or many stories. make up your own. made for minds. this is the news africa coming up on the program we are being kept on the edge of our seat to hear views on the opinions of macross the continental non-election the house caused so much controversy and he said debate also coming up. we need more blat health authorities in uganda see the cone of violence front that make us cause the shortage of black supplies in the country and lives have been lost.

their name is mike a jew now welcome to the program from a record high 10 out to baseless claims of election fraud it's been an unprecedented u.s. election and it isn't over yet africans across the continent say much is at stake for racism to economic sanctions and concerns about democracy we start off in a country that calls a former president obama one of their own. kenya having their say in an all important race even if this mock us presidential election is more proof than real. troll integrity may be highly questionable but it's a sign of the sentiment in this far flung corner of africa.

and i think the whole we've been do not. do we don't. see them. fighting is landslide victory is little surprise this place counts former president barack obama as one of its own. his father grew up here. the school is named after him. obama's uncle is still here. but last 4 years we have seen. presidents trump the way he's treating the world it's like he doesn't use about himself and himself a lot in jim bob where they're hoping whoever wins will treat them to some relief from punishing sanctions. which if i wins this elections actually changes the us what implicit types. move this eco was that they put a non-issue into consider that these sanctions are actually hitting the ordinary

citizens. in nigeria the election has been the talk of the newsstands with trump spaciousness claims of voter fraud not only unnoticed you know like b.b.q. the tragedy being it's because you just play but these are just an hour drawn by noisy mind of value includes i know you can do anything wow still see he said the result the same way the president of the united states who put it up with the if you're an n.b.a. darts this memo we know are pretended to course. from lessons on race to sanctions and democracy itself in the spotlight has been something for africans across the continent. joining me now is. male in god and use that it on political commentator from south africa hello out on the way thanks for your time now the u.s. lost its moral right to tell african countries how to conduct elections.

of cause of course even before the actual election started using mail ballots the whole process was to seemingly floored how do you have a president standing there and telling the world months before the election that he doesn't know whether or not he's going to accept the outcomes of the election of supposedly a democratic election and then just telling trying to work with in his own government to ensure that the postal services do not get the funding that they need to get to make sure that these elections can go smoothly yes there's a lot else that has been at stake in america in the past couple of months and unfortunately america has come down off of that pedestal with thinking to dictate how democracy should be played just looking at what has happened in that country ok

you wrote a commentary type sold in front of trump loses the damage is done what's done ages done and to who. there's been a lot of damage not just to african states never mind what he did called african countries when he started in his presidency there's a lot of damage that has been done in the americas in europe in those relationships in your syria's new middle east there's a lot of damage that this particular president has done over the past couple of years one of them of course is his work in reintroducing what is called the mexico city policy which is also known as the global gag rule where particular countries and organizations are just not allowed to speak about the rights of women and the bodies and abortion and if they do particular funding will be removed from them

whether they use you as finding or not and this is simply unheard of how do you dictate to women across other countries to tell them that they can choose whether they want to keep a child or whether they don't anchor he has been using that w h o and the paris according remits this is all damage to the whole system of the world and how we use it now what effect called president's actions and all that he's been doing however on the few strongman politicians on the continent. a lot a lot of it has it has had diet fix because if a country as as big and as powerful as america has a president who can swear on national television who can be charged of numerous accounts of sexual misconduct of sexual harassment of sexual abuse who can pull out

of such important accords and policies across the world and just does not care about human rights of the people in his own country that gives a signal to many other african leaders and many other leaders in and democratic state that they can also get away with this it is a very scary feeling in terms of the kind of world that donald trump has been able to create and has essentially caught away with whether he wins this election and not the damage has been done it is there people believe they can do as they please as leaders now very briefly before you go why should africa even care about what is happening in the u.s. unfortunately it is the world that we currently are living in right now it is interconnected in every sense of of the way of the word globalization everything that happens in america does many of the things that happen in america do that does effect africa environmental issues climate issues financial issues markets and all

of that they directly affect africa we do care because if america sneezes we get the flu so that's why we are still clued in trying to find out what goes on after today ok i think the. guardian news that it's a political commentator thank you. let's now take a look at some other stories making news across the continent funerals have been held for 7 children who were killed in a school in cameroon last week authorities believe the massacre in the south western city of was carried out by separatist militants hundreds turned out to the victims in the last 2 weeks and identified gunmen have carried out by about types of schools in the english speaking visions. being sworn in for a 2nd 5 year doesn't the as president after last week's disputed election the

integrations or many to place ahmed tight security with leading opposition figures arrested on charges of unlawful assembly if you can prime minister made house pledge to continue his military offensive in the t.v. region despite international calls for restraint there were reports of shelling in the street on thursday morning on tuesday ordered troops to confront rebel forces who he said had a military base in the city of mckayla the un has called for calm the secretary general expresses his alarm over the reported clashes in the region of ethiopia and calls for immediate measures to deescalate tensions short peaceful resolution dispute. 19 has led to a shortage of blood supplies in uganda health authorities in the country seizes the start of the code i was pandemic the number of blood donors are significantly

reduced and this has deadly consequences. this district hospital in kampala serves as a vital source of health care particularly for young mothers of low income because you can't guarantee health anymore if a patient needs blood the pandemic has led to a sharp decline of supplies. but. 'd because of low. but because of bad blood pressure the quickest way to end the lives. doctors are very worried is it's especially young mothers up to c. sections and children that this hospital needs blood for uganda has just 7 blood collection and distribution sites across the country but because of the restrictions to control the spread of the corona virus collecting donations has been difficult out of our own. country.

that is. 50 units but as i don't know we've got it down to 20 units. which is a big big big difference it and that then of the beautifying that it would. also i picked the need for blood in hospital. she didn't smoke up the largest group of blood donors in uganda closures mean it's not impossible to recruit them during the pandemic. also targeted school because you have that in school and of course school that is yet to manipulate that's to play a feed the way they're always actually most of the tame compared. to. from her it is close that down there closed. the uganda red cross society is hoping campaigns to raise awareness will bring in more jonas and save lives that are

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money 1000000 fans are in the fight spammers and. kick off on you tube joining us. is the american dream really just that a dream photographer matt black documents america's underdogs a look at his work coming up and later on arts and culture. oh. american baritone thomas hampson joins us to talk about this year's un prices going through the presidential election. first though talking about that election another singing sensation joins us from her home in new

york. well she would say limbaugh grew up in germany but made waves around the world with her musical roles and singing performances she also proved to be the perfect german voice for disney's the little mermaid. and should be here in berlin with a show about malina ditto if it weren't for the coronavirus which are led by thanks for joining us now you have long said that you consider you said that you consider yourself a new yorker but not an american and does that have something to do with the divides we see in the us. well i am definitely a new yorker because it is a place of great diversity. of cultures short. plays with a free mind and a progress of spirit

a liberal spirit so i certainly feel very home here and new york is a very inviting city i came here in 199798 and after 3 months i was fully fully welcomed and integrated in this come glamorous of multicultural it to epis trees so it feels good to be here and i always felt great i didn't here and in some way i didn't feel the little nationalistic. dimension that i also felt in europe i have to say i lived in london for many years and after the brits can be very british and sometimes too great there's something about nationalism that's going to trump because in new york where you are we've seen protests against trump . and prematurely declared his victory what do you make of that what was that moment like for you. well it was a typical moment it didn't surprise me his banter is always the same always too

fast too loud it's a kneejerk reaction and almost like infantile way and i wasn't surprised by it it didn't mean anything you know you don't have i'm not listening to him for a long time so that was not not new but i was a little bit worried when it ended in the night of the election and then in the course of it i thought oh my god he has the lead how can this be i was also very surprised about the absolute you know tight tight election that the country is so divided even after 4 years and after the incredibly incredible crisis of corona that is out of the box because of the lack of mass mandate and the management of the crisis through the republican government just one more question you've been in the u.s. for so many years how have you managed to wrap your mind around this electoral college system what do you think of it i think it's and it's an old fashioned

reactionary system and it should be just the popular vote every vote should count and yes it should not be it should be retired. thank you so much for coming on arts and culture can i just mention that my lifestream concert is on november 10th and november 16th downtown in the east village in allen cummings club and it is my beloved show on t.v. with thanks so much for coming on arts and culture thank you. the u.s. is the richest country on earth but there are huge disparities between those who hold the wealth and those who don't for target for matt black is interested in the have nots as exhibition here in germany had to close this week due to coronavirus rules luckily we got to check it out before that happened. the

exhibition in hamburg shows pictures of america that expose the myth of the american dream. magnum photographer matt black coat personal inventory of poverty migration and powerlessness american graffiti. using bold black and white images he depicts the underdogs in the land of opportunity the photographs look as if they were taken in the north. and south is that when i look at these pictures i have to remind myself that we are in the 21st century with a powerful show and a world premiere which the photographer couldn't attend due to coronavirus restrictions. course matlack grew up in california the public image

of disneyland of silicon valley of hollywood all of that exists but there is another california where it's hot deserts where farming is done and that's the war he comes from. black began to document that california in 2014. the desolation. the struggle for survival. for 5 years the photographer traveled through the u.s. bypass he. this is hundreds of places whose residents live far below the poverty line that dates are discovered things he met people who don't have health insurance unemployment benefits or any means of support the photographer recorded his observations in a diary. might drive north to

flint past buick city which was once the largest automobile plants in the world in 1980 general motors employed 80000 people in flint today there are fewer than 8000 people living here. blacks photographs tell stories. about lost jobs security and confidence in one interview he said when it comes to power in the u.s. it's always a question of race as well my work also deals with the same issues who has access to power and who is excluded. perspective of change or perhaps simply of the future is in the pictures and this creates a glimpse of something that completely contradicts the american dream.

match black isn't trying to shock with his pictures he keeps a distance and preserves the dignity of those struggling what's shocking is that these images show the present day here president champ's promise to make america great again remains unfulfilled. american classical singer thomas hampson one of the world's top baritones he's been living between europe and the u.s. now for decades. foundation promotes. ending of various cultures including american culture through education on songs and poetry and he's a close follower of u.s. politics.

thomas hampson welcome to arts and culture watching this whole election cycle do you believe that the united states can still come back together as a country or is america just headed for more division. i think we can come back i think we must come back i think we need to although our american history a little better and know that this kind of very close election. both in legislature as well as presidential politics is not a new phenomenon the 13th amendment passed by 2 quotes which gave freedom to the slaves and john f. kennedy was elected by the slimmest margin ever in the history of presidential politics so i think we have i think i think we have significant reason to to realize or to believe that our our volatile lalo messy politics will produce a direction we all have to commit to ok speaking of possibly a new direction do you think it's finally time to change the u.s. electoral system and get rid of the electoral college. well i think that's

a very complex question i personally wouldn't have a problem with it. but being applauded being an old political science major i know why they electoral college is there and it's and it's essential to protect population bases from non population bases and it interesting if you see the irony of that that a great deal of the power of american of the american electorate is in the non populated areas so i think it shouldn't be reexamined should it be adjusted shouldn't should be should be right up in front of everybody's face that we know this is why it needs there and what it does yes i think it's it it is sort of sampras a moment in me and my playing instead let's just switch gears a 2nd i want to talk very briefly here you about arts in america 4 years of time so far at least now the pandemic are you worried about america's culture seeing. you know i'm worried about i'm worried about people getting used to not having cultural events. the covert disaster on top of the accompanying financial stress

has thrown in a very sharp relief that the business models of america american our situation institutions are essentially donor base and philanthropy based and salons are being america is an amazing thing it's and we can only be grateful and proud that we have such philanthropy however when when they are known to shows up and when the end when the unexpected is is the stress on the business model to get ticket sales and artist fees are the 1st things a bottle someone and they shut down we have 60 we have 1600 orchestras right now that are in the dark and you know not only some months time this is his 1st meeting thompson thomas hanson thank you so much for coming on this i really appreciate it why appreciate being here. a quick look now at some culture news milan's milan italy's less scala opera house is canceling its season premiere due to several coronavirus cases among musicians the gala event is normally one of italy's

cultural highlights and netflix is tapping into the hollywood of the middle east's the network launched its 1st egyptian series paranormal based on the books of egyptian novelist think about a doctor forced to question all he thinks he knows about science. now imagine if someone told you your bathroom mirror once belonged to a french queen well that's exactly what happened to a family in england they've been brushing their teeth in this mirror for decades before a london auctioneer told them it once belonged to one that now there is a little plaque on the mirror about its former owner but all that time the family just thought that was a joke not a joke at all the mirrors now set to go under the hammer and expected to fetch tens of thousands of pounds. well that's it for this edition of arts and culture for

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. this is the w. news live from burlington followed to be counted in the race for the white house democratic challenger joe biden appears to be closing in on victory just a handful of states still to declare to count every vote is the message from biden's supporters as their candidate leads the all important tally of electoral college votes but it's far from over by 5 last stop the count says the tribe counts as a president mounts a series of legal child. just against the electoral process.

until gail welcome to the program still no winner in the race for the white house and votes are still being counted in several key u.s. state's democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure the presidency this is a to press agency has called arizona for biden even though that count hasn't yet finished if true though that would put joe biden at 264 college votes other agencies are not reporting that the arizona schools and other agencies are reporting that the arizona contest is still open meanwhile the trump campaign has launched legal actions and claiming fraud and is trying to stop the counting 3 states. that. frustration spilling

out onto the streets in new york and take trump protest is demanding every vote be counted. in other cities like here in seattle a similar story. in portland a sign that many here have had enough of us politics all together. but in phoenix arizona pro trump supporters make their voices heard outside an election center. this is a country divided. i believe personally as a republican that's trying one in a landslide but because of colbert and the ballot that 300000 ballots overnight were found in every city in the swing states for biden i'm just overwhelmed i'm so stressed out you have to. it was like you know inside

a but day this morning i broke down and cried because of the possibility that trent might be in office again. across several states votes all still being counted the majority of them have been sent in by post and in this election costing a vote by mail has been favored by many democrats every vote must be counted no is going to take our democracy away from us not now not ever americans come too far there is far too many battles americans under too much to ever let that happen but republicans claim these parties to votes amount to electoral fraud with donald trump accusing democrats of trying to steal the election. trumps top lawyer is promising legal action would be pushed do you think we're bulls you know something democrats do because do you think you. could call deplorable and chumps.

so we're going to stick with this we're going to win this election with actually one just a matter of counting the votes here. it may come down to the courts to decide who wins this election the closest fought battle for the white house in 20 years. so let's take a look at the current state of play on a closer look at the states that haven't yet being cold ass nigga show joe biden 264 and president trump on 214 and actual college votes. well state will take a look now at arizona where votes are still being counted though the a.p. news agency which is our main source of election that data has called it biden the other major outlets have not called it yet 11 college votes are up for grabs there on to nevada where joe biden currently has

a slim lead the state carries the 6 votes he needs for a win but this is also the state with the largest number of uncounted votes on to georgia 16 electoral votes on the table that trump is in the lead but that lead has narrowed and the truck campaign has filed a lawsuit alleging that ineligible late absentee ballots may have been added to the voters pennsylvania is the biggest prize still up for grabs with 20 electoral votes donald trump currently holds a narrow lead but the remaining male ballots are expected to favor the democrats. so it starts with votes still being counted donald trump's path to victory appears to have narrowed states in red or blue have been called by a.p. for trump all biden states in the lighter pink oh excuse me in the light of blue or pink leaning towards biden or trump respectively. it's going update from washington now with that the w.

corresponding to sue me some is kind of welcome soon let's start with georgia where the margin of victory is going to be razor thin how surprising is this. well phil it's a slim lead right now it is getting slimmer for president trump we should say that he's around ahead around 14000 votes right now that is a margin that has been narrowing and it is very surprising i mean the last time georgia voted for a democrat was for bill clinton in 1902 that was a long time ago phil this is been a republican stronghold for many years now but georgia's make up has been changing its demographics and its geography there is a growing immigrant population a growing young latino population many young professionals moving to big cities and these are groups that have tended to vote democrat and so the big areas that are growing well in contrast the rural areas that traditionally vote republican they have been shrinking so this is redrawing the political map a bit in georgia and now it is a battleground state that is

a completely new political reality for both parties and that is why campaigns for both sides president trump and joe biden spent a lot of time in georgia trying to sway voters ahead of the election now we have less than 60000 votes left to count in georgia we are hoping to get more results in the course of the day but we don't know yet phil if it's going to be a definitive result just yet. which could be. results what's the situation. you're right about is going to be a key definitely and it's very close right now in this election there are a 6 electoral college votes up for grabs in the state and i think we're looking at some pictures right now in nevada state of election officials are going to be holding a press conference we don't know if they're going to be announcing the final results or just an update on the latest votes that they have counted and tallied at this point but right now joe biden's lead has just extended to around $12000.00 voice votes rather an election officials say that all of the ballots that were cast in

person on election day have actually been tabulated already so what we're waiting for is mail in ballots that were cast late and those fill have been leaning towards the democrats so that's why they're feeling somewhat confident about the result there but we're hoping to hear more in that press conference in nevada from the state election officials a big question of course how much longer do you think you will have to wait for a final result. we still don't know for sure film and we have to be patient we have seen some results trickling in as i said through the course of the day in the vada in georgia we're looking for more coming from pennsylvania as well but because these margins are so thin it is important to be patient and really wait for those definitive results and we have to keep in mind you know we've seen images of these poll workers some of them many of them volunteers processing ballot after ballot this is really meticulous work it has to be done correctly and that takes time so we have to keep that in mind as we look for more results coming through the course of the day. sumi service come to washington thank you sir.

and the key battleground states of pennsylvania ballot counting was stopped briefly in the big city philadelphia democrats appealed against a ruling that allowed to observers to watch the processed the trump campaign said the team had been given access to the process of counting that has not received. the box seat guide dogs. like the one. building. in the state of pennsylvania we're going to hear broken out. what's going on. over . the way way way to what you want. the troops that. they don't want the american people those here.

i will let's go to philadelphia stephens even says in front of the convention center i welcome that stuff and so what's the situation now. well let me tell you something as you can see right behind me they're strong supporters of 7 of pictures facing off krill count the votes activists very very peaceful kind of a festival environment and live here but what's going on behind me here is that until just recently a few minutes ago nothing was going on inside there was no counting because it temporarily halted why democrats had asked a higher court to nix the decision to get away with a decision or make away with a decision from a lower court which had allowed to trump their trump campaign to send in more bulbs servers and the explanation point here is behind observers those people are just watching what's going on they're not assessing they can't interfere they're just

looking at how the counting process works out now however it. seems to be the case that this has resumed and that the counting here in philadelphia has resumed right now so why would democrats be against observers watching the process. so i didn't understand that you'd say that one more time please yet why are democrats against observers watching the process. oh yeah well they say they're already of service in the ballots count process involved and that is true they are observers democrats trump trump campaign supporters who are observers who are looking at how this all works out and of course the government here the city government and the state government say this over and over again like there is really no reason to be anywhere or a pass any suspicion on what the process is what's happening is here that counts

what's counted our mail in ballots and those are the ballots which people sent any of the united postal service or drop off in a ballot drop off box which has a post stamped november 3rd that was election day and those are counted now now the trump administration obviously does as they have sent so just don't want those ballots to be counted now 2 days after the election ok we see lots of crowds behind you that stefan it sounds very loud what's the mood actually like. it is very loud again let me step outside here a little bit you see the trump supporters it's posters there are separated by a line of police in uniform on civil closing and if my camera man paints to the other side there you see the pro camera won't. count all the votes protesters are activists and they giving each other so to speak in

a yellow or even dance of fear we have seen dancing. and holy and everything it's peaceful is absolutely peaceful everybody every site makes the other side listen to what they have to say or not all right good to hear that stuff and same and philadelphia thanks so much. away from the american election and italian bonds finally putting his feet of after winning the world's longest certified road race that dubbed the everest of ultra running 100 mark completed the $3100.00 ma event in 43 days you have missed an incredible 72 miles a day $118.00 marathons in a row it's little wonder the self transcendence race has so few participants and even fewer finishes. founded in 1997 by indian meditation master sri chinmoy and race is designed as its title suggests to test competitors mental

strength as well as their physical fitness so many times in the race your mind tasters go on somehow you have this inner power to find a way through i guess that's that's that's the main thing it raises probably hold for me you know the fact that you know everybody sold this or limited power you know that we can tap into. i usually run in new york the race took place this year in the austrian city of soaps but because of the coronavirus pandemic rhinos begin at 6 in the morning and can continue until midnight when the track closes they can take breaks wherever they want only 5 started this year. and italian and graham are caught say with the best of the bunch after beginning on the 13th of september he crossed the finishing line 43 days and 9 pairs of shoes later.

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