battleground america the democrats put one foot in the door of the white house after 3 in 10 states joe biden looks set to become the 46th u.s. president at this stage is key states in the edge closer to announcing their results mean what. if you count the illegal votes easily win in the counties should be show me the version i will be declared the winner. they could still be a bumpy road ahead both candidates clash over ballot results for some in the republican camp the cantor has been fraudulent the delay to announcing the president raises big questions too about those itself especially mail in ballots amid a record turnout we hear from commentators on the king of ships. subject

so if they want to stop the killing over $61.00 continue tell me it's a joke every night after night after night except when i watch the big board our system moves forward is the word we also see that in the united states constitution folding is never mentioned at all. but also to come russia's top judge claims that germany has failed to answer any questions i. think in the valley moscow's investigation into the incident which happened back in august. hello there welcome to r.t. international it's friday evening and our coverage to you 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 it has been 3 days since the election and attention is on a handful of states where counting does continue we are still waiting for the crucial results in the fire to georgia and also pennsylvania now as it stands this is how it looks joe biden has 264 electors if you include arizona which some do say is too early to call but if you soon he has won it he's 6 electoral votes short of the 270 required for victory donald trump on the other hand currently stands at $214.00 but that said it remains a very tight race both candidates have closed gaps in different battleground states over night in pennsylvania and the fire the former vice president is leading by

less than one percent and in georgia biden has taken the lead there by just over a 1000 vote so it is very close with 99 percent of the ballot counted incidentally a democrat hasn't won that state in decades meanwhile the race in north carolina is too close to call too so what does all of this mean well trump has more of an uphill fight obviously if he wants to stay in the white house he has to win 4 of the battleground states excluding arizona which we mentioned earlier which has been called by some media for biden however the former vice president needs to secure only one more swing state victory that said there could be plenty of legal battles to follow if both candidates clashing on the results so far. if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from osip 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 but 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 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. often seen correspondent against you have discussed the tension in the country at the moment with mickey or. the u.s. really does pride itself on its democratic system does not 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. moonie is dirty slaw go to mock or see 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 for 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 polarizing and division health care system and pandemic response that has frankly been a worldwide embarrassment i wouldn't say perhaps in view of the world is is the

right phrase if you're in the united states you just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote what 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 inside everyone's free everyone who vote in the united states sunday is a jewish holiday and they would make it a national holiday booting 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 this is 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 have of 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 in an 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 you're president is saying that you've moved this potentially for delap 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 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 go to take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things down their way and and this is being with repeated across the country protests violence political violence you level to get beaten and stabbed because of the color the hats that you work with slogan a new t. shirt and this is this is being seen worldwide. nobody is envious of these in europe they're saying look we 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 the last both candidates a lot of leeway both are 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 but by trump especially the this election will be condensed and trauma myself and said that you know this is a lonely and in the supreme court but despite the warning of legal action several election commissions in america have actually insisted that every valid vote was

counted and accurately reported international observers have also said today that the ballot proceeded lawfully they have slam dunk from salivation is a fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions human rights lawyer herrick's wrote can believe that 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 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 here in a quick way 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 i suspect that the matter would move much quicker and i believe that it will have the president elect. well they can't has been particularly complicated in this contest and it's thrown up many contentious issues . discussed some of the. 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 shelby reed holder in 2014 who had alluded voting rights we need to move the ministries records of who the president is authorized to make things that the 5 border guards at the have national standards on lurch and we've got republican fighting against that since the late eighty's and the what i was saying that metastasized into this year through what can i do 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 cold actors

and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst but we 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. it will say it was embarrassing it will the sad final chapter 2 will set chapter in american history that's something you want here. on an internet war you know it's a choice you want broken to beat him parts of it 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. down.

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 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'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 are 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 the throwback to the oh thanks well we were not governing you make 51 to 49 countries we were we have bipartisan agreement we did the big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon one cold war 2 we've liberated oh there were 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 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 coded 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 have 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 are 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 that we're in the arena is full combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i mean they come to a position of being a never trapper's somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hope see is defeated and yet finds 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. now wrangling over the election has actually overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrats did spend large sums of money to campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and also the senate that has not happened

it seems that 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 in the year and so far they are down by the 6 incumbents $218.00 c. needed to win a majority and so far the democrats are on 208 and the republicans have 193 but there's also a tussle for the senate 2 democrats do need to gain 4 seats there to flip control of the upper house although that's unlikely as the republicans already have 48 seats and have been leading to win 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 even though joe biden is on course for victory at this stage the contest has been much closer than polls forecast election him tegra he actually activist and independent journalist nico

house told us why. that stayed with unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candidates that i thought could be trumped which would include also gabbert bernie sanders and i would even argue andrew young 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 will go wall have to pull 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. a reminder then all of 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 currently has a narrow lead to and traditionally red state georgia and he's also slightly ahead in nevada meanwhile trump is making gains in pennsylvania and of course will stay across all of the developments in the results coming. in. i. in other news tonight russia has sent a 5th request money 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 who was allegedly poisoned back in august in siberia in a prank as the story. on the one hand if we look back at how the most senior e.u. officials treated the same volley case perhaps we shouldn't 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 1 on all the tests that were undertaken with a light 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 determine authorities wrote a response cohen on russia to provide additional information on the investigation

over the hospitalisation alexina valmy however is not a single question from the russian side has been taken this into account it is clear that to date 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 opportunity to study the circumstances of the incident. now to some other key points of that statement by the russian police they are saying that none of the members of the blogger's team that were with the like seen the volley in siberia are willing to get in touch or meet the russian authorities plus that statement it's being reminded that the russian doctors didn't find any traces of poisoning and the bloggers body and also that courting to the doctors in some chronic illnesses could have led to that charge aeration of his health in fact they

are also reminding that the russian doctor 1000 alike 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 very minute 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 performances 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. 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 volley 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 upon the request of his family to

berlin for treatment and then we heard from european officials that alexei and 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 political analyst mark mccord he says that russian investigators have walking blind into the valley case unless germany has its findings the key question of course is. there you know most who would like. to know who joke agent which allegedly poisoned the man they would believe 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 those involved. only not willing. to step forward and be reviewed by the russian police and the russian

initiative general's office. from a russian point of your address to go because if they can't. interfere in the suited those who are with the bad 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 now where there have been protests on the very 1st night of the. dam measures administrators against the restrictions were arrested in central london. thank. you. i thank. the monthlong measures were

announced after the country passed a 1000000 confirmed coronavirus cases all restaurants bars and non-essential shops and i close them people must stay at home and work remotely where possible however educational facilities do remain open that said manchester university students have destroyed brought down fences around the facilities there there is anger that classes have moved to online only despite expensive she was in phase there were several resting in the ne by city of liverpool where people had rallied against a fresh lock down growing numbers of people to warn that they can no longer feed their families under the restrictions i. think i've got a short on business i'm on board of all the kids short people's business start up in 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 so yes it could be controlled by showcase she would be in childish and forget. to

come up top posix and even that i think is looking more from us and about how often .

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you back. hello and welcome to cross up were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it was supposed to be a landslide we were told a blue wave alas it didn't happen that way oh the polls were again wildly wrong

trump may still lose this vote but can the claim trump is a fluke or an aberration stand and what to expect next. to cross up the election and more i'm joined by my guest why you know in new york he is a legal and media analyst in las vegas we have heroic isabelle she is an independent journalist and co-host of the convo couch and include as we cross to george samueli he is an author and a you tuber app that apple current crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's get started let's go to our guest in las vegas here when you know everybody's talking about the legitimacy of this counting up the battle.