2020 u.s. presidential elections. closing in on the white house. get. away from the democrats on the republicans discuss the lack of real alternative to the libertarians and the green. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are consistently get high enough to win

a national election we have. encouraged people to vote. and england is reimposing restrictions. in germany and a big. case is that it has left many europeans angry. in my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different. if you have no savings or support. and of course. the u.s. election with some key states still being counted. now 2 days on from the election 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 on the streets.

well in terms of numbers things at the moment are looking pretty good for the democrats and he has the backing of 264. 6 more to reach the magic 273. 214 so let's look at the possible path for both. biden in particular she curing a majority in. 6 electors which is enough to put him in the white house 4 more years of the incumbent president to win all 5 states where the result isn't yet. in 4 of them excluding. nothing is. more involved than this you can

see it's incredibly tight there with 14 percent of the vote still to be counted that is being done right now and we do expect to. an official update that in about couple of at this time. the campaign has filed pennsylvania maciek and demanding that absentee ballots which arrived after the election day itself should not be included the president has questioned my own ballots counted last week. into the lead. a michigan holtz's have been rallying outside election centers demanding that those shouldn't be counted while democrats have been have taken to the streets proclaiming every ballot. right.

ok. through having been filed and other legal challenges likely to even if it is declared today seems many going to accept the result for some time with more on the societal splits his. democrat candidate joe biden is very close to that threshold but the winner has not been 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

crum 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 call 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 at 4 o'clock in the morning in them to the list and. 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 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 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 count like here in detroit but. beyond. odd to. 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 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

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 well despite the legal action being threatened several election commissions in america insist that every ballot that was valid votes counted and

accurately reported international observers have said that the vote did go according to the law and have slammed president trump's allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions now the editorial director of the of the american institute for economic research jeffrey albert tucker does believe if biden does win half of the americans won't consider him the president. my read of the situation on the ground is that. probably for more of republicans think this is the entire voting apparatus is rigged if biden ekes out this little brick this time in victory with a couple of states their swing swing states where there is some suspicious ballot biden comes becomes president with with on 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 lame duck for 4 years where you know 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 last month are ready to let us go and so there's can be a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth over the next. 30 to 60 years old and 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. now and both are 202016 elisa's actually won the popular vote and that is down to the country's electoral college system. my colleagues asked taylor did speak with representatives from america's 3rd parties the libertarians and the greens on whether the current 2 party domination 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 to him he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought party town today that's right it's kind of spec like even $4849.00 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 do with the climate crisis get the economy going to. majority of americans want medicare for all in both the democrats and republicans oppose those houses the problem is that our electoral system. we have we're only 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 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 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 i pods criticism saying for a 3rd party actually can create problems more problems and build and just wason the

device and because that essentially 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 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 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 their primaries there's no local organization. no local chapter that already know you don't agree to a set of principles and they do sort of join you just tell the state which party you're in so the electorate is out of mars and disconnected from the political process ok let's go back to the election and the current state of affairs because pennsylvania is one of the king tri key 5 states still counting votes and the results could prove to be crucial trump won there in 2016 reversing a long run a democrat wins but can he do it again will artie's trinity chavez has more now on why the state does swing between the 2 parties. 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 it's 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 stronger i guess it's extreme wing you're right. both candidates focusing on pennsylvania president trunk 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 barges averred to offer your jobs for our kids and 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 trapes right of what will happen to

the president he knows that people are pressuring gets out there saying if you haven't or she 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 out of spite of what they say. let's have a recount then the current polls in the presidential race joe biden concrete has 264 electors donald trump trials with 214 the magic number that they need is 276 claim the prize and it does mean winning just one more state like nevada would hand victory to biden while trump in order to turn the tide would have to take all

of the remaining battleground states like north carolina and pennsylvania. some time yet. in other news tonight england and greece are returning to lock downs in a bid to put a stop to cases england's 3 imposing restrictions following the leads of france and germany in order to slow down the spread france is currently reporting more than 40000 new cases a day italy is introducing overnight curfews and in germany new infections there grow by more than 20000 over the last 24 hours russia meanwhile registered more than 19000 new cases on wednesday but

a return to the restrictions in europe is not winning favor with those who once again find themselves living under lockdown peter all of explains. 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 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 part of the i phone 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 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 a christmas on 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 11 the prime minister of sweden who says the city. may be needed in order to keep numbers down in that country in greece this 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 there 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 the 2nd wave of the virus. thanks for all of that thanks for the company the saving thing forget you can keep across all what's happening in the u.s. let should adopt. c.z.

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still in question and really it seems like it's too close to call but it's one joins us he's going to walk us through then what do we have ok several reserved out now with some breaking news before we get into the numbers and the states of what's happening because apparently the trump campaign has filed 2 lawsuits in just the last hour one in the state of pennsylvania and one in the state of michigan in both cases they are asking judges to halt the count here's what they're saying president campaign says it is suing to temporarily stop the vote count in pennsylvania what are they saying they're saying that the democratic election officials are hiding the ballot counting process from republican poll observers and that the campaign wants to temporarily halt the counting until there is meaningful transparency and republicans going to sure all counting is done above board and by law meanwhile in the state of michigan another lawsuit has been filed within the last hour in that case the same thing the campaign claims that republican poll watchers have not been

granted access to polling locations where votes are being counted they say that michigan law requires this to happen so in both cases they are trying to halt the. count in again pennsylvania and in michigan that is the very latest also in the last hour the state of wisconsin has gone into joe biden's column for the presidency now this according to the associated press that's 10 electoral votes they go to biden putting him right now at our count as 248 donald trump with 214 electoral votes so obviously a lot going on here again the associated press projected that with 95 percent of the vote really a little more than $29000.00 votes that joe biden has won the state of wisconsin so a big win for biden there it's maybe what prompted the trump campaign to step up and attempt to block the counting in those other states but let's take a look at the map here and see what else is going on because in georgia the secretary of state says they will get their numbers today they say by the end of

the day today and then they'll be off everybody's radar right now president trouble .