this is bbc news live from washington and london. it's been five days since the united states went to the polls and we still don't have a result. four key states are yet to declare a winner — democrats are inching towards victory in all of them. the eyes of the world are on the election counters. it is the longest delay to an election result in 20 yea rs. joe biden says he'll soon have a ‘mandate for action‘ — until then he's urged for calm and unity. the numbers tell us it's clear, tell us a clear and convincing story. we're going to win this race. the president says he has no plans to concede. he continues to allege fraud without providing any evidence.

washington is preparing for what could be a decisive day in the race for the presidency. stay clam, stay patient. those are the words ofjoe biden, who says he is on track to become the 46th president of the united states. speaking at his campaign headquarters, the democratic party candidate said he had clear and convincing leads in pennsylvania and georgia, and was ahead in arizona and nevada. and he repeated his insistence that all votes would be counted, "no matter how hard people try to stop it". he also used the moment to say it was time to "put anger and demonisation behind us", stating that a president has a duty of care for all americans. these are the latest official numbers in the electoral college with 270 needed for victory.

the counting continues and a recount has been announced in georgia. lebo diseko reports. joe biden supporters danced through the day and into the night in the city of philadelphia. their candidate's lead in this state is steadily growing and they can taste the victory. winning in pennsylvania would mean joe biden becomes the president. with the count nearing completion, he is inching his way there. but with some votes still to come in, it may be some time before a result is declared. we don't have a final declaration... on friday evening, joe biden addressed the nation. he stopped short of declaring victory, but his tone and message deliberately presidential. the numbers tell us it's clear — tell us a clear and convincing story. we're going to win this race. just look at what has happened since yesterday. 2a hours, we were behind in georgia. now we're ahead and we're going to win that state. 2a hours ago, we were

behind in pennsylvania, and we are going to win pennsylvania. on twitter, donald trump again expressed frustration at seeing his election night lead "miraculously disappear". but it was the counting of postal votes that shifted the numbers so dramatically — a process donald trump had told his supporters not to trust. but as results trickle in from other battleground states, the picture building isn't in his favour. in both nevada and arizona, joe biden‘s is head. joe biden‘s is ahead. georgia's results are so close that an automatic recount has been triggered, but it's unlikely it would change the result by more than a few hundred votes. donald trump has filed legal action in several states in an effort to turn his fortunes around, and there's no evidence of the widespread fraud that he alleges. the legal hurdles may create a bumpy path, butjoe biden increasingly seems to be on firm footing on his road to the white house. lebo diseko, bbc news, washington.

the bbc‘s yalda hakim joins us from philadelphia, pennsylvania. what is going on? it has been quite a dramatic and nail—biting couple of days. let me remind you where we wear yesterday morning when trump was ahead by about 18,000 votes. by lunchtime it was joe was ahead by about 18,000 votes. by lunchtime it wasjoe biden that had taken the lead in pennsylvania by about 5500 votes. by the evening we heard reports thatjoe biden with more counts of the votes had taken the lead by 28,000. that is currently where the philadelphia officials are telling us they are at. the reason there is a bit of a hold—up is there is a thing called provisional votes, there is about 18,000 of these provisional votes to be looked at here in philadelphia. what they are, they are nicknamed

the problem child vote. that is because there might be an issue with the way the ballot was filled out by the way the ballot was filled out by the voter. where the date of birth is, they may have but the date of the day. they need to review this and there is about 18,000 of them. let me remind our viewers, philadelphia and pennsylvania has never really experienced this high volume of absentee votes, so this is the reason why things are so slow here. we did have things, the pace was picking up yesterday after a few days of slowdown, but it does seem like things have slowed down here again and we have been told by officials it could still take a couple of more days. what is the president's legal strategy in pennsylvania? as you know, he has had an army of lawyers across this country taking on legal battles and certainly in pennsylvania he

threatened to stop the counter in a couple of counties. 0ne count was halted for a couple of hours a couple of days ago, but that picked up couple of days ago, but that picked up again yesterday. he may be trying to have these legal battles, but whether they are amounting to anything is a whole other issue. before the election day the pennsylvania supreme court made a ruling that any votes that came in between november the 3rd and november the 5th would be accepted. the republican party here and the president's campaign took it to the supreme court. the supreme court left a small door open and said we will review it after the election. now the president and his lawyers are trying to kick it back to the supreme court to really look at those votes that came in after november the 3rd and to stop them from being included. he is saying they should be segregated. the

officials here have said, they have already segregated those votes and frankly, those votes amount to a few thousand. in terms of the overall picture, will they make a difference? not really. our people in philadelphia glued to this vote by the, orare in philadelphia glued to this vote by the, or are they carrying on as normal? i think the entire country, even with coronavirus, the streets we re even with coronavirus, the streets were deserted. if you go around the corner where i were deserted. if you go around the corner where i was were deserted. if you go around the corner where i was yesterday there are demonstrators, there are the pro trump camp and the anti—trump camp on the other side of this convention centre. the mood started to shift over the last few days. the anti—trump camp had turned it into a party, a lot of dancing going on, playing loud music and they are taunting the trump campaign who look more and more demoralised as the days go on. the anti—trump camp look more and more confident. there are

some groups around the corner and the police are manning the area. the police are also just outside this convention centre where about 100 workers are working in eight—hour shifts from both sides of the outcome are democrats and republicans, trying to count these votes. they are calling for patients, they are saying it has to be done in a meticulous way, it is a complicated situation and given what is at stake and the pressure on pennsylvania, they want to make sure that they get this right, rather than just calling it. joe biden was born in scranton in the state of pennsylvania, we are looking at pictures live from the counting station, which looks pretty quiet, does this count as a home state for vice president biden, even though he lives in delaware? he has lived in delaware when he was elected to the senate at the age of 29. that is

where he raised his two young boys after the tragic death of his wife and daughter, who were killed in a car accident. you see the visions of him taking the train from delaware to dc. but in pennsylvania, this is where he has called home. he sold the message of being a working class boy being born in scranton in pennsylvania, that has a lot of factories and really was part of the boom in the early 20th century and he talks about how that boom then faded and the factory started to close and he understands the pain of a lot of the working class voters here. don't forget, james, the working class, noncollege educated white voter across this country became the base of donald trump. certainly here in pennsylvania as well. it is not so much thatjoe biden has managed to bleed away into those votes, it's just that both candidates had huge turnouts. 0ver

6.5 million people came out to vote. as you can see, it is very narrow. both sides managed to get their supporters out to vote, it's just they adopted very different strategies. the democrats, concerned about coronavirus told their voters to put in an absentee vote, vote by post and vote early. donald trump said don't trust the mail—in ballot system, come in and vote on election day. now it seems the election day ballots have been counted, the bulk of it now is mail—in. ballots have been counted, the bulk of it now is mail-in. i learned the phrase, problem child votes from you. iam phrase, problem child votes from you. i am very grateful. thank you very much. there's nothing peculiar about donald trump tweeting. but what is interesting is how many of his tweets are being flagged as being potentially misleading. take a

look, four tweets in the past hour have been hidden behind warning messages. the tweets have alleged observers have been refused admittance into counting rooms and boards were put up to prevent observers watching the can. social media platforms have been under pressure to up their game when it comes to monitoring misleading information and this is the result. he doesn't like that much, does he, being flagged up. no, he doesn't. but there could be a backlash to this. i was speaking to some republicans last night and one of them said that even though he accepted there may not be widespread voterfraud, accepted there may not be widespread voter fraud, there is accepted there may not be widespread voterfraud, there is a sense, disquiet among many people that something'sjust disquiet among many people that something's just not right. i think this shows the corrosive nature of these continuing allegations that have not been substantiated. itjust gives people the idea that maybe

there is some smoke, that there can't be no smoke without fire. and when you see twitter flagging these tweets, the other cried from any republicans and donald trump supporters, will be censorship. it isa supporters, will be censorship. it is a real problem, it is a double—edged sword. the gap between donald trump and joe biden may be growing but the race in the remaining battleground state is close. we are expecting a further update from the count in pennsylvania but for now reeta chakrabarti pennsylvania but for now reeta chakra barti looks at pennsylvania but for now reeta chakrabarti looks at the electoral map and where the presidency will be decided. this is the state of play at the moment. this is the electoral map, and you can see the states in grey are the ones that are still to be decided, and there are some very close race going on. it's so close in georgia that they are going for a recount. arizona is also extremely close. and pennsylvania in the east, which we've all been focused on all day, there we have seen joe biden edge his way past donald trump, and the democrats are now confident that they will take pennsylvania.

what happens if they do? well, let me turn pennsylvania blue, using the blue pen, and you can see that it takesjoe biden past the winning line, and he will then have won the election. but what's interesting, i'll take pennsylvania away from him, joe biden has other routes to the white house, too. let's assume that he succeeds in keeping nevada, hillary clinton won that in 2016, and that he manages to flip arizona as well. that gets him to 270 as well. so there are different routes forjoe biden to the white house. i'll return the map to the state of play to show you that for donald trump, it's more difficult. he's got to win pennsylvania, and then also three of the four other major swing states in order to stay in the white house, a much more uphill task. reeta chakra barti, crunching

reeta chakrabarti, crunching the numbers. and, lots more on our website. including who is ahead, in the states still counting. that is all on the bbc news website. 0r download the bbc news app. let's stay with the us election. it's been four days, and still no result has been declared. in his latest speech to the american public, democratic challengerjoe biden says he is going to win. he's ahead in the four remaining states that will decide the outcome, where final ballots are still being counted. right now, we have a situation where in those states like georgia and pennsylvania, like arizona, it appears that the biden lead has

increased. might not be massive, but collectively, because this is a system that relies on a number of popular votes and the electrical couege popular votes and the electrical college is based on the side of the population, you need the big popular states, in biden‘s case pennsylvania, to give you the magic 270 number. james clayton has been in nevada which is a state where the atmosphere is still very tense. we are about 30 metres away from clark cou nty are about 30 metres away from clark county counting centre. there is a big trump demonstration just outside. people are carrying flags, people are carrying signs saying, stop the steel. this is a crowd that is extremely annoyed, peeved about what they see as a grievance of

voterfraud. i what they see as a grievance of voter fraud. i have what they see as a grievance of voterfraud. i have to what they see as a grievance of voter fraud. i have to say, what they see as a grievance of voterfraud. i have to say, there is no evidence presented of voter fraud here so far. but that is what this crowd passionately believe. there are also qanon flags and proud boys flags here link to white supremacy. iam nota flags here link to white supremacy. i am not a gun expert, but that looks like a semiautomatic gun. as you can see, things are quite heated here. they feel passionately trump can still win this. 0bviously, when people are carrying guns, when people are carrying guns, when people are carrying guns, when people are this angry, the tensions can rise and there are worries that perhaps in the next few days, because at the moment it is fairly good—natured, in because at the moment it is fairly good—natu red, in the because at the moment it is fairly good—natured, in the next few days it could turn, the mood could get

sour and things could boil over. that is a worry but at the moment it is ok here. that is the state hillary clinton one in 2016 but one joe biden is hoping to win. earlier evan 0snos — author of the biography ‘joe biden: american dreamer‘ explained why he thinksjoe biden is the right democratic candidate for presidency and what challenges he may face if he wins the election. he got to a point in this race when most people thought, including a lot of people in our profession he wouldn‘t be the obvious candidate and the obvious candidate would be from the frontier of the party, somebody that represents the next generation of progressive leadership. joe biden believed throughout the process, that most

democrats describe themselves as moderates or conservatives. what i describe in my book about him, he held to that view, he was the most conservative member of the democratic field and part of the reason why he prevailed. you will find himself in a position that is a very hostile, political atmosphere. the challenge for him is to put aside some of that muscle memory of those days when you could achieve bipartisanship and find areas to push this government forward. paralysis and i geologically the legs—macro ——. .. earlier my colleague geeta guru—murthy spoke to our world affairs editorjohn simpson about the foreign policy implications of a biden presidency and the state of us democracy. i personally don‘t think it is fragile at all. i think a country that can absorb four years of the

most disruptive and least controlled president in its history, and can have an election at which he is voted out, not by a very large majority, is a country with a very strong system indeed. it looks chaotic, the chinese, the russians both love it and say, is this the kind of system that you want? but in fa ct, kind of system that you want? but in fact, it will work, it will produce a new president. i think after a while, trumpism will start to fade. what does that mean for other leaders here? we mentioned brexit and boris johnson seen leaders here? we mentioned brexit and borisjohnson seen as allied in style a nd and borisjohnson seen as allied in style and political instincts to a degree with trump, will that reflect badly on the current british government? will it bode ill for a potential trade deal? joe biden doesn‘t really like borisjohnson. and he has said some quite hostile things about him. he certainly

doesn‘t like brexit. at the same time, ithink doesn‘t like brexit. at the same time, i think he is actually an anglophile. i think we will see him judging everything to do with britain and brexit through the prism of ireland, how it affects ireland, how bad it will be for ireland if for instance, there is a no—deal brexit. personally, now that biden seems to be coming in, i think we will hear a lot less about and no—deal brexit. because i think america would really set its face against that. presumably, there will bea against that. presumably, there will be a trade agreement between britain and america because there has been probably, are very much the lines that has already been negotiated. probably, are very much the lines that has already been negotiatedm trump goes, we still haven‘t had it confirmed of course, does it change the way the style of leadership, not

only for boris johnson, but for others who have developed a sort of certain brand of politics?” others who have developed a sort of certain brand of politics? i think the key to that kind of populace government will have vanished. everybody, every populace, i am government will have vanished. everybody, every populace, iam not including borisjohnson everybody, every populace, iam not including boris johnson in everybody, every populace, iam not including borisjohnson in this, because i don‘t think he is entirely a populace, but across people like jay a populace, but across people like jay bell scenario for instance, they are only there because trump was there. —— jibe bolsonaro. are only there because trump was there. ——jibe bolsonaro. i are only there because trump was there. —— jibe bolsonaro. ithink there. —— jibe bolsonaro. ithink the gas goes out of the balloon as far as they are concerned. i think britain is entirely in a different position. but the johnson britain is entirely in a different position. but thejohnson government is going to have to find a way of coming to terms with the biden government, a very different government, a very different government from the one it has been

used to. john simpson talking to my colleague earlier. they‘re still counting the votes in philadelphia in pennsylvania, wherejoe biden is in the lead over president trump by more than 28,000 votes. we have been saying that for four days. let‘s hope somebody has organised the philadelphia stakes, because they need the cheese in the beef to keep the energy levels up in this horrendous process of counting every vote. not just this horrendous process of counting every vote. notjust counting every vote, but in some cases, re—counting votes a nd vote, but in some cases, re—counting votes and dealing with disputes over those votes. in the end what happens in that room there with these two, three women sorting at this particular table, sorting votes. they have been working shifts to try and sustain the process over hours and sustain the process over hours and days. this will determine who, in the end, is given the front door key of this building, now known as the white house. famously at one

point it was burnt down by the british during one of the conflicts between the uk and the united states. the heart of washington, dc, or at least what you might call institutional washington, dc, the bit of the congress, the white house, the supreme court. the bits that really determine the shape of the united states of america. very different from the city of washington, dc where lots of people live. donald trump has been the, the chances are at the moment it looks unlikely he will continue to live in that building after january unlikely he will continue to live in that building afterjanuary the 20th of the coming year. but it is not over, till it was over, as james was quite rightly quoting. it is a process that is continuing. it is a question whether they run from the white house, up the road to the us supreme court and persuade the justices of the supreme court, three of whom were nominated by president

trump, and persuade them there is something un—american about the process that is taking place. 0r something un—american about the process that is taking place. or if counting the votes is enough to determine in the justice‘ counting the votes is enough to determine in thejustice‘ eyes counting the votes is enough to determine in the justice‘ eyes who should become the next executive leader of the united states of america. the uk has imposed a ban on non—uk citizens coming from denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans. discovery of the mutated coronavirus on mink farms across denmark has triggered culls of millions of the animals and a lockdown in some parts of the country. our business correspondent katie prescott is at heathrow airport and has the latest. this announcement came during what‘s called the golden hour at 4am this morning, the time when most planes are on the ground, in order to cause minimum disruption. but i think the sudden nature of the announcement really shows just how concerned the uk government

is about this mutating strain of coronavirus that‘s moving from mink farms in denmark into the human population and it‘s affected about 200 people so far. what the ban means is anyone travelling from denmark, from danish territories into the uk won‘t be allowed to enter unless they are a british citizen, uk resident or a visa holder. in which case they‘ll be allowed in but will have to quarantine for 1h days with their families under strict conditions. really unusually, this also includes pilots and cabin crew who are flying on planes from denmark, too. there is a realjob going on in order to track down anyone who‘s travelled from denmark before this ban was introduced this morning in the last 1a days. and that process of tracing them is ongoing. we‘re not expecting a huge amount of disruption from this, after all, travel is very, very limited at the moment. there may be some disruption to business people, but the government has said that freight and haulage from denmark can continue. however, we are expecting

an announcement on that later today so that could well change. france has recorded more than 60,000 new coronavirus infections — its highest daily total since the start of the pandemic. the new figures bring the number of confirmed cases in the country to 1.7 million, according to data from johns hopkins university. a further 828 deaths were confirmed on friday. almost 40,000 people have now died from the virus in france. greece has become the latest european country to reimpose a lockdown as infection rates rise throughout the continent. for the next three weeks people can leave their homes only for work or a small number of specific reasons and must text a central hotline in advance. greece was reporting about 400 cases a day at the end of october — the number is now six times higher. scotland has become the first part

of the uk to ban the smacking of children, after legislation passed through the scottish parliament last year, takes effect today. the changes see scotland become the 58th country to outlaw corporal punishment, after the removal of the defence of justifiable assault. in the year which marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the second world war, people are being urged not to leave their homes to pay tribute to those who have fought and lost their lives in favour on socially distanced events. 0ur correspondent jon donnison reports. unlike last year, there will be no crowds at the cenotaph this sunday. in these strange times, remembrance day will be different, with much of the uk under partial lockdown, people are being asked not to take pa rt people are being asked not to take part in traditional services, honouring the millions who fought and lost their lives. at the royal

albert hall, the festival of remembrance was socially distanced and addressed by prince charles. remembrance was socially distanced and addressed by prince charlesm this challenging year, we have perhaps come to realise that the freedoms for which they thought are more precious than we knew. and the debt we owe them is even greater than we imagine. at the festival which will be broadcast on bbc one this evening, the duchess of cornwall played tribute to both nhs and military nurses who had battled the pandemic. as we know, behind each act of service isa sacrifice. this can take many forms. much needed rest, full separation from your families and even putting your own lives at risk. today, as we

reflect on sacrifice we remember those nurses who have given their lives in the fight against covid. this year, more than ever, for many more remembrance day will be a time for quiet reflection at home. jon donnison, bbc news. and you can see the royal british legion‘s festival of remembrance tonight at ten past nine on bbc one. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. much milderfeel across southern areas today compared with recent days. that milder weather will be pushing its way northwards gradually, but certainly for tonight across the north and east still a chill out and it‘s here where dense fog, once again, is most likely. those areas that held on to the fog today, particularly through the vale of york and to eastern scotland, temperatures through the day enter the evening still only around five or 6 degrees at the highest. elsewhere, double—figure temperatures across the south but it‘s here through the channel islands, south—west england this evening outbreaks of rain, some of which will be heavy develop.

that will push into wales, northern ireland later in the night. there can see, mist, fog, low cloud are becoming dominant across northern and eastern parts. maybe a of frost across scotland in the morning, but most places frost free to start sunday. a lot more cloud, though, around on remembrance sunday, a few glimpses of sunshine, the best of which in the north to begin with. outbreaks of rain across northern ireland, wales, through parts of the midlands will fade pushing its way erratically northwards and eastwards, on and off rain. most places will spend the bulk of the afternoon dry, particularly the further south you are, and here feeling pleasant once that sunshine‘s out with a high of 16. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: celebrations have started in pennsylvania wherejoe biden is building on his narrow lead over donald trump. mr biden says he‘s confident he‘s going to win the us presidential election and insists he will fight to ensure every vote is counted. the numbers tell us it is clear,

tell us a clear and