this is deja vu news live from berlin and now is the time to heal america says president elect joe biden. it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. of the temperature see each other again and listen to each other again biden was speaking in his home state of delaware after his victory in the presidential election.

a michael it's nice to have you with us u.s. president elect joe biden has addressed the nation for the 1st time since claiming victory in tuesday's election bided was speaking in his home state of delaware alongside vice president elect campbell harris their running mates emerged victorious after taking a clear lead in the swing state of pennsylvania after 4 days of vote counting. up the dots. but will a new dawn soon be upon america joe biden has one power promising just. to a country that has been living through a year of pandemic and on rest the veteran lady is promising to bring a new book. the bar tells us to every day there is a season a time to delve trying to return to time to sorrow and a time to hear. this is the time of day here in america.

alongside biden a woman who says she's determined to heal the country's rice who divisions camilla harris will be the country's 1st female a minority vice president she did the key to victory to the civil rights movement and said it will help restore us democracy and when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election with the very soul of america at stake and the world's work change you ushered in a new day for america. in washington d.c. and in many of america's blue states that was celebrations for these people and many elsewhere not motz a huge victory in america's beats a culture war. they see themselves as weakness who've won back their own country or

like america again and i feels like it feels like we're now back on the right track america is back we have regained america football people time is static for the nation. but the other america has been out on the streets to on saturday stop the steel rallies were held in closely contested states like here in michigan these people believe the president's on their fight theorise the view biden's claims to be the we know we suspicion. oppositely believe he had a landslide on the trail if the candidate was ill never arrives in anchorage president shows a continuous lawsuits. you know fight for you know this the stealing of this stuff is new in this election right now the current president looks like he's digging into his bunker as joe biden won the election and donald trump went golfing

supporters cheat him on the way back to the white house the much of red america donald trump is still very much their president. and as we already heard president donald trump has not conceded defeat yet but announced again he would challenge the outcome in court let's bring in kirk younker he's a professor of law at the university of cologne welcome to d.w. again professor trump has repeatedly said he wants the result determined in the supreme court what are his chances of changing the outcome of this election good afternoon here we have to look for legal foundations here in 2 different directions the product is already running on the electoral college vote on december the 14th and you have to do something before december the 14th you have to do something before december 8th which is when the electoral college as there are safe harbor you're all the states must have certified what the results are so the thought is

running getting to the supreme court was seen he needs some stayed decision some action by a state official that he can file a lawsuit against appeal for not lawsuit because the supreme court is an appeals court and that's how he would get it before the u.s. supreme court unlike in 2000 with bush and gore we don't have that state decision yet because there hasn't been any substance that any of his state lost engine so until that happens i see the supreme court so in a word tough tough. no i mean if you will even if he doesn't succeed there's a sizable segment of the electorate that now appears not to trust the system how dangerous is out for a democracy. i would hesitate to paint the entire system one presidential election it carries a lot of sociological impart political impact but keep in mind what we really

should be focusing on right now i think is in senate races if we want to be looking at legal impact because as your previous speaker said if the senate stays republican party back to the situation of barack obama where he has to do everything by executive order which is not making a law it's only an interpretation of law you know wait for which he has discretion . i don't think that legally there's a problem we have state elections happening and have happened without problems i think i'd say senate united states house of representatives we're always on the selections well we only have this focus on the president and we shouldn't take that as really being representative of the entire system we only have about 40 seconds left here professor but in january obviously donald trump will most probably lose the immunity from prosecution he enjoys as president what could that mean for him. even as president well let's go back to the question that he is likely

possibly he could be prosecuted and i think that his tax records have been a big enough question that may come and we've read enough and heard enough about actions in new york at the new york state attorney general may well be prosecuting him he would mind unlike with richard nixon if the state prosecute him he cannot be pardoned by the next president. understood if i can get a yes no answer from you on this one for pfeffer it 1st professor if that's possible can candy new can donald trump actually pardon himself from any of the. ok got it thank you sir. you're very welcome for fessor kirk younger for us really appreciate your time. thank you so how is news of biden's victory being received here in germany our reporters have been canvassing opinion i think it's a great relief actually now to have

a leader in the us and they're important they have. somehow as have our of our fights for similar things like we do here approach that i have been following the election results over the past few days and was anxious about the final result but the outcome is become clearer over the past 2 or 3 days it's a relief that it's over now and. i would not like the old. father figure well i would say that. it's a fixed 3 or 4 democratic. approach. that the world is better not. to miss the fighters really let's get the global perspective now with the w.'s chief international editor richard walker richard house the international community reacting so for to joe biden's what we've had statements from many leaders around the world now here in europe the statements came in very quickly actually off the cool was announced last evening european time

let's bring up a few on the screen just to have a quick look sir i'm going to machall she was among the 1st to give her congratulations to joe biden saying kind of wishing the best of luck in every success and indeed in the german original she even used words like heartfelt which was kind of striking because if you remember back 4 years ago when donald trump one statement off of that was very very frosty and that was a bit of a taste of the rather poor relationship to come between the 2 of them if we move forward perhaps a man who i might call also offering congratulations so you know getting this from a lot of european leaders really seeing joe biden someone who's much more on that wavelengths in terms of values than donald trump boris johnson the u.k. interesting case here 1st answer among the really prominent european leaders is the one who is probably closer. donald trump you know bracks it was something that trump was very supportive of you know the departure of the u.k. from the european union but even johnson was quick out of the gate with

congratulations to joe biden but i think this one from india to render modi the prime minister of india this is really going to rankle with donald trump because he gives congratulations to joe biden he also kind of came out with this pretty soon after the result came through and took us tackle a victory and then with this photograph of the 2 men close and that's really going to rank with trump because he thought in modi he had an ideological soul mate in fact you know he was a populist nationalist trump was in india earlier this year i was there at the time and got a huge amount of fanfare on his visit to india to. promote his hometown even and that all seems to be forgotten now and of course is another aspect to indian relations with this with this new administration incoming administration eskom laris of course her mother came from a small village in tamil nadu in the south of india and people have been out in that village celebrating. their motives language is certainly not muted is it. i'm

curious as i talk to you. are there international leaders who are not happy with the outcome of this election what there are some leaders who are really pretty heavily invested with donald trump and one who definitely comes to minds benjamin netanyahu and his response was distinctly late see he did not jump out of the gate so quickly he waited till sunday morning local time to offer his congratulations to joe biden and immediately followed up with a tweet kind of giving his thanks to donald trump in this apparent effort to sort of soften the blow of his could graduations to joe biden but i think you know the fact that a leader so close to donald trump sees the writing on the wall is just a sign. that his power is ebbing away even if he hasn't quite accepted that himself . richard walker really appreciate that perspective much thanks.

joe biden's victory crowns a long career in politics one that includes 2 previous failed presidential beds and 8 years as brock obama's 2nd in command here's a closer look at the man who will run the white house for the next 4 years it began half a century ago at 29 joseph biden was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the u.s. senate his success though laced with sadness when just weeks later his wife and daughter died in a car accident he remarried and made his 1st presidential bed in 1908 and again 20 years later my grandmother would yell out spread the faith. he was chosen to be barack obama's running mate. the best vice president barack has ever had mr joe biden. and he was resigned to never quite reaching the nation's highest office until donald trump came along that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. and we have to with this decades of experience

biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world but he was the man for the moment i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over he promised a sure leadership in the midst of the coronavirus condemning. it's estimated that nearly another 210000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year i'm nothing no more let's just set partisanship aside let's end the politics and follow the signs. ultimately the voters agreed and made joseph biden the $46.00 president of the united states of america. time lucky. highlighting some other stories now.

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