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this is news coming to you live from berlin the u.s. president trying to change an election result. that is not saying that you know. 2 2 that you've read. the press 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. going to back his government under fire for its coronavirus strategy despite tougher restrictions infections remain high and vaccinations for all to
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a sluggish start. and in the reigning champions bun munich get off to a tricky starts in the new year against mines but the bavarians rally to reclaim the top spot in the elite. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us recording has emerged of president donald trump apparently pressuring a state election official to change the name the outcome of the november ballot the washington post has released audio of a phone call which trump expresses his frustration at what he calls boating irregularities and then tells georgia secretary of state he needs to quote find more votes democratic rival president elect joe biden won the state of georgia by
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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 the trump pressure to georgia's topple lection 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 yours you're angry at the people because you're 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 a legal trump suggested that profits parker a republican could face prosecution for refusing to cooperate. you know what they
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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 to you and your 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. they. use power by the president and the 9. years of trump's potential my feeling 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
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controls the u.s. senate with polls showing a close race comments could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome of those contests. is covering the story for us peter this recording of trial in the george election official is something of a bomb shell what do you make of it right i think this is an absolutely on purpose and unprecedented move we have a look at the sitting president of the united states essentially calling of the secretary of georgia of a state in the you know in the u.s. the elections are run by the states and so he is effectively calling up threatening or making make threats at the very least saying that we need to find these votes that would help put him over the top in georgia i mean keep in mind the election results in georgia have been recounted have been audited several times in several
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other states we've seen recounts as well in no case has there been any had they found any proof of wrongdoing of irregularities or any fraud certainly not to the extent that trump campaign has argued and so for the president trying to call it does remind me a little bit of that famous phone call with ukrainian president selenski where he essentially said that you know. that he needed the presidents. of ukraine's help to find dirt on joe biden. and what we're seeing i mean keep in mind that is what led to the impeachment of donald trump what donald trump is doing here is trying to insert himself into an election that is run by the state ok and it's also happening at a very important time. this is happening just ahead of key runoff elections in
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georgia and also congressional confirmation of the electoral college vote 2 regarding the presidential election tell us about both of these starting with what's happening in georgia so right in georgia we're looking at essentially the control of the senate of the united states which is currently on the outcome of the 2 races in georgia where we have. a very very very tight race basically neck and neck and so if the republicans can hang on to georgia a you know historically very vet very republican state that would mean they would be able to keep a check on joe biden in or president elect joe biden's power as president so the u.s. senate retirement u.s. senate races there that will decide the balance of power in the house resigning and the democrats that have unfolded house so if the democrats can sweep that and it is
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looking like maybe that could happen if that happens president elect joe biden would have a lot more leeway in terms of getting his agenda quickly on on wednesday the vote that we can expect in congress what's happening there right so ungenerous 6 we're seeing actually what's usually a formality there they're going to certify these election results we're now seeing a growing number of republicans saying that they will contest those results more than $100.00 republicans in the house over a dozen in the senate it is likely to go no. where though because the democrats control the house and it needs to basically a reject it by both chambers knots not going to happen so regardless of what's happening we are going to see president elect joe biden vice president elect come all his being confirmed and being inaugurated on january 20th a decisive we can us politics peter thank you so much.
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as we could some other stories making headlines around the world today a london court will rule today on whether wiki leaks founder julian a son should be extradited to the united states news wanted on charges relating to the release of thousands of secret files on u.s. military activity his supporters say he exposed potential war crimes faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted. new shares prime minister has said 100 people were killed in attacks on 2 villages on saturday islamist militants are believed to be responsible for the raids near the country's border with mali has suffered repeated attacks amid an upsurge an islamist fonts in the south hill region. critics from pakistan she has are a 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 executed the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility.
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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 the country's vaccination program has got 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 deter large numbers of people from hitting the slopes at the weekend so many that police intervened stopping winter 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 a lockdown will have to remain in place beyond january 10th the very it wants it extended by at least 3 more weeks it science and numbers are still too high and we're not yet able to assess how the situation has developed over christmas new
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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 looked on the honor of filling up. 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 that to most affected in this case that saxony and. so we'll be toughening measures for our schools and child care facilities in tow january 31st just as will be done with public life will be increasing restrictions even more than. 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
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teaching in schools is a good idea. or political correspondent hans but is following the story for us a lot of important issues on the table between today and what we expect from germany's coded road back up going forward. well 1st of all today the education ministers of germany 16 regional states will be meeting to decide how things are going to go on in schools many regions would have schools reopening today that has not really happened and now the discussion is whether possibly younger children of those a nursery school and the youngest children in a regular school would be allowed to go back to school and because the remote learning for them is not really an option then there is the question of older pupils possibly having some sort of mixed schooling with half the class actually being at school and the other half participating from the remote location these kind of things are being discussed today amongst the education ministers in
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preparation for the meeting tomorrow between the heads of the regional states and i'm going to michael all of these meetings are taking place as a video conference and it is very clear that the heads of state of regional states will increase or will continue to locked on and in various regions in fact the restrictions will become more severe it seems very likely. like most of europe germany started vaccinating against 19 under some or $27.00 but there's been a lot of criticism about the speed of the rollout what's going wrong hands. well there have been hiccups in the sense that some of the distribution of the vaccine hasn't been perfected yet and especially getting an appointment to be vaccinated has turned out to be fairly difficult because the systems is that have been set up to do that are not coping with the storm of applications that has come up in the
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last week or so apart from that in fact what's been happening is that there is not enough vaccine available but that's something that was predicted there is not enough vaccine available worldwide and germany is dependent here on supplies coming through the european union but the german health ministry is saying that another vaccine is very likely to be approved by european authorities this week and with that being approved the amount of vaccine that will be available will increase substantially and then also the number of vaccinations will increase substantially . have been reports circulating about care workers in germany refusing to take the jab how significant is the problem of vaccine skepticism in this country well if you look at the most recent polls on this issue it shows that they show that 70 percent of germans would want to be vaccinated would take the job but there
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is a significant number of people who are saying that the vaccine has not been tested well enough that it has not been along to test all the results of the effects of the vaccine and the skeptics seem to be particularly numerous amongst doctors and personnel and hospitals strangely enough because the organizations for doctors and nurses are saying that it is an absolutely important that these people get vaccinated 1st and stank you d.w. political correspondent. because some other developments in the corona virus the corona virus pandemic japan is considering declaring a state of emergency to curb cases in greater tokyo the move raises fresh doubts about whether the world's most populous city will be able to host the olympics this summer britain is to be the 1st country to begin vaccinating people with its own astra zeneca shot
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a vaccine is viewed as particularly promising for developing countries due to its low cost and less complicated storage and in the u.s. officials are also considering delaying 2nd doses of vaccines to spread the initial jobs out to a wider population the u.k. announced a similar change in the vaccine schedule just days ago 3 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. paving the way for one of the wells biggest inoculation drives to stem the corona virus pandemic one of 2 vaccines authorized by indians drugs regulated as listed ballot by asked as an account with oxford university the other
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by the engine company parrot biotech. i think where the examination. today and your proud of the fact that the comment from a forthcoming and of course that seemed off that you know and modified a lot of the more pornography that inordinate amount of research india's prime minister narendra modi hailed it as a decisive turning point in the fight against the current virus. but health experts have raised concerns over the vaccine developed by biotech it's been approved without data on its efficiency thing published and is yet to undergo large scale trials. nevertheless many indians welcome to the new sub vaccines would soon be available yeah that like to learn that if they do it in the new year to have that feeling of that childish if it gets back to a normal life i was going to go as soon as the to rives it's safety it's safety for
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us what's nation is safe for our body and if i don't get it because other people say things and i can try to cope at 19 who knows the defects it's affects me. india has already held nationwide drills to prepare its health brit's vaccine rollout it plans to inoculate around 300000000 people on a priority list this year that's with a population of 1300000000 the country has its work cut out. to china and 2 months since his last public appearance speculation is intensifying over the whereabouts of chinese billionaire jack ma the founder has been off the grid since late october when he gave a speech criticizing china's regulators and state run banks by was given a dressing down by officials in beijing while the i.p.o. of his financial services company group was suspended he was also removed from
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a prominent role as the public face of an african talent show. let's bring in clifford tuned in here from d.w. business good to see you again clifford you spent several years as a correspondent in china you followed the rise of jack and ali baba. what are you hearing from your contacts about where might be i mean he's so famous he can't just disappear. well this is i think the words too big to fail keep coming to mind when you when you hear this story it just shows that no one can take on the communist party as openly as he has done i think the writing was on the wall from october 24th when he said that the regulatory system in china wasn't working. but a week later this $37000000000.00 i.p.o. was counseled which is going to be the biggest ever and it shows that the congress
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party has the power to control people like jack ma as to where he is that's the big that's the big the big mystery he could be an administrative detention i doubt it somehow i think because he is as you say a very big figure but it's a reminder that this is all about xi jinping the government is all about domestic consumption they don't really care about his international reputation as much as his domestic reputation and he's a hugely popular figure at the same time it's a big message about who's really in control in china he's built a huge huge company again you told 37000000000 dollars i.p.o. being cancelled there just help big is jack in china well every time for example a time you go to the airport all the shelves in the bookshops are full of guides about how to become like jack ma he's he's like a rock star meets. business entrepreneur he's usually popular and this is of course is a threat to the to the communist party xi jinping has built very much as
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a center of power around himself and people like jack ma are a threat to the us and it was always i think a question of when rather than if because every time he you know he was flying way too close to the sun on it some point the congress party was going to intervene and he was going to get his wings clipped icarus what do you think happens next in the story i think i imagine because it could be very destabilizing that if this continues to long i think he will probably emerge perhaps chastened on a bit more on message i think that's where the way it's probably going to really weren't work clifford cover kind of ended up in business thanks so much. norwegian emergency workers have recovered his 7th body from a landslide that buried her in a village near the capital last week rescue teams are still hoping to find survivors but their efforts have been hampered by winter weather. after days of searching for survivors accessing the site is still extremely difficult i made
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continuous rain the initial search could only be conducted by air due to the risk of further landslides rescue teams had to wait until friday to enter on foot with search dogs norway's king harald visited the site on sunday he and his wife sagna that were survivors and rescue workers. it's been a very emotional day the rescue teams have given us an overview of what happened and how they are helping those who survived this tragedy it's difficult to put into words it's truly awful early on wednesday morning the ground suddenly gave way in the village of northeast of oslo the landslide took 9 houses with it the residential area is built on land rich in clay which becomes unstable one very wet conditions authorities evacuated around 1000 local residents.
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that we will keep clinging to the hope that it's still possible to find survivors but of course it's very painful for the relatives and everyone affected and the one . on sunday police announced the recovery of the 7th body earlier they published a list of 10 people missing in the landslide including 2 children. but as is preparing to swear in the country's new parliament following a controversial election last month official results save president nicolas maduro as ruling socialist bloc won 91 percent of the seats in the chamber it had previously been controlled by the opposition which declared the vote illegitimate and extended its current term deeply political deadlock is taking an additional toll on a venezuelan public that's also grappling with a humanitarian crisis and the coded that way for. the december
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6th election to choose a new congress in venezuela sora very low turnout an initiative organized by the venezuelan opposition rejecting the parliamentary elections to slightly moves to pull out. but across the board many venezuelans are simply fed up with politics. i'm not keeping up with politics anymore i'm tired of listening to politicians i've stopped believing either side and sort of a myth that you're going to i honestly think that there's a lot of apathy and that shows that people are worn out of politicking and rhetoric . it's all just rubbish. following the disputed election opposition lawmakers who were voted in 5 years ago passed a statute temporarily extending their term they hoped it would ensure a fighting chance for political change in venezuela although it's since been rejected by the supreme court many in caracas appeared u.v.'s that it would change
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anything anyway elevation had 40 decisions made so far haven't benefited anyone with starting the year with a radical quarantine because of covert 19 that will worsen the economic crisis prices are already through the roof god will have to wait and see what the government will do and how the opposition will respond and i don't know the political situation is so bad we live like prisoners inside venezuela and solutions and nowhere in sight. meanwhile nicolas materials government has accused the opposition of planning to attack the newly elected national assembly administration alleges the attack was due to be carried out on the day of the swearing in there is a lot of speculation about how or even when the new national assembly will be sworn in here in caracas as the opposition rallies itself to renew their mandate of congress the government has issued
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a reward leading to information about an alleged plan to boycott the swearing in of the new national assembly and mother himself has said that the opposition leaders involved will be swiftly arrested. and in the fullness leah on sunday by munich avoided embarrassment against the 17th placed team in the league 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 one so far this season but for the 8th time in a row by him conceded 1st you know tom book tops netting in the 32nd minute. jerome poet tang 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 haka was left on mocked and noted into send by and into the break to nail down but the record champions
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bounced back a us where committee headed by him back in the game and then leroy sent a level to schools off to drifting inside from the wing with the minds defenders allowing him time to set up his shot. 3 more by on goals followed the pick of which was robert live in peace effort to seal the 52 and result. by and reclaim top spot while minds still 2nd from bottom left to rue their wasted lead. just reminder the top stories we're following for you here today on news president has been recorded apparently trying to pressure an official to change the result of november's election in the state of georgia from refuses to concede the election which was one of his democratic rivals. germany's regional leaders are weighing their options ahead of talks with chancellor merkel the country's coronavirus strategy infections remain high spike weeks of tough restrictions.
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