ground america the democrats put one foot in the door of the white house off to 3 tense days joe biden looks set to become the 46th u.s. president as key states in the photo close a twin outside the results meanwhile. the legal votes easily won in the counties tradition hirsch and i will be declared the winners. it could still be a bumpy road ahead has both candidates clash over product results with some in the republican camp claiming the count has been fortunate and. on the delay to announcing the president raises big questions about the vote itself especially

madam thought it was a rockport tahn out we have from commentators on the key issues. so if you want to stop it tell me over since you want to continue to tell me it's a joke every night after night after that a secure and i watch the big board our system of voting is the worst we also see that in the united states constitution so being is never mentioned at all. welcome to alt international this friday and all coverage of the us election counting in key states continues.

the contest for the white house could be over in the coming hours with democrat joe biden looking more and more likely to be declared the winner increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia even america on tenterhooks attention is focused on a handful of states we are still waiting for crucial results in nevada and pennsylvania to where the democrats hold a slender. wealth as it sounds this is how it looks joe biden has 264 electors if you include enough which some do say is too early to call but if you assume he's won it he is just 6 electoral college just short of the 270 required to win for victory donald trump on the other hand we can see he currently is trading a bit to 14 well that said to it remains a very tight race i was going to go so i'm not going to go gaps how being closed in different battleground states overnight in pennsylvania and nevada the former vice

president is meeting by less than one percent in georgia right here bitin has taken the lead by just over a 1000 votes with 99 percent of the ballot counted as mentioned the margins are so tight that a recount will take place incidentally a democrat hasn't won that state in decades meanwhile the race in north carolina is too close to cool too so what 7 does this all mean while trump's chances of staying in the white house are fading fast he has to win 4 of the battleground states excluding arizona which has been given to biden by some media outlets however the former vice president only needs one will swing state for victory that could be plenty of legal battles to follow. the republican national committee is readying its legal teams in a number of pivotal states baystate to the electorate voting irregularities will be fully investigated as both candidates continue to clash over the ballots. 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 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 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. now to senior correspondent mark katz to discuss the tension around the country but my colleague

aaron. 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. dirty slaw go to marker see sometimes messy sometimes requires a little patience is working but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governors are the envy of the world while the envy of the world perhaps in days long gone now with endless government shutdowns all the political violence the bureaucracy partisanship the polarize ition 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 voting is always inside everyone's free everyone who vote in. the united states sundays the jewish holiday and they would make it

a national holiday booting day so you have to go 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 good sound and huge lines of people with the very little social distancing you mail you hook you will 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 even the 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 delon 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 refused to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether they're eligible or. 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 go to take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things done their way in and that this is being with repeated across the country protests violence political violence to level to get beaten. stabbed because of the color of the hatch that you're wearing listening to get a new t.

shirt and this is this is being seen worldwide nobody's envious of these in europe they're saying look we we simply can't afford and content out europe to the cup was divided in this boat 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. what's happening in america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the united states it's important that the results is the accepted by everyone it's easy to be a winner but sometimes it's hard to be. at the end of the day the how close this election is how close the vote is well that both candidates a lot of leeway both are claiming that they're on the path to victory that they're winning but will be contested lawsuits of being fired off like firecrackers but by trump especially the this election will be contests and drama myself said that you

know this alone and in the supreme court. well despite the warning all vehicle action several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported at a national service i've also said that preceded lawfully they have slammed donald trump's allocations of ford saying it damages public trust and democratic institutions. human rights to erick's the right can believe the president will fight tooth and nail to stay in your full office. think it there are advantages and disadvantages to the extended legal. battle. i think that yes if the matter is not resolved by an arbitration 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 said there briefing schedules they will

eventually era case. and 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 one. 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 in much quicker and i believe that it will help the president elect the kowtows been particularly complicated in this contest and it's 3 not many contentious issues. discussed just some of them.

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 in 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 republicans are 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 poll taxes 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 was the sad final chapter to a set chapter in american history that something you want here. on an internet war

we're making it's a choice you want over a broken 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 understanding that there's no power. 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 era of oh thanks but we were not governing you made 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 31 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 folks trump's 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 ruben . 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 the uncomfortable position of being a never trump or 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 don't trust that are good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. wrangling over the election has overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grasping

for seats in congress and in the days ahead of the vote democrat spent large sums of money campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and senate well that has not happened because while the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still coming in however some experts calculate the blue majority will actually be fyn of this year and so far they are down by at least 6 incumbents $218.00 it seems so need to 20 majority and so far the democrats are on to a the republicans on 193 well there's also a tussle for the senate 2 democrats need to gain full seat to flip control of the upper house although that is unlikely as the republicans already have right here 48 seats i have been eating and 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 for cost and action integrity activist and independent john the sneaker house told us why. that stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candies that i thought could be trumped which would include bernie sanders and i would even argue. those aren't the ones who are allowed to go up against in the moment they selected one of the mill democrat in joe biden who's basically been by our standards a republican who is pro fact just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on foreign policy than trump then you are setting the stage for a fund will go will have to vote in support base awful party lines because that's seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on in that expire extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases

to donald trump. i remind you that all the numbers in the presidential race democratic nominee joe biden has 26 for the tour a call that votes leaving him just 6 short of the presidency donald trump has 2 with 14 biden current he has a narrow need in the traditionally red state of georgia and he's also slightly ahead to nevada and has just gone out in front in pennsylvania as well. might outside of the u.s. russia has sent a 5th request to job and if the data on the poisoning of. that comes as a spokesperson for russia's top judge claimed that the german side has so far

failed to give any meaningful response the political activist was allegedly poisoned back in august in siberia. reports. 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 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 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 it's 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 cording to the doctors and some chronic illnesses could have led to that charge

a 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 and for. 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 i should have been reading you because it's clear the 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 performance that his main aim is yet another short of sanctions. which stands firm against impose truth 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 with a like scene of ali the opposition activist was traveling from siberia to moscow on a plane when he fell severely ill 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 the volley was poisoned by a nerve agent of the novacek group russia once proof of that but as the officials in moscow are saying they're not getting any up until this point. pentagon les mots mccourty says washington festa gets a walking blind into the nevada case unless a challenge has its findings the key question of course is that there you know muscular like a straw poll was another joke agent which allegedly poisoned the well and they would believe it will not give that up until their sentence marred with a russian response and we're in a situation now where the russians say we contemplate proceed because we don't have enough inclusion poundbury those involved with only i'm 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. figure of those associated those who were with the value at that time while he was allegedly poisoned it's very difficult to see how the russian authorities can proceed. but let's finish up and britain where there have been protests on the very fast night of new anti covert down measures demonstrators against the restrictions what rested in central london.

thank the monthlong much as wire announced after the country passed a 1000000 a confirmed coronavirus cases all restaurants bars and non-essential shops are now closed people must stay at home on what from mopey where possible however educational facilities remain open. meanwhile monster university students have destroyed to knock down fences around the facilities that is anger that classes have moved to online owed me despite expensive tuition fees that was several arrests in the nearby city of liverpool where people had rallied to gates the fresh uptown grabbing numbers warned they can no longer feed their families and the district. to short on business i'm going to vote because it's short people's business start of in the future i've learnt to be inside this is right i'm going to do my best to stay open. and fight the tyranny that is coming and i believe the whole lot during these illegal anyone 3 years or 3 control left to fight show pay

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