whether this and mr vice president. say a few words place i think it was it was a thank you mr president i want to join you in thanking more than 60000000 americans. who have already cast their vote for 4 more years for president donald trump. all those continue to be counted we're going to remain vigilant this president said that the right to as been at the center of our democracy since the founding of this nation and we're going to protect the integrity of the vote but i really believe with all my heart with the extraordinary margins mr president that you've inspired in the states that you just described in the way that you launch this movement across the country to

make america great again i truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory and we will make america great again again. thank you. thank you thank. you. ok but what you've been listening in to the president donald trump and his vice president mike pence. basically trying listing all of his gains repeatedly saying they call it catches referring to those swing states such as pennsylvania. also you know describing the results as phenomenal cinequest surprised himself the way the vote has gone thus far what are your thoughts well 1st and foremost have you noticed how like almost tied he looked ukes you would

from trump you would expect more energy more output move you know be done stand the campaign trail he looked like he was very tied very probably from all the stress during the elections and he sounded very sounded very calm surely he used many of his signature words like phenomenal beautiful success and tremendous and so on and so forth he by i think he went through but through his whole list has one through his many. the list it seemed like a very it seemed that he wanted to look even more factual than joe biden and this is something that the mainstream media have been you know they have been holding it against trump so much that he uses a lot of big words but often he lacks substance in his speech like he doesn't give figures he doesn't give facts and it seems that this time he decided to beat the democrats and joe biden with his own weapon with his own 2 you know 2 with his own sword because he meticulously went state by state listing not only the ones that

he is he's clearly won like texas he seemed to be a little bit behind the facts because texas has already been counted probably during the time he was preparing to give the speech as it has been already officially called and so on but notice how he not only he gave the states where he has a substantial lead but also he went through a concrete number of ballots that he is up but also interesting the enough you finish the finish his speech on the talks of fraud and i didn't i don't know about you but i find it very peculiar because so far as of now there has been no clear evidence of fraud because there have been some scandals you know the the u.s. post service they had a court order the federal judge ordered them to make a sweep of their warehouses to look for some 300000 of missing of missing ballots but the post. i'm not sure but i'm not

a legal expert so i can see how that that is possible but basically they gave the federal judge a cold shoulder and essentially they said no they said that they know they weren't doing it but that was that was as close as we got there had been a lot of concerns over possible election fraud of possible you know tampering with the ballots because of the situation with the corona virus and we. the record number of mail in votes i think. 2016 about a 160000000 people voted in america this year a 100000000 people voted in mail in ballots alone and many of them as far as i know as far as far as figures goes through the mail maybe that's what trump is concerned about is because i think you're absolutely right his tone was very well for i want to say presidential but i mean he was the president not more serious than we expected him to be given the given the way things are looking at it he did say the

results have been phenomenal he did seem quite surprised at results so far but then to like rather than you know punching it into the air and you know playing up to his supporters he was he was like talking about fraud he was talking he expects almost like he expects something to go wrong for him it. was the killer even mike pence seemed a lot more optimistic than trying to and it's probably because truth tends to normally he's very very calm manner of speech is very calm confident and so on the just so we this is there has been a stark difference in delivery with trumpets not about what he said but rather about how he said it but we've we've gone through through that also an interesting and interesting show drop by trump you said we don't want to find the ballot said 4 o'clock in the morning so i think what he was getting at is that the ballots have been counted so far at a steady pace and there have been like 10 percent 30 percent 60 percent of the

ballots in fact if we look at some of the some of the key states the lowest number the lowest percentage of the counted ballots is in michigan. 65 percent so that is a lot and normally a state normally already enough to give a projection to give an officially called the results but so far it hasn't been done and that is the low was number in michigan. 65 percent counted if you look at other swing states the figure is even larger the percentages even is even larger so essentially what i think trump was getting at is the ballots have been counted at a steady pace and now all of a sudden the counting has stopped and he to him it looks it doesn't look right so what he's implying anything but i'm not the one to interpret and interpret his words but the way i understood it listening to him is that it's weird strange it shouldn't be like he wants the counting to go on to continue so that. basically

does this for a bit i think what he means means is that suddenly a huge batch of votes is counted and to him it doesn't look it doesn't look right so but it's interesting that trump of all people is talking about the stolen elections and election fraud and it seems it seems almost like he's accusing the other ticket the democratic camp of something that the that they were ready to q.'s trump of so it's getting into into nasty territory but we'll see if he's very premature both of the candidates addressing their supporters but they have inside the white house you have chunks supporters cheering him and of course outside the white house on the streets we've got the trump demonstrators so well let's let's continue with the day and they counting so way thanks for coming in again. well let's bring you up to speed on how both counted as the doing

so father race is of course tight as you can see with biden already securing $225.00 electors and trump having the backing of 213270 pounds the magic number that's how many are needed to win the keys to the white house it all comes down to the so-called electoral college each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of people living there which have a candidate secures a simple majority of those in each state wins now the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local district votes and here's what it looks like so far on a state by state basis 28 states are leaning in favor as you can see in the red while 18 of backing biden as you can see in the blue that in several case days ballot counting is still underway. let's

cross live to professor sayyid mohammad marandi of the university of tehran now a thank you for joining us on the program on this big day professor donald trump says he was and will go to the supreme court to stop fraudulent counting won't do you make of that. i think many people in iran are the news about the situation in the united states and how divided the country is and the fact that the united states always presents itself as exceptional and above the rest of the world yet the country is so deeply divided the elites and the intellectuals and many of the high the educated despise trump immensely and trump supporters on the other hand despise them and it shows that this notion of the united states being a melting pot is absolute nonsense and misleading but i think if it were it's it remains to be seen what happens that many in iran actually do prefer

ordinary people obviously despise trump because he's trying to starve the countries preventing medicine from getting into the country is trying to kill as many ordinary people as possible but many others do recall that these sanctions were initiated by obama and biden and. trump on the other hand murder general sort of money was the key person in the fight against isis but on the other hand biden and obama initiated or led the dirty war along with turkey and saudi arabia in syria which led to the murder of many innocent people including iranians so. while we're. back to trying but i think the elites in iran sorry to interrupt you i came back to trunk was about 14 and counting it think this is why it's because they're very premature on say. the stakes back they'll be a reaction from either side supporters to these comments

well again it remains to be seen because when we look at the media in the united states it's so deeply divided it's as if they're speaking about 2 different worlds . when you look at m s n b c or c.n.n. or the new york times and you compare it to breitbart or fox news they're they're providing their viewers with completely opposite information of course when it comes to foreign policy countries like iran they present the same sort of fake news but when it comes to their own country the 2 sort of the 2 sides of the media are depicting 2 completely different narratives and that is of course very dangerous because trump supporters believe that the other side is absolute evil and i've been supporters believe that trump supporters are absolute evil i mean this is something that we have been witnessing increase in the united states over

a long period of time so if the results are very close if there are if the especially the mail in ballots if there's a is an issue with that it could become very explosive but of course if trump has a large win what biden has a significant win then i think even though the hatred will continue in the political crisis will continue to exist but i think the election will probably pass off rather peacefully so we have to see how close some of the states are and whether there are issues about the votes that have been mailed in and whether many of these votes will be blocked from being counted or mouth on the topic of foreign policy one like ok that's europe split with america over the iran nuclear deal do you think the e.u. getting any ties with iran and the u.s. will change depending on who wins the white house.

it depends i mean in iran the political elites have differing views 1st of all about the u.s. election some actually want trump to win because they believe that trump is isolating the united states and the deep divide that he's creating in the in the united states alongside the economic crisis his point to lead to a week in the united states and that will give iran much greater room for maneuver there are others on the other hand who prefer trumper biden and who think that if biden comes the europeans will move more force trump and other countries the international climate community will force biden the new the potentially new president to behave more reasonably towards iran but i don't think anyone really believes that there's going to be any significant change in the united states towards iran whether it's biden or charm because of course trump has maximum pressure campaign which is aimed to starve iran and to hurt ordinary iranians and

to kill as many ordinary iranians as possible it has not been opposed by the democrats the united states it's not been opposed by the corporate media in the united states and we have to remember that the same sanctions they were initiated by obama and biden and when it comes to again when it comes to u.s. policy towards iran there has always been consistency continuity has always existed the animosity towards iran has been consistent ever since the revolution so i don't think anyone any policy maker in iran is being naive again ordinary people in iran dislike trump more than biden but i think that there is there are no illusions in iran about the 2 making a big difference what do you think that depending on the results of the u.s. election what you think the prospect is of the restoration of the iran nuclear deal . i find it highly

unlikely unless trump backs down if he is elected if he if he remains in office. i highly doubt that he will accept going back to the nuclear deal because iran is not going to accept any changes iran has already made more than enough concessions and has been flexible enough to reach this deal and it's not going to give anything more so either trump will have to go back and accept all of the nuclear deal the whole of the nuclear deal or it's going to be stalemate as it has already been on the other hand if it's biden i highly doubt that biden is going to go and implement the nuclear deal he will probably try to use the sanctions that trump has imposed on iran as leverage against iran and in order to get you concessions from the country because that's how the united states works it plays dirty i mean when obama signed the nuclear deal he never implemented it this is a an illusion that this is

a this is something that many people don't know the united states never implemented the nuclear deal whereas the iranians did so i think that if biden does become president he'll try to use what trump has done to run to get more from sessions and that is not going to work because iran has said very clearly that it will not change policy it will only accept the deal because that is the if you ron except except changes to the deal that will him basically mean appeasement and that will mean that in the future the united states will be able to use sanctions and pressure and murder and destruction to get more concessions so the iranians are saying this deal has been signed it's a done deal there's nothing else on the table that's acceptable to us professor side mohammad marandi of the university of toronto thank you for joining us on the program. across the atlantic the e.u. is nervously watching for the u.s. election results as the last 4 years have proven

a particularly testing time for relation facilities pace all of us explained. it's not being comfortable of relationships between the european union and the trumpet ministration over the last couple of years in fact trade troops even the old tantrum of had a tendency to dominate proceedings back in 2018 the u.s. president was talking tough on trade with trump threatening tariffs on his european allies thereby the barriers on cars and lots of other things even medical equipment where it's very very difficult to sell into the european union and they're going to be coming on july 25th to negotiate with us we said if we don't negotiate something fair then we have tremendous retribution which we don't want to use but we have tremendous powers tariff tit for tat is what ended up happening with 25 percent price increases on the telly and cheeses scotch whiskey and french

wine coming into the united states the e.u. responded in kind with tariffs on orange juice bourbon peanut butter and harley davidsons the trade bottle had its real roots in a 16 year aerospace slugfest over subsidies paid by the. us which the w.t. you know later ruled gave it an unfair advantage over us competitor boeing another w t a ruling this autumn the green light for brussels to put in place more tariffs on $4000000000.00 worth of u.s. imports for guess what the u.s. government giving unfair subsidies to ample us but by summer of last year the beef had moved on to well beef today we're signing a breakthrough agreement that will make it easier to export american beef into the european union and we've been in negotiations quite a while. the farmers we didn't think were being treated fair but the european union

stepped up and we appreciate it by august of this year though the trade. com a bit with washington in brussels agreeing to scrap some of the tire of the could see both sides make an extra $200000000.00 annually. easing some of those tensions in a trade relationship that's worth $1.00 trillion dollars annually in matters of defense when it comes to nato when the e.u. member states donald trump has his mind on the u.s. is money and the money firmly on his mind many nations over vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the united states in 2017 a very diplomatic german chancellor angela merkel stood alongside the u.s. president and acknowledged that some in the e.u. needed to pay more towards nato was gratified to know that the president underlined

how important things nato is nato is its prime importance for us and it was not. without very good reason that we said during our summit meeting in wales that also germany needs to increase x. expense. by this summer that particular snafu going from bad to worse with president trump pulling nearly 12000 u.s. troops out of germany all still demanding that and others pay more into the nato part in fact trump was very clear on how he felt about germany and their bill paying on defense. it's been a rough few years and that's without even mentioning the iran nuclear deal which trump pulled the us out of unilaterally leaving the e.u. pulling their collective hair out or nord stream to the gas pipeline which german industry needs but the us sanctions are stopping being finished all the paris climate accord and not the multinational agreement torn up by the trumpet

ministration trump does have his supporters among the leaders hungry. viktor orban and the u.s. president have similar on t. migrant answer today while the polish leadership looked likely to benefit from the redistribution of some of those troops leaving germany wausau is also very much against the stream pipeline one thing almost 'd everyone in europe can agree on is that the us president is box office and we can expect more than a few all nighters being polled across the european union as people stay up on a lecture night into the wee small hours and beyond to see if this particular rocky relationship has another 4 years in it. us election results are also heavily anticipated in the middle east which has suffered a particularly to mulch us time under president tran our correspondent paula slayer has more. troops approach to world affairs has been unconventional at best

especially in the middle east where his actions have courted controversy from the moment he entered the white house trampas made it clear that he would be adopting a very different policy to that of his predecessors when it came to addressing the many different challenges facing the region 1st moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem in recognizing these raids sovereignty of the golan heights and not to forget his much touted deal of the century a peace plan they gave precious little to the palestinians who rejected it outright while awarding israeli hard liners with pretty much everything they wanted when it can comes to israel and palestinian he changed the paradigm no more inside out meaning 1st of all deal with the palestinians and then bring the arab world is changing it 1st bring the arab world and then the palestinians. which he did in securing historic peace deals between israel and the

united arab emirates and kuwait in the moderate sunni countries share with tel aviv a hostility against shia iran and cheered when trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions against iran when it trumped the restoration approaches to solve to for example the iranian issue. it's true that telling it like it is is a very appreciated quality in the region and not you know not appeasement or laxity however. it remains to be seen whether it's again bitter a gamble you see whether the maximum pressure campaign for example towards iran will be obtained the result that it is certain to obtain or else would it lead to further deterioration trumps a genuine assassination of the powerful all could force commander because some saudi money met with iranian retaliation and both the united states and iran to the brink of war still they would not try to challenge the us because they would one they would want to be on the good side of the us in terms of relaxing the sanctions

coming back to the year round deal of 2015 and enjoying better relations with their surroundings trumps american 1st approach meant that washington no longer supported large scale military interventions that have become the norm in the region since the september 11th attacks in 2001 trumps priority instead has been to focus attention on withdrawing american forces from the region at the earliest possible opportunity in february the administration signed a historic agreement with the taliban agreeing that u.s. forces would be removed from afghanistan after almost 20 years. the promise to pull out by christmas i would say that coming from the best of intentions it will be the 1st american president to make that campaign promise or pledge to boil. but it remains to be see i wouldn't want to speculate on the bigger means to be seen currently it seems highly unlikely that would manage to do so. but when it came to

throwing troops from syria trump abandon the kurds who had fought alongside the u.s. against islamic state in favor of vancouver it seemed to miss it be wary of trusting the united states i think that donald trump promised to his voters before before the elections that. he will remove a. certain amount of soldiers from syria and i think on the whole us are tired from foreign relentless quests to try and transform the arab societies and. resolve the palestinian israeli conflict so basically. this is a this is what he tried to achieve in the thing he did it trumps bromance with the turkish president added one lefty american president standing virtually alone

between and and congressional sanctions of the letters decision to buy russia's is 400 a defense missile system for air the one netanyahu and kim yong moon the leaders of 2 key israel and north korea allege of the past 4 years has been almost entirely positive trumps ejection would confront them with immediate challenges making trump not the only loser should he fail the november elections police fear r t tel aviv. let me bring you up to speed on how both candidates are doing so far the race that is excruciatingly tight as you can see with biden already securing 236 electors and trump having the backing of 23270 are needed to win the white house so it all comes down to the so-called electoral college how each state has a fixed number the lectures based on the number of people living that whichever candidate secures the simple majority of votes in each state when it's the only exceptions are made and of nebraska which allocate electors based on local district

votes and here's what it looks like so far on a state by state basis 28 states are leading in favor of donald trump while 18 are backing joe biden in several key states ballot counting is still underway. in this recount the latest for you from the u.s. election one of donald trump says he will address his i don't trump has just addressed his supporters after tweeting that he had secured a quote big win in that address he said the results of thus far been phenomenal and listing all of his gains repeatedly saying they can catches biden speaking a couple of hours ago also said to his supporters that we believe we're on track to win this election and it is neck and neck in this election so far voting is still underway stay with r.t. for the very latest throughout the day.

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we believe we're on track to win this election this is. on the enemy. will be going to the u.s. supreme court. don't trump claims he's winning the u.s. presidential election and will go to the supreme court often biden also said he's on track to victory biden currently has 225 electors to transfer 213 key state ballots remain to be counted and. women are a result hardly begun coming in when violence is seen as a robber said there are been clashes between protesters and the police in several cities across the west including washington d.c. where reporting from outside the white tower.