brett kavanaugh, his questioning, strongly suggested that even if a majority of justices agreed that the plaintiffs had a case and that what's called the individual mandate in the a cia, the requirement for all americans to have health insurance was unconstitutional. kavanah didn't feel that would invalidate the rest of obamacare looking or several buildings precedence. it does seem fairly clear that the proper remedy would be to sever the mandate provision and leave the rest of the employees. the provisions regarding preexisting conditions and the rest chief justice john roberts,

also expressed skepticism of the republicans arguments together with cavanagh and the court 3 liberal justices. they could form a majority to preserve the in delaware president elect joe biden weighed in this effort to bypass the will of the american people, the verdict of the courts in the past. the judgments of congress, in my view is simply cruel and needlessly device. joe biden was among the 1st to, congratulate his then both president barack obama won the a c., a became law in 20 term against republican objections. but a decade later, even by going except that with at least 30000000 still uninsured despite obamacare change is needed. and now his supporters hope he'll be able to keep a campaign promise to use the a.c.s. private insurance model as a basis for reform. once the supreme court rules in several months, she obertan see i'll just 0. protests have been taking place across peru after

martin. this car was removed as president protesters fault with police outside congress in the capital, even as karl rove remains very popular. despite the accusations of corruption that led to his impeachment, sanchez has the latest from lima, anger, and outrage, and it is major cities from lima to school bloody keep. protesters clashed with riot police. dozens were arrested violence also erupting around the perimeter of congress. as my limited know was sworn in this new interim president. there was this congress does whatever they want with us. we have to fight the country, can't go on like this in his message. really? no, said he been entrusted with a legitimate vote to defend the nation. this is momentum. we do this in a public place. this is a difficult time for the country. people have expectations and they look at us worried that the crisis isn't deniable. we must act maturely with, you know,

i should, peruvians elections will be held in april and that he will respect the rule of law . but that's a message that you believe plausible. $68.00 of $130.00 lawmakers face criminal investigations from murder to money laundering, abuse and fraud, among other charges. the new congress president faces $52.00 investigations alone, peruvian, say, corruption is entrenched at the highest levels and the outgoing president of the discover. the one person, many believe could bring honesty to government, has been impeached and removed from office because carter was the only president who had the strength to put things in order. the new government is taking power to satisfy the person when missions they knew they wouldn't be reelected. some political foes of this new government say the law makers and gave to shield themselves from prosecution with immunity and events change the constitution to

allow for their reelection. to the far from is quite good by a monday. now, former president discover who faces 2 investigations for corruption is questioning the legitimacy of the impeachment. he says, the votes to unseat him would only be valid if sanctioned by the people around the country. a few peruvians are content with he's gotten out of office earlier because it is here that actually the scar deserved to be finished. a lot can happen now. there is a lot of uncertainty. but this, by their differences. most people here are certain about one thing. after 3 presidents in the last 4 years, nothing peruvian politics can surprise them. at the end of scientists and just leave well still ahead here on al-jazeera. very celebrated armenians protest. russian peacekeepers are deployed as part of a cease fire deal to end the fighting in the going to come about the palestinians

lose their chief negotiator saeb erekat to start weeks after contracting david 90 crosses are very much a game of to have serious losses. settled and dry in fairly quiet across northern parts of japan still saying want to 2 showers, want to them of a wintry nature. they will pull out of the white prices guys coming in behind. wins for the night 16 celsius in tokyo. so not a good little bit of sherry right around the moth east of china, northern parts of the korean peninsula. but for much of the region a, this settled and sunny very different pictures, a push into southeast asia, the 2 tropical systems causing problems here. poor old vietnam poor,

the philippines is saying further disturbances as we go through the coming days, find a warning has now been issued for tropical depression. i seen the prices of wakening heavy rain. they're coming in across the region. the may want to watch for next is going to be vanco tropical storm. that is making its way further westwards and they will roll across the philippines as we go on through the next couple of days. bring in those damaging winds. huge waves, storm surge and the risk of flooding. so as we go on through wednesday, there we go, starting to fade its way in across southern parts of luzon. it will punch its way out into the south china sea. intensifying further becoming a thai food and they will make its way towards central parts of vietnam. but dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic. let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage. what's the lay of the land there? stripping away the spam a gripping story about presidential corruption,

it is real reporting. it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line, we all decided we need to cut our security. we don't want to rely on authority and the post on out is the right of the work you're watching. others are with me. is the whole, rob, a reminder of our top stories, u.s. president elect joe biden has called donald trump's refusal to concede the presidential election an embarrassment, but he says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january. the u.s. supreme court has heard arguments in

a case which could strip 20000000. people of medical insurance justices have already signaled that they're unlikely to strike down all of the affordable care act passed. and trouble was to get rid of it. and protests have been taking place across peru after months of this car was removed as president protesters forge with police outside congress and leave this car. it remains very popular. despite the accusations of corruption that led to his impeachment, russian peacekeeping troops have been deployed and are going to karabakh following a deal to end 6 weeks of fighting. the disputed region is internationally recognized as part of as a by chance, but is controlled by ethnic armenians as areas of spend the day celebrating, what's seen as a win delivering swathes of territory to their country. but in neighboring armenia has been described as a disaster out of dylan mead has more from yet over like it or not. it's a nation in shock. many baffled that their media has signed an agreement they see

as humiliating. and for some the anger was too much to contain. by early morning protestors started to arrive in front of parliament. i don't know how this nation believes this man says, calling on people to rise up. emotions were high, and soon the anger turned into calls for a prime minister to resign among the people here, veterans of the 1st war, thereby journ in the early 1990, s. mothers of soldiers who recently died and displaced people from nagorno-karabakh. mina and her mother bear to are dismayed. they left their hometown of stepan, occurred by jan at the beginning of the fighting. her father stayed behind the other, a much harsher as many articles on the one who signed this agreement didn't ask our opinion. he signed it in secret, it's a crime. i want to return there. my dream general there. i'm not having a normal education because of current virus and the war. i will only go back if the

children of the prime minister come and live there with me. like everyone here nina and berto want the agreement to be cancelled boardin, a 1200 soldiers lost their lives order. past 6 weeks has now also lost all 7 as every region surrounding the un clave it had occupied since 994. as well as a total of shusha in the corner. it's hard to swallow. this is a very difficult time for me and for prime minister, and he called pressuring me on that he was already under intense international pressure, just signed a cease fire agreement. and now is having an even harder time at home, explaining to people that this was the best option. in the current situation, there was no chance of making another decision, a plan to give more details such as why and what the reason was behind last month's of ins. i can't do it right now for one simple reason. because stopping military actions is the main focus right now. and if i say something,

i couldn't dangerous people. but bush hasn't managed to convince many people, even among those who are not calling for his resignation. i'm an ordinary mother, but what happened is horrible. every day we were given good news and suddenly this happens. good or bad. i don't know, but i don't want an agreement at the price of all those innocent children who died . it should have been done earlier. he needs to answer questions. some of the russian peacekeepers have already they will be deployed in to guarantee to cease fire. but this sense of loss that azerbaijan is just beginning to seep in, but at the president's will and what he calls a patient more from the capital. a victory dance bridges been years in the making,

either by johnnie's or jubilant after the announcement of a deal to end the conflict in the corner. even physical constraints didn't stop some people from showing their joy. hundreds of thousands of displaced people who wanted to return. now that seems possible to return to the place where my mother grandmother were born from and to me, i can't even describe this feeling. it's impossible to express all this after steady gains on the battlefield since september has been made possible, largely because of other by john's advanced military power. the president acknowledged his forces as he declared the conflict over god. heroes as a result of their heroes and self-sacrifice, we return to our learns that soldiers can recover soon and return to normal life. i have called it an armenian defeat, agreed with russian relation and with the deal will hold on to the areas of newborn

a car bomb that it took you in the recent fighting. well, i mean, i had agreed to withdraw from several of the nearby areas in the coming few weeks. russian peacekeepers will remain in the region but an extended 5 years in return other by john will stop its advances and the guns on the front lines have fallen silent. as it would join the army showed that we are capable to liberate our territories we have liberated our wanted. now we also showed that we have the political will to stop hostilities and to continue by negotiations. many people in the are very capital baku don't completely trust russian peacekeepers and wanted their forces to retake all of the disputed the region. the turkish foreign minister called the deal a secret success as the israeli president hinted that there could be people in addition to the russians. but it's not yet decided exactly how those troops will be deployed. other by johnny say a few weeks of war have achieved more than 2 decades of diplomacy. but maintaining

peace is not going to be easy. as thousands of people have been killed on both sides and more than a 1000000 have in this place and with armenia and azerbaijan. some of their own investigation by the vatican has revealed that pope john paul the 2nd, failed to stop the rise of a disgraced cardinal. despite having knowledge of his sexual misconduct, theodore mccarrick was allowed to rise through the catholic church's ranks. despite a long history of abuse allegations against adults and minors, the report does not accuse the current. pontiff, pope francis of trying to protect the u.s. cardinal. now the conflict in north think the threaten to spill over the country's borders and appears to be fueling a humanitarian crisis. prime minister orders in a sense of integrate last week, but since then hundreds have been killed. mohammed dow has more from the capital at a suburb of celebrations on the streets of the tiny town of in northern ethiopia.

residents came to welcome federal forces who have just written in the town from 2 great fighters does show which is in them. heart a region was captured by the ground forces a week ago during fighting with troops along with your peers and often command whose bases they are tucked as the word. look at them as he did. on that day, we could hear a lot of gunfire. the whole village panicked, but thanks to the heart of regional special forces who were able to save a lot of the national defense forces. if your peers, federal government continued to claim more victories on tuesday, with its defense forces saying they had seized the port, integrate near the border with sudan and eritrea. they also put a, did some militiamen from the to grab people's liberation front, who they said had defected. from political trend because we must not go to war for full reasons. we should be defending our national unity. so the young men to take

ray should not go to war. a telephone, an internet communications blackout integrate, has made it difficult to verify the situation on the ground. the african union is the latest to join international calls for an immediate cease fire and dialogue to a peaceful solution. to a huge chairperson, most of achim hamad appealed for an immediate cessation of hostilities and called on parties to respect human rights and assure the protection of civilians. the government, however, is adamant that it won't talk until the operation achieves its objectives of bringing the to great leadership to justice and confiscating or destroying artillery and other arms. the group has, it's in possession. what we know was they had some missiles was, could go to 300 kilometers, that means they could strike a marriage and they could also strike our followers. they can dislike us. matter that's easier. it was in syrian so that's why the government asked us to destroy it . hundreds of people have already been killed in the conflict that's been mostly

causes treated in western to grey, close to the border with sudan and eritrea. according to diplomats, a large number of refugees, including troops are said to have already crossed into sudan. their fears, this conflict could trigger a civil war in the most populous nation in the horn of africa, to go and account for 6 percent of ethiopians, but dominate the politics for 30 years. before prime minister rule rejoined mr. sharon sees prime minister going reforms are attempting to bring about a unitary system of government which destroys the current federal one. diplomats are now water up. the longer the conflict takes, the more difficult it might be to bring back the particular a region into ethiopians for their nation of regional states. i discovered record numbers of people are in hospital in the united states with the current

virus, as the number of new cases continues to soar. almost 62000 people are continually currently hospitalized covert 19 and a new high of 200000 cases were reported in the past 24 hours. the funeral of chief palestinian negotiator, saeb erekat will be held later on wednesday after he died on choose a from covert 900 complications that account was a key figure in talks with israel for over 20 years are a force that looks back on his life. so it was at the center of the israeli palestinian conflict for much of his life for many around the world. one of the most familiar and effective voices for the palestinian cause. his death came just over a month since he was diagnosed with covert 19, his wife and one of his daughters among those who rushed to the west jerusalem hospital where he was being treated from the occupied west bank. the tributes began to come in. it was somebody who persisted this bike and many others are

extremely cruel at that. who devoted his whole life to ensuring that palestinian lives and palestinians are out. i would say. and i've indicated that was 12 years old when israeli tanks rolled into his hometown of jericho, part of a war that lasted 6 days and reshaped the region and his life. he attended university in the united states and moved to england to complete a ph d. in conflict resolution. at the madrid peace talks in 1901, he insisted on wearing the cafe here, the symbol of palestinian national identity. in the decades following as a palestinian chief negotiator, he would be both criticized and praised for his stubbornness over terms for a 2 state solution based on the 1967 borders being it doesn't negotiate or was it was or is that all there e,

i would say possible to negotiate because we will will real red lines, but the day of his death also brought fresh attacks from some on the israeli right . prime minister benjamin netanyahu, some called him a terrorist who worked for the destruction of israel. over the years, erekat described a growing pessimism at israel's expansion of illegal settlements and the steady entrenchment of its occupation. and that's what really that they can undermine. that was that solution and replace it with what i call one step 2 system, maintaining the status quo. now, apartheid i don't think in the 21st century, they would get away with it. it's impossible. all the while he'd been fighting a more personal battle responder tree disease that would in 2017 require a transplant of both lungs and leave him among the most vulnerable to the

coronavirus pandemic. on tuesday afternoon, erica body was brought here to ramallah ahead of his burial in his hometown of jericho. on wednesday, he was aware in his latter years that the failure to achieve a palestinian state had affected his standing. they say i should have got a tongue transplant instead of a lung transplant. he once said, but he never did give up on his advocacy for a 2 state solution to a conflict that has now outlived him. are a force that al-jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank with means the whole rob, the reminder of our top stories, u.s. president elect, joe biden, has called donald trump's refusal to concede the presidential election an embarrassment, but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january i just think it's an embarrassment. great, frankly the only thing.