A no fly zone to stamp out its a separate the struggle that mark plans to cold minks in the country to contain a mutated form all of coronavirus. Well its 1400 g. M. T. And the day is just Getting Started its in the eastern United States and its been 3 days since election day but we still cant say who the next president of the United States is things are heating up though every error the gap is narrowing we see donald trump and joe biden lets take you through the state of the race as it stands we have 4 battleground states that are still being counted in any single win for joe biden could effectively and this race he is now i had joe biden is not ahead in. Georgia. In the last few minutes hes just crept ahead in the state of pennsylvania trump though he is still leading in the state of North Carolina but the margins are reserved thin the states being karen says you can see here in yellow and this means that biden has 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the number so hits as ever is 270 well biden as we were saying has just passed donald trump in pennsylvania as you can see yours no 5594 votes ahead of donald trump and the decision there could come in the next few hours spot that state is still charan singh ballots the remaining ballots are mostly mail in votes coming from democratic leaning cities like philadelphia pittsburgh and the suburbs bitin is still leading in georgia but look at that number hes ahead by just over a 1000 votes and if you see the numbers of course that have been cast around about 5000000 mark that is a very slim margin in deeds and again the bulk of the remaining to be counted or mail in ballots from democratic regions remember this is a state that has voted republican for the last 6 elections were going to break this down with our correspondents there following developments across the United States our team this hour we have. Been in bidens home state of delaware alan fischer hes covering all of this from washington d. C. But lets head 1st see kristen salumi shes joining us from philadelphia as the votes counted could see is in the crucial states of pennsylvania christen a bison has no crept in so the lead. Things progressing where you are. Yes says he kept inching closer and closer now joe biden ahead in pennsylvania by just over 5000 votes thats a 10th of a percentage point still a very close race here but the ballots are continuing to be counted particularly here in philadelphia where biden has been winning 87 percent of the vote that lead is expected to expand as it does president has been attacking the poll workers here the credibility of the count and launching legal challenges including saying that republican poll monitors havent been given adequate access to watch the vote count here in philadelphia he won a Court Decision to that effect saying that the monitors could be within 2 meters of the count they are claiming that still isnt happening officials here deny that but these attempts to discredit the process do appear to be resonating with some of the president s supporters here in philadelphia 2 people were arrested by local authorities after they got wind of an alleged plot to attack the Convention Center behind me where poll workers were working through the night we know that they were in a vehicle that came from pennsylvania so all of this shows just how important pennsylvania is to donald trump he cannot win without winning the state and at this stage it looks like he is poised not to win however still very close still within the margin of error still. Votes being counted. Ok chris and so they made their live from that counts in philadelphia thank you very much and say its less crossfire at Sea Alan Fischer hes joining us from washington d c. And its not looking good for President Trump that votes in philadelphia certainly putting his rival in position has there been any reaction at this stage from. Or his campaign. No i have my phone right here and im looking at his twitter feed to see if he responded because we know and we were told that hes been watching results and speaking to allies and so he will know that almost every Single Organization in the United States is reporting that joe biden is now ahead in pennsylvania his last tweet was 4 hours ago he was criticizing twitter thats because on his feet when he was alleging voter fraud they were attaching a lot of warnings to them and one observer said there were more warnings of dont trust twitter feed than a pack of cigarettes donald trump has to a degree made this a problem for himself because for months before the election when the democrats were saying because of corporate mail and mail and mail and he dismissed mail in voting he was telling his supporters its a bad idea its right for a fraud there could be a problem with it you dont want to do it you want to go and vote on the day i know of though he managed to obviously motivate a great number of people to tarnow it to the polls the mail in ballots are what are essentially doing him in because theyre no counting all those mail in ballots and thats whats taking joe bidens total in pennsylvania above donald trump so this was a miscalculation by the president he was warned by a number of aides saying look particularly among seniors who tend to vote republican this is not a good idea because people will be what he did by going to polling places on election day you should maybe perhaps through your weight behind the idea of 1000000 voting he didnt want to do it i know its coming back to bite and we know that he made those comments a little over 12 hours ago in the white house it was billed as a News Conference but again he didnt take any questions he said there was widespread voter fraud but he didnt give any examples of that and that has been a pattern from the republicans over the past 48 hours or so theyre making allegations about widespread fraud but offering no concrete evidence its even been. By a judge the party has put together a web site and also a phone line where theyre asking people to call in with evidence of that kind of fits a pattern when donald trump makes a statement and then his aides try to walk around to create the reality around that statement of course if this continues he really needed pennsylvania with pennsylvania he cant win the white house and if it looks as if hes losing that no doubt there will be legal challenges but im sure there are people in the white house who are know looking at one another and saying well whos going to be the one thats going to go term and say its over its done were not there yet as i say theres probably still going to be a recount a couple in a couple of states theres going to be legal challenges but the the fact that joe biden is no ahead in pennsylvania his home state would suggest that donald trump may be coming to an end of his time in the white house ok alan fischer there live from washington d. C. Thank you well lets. Check it out on the Biden Campaign trail is joining us now from wilmington delaware these numbers keep tripping out jim were hearing that joe biden has night taken the lead not only in georgia but also in the crucial states of pennsylvania this will clearly be good news for team by have the issued any reaction in the last few minutes. Not that weve heard of yet but of course we will be expecting something as soon as one of those states or the next states is announced whichever that may be but the way in which the movement is happening around joe biden is telling in and of itself just in the past couple of hours weve heard reports that the secret service is doubling up or at least increasing the number of security personnel an apparatus thats will be with biden in an opponents move all of them expecting an imminent announcements that you would be declared president elect if the numbers continue as they are obviously they have no announcements of the such has been made but the secret service have increased their presence with him joe biden himself is practically acting as if he has one although he hasnt announced it again hes been meeting with covert tals coolest with an Economic Advisor force and has also been speaking in a way where he has been addressing the entire nation saying that he ran as a democrat but he will rule and govern as american president s for everybody so thats been the movements from the buy them the message has been consistent all along all of this week patients patients patients where in a good position when all the votes are counted we will be announced as the winners and thats whats seems to be happening and especially when youre looking at the numbers in the figures coming in from pennsylvania and georgia one of the interesting points youre hot just very quickly is that yes there is its a geisha and yes there is an expectation of a lot of court cases happening but because biden is ahead in so many of those different states and because of counties that 264 even if there were those legal cases taking place lets say in pennsylvania in a couple of others there is still belief that he has so many other states so many other Electoral College points that they will take him to the troops. Regardless and thats why they believe that the announcement is imminent. Joining us there live from wilmington delaware joe be coming back to you and i thank you very much in a scene well lets continue our analysis on this crossover see Steve Clemons who joins us from washington d. C. And regular viewers will recognize him as the host of the bottom line steve lets get serious then joe biden is on the verge of the president. Where does this late on a charm. In a tantrum i think were going to see the rage continue i mean i look i dont mean to be trite about this its very delicate theres you know obviously a very outside chance at this we have to actually say that but but donald trump i think what youre going to now see is the air begin to come out of the trump tires as. Some of those around him begin to put some distance between the president s tantrums and his early declarations of victory which of course now given what weve seen unfold are going to be ones that hes going to be on the defense about there are some senators like senator ted cruz and senator Lindsey Graham who last night align themselves with the president but there are a lot of others that began tweeting out republican senators tweeting out we have to make sure that every vote is counted and that this is process is simple and just and from places like idaho which was surprising so i think youre going to see rage disappointment and tantrums from the white house and not president ial behavior which is youve been watching president ial behavior in the posture of joe biden during this tense time well this all fits into the essential of the last 4 years of the Trump Presidency hes not acts like year average politician hes not acted like your average. President has to be said and he has repeatedly said im not going to go die and fight saying it without fights and he wants to take this to the Supreme Courts the democrats have been here before with that election back in 2000 when al gore went up against george bush and the Supreme Court answer vanes and we had president bush where do you think that in terms of the the legal arguments that were going ahead that the lawsuits that President Trump and his team apply are planning to bring do you think that these lawsuits the Supreme Courts kids in fact saved the donald Trump Presidency and we could be looking at another 4 years of i dont want some white house. I dont see a pathway the florida decision was highly unusual and the pathway for that very unusual Supreme Court involvement 20 years ago was based on the dissimilar treatment of ballots in different parts of florida and thus they were able to take this dissimilar treatment as being unequal treatment under the law to the Supreme Court even before the florida Supreme Court had taken action i dont want to lose people in the weeds of this show but this is going on are you going to represent a similar steve sorry to cut you off this is an election as well weve seen tara knight in the hundreds of millions you know say look at the voting by mail as well. Yeah well by mail theyve been voting under state laws which were preestablished and preset before the election began and as long as those states had reasons and if they if they diverged for any reason as in North Carolina did when they extended the polling hours because of errors that were made by the state they did that in concert with the court and the court rubel in those states so i think youve seen a court case after court case after court case get thrown out i tweeted out you know kind of mockery of it saying another one bites the dust in terms of the complaints you had Rudy Giuliani saying about philadelphia and about pennsylvania voters that they didnt know who who were casting all these votes they didnt know they were if they were martians canadians or dead people and so it has a kind of comedic element theres no james baker the former secretary of state and kind of the conciliar ery to george h. W. Bush who really was the one who set the discipline in frame for the florida outcome for president george w. Bush and so in my view when you kind of see the white house saying the arizona count must keep going on that georgia count must stop where the pennsylvania they have not had a consistent message and in that i think its kickoff finished and highly unlikely that that any of these legal claims will get that and ive really tried to find a path and talk to a number of legal experts saying what is the way in which this bounces from the states remember states typically with the exception of the florida case 20 years ago have sovereignty over how their election system works as long as those rules are set and established all players play by the same rules and those those frames differ from state to state its really 51. 00 a lections in the United States that the 50 states plus the District Of Columbia that vote for the presidency there may be some other districts like puerto rico and others and not. But i think that they have their own system they are sovereign unless theres some superseding federal issue that gets involved but the Supreme Court just cannot willy nilly intervene in the state elections and i think that has been something that hasnt been reported as well by the media so while donald trump may call him that is now conservative dominated Supreme Court may just cant decide to intervene theres no pathway theres no lane for them to swim in unless an extraordinary circumstance happens ok well it has been an extraordinary last 4 years who knows what the next 4 hours will bring about i will keep an eye on it thank you very much and dates there as Steve Clemons there joining us from washington d. C. A lot still to come here on aljazeera including how ivory coasts Constitutional Court weighs in on the election crisis there as Government Forces surround the holds of opposition leaders. Theres a little tropical cycle in relative terms of course just going for us the bottom of taiwan is winds are more than 120. 00 calories for a its rain briefly will give flashlights quite possibly and then its gone and its gone over to the South China Sea or part of this system which is briefly regenerated the he station monsoonal catch the southeast of china south of honshu and then the north youre caught here by showers generator the fairly warm waters of the sea of japan then the cult comes afterwards. Maximum temperature on sunday plus one with some snow in the air which might just catch our current day as well but for the most part the korean plants are in charge enjoying fine weather hong kong included hong kong forecast though briefly spotting was right in cloudy on sunday returns to normal in the northeast monsoon all monday and tuesday gollies made landfall not just the massive rains more to come for vietnam laos cambodia and thailand developing here the tropical potential cycler have to say if it really does develop and go into the South China Sea that is when well have to watch quite closely but its just theres a mass in the south of that widespread shout out in the media it is after all the rainy season. And jump into the stream and join our Global Community by diversity is bio security is that essential for our species to survive be part of the debate i know her mind you can be part of this conversation when no topic is off the table that are not neutral and all of these cases going here is the terrorizing heres the other part of this theres no consequence to this stream on out is there. The war. My. This is al jazeera a reminder of the top stories for you know that our graphic nominee joe biden has pulled ahead of President Trump in the key states of pennsylvania and georgia thats 2 of 4 battleground states that are still counting votes but the president ial race still remains 2 calls to call. Joe biden is urging people to be patient he says he has confidence of becoming the next president currently has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are needed for victory not at all trump is making false claims that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election and says legal challenges may end up in the Supreme Courts. If the o. P. s Prime Minister says the military operation in the northern tikrit region is clear and limited goals thats after calls for immediate deescalation from the International Community. Sense in soldiers on wednesday after accusing the regions ruling t. P. O. F. R. C. Of attacking federal troops and accusation tonights the government has declared a state of emergency and a new 4 zone tensions grew in september after the g. P. L. Af held Regional Elections despite the governments perspire mintz gita coronavirus seagraves rulers say that was a paragraph by ethiopian Prime MinisterWilliam Davison this is a Senior Analyst for ethiopia at the International Crisis group he says ethiopia has entered a conflict situation that can only be resolved through dialogue. Unfortunately that clash of the election really was a very serious constitutional disputes over the rights of take rate to autonomously hold an election and that was as it happened against federal rulings so this is a very serious constitutional disputes ends with the federal government saying that to grace government was unlawful and to raise government saying that the federal government is out of a state its constitutional mandate so you can see what a serious of a legal position that is within a federation that is built upon a very toxic political disputes emanating from a power struggle within the Ruling Coalition with the tea party losing a lot of power so unfortunately this me also is not produces for dialogue these people in power were previously part of the same Ruling Coalition they have gradually become opponents and now they have ended conflict of course we need dialogue and its imperative that both sides and embrace dialogue and that the International Community pushes for that we also have to be realistic that we have now reached a conflict situation. The Constitutional Court in the ivory coast has extended the deadline for official objections to the president ial election result either factions have been fighting since weekends elections that returned president allison wants threats of power to candidates split cause since the elections say a 3rd term for the president is unconstitutional extension one gives opposition parties until monday to file an official jackson. Is in abidjan with more on how ivorians are reacting to the political uncertainty. The streets of the economic capital are much calmer than they used to be in the early days of the election now there is less security presence on the streets however there is significant presence of the Security Forces around the homes of opposition leaders in abidjan here and apart from that there is because of the car situation Economic Activities are picking up here is one of the markets in the city and here traders are opening their shops and ill go there are many traders and businessmen who are still skeptical of the situation they would prefer to wait until after the pronouncement of the Constitutional Court and see how things go from there apart from the economic sector the Education Sector is also being closely watched our schools are due to resume next monday and there are concerns from families and people in the capital here about whether or not to send their children back to school there are people with spoken to whove moved their families out of the country ahead of the election fearing that violence will break out what calling it was whether its safe to bring the children back to school now people are watching closely to see on monday whether these schools were open all some schools will be hard to see how things go after the pronouncements of the Constitutional Court and see whether or not there will be reaction from opposition supporters. 8 prodemocracy politicians in hong kong have appeared in court over a fight thats alleged. As of Council Meeting women 5 months ago for granted bail until the next appearance in february their kids stole contents and obstruction officers to view the pollen is in hong kong says more Court Cases Involving activists are hence. This is the initial hearing for the 5 sitting Legislative Councillors and we prodemocracy politicians they came into the Court Premises holding up banners calling their arrest political persecution they are being charged with contempt and interfering in Legislative Council affairs now this stems from a may 8th Legislative Council session in which there was a dispute over control over a Key House Committee that descended into a brawl but these defendants the 8 say this is an issue that should have been settled within the Legislative Council instead of having to go into court of course theres a political dispels among the front. But the government. Cool. That has been they make us off the Political Force and put us in the Legal Proceedings for us to cure you back to the full 30 and hope that we will. Fight if found guilty they could face up to a year in jail this is just the latest in a series of court cases featuring activists or those from the prodemocracy camp the governments in hong kong and beijing have stepped up efforts to clamp down on dissent and this includes a National Security law which was imposed by the communist party on july the 1st. All along. Regardless of how this trial turns out we can see a red line has been clearly drawn in front of us peaceful protests are not allowed inside the legislative chamber anymore. This is not the 1st time a Legislative Council or a has been charged for disrupting a meeting but critics say the sheer numbers of those charged and the fact that police did not arrest any probate jang Legislative Councillors indicate that the legal system is being used to silence the opposition but the police and the const government have said that these charges and the prosecutions are not politically motivated. New zealands Prime Minister just into our journey has been sworn in for a 2nd term. I just say ok were. Going to feel a thing to hear the words urns labor party won 64. 00 of the 120. 00 seats in Parliament Last month but 20 person cabinet includes 8 female 5 maori and 3 ministers including deputy Prime MinisterGrant Robertson whos the 1st openly gay man to hold the position. That mark has begun the coing of millions of mink after a new strain of corona virus was discovered on hundreds of fur farms the governments confirmed the mutated virus is infected with 200 people is feared the new strain could limits the effectiveness of a Coronavirus Vaccine the fokker reports. As europe scrambles to control coded 19 warnings from denmark of a new strain of the virus full 40 supported by the military have begun culling the countrys entire population of up to 17000000 mink after a mutation of corona virus found in the animals spread to humans. And. So we can. Do it fast its we can and i hope we can do it on 2 days more than 200 people in denmark are now infected and the numbers are rising. Sheer Health Authorities have observed a Serious Development in the current virus infected mink infections have been found on 207 men found and this development has taken place despite intensive efforts to limit the spread of the infection. Whats worrying scientists is that the new strain showing decreased sensitivity against antibodies meaning vaccines currently under development to treat covert 19 might not be able to stop it the World Health Organizations praised the decision saying denmark show determination and courage despite the huge Economic Impact on mink farmers the move is likely to devastate the countrys pelt industry minke of also being cold in the netherlands u. S. And spain after infections were discovered the dutch government said it was speeding up its timeline for shutting down all of the countrys mink farms china is also one of the Worlds Largest producers of pelts beijings made no announcements about changes to its industry. The virus mutation a main cause confirms scientists fears that multiple strains of corona virus could emerge simple taney asli winning the war against war doesnt mean destroying the whole barca aljazeera. This is al jazeera and these are the headlines democratic nominee joe biden has pulled ahead of President Trump in pence