it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. but i. also school to stop the ballot count and allegations of election fraud see angry crabs turn out into the streets that's how the 2020 us presidential election is going so far with joe biden closing in on the white house although he's not there yet also to come this hour away from the democrats republicans we discussed the lack of a real alternative choice the big 2 the green party and the libertarian. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties or it will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election we were all the winner's single member district when you take

all system. which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil and england is really imposing restrictions following the examples of france and germany in a bid to slow a record surge in cobi cases but many citizens in europe fuming at the measures. in my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different. if you have no savings or support it isn't enough. good afternoon just gone 3 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r t international and of course all eyes are on the u.s. presidential election with votes in key states still being counted. as. well with the results still to be called in battleground states the election has been marred by uncertainty and claims of election fraud thousands of people around

the country have taken their own get to the streets demanding all votes are counted and some of the protests to turn violent so you with demonstrators facing off with police up to 60 people reporting to tend in new york.

being gripped by an easy anticipation with ballot counting entering the final stages but with no clear winner yet democrat joe biden has the backing of 264 electors well donald trump is 240 the threshold for winning the race is 217 things are looking good for joe biden at the moment winning just one more state. for him could mean victory he's only just 6 short of the needed. continue counting in the morning while trump in order to turn the tide to take all battleground states like north carolina. until

a bit light. of election fraud and errors. in pennsylvania and georgia demanding that absentee ballots which arrived after the election date deadline should not be included we discuss the disagreements with r.t. correspondent. democratic candidate joe biden is very close to that threshold but the winner has not been announced so more than a day after polling stations closed the country still doesn't have a president elect what the nation has instead are protests some of them are angry and violent also lawsuits and also a feeling of a flawed system so protests have broken out in different corners of the nation the left side is chanting pretty much make sure that every vote counts while the pro

krom supporters are screaming stop the count what is this if not an indication of a lack of trust for the electoral system i can remind you that before the november vote donald trump called on his supporters to vote in person and warned that there could be potential fraud with absentee and mailed in the votes and at this point the trump camp is saying that they have the ground to bring this to court in fact they've already filed several lawsuits they say they have proof of fraud including secret the dump ballots will be going to the u.s. supreme court we want to whoa voting just. we don't want them to find any ballots and so forth like in the morning in them to the list. not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots they

could be from mars as far as we're concerned or they could be from the democratic national committee joe biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know with 5000 times the ballots could be from camden. philadelphia unfortunately and say this about my own city has a reputation for voter fraud in georgia they filed a lawsuit and the aim of that is to me. sure all the absentee and mail the ballots that were handed in past the election day deadline are rejected several lawsuits were also followed in the states of pennsylvania and michigan and their claim from the republican is that the counting wasn't transparent enough and this explains why the program supporters are chanting stop the cal like here in detroit but. beyond the. law.

to oahu to if you listen to the speeches that we heard from both candidates pretty much their message was that they had already 'd won the message was very close to that perhaps it was way too soon for donald trump to do that because the numbers aren't looking good for him at all however the late as a speech by democratic candidate joe biden once again i'm going to say that he already sounded like he'd already become president he called on the nation to unite once this election is finalized and behind us it will be time for us to do what we've always done as americans to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us to lower the temperature to see each other again to listen to one another tweet to hear each other again respecting the care for one

another. to unite. if you come together as a nation so mr biden is calling on the nation to get together to unite which is in stark contrast to what we were hearing from the democrats ahead of the paul one they pretty much called all donald trump supporters and it means some very nasty things were said however it doesn't look like the nation is uniting with all the protests some of them are violent with both sides but at this point especially donald trump sides being ready to take the cases to court and also like i said again it's not been decided yet it looks like some of the results were not to go into here until the next few days so watch this space. but we did discuss the situation with guest some of whom do you think that what we've seen points to

a wide if idea of the u.s. system. there's an acquiescence to that in fact biden has won the presidency i would say don't think that whatever the court challenges are going to change anything with the possible exception of wisconsin where you have some implausible numbers that are coming out and i've seen a lot of a lot of convention on line about these strange amount of turnout which seems like you know beyond belief level of turnout and so there seem to be a lot of mystically manufactured votes in wisconsin i'm not sure that actually change the outcome of the social media has been manipulated in this election banning accounts that are not quite to their liking pushing people to do this to do that i mean it's with been the most manipulated election certainly in my lifetime there's no question about that and we all know which way the manipulation is going so this is this is not a mystery right this is not we all know which way the social media giants were

leaning the way the major media was leaning so of course you know if biden ekes out this little bit this time in victory with a couple of states that swing swing states where there's some suspicious ballot you know biden comes it becomes president with with on almost you know with very little the gentleman say and certainly no you know serious consensus so there will be no mandate for biden and this will last for 4 years this is a tremendous failure of the american system i don't know what else to tell you usually after every election people like well we argued a lot we debated things a lot but now the system has worked this year. that is not happening there's nobody in this country who thinks the system actually worked it was either rigged or it's broken or didn't work or something so this in a strange way at least at the presidential level the election really settled

absolutely nothing i do because i think that there's a lot to contest i mean this isn't an election unlike any other with all of the mail in ballots with all the early voting we knew it was a to be chaotic from the beginning unless it was a massive landslide direction everyone were sort of expect that this was going to drag out and maybe drag out until december that by law we have to have a winner by december 12th i believe it is and this reviewer is probably where this going to go no side is going to give up easily and i know we have all of these incredibly shady stories popping up 100000 ballots here for joe biden 120000 ballots in pennsylvania recently per job i'd offer joe biden what is this venezuelan voter fraud is a big concern we see this public now you know you know a little anomalies popping up here and they're going to school errors but we're seeing instances where people. got a mail in ballot and then they decide to vote in person so how we should ensure that they didn't vote twice on those ballots are canceled out we are seeing instances rigged or not being allowed to look at signatures on voter rolls not be

able to verify voters that there are some districts that are being very close about how they're recounting the ballots why would you do that why would you want anything but transparency but yet where did this come from and i wouldn't put anything past the left of the democratic party look at the fraud that they have perpetuated on this nation last 4 years they still haven't conceded the 2016 election no one but they're going to concede this one so it's well worth looking into i would not put it past the democrat party to pull something like this. that pennsylvania is still counting votes which could prove to be crucial to the outcome of the election. 2016 with the long run a democrat wins committee chavez looks now at the deep divisions within the state. pennsylvania with nearly 13000000 residents is arguably the single most important state of the 2020 but in many ways the keystone state mirrors the country while it's rust belt is dotted with a shuttered factories and rundown chimneys it's also

a place of affluent liberal suburbs and conservative countryside reflecting a divided america i mean the devices in this sense going on in this country right now it's ridiculous and i don't care what anybody says that it is a race. and very lucky that somebody like donald trump is. my president and i can vote for him again while the northeast and the southwest corners of pennsylvania residents come from a long line of blue collar workers like old coal mines and steel industries the state's eastern and western borders hold the biggest population centers and a lot of industry and heartland in between and although pennsylvania is considered a blue wall state as it has a history of voting democratic that changed in 2016 when donald trump won the state over democratic contender hillary clinton by point 7 percent congratulations mr president but now 4 years later controversial pipeline projects have helped make fracking a political flashpoint in the debate over energy the climate crisis and the influence

of big business these 2 parties are radically different and that what i think is that each party is controlled much more by its what would be the stronger i guess it's extreme wing you're right. both candidates focusing on pennsylvania president trump folding several rallies they're trying to woo the region with promises of coal and steel jobs while insisting that joe biden what a limb in a bracket hard for barges averred do or if you're. for our cue to deliver economic ruin to pennsylvania your families but you've got to be pretty clear biden who grew up in pennsylvania says he isn't calling for the immediate end to the oil industry but is pushing for ending federal. subsidies for fossil fuel companies and ending new permits on public land for fracking president trapes right of what will happen to the president he knows that people are pressuring get to have their say if you're ever sure he doesn't stand

a chance as pennsylvania is the 2nd largest producer of natural gas in the united states and the 3rd largest net supplier of energy the american petroleum institute estimates its natural gas industry contributes nearly 35000000000 dollars to the state and combined with its oil industry it supports about $340000.00 local jobs were afraid that if they buy a ticket wins that the gas oil thing is going to be shut down in spite of what they say trying to teach us reporting that having both 202016 candidates lost despite winning the popular vote not stand the country's electoral college system.

but my colleagues us who tell you they did speak with representatives from america's 3rd parties the libertarians and the greens on whether the current 2 party domination does give americans any real alternatives. the one percent that libertarians get. does play a significant role i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election maybe not win in elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was just said what he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought party town today that's right it's kind of spread quite even 4849 for the republicans and democrats so it's almost sad to say that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority

of americans do you think that as you know you disagree with that absolutely i mean look at public opinion polls majority of americans want a green new deal which is what the green party is for to deal with the climate crisis get the economy going again majority of americans want medicare for all and both democrats and republicans oppose those posts the problem is that our electoral system. we have a plurality winner single member district when you take all system. which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil the most people are voting against the other major party rather than for their own party so i think if we can change the electoral system in place the electoral college with a national popular vote used the right choice voting for presidential elections. i think the greens will move way up and in the boat we get currently the state in the us is kind of how how it harkens mentioned it's people for trump and people who

hate trump that's what they're voting about and they're there strategically choosing one of the major parties it's not that they necessarily agree with the platforms of those parties and was that there is a lot of white hods criticism saying for a 3rd party actually can create problems more problems and build and just wason the defense and because that essentially is stealing quote you know folks from parties that would actually when for example the republicans or the democrats in this particular case why it is so close and those states that were saying yes sometimes even less than a percentage point how would you react to people who say that if i had to choose we want to any one of the major parties i would flip a coin because i equally dislike both of them. the difference between the republicans and democrats is mostly about personality and style when it comes to the substance of the issues they're both for the deficit spending they're both for

spending and taxing too much they're both for continuing the wars and those are things that libertarians oppose and even grains oppose some of that stuff as well so i actually like it when the republicans and democrats get mad at libertarians because it causes them to focus on us and it gives us an opportunity to say hey here's why you guys are wrong and here's why we won't vote for you this is what we stand for what we need real political parties that actually have members i mean what we have now are 2 major parties you tell the state which party you're in in order to vote in primaries there's no local organization no local chapter of the party no you don't agree to a set of principles and they do sort of party to join you just tell the states. so the electorate is a lot of miles disconnected from the political process. ok let's have a quick recap then on how things are looking in this us presidential race looking

pretty good for joe biden the democrat he has the backing of 264 electors just 6 short of the magic 270 that's needed for victory donald trump meanwhile has 214 so where does this leave us well winning just one more state like nevada could mean victory for biden the state will continue counting in the morning while trump in order to turn the tide would have to take all uncounted battleground states like north carolina and pennsylvania martin amis their results until a bit later. now in other news today england and greece are returning to lockdowns following

a record surge in cobi cases with in some instances a 43 percent rise in victims england's 3 imposing restrictions following the examples of france and germany in order to slow down the spread of the virus france has more than 40000 new cases a day italy's introducing curfew from 10 pm and in germany infections grew by more than 2700 over the past 24 hours russia meanwhile raj had more than 19000 new cases on wednesday. vaccine of russian origin is in the final stage of trials there is growing public anger restrictions across europe as peter all of expects. we're 4 days into what's being called lockdown light here in germany younger merkel put this in place with the idea being to keep schools kindergartens as much of the economy open as possible at the expense of social life essentially

bars restaurants theaters cinemas gyms all of these closed down in order to keep open schools and kindergartens and as much business that doesn't involve direct contact as possible although those businesses that are open are under some restrictions so far though it's a fairly mixed bag when it comes to opinion on these measures here in berlin. in my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different shutting down businesses that 10 pm i find absurd it looks like the virus only comes out at night during the day you can do whatever you want but then at night you have to close because the virus comes with a part of their fun in justified partly i'm sad about the restaurants but overall i find the lowdown necessary for the money and. if you have no savings or support it isn't enough in berlin as a freelance musician suddenly everything is gone there isn't enough help at all the numbers don't paint a pretty picture when it comes to infections in germany on wednesday germany

recorded 190-0990 new cases of covert 90 now that's gone beyond what was initially put forward by angela merkel is a doomsday scenario for the health care system of 19200 cases it's the 6th straight day germany's record of over 15000 cases the plan from angela merkel and her government is to get infections down by 75 percent with this new lock down lights for the next month well for the month of november with the hope being that if we suffer through november then we might get a little bit of a reprieve in terms of the restrictions anyway over the christmas period he said so i don't think that an op these days. depends on what we can achieve in november so if we have very sensible now then we will be able to allow ourselves more freedom for christmas but i don't think that there will be lavish new year parties we have to wait and see but it will be a christmas on the chronic conditions but it should not be

a lonely christmas over the western border into france and as of a very bleak picture being painted by statistics put forward by french health minister. he says that one person in paris every 30 seconds this week could be in contracting covert 191 person every 15 minutes requiring medical attention there's no chance of a christmas break in what he's saying he says that people are going to have to make plans around covert 19 because the virus isn't going to make plans around them we've also you're seeing protests in france as well high school kids out on the streets this week protesting against what they see as a lack of social distancing or article it and coronavirus measures taken in schools police used tear gas against some in paris the schools in france went back on monday.

in the united kingdom and england has entered a month long lockdown but on wednesday evening just before that came into play you wouldn't think that anything was about to happen in places like old compton street in london where revelers packed in for a last pint nearly a mask nor any kind of social distancing in evidence there over in sweden a couldn't tree that had been beheld up as an example of how to limit corona infections without making measures law well it seems that they're going to have to make some of those measures law that's according to stephan levin the prime minister of sweden who says this may be. needed in order to keep numbers down in that country in greece those strict new measures come into place in thessaloniki where no non-essential flights will be allowed in or out there's also limits on when and for what reason you can leave your home in portugal the prime minister's

put in place a new state of emergency and in italy a new curfew has come into play as european nations try and get rising infection numbers down they seem to be fighting a losing battle in lots of different places but the these obstructions are continuing to come in in the hope that in a couple of weeks they can try and suppress this 2nd wave of the virus. and others have the news is looking safe are today here and i say we're back with more and the latest on the u.s. election just over half of. people say drawled powells untalented in worthless but you see how difficult that is do blast the money got it takes some skill they had to go to really acknowledge that the company can do it. over.

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some control for a middle. of the night most of them are very hardworking people who want to get ahead that either have some some health issues or have some of them had a stroke of bad luck a full time job won't always pay for a place to live and missing just a month's rent can get you a victim to gunpoint if anything bad happens to any thing that just throws your budget off slightly. better catch up real quick or you're going to have a judgment of possession against you and get addicted anyone that's homeless is treated like garbage people look at you like a monster or someone bad or you chose to be there most of the time it's not the case see how it is to be in the world's richest country. greetings and sell you. well well well well well the election is over and now my

friends the real game of votes begins yes here in the united states of america the polls are finally closed all the votes that could have been cast have now been cast in the winner in the 2020 race to the white house it is. television commercials cable news channels in the business of turning politics into entertainment why because right now millions upon millions upon millions of americans have been tuned in and scrolling through their new speeds anxiously awaiting for a winner to be crowned while state and local election officials feverish tally up the numbers in the swing states like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania north carolina making the political punditry class news network executives and others who make their checks off of political news coverage well they are getting here than jeffrey toobin in between xoom calls and speaking of being in love with one self united

states president donald trump declared himself the victor on election night.