this is state of the news line from but then he u.s. president elect joe biden moves ahead with transition plans while president trump continues to refuse to acknowledge defeat ballots are still being counted on. the president's team is still trying to mount legal challenges in several states. despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing, also on the program, more civilians flee the fighting in ethiopia as the u.n. wants. the situation could be spiraling out of control. fears are growing of a prolonged conflict over the team's right region. and 5 years on france remembers

the victims of one of the worst atrocities in its history. 130 people were killed when islam is another 6 months on a killing spree in tatters. we'll meet one of the survivors. i'm phil gal. welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump is due to speak at the white house in about an hour to give an update on efforts to run are to corona virus vaccine. they swayed by his 1st public comments since last week when he repeated his refusal to acknowledge losing the u.s. elections. mr. trump's efforts to cast doubt on the vote count have suffered a setback. after a court in the state of michigan refused a request to delay certifying results, the president's team is continuing to contest the election outcome. donald trump in a bad mood, his only official appearance this week honoring the dead at arlington cemetery

outside washington d.c. . no public comment, but his year's long tweet storm continued ballot counting abuse. people will not accept a rigged election. we will win, and his most senior officials refused to concede anything. there will be a transition. the trump campaign has launched a lawsuit upon lawsuit, challenging vote counts in different states. the vast majority of republicans have stayed silent or repeated the president's claims. the question is, how long these challenges can last government election authorities say they found virtually no signs of legal fraud. so is this all for show an attempt to keep the base motivated? if so it seems to be working. he's got 70000000, people got his back and we don't want a concession speech until we know that every legal vote was counted and we feel good about it and there's no corruption. and if there is corruption,

people need to go to jail. joe biden doesn't seem bothered. he's creating a transition team, inventing people for his cabinet and other government positions such to take power on january 20th. we're just going to proceed the way we have. we're going to, we're going to do exactly what we do. if he had conceded and said we won, which we have and so there's nothing really changing. however, the team biden is putting together has been locked out of the government's confidential, coronavirus pandemic reporting. as well as the president's daily intelligence briefing on international and domestic security threats, they've received no transition funding or access to agencies expertise and knowledge, or even to the government buildings. they'll soon move into. even if trump does concede in the near future, his tens of millions of hardcore supporters may never accept that very man lost. and they may refuse to accept anyone else as president straight to washington then

welcome. so we've heard nothing from the president and from high ranking republicans. what do you think is going on behind the scenes? well, the mood is shifting. phil. we have some 4 republican senators who are openly calling joe biden, the president elect already. and there's a lot of pressure on the republican party right now. officials have been calling this election the safest in a long time. there is no real evidence for voter fraud, so it all trump is in a difficult position here. and what's important to understand though is the situation of the electoral results right now the electoral college that's necessary for the president to be elected. eventually, the volta we're looking at right now are not certified yet. so where's there's still votes being counted as we speak and the deadline for this is december 8th, and until then we're talking about preliminary results. now donald trump is using this time frame that he has right now to raise money. so we're receiving countless

e-mails of the trump complain, asking for supporters to chip in some money here, and allegedly, he's repaying his campaign debt or collecting for that purpose here. so essentially, up holding this narrative that it was a rigged election and all eyes are, of course, on trump, as you mentioned, he is expected to deliver his 1st speech since the election in a little more than 2 hours in the wide halls officially. talking about the vaccine where he will probably claim success, but it will be interesting to see if you will also talk about the election. so we heard in the report there from supporters who will ever given a rally in washington on saturday. what should we expect? and there are several rallies planned in washington for that purpose. so it all based on that false claim that the election was rigged, potentially, we might see a large crowd there, especially crowds. there especially just tweeted about an hour ago that he might

join those protests that will certainly attract more. it will also attract counter protesters that have already said they want to protest against those far right. protesters what we've seen in the past year, and you see that those counter protest are often bigger than the far right protests . and they're potentially dangerous. of course, the police that you see is on high alert, the d.c. mayor, visitors to not take their firearms into the sea. there are stricter gun laws in place, of course, but extremism. experts have warned of the past weeks that we might see a spontaneous violence resulting out of clashes, of those 2 groups that has not materialized yet in the, in the aftermath of the election. but of course, this weekend will be a challenge for peace in the capital. so when the president does finally vacate the white house and loses his immunity from prosecution, he's looking, he's looking likely to face a number of lawsuits. just took us through

a couple well, that's right, because 1st and foremost, donald trump is going to lose his immunity. come january 20th. that's inauguration day in the moment. joe biden sworn in donald trump loses his immunity from prosecution. and there is one very important criminal investigation underway against him. it's the only criminal investigation at a new york court and they're looking into his tax returns, his business practices and the court subpoena. donald trump's tax returns about a year ago that then took the court to the supreme court, took the case to the supreme court. so if the court then decides against him, the new york court will be able to move on and the might lead into a situation in which she might face criminal charges in the end. ok. correspondent of a summit in washington, d.c. . thank you, susan. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. russian

peacekeepers have entered the us to panic at the regional capital of mokoena. kyra back to oversee a cease fire. russia brokered the deal between is very troops and ethicon medium forces this week following 6 weeks of fighting over the place. french forces in mali have reportedly killed a senior jihadi, its leader linked to several attacks. france's defense ministers praised the opposite of the operation against mussa. a military leader of al qaeda is north africa when france has deployed thousands of troops to mali and across the region to count. it is a misnomer, since the official results from inmarsat actually show on sanction. cheese ruling party has won an absolute majority. national league for democracy has already declared a landslide victory. the main military backed opposition parties rejecting the vote and demanding a rerun. of the u.n. says the conflict in ethiopia, risks spiraling out of control. it's

a struggle between the central government and regional authours in the northern region of teague right civilians who have fled the fighting, say they were bombed by government forces, despite claims from ethiopia's government that so that it's only striking military targets to regional leader has warned, of a long struggle ahead and an increasing number of displaced people they've come up with just what they can carry ethiopians from the region make their way to safety across the border and into sadar. and then most of them, if it wasn't for sadar and many would be dead. where do we go? if we go to eritrea, they will slaughter us. if we go to other parts of ethiopia, they will slaughter us. some had to make the heartbreaking choice of leaving loved ones behind my mother, i left her in

a church. she is an elderly woman. my brother is blind. we left him there as well. there was no food or water that everyone ran away. and on the way we found murdered people with weapons and that's why we ran what were we to do? we want to save ourselves thousands of exhausted refugees have fled to siddharth after fighting broke out between the ethiopian military and their to grab people's liberation front. the militant group in the region, the conflict erupted in early november when the government sent troops into the region after an alleged attack by local forces on a federal army base integrators capital. the ethiopian prime minister says his army is close to victory. highly, this mischievous force is surrounded on all sides, that it is a force in its final throes of death. your children are suffering deaths,

injuries on the front line. lots of them of the united nations is concerned that war crimes have been committed in the fighting between the, government and t.p. l.f. and many voices in the region are calling for a deescalation. what information is coming from the isolated region indicates that the situation is deteriorating. we get more of this from some doubly he's with amnesty international's crisis response team and joins us from berlin. welcome to the w. m. m. misty is saying that scores and perhaps hundreds of people died in a massacre in northern ethiopia on monday night. what's going on? yes, so we had, we started hear rumors of an attack in a town called my khadra, which is in the southwest. so nerve to grow region on that, on the night of november the 9th, we started to see images emerging from there 2 days ago on wednesday. and we

started to work towards verifying those images. so these are images appearing on a rare images appearing on social media from the region we spent yesterday and the wednesday studying these images and then studying the videos to work out when and where they were filmed. and we were able to locate these images at this imagery to the town town of my culture. and these images showed killings dead, dead bodies in the streets of meek my culture. and then we proceeded to gather testimony from from witnesses from people who had spoken to survivors of the attack, who told us that the victims were day laborers and not involved in the ongoing military offensive in the region. and that their bodies had been there. they had been killed with, they had gaping wound, which appeared to have been inflicted by shot weapons, knives, machetes, axes. we also took the imagery sort of the imagery of the dead bodies and shadows

with an independent pathologist to confirm that that imagery, the image of the wounds seen in the imagery were consistent with those wounds that we were told would happen. and so the presumption is that this is an action by the reich, people's liberation front. we are unable to confirm that independently with still unable to confirm that independently. but witnesses told that they had spoken survivors of the massacre. and they had said that they would be, they'd been attacked of members of the to, to grow, to degrade people's liberation front in the ok. and w. has, has been speaking with the, to great people's liberation front or indeed that their representatives. i just want to read you a statement that they gave us. they said the perpetrators must be brought to justice. the great visual government is ready for an independent investigation. the international community should enter the scene and investigate this incident from

what, you know, of course, i'm sorry go, no, i was going to there because you know that we fully agree with should be an absolute, independent inquiry into, into, in independent investigation into what has happened one of the challenges of this conflict has been the lack of accessibility to human rights monitors, to humanitarian assistance, humanitarian aid, to go to the region as well. you know, international social conflicts require international humanitarian aid to go into the regions, look at the civilians. so absolutely, one of the big challenges is access both for an inquiry into an investigation into what has happened in my culture, but also to provide humanitarian assistance to the civilians who are fleeing over the border into, to, into the, into sudan in the thousands. and the un's warning that the situation could spiral out of control is not the way you say to must this thing just escalate?

i mean, this is a time to call for absolute time to call for the escalation and the international community. i think we would call on the international community. so united nations regional actors such as the african union to step in and to a in india ask elation you to, to how do you have to leave the rising tensions in the country. it's obviously it a tense and volatile, volatile context and the, you know, it's a time really for the escalation and i'm just international would support any international move to teary. and that lead to the escalation because it's escalating situation now is very dangerous in particular for civilians. so regardless of the hope, what do you think is the likelihood that we're looking at a, perhaps as a yuga star, yugoslav style ethnic conflict of course were very much hope not. we would hope very much that it doesn't head in that direction. it's a time to call for, to call for calm heads to call for the escalation to call for the international

community united nations. or they said to me, i mean, if we need to step in to help in the escalation of this moment. thank you for bringing that to our attention. some doubling from amnesty international that's a paris which has been marking the 5th anniversary of the deadliest series of terror attacks in his post-war history. $130.00 people died and hundreds more were injured when militants from the so-called islamic state carried out a 4 hour killing spree at sites around the french capital, including the packed battered concert hall. and this was also, this was also the site of one of today's memorial ceremonies during the memorial service commemorate of the 90 victims killed in the baton clan attack. read this year, their relatives cannot attend. but prime minister and the mayor of paris lay a wreath, a larger service had to be canceled because of the pandemic. i still feel the

horror of it 5 years later. it is still palpable. on nov 13th, 2015, paris was shaken by a series of attacks. 3 suicide bombers blew themselves up at the defaults bars and restaurants were also attacked. 130 people died, most of them inside the but o'clock concert hall, one survivor remembers. one of the assassins saw me standing up and started shooting. i ran but a bullet hit me and passed straight through my lung. now islamist terror is sending shock waves through france again. most recently, the beheading of the teacher some of the party and the attack on a church in nice. the country has raised the terror alert to the highest level. we have to do more than just react to the attacks. we have to find the guilty party. we have to write laws, we have to rip out this evil at the roots. so the attacks don't happen in the 1st

place. next year, the trial against the sole surviving suspected participant in the attacks and 19 others will begin well in response to these sorts of attacks, the president emanuel mako has pledged to step up his government's efforts to combat extremism. but what can be done to stop people from becoming radicalized and turning to violence. we spoke to an expert here in germany. islam ists and right wing extremists sit side by side at a meeting held in the german state of saxony on what it was organized by the violence prevention network. their goal is to talk to extremists, not about them. for almost 20 years, thomas mckay has been helping young people extricate themselves from extremist structures. and we try to help people get out of this concept of the strategy of a 1000 years, and we want to starve the extremists of future strength by convincing their

youngest members to leave look and his team rely on close personal contact to young adults. right now, their biggest hurdle is trying teen and social distancing some of the extremists in their program can no longer be contacted. many of them are in prison. this used to be where de radicalization began, but now visits are not allowed. another problem is social media because of the current partial lockdown. more young people go online, which makes them more prone to becoming radicalized. this is all i observed that during the pandemic when the lockdown wasn't a place to many people who were isolated began looking for contact. they began exploring social networks. german security authorities currently as to meet the number of extremist agitators to be around 630. this is about 5 times what it was, and 20111 of the main reasons is the so-called islamic state in iraq and syria. the i, as has always recruited europeans, many germans sympathizers,

travel to the war zone. when they returned, they were reclassified as potentially violent extremists. we can stop this by sucking out when we see young people becoming politically radicalized and after we're shocked by their opinions, we should talk to them. instead of going quiet. thomas mccurry reminds us that extremist groups are a normal part of democratic society. he says the solution to the problem of alienation is to reach out to these young adults, so they don't feel alone. in his program, these young former extremists learn, they can find a place for themselves as fully fledged members of society. succeeding this close with us to fear color, who's an expert in counterterrorism and prevention of islamist extremism at the german council on foreign relations. welcome to date of the supposed the big question that lots of us ask when we talk about these sorts of things is why,

how do you go from being young? people are often quite radical in their ideas. but how do you go from having these radical sorts of ideas to then translating that into violent action against society? yeah, this is a question that many of the searches have looked at in the past years, increasingly so on. that's very positive to say what we know is that regulation should be regarded as a process. that means that it goes from slowly turning to certain ideas that that laid the groundwork. so just demanding. why am i here in this world? what are the ideals that i want to have to further going into a more and more radical virtue that is more black and white? so it's rhetorical tween us and them. and for example, the, that the muslim believes in the infidels, and then goes further and further towards also ideas that support violence.

so where the final stage would be to perpetrate a terrorist attack. this is not a linear process as it can be. people can be moving forward and also backward, but there's always a point where people can be motivated to exit. this process was just seen sort of the radicalization scheme in this report that, that suspect in this month's attacks in austria was known to police, had been in prison for trying to join. i asked being through the radicalization program. so did the begs the question, how effective these programs are again, that's a very good question and something that we are still tackling in research and also practice and policy. the issue is that radicalization is a very complex process. many factors can contribute to a person being radicalized and also many factors can then contribute to having a person do radicalized. so on the one hand, and this is from weiland,

but also abandoned islamist ideology in that case. so many programs in many cases, are doing a very good job. they identify what are the factors that have contradicted to a person being radicalized and how can we work to understand that they can have a different view that is not supporting violence, but this is a very long process that needs time. it needs trust and also resources. so the success rate can be high, but we cannot have 100 percent security and also not sure if people are also saying what they sent, what they, what they think we kind of look into this and head, for example, the part of austria's response to this month's attacks is to introduce tougher laws making what the chance of calls political islam, a criminal offense. is this likely to work well, 1st of all the term political islam is very blurry. it can include many things and

can also include actors that could actually be legitimate partners. in prevention work and also having this is a criminal offense, doesn't sound very constitutional to me, to lock up people eternally. when people are in prison that does not mean and that they are, do radicalized. on the contrary, this experience can be be very contradictory. if so instead we should be focusing on not having only more resources for security agencies, both improve the cooperation because we have seen in vienna that that was one of the problems, the cooperation between security agencies, but also police and justice. and on the contrary, focus supporter of radicalization prevention programs, make sure they have a sustainable funding structure to make sure the west in research to better understand how people are benteke allies and watch actual effective prevention work actually is a very clear color from the german council on foreign relations. thank you.

he was the masterminds of the broad set of campaign vote. levenstein minister boris johnson's closest adviser, dominic cummings has been a wall of the most polarizing of public figures in britain. but today he quit. is left downing street amid reports of internal wrangles just as the u.k. must decide whether to agree a trade deal with the european union. as the deadline approaches, he was the most powerful man in downing street after boris johnson. this morning dominic cummings was flicking away reporters. mike fleiss the same way he did with ministers, at least that's what sources close to him say. supposedly he's also to blame for the u.k. score and chaotic style of government. some conservative parliamentarians are relief, he's leaving or see this as a huge opportunity for the prime minister. not just to our thoughts and build his team, but actually really develop the art of statecraft to be able to meet some of these challenges that were very sick. for a long time,

the aggressive style of dominic cummings was useful to boris johnson. he ran the 2016 referendum campaign for bracks it and helped johnson become prime minister. but now he seems to have gone too far when he insisted that his close friend lee cain should be made chief of staff. johnson's fiance, kerry simmons intervened. his machismo had increasingly got under his skin. could this lead to a meltdown a number 10 just as the bracks of process and has its final stages. even fellow party members are worried about it. quite extraordinary, not unacceptable. when we are in the final throes of the negotiations over britain . and we have a 31st of december deadline, downing street should allow itself to be distracted by internal squabbles at risk on becoming fed announced he'd leave downing street by the end of the year, just one of breck's, a transition phase. and now he put his own deadline in sport they, miami, marlins of holiday,

came on as their new general manager making her the 1st female in major league baseball history. and had worked as the senior vice president of baseball operations for 9 years. and before that, in the front offices of a number of teams, 51 year old started her career as an intern for chicago white sox, the stiff female general manager, i should have said that, coming up next. i'll be back with the day after a look for today's a big event, some back of the top of the hour as well. for a look at more of a day school of a good day.

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for the film industry. the lights going out for the lights going on for cinema. our topic this week. arts and culture on d. w. france is marking 5 years since paris was hit by a series of coordinated attacks by is the missed suicide bombers. sadly, such attacks have continued even as recently as the start of this month in vienna. tonight we meet a man who has literally studied how these people think. i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day working in the studio.