this is news coming to you live from the u.s. president trying to change an election result. nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you recount your man. is an election official in the state of georgia saying he needs to quote find more votes the president still refuses to concede the election won by his democratic rival joe biden also coming up. for its coronavirus strategy despite tougher restrictions infections remain and

vaccinations. and in the. against mine but. in the. good have you with this recording his submerged of president all trump apparently pressuring a state election official to change the outcome of the november ballot washington post has released audio of a phone call in which trump expresses his frustration at what he calls voting irregularities and then tells georgia secretary of state he needs to quote find more votes trump's democratic rival president elect joe biden won the state of georgia a slim margin. 2 months after his election defeat donald

trump is still hoping to reverse the voters' verdict the us president has long refused to concede the race citing unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud now there's evidence that trump pressured to georgia's top alexion official to alter the state's results. well all i want to do is as i use one of. 11780 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say the people of your your ag the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 2 that you've recalculated well mr president determines that you have is the day that you have legal votes trump suggested that profits parker a republican could face prosecution for refusing to cooperate. you know what they

did and you're not reporting and that's as you know that's a criminal that's a group of the fans and you know you can't let that happen that's that's a big risk do you want to ryan your lawyer and that's a big risk trumps comments drew swift condemnation from the incoming administration and. most certainly then. and it was. any. use of power by the president and the 9. hours of trying to potential meddling comes at a crucial moment for the state of georgia and the nation on tuesday millions of georgians will cast ballots to run off elections that could decide which party

controls the u.s. senate with polls showing a close race trumps comments could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome of those contests. g.w. washington correspondent carolina chinmoy spoke to us earlier about reaction from the u.s. capitol this is a preceded situation here in the united states and in the history of this country we're talking about a sitting u.s. president who's telling us say the official i just want to find some votes this is clearly to overturn president elect joe biden it's a victory and washington and the people following this issue are of course shocked you would perhaps expect this kind of behavior in and out tucker a c. but not in a consolidated democracy like this one some democrats like aleksandar cortez and also some legal experts and other lawmakers are saying that this should have legal consequences on a state and on a federal level because

a spy the fact that this is not the 1st time the president trying talks to a top leader and one of the states he has not one to try and percy ate them this is the 1st time that there is such a clear evidence of him trying to intimidate and to to threaten the electoral official he's talking to the white house of course has yet to a comment publicly on this audio as well. utopias carlina chinmoy speaking there well let's check out some other stories making news around the world today clerics from pakistan's shiite minority are calling for further protests following the killing of 11 miners from their community police say the workers were kidnapped from their coal mine and then executed a so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. a 7th body has been found after a hillside collapsed in a norwegian town on wednesday search mission for a dozen missing people has been underway for days after the earth gave way and 9

homes slid into a. king and queen of norway visited the landslide site in on sunday. the spanish military in vessel says it has rescued 265 migrants from the mediterranean in 2 separate missions activists from open arms said most of the migrants are from eritrea they were plucked from the sea on thursday and saturday open arms is now seeking permission to dock from the italian authorities. say india is gearing up for a huge inoculation campaign after approving the emergency use of 2 coronavirus vaccines the country has recorded the world's 2nd highest number of infections after the united states authorities are aiming to immunize 300000000 of india's 1300000000 people by mid year despite releasing only scant information on one of the vaccines. saving the way for one of the wells biggest inoculation drives

distemper coronavirus pandemic one of 2 vaccines authorized by indians drugs regulators listed ballot by asked as an account with oxford university the other by the engine company biotech opt out of i think where they found a mention. that due to your reading of the site their predicament and thanks for coming and a part that seemed off and i thought you know i modified a lot of the more part of this to continue on in the money in the return india's prime minister and the interim o.t. hailed it as a decisive turning point in the fight against the coronavirus. but health experts have raised concerns over the vaccine developed by biotech it's been approved without data on its efficiency being published and is yet to undergo large scale trials. nevertheless many indians welcome to the new

suboxone would soon be available. that like to live their lives in the open then you'll hear so i'm a vaccine a rule that if it did get back to one moment of my story. i'll go as soon as the to arrives its safety its safety for us that's nation is safe if i don't get it because other people say things and i contract covered 19 who does the defects it's affects me. india has already held nationwide drills to prepare itself for brits vaccine rollout it plans to inoculate around $300000000.00 people on a priority list this year that's with a population of $1300000000.00 the country has its work cut out. germany's 16 regional leaders are due to meet with chancellor merkel to morrow to plot the next steps in the country's coronavirus response weeks of tougher restrictions on public life have so far failed to effectively bring down infection

rates and countries box nation program has gotten off to a sluggish start. appeals to stay home seem to have little effect in this western german winter resort town a ban on entering the ski runs failed to tell large numbers of people from hitting the slopes at the weekend so many that police intervene not stopping when to enthusiasts in their tracks. germany's government together with the heads of its regional states must decide on how to proceed with anti coronavirus measures there's consensus that i'm up time will have to remain in place beyond january 10th the very i want it extended by at least 3 more weeks so on so the numbers are still too high and we're not yet able to assess how the situation has developed over christmas new year and especially through the large numbers of travelers returning home that's why it would be irresponsible to relax the locked and now it should be extended until the end of january look dogs and be on offer later. on choose day

state heads will discuss how long the lockdown should be extended for and whether the current measures should be adjusted states with low infection numbers want to shorten up time while those harder hit want to measure is tough and. we need to act in those areas the to most affected in this case that saxony and. so we'll be toughening measures for our schools and childcare facilities in tow january 31st just as we'll be doing with public life will be increasing restrictions even more chilling. a key topic on the agenda is where the nurseries and primary schools should be closed some argue that young children struggle with online learning but germany central government remains skeptical about whether physical teaching in schools is a good idea. or we're joined by our political correspondent hans but a lot of important issues on the table between today and tomorrow what to expect

from germany's covert robot going forward. well 1st of all the ministers of education from various regional states and germany are meeting today to discuss what is going to happen and in schools this is an area of competence for the regional states where the central government has not got that much say and there is there's some discussion as we've just heard about letting younger children return to school while older children might have some sort of mixed schooling some of them going into class the other half of the claws participating in schooling virtually all in remote madman about this is not decided yet but this is in preparation for the meeting tomorrow between i'm going to moscow and the heads of the regional states and there it is very clear that the current block got locked on is going to be extended the real question is how much. adjustment is going to be made to that and it's likely that there will be various regions in germany that will impose even

stricter laws on. like most of europe germany started vaccinating against cove in $1000.00 on december 27th but there's been a lot of criticism about the speed of the rollout what's gone wrong. well not all that much has gone wrong in fact there have been some hiccups in people trying to get an appointment so that they can be vaccinated the telephone lines and the online systems that have been set up for that have not been responding well to the storm of applications at the same time the amount of vaccine that is available is very limited but that was something that had been expected so while the infrastructure is in place there's not enough vaccine at the moment to be able to vaccinate all the people that would need to be and would want to be vaccinated but the health ministry has said that another vaccine is likely to be approved this coming week so then the amount of vaccine available will increase quickly and these

kind of initial difficulties will most likely be overcome. thanks so much that was our political correspondent. sports now in the butt is legal on sunday by munich avoided embarrassment against the 17th place team in the leaks the bavarians rallied against mines after trailing at half time to regain the top spot. on paper it should have been a routine victory for the reigning champions who faced a minute side that had won just once so far this season but for the 8th time in a row by him conceded 1st you know tom book cobbs netting in the 32nd minute. jerome poet telling felt he had been fouled in the build up but the goal stood and just before half time mind doubled the lead as alex on the hock was left on mott and noted in to send dion into the break to kneel down but the record champions

bounced back a us where kimmage head a got by him back in the game and then leroy sent a level to schools off to drifting inside from the wing with the mind's defenders allowing him time to set up his shot. 3 more by end goals followed the pick of which was robert live in duffy's effort to seal the 52 and result. by and reclaim top spot while mines still 2nd from bottom were left to rue their wasted lead. so you look now at the venice league a standings to see how the weekend's match is affected 1st the top of the table by in munich again finished the match day on top while dortmund move back into the champions league places meaning the top 4 in the league in the lower half shaka at the very bottom remain windless. you're watching d.w.

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