get that the police are allowed to lie to you. the person who falsely 1st actually came to believe the lie that we were told about their own behavior. once a false confession is taken, the case is closed, nobody really controls the difference between good compression. someone that is an immaculate deception, that's what one of donald trump's advisers is brand of the 2020 us presidential election. i think the president's team is working under the assumption of a 2nd term. we look back at previous allegations of fraud in american pilots. also to come, we speak to a former special adviser to barack obama, about how different u.s. foreign policy might be under joe biden. right now, i think by the pair's we do see the country going through were searching debate. russian peacekeepers, observation posts on the go, on account of back after

a peace deal was signed between armenia and as a bishop but also to come working from home shouldn't tax apparent need. i think the idea being pushed by german economists during the pandemic. we had up though, how much remote work is actually save on commuting and lunch breaks. welcome, just going 2 o'clock in moscow, you watching r.t. international. now we start this hour in the u.s. where the 2020 presidential election is far from over as counting and recounting drags on in a number of states nearly 2 weeks on from the vote. and the trumpet, ministration is adamant that the president will secure a 2nd term my own view. looking at this election, we have what appears in some sense to be an immaculate deception. we're moving

forward here at the white house that there will be a 2nd term. the media outlets have called the election for joe biden. however, don't trump has yet to concede victory, and he's claiming that the election was fraudulent. his team of launch legal challenges in several states and demanded recounts. one thing is in fact underway in georgia where the race is too close to call. although some republicans, they're all raising concerns saying it's not being verified independently, dan tally of the 2020 presidential race in georgia's 159 counties is under way the largest manual retaliate in the country's history. a hand count stems from an audit required by state law, according to the law, one race must be audited by hand to ensure voting. machines are counting ballots accurately. it began at 9 am friday and is expected to be complete by 11, 59 pm, wednesday. officials in nevada working to finish counting votes in clark county,

although we still have work to do, staff will be fully engaged friday, saturday, and sunday with reconciling all of the records that we have in place for all the votes that were cast in. clark county was because he was the term supporters continuing their stop. the still rallies. thursday, demonstrators gathering in richmond, virginia, where you guys and even now there are no homework for all voters so quiet that he was there for the president to let the whole world outdoors or michigan were about to overturn or scarfs or were about to overturn. that's over here. they're going to find out really where you all, there is a 1st go counting your georgia in arizona and the voters because trump still in that we the u.s. postal service whistleblower who shared information about backdating ballots in pennsylvania with project there are toss was questioned by u.s.p.s. investigators richard hopkins says he stands by his initial claims to say that i did not repair my statements. after tweeting about the dominion voting machines,

deleting votes, president trump tweeting friday morning, back 2020 was a rigged election reporting for the news with rick sanchez and tossed. a sweet state officials and independent observers have all said that there's no indication of wrongdoing in the election in a letter to the trump of ministration. u.s. election officials call the 2020 vote the most secure in american history. but a recent poll does indicate that widespread concern does exist among voters. is that mail in voting could lead to fraud? our panel of guests discuss the issue, some bureaucratic agency saying they think it was the most secure election ever. that's fine, but we, the people have a right and a campaign has to get to the bottom of this. and if we get to the bottom of the process, the rule of law, the constitution this, that our founders knew how to set this up. we've had other elections where there either was allegations of fraud or enough questions of fraud that they changed the election. so let's get to the bottom of it. let's see what happens. georgia has

a republican governor, a republican cheap elections officer, 2 republican presidents, republican lieutenant governor. it's all republicans involved in this vote count. so you're telling me that republicans coronated it was fired against the president of the united states to create this, this loss. that obviously is attributed now to going to truck in some state dept president obama is lecturing the american people on concession when hillary clinton and the democrats in congress never conceded the present. trump, they never stop digging into him. but look out, all i'm saying is don't accept the results until we get to the bottom of it. then we should. the question is whether democrats would accept the results if we get to the point where we find big fraud. bottom line is it doesn't matter who's counting, it doesn't matter what litigation you have by law, by statute you cannot do is beyond december 8th, zimmer, 14 is a day will be electoral college has to be and so those are 2 days i'm looking for. if anyone tries to violate those dates, now you're in a constitutional crisis,

and now you are impacting the transfer of power. that is constitutionally mandated by january. when republicans supporting trumps fraud allegations of putting democracy on a dangerous path. that is, according to former u.s. president barack obama, but the u.s. election system has been questioned for decades. have done. hawkins takes a closer look now at previous allegations of fraud in u.s. elections. there's a common theme in the media when it comes to the possibility of irregularities in the u.s. presidential election. it's a ludicrous claim that ludicrous, every vote counts. but when someone gets enough votes to win, the loser, concedes that is what happens in this country. destroyed was unfounded, ludicrous, and baseless allegations made by president trump by his campaign team. remain just that allegations until proven otherwise in courts of law. but such controversies are nothing new for president barack obama. i come from chicago, so are,

are. so i want to be honest, it's not is there, it's just republicans who get around with elections in the past. sometimes democrats have to and here's jerry nadler, another democrat on the current chairman of the house judiciary committee. in my experience in new york paper ballots are extremely susceptible to freud. your paper with no machines, i can show you, i can show you experience, which would make your head spin, wasn't alone the 2004 election saw concerns raised about multiple aspects of the voting process on key swing states, ohio saw democrat candidate john kerry question whether the outcome represented the will of the voters, and the d.n.c. chairman agreed. i'm not confident that the election in ohio was fairly decided. we know that there was substantial voter suppression and the machines were not reliable. it should not be a surprise that the republicans are willing to do things that are unethical to manipulate elections. that's what we suspect has happened. and we'd like to

safeguard our elections so that democracy can still be counted on to work. former u.s. president jimmy carter co-chair, the federal election reform commission, which states that in 2005, that mail in voting is fraught with the risk of ford and coercion. he's since backtracked on that plane, but remains scathing about elections in the united states. the american political system wouldn't measure up to any sort of international standards for several reasons. lack of central election commission capable of issuing uniform rules, lack of equal access to the media for all viable candidates. and the inability to conduct recounts the election process in america has of course come a long way. in the 19th century voting was controlled by gangs who would broadly bore, coerce voters. it looked something like this. and more for my boy to form an alliance with you against bill cutting on his slate of late of his candidates. i'm and some

people, every irish vote you sent them a nice way in the coming elections. things became less violent and more nuanced in the 20th century. lyndon johnson ended up winning a primary. he was losing in texas by just 87 votes. all thanks to the last minute appearance of a ballot box full of votes for johnson. this paved the way to his rise in politics and later presidency. it was scandal at the time, but an admission it took years to emerge. johnson did not win that election. it was students for him. and i know exactly how it was done. the 2000 bush gore election controversy has been cited by some as a comparison to 2020. results in the deciding state will close with the supremes court giving bush the nod. but the result could have been a very different thousands of voters in florida were labeled felons, preventing them from voting. bush's brother also happens to be the state's governor . no major law firm in florida worked for al gore, even democratic,

even democratic oriented law firms. because everyone was afraid of the bush family and the governor and losing important state business in this election cycle could perhaps be summed up best by joe biden. himself, we have put together. i think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of american politics. of course, this was just an ironic slip of the tongue biden was really talking about the democrats' voter protection program. for many though, the issue with the presidential election 2020 may not be the result itself or even of trump's claims are all true or not. against the backdrop of election control was the spawning decades. it's the total dismissal and reluctance to even investigate the allegations that will continue to polarize voters for years to come. when mother former special adviser to barack obama discussed what joe biden's foreign

policy might look like with artie's going underground. do you think it's a mistake to see trump is some kind of bolt from the blue. someone who broke in a fundamental way with american traditions because trump's isolationism, his unilateralism, his protectionism, his racism, all of those actually buttes have very strong roots in american history. going back to the founders, going back to the late 17 hundreds. and in some ways, i think trump has demonstrated himself to be a very acute politician, because he's been able to tap in to that different narrative that different version of american, except exceptionalism, america, as the city on the hill that stands aloof from the world, not a country that goes out to change the world. and so right now, i think as biden prepares to take office, we do see the country going through a searching debate about the nature of its role moving forward. and my own view is

it's time for the country to find the middle ground between where it was in the pre pearl harbor era, which was doing too little and running away from the world where it has been more recently, which is drawing, trying to do too much particularly in the middle east, to find that stable middle ground to step back, but not to step away from that russian peacekeepers have established observation post on the go and i had a back as part of the truce between mania and as a big military police units will ensure the safety of the disputed region, civilian population, and also patrol the recently the frontline. let's get more now from our correspondent. i'm not against death, he's in the capital yet. if i get out the name, just tell us what is the current situation like when you go and i cut back

while the russian peacekeeping force being stationed there is quickly reaching its full complement. we've received new footage of massive convoys of military trucks supplied vehicles, communications gear armored personnel carriers snaking their way across the, the rugged and mountainous terrain that he's gotten the kind of buffer they're going to be stationed out of step on the cat, the capital of the breakaway republic from where russian peacekeepers in tight coordination with both armenia and visited by john will observe that she will observe the peace between the 2 and meet mediate efforts to, to return various territories. to is there by john mediate efforts to return volatile return. refugees back to their homes, because the situation for now is critical. but fool all of that to happen. peacekeepers must be stationed there and they must be able to observe what is happening in order to carry out peacekeeping tasks,

prevent possible incidents and ensure the safety of the russian military. we interact with the headquarters or azerbaijan and armenia through direct communications channels. we publish daily news letters on the monitoring of the situation in the conflict zone. there had been repeated attempts to deescalate that to get both sides to pull back throughout the course of the 6 week 6 week war. the 1st effort was a russian effort. then the united states, donald trump, attempted to negotiate a cease fire. nothing held, it seemed that you know, this was only, there was only escalation ahead. fortunately, on the 10th of november, the russian president mediated a cease fire which was signed by both the president to visit by john and the prime minister of armenia. since then the ceasefire has held, but you know, not everyone is happy. many people here in a meaning of, for example, felt angry,

felt betrayed by their government. there were protests efforts to besieged state offices, but the prime minister was adamant that the worst was prevented that this could have ended in catastrophe for armenia. this is not victory, but there will be a defeat unless he recognizes offers a loser. we will never recognize also says losers. and this should usher in o.e. roof national unification and revival. there is currently an enormous amount of uncertainty and, and worry, especially among the thousands and thousands of armenians who have been displaced from their homes, who have been forced to forced to run who have lost their homes, whose whom's and towns have been destroyed. and off, many of them are enthusiastic about returning to territories, which will be handed over to is it about god, if they haven't already, we've seen footage videos of people burning their homes, their places of business rather than see them turn up and you know,

being handed over to, to did to the enemy, nevertheless, is there by john. and many people have said about john. a happy about how the war has turned out that there's currently, you know, that peace has been established and that they see themselves as weakness. that wasn't a solution, was the the hoop it is now that you know the wounds will, will heal that through russian mediation. build sides will start to agree, will start to talk with each other. we've already seen the exchange of the remains

of full and fallen soldiers take place yesterday. there are efforts underway to return is by the refugees as possible to their homes. but obviously not everyone is a doozy. asked about returning to towns and villages, which are now just kilometers away from the front lives, whether a peacekeepers, they're all otherwise. and the unrest here, for example, hasn't led to was some fear to a toppling of the current government though. though it is still early and what, what happens means to be seen. it is still a delicate situation. thanks, maria. that was artie's more aghast if they're not yet a fan by one of the biggest global terror changes brought about by the pandemic, is a big move to working from home millions of paper worldwide. a staying away from the office and research isn't germany's biggest bank, and i are saying those people should be taxed for the privilege of working from home will be part of the new normal. when after the pandemic has passed,

we argue that remote workers should pay a tax for the privilege our calculations suggest the amounts raised could fund material income subsidies for low income earners who are unable to work remotely, and thus assume more old economy and health risks. well, i don't, your bank team is suggesting an additional 5 percent levy 8th of remote start. they do argue that it's roughly equivalent to what people save on transport and also food, adding that the money could be redistributed to those who cannot work online, many of whom are blue collar workers on low incomes. the researches estimate that such a scheme would raise around $48000000000.00 in tax revenue in the u.s. $9000000000.00 in the u.k. and 19000000000 in germany will most of this year have shown positive attitudes to home base work. a poll in the us found a hefty 72 percent of so-called knowledge. workers want

a combination of remote and also office judi's, while only 12 percent would prefer to work solely from the office. journalist charlie boy land political geo political analyst, ron rufus, gave us their views on the idea of a new work from home tax. it's needs to be proven 1st. the people who are working from home at the long run will save money, because if this is the new normal that is supposed to be, then that would also mean that you need a fully equipped equipped office. you can to work for the next years from your kitchen desk. actually turning, just speaking specifically about your character weeks, weeks, which the a narrative quite far from boris johnson, me a month and a half ago, telling people to get out to work or the fire pretty much shuts the essence of the message. i think we have to have a wider conversation about working from home in long term. if people stay at home,

work from home, the turnover is reduced. for many other businesses like hotel guest drawn to me. like all the transportation business loses tat turnover. if people work from home and this hurts, the overall economy makes people is really nice and that is getting to work. and that is internet fights to get something every year and a lot of cases. so that automatically removes the significant costs associated with getting to an office job. the way the governments are in europe at least are handling now the penn demick crisis is in a fact suffocating economy. we have a great loss in g.d.p. this year. we'll have it next year. so i think it can never be compensated just by a simple tax. it's no time to even implement it in its owner's political will. and

i say yes, ok and secure the 1st 3 months of next year. once it actually gets rolled out and we'll have the conversation for free and clear, it's time for the governments should try to open up the economy as soon as possible to allow people to go back to their workplaces as soon as possible that really our economy can pick up speed again and we need that as soon as possible and no tax can really correct this current situation that we are having now. washing our teeth, going to be the sad fishermen in france, a warning down made beyond repair with plans to build a new wind farm in britain and get the go ahead but have a look at the story just after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides. very dramatic development only closely. i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical. time to sit down and talk. hello

again. you with r.t. international now made a soaring rise in crime. the us city of minneapolis has approved a cash injection for its police department. the force will get an extra half a $1000000.00. this will be used to recruit more officers and the funding boost comes despite an earlier pledge by the city council to dismantle the department in the wake of the killing of a black man at the hands of local officers. the death of george floyd sparked months of nationwide protests.

homicides in minneapolis have doubled since last year with nearly 75 killings reported in 2020. number of shootings is also reached the deck a decade high with 500 people shot the share. also, falling crime is also hitting record highs with over $4600.00, incidents reported to authorities and some $100.00 officers have left the minneapolis police force since the start of the year leading to an understaffing problem or scissor hemorrhaging. our city is bleeding at this moment. i'm trying to do all i can to stop that bleeding. and i'm so doing that through having the funds to, to launch a citywide joining force me to even issued if we can try to try to stop the

bleeding here in our city. as he's met the spokes person for the us, national police association says that the funding who are in force mooned would leave citizens, unprotected crime, started to skyrocket and violent crime is out of control in certain parts of the city of minneapolis. and so this, this notion of defunding, the police actually hurt not just the police, but it's actually harming the citizens. what we're also seeing is the more resources you take away from police officers, the less community policing there are. and the more police officers get hurt. people are not dying quickly of covert 19 in the city of minneapolis. yes, people are getting sick from cope with 19. most people in the united states recover quickly for from code 1000. you don't recover from being murdered in order to keep

the citizen safe. they're going to have to learn how to live with police officers. the minneapolis police department is one of the most progressive police departments in the united states. fishman, reposing plans to build an offshore wind farm in western france, claiming it will endangered sea life and or side that livelihoods present when human chromosome been pushing for renewable energy projects. picks up the story. fishing is a way of life. pay off the coast of brittany every morning, fishermen head off to sea in the hope of catching their bedroom. but they're now not alone. a renewable energy company is also trying to get it hooks into this area's natural resources. the strong winds in tights here make the coast around the area which is near sawn creek perfect for an offshore wind farm. 62 turbines are

planned with the site expected to be operational in the next 3 years. but fishermen are determined to sink the project. our leaders have been clear if they don't get answers to their questions, they say there cannot be a wind farm. that is a certainty, like our committers president. he says he would rather die standing and find this project than let it happen. the fisherman cannot lead this baby developed. the wind farm is important politically french president not growing, has attempted to portray himself as being an environmental champion. now he hopes that wind power could generate almost a 5th of france's electricity by 2028, partly from offshore turbines. yet one campaign group says the construction of the wind farms is an environmental disaster. congress has one long

to put it when you install a wind farm in a protected zone, the environmental damage is close. it will destroy the reach sea life and small scale fishing will disappear. the government has tried to offer compensation, but it can't compensate damage to the sea. there is no compensation for loss of sea life. we also have the biggest natural reserve in brittany because we are in the migration corridor for birds, and there is no compensation for the destruction of birds. the wind from project is said to be exacerbating of tensions too, just the other side of where it plans. it's the oil of jersey where fishing is also an important economy. it's no exaggeration to say that jersey fishermen are not able to access large areas of their own waters because it is covered in french, french nets, french he says that's because french fishermen have been pushed off their own waters because of the wind farm who and those vessels which are now turning up and

increasing if it to it in jersey's waters to an extent that our fisherman can no longer access huge areas of our own sea of air and waters. so that it is causing just on a set of levels of hardship such as a fisherman, it's caught, it's creating conflict between the fishermen and french fishermen and certainly creating unsustainable what has created unsustainable levels of fishing, if it in the water. that's the company responsible for the construction of the wind from says it continues to study the impact it has on the environment and for the french government. this is a project is one plan to front, moving toward 3 nubile energy sources. but locals, hey, are determined to do everything they can to scupper that shell. it didn't ski

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