a group must protect its own existence with existence. in today's headlines a role reversal after democrats called into doubt the 2016 u.s. presidential election team trump now accuses them of stealing the 2020 vote. europe expresses hope of better transatlantic times under joe biden though not everyone on the continent is convinced. also this hour russia's daily coronavirus rate tops 20000 for the last 3 days running we speak they had doctor i mean close at hospital with the warning signs were there. in the summer we relaxed let ourselves go and here you are we're seeing the consequences of this in autumn. and the u.k. bails visitors from denmark after

a new strain of kobe that is transmitted from human copenhagen that will culled millions of animals. welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. where president elect joe biden's team is preparing its transition to the white house the current occupant double trump isn't leaving without a fight. president trump has yet to concede the election he claims there's been serious about a fraud and is vowing legal action some of his supporters also allege republicans were prevented from voting we believe these people are thieves the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the best poster in britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that it's impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of these states where it mattered they stole what they had to steal . on saturday media outlets called the race for biden after days of counting the

president elect has promised to help america become a nation healed like in 2016 it's all gotten off to a bad start with more allegations of meddling only this time not by outside actors but by inside ones and it's no longer the democrats doing the finger pointing as daniel hawkins reports for many americans the 2020 us presidential election had so much for writing on it it was symbolic a long awaited chance for justice to prevail for the country to correct the mistakes of 2016 at least that's how the media many people saw it where were you in 27. when we had the worst president we could argue it's unfair to rank trump is worth president ever after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him a great potential worst in most dangerous president in the history of our country or the worst whereas in these america is over. thousands of jubilant people

celebrating on the streets a far cry from the scenes we saw after the last presidential election seemingly the only tears this time with those of joy. it's vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered for years ago when trump won broadcasters showed scenes of people in shock and crying today a biden declaration shows coverage that would make you think jesus had returned all 4 hours might be exaggerating but to some it really looks like a savior of the senate upon america except this is a reality for only half of the country biden's predicted landslide or blue wave didn't happen and no matter how many times he was called the worst president in american history the worst president the country's ever had trump still managed to gain the support of close to half the electorate and they alongside his campaign team are not giving up without a fight. i

. was able to be over and immediately. with the democratic leadership all trump has so far also refused to concedes making a slew of allegations about the legality and accuracy of the voting process if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from us and trump's team up behind him ready to do battle in the country's legal system and highest courts to stop what they see as an injustice these are a lawsuit will be brought starting on monday as you know from the very beginning the mail in ballots were a source of some degree of skepticism if not a lot of skepticism as being innately prone to fraud this fraud war between the

trump and biding camps won't end anytime soon how do we know this well that simple the last one dragged on for trump's entire term a democratically elected president was accused of just about. every wrongdoing trump is already acting like a russian donald trump is actively or was actively colluding with russia hone told mahler's office about more contacts between trump's orbit and its it appears trump himself in russia they didn't believe trump when he denied there was any collusion for example so why should he give his of positives the benefit of the doubt what claims the president made yesterday were simply not supported you know i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner well it's not for us biden or trump to decide whether any wrongdoing took place during the 2020 lection it looks like math will be down to the supreme court but what we

do know is that trump's 4 years in office might have taught him a valuable lesson about how to fight his bottle and so far it looks like they'll be little unity along the way we discuss the allegations of fraud with our guests. there's no doubt of that but that joe biden is the president elect and will take office at noon on the 20th of january next year there are no court cases that have any merit the margins are such that they are not capable of being disputed and also clear joe biden won the election by 5000000 votes the most votes that any candidate has ever gotten the country's polarized but there was an extraordinary turnout in this election largely because of donald trump and because a majority of americans wanted did not want him to continue as president not joe biden got over 50 percent of the vote. the hillary clinton won by

3000000 votes but she didn't get 50 percent there are teams of lawyers in every state with question marks on them and their purpose is to put together their part of a case that's going to be presented to the public and to justice as a full case that shows that the election outcome was altered by the fraud that it was that significant number to give you just one of those mathematical mere impossibilities to show you how you can obviously see that things were done that are not right to. vote for hillary clinton was very strong and a lot of democrats capital cities including the ones in the swing states joe biden got fewer votes than hillary clinton in every a major american city except for and those 4 are milwaukee detroit atlanta and philadelphia the 4 cities where much of the obvious jane are you is

going on so joe biden got more votes than hillary clinton coincidentally in the 4 capital cities of the swing states but less all across the rest of the country and still he gets a record number 74000000 popular votes for president. how does this happen when only 4 cities have to make up a disadvantage to your previous gender day in the previous election it's just mathematically nearly impossible i think there's a lot of circumstantial evidence a lot of self evident impossibilities like that and you have to assemble them all into a single detailed jason i think that's what president trump team of lawyers is doing right now. europe has of course been taking an intense interest in the u.s. election and with joe biden now confirmed president elect russel's has expressed the hope bilateral ties will get a boost of the continent's political top brass are skeptical things will be any easier under the new administration are to show that devinsky picks up the story

any e.u. leaders were signaling their congratulations a sense of relief i think in europe that biden is the president elect there was a lot welcome particularly over the fact that biden has said he would bring the u.s. back into the paris climate agree fold but there was also this carefully wooded suggestion about the challenges that are faced in the future and cooperation all those challenges together one of the big issues the european leaders are going to be thinking about is nato trump was seen as being divisive not particularly supportive of the alliance whereas joe biden's seen as somebody who is a big supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden would not be making

a u. turn or other important decisions. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for airbus and boeing so that is unlikely to resolve itself

very soon now the e.u. has also been pushing ahead with this agenda of more sovereignty in defense in trade trying to perhaps sort of rally itself up against the u.s. and that is also unlikely to change when it up this marks a new chapter in european history one where europe is independent will be proud of our european culture and identity will be able to stand up against china against the united states against the disorder we are currently witnessing european strategical told them is goal number one for generation we're sending a message not only door citizens but also to the rest of the world europe is the world power and then of course there's the issue of bragg's it those negotiations are not going to well between the u.k. and the e.u. but the e.u. is hoping that a biden presidency will not give special treatment to the u.k.

particularly if there is no deal breaks it so lots of issues that europe is waiting to find out about but the reality is joe biden has so much on his plate domestically trying to create the harmony within the u.s. and let's not forget that trump gained more than 70000000 votes trump is and is alive and kicking and joe biden is going to have to do an awful lot to reach out to those voters. we spoke to karen and i saw austria's former minister of foreign affairs and she said that under biden ties with europe it won't be a u.s. priority personally i don't see 2 european union issues being top chanda we might believe that we assume portends debt washing wakes up in the morning and now cares 1st and foremost about how to repair the alliance how to get back to better relations with various e.u. member states no i think their 1st and foremost foreign policy agenda with the need

to people's republic of china and how to handle all the open issues with them but personally i would chair the position by a former president of to you being commissioner do you think is going to change should because although he constitution a lot and this so called. fact. that continue one of them is to trade deficits and that along with the trades this and of course the burden sharing that we see in the alliance. here at r.t. will of course be staying across the latest developments in the us 2 days after media projections put joe biden above the $2270.00 vote mark needed to secure the white house and declared him president elect donald trump is still refusing to concede and with legal challenges being mounted by trump's team the transition of power in america may face hurdles yet. and our. thanks.

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back to russia now where the covert 900 pandemic is spiraling out with the daily rate of new infections topping 20000 for the past 3 days the main hotspots are moscow and st petersburg the 2 cities have imposed a number of anti pandemic rules including mandatory masks and gloves and public places as well as curfews for restaurants and leisure centers to cope with the

growing infection rate moscow has opened a number of field hospitals artie's russian channel went to check out the conditions. well of course as a polo player from temple to temple sales course just to think about. it for free or almost still or. here's the thing. the 2nd week how is a different from the 1st i think people have become less vigilant what do you mean people get used to it yes people got used to it but there are those who refuse to believe there are 2 groups now those who are extremely concerned about coronavirus know what it is who lost their loved ones and those who say you are all liars in the summer we relaxed let ourselves go and here you are what we are seeing the consequences of this in autumnal what did we relax because there were some

objective reasons for that or were we just being stupid no we are not stupid we are just human beings how many temporary 1000 hospitals were set up moscow 5 and all them can accommodate over a 1000 patients approximately 430 to have sort of the report of. the pulse of earth but it was a. new zealand it will slowly be shown some ventilators has the survival rate grown since march and the 4 patients on a ventilator it hasn't changed much what is the rate 25 percent however our approach has changed a lot or them for us now placing a patient on a ventilator is a last resort when all other possible treatments are exhausting the question will

come there and this is not the feeling of the most ill middle of the earth incredible i thought of it clearly that. sure you would be proof of the ocean. taking with them is mean you loose the whole has to hospitals work changed since march nickerson a story on the one hand the team has gained confidence in their actions but on the other hand everyone is exhausted. when will you be able to get back to normal routine work we expect the 3rd wave in spring the usual season for all viruses so we hope this wave will be less powerful when it comes to the rate of infections if it goes like this probably by june we will be back to normal i hope so but maybe even earlier we'll see a morning with a short bunch. i

. now for some world news in brief a 20 year old gunman has killed 3 fellow soldier soldiers at an airfield in the russian city of iran as a 4th act and was seriously injured and is recovering in the hospital a suspect 1st attacked an officer with an axe before grabbing a pistol and opening fire police say he escaped and could still be armed special forces have joined police in the manhunt they attack is thought to have happened following an argument. in bangkok protesters received a wet welcome outside the royal palace they were calling for democratic reforms to the time monarchy but were greeted with water cannon. tropical storm has made landfall in the florida keys heavy rains have already caused flooding leaving scores dad and over 100 people missing is expected to move

into the southeastern gulf of mexico. u.k. has denied entry to all visitors from denmark over concerns they may be infected with a new strain of code 19 mutation of the virus which spread through farms has been detected in 214 people outbreaks have also been reported in for farms across other parts of europe and the us millions of mink are now said to be cold. do you share i'm sure the virus mutates in maine and the mutated virus can spread to humans this is very very serious as the danish health authorities in vale aboard terri have found 5 example safira sis in maine farms the mutated virus remain committed there for posed to risk their upcoming vaccines it will not work as they should.

denmark's response to the new virus has sparked a concern among animal welfare activists our panel of guests debated the issue because weight and. precautionary measures are very important if there are issues that would need to stop roots of transmission wherever however you can my concerns are that if this reservoir of infection then spreads to other animals and then we establish a a new more reservoir for the coronavirus the 2 variants that it becomes much much harder and much more more difficult to control and eradicate corona virus from the human population if that is what we are trying to

achieve it's not the 1st time that we have seen cold at 19 on make farms we have seen far farms in them that netherlands in spain in italy in the u.s. and in them are all become hotspots for the virus so well take the risk why should we gamble with what could be a huge threat to public health nobody needs a mink coat. but we all need a vaccine that's effective yes of course we can expect we de chanst yes of course it is sad to wrack knowledge that meant have got this infection one thing that is a missing link is that international bodies who can look at the genome sequence of the virus that is circulating amongst the denmark minke other people haven't had access to to carefully scrutinize and see what the issues

are we need to be cautious we need more information from denmark about what exactly is this mutation that you are very concerned about the only thing that we can do to protect animals and to protect human health from this sort of thing that can develop on many farms is to ban the fair trade and this is what we're calling on denmark to do fire was a dying industry anyway the top designers and the who are refusing to work with it i do concur with my colleague that the the the use of deferred for the fashion industry the planning in quite some time but this. period the size of the trade that was related to many for example comes to the market relevant you're talking rum 800000000 worth of trade. to towards or especially to trying about what's on the on the world and in this measure has been sold

drastic by the government and the prime minister most probably will put an end to this to. this industry anyway is it really necessary to have farmed animals so that we can harvest their furs i think that per se is very cruel and i appreciate that there have to be euthanized now the question we should really be asking is is it necessary to farm them in the 1st instance. during joe biden's election campaign one of his former staffers accuse the now president elect of previous sexual assault claims that terror read is not backing down from biden has constantly denied the allegations which date back to 1993 miss reed was one of several women who accused the former v.p. last year of a quote uncomfortable physical contact she gave an interview to r.t.s. playboy that started out wanting me to serve drinks at an event

because he liked my legs and he thought i was pretty and i was very much a believer in him in the democratic party he was talking about trying to get forward this legislation to protect women and it was really shocking to be treated you know different only objectified really what was it like for you at the time when it happened it was shattering. because i was in a no win situation. you know i said no and and rejected someone who does not like rejection and i knew in that moment and i remember you know my whole body shaking i think i described that and how cold i felt i think i went into a kind of shock but what that was about was more than a fear he was so powerful and also that my career was over right now obviously he's

much older he's got a very different image what was the joe biden like back then the image that you're just guessing now is this cramped joe uncle joe kind of this paternalistic you know older frail lieven figure back then he was one of the heights of the power he was in his early fifty's and so he was physically very strong and not frail little i was in a no win situation. you know i said no and and rejected someone who does not like rejection he felt like privileged enough and protected enough that he could do what he wanted to do be you think there might be more attention given to the story now that biden will be president i don't know because our press is very right now we're in such a fragile time and things are so divided what gets me about the democratic party is our hypocrisy and i was part of that kind of cult if you will of the democrats and

i'm out of it now and i really see the hypocrisy now can we stop blaming russia now and we can we actually like look at our own electoral college system and our voting system and improve it and hopefully we can start looking at other countries as allies and you know collaborators and ways to work with rather than you know as enemies and find the next war my fear with vitamins cabinet is that we might end by spraying and other regime or. biden continues to deny any misconduct his campaign also released a statement addressing the allegations and back in may biden gave an interview to american media saying the incident quote never happened did you sexually assault terror rate. no it is not true i'm saying on equivocally it never never happened believe me women means taking the woman's claim seriously when she steps

forward and then vet it look into it this is this that's true in this case as well one would have a right to be heard and to play in the pressured rigorously investigate claims they make always a poll that principle but in the end in every case the truth is what matters in this case the truth is the claims are false that's all for this our news wires thanks for tuning in. the or tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the

lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession a stake in the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is. joining me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. this is a story of women and women with troubled histories and complex court cases you know some of those deadly leaves. out there. were not. the person that they're accusing this is the they are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. all the off 23 hours of the day tell me that it's not enough punishment

in world of women on death row. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle bite he claims victory but what about those who voted for trump well they say now not my president and is europe facing another wave of terrorism is a neo liberal ideology showing signs of exhaustion.