this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. joe biden is due to address the american people tonight, after pushing ahead of donald trump in the count in two crucial states — which could see him win the white house. we're also expecting an update from the count in the key state of nevada shortly, where joe biden is leading in the count. mr biden is increasing his margin over the president in arizona. and a recount is announced in georgia — wherejoe biden‘s lead over donald trump is more than four thousand votes. this is going to be a razor thin margin and the recount will likely be in order and i do think it is appropriate just to ensure the integrity of the

election. but, iam to ensure the integrity of the election. but, i am very confident that these results will stand. joe biden has built up a lead of more than iii—thousand votes over donald trump in the crucial vote count in pennsylvania. the city's mayor says trump must admit defeat. i think what the president needs to do is frankly, put his big boy pants on and acknowledge the fact that he lost and needs to congratulate the winner. i'm laura trevelyan live in washington at the black lives matter protest camp where there's a mood of celebration already.

joe biden has pushed ahead of donald trump in the count in crucial states which could hand him the us presidency. which could hand him mr biden is now in the lead in pennsylvania — where victory would push him over the threshold required to win the white house. as it's worth 20 electoral college votes. joe biden is also ahead in georgia as well as the counts in arizona and nevada. earlier, georgia announced a recount, due to the razor—thin margin there. in nevada, joe biden is leading in the count by over 22,000 votes. 0verall, joe biden needsjust 17 more electoral college votes in order to reach the magic number of 270 — whereas donald trump's potential route to victory is now very slim. well president trump has just tweeted, he said let's get the latest from our north america editorjon sopel. joe biden takes the lead in pennsylvania... donald trump is now trailing...

joe biden is winning the overwhelming share... this mightjust be the moment, the whole ballgame. the seemingly overwhelming lead that donald trump had in pennsylvania the day after the election this morning finally evaporated and has become a biden lead. if the democratic challenger wins here, it's game overfor the president. pretty soon, the hyphen will be gone from vice—president to president—electjoe biden. it's a happy day for our country. and the march of the maths has been played out in small government buildings and windowless offices in arizona, pennsylvania, nevada and georgia. a thousand votes here, a few hundred there — all the time chipping away at donald trump's grip on the white house. there will, though, be a recount in georgia, where margins are so tight. in pennsylvania today from the projoe biden supporters the party has already started and yes there will be dancing in the streets.

donald trump, you have to give it up, man. it's over for you! but from donald trump supporters, increasing anxiety and lots of chance of usa! usa! and in las vegas, nevada, the trump supporters resorted to prayer, "please let our luck change" — not the first time that prayer has been offered in sin city. last night, a disconsolate president made a long, unhappy statement, again alleging without evidence that he was being robbed of a victory that was his. if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. and we think we will win the election very easily, we think there's going to be a lot of litigation, cos we have so much evidence, so much proof, and it's going to end up, perhaps, at

the highest court in the land. astonishingly, all the main us networks pulled away before he'd finished. ok, here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the united states, but correcting the president of the united states. this morning, the president issued this statement... but holed up in the white house, the president isn't enjoying that much support for his legal battle from his party. this is the republican senator from pennsylvania. the president's speech last night was very disturbing to me, because he made very, very serious allegations without any evidence to support it. i am not aware of any significant fraud, any significant wrongdoing. if it's happened, then the evidence needs to come out,

we need to go to court. and the democratic mayor of philadelphia has also weighed in colourfully. he needs to put his big boy pants on and acknowledge the fact that he lost and congratulate the winner just asjimmy carterdid, just as george bush did and frankly, just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country. meanwhile, in wilmington, delaware, the stage is set for a declaration that joe biden has won and that he and that he is now the president—elect. he's marching to the drumbeat of america's long established democratic traditions, determined to be unaffected by the noise coming from the white house. before he came on air. the president did tweet again. 0nly

to see the lead miraculously disappear as the days went by and of course, those leads did not rescue asleep disappear comments on the votes are counted —— miraculously. joe biden, for example, had leads in ohio and north carolina, but then the in person votes are counted from the day after the mailand counted from the day after the mail and votes and that is why those leads forjoe biden disappeared. it's all to do with the sequencing of in the votes are counted. laura trevelyan‘s outside the white house. we had a lid from the white house which means weren't expecting to hear anything more from the president any more today. what are you caring about what is going on inside the white house. that the president has been in a bad mood and he is cross that more republicans have not come out and that some of his aides are saying that a lot of these lawsuits are performative and

somewhat spent his adult life suing feels that he has been able to sue in the past to get his way and he is hoping that it works now. meanwhile, people we re it works now. meanwhile, people were gathering or black lives matter plaza and hoping for a joe biden victory but there happened to be patient and those who are waiting patiently and thank you so much for being with us. how are you feeling about this moment? anxiousjust like everybody else across the country. great to get an answer and have trump get out of the white house. at think i and have trump get out of the white house. at thinkl also feel very nervous and i was the whole thing would just end and we could just get the final count. when he says the election is being stolen from him, how does that make you react? i think the time he says it isn't stolen is in 2016 when russia meddled. what you think

of the present strategy that both of the counts should stop? i hope it'sjust the desperate grasp for a last breath, doing whatever he can grab but he's just trying to keep himself alive in the oval office but i really don't think he belongs there and he really needs to tone down his rhetoric. the elation is really showing how divided america is and it is very close, you disappointed that it very close, you disappointed thatitis very close, you disappointed that it is this close? yes, mix a really scary, especially being the young black woman in america, makes it terrifying to know that over 69 million voted for him. he is terrible and he brings nothing but hate. you have been a part of this activism here for months now, do you feel that activism generated turnout and made a difference in the election? definitely. i think it brought and made people feel even more

engaged, i definitely feel that people here every day, every day i see people are going to come out with this stuff but over the think the movement of black lives matter has inspired a lot of people it is inspiring movement. do you think it has driven black turnout in this movement? absolutely. we have several people voting because he's doing a lot of things are detrimental to us and to our human rights. at the first presidential debate, he said he wanted to and sensitivity training for police officers. how can! training for police officers. how can i possibly stop everything that's going on in any way. it's terrible. do you think there'll be a peaceful tra nsfer of think there'll be a peaceful transfer of power should the president lose? i don't see him really going peacefully. i think they're going to have to have someone talk to him and i

really do not know. he isjust so really do not know. he isjust so dug into the white house and you can see him. he is afraid andl you can see him. he is afraid and i think is going to try to make a last stand and tried to break into the pulse studies i got his people, they are already out there trying to say that they need to call in people and acting like they owe him. i know you guys are still waiting for this and i think you so much forjoining us here. that's the mood to hear from people hoping to be celebrating a joe biden victory and they're frustrated by the fa ct and they're frustrated by the fact that the voting is still going on. yes, we're still in the supporting pattern but we are waiting for several of those key states, the votes been counted but it is a slow process and have to be very

careful, you don't want to get this incorrect. and that is why this incorrect. and that is why this is taking its time. patience is the word of today. so, which states have yet to declare and what potential routes remain for each candidate to win? my colleague kasia madera is in london and has the numbers: patience is the word. as the map stands, the great states are the ones to be projected —— grey. willjoe biden be able to flip it? those 11 electoral couege flip it? those 11 electoral college votes which she needs, these are the crucial for him if he wants to avoid georgia and pennsylvania. in his lead in fact is shrinking because this is traditionally republican. let's look at nevada, six electoral college votes a nd nevada, six electoral college votes and his lead is growing with this one and it was around

20,000 votes and it is now, growing to about 2000 and interesting want to look at. but lots of months and focuses have been on georgian pennsylvania but, let's flag of georgia because it is 16 electoral college votes and this is the one that is so close that it is on a recount, already been called and this lead has grown and the secretary of state is describing the lead as being a number of people that attend a large score. and now, it is 4266. it is crowing, basically. it is certainly growing. pennsylvania, another one put it this way, joe biden wins this one, that's 20 electoral couege this one, that's 20 electoral college votes that put some up to the magical 2070. it is one that the mailing votes, the

absentee votes are trailing towards the democrats. so this is one which is close. initially close forjoe biden. we are talking about turning arizona. if he does that and he ta kes arizona. if he does that and he takes nevada, he is there already. he's got 270. so, he wins the white house. that's a look at georgia, looking at that recount and it does go democrat, if he takes pennsylvania, then we will have a look at that and he gets 360 electoral college votes and that was the number that donald trump got back in 2016. that would be an irony. these projections, no one is declaring the winter all of the us networks being very careful as well. thank you very much for that update. james clayton is in las vegas, nevada james, there has been some thought that maybe nevada would be giving us a few more votes

some kind of indication of where the vote is going. what are you shooting from officials there? we have heard something, they counted about 8000 votes today and they're breaking down around 5000 to joe today and they're breaking down around 5000 tojoe biden, 300 to donald trump and that gives joe biden around 20,000 to about 22 or 23,000 lead. everything that is coming up from nevada here keeps putting joe biden further and further ahead from donald trump. there is no good news here at the moment from donald trump. although very small sample sizes coming out from here. no good news for donald trump at all. but this count has been incredibly slow and we've got 30,000 ballots earlier today, 8000 again today and there is under 10,000 by him that still needs counting and that is why the registrar here says maybe they will get a result today or tomorrow, maybe on sunday may be into next week. in mexico

ta ke be into next week. in mexico take a little bit longer than we thought. there was a stage this morning —— it may be. we are in this recording pattern and it may last a while, wanted? that seems to be the problem. essentially, if you do a mail—in ballot, you have to sign something and if you take that and you send it in, they have computers here that will register that. but, the sin but if the signature does not match, it would take a while. there are humans trying to match the signature with another signature and that ta kes another signature and that takes lots of time and that slows it down. speaking to the attorney general in nevada, he said they're going to be very careful that they want to get it right, not to get it fast and make sure there wasn't any fraud involved. let his head to the centre of

all of this trauma. —— led us had. michelle fleury is in philadelphia, pennsylvania what kinds of ballots are outstanding, why is it taking so outstanding, why is it taking so long in philadelphia and pennsylvania? which is beginning to learn that it is adding more votes in favour of joe biden his column and that pushes them closer or hired to his total number of 20,000 votes a nd his total number of 20,000 votes and soul, and increasing margin of lead against donald trump and if you look at where the outstanding balance for. it's places of her home to pittsburgh and philadelphia where i'm standing in the suburbs that had to include in those areas that all lean democratic. that was why you

had prognosticators potentially sink it is hard to see how the trends will reverse. they expect the joe biden trends will reverse. they expect thejoe biden to lead in the state and have it increase. no one is willing to call this race yet because it will given its 20 electoral votes on the line, and there are still outstanding balance, whether their military ballots that are still coming in and up until november ten or whether it is provincial ballots. there may be some doubt about their eligibility and thus take longer to process because you have to double and triple check things. that is why officials keep saying is going to take some time. it seemed to move fast, right. there was a period where everything seemed to be moving quite fast and we thought we might have pennsylvania today and you, do you not think that the issues around the provincial ballots in the military ballots for the overseas ballots that can come m, overseas ballots that can come in, are you thinking that there's a chance that this could be days from the result

being called in pennsylvania?” think if you're looking for the certified result, then yes, we are absolutely days away at think that is what you're seeing those in the media waiting to call this but you can do some analysis and start doing some math and as you get a clearer picture on how big a lead joe biden has, at what point does it become unassailable despite the fact that you still have these other votes to take into account. we are not there yet and that is why this cautious approach towards it, that being said, thatis towards it, that being said, that is not stop supporters that is not stop supporters that have been out here for the cou nty that have been out here for the county and is not become a bit ofa county and is not become a bit of a battle of the bands because while they were playing scott heron for the supporters, we had donald trump supporters and we are the champion by queen in neither side is prepared to give up yet. quite a weird musical myths. thank

you for listening. what are the calculations that the american networks are making about when they might call pennsylvania? how much of a lead to the one joe biden to have before they decide it would be safe to call him if that's the way it looks like it's going? at the moment, he has a lead of 1.2% and not a bigger lead us donald trump had when he carried pennsylvania four years ago. so, that is something to bear in mind. .5%, you have to go above that figure to avoid a recount in an automatic recount and we are not there yet. and it's just trying to understand how big it, how may provincial ballots we talking about here? we talked about 100,000? retake about 20 or 30,000? those are the sorts of calculations, the numbers of calculations, the numbers of calculations, the numbers have been crunched and it's his an element of judgement of where these votes are coming from, who they might

favour. what we do know is that in person voters for donald trump, rural areas is protected, favour donald trump. suburban areas have favourjoe biden he has managed to increase turnout there and the postal ballots, here in philadelphia, north of 80% of the postal ballots and joe biden. do we know what the provisional ballots favour? that is where the debate is. some say it favours donald trump more but the question is, by how much? he needs to gain a significant amount to catch joe biden now. there are other people that say, the problem with provisional ballots is largely to do with the fact that so many people are voting by posts for the first time in this day, and we see the trade favours joe this day, and we see the trade favoursjoe biden this day, and we see the trade favours joe biden and this day, and we see the trade favoursjoe biden and that seems to be the debate right 110w seems to be the debate right now for this. thank you for all

that detail. while, we are all learning more than we thought we would about how these counts work, are we? but those two numbers. 0.2% is what he is ahead of at the moment, joe biden 0.5% of the votes were donald trump wanted by last time, do not expect the networks to make any call before we have it be 0.5% of the vote. barbara plett usher is atjoe biden‘s headquarters in wilmington, delaware joe biden his campaign said they would have an international address —— national address, and probably proclaim victory, as the frustration that that is not the position they are in? they caught the lid, which meant that we were not expecting anything more from the white house tonight. the joe anything more from the white house tonight. thejoe biden campaign has not called it lid to we're not quite sure what to

expect, because expressing to the nation, which begins less than an hour, they were expecting that the rates would have been called and they would give a victory speech and he would be able to speak is the president—elect to the american nation but because the race is not been called, it is not entirely clear what is going to happen as you see behind me, the state from which she was speaking is quiet, there's been some time preparing it and we have to see how long they want to waste and what they want to do if in fact, the race is not called by the end of this night and how long they will go on waiting to see the results and if they were willing to make statement otherwise. we are not quite sure but the plan is that she would also be accompanied by. she would also be accompanied by, ly harris, was the vice president a candidate and she would speak and have stood beside him in the past couple of days when he made his statements, but she would speak

this time as well. and there's a whole programme laid out. so, we are waiting to find out what they have in mind. 0ther frustrated, i think some of them are. because there will be for a victory celebration tonight but i think also, they have been quite careful about saying that they need to have the votes be counted in the process to go through and they wa nt to process to go through and they want to have legitimacy surrounding any declaration of joe biden being the president—elect. joe biden being the president-elect. will be pretty hypocritical wouldn't it to have them criticise donald trump and then come out and say he had already won when he had not already won and joe biden was a critical and the democrats were critical of that. he'll be a little bit hypocritical for now it came out and said they had one while the vote was still going on in the vote was still going on in the numbers were not there. exactly, and i'm sure they're very conscious of that because thatis very conscious of that because that is the approach they have

taken all week. they have been projecting confidence saying that they knew how the votes, that they knew how the votes, that there would be this blueshift once the postal votes we re blueshift once the postal votes were collected and started to be counted in that they had a very close eye on it and they kept us up to date with progress as it went, but the same time, they said and also joe biden, we never made the state m e nts joe biden, we never made the statements at the process can be trusted and every vote must be trusted and every vote must be counted and so, they've been bouncing those two things together and projecting their confidence in victory but also that democracy, the process of democracy must play out. so, thatis democracy must play out. so, that is what they're waiting for now. in front of the stage in delaware. we do not know yet whether or notjoe biden will come out and speak this evening, we do not know when the result will be declared and we do not know which state it will be in that the result is declared over, but we do know that it will end at some point in all of you, patients, bear with us and will bring this in

as soon as we can we cannot declare a winner in the us presidential election. thank you for watching. goodbye. hello there. after a couple of cold and frosty mornings with a bit of mist and fog around, we'll start to see some changes to the weather this weekend. that's because lower pressure will be moving in, bringing milder weather to all areas by the end of the weekend, but also outbreaks of rain mostly across southern and western areas. 0ur big area of high pressure which brought the settled weather will be dominating the scene this weekend across the near continent. this area of low pressure will start to push up into southern and western areas, and the breeze will be increasing as well. already a breezy start across the far south west. elsewhere, it's a chilly start to saturday with some mist and fog through central scotland, north east england, eastern wales and the midlands. the best of the sunshine will be across northern and western areas, and some sunshine also pushing into southern counties

of england by the end of the day. we'll also see some rain arriving across cornwall and devon, too, the first of a series of weather fronts. here, it will be windy. elsewhere, the winds light, but certainly stronger than they have been of late. so it will be a milder day across southern areas, 14—16 degrees. another chilly one further north. now, through saturday night, looks like it'll be chilly and dry to start with across northern areas, where that band of rain spreads its way northwards. and by the end of the night, it'll be lying across northern ireland, wales, the midlands and into the south east. here, it will be milder because of the rain. fairly chilly in the north for a while, but those temperatures will start to rise as we move into sunday morning. that band of rain moves northwards across the country on sunday, and this next one will arrive later on sunday into monday. so, it'll be much a cloudier day across the country. that band of rain across central and northern areas will push into scotland, turning lighter and patchier.

behind it, we could start to see some sunshine developing across northern ireland, wales and the south west. but here, it will be breezier, and in fact further north the winds will be a little stronger than they have been of late. the milder air reaching as far north as northern ireland, so northern ireland up to northern england, southwards 14—16 degrees, 10—11 degrees across scotland. but the mild air reaches scotland as we move into monday. we'll see more weather fronts pushing into mainly southern and western areas to bring outbreaks of rain. some of it could be on the heavy side. but the theme as we move through the week is for higher pressure to keep eastern areas generally drier. the further west that you are, likely to see the influence of that area of low pressure, which will bring further spells of rain at times.

this is bbc news. joe biden is expected to speak in the next few hours as he inches closer to victory, after pushing ahead of donald trump in two crucial states. 0verall, joe biden needsjust 17 more electoral college votes in order to reach the magic number of 270. mr biden is increasing his margin over the president in arizona, but a recount is announced in georgia — where joe biden‘s lead over donald trump is more than 4,000 votes. the mayor of atlanta has said she is positive that the results will stand. in pennsylvania, joe biden has built up a lead of more than 14,000 votes over donald trump in the crucial vote count there. however, the city's mayor says trump must admit defeat. pennsylvania is of critical importance to both candidates, as it's worth 20 electoral college votes.