leaders from all over the world and german chancellor angela merkel as well have congratulated joe biden and his running mate conway areas after major networks declare them the winners of the u.s. presidential election in a statement posted on twitter merkel wrote i look forward to working with president biden our transatlantic friendship is indispensable if we are to deal with a major challenges of our time and to talk more about these transatlantic relations let's bring in delhi a correspondent in. what's the reaction in germany ben. well i think it's a some sort of relief tonight here in germany and you've read out the statement by an economical spokesperson on twitter it's really about really reshuffling because between germany and the u.s. it's really about restarting again the transaction the transatlantic no relation as

a sort of foreign affairs minister who talked about a new beginning a new deal when he congratulated president elect joe biden and vice president campbell arias so the relation between the u.s. and germany has been really really difficult over the past 4 years remember in 2017 when after the g. 7 summit bank of america was saying at the times during which we are doing which we can count on each others are over now referring to tribes attitude towards its western allies so there's really a sense of relief tonight in body and of course german government would have congratulated donald trump how do you run a lecture on bets. that didn't you knew relation a new era between the u.s. and germany come stocked with these new presidency of joe biden our reporters have been out talking to everyday germans about what they think until their reactions.

i'm far too often i think what you want about trump but he has divided the united states let's see what mine will bring in the end it can only get better for america but if i don't know. if i am sad yet i hope that i'll change but i'm not on by inside. the oval he definitely is the better choice in the end trump and his methods are impossible maybe the world will be a more peaceful place now. that's better than trying for sure. in mine it's always a matter of opinion but after the way trump has acted in public i think for the us it's better that biden has won. emmanuelle relations between trump and german chancellor merkel was known 6 to be very difficult while ties improve with joe biden in the white house well i think it's fair to say donald trump left diplomacy between bowling and washington in shambles so joe biden can the in

a way only charge and do better what's what we know readies that joe biden promised . to return to paris climate agreement so there will be a completely different stance on climate for example we can also expect a change in nato donald trump has been really critical over nato nato members especially towards germany here so. most of us troops here in germany joe biden will probably also have a different stance on that and joe biden also said he would really need reinitiate talks with iran over to nuclear do so we can extend except expect sorry really a reshuffle that diplomacy between germany and the u.s. in the months to come after january iran so joe biden will have invested the white house what is germany expecting policy why is a from

a biden presidency. what they expect i think in a day expect definitely and it was something that the high come out of the foreign affairs minister was saying a few days ago was that no matter who wins disallow action the turn of rushing tone toward spending would have to change and of course this is referring to. constant tweeting constant criticism donald trump even criticized germany's and europe's handling of the pandemic and that was a very clear stance here in fairly in that the tone between washington and but it would have to change so i think that's the priority now to reestablish to reestablish doe's diplomatic ties him or diplomatic turn to exchange and even if it's for example on trade where we don't really expect joe biden to really meet the germans what they want to be met he might have a very tough stance on trade as well but even even they have. definitely

a space that more and. more civilities to being saying so so to say. berlin thank you so much for your analysis earlier we talked of paper by other coordinator of transatlantic cooperation at the german federal foreign office we asked him if germany and europe were relieved by the u.s. election results yeah i was seeing around the globe you will hear a big sigh of relief once this results is clear and at this moment is now years so yes i am relieved i don't know about the rest of europe as you know in my country here in germany i don't trump was and still is extremely unpopular and that has a negative impact also on the united states as a whole perceived still so i hope for better now.

here in europe many leaders are hoping joe biden will help repair transatlantic ties that have been strained under the trump presidency but what a bind presidency look like for europe is more terms america 1st policy translated into a pool back from its position as a world power willing to work with others is a rhotic policy say can see many long standing allies to the core 1st and foremost the european. now european capitals are hoping for some kind of return to normality american security prosperity and a way of life require the strong possible network of partners in the war and choose working toward one of them. donald trump brand of american 1st has to offer it to america alone this should come nerves and violin in brussels as well as tokyo

and elsewhere that have been dangling over this past 4 years. trump broke a postwar tipping by sewing downs of a u.s. commitment to nato telling allies to pay up or else by then on this point would seem to mark a return to an american commitment to the alliance above and beyond economic interests but does not mean nato will see a return to the good old days when the us was a generous dependable mother of all allies there is an expectation on the part of many americans when they think about our allies that our allies also need to bring things to the table there is an expectation on the part of european allies that if joe biden is alone that she will bring some things to the table so while european diplomats can realistically hope for

a comma and say for political voices the balance of give and take across the atlantic seems to have changed for good. china is one of the few foreign policy areas where trump and biden agree they both see it as a key threat to u.s. interests biden is expected to maintain pressure on allies to reject chinese firm chua ways 5 g. technology we need to get tough which. is churning has its way we keep basically keep. robin you push for. election. rather than openly antagonizing beijing biden is likely to try to work with china on some issues while trying to maintain a tough stance on others. so while president joe biden will no doubt promote western values whatever

international moves he makes he'll have to crew that his policies are benefiting the folks back home so he is going to have to put those issues that how you manage that and how do you solve the economic fallout of that how do you heal the racial divisions in this country there's a very long list of domestic political cry already that you will have to focus on so it won't just be about foreign policy in iraq those important relationships abroad for now much of the world will be breathing a sigh of relief that the value driven america they trusted and depended on could be back but any honeymoon maybe sautter than many are hoping for biden's united states will continue to be a demanding partner to its allies for more on these transatlantic relations i'm now joined by our own colyer from bard college here and berlin mr

collier thank you so much for joining us tonight joe biden is going to be the next president of the united states and not dahlan how are other nations going to be viewing these news. oh i think the cool question with donald trump was is this was that a transitory shock to america you know something that is a bad moment or sign of what's to come and by the size of the feet of donald trump at the polls. at least it would appear the continuity of a longer trend of american foreign policy and let's face it joe biden you know a member of the senate foreign relations committee for so many years the chairman of the foreign relations committee here is someone who comes to international relations with a deep background compared to the current president so the sign of

relief is having a predictable person who does understand the complexities of u.s. foreign policy within a world of many competing interests many conflicting values and someone who will. be true to his word and not just look at the the world is a series of single singular transactions between one nation and another well it was exactly that attitude that led to relations between germany and the u.s. being very strained over the last 4 years let's take a listen to how german foreign minister heiko moss reacted to the news that finds victory. i'm relieved because at least now there's a result but also because the person who's been elected has shown in the last 48

hours that he acts very responsibly he's someone who wants to reunite his country and tackle global issues that's why we're looking forward to working together with him and his new government this is a movement even when i don't read your. letter calling or how do you think the relationship between the u.s. and germany will change now oh i think instead of having someone who is obsessed with german cars being driven on american streets you're going to have someone who looks at germany as really the biggest partner in europe and in a world where you need more rather than fewer friends and allies. the united states can be trusted to want more cooperation on a lot of different fronts with germany so in that sense germany instead of having the sense that the united states wants to knock it down a notch will in fact see its role in europe

and the world strengthened by the. genuine respect that someone like biden would bring to germany nonetheless many americans did applaud donald trump america 1st approach to foreign policy while that harder for biden to build bridges now say with nato. well you know 70000000 people did vote for donald trump this is you know a huge proportion of the american public to this stream of america 1st has been any along historical. part of domestic american politics but the u.s. president has a lot more room for maneuver with out the approval of the director approval of congress and so whether or not the senate floor remains under republican

control or. there's democratic control that is less important for the united states woman world where the the u.s. president has a lot of discretion so in that sense 70000000 voters who perhaps were the america 1st rhetoric resonated. that won't matter nearly as much this is not a serious check on president a president elect joe biden a lot of people say that trump has done a lot of damage to the norms of international relations would you agree to that and do you think that damage can be apparent under president joe biden. i think norms are less important than kind of an understanding of what interests are and how to advance the interests there's no doubt that the united states of

america will have its national interest unlike all the other sovereign states acting out there in the world will try to get to advance its own interests but the idea that you look at the world is a 0 sum game that what the united states wins means necessarily that someone else loses rather than through cooperation serious cooperation coalition building. with other nations through coordinated multilateral action these are all potentials to strengthen. american influence and to advance american interest this way of looking at the world was totally foreign is totally foreign to a donald trump who saw everything in terms of strictly bilateral relations rather than a rather complex interaction of different countries with unique interests.

asymmetric power some are more influential than others but that their deals can be done. in a a way that is much more complex than simply i when you lose that is sort of the mentality of going to the bazaar and. negotiating over carpet or something like that it's not that that's not the way the world works and joe biden certainly understands that from all of his experience on the senate foreign relations committee and as vice president of the united states a lot of changes to expect that are on call here from foreign college for len thank you so much pleasure having you. on. as we've heard donald trump is refusing to concede defeat and the election instead pledging to press ahead with legal challenges in several states and the past presidential candidates have publicly admitted defeat and congratulated their victorious opponents and have

a listen to some of those concession speeches i just call that governor clinton over little rock and offered my congratulations he did run a strong campaign i wish him well in the white house and i want the country to know that our entire administration will work closely with his team to ensure this smooth transition of power there is important work to be done and america must always come 1st so we will get behind this new president thank you. in a contest as long and difficult this is a campaign has been his success alone commands my respect for is ability and perseverance but then he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an american president is something i deeply admire and commend him for achieving this is an historic election and i

recognize the special significance it has for african-americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight good evening just moments ago i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the united states and i promised him that i wouldn't call him back this time. i offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and content through which we've just passed. well i'm glad kraft is still in the studio with me and correspondent stefan the month is in philadelphia well 1st are we going to see a concession from dollar trump we might still we haven't heard anything yet remember this is just happened a few hours ago in just pointed out at the top of the show that it took a day at least. for the next day after the election and 16 for hillary clinton to

concede they actually had a few recounts to go through before she was willing to concede i remember 2004 covering the edwards kerry campaign and john edwards that night said we're not conceding until every vote has been counted remember that was just the presidential election after the very contested 2000 election that is still a blemish on americans the most important thing to point out though is there is no legal significance to the loser conceding that especially as a sitting president it's tradition it's courtesy it certainly helps you know everything we're talking about about upholding american democracy and faith in institutions but it's in the constitution that there is a new president on january 20th sworn in and they are elected through the electoral college by the american people that is joe biden we're gargles with donald trump says or doesn't say joe biden is the next president states and as his own campaign said the other day the united states government is perfectly well suited to escort trespassers outside out of the white house so concession we will have to see

nothing we've heard from the white house yet but again in terms of how this all plays out it matters actually very little let's catch up with 17 months who is standing by for us in philadelphia in the state that help tip the balance in joe biden's favor what are people there saying stefan. well oh i depend on who you know we change location we are now. not anymore at the location at the convention center where the votes are still counted some votes are spoken about 60000 left to be counted in pennsylvania about 1520000 in philadelphia count goes on we change location and we are let me show you at the city hall right in the middle of philadelphia and as you can see this is solid biden kemal a harris ticket supporter country if you will days though trump supporter near and far here to spoil the celebratory feel all this hot and now

let's just do it for fun up there you see at the this tower on top of this tower you can probably see it this is william penn william penn and this is the irony that's why there the crowd is right there william penn the founder of this english colony pennsylvania and the 6 in the 17 hundreds and of course famous for being a fan of democracy even the constitution took a few cues from william penn and his democratic idea so in that's regard this is quite iconic and those are yes you're right and. very heavy people here all around and you have people marching around here in a march celebratin celebrating the biden when biden when yes there will be and people here are keenly aware there will be a court challenge according to the president's campaign according to the president

but nobody is really concerned who we talked to plenty of people and they have no concern they also have no concern about donald trump giving a concession speech or not they're actually sorry frankly don't care they really do not expect anything which is the norm for others from donald trump that's they say what they have learnt in the last 4 years now how will this lie. how will this sniper. the whole of course that this is all going to be peaceful and jewelry and so far it is police is present and in force there is actually even national guard down there but those guys are standing by everything is fine however should there be any quarrel in one way or form or another. will be here for now though everything peachy as they say in georgia here in philadelphia so no time supporter as in sight where you are but what are you hearing are the terms of corners where

you are accepting joe biden's win in the state that made all the difference. got there just down the road actually 2 blocks yes of course they are there they were there for the last 3 days and the points to making all the points of the trunk up in the talking points this is all fraudulent there was fraud involved they wanted all did they do not accept this result they don't say they say there is no result just because the national media is calling for calling the biden ticket as the winners the next president the president elect and the 46 president of the united states they don't buy any of this i don't think it has really sunk in there and or they just really do not want to expect to accept it because of course it's not the media who says like ok we declare president this it is mass is it's facts it's statistics it is impossible for donald trump to

catch up on joe biden in philadelphia in pennsylvania and with carrying the state what they joe biden do he really established he regained the so-called an infamous blue wall wisconsin michigan minnesota up pennsylvania for decades impenetrable for the republicans and for any republican president donald trump managed 4 years ago now all. not anymore it's back in the democratic party and they're coming in it with the with the democrats and again the honking symphony he on her and all and applause and clapping and dancing this will go on through i think the entire night here today. all right thank you so much stephanie once standing by for us in pennsylvania. william does it really not matter whether or not don tom can seems. i mean it matters as i said it matters in terms

of tradition you know democracies countries everywhere are a lot about tradition and and you know a general agreement among statesmen among politicians but again legally it doesn't matter it would be very nice to see that we don't have a history of donald trump admitting defeat or admitting he's wrong about anything i don't even to be perfectly honest i don't know what a donald trump concession speech would look like as we've seen the this whole week he's coming out saying i've won this even though there's no evidence to suggest that exactly the opposite and i think we should be very careful when we talk about divisions when we talk about trump supporters what are they going to do of course in their heart of hearts they want trump to to win of course they're not going to suddenly flock to joe biden and say oh our new president we're so happy you are president of course not but does that mean they're going to take to the streets they're going to burn burn people to the ground take their guns i really don't see

that happening we have to remember these divisions are nothing new america is built on divisions and many of those historical aspects were still living and breathing today. you're watching the w. news i'm nicole and her lamp for me as the entire team thanks for watching and we'll be back at the top the hour.

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