this is news coming to you live from berlin u.s. president trick or trying to change an election result. nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 2 that you recount. presses 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 by also coming up

the german. government under fire for its coronavirus strategy despite tougher restrictions infections remain high and vaccinations are off to a slender start. soon and if you'll be extradited to the united states their. faces 175 years in prison if convicted all. alone terry martin good to have you with us a recording has emerged the president apparently pressuring a state election official to change the outcome of the november ballot the washington post has released audio of a phone call of 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 democratic rival president elect joe biden won the state of georgia by 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 look all i want to do is as i use one of the. 11780 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say that people of your you're angry at the people because you're angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you've recalculated well mr president determines that you have it the day that you have

the trump suggested that prophets 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 criminal offense 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. all of these how and why the president and the united.

comes at a crucial moment for the state of georgia and the nation on tuesday millions of georgians will cast ballots to runoff elections that could decide which party controls the u.s. senate and with polls showing a close race trumps comments could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome of those contests. is covering this story for us peter the recording of the trump conversation with the georgia election official quite a bombshell what do you make of it right well i think you know this is an unprecedented move that many legal experts now say you know is possibly a criminal offense maybe even impeachable where having the president of the united states on tape using or abusing his power some would argue to essentially try to pressure the secretary of state of georgia to overturn the results of a fair and democratic election in one point that especially stood out but we also

saw in that report there was you know it really reminded me of back when trump had his famous phone call with the ukrainian president that ultimately led to his impeachment and in this case we're seeing trump again trying to like i said use the powers office to try to pressure. another official and basically threaten them to get what he wants he you know set that secretary of state brought raffensperger was taking a big risk by not pursuing trump's false claims of voter fraud and the thing is georgia has already done that i mean they've already had several audience of have several recounts at president. no trumps requests none of which found any wrongdoing no regularities no evidence of fraud and so it's a little unclear why don't trump continues to pursue this especially seeing as overturning georgia would not change anything joe biden would still have enough

votes nationally to remain president elect of the united states until there really i think confirms that donald trump is not you know 2 months after the election is not willing to accept defeat and that he's will do almost anything to undo history in really is willing to split his own party who will now have to choose between whether to back trump or you know distance themselves from him this is happening in georgia of course which has those crucial senate runoff races what impact could this recording have on the i mean obviously it's too early to tell but it's a very very tight race and we're already seeing democrats jumping on this saying that this shows that the republican party generally has no respect for georgia and georgia's right to conduct its own constant constitutional right to conduct its own free and fair elections it also really puts the 2 republican candidates they were produced and clearly lost are in a pickle because they've run a staunch trump supporters and essentially now they have to in the uncomfortable

position where they have to either stand up for their state in georgia republicans or to site with donald trump because just a final word on what's happening on wednesday a very big week in the u.s. right now and on wednesday the congress is supposed to vote to confirm the the electoral college vote on the presidential election what do you see happening there right so what we're seeing what we have seen over the past couple days is over 100 republicans in the house and in the house of representatives and now over a dozen senators republican senators who say that they will try to contest the election that is not likely to go anywhere the democrats still controlled the house and unless you have both chambers objecting or rejecting diverse so that's not going to go anywhere president elect obama is still going to be confirmed in an operating on january 20th figure thanks so much peter what are the things.

straight housemother stories making headlines around the world today new shares prime minister has said 100 people were killed in attacks on 2 villages on saturday islams militants are believed to be responsible for the raids near the country's border with mali new share has suffered repeated attacks amid an upsurge in islam is filings in the region clerics from pakistan's shiite azhar 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 then executed the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the spanish humanitarian vessel says it has rescued $265.00 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 dog from the italian authorities. germany's

16 regional leaders are due to meet with chancellor merkel tomorrow 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 gone all to a sluggish start. appeals to stay home seem to have little effect in this western german winter resort time 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 enthusiastic 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 unlocked and will have to remain in place beyond january 10th the very it wants it extended by at least 3 more weeks so i'm sure 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 lockdown now it should be extended until the end of january looked on this and the honor of filling up. on cheese 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 childcare facilities in tow january 31st just as we'll be doing with public life will be increasing restrictions even more. 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 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 toward day 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 all the discussion is whether possibly younger children those in nursery school and the youngest children in a regular school would be a large to go back to school in because of the remote learning for them is not really an option and 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 a remote location these kind of things are being discussed today amongst the education ministers in 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 perfect and especially getting an appointment to be vaccinated has turned out to be fairly difficult because the systems that have been set up to do that on not coping with the storm of applications that has come up in the 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 a worldwide and germany is dependent here on supplies coming through the european union by 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. thank you d.w. political correspondent hans plant there. let's look at some of the other developments worldwide in the pandemic japan is considering a state of emergency to curb cases in greater tokyo the move raises fresh doubts about whether tokyo will be able to host the olympics this summer britain is to be the 1st country to begin backs nations with its own because shot the vaccine is viewed as especially promising pre-development countries because it's cheap and

needs less complicated story and the u.s. is considering delaying 2nd doses of vaccine is to spread the initial jobs out to a wider population u.k. announced such a change just days ago. norwegian emergency workers have recovered a 7th body from a landslide buried homes in a village near the capital all slow last week rescue teams are still hoping to find survivors but their efforts have been hampered by wintry weather. after days of searching for survivors accessing the site is still extremely difficult i made 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 met with 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 a landslide took 9 houses with it the residential areas built on land rich in clay which becomes unstable one very wet conditions authorities evacuated around a 1000 local residents. who office on the that we will keep clinging to the hope that it's still possible to find survivors but of course it's very painful for their 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. you're watching

news still to come in the middle as minds pile the pressure on champions find meaning we'll have the highlights in sports. the 1st a court in london is due to rule today on whether we least founder julian assange should be extradited to the united states the son she is wanted there on charges relating to the 2010 release of thousands of secret files on u.s. military activity activities in iraq. back in afghanistan his supporters say he exposed potential war crimes and should be protected he faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted in the us. julian assange became a global celebrity 12010 after wiki leaks published classified u.s. army material supplied by an intelligence analyst. containing documents and video footage from the wars in afghanistan and iraq.

some of the footage was shocking seemingly implicating u.s. troops impossible who crimes. i believe that if those killings were lawful under the rules of engagement when the rules of engagement are wrong deeply wrong. many applauded songes feel isness in shedding light on the murky side of the conflict he was showered with prizes and voted leaders choice full time person of the here in 2010 but for many others the leaks were nothing short of treason and a soul was a dangerous enemy of the state. let's bring in correspondent barrett bash is in london following this situation for us to get today's hearings come after more than a decade of controversy surrounding

a songe and wiki leaks what an extradition to the united states mean for him. well you drain the songes supporters off fearing that there could be a lengthy a prison sentence up to 175 years in a maximum security prison because the u.s. prosecutors say that julian assange has helped and danger lives and that he helped to breach the espionage act and the classified information so very severe charges could be following on that and that's why his supporters are appealing to the u.k. government if the judge today rules that julian the shoah son should be extradited to the appealing to the u.k. government actually not to grant it and to to help shelter julian assange and not to extradite him to the u.s. human rights because of voiced concern about him possibly being

to the u.s. what are they worried about. there are many human rights groups and in fact many people here also specifically in the u.k. that are supporting julian assange many for many he's he's a hero he is a modular of press freedom and amongst these many groups are amnesty international human rights watch report is without borders and most of them are really concerned about press freedom for example reporters without borders say that this is politically motivated and that if julian assange she was to be extradited and was to be facing charges in the u.s. that could have a chilling effect on press freedom around the world and that the very future of journalism and of press freedom was at stake there is a really it's a matter of principle for for many of these rights groups to say that julian assange actually acted as

a journalist and should not face these these severe charges that the u.s. might be preparing against him the handing of the decision from the court today in london is on likely to be the final act in this extradition drama where will it go from here. if if this court does rule that julian assange should be extradited to to the yes which of course we don't know at this point it's definitely not the end of the. julian assange just lawyers could appeal to the supreme court in the u.k. or even to the european court of human rights say it's not the end this really long saga that also saw julius on's in the ecuadorian embassy for 4 years on and having people practically camped out there and really voicing their support in a very big way it's not the end of julian assange cheer here in london to get

things very much to do because big it must in london. well staying in britain because the country is gearing up for its 1st post brags that channel crossings today after all in traffic during the holidays one of the major crossings is the port of dover where trucks face new border checks to cross into the year after britain officially left the european union on january 1st the british government has employed a 1000 extra border officials and opened new coronavirus testing sites for 4 trucks to deliver. to prevent backlogs there. or more let's bring in our correspondent charlotte chelsea pill she's in dover charlotte what's the situation like there on the 1st regular working day of the new year and after the implemented brags that terry z. say this is now the 1st real attack with these new checks that are coming in to

places that the bricks that reality begins to take hold here in the u.k. and now ahead of today in the weeks months ahead that have been huge amounts of concern about a massive queues coming in to the poor he admits he in the event of a no deal brecht it as it is that there is a deal and it is still relatively steady the steam of traffic the stream of traffic here today we're not seeing massive long queues like we saw last month terry i'm sure you remember when cave ins tests had to be in for a whole is sharpest across the border that caused a clone that is worth of keys we don't think anything like that yet but it is still it is still empty days here and it's going to be the next thanks as always and of course weeks months ahead that will be the real test ok so no real chaos there at this point it seems

a pretty quiet where the people who are predicting it there would be a lot of chaos and they just simply roll. i didn't say that they were wrong necessarily i would say there are still reasons to keep an eye on what is going here now the 1st ses of the month has been quiet because of course it's the christmas period they've been holiday days as well here in the u.k. so huge amounts of traffic predicted i think what people are really going to be keeping an eye on though is not so much whether or not they're going to be active queues at the border they aren't really expected imminently but all of that. who is who are actively of voiding in this area fear of chaos unfolding here putting them all from coming in so that they could invisible chaos people are calling it and what that will mean for trade with the trade implications off of that going through it what sort of obstacles are we talking about now the border for these truckers or anyone else trying to cross through that. right with this trade deal that means

that there are no tariffs no taxes on trade also means no equations but it does mean a lot more pay a lot more red tape for chuck is trying to cross the border customs checks for example and then of course you've got the additional had all of chuck is having to take to present negative because it says that's exactly what's going on the checks that are happening just behind me so it really is 2 things colliding hey you got the tests the truck is going to have to get and of course the breck that reality those costs and checks happening here is. the thank you very much that was. pill. w. business news will have more on the effects of bragg's that coming up after this bill . on

sunday on munich of voided embarrassment against the 17th placed team in the league 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 mine side that had won just one so far this season but for the 8th time in a row by him conceded 1st time book tops netting in the 32nd minute. jerome boa taking felt he had been fouled in the build up but the goal stood down just before half time mind doubled the lead as alex on the haka was left on mocked and noted in to send clients of the break to nail down but the record champions bounced back a us were kimmie header got by him back in the game and then leroy sent a leveled the schools off to drifting inside from the wing with the mind's defenders allowing him time to set up his shot. 3 more by on goals followed the

pick of which was rabbit live an effort to seal the 5 to end result. by an reclaim top spot while minds still 2nd from bottom left to rue their wasted lead. up and beat all sport to nil on sunday to move up to 4th in the table star striker elling was back from injury but it was money well a kind who got dortmund off the mark in the 66th minute the swiss defender benefited from a corner kick by jaden century a century later scored as well but when he burst through to get his 1st once the since may. act. it's a look now at ben's league is standings there were changes at the top of the table as a result of the weekend matches munich again finished on game day on top while dortmund

moved back into a champions league placing as it creeps into the top 4 league in the lower shaka the very bottom with a measly 4 points and still remain. when less minds not doing much better watching due to be news from berlin business is up next and i'll be back to top the next hour with more international news don't forget to get all the latest information anytime you want on your website or on our website that's because he doth call thanks for watching.

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