republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and it did if possible in other states natasha going to aim al-jazeera atlanta. we want some other news now and at least 3 people have been killed in major flooding in malaysia has left more than 30000 sheltering in relief centers after thousands of homes were inundated across 6 states from somalia reports from joe host a bird's eye view of this palm oil plantation would normally reveal a vast field of green instead it looks like a muddy river swathes of malaysia including joe whole state covered in floodwaters after the heavy rains that began last weekend. something that just like 2 children age are still cut to the only by boat people who say they badly had time

are stanch trump loyalists kelly lefler says that she's going to join a number of republicans on wednesday who will be opposing what should be a routine certification of biden's win look this has been very much as we've seen throughout the general election last year kind of a by unary choice with each party either supporting or opposing trump for the republican candidates their strategy was to to attack democrats calling them radical and saying that the vote for the republicans was a way to stave off socialism with regard to the democratic candidates john aasif and raphael warnock they really frame this race as one to help everyday georgians they said that they wanted to expand health care for the needy they wanted to help put forth a more effective pandemic response they wanted to implement criminal justice reform and promote clean energy president elect joe biden was at a rally for the 2 candidates we attended yesterday and if you listen to the way he promoted the 2 candidates it tells you a lot about the trump factor in this race he said that if and warnock were quote honorable decent a

candidates raphael warnock and john also for trying to unseat republicans david could you and kelly lefler democrats need to win back both races to take back control of the u.s. senate. d.w. correspond correspondent all of a solid is in atlanta georgia all of the votes are still being counted how close is the race. it really is a nail biter all it's a back and forth the margins are razor thin thin that are being counted right now one time the democrats are leave then the republicans are in the lead but it really is too close to call and the vote counting and it might be a scenario just like in november in the presidential election where we have to wait until all the mail in ballots are counted that is unlikely going to happen tonight and georgian election officials have said that it might happen tomorrow but it might even have might even happen later later this week or right so the outcome of these elections will decide how joe biden's presidency will go freely what's really at stake here. well technically this is about the majority and senate but this really is also about the fate of the

early democratic candidates raphael warnock and john also trying to unseat republicans david and kelly lefler democrats need to win both races to take back control of the u.s. senate. d.w. correspondent all of the solids is in atlanta georgia for us all of the polls have just closed across the state what do we know. well what we can i can tell you here all is that we have a record turnout in especially in early voting so a lot of georgians cast their ballots and ahead of time in addition to that of course because of the cold 910 demick are many mail ballots absentee ballots the military also americans living abroad they all need counting and so we could see a scenario just like in the presidential election in november where we might not get the final results tonight georgian election officials told us as well as the offices of the candidate they expect the results for the earliest tomorrow or even later this week. the outcome of these elections will decide the balance of power in washington and what is really at stake here you know so this this runoff election all is about the fate of joe bid

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here in georgia is that the rhetoric that we're hearing might even hurt the republican incumbents kelly lefler and david perdue. thank you very much all of a salad in georgia for us. now the owner of an israeli football club long considered a mainstay of the right wing thon says he wants to stamp out racism at the club was a whole gig says he's also willing to sign our of play is something the buy sadrist jerusalem club has never done before in fact one of the club's new colonist is an arab businessmen in the initiative has it's a process and its contract says. once a make over for his club jerusalem it's been linked for years as a right wing team which he claims hurts its reputation. a cyst. image did the club. was one of the key elements that brought both me to buy disc love. when i said i wanted to give back to the community i wanted to do something good for the community i saw this problem that we flicked bad not only on the club but also means that you can do all your space. some people doing things that against all the teachings and so then he pulled in wealthy arab businessmen she comme

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and immolated if possible in other states natasha going to aim al-jazeera atlanta. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter elsewhere. and all forty's in argentina are all threatening tougher coronavirus restrictions as they struggle to vaccinate the population and infections surge to stay with us here on our just. it's time for the perfect jenny the winter sponsored plan qatar airways it's pretty cold in most of europe now temperatures well below freezing still clouds circulating causing falls out of the clouds likely to be snow and it certainly shown itself a huge amount of snow fell in italy bu

called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of incumbent kelly lefler in the other contest democrat john asafa taken a slim lead over. republican david perdue democrats need to win both seats to take a troll the senate and to help president elect joe biden advances legislative agenda. now if the result is confirmed democrats are rochelle warnock would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the south here's what he said a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we've proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. reporter erin tell tin is following this story for us hi aaron thanks for joining us at this point what can we say about the control of the senate right now while it appears right now the democrats are easing towards ever so slightly complete control of the senate and what that actually means is just r

respond and how they carry forward the the legacy of the republican party 11 member to know was kelly lefler the senator from georgia who is a new senator but just lost her reelection race she said that she withdrew her objections to certifying biden's win because of the chaos and violence that was unleashed on the u.s. capitol today she was the one who said that she could not carry forward with good conscience those objections but it's notable that as she made these statements after she already lost her race her political future is already looking dimmer by the minute and. didn't have as much ammunition to sabotage her future political career of it's already heading toward the end and secondly as you pointed out twitter has banned or suspended from using his account for another few hours here and these are. critical statements against trump that were made by his party loyalists were made when he couldn't use twitter to immediately attack them so perhaps that also takes some of the sting. out of the president's bite when he cannot use his favor medium to immediately attack his perceived enem

implement criminal justice reform promote clean energy the republicans senator david perdue and kelly lefler both wealthy business people stressed their business accu men said they would vote for policies that created jobs and helped revive our economy but most of their attacks centered on what they said were fending georgians off from quote radical democrats and socialism so how did you originally respond to these messages remains to be seen but there is a sense that no matter the outcome of this senate runoff it will provide a kind of pivot point for both the democrat and the republican parties in terms of its messaging and its identity in a post president trump era natasha thank you very much indeed natasha gunn i'm talking to us from columbus in georgia. u.k. prime minister boris johnson's concert a trip to india to deal with a covert $1000.00 crisis and booking johnson's order to people in england to stay at home for at least 7 weeks as part of a new nationwide locked on under simmons has more from london. there is a sullen acceptance of what the prime minister had to say but not withou

they're both wealthy and were are former business executives senator david perdue and senator kelly lefleralso spent a lot of time with airing negative campaign ads that focused on what they called fending off quote radical democrats and socialism senator produce said he did not think trump's descent from ation would have any bearing on the turnout but privately republicans in the state are quite concerned no matter what happens in the senate runoff and every professor i spoke to says she believes it will be a close race and that's because of the valving demographics and voter mobilization efforts over the years but no matter what. evans in this race this does bring to a close the 2020 alexion cycle and it may be a point of reckoning for both the democrats and the republicans as they look to their messaging their identities in a post president trump era just to be clear natasha does this give mr biden potential here for a clean sweep he's got the white house he moves in end of january does it mean that the democrats can get the congress and the senate as well well as you mentioned the pres

kelly lefler has said that there is still a path to victory it is unclear exactly what she means by that and what path she's talking about but as i mentioned it's clear that the perdue campaign is going to be looking at as i said any resource they can get to ensure that this vote count is accurate right now with the margin between asaf and purdue we are getting into recount territory the margin between them is 16000 votes it's less than half a percentage point and that means in the state of georgia that the candidate does have the right to request a recount it's worth noting though that already john has done better than biden did in the state in november biden won georgia by less than 12000 votes and as i said awesome his leading by about 16000 votes that's actually thanks very much indeed natascha going to him talking to us from the lines in georgia. a lot as natasha just said the u.s. congress is essential to meet shortly to certify the electoral votes that is the final stage in this lengthy american election process and it will fall allies joe biden selection as the $46.00 president o

candidates on course to win georgia's 2 seats raphael warnock has won the 1st seat ahead of incumbent kelly lefler with 50.6 percent of the vote to 49.4 percent and it's even tighter for the other seat with john asaf currently at 50.2 percent ahead of the incumbent they reproduce on 49.8 percent. well democratic candidate john also if has the clear victory with a narrow lead despite the race being too close to call georgia thank you so much for the confidence that you've placed in me i am honored honored by your support by your confidence by your trust and i will look forward 'd to serving you in the united states senate with integrity with humility with honor and getting things done for the people of georgia thank you so much well ruffled warnock is making history by becoming the 1st the black senator from georgia. or into the senate. to work for georgie. no matter who you cast your vote for in this election in this moment in american history. washington has a choice to make and all of us have a choice to make. will we continue to divide. the strat and this out of one another when we love our nei

look at what's at stake which uses runoffs in georgia put the 2 republican senators david and kelly lefler against democratic challenges john ostroff and raphael warnock the vote will determine who controls the u.s. senate democrats would need to win both seats to deny the republicans a majority they could use to block large parts of joe biden's legislative agenda if the democrats secure both seats the senate would be split down the middle of vice president elect comma harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote and the vote is coming against the backdrop of stunning comments made by president trump to georgia's secretary of state. i here's one of the one i. $11780.00 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say. dalton georgia where president trump is due to hold a rally in a few hours so everyone's there trying to campaign run to the last moment. exactly right it's really the last chance for donald trump even though his power may be winning in the office of the presidency he still exerts a great deal of influence over the base and you can see that with the number o

tuesday's runoffs in georgia picked the 2 republican senators david purdy you and kelly lefler against democratic challengers john are soft and raphael warnock the vote will determine who controls the u.s. senate democrats would need to win both seats to deny the republicans a majority they could use to block large parts of joe biden's legislative agenda if the democrats secure both seats the senate would be split down the middle the vice president let come a harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote and the vote is coming as the backdrop of stunning comments made by president trump to georgia's secretary of state i'll use one of what i. $11780.00 words which is one more than we have because we want to say. and what's the political fallout of that recording. well the concern among republicans i can tell you is that trump's continued and baseless allegations of voter fraud it will depress the base when with there is the senate runoff a very high stakes senate runoff on tuesday but at the moment the georgia secretary of state has yet again found himself an unwitting costar in t

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and immolated if possible in other states natasha going to aim elders era atlanta let's take you back to washington d.c. another house of representatives continuing to debate the vote on pennsylvania of course there were objection it's not just pennsylvania but arizona too we expect that debate to continue for a little while longer of course we'll continue to monitor what is said there and bring it to here on al-jazeera. let's move on to the day's other news now the e.u. has approved the use of maternal covert 19 vaccine as it tries to accelerate its inoculation program for more than 440000000 people but there's been criticism of the slow rollout across the contine

of an office in georgia picked the 2 republican senators david perdue and kelly lefler against democratic challengers john also off and raphael warnock the vote will determine who controls the u.s. senate democrats would need to win both seats to deny the republicans a majority they could use to block large parts of joe biden's legislative agenda if the democrats secure both seats for senate would be split down the middle the vice president coming to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote. let's go live to natasha the name in the city of columbus in georgia so what's the turnout like where you are. well throughout the day it looks like it's been a steady stream but certainly there have not been long lines throughout the state there have been wait times of less than 10 minutes we spoke to an attorney who is a kind of election monitor if you will on standby here in this county to assist if there are any legal issues tied to voting and he says it's been very quiet it's a bit expected that there would not have been packed polls because of that record runoff early runoff voting pe

for the republicans in the run offs in georgia picked the 2 republican senators david do you and kelly lefler against democratic challenges john are soft and raphael warnock the vote will determine who controls the u.s. senate democrats would need to win both seat to deny the republicans a majority they could use to block large parts of joe biden's legislative agenda if the democrats secure both seats the senate would be split down the middle the vice president coming to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote well fisher joins us from the state capital atlanta alan what's the turnout like there. well of course we had to 3100000 early votes cast and we're told that there are no problems with the voting system here across georgia that comes from the secular state but raffensperger a name you might have herod over the last 48 hours he's in charge of the elections here in georgia he says that the average wait time is about 2 minutes no one waiting more than 30 minutes there's a few issues with some of the voting machines in and around atlanta just a couple of them early this morning

control the senate president donald trump was in georgia to rally support for republican incumbents kelly lefler and david purged and president elect joe biden held a rally to get out the vote for their democratic challengers polls show the kind of it's neck and neck and democrats need to win both seats in order to have a majority in the senate clearing the way for biden's agenda. as the country hold holds its breath on u.s. bureau chief talked to voters in georgia this is why playing right now because going on between know even who you vote for not go for all the violence other than just for minorities and for black people so we've got to make it right and the only way to make it right is by voting i think in this particular election is about balance. the 3 branches of government. that's what's really. i think about. no government entity complete complete control did i mean is washington bureau chief in a sport is in georgia and she sent us this is meant. it is here in georgia where the fate of joe biden's presidency will be out to minutely decided today because it is this election that will de

here in georgia is that the rhetoric that we're hearing might even hurt the republican incumbents kelly lefler and david perdue. thank you very much all of a salad in georgia for us. some sports news now and in football the euro go away and players' union has called on football authorities or forces in england to overturn edinson cavani a 3 match ban for using a racist term on social media the manchester united striker posted the message after he was congratulated for scoring a winning goal in november vonnie later deleted the post when he was told that the word in spanish could be considered racist but he said the only he only meant to extend affection with his comments the union said cavani has been discriminated against the culture and way of life of people. now the owner of an israeli football club long considered a mainstay of right wing fans says he wants to stamp out racism at the club more see how giggs says he's willing to sign arab players something the jerusalem club has never done before in fact one of the club's new co-owners is an arab business than the initiative has its support

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal votes were counted. between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and it did if possible in other states natasha going to ayman al jazeera atlanta but things were marred by chaos on capitol hill as pro trump supporters forced their way past police and security steve thomas is the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line on the washington editor at large for the hill he's joining us live by skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us steve as always there are calls of course for those who provoked this this action this pushing past into the capitol including donald trump to be held accountable for this talk us through what the possibilities might be. well right now we woke up to some news that that detoxifies the moment the p

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and in the late it if possible in other states natasha going to aim at al-jazeera atlanta. is an associate professor at lancaster university he's joining us live by skype from there thank you very much indeed for being with us the anger that we saw from trump's supporters in the last few hours isn't going to go anywhere fast is it what do you think is going to happen and how is it going to change the way that it's demonstrated. yeah you know i think we saw capitol police taken by surprise and i think we saw a nation taken by surprise by this this outrageous amount of physical violence. and i think that that means we have to be a little more cautious going into the

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and immolated if possible in other states natasha going to name al-jazeera atlanta. well this political chaos and violence dominates washington the u.s. has more than 132000 coronavirus patients in hospital more than it any time since the pandemic began the country recorded its worst ever a daily death toll on wednesday with more than 3800 fatalities critics say people aren't being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the government center of the crisis california that's where officials say there's a new death on average every 15 minutes let's bring in andy gallagher and he's joining us from miami florida which and he has also had a record numb

republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. the votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will certainly be studied by both parties and immolated if possible in other states natasha going to aim al-jazeera atlanta let's take you back to washington d.c. and capitol hill where the house of representatives lawmakers i continue to debate the objections to the pennsylvania of a tweak spent that to take some time they pennsylvania votes and also the arizona votes. objected to debates continues and will continue we think into the early hours of thursday morning let's listen in was unconstitutionally silence to you the silence to say this i will continue to fight for you you have been heard for more than 240 years tyranny has sought to extinguish the light of freedom as ronald reagan said before

come but senator david perdue and senator kelly lefler spent more time talking about their opposition then they have themselves both of these candidates have passed the democratic candidate john oster and reverend raphael warnock as radical democrats and said that a vote for them means fending off these quote radical democrats and fending off socialism the democrats have really looked at this campaign as a way of reaching out to ordinary georgians they have talked about expanding health care for people who qualify for insurance because they can't afford it they talked about getting a handle on this pandemic and ensuring that everyone has quick and easy access to the vaccine they talked about a livable wage promoting clean energy and promoting judicial reform really focusing on the what they believe are the everyday needs of georgians they have criticized the democrats have criticized the incumbent senators for their in their opinion putting profits before the pandemic what they're alluding to is allegations that both purdue and leffler made stock trades at the very beginning when it b

overshadowed this senate runoff the 2 incumbent republican senators senator david perdue and senator kelly lefler are trump loyalists they're actually going to join a group of republicans who are going to oppose what should be a routine certification of biden's when slated to take place in d.c. on wednesday they spent a good chunk of their campaign using terms right out of trump's playbook saying that georgians needed to fend off quote radical democrats and fend off socialism these are 2 very successful and wealthy former business executives they did it throughout the campaign tell voters that they would be able to draw from that experience and help pass policies that would revive the pandemic beleaguered economy but a lot of their campaigning and strategy was focused on this messaging of stopping radical democrats as for the democrats we attended a rally. featuring the president elect joe biden yesterday and just listen to the terminology he used he said that john aasif and reverend raphael warnock the 2 democratic senate candidates were quote qualified honorable decent men who would fight for g

lankford from oklahoma and kelly loffler the the senator from georgia who just lost her runoff election both of them pulling back their objections to counting those votes for biden lefler saying that there was no excuse for the for the events that unfolded really seen a more chasten attitude in the way that she delivered those comments as she was applauded by her colleagues afterward the pressure really now though is falling squarely on 2 other senators republicans who are really spearheading or were prior to this afternoon spearheading this effort to try to delay joe biden's certification and those senators are ted cruz and josh holley who have been conspicuously silent about their intentions following the rioting it remains to be seen whether. or not they will continue to object to other states electoral college votes as those are counted but what is undeniable is the pressure that is on not only those objecting republicans but on president trump himself we know that the 1st lady's chief of staff in the white house has resigned as a direct. result of the violence that happened today we know twitter has locked trump's account for 12 hours and removed his tweets that c

officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock slightly ahead of incumbent kelly lefler in the other contest democrat john has taken a slim lead over republican david perdue the democrats need to win both seats to take control of the senate and help president elect joe biden advance his legislative agenda if the result is confirmed the democrats rochelle warnock would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the southern state here's what he said earlier.

called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of the incumbent kelly lefler and the other contest democrat john also has taken a slim lead over republican david perdue democrats need to win both seats to take control of the senate and to help president elect joe biden and vance his legislative agenda. now if the result is confirmed of the democrats were not would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the south here's what he said a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. in the thing. is possible. we have a reporter aaron tilton with us now with the latest on the story aaron what can we say at this point about who has control of the senate well it's looking like democrats are moving ever so clover more closely to control complete control the government during the biden ministration now mu

called official live projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of incumbent kelly lefler in the other contests democrat john also claimed victory after taking a slim lead over republican david purged democrats need to win both seats to to. control office and president elect joe biden advance his agenda. if the result is confirmed democrats would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the southern state here's what he said just a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this moment in america. could only happen here. we were told we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we proved that with the whole. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. let's talk about this with. jol darayya joe at this point what can we say about the control of the senate well so far there are no official results yet but multiple media outlets are calling at least one of those senate seats for the democrats for raphael warnock he has a very narrow lead however a.p. says that his lead is b