career he failed in 1988 he failed in 2008. and now he's finally made it to be president of the united states that are very advanced age we should always note. but nonetheless here he is and it will be interesting to see how you know how the joe biden of 2020 might differ from the joe biden attended of 2008 or 999080 8 as he goes to the white house in 2021. a very much different tone here you know we're going where you actually stand on donald trump's positions the tone has been always so abrasive and in just the last 24 hours or naive it since we've heard you know finally that what we've known for days that joe biden had come into our store going to be the president vice president elect of the united states. there's been an overwhelming silence that i feel has come over the media bubble that we live in or for 4 years we've been

hearing donald trump it's always been about donald trump of course the presidency is that it's a huge position that the president has no matter who the president is always in the news but in a very different way the last 4 years it's always been about this president but donald trump is donald trump and we didn't hear we haven't heard about this he's been silent for the 1st time really in for your 4 years and i have to say just got very very abrasive rhetoric again putting aside the policies it doesn't really matter right or wrong where you stand on that republican or democrat just in your very different tone and i think is a great relief to many of us who listen to him in the media to many political leaders around the world right now and of course many people in the united states to talk about that finally that we're getting from let's bring in someone in our studio in washington sumi any news on the president.

i really have to wonder nicolle if the president is watching this you know joe biden's speech and but the vice president like the speech of this was carried by all the networks including fox news so i don't know what else a person would be able to watch at this point but we have not heard anything right now from the white house the latest that we've heard is that they will push forward with lawsuits and legal challenges to try to challenge what has been declared which is that joe joe biden is the president elect but we haven't since then heard anything from the white house and it makes you wonder what their strategy will be perhaps we will hear more in the coming hours or even tomorrow they had indicated in the statement earlier today that monday they would be pushing forward with legal challenges and yet today already we saw a new challenge all launched in arizona but just to come back to you know joe biden's speech in public areas the speech or a few things that were just so interesting to watch there you know coming to harris coming out and suffragette white you know really paying a lot to the women who fought for the right for women to bow to the fact that she immediately came out quoting congressman john lewis

a civil rights icon who passed away earlier this year we really touching on some of the some of the reasons of course of the things rather that couple harris represents to so many people and i have to say you know joe biden looked incredibly energized and we've made a lot of us as well about his age his age and the fact that he'll be the oldest president now to take office but he came out actually jogging on to stage you know when even the president has been very critical of joe biden and his mental acuity in calling him sleepy joe he seemed really really energized tonight as he came out and stage obviously for good reason with this this news of his victory there but just to kind of underline also what william has been saying you have seen a completely different tone here just a note joe biden saying let's give each other a chance and lower the temperature really of the messaging that we haven't heard from president again all the way up until today as it's clear that he is not ready or willing to concede just yet. coming areas in her speed. their victory was

a victory for hope unity decency. and truth let's talk about that last part where does truth stand right now after 4 years of. do people believe politicians anymore where are we on the post factual spectrum in the united states. that's a huge question nicole and i think it's really difficult to answer because it certainly is the case that truth has been eroded on a number of levels there are so many voters who have the opportunity to cross the country and talk to voters around the country and what we heard is that there was a lot of mistrust in politicians and the establishment and even if they believe that president trump wasn't always being honest with them they believed at least he would speak his mind in the way that he saw was bastien so it is hard to say whether people really do trust politicians lawmakers what they whether they will

trust the president elect joe biden but certainly that is something that joe biden hammered home in his speeches that is what he wants to restore he said he wants to restore the backbone of america if you want to restore decency you said various times trust and decency he also said science will be at the forefront of his covert 19 strategy going forward so that will be a big effort for him to take on him and the vice president of elect harris and it will be one of the biggest task as they try to bring the country together. will you make america respected around the world again was not very suddenly. rephrasing something. that will yes thank you america again exactly so how big of a task is that going to be at looking at trans-atlantic relations that have come under severe strain these past 4 years you know i took no. we did when the news

broke earlier that joe biden would be the president elect and he said he looks forward to working with joe biden on many of the challenges ahead and i thought that was a very subtle indication that not everything is going to just go back to a preach from transatlantic world order liberal world order these big grandiose terms that we like to use to kind of define the way especially in the west that the world is structured these global institutions that you know the e.u. and the united states have to redefine their relationship and this is not necessarily a bad thing if there's a silver lining in the way the dollar has to put it mildly shaken up transatlantic relations and really you know the institutions that the western world is built on it's that it's given the european union especially nato also the opportunity to see what what what place do they have on the world stage and not just waiting for the united states to make a move or to take a leave or to share or to or to have the most burden of it really to be more of an

equal partner to really step up to be more of a superpower to be more of a responsible power and i think that's something that joe biden will will himself welcome you know i was speaking not too long actually right after election day with john emerson barack obama as a bastard or to germany and he said you know during the obama years they were pushing germany and pushing the european union to step up more the differences between what we saw of the obama administration what and what we saw the top administration will probably see going into the by the administration is again the tone again it's not so much the policies many of the policies that trump was pushing for was a long time american foreign policy especially with nato burden sharing getting other nato partners to spend more to take more responsibility but the difference was you know trump would probably would buy insult someone publicly on twitter or make fun of uncle americal for example that would never happen in an obama administration that's not going to happen. bided administration it's really about

the tone as a former ambassador emerson said to me you know the decibel level was lower under obama it will be lower under a by the administration so it's not about the goals changes but how how to reach those goals and how to work with allies that's going to change i think this is a great opportunity like i say for european leaders to reassess that relationship and to redefine it not just go back to the way things were and that is i think something we could really look forward to on both sides of the atlantic. we're just seeing. dr and joe biden saying goodbye to the crowds there in wilmington delaware. soon we. were seeing crown celebrating the president elect the vice president elect but we cannot forget that donald trump will be in the white house for another 2 months what can we expect during that time. well that isn't

a great question to call and i think it 1st will have to watch what he does in the coming days if he indicates that he is willing to concede and and willing to allow that to joe biden has won this election and there in that there are some big things on the docket here that we have to keep our eye on that you know we have been kind of completely consumed by this presidential election but there are some big policy points coming up 1st and foremost the co 1000 pandemic is still raging through the country hasn't been brought under control yet what will president trump do in the coming weeks and months to tackle this problem until now he has been all over the board in terms of his strategy there is the fact that the government funding is only been extended told december 11th so we could be headed towards a government shutdown there as well president trump will play a crucial role in how he decides to handle this there is also the fact that the supreme court just next week will start hearing arguments are in a case to overturn obamacare the affordable care act which could put millions of americans out. health insurance would take health insurance away from them so these

are crucial battles that are coming in the next weeks and will absolutely demand president trump's attention so we have to see how he's going to handle that we do know interestingly enough that there's been some reporting from the washington post already about what joe biden would do with soon as he takes office and it is said here that it reported here that he would plan already as soon as he takes office to issue a flurry of executive orders to undo some of what president trump has done so for example rejoining the paris climate accord is one thing the washington post has been reporting here we're versing the muslim immigration ban something that has been obviously very pop unpopular internationally and also reinstating the relationship with the world health organization so again there is there is so much kind of to look out for in the next month or so with president trump in office and then to see how joe biden tries to hit the ground running. and we saw that change in tone 1 there you hinted at it as well as william harris' thing.

the trailblazers as well as joe biden those who paved the way for them to get to where they are today how will we see that kind of rhetoric that tone reflected in their administration. well i think what we might see and you know we don't know yet who will make up joe biden's cabinet but i certainly think that that type of messaging towards a more diverse background in the types of people that joe biden and couple harris will try to surround themselves with is something that we'll see in personnel so the people that they will bring in as their advisors the people who will surround joe biden and camilla harris and i think also we'll see it in the types of policies that they're going to address i just mentioned you know millions of americans might be out of health out of health care if obamacare were to be repealed down the road well that is something that joe biden a couple harris of both mentioned is an important point of theirs to make sure that

the people who are don't have health care in the country already or have lost health care because of losing their jobs the people who are really suffering right now so you know the for front line workers and people who are service workers here who have really suffered from this pandemic and by the way this is disproportionately hit african-american communities that they're going to be on the top of the agenda to try to serve these communities so i think the fact that they are on joe biden and come later says radar as a key priority going forward already reflects what their priorities are in terms of reaching a broader population and also paying more than just lip service to the diversity that they bring to this to this to the white house so much so much in washington d.c. thank you very much and william with the couple of minutes that we have left let's take a look word where all of this leaves the republican party many saying it's broken . these 4 years have done

a lot of damage can they bounce back will there have to be soul searching in these months and years to come where do you when you see the republican party going i mean there's always hard to bounce back and political memories are very short i mean we we had this discussion after george w. bush when it was. you know with the same exact questions where does the republican party go after these 8 years where the then the highly unpopular president now we look back to that in polls actually see george w. bush people remember him very fondly who very very big. revisionist history in many people's minds there is going to have to be soul searching in this party what does this party look like after donald trump because donald trump has subsumed this party and so many people have ridden his coattails to victory and used his rhetoric to their advantage and with that taken out of the equation where does that leave the party but let's not forget they still are probably not for sure but probably going to control the senate they've made some gains in the house of representatives

and they controlled many of the state legislatures and state senate all across the country that have incredible power in their state in their states which then as we've seen in this election how much power individual states have in determining the direction of the country so their republican party is by no means down in the out but it is going to be a reckoning with what kind of party they want to be going forward how partisan they want to be all right thank you so much william kraft from election team you're watching news life found our top story at this hour joe biden said he wants to restore america after being there when are the u.s. presidential election and delivered his victory speech in his hometown. of the where the wilmington delaware in precise long vice president elect come what harris told the crowd and it's important that it's time for the nation to heal and put away the harsh rhetoric.

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be the recovery room for patients who've had surgery now it serves as a makeshift intensive care unit for covert benteen patients on life support hospitals in the belgian province of lea is are no the epicenter of europe's 2nd wave and struggling to keep up we are not about to add. one new profession anymore so if a patient comes in emergency room with a 3 we have to transfer him to another or be done in belgium until the flemish both of belgium will be ortho 4th devo tells us his team is not only short of beds but also personnel one in 5 nurses in the region have tested positive for the virus themselves but the pressure is so high that those who don't have symptoms continue to work under strict safety precautions the actual number of infections is likely to be higher than the official figures across town at least as university hospital testing is ongoing. i can't smell or taste any more and i have

a headache. medics year can conduct 280 tests every day but these tests are strictly for those who have a doctor's prescription family members friends or coworkers who have been in close contact with them but don't show any symptoms cannot get a test for them or as the moment we have so many positive cases the problem is there are far too many contact persons given the huge number of people who have symptoms we'd be unable to test them as well as all the people they've been in contact with at least not with the amount of tests we have currently if we had more tests we probably could back in the covert ward dr duvall fears the lax handling of the crisis in summer will put him and his colleagues in a very difficult position very soon. when you have only one bet and then people end up asking for the same bit you have to choose between the 13 that which one you were after and meant no doctor with one to do that's one thing it's like you know

we are not doctors who do that kind of thing we all looked up to treat patients not the truth which a patient treating in germany has started to take patients from belgian hospitals with infections expected to continue to rise here in the coming weeks medical staff already at their limit who need all the help they can get. to combat the increasing number of corona virus infections in spain a nightly curfew has been put in place but parties are still being held in private apartments even though they're not allowed. back every week and moderate police have been knocking on hundreds of doors to shut down illegal parties my bridge allows meetings of up to 6 people who are not related but police have broken up parties of more than 200 who are keen as a business student in my village he only wants to speak briefly and anonymously as he regularly goes to such parties he himself recently helped organize one.

that we just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside just a few visitors even wore masks but that didn't last long honestly young people's biggest fear is having to pay a fine that's why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors sent the police won't detect anything that you know not. what i look. who are keen and his friends seem unfazed by this that just makes the 3rd of spending has become infected with the coronavirus at private parties 200 illegal parties were broken up in madrid last week alone police chief javier find none of this is especially troubled by the new business model being developed. bars that are actually supposed to be closed certainly do take money in exchange for letting people in there's a clear economic incentive for it apart from that we have discovered private homes that were charging entrance fees right at the front door this isn't just about

a few friends meeting up psychiatry's diego figueroa is calling for more empathy with a young people even if you support strictly abiding by the hygiene measures experts are starting to acknowledge the consequences of such drastic restrictions on young people's social lives right now we are finding out that young people's mental health problems have increased dramatically as a result of the springs to lock down the suicide safe increased by 22 per cent so far and attempted suicides have even increased by 35 percent on top of that there's been a major increase in the consumption of alcohol in psychoactive drugs. young spaniards are now confronted with new rules all bars in madrid must close at 11 pm starting this week and curfew begins at the mid night. even so business student doesn't want to be forbidden from partying he says he can decide for himself what

risky is willing to tolerate even if it means partying in private homes until 6 am for the duration of the curfew. the hillbrow district of villanous bergen south africa is considered to be a problem area. drugs violence prostitution and garbage plague the streets there. but now the residents want to change it for the better. these volunteers meet up every saturday to clean up the neighborhoods that came in my seiko is 35 years old and has been living and who broke for 4 years now. you need to stay in place you're going to be listing it seems like you know it takes no you have the people so you going to the stand today convinced that say i said doing this to bro has a problem with rubbish it's everywhere the city's waste collection service cannot cope on its own so the volunteers decided to form their own organisation it's

called ski city the organization has launched a program called adopt a street to help residents feel more connected to their community in the days of apartheid only white people were allowed to live a year later it became a melting pot with people from various ethnicities and cultural backgrounds but as the population and unemployment grew problems started to emerge became known for violence criminality and prostitution but their trip you taishan is beginning to change actually in parks and people enjoying the district's improved image. they live here is their environment so it's it's bringing their pride to their own environment you know you don't have to just eat something out of a plastic or drink something out of a bottle and throw it on the ground so we started to get their change of behavior in the people and the community that lives here and then eventually once

a street on the air or a park is cleared and the crime elements they move out. the killer must take or says crime particularly robberies needs to be addressed he takes us to the block of flats where you works as a caretaker he says while the situation has improved dramatically in recent years the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to roll back those improvements the best that they need this premise of the increase in cleaning up because people almost the contents definition then into a can so no this just looking to get their foot in the center of the house they're struggling to get with it so they're trying to find some food for their actions. so i'm saying that the cotton is not good for us i'm going to quote or not put in a finish and then that's it if you like i say if you. check into my sicko wants to do what he can to make the locals a little bit happier next weekend and make the neighborhood a little more pleasant even if you can solve all the areas problems themselves and

many others suffer very heavy to lift year in broken english you. know. droughts and pests are destroying forests in russia. activist marianna much ianto who has dedicated her life to conservation says there's only one solution planting more trees. what looks like random bunches of greenery are in fact pine tree saplings thousands of them already for planting marianna montano explains how it's done. it's going to be simple you place the sampling in the hole then fill that with earth and check that the saplings firmly batted in. the f. . and. check once more that it can't be pulled out of the grahams

for that so i. think you 8000 saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna munteanu asked for help online and an army of volunteers has responded she regularly invites members of the public to help her. rushes fars of taking quite a beating in recent years huge areas have been devastated by wildfires pests like bark beetles pose a further challenge russia has more forest than any other country trees cover nearly half of this vast land. is ya it seems in there is i. been doing this since 2010 there were terrible wildfires back then throughout the whole of russia but it's you know i saw a picture of huge well established trees being blown across the fields by the when they were breaking off like matchsticks each. marianna studied economics and

initially worked in finance but she quit her job to devote all her attention to reforestation to mining to michigan or can change the world one small step at a time and people will pull together for a good cause. just sitting it's. 7 years ago marianna munteanu moved to moscow to build up her own environmental organization but she's still not a lover of the city her childhood in the countryside very much shaped to she is. within the book but i'd love nature i love the forest as a child i always spend the summers with my grandmother in the village at the door the door that's her house right next to the forest we would go out several times a week picking berries or mushroom. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for lunch in the past 10 years marianna munteanu and her helpers have planted more than a 1000000 trees that's the equivalent of around 1300 soccer fields

a large number of volunteers of all ages have helped to make it possible. last year she was selected by the united nations for the young champion of the earth award. right nearby she shows us some other young trees from her project that have had a chance to get established. this situation was planted just 7 years ago and as you can see it's already bigger than me listening up soon and this area should once again be a strong healthy forest hopefully strong enough to withstand all the challenges of the future.

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side show. mayan civilization was once one of the most dominant cultures in mesoamerica. centuries old buildings still bear witness to their amazing accomplishments and their might. and most archaeological research in the region has focused on them. but recent findings have shown that other peoples lived alongside the 1000000. we go on an expedition to north east and one tourist. this is the sleepy little village of waterloo on the northeast coast of honduras. the love of. daily life here revolves around fishing but there's now a new attraction archaeologists from germany and switzerland believe the area used to be inhabited by an ancient civilization but there's been very little research on

the ground here to date. and we had to start from scratch were very even any archaeological sites here and of so in what condition we had absolutely no information. on the scene followed clues from old records which suggest that this area now covered in forest and bush land was one. home to a network of towns and villages their inhabitants appeared to have conducted trade with the legendary maya the archaeologists are based in a house just outside guadalupe from where marcus kind of overseas operations. the location was not a random choice it's been 4 years since the project began. at this if you're a situation was pretty precarious which is why we looked for a place where we'd have safety and found the grounds of a school surrounded by

a wall and conveniently for us archaeologists there was a settlement mound that looked extremely promising the 1st place. that's where we decided to start a pilot project to gauge potential for excavations. the project also means jobs for some young local men while the school principal is fascinated by the notion of people having settled here over a 1000 years ago. i would never have thought that there was a window into our past right in front of and then this is finding out what's behind that window is very exciting. we love to have to show everyone and acquire the loop might have a whole new previous history. that i study. history that peoples could profit from in the near future. around the corner in the excavation h.q.

the archaeologists have busy analyzing the a radiologic france they found ready over 100000 francisca fresh is writing her doctoral thesis on the project says i know enough and this is one of a number of as we found out you can still play them and they produce a lovely sound. they were found in a place where people deposited items of particular value to them. we also found cylinder seals. much they were used to paint patterns on fabrics or on top persons . they were told like this it's time for the 5 off target. then there are these delicate little green stone and then now it says we have done they are indeed made of jade and the nearest source of shade is in guatemala so the people who live here had very extensive trade routes. and number of the

facts indicate that the communities who want settled here had trading relations with other peoples like the mayan but at the same time they retained an independent identity. just a little here in northeastern honduras had a unique culture of their own not just. the team plan to search the entire region for lost settlements and on the archaeological sites and easy undertaking given the size and in accessibility of the to rein. in the our work involves exploring areas on forward and talking to local people is also very helpful. for coal a lot of farmers here have discovered things in their fields that provide clear evidence of old settlements in old places thanks to the help of locals the researches keep on uncovering new side. yes. there located along ancient past ways

that centuries ago may have been important trade treaties connecting inland areas with against. another little village by the sea turned up a very special sites discovered by a resident while he was digging a new latrine. doesn't mean that it's a hellhole that really got our attention so we went down there to take a look when single for. the artifacts found here indicate the existence of not just any settlement but one that could be over 2000 years old. that's what a beauty. among the finds is the head of a small ceramic figure and exceptional discovery that said the subject of speculation for the archaeologists. but there is probably a body attached here it's going to might be a toy but it could be anything. from here we can start scanning straight away.

the next step is to create a detailed record of the head piece for further research archaeologist michael lyons uses cutting edge technology for the task in the shape of a laser scanner. just minutes later the computer has created a perfect a virtual copy of the sculpture it would take several days to draw something comparable by hand. the software even enables the researches to reconstruct a complete bolt based on one single shot and in the long term that technology will help them to compile a more complete picture of this previously unknown civilization in honduras. half the excavation in honduras has also been affected by the corona virus pandemic . the archaeologists had to stop work cover over the dead site. and pretend to europe practically overnight. they left behind the majority of the objects that

they discovered in honduras. we spoke to marcus and asked him how the project is now fearing. yeah you've documented objects like that little ceramic head in great detail using 3 blue sky you know it does not help you to pass the time while you're away from the site. it's in the time yes indeed it does. yeah it's cool it's not just because of the corona virus that we don't have access to our finds to cut on. it's standard practice to spend several weeks or months on the ground documenting objects and the sites where we dig. holes and then we take all the documentation back home and work on it for the rest of the year. what we

did with these pieces of pottery we scanned them in 3 d. . so that's an added bonus that. it's like we have them right there in front of us just in virtual form. we can turn them any which way as if they were real 3 dimensional objects. 100. years makes what can you tell us about the discoveries you've made tank and. that's just well we've learned quite a lot. it's very fascinating to see how this one little psych we conducted the dig was connected to the wider world of central america or even middle america. we have a range of techniques to analyze what we found the pottery and other things and they let us piece together the history. she's difficult we can also reconstruct the relations or networks these people maintained back then. these are men she.

terms you know and so you know working in hunter s. with a demonstration team i suppose he you know you don't have treasure and took some of them with you to analyze that hasn't and i was you know it's going to actually just basic my say that it all sounds a bit colonialists. how do you respond to that exactly. that's. ok trouble i would most definitely disagree archaeological excavations are quite different nowadays. we don't just take everything we find with us just a very very small set of samples that we want to analyze using techniques not available in the country where we do the dig. temple we export them for a limited period of time and then we send them all back. but we also find is that people there are really interested in the past suddenly they're looking at

thousands of years of previous history. that changes the way they feel about themselves. plus there's the idea of seeing the objects going on display in a little museum there it's a really big deal so times have truly changed since the colonial era. side the 99 you thanks for those exciting insights and put taking the time to talk to us. sure. this is what an open rino like the ones found in 100 sounds like. music if he has to be a fundamental human meat possibly dating back to the very dawn of our existence even if the forms that it takes to fit from culture to culture. that's a. good one it is music so important to us. and

tell it as it influenced sell feelings. this number has gone down in film history it's the music that ratchets up the tension and literally gets and asking. how come missing one can measure the way music affects up to 50 different parameters in the body. and. listening to music changes the brain waves heart rate and certain hormone levels. is a psychologist who studies what music does to us and how it does it he says music is closely tied up with our emotions.

music probably originates in the melodies of speech people took something of the emotion embodied in speech and transferred it to music that theory suggests that we can manipulate people's mood and mental states through music. restaurants often play music in the background it's influences what we choose to eat how fast we consume it and how much with protests. to play. an experiment in england showed that with classical music playing guests were willing to pay 10 percent more for their food even if they were not fond of that kind of music. you don't have to be a great fan of classical music to feel that it's somehow meaningful and dignified. and as we listen to it we tend to ascribe those attributes to other things we see

around us. people. other studies found that people adapt the rate at which they chew their food to the music that listening to fast beats take go play. a slow tempo say for a. little if the music feels slow dinah's linger long and drink up to 40 percent more in fact at least when it's booze. still when it comes to our taste buds there are limits to the influence of music. as is their money and it's not as if the music playing in a restaurant prevents us from registering the quality of the food. as its power doesn't quite extend that far down the. music we like activates areas of the brain associated with

a phrygian succeeds in firing up the limbic system hearing it pumps out dope to me commonly known as the feel good old man not only makes you feel hot page it says it also makes you more relaxed and more active and in your arms is your moment. and not told is true it's claims to never your. dining. hall shopping restauranteurs and retailers want you to feel great. around and. if a department store wants to have music playing in the background it has to be music that appeals to everyone but the public is diverse school kids buying sweets elderly people with lots of time on their hands if you want to manipulate people by means of music they all have to like it but thank goodness it doesn't always work out that way.