one. star of a. 6 6 race for the white house heats up between joe biden and donald trump in battleground states with results yet to be called 3 days after the election. if you count the legal votes easily when the recount is truly surely person i would be declared the winner should be counted as clash over her leave ballots results with some republicans even talking hold and recount. we all stop panel of guests what conclusions they take from this election's vote count disputes and other incidents of. service so if they want to stop because all the other states want to continue tell me it's a joke every night after night after night except when i watch the big board our system is the worst we also say that in the united states constitution voting is

never mentioned at all but welcome to see international this friday i'm mickey aaron and you're watching our special coverage of the 20 twentieth's u.s. presidential election it's certainly been a nail biter as vote counting with viewed in key states to decide the outcome of this election the choice hangs in the balance with just a few states left to call on both candidates claiming bell sees the white house. it's been 3 days since the election and counting continues in battleground states to determine the next u.s. president nevada georgia pennsylvania alaska and carolina all yet to be called

let's take a closer look at how things stand joe biden has 264 electors if you include arizona which some say is too early to call if it does go blue it will need 6 more electoral votes to reach the 270 victory donald trump on the other hand currently stands at 214 it's a close race with both candidates closing gaps in different battleground states overnight and pennsylvania a chance leads biden has shrunk to barely 22000 votes while in nevada on the west coast the former vice president is leading by less than one percent in georgia there's a virtual tie with less than $500.00 votes and the race in north carolina is so far also too close to call well let's look at the pathways to power for both candidates a chance facing a narrow road to victory he will have to win 4 of the battleground states excluding arizona which we mentioned earlier has been called by some media for biden

meanwhile the former vice president needs only to come just one more swing state. a group of biden on trump supporters have gathered outside votes type relations sites in georgia and pennsylvania on thursday from supporters question counts that favored joe biden following the president's claims of fraud in the voting process buy them back as are calling for every votes to be counted because it have clashed on the issue. if you count the illegal votes by easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from us in america voters sacred. it's how people of this nation express their will. and it is the will of the voters no one not anything else that chooses the president of united states of america this tremendous litigation going on and this is a case where they're trying to steal an election they're trying to rig an election

each ballot must be counted. and that's what we're going to see going through now and that's how it should be our goal is to defend the integrity of the election and will not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election for that matter it's a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they aren't. i'm now joined by r.t. is it senior correspondent mark downstairs in the studio thanks for coming in morris now the u.s. political elite really prides itself on its democratic system with everything that's going on does that now appear to have glitches which you say. you know at this point it is undeniably a spectacle a shoe and not a very good but there i mean the officials there are saying so themselves let's be fair the united states election is one of most important in the world you know there's a lot riding on this is a huge country are 160000000 votes that need to be counted and of course

we must understand there's all sorts of laws different laws in different states which make it all very complicated huge geographic area nevertheless sue far they have you know objective really made a mess of things. democracy is sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as world but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance the envy of the world. it's been the envy of the of the world perhaps a century ago a lot has changed since then pretty sure people and then because of having your government shut down at regular intervals because the 2 sides there's a 2 party system can't agree on the most mundane things the find script and how much to help people within the middle of a pandemic flood health care system that is statistically collapsed top infection

rate in the world in the middle of a pandemic the most deaths in the world in the middle again of a pandemic there are all sorts of failures with with the way that the government is run the racism the systemic endemic racism throughout the united states which which is you know spawned huge riots protests the violence look let's talk here about the election joe biden says that that is you know the system that the united states uses the envy of the world you're a voter or you want to do is exercise your constitutional right to go and you know cast your vote for a president that is going to go in to lead your country so you show up at the polling station well too bad you have to register in advance in most states you have to register 2 to 4 weeks in advance with in many cases id cards that not everyone has so you have to have a special id card to register especially for the vote. to to eventually go and vote

and if you don't vote for a while they'll cross you off the list and you'll have to do it all over again this is a very is there is that problem if you god forbid you were found with a joy to you stole something when you were a student in many states. that's it that's your voting rights god even after you're out of jail you have to write a special petition so ok you're not a criminal right you just want to exercise a constitutional right to the polling station in the united states voting days and the national holiday it is a national and it's not on sunday because that's a jewish holiday religious hold so it's journeying the week sometime during the week and it's not a national all the so you have to do early in the morning before you know huge lines before work or you can go off to work and brave the huge lines with no guarantee that you actually get into the. get to vote before before the polling

station closes so so far you are law abiding citizen you are sensible person middle of a pandemic you decide to mail your ballot in mail it in the huge in the mail system is you know completely swamped with letters with ballots. and it's lost 150000 confirmed lawsuits already already and there still counts you know could be potentially hundreds of thousands more and this is an election as tight as this 100150000 votes confirmed last 25 you know you you've braved the gauntlet you've done all of that you've registered you're not a criminal you're your letter got in and your president now says that your letter is for del and shouldn't be counted. democratic officials never believe they could win this election honestly i really believe that that's why they did the mail in ballots where this tremendous corruption and fraud going on that's

why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is even determine whether they're eligible or should go to the. you know booth's both sides of the good can see they're both claiming that they're on the path to victory that they're the ones that are winning. and you know that the press the media's completely split is completely divided and entirely partisan the press in the united states fox news republican c n n m a m s n b c you know right in the democrat who was. doesn't matter so you have all these states which is why it's taking so long to count and every state aside from having different requirements to registered on how you vote they count their votes differently you know they have different timetables different systems and the reason to single the mechanism to count votes in the united states it's up to each

individual state 50 different states. you're a monitor you're a monitor you want to go and you know monitor how the votes are being counted now we we're hearing about republicans being barred by democrats from from monitoring the election again different rules for different states people are suing each other left and right trump veyron off lawsuits like like firecrackers fired the monitors didn't get in international monitors and about 50 observers there to watch the entire election 160000000 votes a huge country the violence as well god forbid you were standing in that line you wearing the wrong color and had to add the wrong slogan a new shirt somebody comes up and stabs you for hits you for people stabbed near the white house on election day the level of zation in the united states the division is easy. and seen in living memory and this is this is

what the europeans are saying you know we're seeing what's happening in the united states and we must do everything possible to make sure that that sort of division that sort of chaos doesn't come to europe. but the polarization of america should be a warning for europe we are successful because we preach differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise our democracies are in danger at the end of the day let's be fair the united states does have a very open election system a lot of people are you know they have the ability to voice their opinion they have the ability to cast their ballot there are problems it is it isn't the worst system in the world by far but neither is it the best neither is it the envy of the entire world and in this election it still isn't over it's been

a 3rd day now they're still counting the votes the one thing we knew is that it could get even worse even worse than it is already despite all the violence all the protests and that is if it is so clues that both sides and they've laid the groundwork for this with all the average of all the noise that they're making could contest it could contest it and we knew that americans are incredibly polarized incredibly nervous nerves frayed everybody's very passionate about who gets into the white house everybody wants their side to win so how this will end how this lead and whether the both candidates will call on their supporters that to take to the streets streets god forbid and you know try to resolve this in a different in a less civilized way well it remains to be seen. a looks think about that thanks for coming in but despite the warning of legal action several election commissions

in america have insisted that every valid ballot was counted and accurately reported international observers have also said the vote proceeded lawfully they've slammed donald trump's allegations of fraud think it damages public trust in democratic institutions. human rights lawyer erik civil rights can believe the president will fight tooth and nail to stay in the oval office i think it's there are advantages and disadvantages to a extended legal. battle if you will i think that yes if the matter is not resolved by inauguration day that seems to be to create a constitutional crisis in the united states however if the supreme court is quite aware of when an operational day they set their briefing schedules they will eventually irrigates that will. and will issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life he knows he's going to be prosecuted criminally when

he's released from the presidency and if not he wants to stay on this is very personal to him however the supreme court can hear the matter and hear in a quick way but i wouldn't be surprised if they want to throw that kind of curveball into it and make everyone have to hold their breath and be plugged into the drama into january but i suspect that the matter will move much quicker and i believe that it will have the president elect. accounts being particularly complex in this contest there's been a shop rise of mail in voting driven by pandemic restrictions i see america's guests discuss the main issues to take from this election.

look at what the prison is doing legally the places they're trying to intercede and serve and so if they want to stop the county other states want to continue county to get a concrete standard for that and as well as after show be read holder in 2014 who had alluded voting rights we need to end this mystery for goertzel who the president is the authorized to make things that the 5 voting rights are to have national standards only legends cover republican we're fighting against that since the late eighty's and the what i was saying that metastasized into this year's election now i don't know what about that why don't we have one uniform federal law that says when you're voting for president maybe put it on a separate take it i'm not sure how this will work but why don't we have one federal law for that the question is what you're asking is a great question there's a better question to which i think transcends that why is it in the year 2020 when we can map of the genome we still have this archaic system which i think speaks to something which is which makes it right and right if for any kind of shenanigans we

know so much about how the votes can be stolen we had terrible days of poll taxes and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst to me also say that in the united states constitution voting is never mentioned at all there's hardly anything new selectors and that sort of thing they never got around to it so the question we have to ask is how is that right now that we see that we have something as archaic and as stupid as it. seems i think is really it's gotten him if this is not the donald trump that we're used to this is not the same fire and brimstone have bob how do you take it down to one degree. if it will say it was embarrassing it was the sad final chapter to a set chapter in american history that something you want here. on an internet war we're looking it's a choice you want broken to beat him cards that almost everything you said in that

speech was a lot it's all those little moments you find yourself getting angry a bit of the. whole call or understanding that there is no pair. would you want joe biden to drive you home from the airport let me just talk about something right now we could put all this is side this is this says either something about is good or bad when we have a man but i'm not even sure knows where he is and he is most probably what we see is correct going to be sworn in as the president and i further predict since since we're predicting he will serve my term shorter than william henry harrison of $31.00 days when kamel harris will be removed immediately something will happen joel will maybe perhaps that aneurism god forbid something will pop up maybe coded maybe 8 maybe senescence but he will be moved because if you think of anybody

thinks that joe biden is going to be if he is the he is the intended get it and you think that well my friends happy birthday cause you were born yesterday robert can you respond to that do you think that there is a likely i've heard from a lot of people on both sides who they all seem to believe that biden will not serve his entire 1st term and i hear from democrats who say that the time with me i hear from republicans who say it would be a scandal but i've heard very few people disagree with that idea do you disagree with. of course i disagree with that idea or still by the term i think it's important that he does because he's a throwback to the era oh that's what we were not governing in a 51 to 49 country where we were we have bipartisan agreement would be a big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon we won cold war 2 we liberated western civilization that's what america used to do when we worked across party lines.

this is a sham the fix is in the fix he's been in from the beginning all these states so you know just going around the voter and changing the voting rules claiming that it's because of kovi setting up this scenario where you think they can't finish counting the votes in georgia or north carolina or whatever they're just they're just waiting they're coordinating with the biden people and they're just waiting to see how they're going to do this we all know it's a joke every night after night after that i sit there and i watch the big boards you know whether it's on c.n.n. or wherever it is and guess why the numbers more votes of come in in this state more votes have come in in that state and guess what biden picked up close trumps lead is evaporating what a surprise this is really a travesty what you guys say is the actual role of the press in these elections i mean aren't we supposed to be be observers of the process because these

days it does seem like the media wields so much power that it could actually steer perception steer the public's and ultimately steer the election itself then. yeah absolutely you know we're supposed to be in the media the observer the impartial observer we're not supposed to be influenced or in this case we've moved even past that to become the decider in fact i were in the arena is full combatants this is something almost unique to the trump presidency i mean the uncomfortable position of being a member trump or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hopes. use defeated and yet find themselves very sympathetic to the president when he complains about the media because steve is right my friend steve is right the president has got an unfair shake from this media and i think it's all people out there like me who don't think doll terms but a good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. wrangling on the elections overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of

the vote democrat spent large sums on campaigning in an attempt to paint both the house and senate blue all that although did not happen the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats all their results are still trickling in 218 seats are needed to win a majority so far we can see the democrats on $218.00 republicans with $193.00 some experts calculate the blue majority will be thinner this year so far they're down to at least 6 incumbents there's also a tussle for the senate democrats need to gain 4 seats to flip control of the upper house it looks increasingly unlikely as the republicans already won 48 seats and have been leading in 3 of the remaining 4 races to get to 50 election integrity activist and independent journalist nico house told us why the so-called blue wave promised by democrats didn't happen. that stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candidates that i thought could beat trump which

would include gabbert bernie sanders and i would even argue andrew yang those aren't the ones who are allowed to go up against wrong in the moment that they selected the one of the male democrat in joe biden who's basically been by our standards a republican who is pro fact fracking just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on foreign policy than trump then you are setting the stage for walk a fine we'll go wall half the vote in support base awful party lines because that's seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on and by that extra extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. democratic nominee joe biden's notched up 264 electoral votes leaving him just sick shy of the president say donald trump has 214 both candidates have a chip virtually tied in georgia biden is leading slightly and nevada is ahead in

pennsylvania across the latest results as the counting continues. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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protests on the very 1st night of new anti coded lockdown measures demonstrators against the restrictions were arrested in financial london. thanks thanks. thanks thanks thanks thank you thank you thank you. the most long measures were announced after the country passed a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases all restaurants bars a nonissue and sensual non-essential shops are now closed people must stay at home and work with moat where possible however educational facilities it remain open meanwhile manchester university students have destroyed lock down fences around the

facilities that there's anger that classes have moved to online only despite expensive to ation fees there were several arrests in the nearby city of liverpool where people have rallied against the fresh lockdown growing numbers one they can no longer feed their family under the restrictions. boxer shorts on the business i'm worried about the kids shorten people's personal start of in the future i want to be inside says she's right i'm going to do my best to stay ok and i'm fine which i mean it's coming and i believe that the whole lot don't use illegal anyway thanks for your answer to the control of my job ray she would be in control distance for us. it would. be assuming nato member states for an alarming rise in counts of victims follows the military blocks mass use of incredibly toxic depleted uranium as a bombing of the country in 1999 council rates have more than doubled but nato's

chief insists depleted uranium bombing long term is perfectly healthy. we didn't know then that it was you raining my munition nobody knew that it's those of us who came back alive thought we were healthy off to recovering from the problem started and no one knew why. is this not what i meant i saw people vomiting would just have problems they had psychological issues. even the initial symptoms you might see in movies about hiroshima like a radioactive disease. but this is because these are primarily cases of people who were stationed in kosovo and metohija after 51020 years they fell ill with cancer we know that the uranium

dust that formed in those places around southern serbia has killed people who live there or weren't there during the war it's. 2002 i had an operation of my stomach so i have an incision from here to here fortunately the tumour was benign but when i spoke with cardiologists they said it probably caused my heart issues. but once the questions on this depleted uranium issue many times including in serbia we had independent assessment and they concluded there was no loss of income damage. this is a proposal to ban that ammunition and for nato states to compensate the damage done to citizens with very illegal aggression we do not deal with politics we represent clients to get them compensated above all those suffering today who fought in the

war in southern serbia those who are getting sick and die. from something their children will also get it's urgently out that the us wants to. thank you for joining us here on our international will be back shortly with all the latest on the u.s. presidential election.

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