next. battleground america the democrats put one foot in the door of the white house after 3. set to become the 46th u.s. presidents a speech states in the edge closer to and i'm saying their results. if you count the illegal votes easily win mccown distribution or version i will be declared the winner. could still be a bumpy road ahead listening to that as both candidates clash over ballot results in the republican camp claiming the kind has been flawed you learnt. to announcing the president does raise questions about yourself especially mail in ballots amidah

. we hear from commentators on the key issue. so that says they want to stop the. joke every night. 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 and also to russia's top judge germany has failed to answer any questions over the. opposition in the family. the incident which happened back in all. international this friday afternoon and our coverage of the u.s. election where counting in key states continues.

well the contest for the white house could actually be over in the coming hours with democrat joe biden looking ever more likely to be declared the winner has been 3 days since the election and attention is on the handful of states where counting does continue we're still waiting for crucial results in the georgia and also pennsylvania as it stands though this is how it looks joe biden has $264.00 electors if you include arizona which some do say is too early to call but if you assume these one it is 6 electoral votes short of $270.00 required for victory. on the other hand currently stands at 214 but that said it remains a very tight race both candidates have closed gaps in different battleground states

over night in pennsylvania and the father the former vice president is leading by less than one percent and in georgia biden has taken the lead by just over a 1000 votes with 99 percent of the ballot they're counted incidentally a democrat hasn't won that state in decades meanwhile the race in north carolina is pretty close and close to call at the moment so what does all of this mean more trump has more of an uphill fight if he wants to stay in the white house he has to win all of the battleground states excluding arizona which we mentioned earlier as being called by some media for biden however the former vice president needs secure only one more swing state victory said it could be plenty of legal battles to follow and this clashing again on the results that have come out so far. if you count the legal votes easily won and if you count the illegal votes.

and 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 real will of the voters no one not anything else that chooses the president of united states for 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 will not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election for that matter is a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they aren't. wealthy senior correspondent not a cast they have to discuss the tension in the country at the moment with and carol . the u.s. really does pride itself on its democratic system does for now appear to have

glitches with everything that's going on i would say at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the united states the there are always something of a shoe for the entire nation but this this year in particular they seem to have outdone themselves you know it's turned into this. moony is dirty slaw go to market see sometimes messy sometimes requires a little patience is world but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance 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 health care system and pandemic response that has frankly been

a 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 advance 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 will 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 it is always on sunday everyone's free everyone who vote in the united states sunday is a jewish holiday and they would make it a national holiday voting day so you. have to get to wednesday for example you have to ask your boss for some time off work which you may not give now there's

a pandemic it is dangerous it is literally dangerous to good sound and huge lines of people with the very little social distancing you mail you vote you will you 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 the there's potentially tens and tens of thousands more even election as clues as this where every vote matters they've lost so many already ok let let's just let's just presume everything's going fine you came prepared you registered early you got and lied when you said your vote didn't get lost now your president is saying that you've moved this potentially for dell and democrat officials never believe 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 bella's they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether they're eligible or it was a voter 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 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 in and that this is being would repeated across the country protests violence political violence you lovell to get beaten stabbed because of the color of the had that you were wearing the slogan a new t. shirt and this is this is big. worldwide this is nobody's envious of these in europe they're saying look we simply can't afford and can't allow europe to become

as divided as polarized as the united states 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. 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 on the part of victory that they're winning but will be contested lawsuits of fire being fired off like firecrackers by by trump especially the this election will be condensed interim self said that you know this is a lonely and in the supreme court despite the warning of legal action over several

election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported international observers have also said that the ballots proceed lawfully i have slammed donald trump's allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions human rights lawyer herrick's rockin believes the president they 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 schedule z. 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 it will have the president elect has a been hammering at them account has been particularly complicated in this contest and it has thrown up many contentious issues. discussed some of them. 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 want to continue tell me 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 border guards at the have national standards only legends recovery public them are fighting against that since they like these and they would i would say 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 this 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 but he 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. he 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 and bob how did 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 older step for a little moment you find yourself getting angry a bit of the. ringback whole call understanding that there is no pair or. what you want joe biden to drive you home from the airport let me just talk about something right now when you put all this is side to says 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 are predicting he will serve one term shorter than william henry harrison of $31.00 days when common irish 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 thanks when we were not governing your me 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 oh there was a 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 has 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 ever 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 without a surprise this is really a travesty what would you guys say is the actual role of the press in these elections i mean aren't we supposed to be the 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. 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 past that to become the decider in fact i were in the arena for combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i'm in the position of being a never trapper's somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hopes to 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 good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media wrangling over the election has actually overshadowed another heated race in the country at the moment both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the democrats did spend

large sums of money campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and or so the senate doesn't appear to have happened the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still coming in however some experts to calculate the blue majority will actually be finished this year and so far they are down by at least 6 incumbents 218 seats in need to win a majority and so far the democrats are on 208 and the republicans have 193 there's also a tussle for the senate democrats still need to gain 4 seats to flip control of the although it does not look likely is the republicans have already won 48 seats and have been leading in 3 of the remaining 4 races to get to 50 so that's the race for seats in congress meanwhile in the presidential race the blue wave that many were predicting has failed to materialize although joe biden is on course for victory at this stage the contest has been much closer than forecast election integrity

activist and independent journalist nico house told us why. that stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candy that i thought could be trumped 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 it's by extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. so reminded then of the numbers in this presidential race democratic

nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes leaving him just 6 short of the presidency donald trump has 214 biden currently has a narrative in the missional red states of georgia. and he's all syslog he heads in nevada meanwhile we're also hearing today that biden has now taken the lead in pennsylvania of course will stay across all of the developments as the results coming. in.

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hello again i russia has sent a 5th request to germany for data on the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy comes as a spokesperson for russia's top judge claim that the german side has so far failed to give any meaningful response the political activist was allegedly poisoned back in august in siberia. as more. on the one hand if we look back at how the most senior e.u. officials treated the alike saying of ali case perhaps we should have expected much from berlin's response to the official request from russia but then on the other hand if you think about what if surprise surprise that reply ended up containing details in abundance on all 'd the tests that were undertaken with

a like saying the volley well now the russian officials are saying that they do have that message from germany which literally contains 0 answers to all the questions that were put forward by the russian side which according to moscow is an indication that germany's still unwilling to cooperate on the matter that it's up to work to be german authorities wrote a response cohen on russia to provide additional information on the investigation over the hospitalisation of alexina valmy however not a single question from the russian side has been concert so you can listen to account it is clear that to date requests by the russian prosecutor's office have not been met such a delay by our foreign colleagues is regrettable and leaves russian authorities with no opportunity to study the circumstances of the incident. now to some other key points of that statement by the russian police they're saying that none of the members of the bloggers team that were with the like seen

a volley in siberia are willing to get in touch or meet the russian authorities plus in that statement it's being reminded that the russian doctors didn't find any traces of poisoning and the blogger's body and also that cording to the doctors and some chronic illnesses could have led to that charge ration of his health in fact they're also reminding that the russian doctors found a like scene of ali in a state of aggravated pancreatitis in any case the bottom line from russia's law. authorities is that they can't move on in their investigation without the details that they are requesting from berlin and this is something that was also echoed and that keeps being echoed by the statements from the russian foreign ministry 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 so any objective analysis even without knowledge of applied chemistry and chemical nonproliferation issues quite naturally gives the conclusion of a station amateur performances 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 so it looks like we're in for another deadlock with a vague response or as the russian police authorities put it a completely useless response from the german side and if we look back at what angola merkel once said that russia pretty much wouldn't get anything unless it is willing to clear up the issue in the meantime anti-crime all activists alexina vali has laughed off the statement by the russian authorities he pretty much said hey guys what else are you going to find in my body up until august 20th was absolutely

healthy. so just to remind you of the timeline of this very complicated story where the like scene of ali the opposition activist was traveling from siberia to moscow on a plane when he fell severely elp the pilots went for an emergency landing to save his life then the doctors and were fighting for a like scene of all these live he was then moved up on the request of his family to berlin for treatment and then we heard from european officials that alexei the volley was poisoned by a nerve agent of the novacek group russia wants proof of that but as the officials in moscow are saying they're not getting any up until this point. will political analyst martha macauley says that russian investigators are actually walking blind into than about any case unless germany shares its findings the key question of course is. there you know moscow would like to assume was another joke

her agent which allegedly had poisoned the man they would believe it will not give it up until their sentence marred with a russian response and we're in a situation now where the russians say we can't because we don't have enough inclusion poundbury the region with only one not willing. to step forward and be viewed by the russian police and the russian troops you could have generals office. from the russian part of your address to go because if they can't. interfere in the suited those who are with about and you have to have done what he was allegedly close it's very difficult to see how the russians work is complete. to britain i where there have been protests on the very 1st night of. die measures demonstrate his against the restrictions were arrested in central london.

thank you very much i was. a month long measures were announced after the country passed a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases all restaurants bars and non-essential shops are not closed and people must stay at home and work remotely where possible however educational facilities do remain open now meanwhile manchester university students have destroyed lock down fences around the facility there is anger that classes have moved to online only despite expensive she wishin feeds there are also a separate arrest in the nearby city of liverpool where people had rallied against

the fresh rock dam growing numbers warn that they can no longer feed their family under the restrictions. i want to show business i'm worried about the kids short people's business over the future i want to be inside. right i'm going to do my best to stay open. and find the tyranny is coming and i believe the whole lockdown is illegal anyway 3 years ago they control the left side show but she would be in child protection for us. just coming up half past 5 need me here in moscow that brings you up to date we're back with more in the u.s. election the latest there is that biden has now taken the lead in that key state pennsylvania what have they liked in. the u.s. has a history of complicated and heated presidential election what's different this

time is that. the biggest of the last 4 years. rest of them to the level of civil. george floyd and. the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. these groups attract. members who have taken to the streets making protests look like full scale. here. are sometimes are they are not afraid of violence or. if you want a war. or go into groups. to find out how far they're ready to go to fight for what they believe the stupid for this country.