our murder charge. we believe we're on track to win a selection this is a fraud. the will be going to the u.s. supreme court a nation divided find in claims he's winning the u.s. presidential election while donald trump threatens to take decisions to the supreme court and what he sees as a quote fraud fighting currently has 238 electors to transfer 213 but key state ballots remain to be counted. 11 or result hardly begun coming in when violent scenes are wrapped it has been clashes between protesters and the police in several cities are close to us including washington d.c. .

thank you for joining us for us by szell coverage of the u.s. election on a key errand bringing you all the latest on what is already an extraordinary u.s. election will donald trump be reelected for a 2nd term or will joe biden become the 46th president of the united states stay with us as america decides. well all eyes are on america as the ballot counting is in full swing in the race for the white house let me bring you up to speed on how both candidates are doing so far but the race is extremely tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 213 the magic number here is 270 that's how many they needed this needed to win the white house and 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 of

a candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state when the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local district votes. ok let's take a look at the map here's what it looks like so far on a state by state basis in several key states ballot counting is still under way just to remind you preliminary results indicate a tight race and both democrat joe biden and his wife of donald trump have addressed their supporters saying that they're sure they will come out on top. are nurture united we believe run track to win the selection we're going to. try to drag you thank you. we were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this. we will win this and we. already won. traditionally some states are seen as republican party strongholds

while others are strongly tied to the democratic party but in swing states both parties are thought to have a chance of winning and some areas are seen as bellwethers indicative of which candidate will win the national race and join in a studio by arteta ecostar all they can eat off thanks for joining me. let's talk about how things look so far well they don't look good for the american public that's for sure because it seems that the division with every statement with every vent with every new cycle in this election the division is growing among the american public the both candidates well donald trump has outright claimed he's won the election joe biden has said he's very optimistic that he will win the election obviously they are saying something that their supporters want to hear and by doing that they keeping both groups who are ready to jump at each other's throats many members of those groups they're ready to you know to tear each other apart they are keeping them in the information bubble the one that they have been staying for

a very long time since the previous election really and so they by doing so sensually feeding the hatred the different political groups and organizations and just ordinary citizens have not only towards the other candidates but towards each other as well so that's one thing it doesn't look good it has never looked good not at the moment we're not since in washington d.c. venues started to bother windows to block their windows with wooden tiles and so on and so forth basically expecting riots expecting clashes as a result of this election and this election of course that doesn't just have an impact on what happens in america but the whole world americas that's the tone for the rest of the world and indeed the economy and after trunks extraordinary press conference just an hour or so ago we already saw the dollar while the. and so at the moment if that is we don't know anything in this looks like it's going to be

extended for a long time things are only going to get worse yes there's a huge uncertainty uncertainty excuse me markets never like uncertainty and donald trump has fueled this uncertainty even further when he promised legal action if things don't go his way. north carolina big victory with north carolina. and. so we won there we lead. 76000 votes with almost nothing. and all of us and everything just stopped. this is a fraud on the american public this isn't an irishman to our country so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court. bizarre comments from donald trump during our press conference then words which are only going to create more division and more hatred between a country that's already polarized absolutely because joe biden has already fired back his camp has already said that they will use their lawyers that if donald

trump and the g.o.p. take action they will use their lawyers so this battle i mean of the worst projections how did the ballots might be counted until friday well the president might not be announced even far beyond that date because if things don't go away you might go to court if things don't go joe biden's way now this idea of taking legal action this idea of election fraud it's out there in the open it's in the air so there are no guarantees that he won't say well donald trump has stolen the election from us or donald trump he was already floated this idea that these elections are being stolen from us and all this all this hatred all this animosity of the size towards each other it's as visible as online because you would do people do nowadays when they're angry at something they go and twitter and people and left leaning pundits democrat democrat leaning pundits they already have the clause in trump here just some of the statements on twitter by some prominent

commentators the message is stop counting votes this is the opposite of democracy this is fascism this is some next level autocratic as word right there this is not what democracy elected president says this is what authoritarian say and so one of the things going trance press conference indeed this is because this is how people read into his statement saying that he called essentially called on. the vote counters to stop you know tracking you to stop counting the ballots to stop marking the ballots and saying that world i'm already in the lead he claimed he claimed he's one georgia north carolina pennsylvania michigan wisconsin all these states that are still being contested they haven't been called and joe biden obviously has a big problem with because he just told his supporters that he's winning have a listen from the man's mouth. it's not my place or dollar drugs place to declare

who's wrong is a larger that's the decision of the american people but i'm optimistic about this outcome we're going to word this thank you thank you thank you. he was definitely a lot more thoughtful with his words than donald trump was at his press conference but what what's so bizarre about this is that this election is already shaping up to be more extraordinary than what we saw in 2016 because votes are still being counted it's still nailbiting lee kosik could go either way and yet we're seeing this war break out between the 2 kinds of the not just between the 2 candidates but again between the supporters because when joe biden. it's up to the american people to decide who's won the election the thing is many have already made up their minds . hundreds of thousands probably millions of people who already who already know that they are in the right who who had already shared a common belief that it was their candidate be donald trump or joe biden who had

won the election and they are ready to take to the streets groups like on t.v. for instance on the one side or proud boys and their colleagues on the other side they are ready to take to the streets and that's why the heavy precautions that's why they have the security measures that's why the national guard in the streets and so on so it is it doesn't look it doesn't look like this it does look that this election might ensue in riots and violence and so on and things like that might have an expected and sometimes anyway i mean the day before the election we saw shop windows being boarded up in washington d.c. . so yeah how with both of the candidates now making such powerful statements leading that supporters to believe that they're going to win it's only going to feel this animal city exactly but i would say this is just a. an expected crescendo to what's been going on in the run up to this election

because they neither of the candidates mince their words and the whole election cycle has been absolutely crazy and some and it has seen some i would stay out rageous said statements and therefore the sentiment has been very very tense so i would argue that this is a culmination a climax of something that has been building up for a long time. our work by unless. there was less. for 4 years we had trump in office and we made the most of it but we finally got somebody to have to be in office that to give us

a chance to have home ownership i'm talking to all week you. begin to see. your way we can do something like this injection is the most likely to see you get to the lives of all started or know how problems shifting production should we try to do not in iraq is not working for now and are trying to get around excuse me to drive you crazy. like you are going to the last week of years like because you are wise you do it ok your president show you things up everybody knows he's a liar and there's nothing smart of the future of what you should extend the war is so your number 2 piece preconstructed hard to get anywhere you.

i think i watching that clip you know it's entertaining but it's also and barris saying heartbreaking and devastating because we're choosing america's choosing the leader of the free world and this is that i know that just snippets of what's been

going on but it's not good is it or they certainly would like to see that way as they're choosing the leader of the free world but so far it does look like they've been squeezed between a rock and a hard place really but right now essentially if we go back to figures to just statistics basically there are 3 ways joe biden can win this election in all these 333 ways he needs both michigan and wisconsin word trump has a lead and then he either needs pennsylvania georgia just one electoral vote from nebraska would be enough but the problem is pennsylvania trump trumps lead in pennsylvania is enormous the governor has said there's still a whole 1000000 of mail in ballots that. still. still haven't counted yet but again trump. it is about 13 points there so again there's no way of telling as

to where this election is and certainly it's impossible to predict what happens when one of the candidates will eventually be declared victor in this and what will happen next is to will the supreme court be involved will there be riots in the streets well my guess would my guess would be my money would be on yes there will be action in the streets and clashes between between between both camps so we're here we're here this is going to be a long run and we're in it also i just want to touch on reports that pennsylvania in pennsylvania election officials have paused counting until 10 am local time so that gives them lie is 7 or 8 hour rest there's just reports we will verify those before we confirm that thanks for coming any thanks for the update meantime thousands of protesters have gathered in the streets of seattle chanting black lives matter slogans. was.

demonstrators were banging drums and playing various musical instruments they criticized police brutality and demanded racial equality chanting all unite for human rights at the same time the campus all protesters clashed outside the white house and tea for groups gathered around black lines multipliers in washington d.c. where an all black large black banners with white letters red remove trump trump lies all the time just a block away in the white house the object of their anger awaited the results of their vote. while there have already been pro and anti trying demonstrations outside the white house ahead of the final election results artie's done caught a look at the growing to visions within american society. it was all high hopes and big promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed

a hero now it's time for america to find a division have to get together. republicans and democrats and independents across this nation i say it is time for us to come together as one united people turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor. 20 twentieth's presidential election seasons looked more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the pandemic response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to de-fund the police altogether.

and instead of trying to unite people america's dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the so-called peaceful protests which let's be honest were not so peaceful from us citizens for instance peacefully protest. not a bad way to dip your toes into the more radical left and black voter pools but on the other hand you have trump who decided to play the tough guy calling anti racism protesters vandals and anarchists trump sent federal troops to put down uprisings in cities a move that won support from

a number of police unions and people who didn't want to see their white picket fence neighborhoods ruined now the law and order doctrine also emboldened. some of trump's more radical supporters so that seeing armed right wing militia is an entity for freely walking around the streets of american cities became a new reality and one of both candidates done to fix all this point the finger grazie what's going on and he doesn't want to see law and order because he can't because you lose his radical left supporters proud about who is stand back and stand by but i'll tell you what tell you what somebody has got to do something about the left because this is not a right. it is a direct this is. not what it's about this is the rather silly left would you she was on both sides of the political spectrum we've got armed groups white nationalists proud boys right wing militias and tea for the whole bunch so what exactly will happen when the election is over well everyone just sit down and

decide to accept the results. let's bring in a guest now live to profess that benjamin chauhan of the paris school of business and south west in need of s.t. a fine on sunday economics thank you for joining us on the program today professor the check out over the past few 4 years maybe 5 years we've seen it the united states of america become increasingly polarized do you think that these elections are going to divide american society. yes of course in some ways some of these elections values are really polarized in the u.s. by raids by gender by class. it's very calculating and is willing to win the vote at a very high cost to some sort so people especially the sup urban ship toward the democrats is the biggest change to the political landscape during the neutrons presidency. 2016 was rooted in the margins of victory in the working class.

however biden stronger performance imposed among well educated voters and in particular have pushed him to be on the democratic gains in recent years so trump is taking a very risky move for some of his strategies. whoever wins this election no major problems await and the coming for you is not least the coronavirus which need some kind of solution how do you think is best placed to deal with these issues trump or biden well from the u.s. pandemic we already saw who could be a leader the u.s. really needed to manage depend and and other. social problems in more professional and scientific way it's it's not about the trade off between the economy and lives we really need life happy people to build the economy. thinking of how do beijing view this election how it important how intaglio is who

wins this election to the relations with china. well. you know i in paul politics is too long there are no forever friends and enemies in politics who is ready to do friendship with china and care for the well being of both the chinese and the u.s. people i is suitable candidate and it's not a pub 8 and then trump both the congress or the house. democrats or republicans last time we saw a few times that both sides are you know unanimously. to china recently. when john came into the white house and during his campaigning in 26 states had such a strong anti china rhetoric and that seems to have died down recently do you think that's in order to gain more votes well i think

it's true of china need it. needed to use some china tactics as an election strategy but as the race is closing in for the election in the home country he needed to fine tune into needs of the 2 field states expression early. for a pen. which you know very important states. the switching between the 2 parties in the recent elections and ohio for example is . a state that there must be some must we know for the past. presidents now as time is closing in the candidates need it more specialized strategies for each of these states so the can spend enough time to

repeat and repeat some 50 ships and force claims to have enough problems locally professor benjamin chair of the parish school of business thank you for your time. thank you well let's bring you up to speed now on how both candidates are doing so far the race is now biting tight as you can see with binding already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 23270 is the magic number that's how many and needed to win the white house and 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 votes in each state when the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local and district votes and here's what it looks like so far on a state by state basis 28 states are leading in favor of trump shown here in red

118 in blue backing biden in several key states ballot counting remains under way. on a chum's received unprecedented scrutiny from the u.s. establishment and mass media with some even calling him the most dangerous president ever more downstairs reports. however it ends the election trump will go down in history his vows to drain the swamp build the wall and make america great again they'll remember him what they'll write about him will depend on the book the author the perspective if they love him or hate it if he's the greatest failure in the history of the united states and the worst with resumes america has ever had. the worst and most dangerous president where are you in 2017 when we had the worst president i would even argue that he is the worst worst president in american history he's the worst president the country's ever had 4 years of trump

was 4 years of bitter conflict at every level he and his opponents fought it was a time when grown ups behaved like children in the white house and congress in the streets todd when democrats and republicans seem to put aside everything that they agreed on and focused entirely on everything that they despised about one another. the $252.00 congressional votes under trump's presidency $104.00 resulted in dispute and clashes some of the initiatives that congress voted on would to block trump's initiatives they voted to prevent votes on things that trump wanted and we're not talking here about things like the wall or deporting illegal migrants we're talking about politicians who supported trump's ideas like pulling out of the iran nuclear deal when he was a businessman suddenly reversing their positions when he became president seemingly

out of spite i believe iran will not change and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions well ultimately retaining its nuclear and non-nuclear power at this time and this place for so many reasons pulling out precipitously without our allies involved does not achieve any of the goals we need to achieve and hurts americans in different ways but politics is politics right they fought under obama too if a little less nothing new about the media then specifically them losing their mobs and throwing away any semblance of balance out the window. digging up tax records or leaking calls to even investigating trump's foreign ties it's journalism that's what journalists do it's normal no what they outdid themselves on is outright and somewhat petty smear campaigns about how awful trump

is for drinking too much diet coke about how much of a cheat trump is that golf about how bad he is at it about how his own wife doesn't want to hold his hand all cheap all dirty and for trump easy to dismiss you are shake do is we are fighting the fake to use people in your profession that rape fake news you do. and the prison in your fake is the net result has been a collapse of trust in the media the news it isn't news when the publication has an evident interest in maligning someone. never in living memory has the establishment tried to sink a president elected by the american people from before he took office with sabotage with leaks with set ups they did everything to make people believe in the trump russia collusion shab the kumi investigation the steel dossier about prostitutes

and urination the mueller report all to make impeachment possible the impeachment of the president of the united states impeachable conduct impeachment nonetheless we should begin proceedings to impeach the president move forward with impeachment and this 'd president does parters on impeachment this impeachment process cost a reported $11000000.00 trying to impeach trump $32000000.00 for the mueller report countless man hours wasted and they couldn't pull it off at the end of the day trump will be remembered if differently he was. a tyrannical megalomaniac a man who drank too much who sucks at golf and whose hands even his own wife didn't want to hold he was also a man of the people the underdogs who rules to drain the swamp that is washington

and cost down the corrupt elites whatever version they read in the future the agree on only $1.00 thing was a long and savage fight. let me bring you up to speed on how both candidates are doing so far the race is excruciating need tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 23270 you needed to win the white house and it all comes down to the so-called electoral college each state has a fixed number of electors for example pennsylvania has 20 wisconsin and 10 michigan has 16 and based on the number these are all based on the number of people living that which have a kind of just across a simple majority of votes in each state wins 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 so i can see a sea of red that but by then it's still way the field neck and neck really in

several key states ballot counting remains underway it's still too all the early to call anything. but just to recap the latest for you in more shaping up to be another extraordinary us election speaking to supporters earlier donald trump says he will take the vote count to the supreme court claiming victory on tainting it pro-democrat fraud his opponent joe biden has also claimed he's on track to win and all this comes as ballot counting is still underway in some states they with r.t. for the very latest throughout the day.