courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right well joining us from birmingham is scott lucas he's the co-founder of america unfiltered that's a news analysis site on u.s. politics and foreign policy thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so trump and his team defeated in that supreme court decision on pennsylvania is it over or can donald trump try and fight this does he have another viable path forward. even if donald trump doesn't realize that it's over i thought this would go on all the way to january 20th and indeed before the election donald trump said i will take this to the supreme court and i will have them throw out these mail in ballots but that one line rejection from the court which didn't even bother to discuss the merits or lack of merits of the truck camp's lawsuit but simply said look we're not intervening on your behalf that shuts the door on it there's still one more look for a lawsuit which was filed bizarrely by the texas attorney general yesterday to try to delay the electoral college vote next monday that's the formal certification of joe biden's vic

well joining us from birmingham is scott lucas. he's a co-founder of america, unfiltered a new science on american politics and foreign policy. good to have you with us if we could focus perhaps a little bit on the economy too. is president trump's insistence to continue fighting the election result casting any shadow on the economy? do you think? it certainly doesn't help dealing with what needs to be done about the economy, including in the midst of a pandemic, your viewers will probably remember that trump held up the transition to the incoming biden team for ways as he put out his baseless claims about election fraud . now he has reluctantly allowed that transition to proceed, but the biden folks are having to carry out extensive talks with u.s. agencies from health and now from health and human services to homeland security, to the treasury. to try to establish what needs to be done in an american economy, which has although it recovered somewhat in the autumn, been hit hard this year like many economies down about 89 percent

scope but some benefits including a boost to weekly unemployment and months ago let's bring in scott lucas is a professor of american and canadian studies at the university of birmingham he's joining us from there thanks for your time with us on the news hour so does the stimulus bill go far enough to help american families. no i think republicans and democrats he acknowledged that it's only an interim measure and present like joe biden has that one of the priorities when he takes office in january 20th is to get a broader measure the reason for that is that although this provides for the renewal of unemployment benefits it does so with for a short period of time although it provides for loans to small businesses it does only cover some businesses you'll need more as the economy tries to come out of the pandemic and it doesn't deal with important issues such as aid to states and communities who are facing budget true crises because they're having to spend quite a bit to deal with a crisis as well yeah ok so we know what's in it i mean what more can you tell us about what's not and it's and

and its politics but i'm scott lucas the greats get your thoughts thank you for joining us from birmingham now a member of abu dhabi is royal family has bought a 50 percent stake in an israeli football club based our jerusalem shea kumud been on is also committed to invest more than $90000000.00 over the next decades despite spacer being the only top club in israel never to have signs an ira player they also have a group of fans known as left familia which has been openly abusive towards palestinian israelis let's get more from harry fawcett he joins us live from west jerusalem this appears to be quite a controversial i question there does now. that's right you know on the day that it was reported that a former israeli space security chief was confirming the existence of aliens this is perhaps the 2nd most sort of cognitively dissonant story in the media the idea that an arab rule family would buy into in such a large way the most overtly arab anti arab group of fans in israeli football and their club base our jerusalem which plays here at teddy's stadium in southwestern jerusalem does see

scott lucas is the co-founder of america unfiltered that's a news analysis site on u.s. politics on foreign policy he says the supreme court's ruling is largely meant to deter any future of legal challenges from the administration. the legal message was that in this specific case 7 of the 9 justices said texas you've got no right to try to interfere over the way that elections were conducted in georgia wisconsin pennsylvania and michigan and the 2 most conservative justices samuel alito clarence thomas said ok we would consider your case but there's absolutely no chance that we would grant you what you want which is to throw out the elections in those 4 states what is important beyond the supreme court decision is the political message and that is in 57 of 58 cases the courts have said you really shouldn't be here to the trump lawyers they said there's no claims of fraud there's no evidence and your legal theory is completely inappropriate and misguided you have the combination of the supreme court 1st on tuesday in a case brought over pennsylvania then in the texas laws

scope but some of its benefits including that an employment boost for people and did months ago scott lucas is a professor of american and canadian studies at the investor bombing and he says this new stimulus package doesn't go far enough. republicans and democrats acknowledge that it's only an interim measure and present like joe biden has that one of the priorities when he takes office in january 20th is to get a broader measure the reason for that is is that although this provides for the renewal of unemployment benefits it does solely for a short period of time although it provides for loans to small businesses it does only cover some businesses will be more as the economy tries to come out of the pandemic and it doesn't deal with important issues such as aid to states and communities who are facing budget true crises because they're having to spend quite a bit to deal with the crisis as well the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell arguably the most important person in washington right now said no aid to states no aid to cities there's a trope much republicans that these democratic

castro al-jazeera washington scott lucas is the professor for american and canadian studies at the university of birmingham he says it doesn't go far enough. republicans and democrats acknowledge that it's only an interim measure and present like joe biden has said that one of the priorities when he takes office in january 20th is to get a broader measure the reason for that is that although this provides for the renewal of unemployment benefits it does solely for a short period of time although it provides for loans to small businesses it does only cover some businesses will be more as the economy tries to come out of the pandemic and it doesn't deal with important issues such as aid to states and communities who are facing budget true crises because they're having to spend quite a bit to deal with the crisis as well the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell arguably the most important person in washington right now said no aid to states no aid to cities there's a trope much republicans that these democratic red states and cities they're to blame for all the problems and mcconnell was playi

people are trying to get down to business in washington and it's the pandemic to keep it i'll the scott lucas in birmingham in the u.k. thanks feel to thank you deborah. india's government is carrying out an early test of its credible respects a nation program it's doing a dry run of the vaccine campaign across all states officials are hoping to run checks on the country's transport arrangements on cold storage facilities india hopes to provide 300000000 vaccine doses in the 1st phase of its immunization campaign this book from new delhi. precisely because of the scale involved in vaccinating india's population and that is why the states. for there and punjab have begun this 2 day trial run of the 19 vaccine to a number of hospitals community and primary health care centers private facilities rural outreach centers testing everything from the transport arrangements for the vaccine to the cold storage to the deployment of workers the app that's used to register and monitor people who are receiving the vaccines crowd control centers to ensure that their social distancing and what they're doing

to those private -- we have not responded to those previous attacks, and as senator rick scott was saying, lucasit doesn't sound like -- as he is urging a response, there doesn't sound like there will be much of one. your thoughts? >> reporter: senator scott was very clear, he said in the past there hasn't been a responsive course in the past, iran or other countries have hacked into the united states. it took some time to kick them off the system. one of the biggest problems that officials that i've spoken to is how do you kick russia or new other adversary off america's networks, it's are hard, it's very difficult. however, in the past the u.s. has struck back. remember stuxnet is the back iran's nuclear program, lou. lou: one of the rare instances of known aggression on the part of the united states, an initiative against the nuclear buildup by iran. lucas, thanks so much. lucas tom runsson from washington. -- tomlinson. joe biden today weighing in on the cybersecurity attack against america. he said in a statement, quote: i will not stand iewdly by in the face of cyber assaults on our nation