you also use calls to stop the ballot count and allegations of fraud send angry crags on to the streets that's how the 2020 us presidential election is going so far with joe biden in the white house although he's not there yet to come away from the democrats and the republicans we discuss the lack of real alternative choices to the big 2 that the libertarians and the greens. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election. who are all the winner's single member district when you take

all system. which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil being the industry imposing restrictions following the examples of france and germany in a bid to slow a record cases but it has left many europeans few. 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 for caught here in moscow are you watching r t international and of course all eyes are on the us election with votes in key states still being counted. well 2 days on from the election and america is still no closer to knowing who will be handed the keys to the white house everything now hangs on the key swing states yet to declare and tense atmosphere surrounding the vote counting has been playing

out onto the streets.

ok well let's have a look at. the democrat joe biden he has the backing of 264 . 6 more to reach the magic. 214. for example. and he still. isn't clear but what we do know is that. nothing is. you can say it is. 14 percent. and that is being done right.

but you can enjoy it demanding that absentee ballots which arrived after the election day itself should and should not be included the president has questioned my own ballot. counted last which then swung by the lead in both a michigan trump supports his have been running outside election center demanding that shouldn't be counted democrats have taken to the streets claiming every ballot camps. yeah yeah. yeah well then i resign or however supporters protested outside in the election center they're claiming their votes weren't

counted this arizona was called for by the on the spot or fool the all of the ballots there having been counted we discussed the why divisions in the us without any prank. democrat 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 trump 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

votes 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 own voting just. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock 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 of 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 make 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 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. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. if you listen to the speeches that we heard from both candidates pretty much

their message was that they had already won the message was very. those 2 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 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 to wait to hear each other again respecting to care for one another to unite to heal. 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 poll when they pretty much called all donald trump supporters 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 in a prank that will several election commissions in america have banned the proficiency of their work saying every valid ballot was counted and accurately reported international observers to say the spot the highly polarized atmosphere the vote did go according to the law. the editorial director of the american

institute for economic research jeffrey out but police if biden does win half of americans won't consider him the president. my read of the situation on the ground is that. probably for more of republicans think this whole entire voting apparatus is rigged if biden ekes out this little brick this time in victory with a couple of states that swing swing states where there is some suspicious ballot biden comes becomes president with with almost you know with very little the gentleman say and certainly no serious consensus so there will be no mandate for biden and this will last for 4 years which is very interesting situation politically for for the united states especially since the democrats failed to turn up for that for the house the house they lost apparently 5 seats and

the student senate is complete control the g.o.p. not to mention that the supreme court is ari a done deal so biden becomes a basically a lame duck for 4 years where. for the american public will consider him to be a fake president i don't think that a lot of the people that are dedicated to trumpet have worked so hard for israel's action including the you know hundreds of thousands of moves people have turned out to israel as of the last month are ready to let us go and so there is can be a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth over the next. 30 to 60 years old leading up to the to the end of the year absolutely so by him can't just say magic words that everybody recognize me as president let's go back to our normal lives be peaceful i don't think there's any chance that. pennsylvania is still counting votes to win could prove crucial trump one there in 2016 reversing a long run of democratic wins artist from the chavez has more now why the state

does swing between the tea party. pennsylvania with nearly 13000000 residents is arguably the single most important stage of the 2020 election but in many ways the keystone state mirrors the country while its rust belt is dotted with the 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 strong i guess that'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 frock it hard for a bargain is a virtue or if you're. for our care to deliver economic ruin. 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 dropped far different to happen to the president you know the people president get to have their sand if you have a shiny 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 and oil thing is going to be shut down in spite of what they say. $22016.00 loses actually won the popular vote and that is done to the country's electoral college system.

but my colleagues asked tyler did speak with representatives from america's the parties and it was harry and the greens and whether the current tea party domination gives 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 absent to pick up on something that was

just said to he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought pa to town to 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 when you look at public opinion polls majority of americans want a green new deal which is what the green party is for to do 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 we're only winner single member districts 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. for their own party so i think if we can

change the electoral system in place the electoral college with a national popular vote using 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 hawkins mentioned it's people for trump and people who hate trump that's what they're voting about and there they are strategically choosing one of the major parties bias not that they necessarily agree with the platforms of those parties and was that there is a lot of oh i pods criticism saying for a party i actually can create problems more problems and build and just wason the device and because that essentially is stealing quote you know votes 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 you know sometimes even less than a percentage point how would you react to people who say that if i had to choose we

want 21 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 their primaries. there's no local organization no local chapter

that already know you don't agree to a set of principles and to sort of join you just tell the state which party you are so the electorate is out of miers and disconnected from the political process. ok let's have a recap then on how things are looking right now in the presidential race joe biden currently has 264 electors donald trump there trails with 214 the 1st to 270 planes the prize now winning just one more state like nevada would victory to biden while trump in order to turn the tide would have to take all the remaining battleground states some like north carolina and pennsylvania aren't due to declare for some time.

now another news today england and greece are returning to lock downs in a bid to put a stop to surging cases england is reimposing 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 curfews from 10 pm and in germany new infection rates there grew by more than 20000 over the last 24 hours russia meanwhile registered more than 19000 new cases on wednesday there is a growing public anger though at the restrictions across europe with more on this his peter all of. we're 4 days into what's being called lockdown light here in germany angular 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 at 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 barge they're fine in justified partly i'm sad about the restaurants but overall i find the low down necessary for the money it's dark 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 like this 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's an op the. decision 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 christmas and the chronic conditions but it should not be a lonely christmas over the western border into france and there's of a very bleak picture being painted by statistics put forward by french health minister. and he says that one person in paris every 30 seconds this week of being 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 anti 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 levon the prime minister of sweden he says the city. may be needed in order to keep numbers down in that country in greece as strict new measures come into place and 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 the virus. of reporting and that brings you up to date but when you say fast i hear when i say we'll be back though of course with the latest on the u.s. election in about 30 minutes.

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shape out of disdain becomes agitated and in games from an equal to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i want to start today sure for the flexion on the passing of so sean connery screen legend the world's most famous scot the definitive bond demon golfer sean connery was all of these things and much much more to me he was

a loyal steadfast friend over more than 30 years but i took this show on some 23 years ago the pun passed in a really wanted to interview with sean connery and he readily agreed but suckin stances in health prevented that happening and the reason was that of all the interviews that shown that over the years all the things that were written about him only read one from the the scottish offer willie michael vanny which got course to capturing the essence of sean connery because this was not just a a great personality a great movie star this was a great human being a deeply deeply humanness funny ironic human being with great views on on life and everything else and never frightened to express them in my life i've been privileged to meet a few great people but only a few and one of these was was sean connery now in times to come will get the

opportunity to do a proper tribute to the show on but in the meantime for lady michelin and the family of condolences for the rest of us rode the world alight as dead and and no universe but it will shine on and our memories and hopes for the future good bye sean. this week in a screeching u. turn and in an apparently chaotic manner the johnson government and i just a new month long national lockdown in england starting to but this is a local town with a difference schools universities and key workplaces remain open hospitality house parties and holidays are forbidden elsewhere across these islands things are different wales is already a week into a much stricter 2 week low.