ends it. malaria must go on so millions can live. this is the news one from joe biden inches closer to the white house the democratic candidate leads president trump and a handful of undeclared battleground states according to associated press figures being used by d.w. a win in pennsylvania georgia or nevada put forth mr biden in the oval office. saying while president trump is peddling conspiracy theories and the litany of

baseless claims insisting that he wasn't i mean he's being robbed of reelection. time phil gal welcome to the program. joe biden is edging closer to the white house as final votes us till being counted 3 days after the u.s. election the democratic challenger is narrowly ahead in the case states which have yet to declare their results so let's have a look at the overall picture which hasn't changed for quite a while now so far joe biden has 264 electoral college votes president to trump has 214 according to the a.p. news agency remember they need $270.00 votes to win pennsylvania would be a massive prize with its 20 electoral college of votes joe biden's late desk early

more than 13 and a half 1000 with 98 percent of the vote counted georgia with 16 college votes is also extremely close biden has pulled ahead of trump here but there are only about $1500.00 votes between them so that's likely to go to a recount overall donald trump's path to victory is looking increasingly narrow states in red or blue have been called by a paid for trump all biden states in lights of blue or in pink or leaning towards biden or trump respectively anyone states would give joe biden the win president trump needs a combination. q so let's go so 20 electoral college votes up for grabs in pennsylvania away joe biden is currently leading the w. correspondent stephan simons is outside the philadelphia convention center where the vote is taking place welcome stuff and how's it looking. well nothing

changed from the last hour so far having said that telling you look at this as i said before and that's what we see all day long right now increasing number of trump supporters showing up here throughout the day bomb they are drowned out by this massive crowd over there having basically a party it's almost like a reefer in the music place you see all those posters and flags wiggling and raving because the people of thinset and drowning the drowning the trump supporters they have no chance of being heard and their grievances is of course that they say this election now here in philadelphia in pennsylvania is stolen from them is stolen from donald trump what they mean by this is that the count is ongoing of the male imbalance of course a strain t.-l. actual college votes at stake here philadelphia and the counties around here this is al gore harry this is birch this is all kind of other counties they're still

counting the ballots mail in ballots which were sent in right voting via mail in ballot this is what they say is not legal but just of course not true it is legal this is the process and those votes have to be counted god it is of course a problem for trump support us and for the from campaign because joe biden leads at the moment here with about 13000 votes in the overall count for pennsylvania if he keeps this and if the trajectory of the votes counted still have him at a 75 percent. stake of reading this vote then he will. mathematically at some point take pennsylvania as a state wide because there's still 100 and about 15000 votes to be counted in pennsylvania not just here but in the counties around and in philadelphia and all of those are barely in ballots offered dominantly experts say democrats

democrats sent and their mail in ballots not republicans not trump supporters now again those guys over there dancing they know that that's why they're dancing and this group over there with the trump pins flags they know that too that's why they're low bit frustrated right now one way or another it's very very loud. very loud but still good natured good talking to. will so to go to him same as in philadelphia. president trump has made a series of unsubstantiated claims that he's being robbed of a 2nd term he's vowing to press ahead with a series of legal challenges even though state officials are insisting there is no evidence of any wrongdoing the president says he'll never give up fighting but he is facing an uphill struggle. on friday state officials in georgia said they expected they would have to carry out a recount in georgia joe biden's razor thin advantage the focus for our office and

for the county election officials for now remains on making sure that every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately. as we are closing in on a final count we can begin to look toward our next steps. with a margin that's small there will be a recount in georgia. the news came as biden took the lead in both georgia and pennsylvania another pivotal battleground state biden's lead there is a little more comfortable with that in georgia but it's still a tight race. what are you back is from both sides have been facing off outside vote counting sites in philadelphia. this state is crucial for both candidates if biden wins pennsylvania he will have enough electoral college votes to get him to the white house effectively closing the door on trump's reelection chances.

election monitors from both parties have been allison force and there is no evidence of voting irregularities in pennsylvania or anywhere else in the u.s. . nevertheless donald trump has repeatedly made unsubstantiated allegations of nationwide voter fraud he claims he's been cheated out of reelection 6 something which has resonated with many of his supporters nationwide now the cheating they're making doubts. they're clearly cheating the democrats have dead people voted for him they do this every single time this time we're not putting up with it republicans have offered no evidence for such claims but trump is refusing to concede the official word out of the white house on friday this is not over yet. some of this reform a republican congressman jim called but who's now a senior transatlantic fellow at the german marshall fund he's one of several

prominent republicans who left the party after donald trump to endorse joe biden in this election welcome to you so 3 days in and still no results how you feel. i'm feeling quite confident that we're going to have a new president in january i think that the i've been checking with my contacts in in pennsylvania and in arizona nevada we're going to have we're going to have those the numbers in pennsylvania are just going to continue to increase because all the remaining votes 'd to be counted are in philadelphia and pittsburgh which are democratic strongholds so the numbers just going to get larger george will clearly be a recount but ironically somebody said there this morning that biden's win there looks like about the size of a high school it's of but i school student body in georgia so it's going to be very narrow there will be a recount recount to really change anything in in it in arizona by is ahead you

worried that the votes coming in there which are being counted differently from pennsylvania because the only the books that are coming in works castle election day are being counted right now and those were trending towards trump but the latest batch shows not enough no can't catch up so it's all going to go for for a by so i so you can quite confident that it's going to be president regardless of which way the base goes onto disappointed with you when you posses performance a presidential election still too close to call against a sitting president who has mishandled a health emergency seen the economy tank and faced down accusations of being a racist who trashed hopes women. it is disappointing to see that. trump has done as well as he did there i think there are several things i don't know we're going to have to analyze figure out why this has happened where the country has become somewhat more conservative more nationals more populous the same

some of the same trends we're seeing in many european countries today there is a division clearly between the urban centers and east and west coast and the rural areas and midwest where in those rural areas trump is still quite popular and actually increased his margin by somewhat so it is somewhat disappointing and certainly the performance of the democrats in the senate and in the house is very disappointing let's pick up about that bad idea by division because looking ahead it's traditional fanie elected leaders to talk about healing and uniting the country but i wonder if it's too late for that in the u.s. if trump wins he'll see it as a vindication of his divisive policies if he loses his supporters will seemingly never accept that they will not accept that because and it's going to be led by him it's very clear if you know one thing about donald trump it's that he will never concede and that will be the 1st time in american history that the losing candidate for president has never conceded he will not concede on the day of the inauguration

when biden is sworn in and he will say it was still stolen from him and will continue to say that it's going to make the healing process very very difficult to require a lot of work on the part of biden to reach out reach across party lines in the house in the senate and in the country i think he's the kind of person that can do that however because he's certainly shown in the past he's worked spent many years in the senate he's had to work both in the minority and the majority so he knows about working across the aisle to get things accomplished good talking to you thank you so much for joining us such an culbut from the german marshall fund thank you. well while i count those ballots the world's still turn so let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world twitter has donated an account linked to steve bannon after he published a podcast promoting violence the former white house chief strategist said that if president trump is reelected you should arrange for the beheading of key federal

officials this comes amid an increase in violent rhetoric from prominent trump supporters. guatemala's president says hurrican at now has killed an estimated 150 people in the country mostly through flooding and landslides still has not been downgraded potential rains the flooding villages across the region forecasters expect attitude regained strength as it crosses the caribbean this weekend. european union sanctions against better received leader alexander lukashenko came into effect today in response to his suppression of pro democracy protests and the government rallies have continued every weekend since opus disputed election and have seen numerous arrests sanctions include asset freezes and travel bans and in 14 other officials. police in germany say they've raided a number of homes in connection with monday's terror attack in the austrian capital

vienna a 20 year old gunman was shot dead by families after killing 4 people religious leaders of talented and more innocent victims. governments in europe battling to contain a 2nd wave of corona virus infections here in germany the health minister says the system could soon be overwhelmed if the covered caseload isn't brought under control new infections in one day have topped $20000.00 for the 1st time. a new somber record for germany the highest number of daily covert 1000 cases ever registered in the country germany is in its 1st week of a new partial lockdown restaurants bars and leisure activities are shut down travel for tourism is strongly discouraged while shops and schools are allowed to stay open germany's health minister yen spahn said the country's health care system is not currently overwhelmed but hard times are ahead if the rise in cases isn't

stopped. the situation is serious the number of people requiring support in intensive care units has doubled in the past 10 days from as of today our health system is still coping but even the best system in the world cannot cope with a doubling every 10 days. after the growth rate is very strong and we must break it together in the dark. even germany's extensive testing capacity is under pressure let's say they are struggling to keep up with the manned but there is confidence that the current shutdown will help bring the number of cases back down. the numbers that we see today or effect of the situation a week ago because we have been conditioned period the numbers are slightly improved we have to be optimistic because the reproduction number is below one and i think that's the 1st signs that things might get better here in our country in

berlin people are taking reports of the record case rise in their stride many say they are learning to live with the virus and the restrictions. we see that even with restrictions in place the numbers still go up we just try to live with it now to cope with the situation i don't think about it any more than usual. it's pretty shocking you know i think the governments of every country are doing the best they can i don't think there's any right or wrong. people have faith in the vaccines and i certainly believe that will help next week chancellor angela merkel and the federal state leaders are expected to meet to take stock of the situation and decide whether to introduce tougher restrictions something most here in germany are hoping to avoid. meanwhile denmark is to eliminate its entire population of 17000000 minks after new tainted

strains of corona virus were found in some animals in some cases the mutated virus was found to have infected people medical experts fear this could jeopardize the efficacy of future vaccines. there are more than 1300 main farms in denmark many of them are in the minister palette of the office including piano paterson's the virus reached his farm in early september he clearly remembers that day. brilliant and going to cornea it was like a wave passing through the stables it began at one end with the animal sneezing and losing their appetite and it kept spreading. but one week later on the following weekend it was over the animals were healthy again. the new mystery going to. be on a paterson also contracted the virus now to be on the safe side all of his 10000

mink will be culled he never imagined that denmark's meant farms could develop into hotspots. it is thought that the corona virus stems from the animal world it is believed to have 1st jumped from a bad species to humans via the pangolin in china. on denmark's make farms it is now jumping back to animals from humans. once a mink is infected the virus spreads to almost all of the animals on a farm in less than 2 weeks viral and just are concerned about this extensive transmission and us from starts team analyzed the mutation on the main farms and found it matched the virus found in some people in the region who fell ill. so the question we can see exactly how the virus spreads it comes from humans it is transmitted to minks where it spreads on mass and mutates in a manner we don't see and humans and then it jumps back to the human population and

thus to the rest of the world. every 3rd corona case in northern new england can already be traced back to the mink farms exactly how it spread is still unclear but with ever more mutations in circulation especially those from animals the pandemic will become difficult to stop. a vaccine could lose its effectiveness and the people who have been ill might not be immune to the mutation so we would never achieve herd immunity. and that is why culling task forces are now rapidly traveling through denmark the animals are killed with carbon monoxide in boxes like this one they're then immediately incinerated along with their valuable fur protective gear is mandatory as any animal might be infected and here we have to kill 39000 monks on this farm will be busy for 2 and

a half days we have 30 workers 5 fags and a standby team of 5 to 10 men here. and they will need at least another 4 weeks to work their way to all the farms a total of $160.00 farms are affected and there are suspicious cases on many more millions of manx have yet to be called. well here's a look at some of the other developments in this pandemic will start in poland which has recorded record 445 deaths over the last 24 hours and more than 27000 new infections warsaw's national stadium has been turned into a temporary failed hospital united states has broken its own record for new coffee cases again more than 120000 infections a smashed the record set the previous day and china has barred the arrival of foreigners from france part of a growing list of bans china's largely brought its outbreak under control but is

increasingly closing itself off through tight travel restrictions well the world is of course racing to find a vaccine against a corona virus a german tech is leading the way another german. korea fact is also developing a promising candidate both of turn to south america to carry out their tests. peru was one of the 1st testing grounds for german vaccine manufacturer cure back but residents of limited bella vista slum pay a little heed they're more concerned with just getting through the pandemic get a while you don't even get the corona emergency support from our government it's the same for everyone here they've forgotten us. but peru is not alone as a focus for covert 1000 vaccine testing most major producers have set up shop in south america and many are testing in brazil. in sao paolo hundreds of people enrolled in a study by germany's minds based beyond tech and us giant pfizer the volunteer test

subjects were given the candidate vaccine or a placebo they aren't allowed to speak to us nor are they paid but many hope the vaccine will protect them also be able. to suppress aren't only hospital workers they're also ordinary brazilians who have to get up early and spend hours on the bus or subway to get to work. by their brazil has the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths worldwide but to the people in the study see themselves as guinea pigs thing of course there's a risk it's unavoidable if you want to test the vaccine. results on the vaccines efficacy could be available soon by antec study in brazil is further along than most other vaccine trials. there was give us if we think this vaccine will be effective because it will probably be one of the most important facts since world wide. by on text vaccine candidate could receive approval before the end of the

year but cure or vaccine candidate will likely need more time to begin based companies also conducting a field study in panama. the country's high local infection rates are helping to generate results quickly and the cooperation will likely help panama produce its own vaccine. the. bottom up panama's collaboration with the german vaccine manufacturer will certainly give the country a competitive economic edge over other countries. sharing technology is also an important part of the deal for countries that host vaccine trials that includes piru. but back in bella vista many residents are worried that when a vaccine is distributed they'll once again be left empty handed. but

i doubt that peru's government would give us the vaccine it's almost impossible we feel like we were forgotten. thanks to trials in south america covered $900.00 vaccine could be approved this year but whether south american flu celts will get widespread access is uncertain or you might have heard about new era 40 it opened 9 years later and billions of euros over budget not only that but plenty of bugginess were perfectly happy with the old airport to take over the terminals that were famous for super swift boarding and cold war architecture now it's closing and its original architects have begun to say goodbye. these are the last airplanes to land at berlin's taiko airport and for plane spotters like felix might take it's the last chance to take farewell photos this point from the highway is one of his favorite locations from which he practices his

hobby. special think about this but is that you have the airport in the background if you turn to the left you have some planes approaching from a nice angle and sometimes the light is just perfect they're almost right above you . claimed spotters specialize in photographing different types of airplanes. they use an app that tells them when where and which plane is landing. felix maté has captured many special moments here. all the government planes from my camera one of my favorite moments was the last air berlin flight in a minute. but on the flight to libya conference many government planes also everyone knew 747 was there and seeing it for the 1st time was a highlight many really beautiful customized works that you wouldn't otherwise see

. take on an airport rise in the north of brazil it was built in the 1970 is opened a $974.00 and named after. a german aviation pioneer the hexagonal ground plan is an architectural landmark the rugged signs friendly colors and the hexagon as a recurring motif for example in the tower and the pillars all of these were designed by the german architects my not funny and funny. the airports main terminal was declared as a listed heritage building in 2019 now there are plans to turn it into a university campus i think it's very. like flying from here too bad because it's. actually good to have an airport on each side of the city. carried in your daughter's very air port as part of her childhood memories we always devoted our time between south america and berlin germany never clean. and evelyn

child i have worked at the airport for more than 25 years they've written a book about their experiences for them is the greatest airport in the world. that's just see that was the great thing about this place you came checked in and then you were already seated on the plane to. the airport is small and compact it is only empty right now because of the corona pandemic before it was overflowing with passengers there are lots of anecdotes. but at most airports arrivals and departures are separated into 2 different floors or terminals and here they're right next to each other and that became emotionally evidence when you spent a lot of time here it's putting. many to go fans gather for the last time to say goodbye on the visitor's terrace. plane spotter felix matteo also

takes a few more photos people are getting set for the realisation that it's really the end or you always joked about it but unfortunately it's becoming a reality the only airport it is a beloved place full of memories for learners and travellers from all over the world with a heavy heart many will say bye bye and thank you take. all that's it you're up to date i'll have more world news of the top of the hour i'll be back in a couple of minutes as well to take you through the day of the. we

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it's for. beethoven is for ham. and beethoven is for. beethoven is for everyone. beethoven 2020. 150th anniversary here on d w. a still counting the votes in the us election and president trump is still claiming he was robbed and even if joe biden does finally cross the electoral college finish line democratic power brokers will still be asking themselves why didn't we do better i'm phil gale in the lead and this is the day.

this is a long process but i think all of us would agree.