tonight marks a huge victory in america's beach a culture war. they see themselves as weakness who've won back their own country like america again and i feels like it was like we're now back on the right track america is back we have regained america for all people time is static for the nation. but the other americas being out on the streets 2 on saturday stop the steel rallies were held in closely contested states like here in michigan these people believe the president's on verified theories the buttons claims to be the we know with suspicion. he had. on them they think and it was ill memorized and anchorage president trying to continue his lawsuits. you know fight for you know that the stealing of the stop is really 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 for much of red america don't know trump is still very much the president. let's bring in our u.s. correspondent. in washington d.c. greetings to me as we speak the united states is waking up to a new era in history how's the mood there. well it's been a pretty quiet morning here mike i walked by the white house and there was a lot of cleaning up going on at black life better plaza where everyone saw there were huge crowds rally there yesterday and a party that continued into the night these were joe biden's supporters who were celebrating and there is a sense among them at least of the relief and jubilation but as we saw in that report among donald trump supporters there is disbelief and frustration and anger as well particularly as a some of them don't recognize that joe biden has been elected and from the white house itself while we're hearing reports from the white house pool reporters that

the president is on the move that he is leaving the white house we don't know where he is headed we do know that this morning he's been active again on twitter i'm just looking at his twitter feed here he is again repeating those claims of voter fraud and that this election was stolen from him and says that particularly the big cities where a lot of mail in ballots were cast that these are the ones where he believes fraud took place from that stole the selection from him so michael that doesn't bode well for what we might see in the course of the day the president clearly making clear here and that he is not willing to concede this election that the major divide in the united states in the drama is not over what are the biggest changes expected. well 1st and foremost we know what to expect as the biggest change from joe biden now he made clear that tackling the covert 1000 pandemic is the biggest priority and he's announced that he will create a task force of us scientists and experts as he put it on monday and that they will draw up plans to fight the virus and we also heard in his acceptance speech that he

will really build that plan as he said on science and it would be constructed out of as he put it to compassion empathy and conserve and the need for this is dire michel as we've all been focusing on the election been getting much worse here on friday there were $126000.00 new cases reported that's a new daily record and we are fast approaching $10000000.00 total cases nearly 240000 people have died so it is not surprising that this will be a big priority for joe joe biden going forward should we would have been snow during the transition period. well this is always a busy time for an incoming president so it's 10 weeks usually have between election day and an auger ration about the fact that we waited for results and that president trump as we said hasn't made any indication he's going to concede that it's cut into that time so we'll be even busier for joe biden coming to harris and we certainly will see them get into action 1st of all really choosing who they want to have surrounding them so chiefs of staff advisors and so on and those choices

will tell us michael what direction they're heading in that will be really interesting on foreign policy what americans allies and partners around the world can expect and joe biden has repeatedly promised to be a president for all americans he's expected to sit down with leaders from the republican party as well as he builds his team and builds this path forward no doubt at this hour the republican party is clearly licking its wounds what is the future for the g.o.p. . a lot of people are asking that question michael's been really interesting to see that only a handful of republicans have actually congratulated joe biden a victory in the rest of maine remained largely silent and one prominent republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina is actually calling now in the justice department to investigate a legal vote counting in pennsylvania so here he is simply backing the president's unsubstantiated claims that this election was fraudulent and the reasons for that michel are clear president trump we have to say is still massively popular among

republicans more than 70000000 people voted for him and if they believe this election was manipulated then you know party members lawmakers want to align themselves with the president but this party has become the donald trump party and the question is going to be if he's no longer the president what will their path forward be in deciding what they want to be and what they want to stand for with or without president trump i was. in washington d.c. as always to me thank you so much. 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 that they. somehow has the right for some of the things like me to hear reports that i have been following the election results of the past few days it was anxious about the final results of the outcome is come clear over the past 2 or 3 days it's a relief that it's over now. you know i thought the whole thing was fodder fichter

well i would say that there is a fix that are affordable because if. it's a mistake from business the front but i believe that the world is better no. i missed the fight is real 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 you 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 we have to look for legal foundations here in 2 different directions a clock 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 for all the states must have certified what the results are certified was running getting to the supreme court was deemed he needs some state decision or some action by a state official that he can file a lawsuit against appeal from out 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 of any of his state lost and so until that happens i sing about the supreme court so in a word tough tough very slow and 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 that 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 the senate races if we want to be looking at legal impact because as your previous speaker said if the senate stays republican pretty back to the situation of barack obama where he has to do everything by executive order which is not making law it's only an interpretation of law in a way 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 because he is lightly 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 if that professor if that's possible can't candy new can donald trump actually pardon himself from any of these. ok got it. thank you. for. really appreciate your time. now to some of

the other stories making news around the world that there. are more than $300.00 protesters took to the streets again a protest against the. internet access was restricted members of the british. at the center in london sunday a 2 minute silence was held during the traditional tribute to those killed in war memorials also took place across the u.k. . setting. the king. of. the. sport now and

saturday's late. big one. the visitors were boosted by the return of the. but it. couldn't even hold until the break. his inevitable goal 3 minutes after the restart as he glanced to lucas hernandez's cross. at the result the on days when he made it 3110 minutes from time.

then 3 minutes later early in holland straight through dortmund a lifeline. but by and held on to take a deserved victory and reclaim their spot at the top of the bindis league well dortmund sweet for league success in the classic a go zone. you're watching news i'm michael okwu there's more news at. a true american champion along the leading aircraft manufacturer worldwide an icon of engineering progress. boeing people are very proud of their work it's known all over the world people here are proud of it we're proud of it. but marched 21000 proved a major turning point for boeing. in ethiopia a passenger plane with 157 people on board has crashed

a survivor. the victims were from $35.00 countries and included 5 germans. children mourned for their parents men and women for their partners and parents for their children. less than 5 months earlier a plane of the same type that already crashed in indonesia resulting in 189 deaths . a suspicion quickly arose that there might be a connection. where the crash is more than tragic accidents. or an issue that went beyond the $737.00. in italy that seems to have developed into a system in recent years and has penetrated deep inside. in our investigation we met with boeing insiders who held abandoned by regulators some even reports of violence and threats. and he told me flat out

he's on the push it into your break and then i'm going to come in the fiction he told me several times well they broke me thanks. to crashes within 5 months with 2 brand new boeing 737 max 346 people die and they're just a number. there were 157 people on board the ethiopian airlines plane. their relatives want their photos put on display in order for the victims not to be forgotten i one of them yasser i saw left behind an entire family and his 3 daughters now have no father. the entire in your august family was killed including 3 children thanks.

another victim larry philip was just 28 years old. i. saw him going to the market was a sunday like any other. we were looking for want of the spring and everything beyond the house turning green again and then the phone rang it has to be good and then what you believe it was her partner on the phone and i thought what's he calling about he's never called before. the 1st few minutes he couldn't get a word out and then he said marie had been on the plane in. sounds.

on from those found in stores it was a business trip she worked for it god and in east africa they're responsible for bringing countries together to collaborate on resilience to drought and she had a meeting their mentor for you know most of all i admired how she always knew exactly what she wanted she wanted to make the world a better place. marie philip was following along with 156 other passengers in a boeing 737 maps from addis ababa to nairobi for a un meeting. in summary we're sitting here. right behind an italian retardant next to a kenyan king. it took excavators to dig the debris of the plane out of the ground. the impact was so

intense that it almost completely disappeared into the earth. and i don't see just by looking at the pictures you can imagine how everything was absolutely destroyed the impact must have been extreme if you think. about 5 months prior and almost brand new boeing 737 maps had crashed into the sea near indonesia just after takeoff. it quickly became clear the cause was not a simple technical defect but rather a flight computer system like. 189 people lost their lives and for many their remains were never found. their relatives were left to mourn mere memorial services. to revisit a law firm in new york which represents the families of many victims and lawsuits

against boeing including the philip family. they don't want to see boeing get off the hook they want to know what caused the crashes was a mere bad luck or their technical problems or a deadly system of concealment and cover up remember lie an error occurred 5 months plus or more years before ethiopian line in the air made it clear that the end cas computer system was a problem. and right after the lion here the 737 max should have been grounded until they figured it out. so between liars and ethiopia allowing this plane to continue flying sort of made ethiopia

predictable. predictable. shortly after the 1st crash the u.s. air traffic regulator the f.a.a. prepared to risk analysis. if the 737 macs were to be used worldwide as planned and this were to go on for about 45 years about 15 such crashes were to be expected. i just asked her what occur every 3 years. about 3 months after this analysis marie philip lost her life in the 2nd crash. when he mean that's unacceptable you can't simply shrug off another impending plane crash i can't fathom treating human lives so recklessly. that's unacceptable analysis death is 100 percent for the guy who was killed. you don't build airplanes with the

expectation or acceptance of the statistic that such and such can survive 3 years and then there's going to be a career so that's that's that's bad if one builds an airplane accepting the principle that you can accept one crash every 3 years that's an outrageous principle. in boeing p.r. videos the macs why smoothly even during extreme maneuvers. but after the 2nd crash the chinese and europeans grounded the plane the american f.a.a. followed suit the following day. boeing was unwavering in its determination to find a quick technical solution with new software. at a press conference boeing c.e.o. downplayed the role of the software. and he seemed to be hoping for support from regulators i think it's really important that we all focus on letting the investigation process run its course our job is to focus on safety not on

speculation he left many questions unanswered and was forced to resign 8 months later you're playing 3 out of 4 answers people died can you answer a few questions here about that. we have no contact with buying when the boeing never contacted us we never heard anything from them no condolences nothing hits. did their daughter in 156 other people die even though boeing and the f.a.a. knew that 737 software could cause fatal accidents. the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system or m casper short is designed to improve aircraft handling. but what is that specific role besides statistically causing a crash every 3 years. why did boeing even install this legal system.

it was developed mainly to compete with a new version of the a $320.00 from airbus the neo was an immediate hit with better engines post and greater fuel economy. boeing ran the risk of falling behind and needed less fuel hungry engines requiring a larger size. however because the 737800 was lower and the landing gear could not be built higher boeing had a problem. instead of building a new aircraft boeing decided to use an economy version the engine was mounted further forward and above all higher. the top edge even protrudes be on the way. this meant the aircraft tended to pull upward when subjected to high thrust which could lead to dangerous flight positions that's why the m. cast software was installed. in such cases it automatically adjusts the elevator

pressing the nose down more. in the crash it was pushed down too far and too forcefully. that's the plane should never have been built on his fall never have been designed that way and should never have been aggressive to. jesus who took. this plane could not find it so it could not stay airborne on its own so an additional system had to install theirs and caste system to sleep was meant to compensate for the builds in system error technology can file and that's what happened here in a way that even the pilots did not know what was happening and that is not an acceptable and flying design troops are concerned so. boeing doesn't want to give an interview on all these points instead they simply sent us

a written statement that says the max was a 6 year development program undertaken according to the same company processes and identical f.a.a. requirements and processes that have governed certification of previous new airplanes and derivatives further down the company adds boeing operates in full accordance with all f.a.a. oversight requirements and processes. nevertheless instead of building a costly new model in over 50 year old model was simply souped up to compete with airbus. their model of choice was very popular among pilots as explained to us by a man sitting in a simulator who was flown thousands of hours in. predecessor of the $737.00 max. is in the other 737 is a very reliable and cost efficient as opponent i find it very pleasant to fly it is very intuitive to fly it's fine behavior is neutral and it's.

the computer system which spelled the doom of the crash $730.00 seven's influences on airplanes trimming. for example if passengers are cabin crew move further forward or backward inside this shift in weight distribution can push the nose of the aircraft up or down the trim and compensates for this. the pilot just pushes a little switch and the trim wheels next to their seat start turning a relic from the old days when pilots still had to turn them by hand. this shows how old the basic construction it's. what in the 2nd 37 the trim will really times that is not the case in. here in the 737 you can still see them. the max is on board computer could adjust the trimming. but the changes could be

tremendous and occur without the pilot's knowledge we now know that boeing was fully aware of this information and deliberately kept it a secret. here in orlando florida we visit someone who has spent half his life in boeing jets. i've always been a big boeing fan because. you know there's a sentimental aspect it was the 1st jet airplane air flew. when you don't inform the people that are flying airplanes that the other people in trust to live. too if they don't know they're if they don't know what the machine that they're flying to every aspect of what they're flying in you hide something from them that is apparently critical i think it's grim. if i was still climbing. my colleagues may very well in the name may not vocalize it but they may

be saying what else if he told me about my triple 7787. we learn of growing concerns in the industry that other boeing models might also have defects ones which are still flying every day. for the missing lot of them us fortunately we have to assume they're all similar problems with office and croft feisty as ice concerns the service life and overall functionality this is office and it is obvious that in the last few years owing has been very reckless for cost reasons less sit on the board just as the f.a.a. has not managed to intervene yet in its role as regulator and survive. in advertisements for it 737 boeing placed great emphasis on the fact that the maps differs in practically no way from its predecessor in terms of flight behavior in operation.

in an e-mail to an airline a prospective customer it says there's only one difference the off position of the gear handle but everything else was said to be the same. the emails also show why this was important to boeing. to make the transition to the new model there will not be any type of simulator training required boeing will not allow that to happen. and whenever airlines are regulators demanded simulator training boeing employees were proud to have dissuaded them with a jet i mind trick. if the pilots had known about m. cas and had been able to train out about function in the simulator they would have had a chance to avoid the crashes. why did boeing not want that what would have been

so bad about such training. when all just knowing it was a few of the pilots already takes you through all the planning and such an airline just means that even if the airline which approach is just 2737 mike says it would have to train to use that last line has more than just 10 pilots usually it's hundreds if not more we have. a more profitable venture belongs to the same thing. more capacity more cost efficiency more. profits for promotional videos for perspective buyers clearly show boeing offers lower costs efficiency and higher profits with amenities like the speeches flowing sky interiors and high speed by the people coming back to fly with you time and time again with saving millions on pilot training is a great selling point profits away because it's when it became clear after the 1st crash that the secret software had put pilots into an impossible situation still no

simulator training was developed for this purpose. however the pilots were informed of the new system. and. pilot dog and sure enough received information about the m. cast from boeing including instructions on what to do with a fails. and see procedure in this situation is to hold as controls tight and turn off autopilot automatic thrust control and automatic trimming would . i do so using these 2 stabilizer trim contacts which is does at which point the m.k. . ass is completely deactivated and i can only trim the manually using the wheels and i go on fine normally i have to trim by hand using these trim wheels but i can keep flying. according to boeing it would have been that easy to prevent the crash . pilot doesn't believe it.

obviously it wasn't just software that came up and now how you presented it they present it with the fix was to pilots near point and here were pilots that were aware of that crash and couldn't prevent the airplane from crashing with ethiopia. since the 2nd crash boeing has built more than 400 aircraft that are not allowed to be delivered in early 2020 production came to a complete stop. regulators obviously see more problems than just software that can be reprogrammed and simply turned off in the event of an error. one year after the crash in ethiopia new technical problems increasingly came to light such as improperly routed cable harnesses and unapproved sensors. does this mean passengers died because boeing designed an aircraft poorly and kept important details concealed from pilots. shouldn't the regulators have prevented

this. the american f.a.a. is responsible for the us manufacturer boeing why did it approve the max. the f.a.a. is headquartered in washington. the federal aviation administration is responsible for all aspects of aviation in the usa including the approval of aircraft. 6 months after the 2nd crash in october $21000.00 the f.a.a. noticed that boeing had failed to disclose crucial documents for months. the f.a.a. administrator wrote a strongly worded reprimand to boeing. i expect or explanation immediately regarding the content of this document and bones delaying disclosing the document to its safety regulator. until then many experts have seen the

f.a.a. and boeing is a close knit community. unfortunately it has become a system in recent years for as it has eaten into the whole internal structure of boeing and also in relation to the f.a.a. the f.a.a. became increasingly jackson its oversight with entire working groups consisting of industry representatives headed by an f.a.a. manager means that the decisions were in fact made by the industry for misspeaking of course by the f.a.a. put its stamp on the institutional construction of how the f.a.a. was developed in recent years it has to be said yes this institution has failed. but what role do european authorities play the e.s.a. is responsible for the certification of airbus in europe. but it collaborates closely with the f.a.a. did the europeans know nothing about the m cas could that yes they have prevented

the tragic accident. cologne germany as home to the european counterpart of the f.a.a. the e.s.a. . only aircraft that have been approved here are permitted to take off and land in europe. this also applies to boeing airplanes from the usa however in order not to go through the whole certification process twice but 2 institutions have agreed to divide up tasks we sit down with boeing we've had a fit and we agree with them on the topics on which wants to do our own specific tests areas which are of significant interest from the safety center. to us. but we are ready to you know they get. the fusion.

the explicitly explained to us that they too had carried out their own tests on the $737.00 max. but if so why did they say not discover the new one fateful and pass. in this process. was. all there's even a. critical component and therefore in this discussion between the 3 of us since it was not safety critical we decided not to have a look at it. in other words the europeans apparently also fell for boeing jet i might drink there were hypnotized to believe this is not a safety relevant system you don't need to check it. things changed in the wake of the accidents with the macs and subsequent grounding. that. neither wishes to rely on boeing's assurances nor the f.a.a. is judgment.

independent assessment of the. of the rest of the books and independent but. we got 50 so it's it's. the lessons you know it's. it's how we want to do you we've the new so efficient of. it's well you know craft a crucial bit of. the european regulator promises more independence and no longer wishes to blindly trust the f.a.a. will that be possible. the story of a man still currently employed at boeing shows there are limits. he of us declined to give us an interview and didn't participate in this report in any way. boeing employees are allowed to report safety concerns to the f.a.a.

and he did. the boeing employee is now represented by a lawyer. the questions he has to answer as a whistleblower are too complex. we already know his lawyer professor. my mind on that side. for years my client has been pointing out incidents and procedures that he no longer considered acceptable. so he reported them to his immediate superior to boeing's head of safety. board of directors. and it wasn't rejected outright because that would have been 2 plates and instead of very good knowledge of the issue. this boeing employee isn't working on the 737 but the 787 dreamliner a larger long range jet. in a promotional video boeing presents the 2 of them together in the air and for a good reason the dreamliner is the group's other hot seller besides the 737.

however unlike the max. both a completely new design which as far as is known eliminates the need for software to compensate for dangerous like turk touristic. but the boeing employee has reported other problems to be f.a.a. . he was instrumental in planning the dreamliner struction. he noticed that parts repeatedly showed up in the plant from suppliers that did not correspond to the design drawings and that really should be rejected. they would recurrently just disappear. some in fact are installed he reports and yet parts that don't meet specifications are considered a safety risk. but the engineer doesn't think the f.a.a. is really taking action. is being cautious in its response taking the case seriously but they aren't tackling it actively at least

that's how it looks to us they're trying to sort things out internally with boeing and i have not seen the old traditional money yet. that's why in spring $21000.00 the boeing employee decided also to report a safety concerns to the european e.s.a. which has been relying more heavily on its own testing since the max crashes. cannot draw its own conclusions from the specific information on production defects regarding boeing's dreamliner 787. on any type of plane on any type of operation if someone comes to us and says varies city problem we look at it but if you test to do with the quality of the manufacturing and things like that this is not within the scope of responsibility european isn't she so it's very difficult we can. say to view

ok look we received. this information but there it starts we cannot investigate those cells. i do not have the rights. to send inspectors to a moving production facility in the u.s. . it's also the foreign it's. did a lack of sufficiently thorough checks by regulators caused people to lose their lives. and do we face future danger due to european regulators inability to investigate american whistleblowers reports independently. the issue goes beyond this one boeing employee who doesn't want to be named. many other insiders warned of dangerous boeing jets and have been doing so since long before the macs crashes.

boeing operates a large plant near charleston south carolina. here some of the people we meet have worked for boeing for decades and the defects they reported of in planes delivered to customers are sometimes deeply disconcerting. 25 percent of the oxygen systems will not operate properly so it makes of so when they have been a big compression event right your oxygen masks fall and you only coordinate releases oxygen so you know with 40000 feet the average person has like 15 or 20 seconds of. cognitive consciousness and what we found is 25 percent of them do not work properly when one deployed. you had hundreds and hundreds of lost non-conforming so whenever those parts are

deemed unacceptable for use they need to be segregated so they're not used on the airplane we discovered that over $1800.00 non-performing parts were missing and presumably installed on airplanes without being. boeing doesn't dispute this but explains.