in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. you'll have a final declaration. of victory yet. but. it's clear we're going to win this race. stopping short of declaring victory democrat joe biden says he is on track for the white house announcement comes while key states continue to see. wrongful death president trump isn't giving up in the oval office today without a fight insisting biden hasn't won readying lawsuits over the. ballots and also ahead presidential limbo media outlets to describe the 2020 race for the white house as suspended animation reaction to be uncertainty surrounding the vote in the

west on the rest of the world. and draw votes in claims of fraud seen completions in the america's much democratic system we ask new yorkers what they think. oh you know. you go to. the people trust is a great threat to our democracy trump he's right and he's to find out what he's fighting for because to resign kind of this country. and. i. welcome you watching r.t. international this saturday the 7th of november which does mean it is now 4 days since the u.s.

election and we are still waiting for official results now i'm full of key states this is how things are looking at the moment biden has the backing of $264.00 that says if arizona is included will vote some do say it's too early to call the election there but with. state biden only need 6 more electoral votes to achieve the 270 needed for victory donald trump meanwhile stands at 214 but said it does still remain a very tight race with gaps closing in different battleground states nevada officials do say that the count there could continue until thursday although the majority of the remaining ballots are expected to be announced by sunday while in pennsylvania biden's home state the provisional ballot count will only start next week and then in georgia the margins there are so small that officials have announced a recount democrat joe biden always confident with his currently but has stopped short of declaring victory. you'll have

a final declaration. but the numbers show was clear choice a clear and convincing story we're going to win this race ran track to over 300 electoral votes electoral college votes. meanwhile claims multiple cases of election fraud took place his team has filed lawsuits in pennsylvania georgia michigan arizona and also novara says he could take things all the way to the supreme court. joe biden should not wrongfully claim the office of president i could make that claim also legal proceedings are just now beginning i had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward would have trump gets to the guess the supreme court

to consider his case it would echo the election 20 years ago when the count effectively handed the presidency to george w. bush he's going underground host afshin rattansi spoke with trump's impeachment lawyer talk to al and of it on the president's chances of winning his legal battle . if you lose is the election by losing pennsylvania there's a strong argument that his lawyers 'd can make that pennsylvania should not count ballots that came in late it's a technical argument but it's the argument that prevailed in bush versus gore and there are already 3 or 4 justices who agree with that argument but it would take a combination of circumstances during the election to bring that case into a posture where you would win in the court so i think it's unlikely he will prevail in the courts but that's his best shot what sort of time scale are we talking about will it be about a month as it was in 2000 with bush and gore i think we'll have

a result within weeks not months if pennsylvania becomes a key state then i think it will take months do you think trump always had in mind the 300 judges that were appointed under his administration given that he'd already been suspecting vote tampering well i think he there are a lot of reasons why he wanted to appoint lots of judges his base wants conservative judges but i think part of the reason may very well have been as a backstop as a protection in the event that he had to take the election to court any president would think in those terms supporters of trump say he shouldn't have given that press conference on the night saying there is fraud and waited a little bit do you think that will affect any court outcome because he was alleging both i'm afraid even before the election and of course on the night rather than saying this is the state of play at the moment we'll wait and see i don't

think that kind of statement affects the course it was done after the polls will close so i think it was just him saying what he believed and i don't think it will have any impact either electorally or traditionally. a prank and i take a look at some of the reaction from around the world with uncertainty continues to surround america's fight. of all the adjectives to describe democracy which stands for giving the people the right to choose who is in charge the man who stood up to take over the white house didn't pick fair stable or strong democracy sometimes messy it 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 that's been the envy of the world just messy or it's just gotten way too messy and his country we have received reports of

many irregularities we believe that there are dead voters that have been counted this is fraud this is absolute fraud trump campaign says they're going to court the biden campaign says it's ready for court fights protests by trump supporters and a series of vote fraud allegations by the president himself trump will go to war over this election and that is dangerous for this country there is quite a list of things appearing as cracks in the system take the mail in voting in times of covert when the nation was meant to rely on it at one point the postal service warned it couldn't cope the president flushed the method altogether saying it would lead to a rigged poll if you read some of these pieces there have been plenty of such the media has been questioning the confidence in us democracy here it's been watching the mess in the wings with raised eyebrows 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 i would democracies are in danger it was a blink 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 is easy to be a winner but sometimes it is hoped to be. trumps late night speech puts a question mark over his posse. second term in office it is hard to imagine what the 2nd term would look like when the president directly called for the abolition of the rules of democracy he's called to stop counting votes is a blow to the essence of american democracy here's a voice of concern from allies japan we can say for the united states to get into turmoil and confusion because of the election is a minus for its allies and like minded countries but perhaps the most fascinating thing to observe is the smear by america's foes after so many times washington told them how wrong things are with their elections. what

a spectacle one says this is the most fraudulent election in u.s. history who says that the president who's currently you know this is a rival says trump intends to rig the election this is how u.s. elections and u.s. democracy we do not interfere in the internal affairs of the united states and we hate it when they pretend to give lessons in democracy to the world these beauts and refusal of election results were supposed to only take place in developing states things have changed over this have occurred in the us which is no longer synonymous with a stable civilised and consensus based society now just for a giggle let me read out one tweet it's an official one country a calls on country b.'s leaders to show commitment to the democratic process and rule of law we urge all parties groups and individuals to engage in inclusive dialogue to find peaceful solutions to their disagreements to heal national

divisions full stop it's a tweet by the u.s. embassy country a in ivory coast country b. from the 4th oh the irony there's a reason a lot of western european nations stopped doing mail in ballots a long time ago france stopped in 1075 because the process is rife with fraud and i have to tell you i think it's incumbent upon the trunk campaign to say al gore took 37 days to litigate florida we're going to go litigate and we're going to demand a recount some are going to be automatic obviously in georgia but in wisconsin and michigan in pennsylvania in nevada in arizona we want to get to where we have free and fair elections where every legal vote is counted in a trustworthy and transparent way the american people deserve it i was wishing and hoping that last night trump was going to look into the camera and say i'm demanding a free and fair election that the american people can trust not for myself but for you because you deserve it and i think the scary thing in all of this is at the end

of the day no matter who ultimately wins half of the population of america is going to think the election has been stolen that is a very dangerous place for us to be in as a country. well rallies are continuing for both candidates across the united states delays and claims of voter fraud though have created riffs and rice questions about the u.s. democratic system we got reaction from people in new york. because the whole mess go annoy you know. you got to do what better for the people who are married to people you know just what the book the american people and what the white person is to see that's going to do good for the people of america that you shot is a direct threat to our democracy to our freedom and to our everything that we live for and everything everybody went flying this country well i think he's already proven himself to be a threat to democracy my goal is that we can get past. this all the hysterics of the last 4 years and start moving forward as

a country there's no 05 at this point even though he's going to be lawsuits which is probably going to delay the presidency and trump he's frightened he needs to find out what he's fighting for because there is some kind of fronts in this country so we need to make sure there is for democracy i think there's a murderer who brings my whole point is that where were we in the people have freedom job. maybe care and they can be free to be whoever they want to or with a small handful of states still to declare red or blue it does seem that the counting of votes has gone into slow motion particularly in the father.

'd so we're still waiting them for results to be declared in 6 k. states is like a process but we'll have the latest developments as and when that happens you're watching out for stories just awful.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. come back there's been a record turnout for the u.s. election but there's also. gripping the country the day the infection rate has passed 100000 cases with officials reporting a shopping crease in hospital admissions america's trinity chavez has the right.

the u.s. marking another milestone as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hold a tight grip on the nation over more according to johns hopkins university the number of daily new confirmed kovan $1000.00 cases surging 45 percent over the past 2 weeks to a record 7 day average of 86352 while the number of deaths are up 15 percent now averaging 846 deaths every day now there are many groups that are seeing record number. and we have more than one now. so this is a very serious situation room and it looks worse. the us now has the highest totals in the world while them factions are increasing in nearly every state on wednesday texas reported more than 1000 new coven 1000 cases and 126 deaths while in missouri nebraska and oklahoma hospitals are hitting record highs experts who

are in dire consequences in the coming months especially concerning the fact that there are very few hospital beds slapped in some parts of the country that's a sign that the care system is. under very. epidemic is facing. all this amid a presidential election unlike any other polls show the public health crisis and the economy were top concerns for many americans but there are competing issues that trump and biden view through drastically different lenses. while president trump has ignored the advice of his top health advisors and has repeatedly downplayed the virus. and then you get better in your view democratic contender joe biden on the other hand is rarely seen without a face mask and has made public health during the pandemic a key issue there's a lot of things we could be doing very massive ground but the fact is that. just

not appropriate for. the pandemic also what bending how americans vote while donald trump supporters said they were more likely to vote in person joe biden supporters said they were more likely to vote by mail to avoid being exposed to the deadly virus reporting in new york trinity charges r.t. . france has widened its crackdown on terror in the wake of a series of deadly attacks across the country it is now targeting those who welcome acts of terrorism even if they are children in mass a are 14 year old afghan boy he was charged over remarks he allegedly made about the killing of the schoolteacher sumrall patsy was beheaded by an 18 year old muslim in october patti was brutally murdered after allegedly showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a class on free speech the teenager who commented on his death has been released but will remain under supervision he's also been banned from school and from

communicating with other students or teachers or there have been an increasing number of inquiries opened into young people the latest probs involve children as young as 8 many under suspicion for it for interrupting a minute's silence held in memory of samuel patty and the alleged they say his death was deserved in the wake of the tragedy more than 60 similar investigations have been opened in supporting terror. nouvelles young people aged 12 to 16 used extremely repugnant language is the islamic state group which is very worrying but we discussed with guess the spread of radicalization among young people. i don't think that the fact that they are minors should blind us to the extent of this problem there is a huge amount of sympathy for islamic terrorism among young people not necessarily mine as well though perhaps including by those of muslim extraction if you put them

in jail it's not going to help them because they're going to be rabid be going to be radicalized in the in the jails and they gonna get even worse we have huge amounts of immigrants in france and i'm afraid to say that the existence of these immigrant communities is a breeding ground for islamic fundamentalism and fundamentalism is a breeding ground for terrorism which it has nothing to do with terrorism you have a lot of him events in in france you have a lot of muslim immigrants in france who are in accord with the french law with the french way of living. some events which are not at our. ok with the radical islam i mean we're in my cell and i am here in france i have nothing to do with the radical islam that's now the fact that immigration and immigration is part of the problem it is to some extent a cause and it has to be stopped it's still continuing at a rate of several $100000.00

a year into france and those levels are unsustainable incidentally independently of the question of islamic terrorism you have a lot of fear isn't that a commitment by french people who have to change religion who have become muslim and those people are and friend that's completely untrue there are no examples of french catholics the muslim converts committing terrorist acts or 100 percent of the islamic terrorists who have beheaded people or killed them in other ways in france in the last few years and indeed this problem has been going on actually for decades ago 100 percent of them have either been recent immigrants or issued or they come from immigrant backgrounds like the chechen who deck decapitated the schoolteacher it's not because. the radical islam is is the cause of the problem of the problem in. brussels has blasted israel for a destructive operation in the jordan valley that has left dozens of palestinians

homeless stein says israel has time to move while the world is distracted by the u.s. election. reports from the scene of the incident. while the walls attention has been focused on the american elections and no one has been looking here in a remote part of the west bank israeli bulldozers have been hard at work demolishing most of a bed when a village the results has that 73 people are now without homes huff of them children. these really army arrived at 10 am and began an operation to demolish our homes without any warning pieces in operation in order to big people from the area but we are not going to leave this lad is palestinian israel claims it is a war zone among the structures that were destroyed or tainted homes trains solar panels and animal shelters the only thing that remains here now washed say the only

one on goats the israeli army confirms it carried out the stimulation and says it was because the structures were illegal and got the union and we lost our houses they destroyed everything it was still stand our ground and we will not abandon our land israel is a disease and it is a cancer which was spread throughout the world it neglects the whole world and listens to no one. but palestinian leaders have been quick to say the demolitions were carried out while the rest of the world was distracted. the attention is focused on the u.s. election israel choose this evening to commit another crime and cover it up to demolish 70 palestinian structures including homes displacing about 80 palestinian citizens the united nations says that small structures in any other demolition carried out by the israeli army in the last decade and with nowhere else to go the residents of this village a bracing themselves for freezing cold winter without the homes to provide

protection policy r.t. west bank. but we for we go here's a reminder of how the u.s. presidential race is looking so far democrat nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes just 6 away from the presidency donald trump has secured 214 biden currently has a narrowly in the traditionally red state of georgia as well as in the father and has just gone ahead to him pennsylvania although 6 states as we say still counting their vote so we're back with the latest on the election and other main stories of the day at the top of the. hour.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race and of his on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical guy time to sit down and talk. the while the way they want to go down with the white house. well. i don't think it's the fault of the clothes on. top that come on it'll. all make. one.

star of it. 6 6 was a pandemic no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. as a muddled up with the we took a backseat. to the. judgment commentary crisis with this system to. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

the u.s. has a history of complicated and heated presidential elections what's different this time is that the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus been damaged and the rest of them to the level of civil unrest sparked by the death of george floyd and the lies of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. right there with breaking the city ordinance. say. these groups attract barely a family members who have taken to the streets make intro tasks look like full scale you know what you see here was only a taste of what's about to happen this demonstrators are sometimes heavily armed and they are not afraid of violence or law enforcement. if you will of war lead to

deal with us. or go in to meet those groups and their leaders to find out how far they're ready to go to fight for what they believe to stew for this country . israel media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. thyssen nation whole community. are you going the right way or are you being that so. direct. what is truly wants is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us

in the depths. aura maybe of the shallowness. in southern california the sun rises over san diego bay. next to a parkway in this parking lot 54 year old maria begins her day. straight away bed in. this car is her. this is every day. this routine about stretching my bad. memory and no longer has a place to live she's been sleeping in her van for a year now. looks pretty nice

you don't you don't feel it doesn't seem to you live here but you do i have seen people with their cars so messy and things all over the place how can i go to work with my life like that i mean has to have a little order you know because this is what we need to continue it is not that perfect but it's. the way i won and it makes me feel better. just like maria around 30 other people sleep overnight in their car in this free parking lot nevertheless most of them work their security guards drivers secretaries or even computer technicians. is a cleaner and a care exhausting work that she does 7 days a week.