the russian prosecutor general's office says that germany has failed to answer any of its questions on the alleged poisoning about that scene, about only a probe into what happened to the opposition leader. meanwhile, the 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 count is truly show me version, i will be declared the winner. the candidates clash over ballot results. some republicans, even talking of fraud in the count. now we asked our panel of guests to what

conclusions they take from this election's vote count the speech and other words. so often. so if they want to stop becoming joke every night, you know what the big board our system is to work. we also say that in the united states constitution voting is never mentioned at all. hello there you're watching r.t. international this friday afternoon, 2 o'clock here in moscow. we will have the latest on the u.s. election in just a moment, but 1st, the russian prosecutor general's office says that germany has failed to provide a single response to its requests to investigate. the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy, the political activist, was allegedly poisoned in august in russia. so let's get more now from our correspondent there just explain them what is missing from the german response.

according to moscow, andrew, good afternoon. well, on the one hand, you may have expected russia's prosecutor general's office to get the details in abundance from the german side on all the research that was done with the valise, tests in all these weeks that led to the conclusion that he was poisoned by a nerve agent of the, navi cha group at the same time. judging by the reluctance of some european officials to share the information with russia. the expectations could have been that russia wasn't supposed to get anything while judging again by what? the statement from the office of the prosecutor general was saying they didn't get a single response to any of their answers, which according to the russian authority, leads to suspicion that the european officials don't have any willingness to

cooperate on this case. but it's up to work to determine authorities, wrote a response calling on russia to provide additional information on the investigation over the hospitalisation of alexina valmy. however, it's not a single question from the russian side has been answered. so they can this into account. it is clear that to date all requests by the russian prosecutor's office have not been mapped such a delay by our foreign colleagues is regrettable and leaves russian authorities with no approach a new t. to establish the circumstances of the incident. there were several other details mentioned in that statement by russia's police authorities. in particular, they are saying that the members of the blogger's team that were with the like, seen the volley in siberia are refusing to get in touch with the russian officials to tell their side of the story or help the investigation. then they're also saying

that the russian doctors actually found that he was in a state of aggravated pancreatitis, which could have been behind his state. and also, they're saying that, according to alexina volleys wife had to ration, and his health could have been due to some of the diets that he was undertaken. in any case, the russian officials are me sick, missing some of the key elements of the puzzle. and they are saying that they cannot continue their work without the details that they are really willing to get from the german side. and this was something that was echoed also by the statement from the russian foreign ministry. because indeed, what they keep on doing is they keep asking berlin to provide them with details and all the research that has been done. in the case of alexian of ali. actually there's the video. it is clear that berlin and other european capitals forget

international law. when it comes to russia and megaphone diplomacy is preferred to mutually respectful dialogue, said any objective analysis even without knowledge of applied chemistry and chemical nonproliferation issues, quite naturally gives the conclusion of a station amateur performance of his main aim is yet another show of sanctions. which stands firm against impose truce at the expense of national sovereignty international law and simple common sense. on thursday, germany's chancellor angela merkel once again reiterated that russia won't get anything from germany or european if, unless it is willing, helps to clear up the case. so it looks like we're in for another deadlock. and in the meantime, we also got reaction to the russian statement. the statement from russia's police from alexina vali who's, who pretty much laughed it off saying that they can talk about any kind of diseases

. but again, he's completely sure that he was poisoned by nerve agent. ok, thanks for trying to force what we can discuss is that because he's a martyr mccauley with us. now he's in russia and always grateful to have you on martin. what do you make of this latest installment from in the bounty saga? berlijn again, refusing to give any data to moscow. it's very, very interesting because you would have thought that berlin would have provided some information to the russian authorities to accelerate this process. but what they are doing is they're digging into heaton's, and they're saying that moscow has to come up with guns, it's 1st, they must engage in a very detailed investigation and provide their results. and then belin will look at who's and respond to them. and perhaps then, the key question of course,

is that they must do it like a simple weapon of a joke. agent which allegedly poisoned them out in the with the league, will not give that up until they're satisfied with the russian response. and we're in a situation now where if the russians say we concentrate, proceed because we don't have enough inclusion. and then berlin stays. yes. it's up to you. you have to provide the information because mitt romney was in one's control and he was in hospital and so on. and you need to do that because to gauge an adept and we're waiting for your results. so we're back in a situation with a 5051 side is saying we need information from you. another strategist think, no, we can't proceed until we receive information from you. yet. so where, where does that all stand on this martin? because we've heard from the russians that they believe that germany and others breaching international law by withholding this information. well,

international law is very contentious because they depends on your interpretation of the terms of the temptation will reach national legal system. and germany in turn interprets international law through the spectrum of german law and illegal unlicensed collector leadership. and i presume that in. ready russia, it's 00 granada's as i realized through perception and through the prism of russian law. so therefore, we have, in fact, a situation where the russians are saying, according to our analysis, according to our now here i was down even more. you have to give this information, but then the, the germans say, no, we don't, because our interpretation is different. they don't stated in such bold, direct language. but he said, indirectly, the crime alleged trying to take place in russia. therefore, isn't the onus on russia to investigate and isn't it right to ask for information from others if they have it?

yes, the prosecutor general says we have an engaged in investigation. the police has it investigated, but they are short of information. who do they consult? how do you get the information? because apparently those involved with the not willing to step forward and be reviewed by the russian police and the russian prosecutor general's office. so from a russian point of your address difficult, because if they can't interfere in those associated those who are with the value at that time, why he was what he was poisoned, allegedly poisoned. it's very difficult to see how the russians work is complete. because these people are around the family, they are the key people and they must have information which you refer to are relevant in this investigation. if you are innocent until proven guilty, generally speaking around the world, but hey, we have a situation where brusha has been accused again,

of poisoning about only know the chalk is what's being used, but no evidence to back it up. it's just that word. yes. and then various other european countries also had samples of the no joke agent. and they say it is, it belongs in a number to a group and so on. but of course, they will not reveal that will not give a shit or that knowledge or cajun, because the german authorities will then be afraid of the russians and say, well this is not a sample of what we've been given. is not a sample of the never looking to something completely different than the really don't want to get into that situation. they've decided not to supply russia with a vital sample of note of not joking because they say that we're going to hold it back until we're satisfied that your investigation. the russian investigation has been in depth and has not come up with the answer that would satisfy us and then we will pass along to you

a sample of the mojo gauge and so it's stalemate at the moment. we can say martina was nice until it was martin according to russian analysts. thank you. ok, well let's turn to the u.s. election, which does continue to be on a knife edge with the vote counting resuming in key states, joe biden. that looks the more likely to win at this stage, although there have been further accusations of fraud from the camp a more threats of legal action. so there has been 3 days since the election and counting does continue in battleground states, nevada, georgia, pennsylvania, alaska, and north carolina,

have still to announce the results. so this is how things are standing at the moment. joe biden has $264.00 electors, if you include arizona, which some say is too early to call. if it does go blue though he will need just 6 more electoral votes to reach the 270 required for a victory. donald trump, on the other hand, currently stands on 214, but it is a very close race. still, both candidates have close gaps in different battleground states. overnight in pennsylvania, from its lead over biden, there has shrunk to barely 18000 votes. while in nevada, the former vice president is leading by less than one percent and then in georgia biden has taken the lead by just over votes. we're not talking many at all with 99 percent of the ballot counted. incidentally, the democratic candidate hasn't won that state in decades. meanwhile, the race in north carolina is too close to call at the moment. so let's look then

at the possible routes to victory for both these candidates. trump has more of an uphill task. he has to win for the battleground states here, excluding arizona, which we mentioned earlier, as being called a biden. however, the former vice president needs one more swing state to win the white house, groups of biden and from supporters gathered outside the tabulation sites. me mon and georgia and pennsylvania on thursday, trump supporters to question counts that favor joe biden, following the president's claims of fraud in the voting process. biden backers, a calling for every fact to be counted, and the candidates have clashed on the issue. if you count the legal votes, i easily win. if you count the illegal, 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. senior correspondent mark asked them to discuss the tension in the country at the moment with mickey elections in the united states, that they're always something of a show for the entire nation. but this, this year, in particular, they seem to have outdone themselves. you know,

it's turned into this petty, acrimonious, dirty slogan, democracy sometimes messy, sometimes requires a little patience as well. but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance, and the envy of the world. well, the envy of the world, perhaps in days long gone now with endless government, shutdowns, all the political violence, the bureaucracy, partisanship, the polarization division, ed, you know, a health care system and pandemic response that has, frankly been worldwide embarrassment. i wouldn't say perhaps envy of the world is the right phrase. if you're in the united states, you just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote. while you show up at the polling station, and they'll turn you right around and tell you to go and register 1st,

except you have to register 2 to 4 weeks in a drugs, depending on the state, you know, different procedures everywhere. and to register you have a say you have to have a special id card which not everyone has so far. ok, you were well prepared. you did it, you, you went and registered next you've, you've got to get time off work either that because in the united states, whereas in europe, voting is always inside ever would free everyone to go vote in the united states on days a jewish holiday. and they would make it a national holiday voting day. so you have to go to wednesday. for example, you have to ask your boss for some time off work which you may not hear. now there's a pandemic. it is dangerous. it is literally dangerous to go and stand in huge lines of people with the very little social distancing you mail. you have of you mail your vote, as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and it's lost. 150000 votes have been confirmed soo far lost in this election and

they're still counting there. this potentially tens and tens of thousands more in an election as close as this where every vote matters. they've lost soo many already. ok let's, let's just, let's just presume everything's going fine. you came prepared, you registered early. busy you got and lied when you said your vote didn't get lost . and now your president is saying that you've is potentially for dell and democratic officials never believed they could win this election. honestly, i really believe that. that's why they did the mail in ballots with 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 or even determine whether they're eligible or it was a vote of. it is a nation divided more now than it has been in living memory. the level of polarize

ation and division. political division in the united states is tearing the country apart and it isn't doing anyone any favors. everybody understands what is happening in america, but there is very little, you know, that nobody's willing to take the extra step to understand the other side. everybody wants things done their way and that this is being repeated across the country. protests, violence, political violence, allowable to get beaten, stabbed because of the color of the had that you're wearing the slogan, a new t. shirt. and this is, this is being seen worldwide. this is new, but he's envious of these in europe, they're saying look, we simply can't afford in content out europe to become as divided and as polarized as the united states. 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. well, the billing in america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture. we know from the united states. it's important, the result is the accepted by everyone. it's easy to be a winner, but sometimes it's hard to be a loser. at the end of the day, the how close this election is how close the vote is. well, that allows both candidates a lot of leeway, both claiming that they're with a part to victory, that they're winning, but will be contested. lawsuits of being fired off like firecrackers by trump, especially the this election will be cadets and drama said that, you know, this will only end in the supreme court. well, despite the warning of legal action, several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported. international observers have also said that the ballot proceeded lawfully. they have slammed on trump's allegations of fraud, saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions. human rights lawyer,

headaches wrote, 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 operation a 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's 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 we'll have a president elect while the yet can't, has been particularly complex. in this contest, in the has been a sharp rise in male, inventing, driven by the pandemic america. discuss the contentious issues thrown up by this election. i 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, i want to continue county to get a good concrete standard for that. and as well as after show be re holder in 2014, we've had a diluted voting rights. we need to move the ministries,

records of who the president is, be authorized to make things that the 5 border guards at the have national standards. only lurch and cut 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. let 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 will 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 older. stand out for a little moment. you find yourself getting angry. a bit of the down old man who realize that for every school call understanding that there's 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 for the project since, since we are 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 in 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 the course or disagree with that idea or still buy tickets or rather this term? i think it's important that he does because he is a throwback to the era politics when 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 the main. 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 already was 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 covert setting up the 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, are 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 presidency. i mean, the uncomfortable position of being a member, trump, or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated. hope see, is defeated and yet finds himself 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, don't trust, been a good president, but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. now wrangling on the election has overshadowed another heated race taking place in the country. both parties are still grappling for seats in congress. now, in the days ahead of the vote, democrats did spend large sums of money campaigning in the attempt to make both the house and the senate blue. however, they haven't done as well as they had hoped. the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats, but the results still trickling in 218 seats are needed to win

a majority here. and so far we can see the democrats on $208.00 and the republicans with $193.00, some experts to calculate that the blue majority will be thinner this year, and so far they have, they are down at least 6 incumbents. now there's also a tussle. 2 for the senate, we can have a look at that over here. democrats need to gain 4 seats to flip control of the upper house, although it looks increasingly unlikely, as the republicans have 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 trump. and 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 tracking 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 expire extension. you want to have republicans, of course, staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. ok, before we go, let's have a quick look then at the numbers in this presidential race, democratic nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes leaving him just 6 short of the president. say donald trump has 214 biden, is currently holding a narrow valley in the traditionally red state, georgia, and he's slightly ahead in nevada. meanwhile,

trump is making gangs in pennsylvania. and of course it will stay across all of the developments. as the counting continues. you can save someone's life if you die, the small and direct means saved on the painting that you can then save your thousands of other lives. well, my response is that the way we should think about that is just is that just as there's a child in a store experiment.