this time psychometrist was the only christian. it is a fact. supporters of president trump take to the streets across the country refusing to accept the results of the election and there's a role reversal where team trump accusing the democrats of stealing the 20 twentieth's vote 4 years after the opposition call them to doubt the public in victory. in europe expresses hope of better transatlantic ties under joe biden though not everyone on the continent is convinced. also this hour azerbaijan captures a strategic town and the disputed province after 7 weeks of hostilities with armenia locals are now fleeing the war torn area and armenia says the fighting is

ongoing. and russia's daily coronavirus rate tops 20000 for 3 days running we speak to the had doctor of moscow's main hospital gives his predictions. 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. come to the program another u.s. election has come with more claims of meddling only this time not by outside actors but inside ones with donald trump accusing the democrats of mass voter fraud after joe biden becomes president elect. president trump has yet to concede the election he claims there's been serious

voter fraud and is about going legal action we believe these people are fevers 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 clashes have occurred in several states between rival crowds with several arrests made that's a strong supporter stand by the president and refusing to accept the election results.

on saturday almost all us media outlets called the race for by now after days of counting the president elect has promised to help america become a nation healed but like in 2016 it's all gotten off to a shaky start with more allegations of meddling artist and hopkins reports. for many americans the 2020 us presidential election had so much riding 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 and many people saw it where were you in 27. when we had the worst president we could argue it's unfair to rank trump as a work person ever after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him a great potential worse in most dangerous president in the history of our country or the worst whereas he's america's ever. thousands of people celebrating on the

streets a far cry from the scenes we saw for the last presidential election seemingly the only tears this time with those of joy. it's. a case where 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

people 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 try. 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 poland's 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 asked our gas whether there's any merit to terms allegations about fraud. 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 it's 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 but because a majority of americans wanted did not want him to continue as president not joe biden got over a 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 in 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 to cain 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 date 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 case and i think that's what president trump team of lawyers is doing right now. europe has been taking an intense interest in the u.s. election and with joe biden now confirmed president elect brussels has expressed the hope that bilateral ties will get a boost oh some of the continent's political top brass are skeptical things will be any easier under the new administration are to show a different scale as more 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 why did he 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 will 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 where we can 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 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's nice austria's former minister of foreign affairs and she believes that unabiding ties with europe won't be a top u.s. priority personally i don't see 2 european union issues being top chanda we might believe that we are still important to watch it 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 the various e.u. member states no i think their 1st and foremost foreign policy agenda will be to people's republic of china and how to handle all the open issues with them but

personally i would share the position by a former president of to you being commissioner do you think is going to change should because although he calms change a lot and the so called. fact. that we continue one of them is to trade deficits and the other one is to treat this beaut and of course the burden sharing that we see in the alliance at our table of course be staying across the latest developments in the u.s. it's now 2 days after me their projections put joe biden above the 270 vote mark needed to secure the white house and declared him president elect but 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. there's been a major turning point in the conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan after 7 weeks

of fighting azerbaijan is saying it's taken a strategic town just outside the capital of the disputed nagorno-karabakh region armenia says the fighting is ongoing but the local administration has admitted that it no longer controls the area. we must now acknowledge that a chain of misfortune has befallen us and the town of she she is completely out of our control and a hopeful or inspiring propaganda will only serve to distance us from reality as a by john's president announced that breakthrough on sunday sparking celebrations on the streets of bacco the defense ministry said the town had been quote liberated from the armenian occupation after more than 28 years she lies on the main road connecting with armenia the rival of azerbaijani forces has sparked a mass exodus of civilians and these images from sunday you can see a line of traffic leading out of the main city stop on a carriage the disputed care of

a province has been the focus of intense fighting since late september despite 3 attempted cease fires is legally part of azerbaijan but has an armenian population and has been pushing for independence since the early 19 $190.00 s. the latest flare up in the 30 year old feud has left hundreds dead. in a cross live to paul robinson a professor of international affairs at the university of ottawa you're very welcome to the program how important is this latest investments. it's very important to show is one of the major cities in not going to kind of it's also very easily defensible positions. on the heart of the mountains and if the forces i'm not going to come. on able to retain control issues of i'm not bodes very ill for their future success in this war and now reports are saying that as

every forces are approaching the council they're going to. not going to kind of panic out and it looks as if the position of the armenian they're going to cut about forces there it is not looking good. azerbaijan has repeatedly promised that the armenian population will be allowed to live in peace there if they take over the province but we've seen locals fleeing so do they just not believe that promise no i mean they don't know the historical reasons about stretching back of course as far back as 915 and the turkish genocide against the armenians so that doesn't present lot of fear among the local population. present and one of turkey has congratulated azerbaijan on taking the town of how pivotal has his role been in the conflict has been decisive particularly the provision of all turkish military equipment especially drones the so-called suicide drones which are having a devastating effect on the armenian forces they control as they can. over the

battlefield making it almost impossible for the armenians to use heavy equipment because if the weather is good these drones are taking about 30 rock and these obvious military supply from to he has been quite decisive staying with out the 2 sides are not exactly evenly matched azerbaijan's military budget is about 3 times larger than armenia's and as you were saying it gets substantial support from turkey is there anything armenia can do to redress that balance. point not really apart from sort of massive mobilization of its own resources but this isn't easily done and it does have a definite technical disadvantage you can't get supplies easily also from outside for instance from russia because they have to come by a very long roundabout route by iran so really it was not a lot of the armenians can do this but it was so much of the world focused

elsewhere with the pandemic in the us elections do you expect world powers to pay much attention to what's happening in karbala. no it really is not so tall any one particular gender is tom. paul robinson a professor of international affairs at the university of ottawa thank you for joining us on the program today if you. we turn to russia now where the cove in 1000 pandemic is spiraling with the daily rate of new infections topping 20000 for the past 3 days the main infection hotspots are moscow and st petersburg the 2 cities have imposed a number of anti pandemic rules including men dettori masks and gloves in 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 a russian channel went to check out the conditions. well of course as our polling. shows that they have. for prayer for almost 2.

years of. 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 and 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 we are seeing the consequences of this in autumn did we relax because there were some objective reasons for that or were we just being stupid no we're not stupid we are just human beings how many temporary 1000 hospitals were set up in 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 of the thought if the thing on the. news and it will slowly be shown some ventilators has the survival rate grown since march for patients on a ventilator it hasn't changed much what is the rate 25 percent however our approach has changed a lot of them for us now placing a patient on a ventilator as a last resort when all other possible treatments are exhausted or the question will come there i think this is not the feeling of the most ill middle of the earth incredible i thought of it clearly there. sure you would be produced of the ocean. taking with them was mean you was able to how has the hospitals work changed since

march knickers in a store 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 as we expect a 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 and 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 the short bunch. i . now for some world news in brief a 20 year old gunman who killed 3 fellow soldiers at an airfield in the russian

city of honest has been arrested and was after a several hour long search operation a suspect 1st attacked an officer with an axe before grabbing a pistol and opening fire a 4th victim was seriously injured and is recovering in the hospital it hack is thought to have happened following an argument. in bangkok protesters received a what welcome outside the royal palace they were calling for democratic reforms to the time monarchy were greeted with water cannon. tropical storm has made landfall in the florida keys heavy rains have already caused flooding leaving scores dead and over 100 people missing it out is expected to move into the southeastern gulf of mexico. the u.k. has denied entry to all the stars from denmark over concerns they may be infected with a new strain of coded 19 the mutation of the virus which spread through mink farms

has been detected in 214 people have also been reported and for farms across other parts of europe and the us millions of mink are now set to be called. mature the virus mutates in maine and the mutated virus can spread to humans this is very very serious as the danish health authorities and deal aboard to reach have fun fly for example safire assist in maine farms the mutated virus the main committee there who pulls the risk there the upcoming vaccines it will not work as they should. denmark's response to the new virus has sparked concern among animal welfare

activists our panel of guests debated the issue. the current weight and hard. precautionary measures are very important if there are issues that you need to stop the 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 animal or reservoir for the coronavirus sauce kovi to varian's then it becomes much much harder and much much 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 the neck netherlands in spain in italy in the u.s. and in denmark all become hotspots for the paris so why take the risk why should we

can bowl 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 today she and yes of course it is sad to rack 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 mean other people haven't had access 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 in many farms is to ban the fair trade and this is. calling on them not to do that was a sign industry anyway top designers in the world if you think what i do concur with my colleague that. i said the use of the fears or the fashion industry is declining since quite some time but this this is this is serious the size of the trade that was related to minutes when exxon comes to denmark it's relevant you're talking 800000000 worth of trade to towards all of this and especially to china but that was all of the world and this measure that has been so drastic by the government and the prime minister most probably will put an end to this to this. to this industry anyway is it really necessary to have farmed animals so that we can harvest their 1st i think not per se it 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 that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website are to dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. join me every 1st day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm sure because most of the other. biden claims victory but what about those who voted for trump will they say now not my president is europe facing another wave of terrorism is neo liberal ideology showing signs of exhaustion.

they were going underground as the 73rd world health assembly resumes amid a coronavirus pandemic that has killed well over a 1000000 people worldwide and could reshape the global economy away from washington dollar dominance coming up in the show with former goldman sachs banker richie soon at running the u.k.'s finances join the pandemic we look at the culture that spawned not only him but also the 2008 financial crash with 2 former bankers turned t.v. writers whose new show industry exposes the arguable class war at the heart of the

city of london but what drives those who make it to the top of the world of banking we investigate the real american psychos as well as those crushed by modern capitalist society with the man behind killing dr mark freestone all of the more coming up in today's going underground but 1st coronavirus has arguably shine a light like no other on the relative responses of capitalist and neo communist societies to pandemics here in britain economic protection is under the thumb of a former banker bailed out goldman sachs boris johnson's chancellor regime but what's it like to work in the city a new drama premiering tonight in the americas on h.b.o. and here in britain on b.b.c. 2 tomorrow focuses on the lives of bright graduates who enter the bailed out city of london for money their behavior in just acting with geopolitics like a potential u.s. china war it's called industry and paints a tragically vivid and had mystic.