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Around the country, a vote tallies are taking place against a back drop of legal battles and protests. Reporter across the country, states in flux. Counting and waiting for full results from key states, north carolina, pennsylvania, nevada, and georgia. Foer Vice President joe biden remains in the president ial lead both with t popular vote and the a college. He projectedondence today in wilmington, delaware. We continue to feel very goe about wh things stand. We hav t no doubt when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winner is. The process is working. The count is being completed. And we will know very soon. Reporter President Trump made no appearance today but the campaigns showed ant glaring st as the president tweeted unsubstantiat claims of a legal voting and at one point wrote stop the count. In the their Daily Briefing of results, the Joe Biden Campaign manager urged the count to contin. Counting every vote is a fundamental tenet of our democracy. Reporter the counting rolls on. With in arizona, President Trump has gained someround but still lags and tes associated stands by its call for biden. And in pennsylvania, the opposite. Team biden was quickly cutting the margin. As the Trump Campaign is pushing an unprecedented strategy of casting doubt on election integrity. From officials or independent observers of significant irregularities with voting practices. Still in nevada this morning, the president announced a fourth lawsuit there claiming that people voted from outside the state. We are filing this federal lawsuit to protect legal voters. Reporter the state Supreme Court denied the request to stop counting ballots and officials overseeing the las vegas tally matteroffactly stressed that they are being meticulous. In pennsylvania, a court ruled in favor of the Trump Campaign on a logistical issuef allowing them more access to observe the count. Election officials are making progress in Allegheny County, home to pittsburgh. Officials say the first big round is done and they are leaving 30,000 hard to process ballots until friday. What i will say is that Allegheny County processed them faster than probably about everybody. They will work as fast as they can and as accurately as they came. Reporter in michigan come in a virtual hearing, a judge rejected a quickly filed trump request to stop counting absentee ballots. I have no basis to find that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the merits. Everyone here, at their best, se. S to have a fair process reporter the legal fights led to a few protests around the country with voters demandi that counting continues as well as have it stop. The reason i am here is tot state thats not a proper Election Results and that we need to look at every single vote. Every american deserves a right to vote and a right to have their vote counted properly. It is clear that there have been illegal things happening in the state. Reporter in a nearby county, biden voters believehe process is working and that his win in michigan is a good sign. I think it went well. I think it went better than i thought it would bause of the threats and the things you hear going on at e polling places. Trump is for trump. That is why i voted for biden. Reporter two days after the election, more voting numberse ming into view but the future for washington is still unknown. Judy the president is now expected to speak tonight. We turn now to our reporter and another reporter is in delaware. Hello to both of you. With these lawsuits being filed by the trump campan, what is their legal strategy . Reporter thent presi and his Legal Advisers are employing a strategy of flooding the zone with information, and this information, lawsuits, and accusations. We are seeing accusations or lawsuits being filed in arizona, michigan, pennsylvania, and nevada. They are making a grab bag of accusations inchading dead people are voting and that people are not being allowed to see the votes connected with the president. They are also saying that people that may not have met the residency requirements voted. Critics of the president say the legal strategy comes down to this they do not want the votes favorab to joe biden to be counted. The Trump Campaign is pushing back at that. There is a judge in georgia saying he will be dismissing a case where the Trump Campaign was think that absentee ballots were being mishandled. Legal advio the Trump Campaign are leaning in on the in the last few hours, ilLegal Advisers say they hope that amya coneett comes through. The Supreme Court has three people nominated byt the presidhat could step in and help them win this. Judy john, how is the Biting Campaign responding to all of this . Reporter as you can imagine, they do not think much about the arguments. Bob bauer calls it a strategy that is destined for faire. He says it is all political theater. That it ist j intended to rile up the presints base. It is politicalhetoric and the message of the biding campaign is that the campaign isver, the time for political rhetoric is over and it is time to count the votes. Judy you mentioned misinformation. A lot of focus on that. What are you hearing that helps us understand what things are being pushed out . Trump campaign have activated a misinformation campaign, a misinformation machine. People close to the president are saying things that are not true including Rudy Giuliani and former acting director of in nevada, for example, they brought in a voter that said her mailin ballot had been stolen. Clark county officialseyn nevada say ave no evidence of voter fraud. They investigated that specific case and that voter did not choose to challenge the mail him ballot when they showed heard the signature. Lou dobbs is encouraging people to go to the places where tee are being counted to surround them. Rudy jolly Rudy Giuliani has also beenaking claims and makin statements that joe bi has mental problems. Judy we should point out that lou dobbs is a host on the fox john, coming back to you, how divergentre the messages coming out of these campaigns at this point . Reporter they rely are poles idapart. The prt tweeting stop the fraud. He pledges to go to courts to try to turn the election around and challenge the wins of joe biden in certain thates. On the hand, as you heard Vice President biden say, it is the wi of the voter that is important here. You heard on the tape that the Vice President is urging people to stay calm. And that once the votes are counted, they will end up victorious. That joe biden will be the next president of the united states. Already gotten more vot than any other president ial candidate in history. They are cautioning be patient and things will work out. Judy over 70 million votes. John, and as we reported out, joe den did speak already today. Thank you. According to early data, black votersad up 11 of the National Electorate and 90 of them voted for former Vice President joe biden back to the president. In pennsylvania, 9 voted for joe biden and 6 for President Trump. Our daniels bush repoom philadelphia. Count every vote reporter outside the Philadelphia Convention center where the race to tally the remaining ballots, demonstrators gather with one simple message. Count every vote. Across the street, supporters of President Trump shot back count every legavote. It is a corrupted process. It is not safe. Reporter philadelphia is only that president tru won ind state 2016. But the citys overwhelmingly democratic ballot could propel joe biden to statewide victory and that may be in thanks to large part to the black voters of the city. The Democratic Party said today that the black turnout in philadelphia is on track to rival rerack obamas cord in 2008. Sharif street the president of the democrats. The president of the first black Vice President. He will have sent the first black man and first black woman to national office. Of years of outrea efforts byon. Eople like nicholas orour he will owe the presidency to black and brown voters. Aw what we in 2016 was a major dropoff in black Voter Engagement in philadelph. They turned out because they were excited could flip the commonweal. Reporter many black philadelphians say their vote for biden m is h if not more against President Trump many have not voted but they did tns election because it is a vote for survival. Reporter candace lives in west philadelphia, not far from where police last weekatally shot wallace. A black man with a history of mental illness. He was on the mind of a lot of people into Little Theater when theyent to the polls. It was also a sort of a reminder of thi cycle that we have been in forecades when it comes to the over policing and police violence. Reporter despite the huge turnout from black voters in philadelphia and regardless of the outcome, people say there is more t work that neebe done. I am a progressive. He is not our ideal candidate. Joe biden says he doesefot believe inding the police and we do. I think a lot of people are rasappointed in how little insight the dem have shown in the last four years. I think he owess tmmunity a fight. Reporter here in philadelphia, e voting continues but that battle to deliver on promises to black voters is still ahead. And a quick note on the vote count inhiladelphia, the secretary of state said that 350,000 ballots remain to be counted intehe s she said that only a fraction of them are in person ballots cast on election day which have favored President Trump. The majority of the ballots are absentee mail in ballots that fhave been breaking heavi joe biden. Democrats tell me that it is not a matter of if joe biden will it is a matter of when and that could come as early as tonight or maybe tomorrow. And as this is happening, y can see a lively scene behind me. There are Trump Supporters focused on these legal challenges that we reported on at the top of the hour. There are ao democrats here that are starting to party and lebrate. They see that a celebrate could be close at hand. Judy e ow that some of the counting of those mail in ballots n the as they d start that counting until later. Daniel bush joining us from thank you. Ia. We turn now to michigan where we find our william in detroit. You have been out today talking to voters. Tell us what they are saying to you. Reporter i spent a good chunk of the day in macomb county. The county famous for e reagan democrats. Those that turned to the republican party. Obama won mo cowan county twice in a row. Macomb county twice in a row. When i was talking to vot ts there toda overall sense that i got was that of exhaustion. They are done with this. They do not want to talk about it amore. One woman i spoke with said she was sick of the lawsuits come of the allegations of fraud and the namecalling. I made the assumption that she was a said that no, she was a trump supporter. Sheas just sick of all of this. This electio has caused some personal scars. I heard a lot of stories of people that is seen relationships, part because of one grandmother told me a story of how she and her granddaughteo nearly camlows over this. Friendships lost. One couple i spoke with were both are both biden he said he had lost five friends over their differencestetween presid trump and joe biden. It has taken a toll emotionally and personally for a lot of voters. Judy and no doubt across the country as well. William, yesterday, you were at protests in places woure they wereing votes. There has been a lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign to stop the counting. S where that stands righ now. Reporter if you remember from re were stron protests of people trying to stop ut this wasde the detroit location where they were counting mail in ballots. Protesters were there saying stop the fraud the count continued. We went there this morning and there were only it was only a handful of protesters. The Trump Campaign filed a lawsuit saying they were not getting enough access to those counting sites and they wanted more eyes on the process. The judge throughout that argument. Threw out the argument. Donald trump really wanted to win michigan. He thought hard he f gh hard to be here. His last Campaign Stop was in kent county. It has been pretty red. The l saying if you do not vote for me or turn out tomorrow, i may never come back here. Joe biden flipped the county and won michigan. Judy it is not always the size of the rallies that will tell us the result of the vote. Thank you so muc as we have been reporting, President Trumps lead in georgia has been cut to a narrow margin. As of this hour, there are still more 47,000 ballots are around the state that remain to be counted. We are joined by our reporter from atlanta. Where does the counting stand . Reporter as you point out, the margin between joe biden and we speak. Ump is diminishing as only about 9500 votes separate the candidates at this juncture with morehan 4 million votes cast in georgia. There is still some counting to be done. In the mid40,000 range. Mailing and absentee ballots need to be scanned and tallied. Most of these ballotsetfrom the pocks of blue in georgia. Urban centers that have voted in favor of joe bid. If you do the mathematics, there is no questio that the margin between the candidates will diminish. Depending on how you do the math, it could mean that joe biden overtakes President Trump. Tomorrow is the deadline for pressing military overseas ballots. The are less than 9000 of come in between now and then. And then there are provisional ballots tt need to be verified. We do not have statewide numbers on that. Here in Fulton County, there are about 3000 of those. Tomorrow we will hav more visibility on this but they are moving deliberately here. Judy we know that georgia was one of the states where they were able to start counting ballots early. Explain how then it is taking so long to count. Reporter yes, they had some time, a couple of weeks in advance of the election. It is not as big a number that you areit dealingin say, philadelphia. Many waited until the last minute. There was a huge arrival of ballots that arrived right election day, officials have other things to do. They did not get busy on till wednesday. Yof go through the process signature verification. The ballots have to be scanned. 2 3 of these hand marked ballots have ambiguous markings which requires a Bipartisan Panel to adjudicate. It is a relatively laborious process. And the folkswaere in georgia to make sure that they get it right. We spoke a little bit earlier with gabriel sterling, in charge of the implementation of voting systems here for the ary of state. Fast is gre we appreciate fast. We more appreciate accuracy. Bedrock upon which people will believe the outcomes of this election. Seither the winnie or the losing side. Reporter the dates to keep in mind counties have to certify their elections individually. Itheir deadlinefriday the 13thf november. The state has to certify statewide by november 20. If there is a half of a percent between the candidates, it is all but certain that there will be a recount. There still a long road ahead given the closeness of the race judy certainly sounds like it could long stretch to come. Was taking so long oury it attitude is that it should take as long as it needs to hear it ever. We have some critical context on where the race stands. Remind everyone on where the race stands. Take a look at the totals for joe ben, 264. Per President Trump, 214. And for joe biden, that includes arizona. 11 electoral votes went to him on wednesday in the Early Morning hours when the ap called that raise for mr. Biden. A reminder thathe newshour relies on the Associated Press for those calls. Other news lets news outlets have not made the call. The majority of votes are here in maricopa county. And south of that, it is a tight race. Some outts have not made the call. The ap says they stand by the call. The votes are still being counted. They say that the facts will lead the way. Reporter io just to methat arizona also has a very hot senate race which the ap has called in favor of the democrat, mark kelly. Ey are not giving up though. His opponent. Reporter 89 of the expected vote is in so far. There is another state pennsylvania. 20 electoral votes at stake. Reporter the keystone state is owy. You i would say that at some point. What is interesting about this map is there are very few changes from 2016. Ye is here on the new jer border. Munro county and north hampton. This is a new pickup for the democrats. These are close town tease. One thing i want to say is that these are counties tt have finished counting including the mail them vote. Mail in vote. I know dan bush was talking about where are all of thvotes that still have to be counted. We do know that philadelphia counting is still counting and we expect around the state allegheny townie, Allegheny County, pittsburgh will finish their votes on friday. Reporter a some senate races are still not called. Look at the balance of power, what is at stake . Porter we have a tie 4848. There is a race in alaska which will likely go replican. Alaska takes a good amount of time to count. Theat of the senate resides in the three other senate races. Two of them in georgia. Lets go through where we are with those. This is the Kelly Leffler race. She was appointed to fill a vacated seat. This is a runoff. None of these candidates have ceived more than 50 of the vote. We will have a runoff. Doug collins will not make the runoff. Kelly loeffler will go against a pastor from atlanta. We will have this result in january. Ok at the other georgia race. Davidth perdue iincumbent republican. He is just at 50 . He may fall below it because in georgia the votes are still coming i and the are largely from Fulton County which is in atlanta. When you look at georgia, i wan to tout a suburban county, copy county. Cobb county. N,clinillary clinton narrowly won thi county. It is the second largest county in the state and it isif dived. 51 white residents. Black residents, 28 . Ichisp residents are really growing there. Rerter i believe there is a deeper look. Reporter this is why john is still in the race. A very heavily populated suburban county, cobb county. Perdue is a lagging. Reporter a lot at stake in the senate. And anothekey race in north carolina. Cal cunningham has been challenging tom tillis thomll s. Reporter it is a squeake look at where look at how the in georgia, if you break it down, u saw red dots at the. Bott look at north carolina, most of these counties have. D and blue do what democrats have done is outpaced republicans by huge margins. And we see this around the country. We are waiting for some of the final votes to come in. 93 of the expected votes to these are the three races that will determine who wl control the senate. Reporter profound implications. And two days later, we are still waiting for someal house. The vast majority though have been called. Reporter this is what has been called so far to it does not the white dots 37 house seats are still to be determined thate crats are facing a loss of somewhere between 1015 they have a majority of 17 seats right now. Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a small margin for her democrats. My reportinge says ths a contentious call him on democrats today. And in talking with democrats, a they say they lost ow issues including in florida. They were packed with democrats being labeled to socialist. Reporter a lot of soulsearching. Judy just a quick correction. Earlier, dan bush i philadelphia said the voting continues in pennsylvani he meant to say that the vote counting continuous. The ballots are still beg counted in arizona. Officials there are set to release more vote totals later this evening. Letin us in the statesop election official. She joins me from phoenix. Than you for joining us. Bring us up to speed. Rough estimate t there are ab0,000 ballots left to be counted in the state. The bulk of those i maricopa county, just under 300,000. We expect them to release some enditional results this g. 7 00 p. M. Arizona time. That will show a little more about where things are going after that. Judy i am asking everyone this question even though what we all know is that we care about that every vote gets counted. Tell us why it has taken several days after the election to get the ballotcounted. The ballots being counted right now are those that we were not able to signature verified and start processing and tabulating before the election. Early ballots that were dropped off monday or tuesday before the election. We have had unprecedented turnout in arizona this year. That was the number we did not know howany ballots would be dropped off in terms of estimating how long it would take. There were a lot of ballots. Honestly, we are where we thought we would be in terms of owcounting right and we are actually a head of where we wer in 2018 with more judy and just to remind us ulout arizonas and regulations are there observers from both parties watching . Absolutely. And our tabulaon centers have cameras in every tabulation room. Anyone can go to the county elections camera to see what is happening. Judy you said it would take a little longer to get this information. Do you know when the counting will be finished . The bulof it what we have been told is that the bulk of it will be done this weekend. Maricopa county will relea its totals daily at 7 00 until they are done. The other counties are doing it regularly through the day. By the weekend,e we should h most of the ballots counted. The restna will be provis. Counties have until tuesday to complete the resolving of those to see if they can be counted. That is a much smaller portion of the votes that are outstanding. Judy the Trump Campaign is states. Suit in a number of are you prepared if that takes place . We are. There has not been a suit filed here. Inght now, the president i position to want the votes to be counted. They will be. Stopping the vote count is not something i think heould try to do. After the election, should there be a push for a recall, our recall margin is eremely narrow and there is no basis for someone to go to court and request a recall if the race is not in the margin. Judy i know there is an allegation going around the arizona count that ballots that had been marked with a sharpie peedas opp to a ballpoint are being discounted. Can you set us straight on that . I would love to. The sharpies were provided by election workers because ty are the recommended markers for marking ballots for those abparticularators. The ink dries faster. There is no truth to anything about thosinballots bein lidated. And if there were, in a polling place, if the tabulator could not readhe the ballot,allot would be spoiled and the voter would be issued a new ballots. In the centers, if the tabulator nnot read the ballot, there is a process in place to make sure that all of the ballots are counted. If it was a grand oration a sharpie, it will be counted. Judy im glad to let you have chance to set us straight on that because we know that is an allegation that has been flying around. It is important to bclear on what the truth is. State for arizona,appreciate it. Thank you. Judy as we have heardid tonigh, prt trump and his allies have continued to attack the integry of the voting process with so f unsubstantiated claims of fraud. In some cases, they have taken their claims to court. Jeffrey brown takes a deeper look. Reporter the lawsuits do still coming. We will try to bring some order to this with rick, and electio law professor at the university of californiat irvine and author of the book election meltdown. Do you see a pattern so far to these legal challenges . Are there categories you can put them into . They are smallbore cases. Many are trying to get better access for trump observers to geinto polling places. That might be to try to slow down the count in places where trump is trying to stop a biden win like in pennsylvania. There was an allegation of a legal ballots being counted in georgia and a court found there there have been suggestions that they will follow file suit for a recount in wisconsin. They have claimed there are nonresidents of voting in nevada. Theyave not produced the suits yet or any evidence. Reporter are there lawsuits or potential lawsuits out there that you are watching for that might have real conces . If you are talking about in terms of affecting the outcome of the election, it is unlikely. What you would need is Something Like we had 20 years ago. The race came down to the Electoral College antes in florid in that state, the vote town was so cle. For that to happen here, if itos is not a very race in the Electoral College, tse lawsuits wont matter. And even if it is, if you take a recount in wisconsin, most recounts statewide do not sft a lot of votes. There is a 20,000 vote difference in wisconsin. Most recounts shift only 300 tes. The only one i think is t potentially plausible ifme down to pennsylvania and if pennsylvania was very close is a fit over these ballots that arrived aer november 3 at 8 00 and by november 6 pursuant to a state Supreme Court order. Thit is not clear to m if i didnt is ahead, trump might want those ballots to be counted. Repoer tell us about the burden of proof in cases of election. We just heard from the arizona secretary of state explaining to the public that they are taking their time. They want tot make sure tl of the votes are counted and the process is right. How much deference due courts typically dopi courts lly give . The burden of proof is very high. You would have to show that theree wlegal votes cast that it would cast a cloud over the election. Or, you would have to point to some procedure that was not followed. It is hard to get a court tor or Something Like a change in an Election Results. Some of these lawsuits might be successful. Court there was a case where they wanted poll observers to bi feet away. This is not the kind of relief and these are not the kindsf cases that will change the out, up with something bigger. Ey it is hard to see a litigation strategy to flip the results of the election. Reporter in the last minute, what is the process . Meases are going to state courts and some to federal urt. And how long will this go on . Is it possiblehat legal cases will drag on for some time . They could potentially drag on for weeks or long i dont inc. Anyone will pay attention. If it is a lawsuit in pennsylvania where those ballots issued are not determinative it really depends on how thingse sh out. Im not seeing anything right significant. Ng that this is reporter rick from the university of california at thank you for helping us out. Thank you. Judy election votes are still being counted, the pandemic is not on hold. The toll is climbing and we have passed another unwelcome threshold. More0 than 100, cases in the u. S. In a single day. Each of nearly two dozen cases ste and 16 stat reached highs for covid related hospitalizations. Morehan 234 thousand people in the u. S. Have died. Dr. L carlos rio joins me now. Thank you for being here. Awh these record high numbers telling us about what is going on . I think they tell us that we have a pandemic outofcontrol right now in our country and it is spreading in ban and rural settings and across young and old populations. We really have a forest fire that we are not controlling. Judy what does it say about h wh not been done that should have been done . There are a lot of things that could have been don and it is always difficult to play monday morning quart. We have never had a national strategy. Each state has had its own strategy and as a result, it is hard to fig a pandemic with 50 different plans. And we have never had a coordinated approach. Having a mask mandate across the ulcountry be difficult but corrugated. Ble and could be you can decide what terventions you need to do. Our testing system has not worked well. We still have people that cannot get a test result within 24 hours and are waiting 45 days. And as you wait that long, more infections are happening. Andta our c tracing system has broken down. And i would say that we are focusing too much on not doing things that need to be done. When some things need to be done including avoiding crowded places. Things thacould be done to prevent the super spreading events. Judy where does the blame lies here . Lie here . Helame has to land wit the administration. They never took it seriously enough. They started well with the task force. The cdc has been absent in this pandemic. An not having it play a Critical Role is a missed opportunity and one of the most dreadful mistakes we have had. They politicizedhe cdc which has had tremendous consequences. Athe cdc has not bee to make Public Health recommendations. They have been able totiake recommens that have been doctored todsit the nf the administration. And the administratio instead of advocating a mas production of ppe, they have left it up to the state. And that has been a not well coordinated effort which has had consequences. Judy i want to ask you about what should be done next but before i do that, i have to point out that it is not jint the u. S. S a surge in code vid again, but across europe as well. People are tired of the pandemic. When we locked down and initially to prevent cases from going up, people thought that would be enough but they did not realize that the moment you let ndgo of those restrictionsf you dont put into place asking will come back and spread rapidly. Europeansaw this very quickly. Youngve people started tng and going places and without the from ecological measuresf without the measures of masking and social distancing, it was spreading. They made the se mistakes that are making. And europe is not one block but multiple countries doing different tthat have not been well coordinated. Judy you described a number of Different Things that shouldve been done differently. Are heading into th thanksgiving holidays in just a few weeks. What is your advice on a personal level to americans given where we are in this pandemic . I think it is very hard to tell people not to get together for the holidays. I wouldecommend getting together in smaller groups, fewerls than 10 individ have a d you are getting together with and say let us quarantine ourselves. Avoid contact with others for two weeks gefore we get er. Lets get tested before we arrive and retested. Wear masks. If the weather is good enough, go outside. I would not recommend my family and i would frequently thanksgiving. With 20 people for i do not think that is a good idea. You should have a very good diussion about what is a safe thing. And avoid having an elderly relative. Judy dr. Del rio from emory university, thank you for being with us. Stephanie im stephaniey. President rump spoke to reporters in the White House Briefing room at this evening attempting to undermine confidence in the election. He refused to accept the voting onprocess thatnues in several battleground states alleging fraud. We we think we will have a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence and proof. We believe it will perhaps and tup at the highest court land. We will see. Stephanie top Election Officials have assured voters of security protocolshey have in place to protect thentegrity of the vote counting process and no evidence has come to light of wide fraud. Anothe fit another 751,000 americans have applied for unemployment benefits. Theconomyo half of the 22 million jobswi d out last spring that the pace of new hiring has slowed markedly since june. The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark Interest Rate near 0 today and indicated it could do more to spark the economy. Said chair Jerome Powell spoke after a twoday policy meeting. The outlook for the economy is extraordinarily uncertain and will depd in large part on the success of efforts to keep the virus in check. A full enomic recovery is unlikely. Stephanie powell and other officials have urged congress to pass another stimulus package. On wall street, the postelection rally kept going. Investors counting on a divided congress with major indexes. Gaining 2. 5 . The nasdaq rose 300 points and the s p 500 added 67. Across centr america, the remains of hurricane eta kept dumping rain and flooding homes for a third day. 50 in guatemala alone have died. Honduras has also been hit hard. Some residents moved used to boats to move loved ones down streets. The storm could move into the gulf of mexico next week. The president of kosovo resigned today facing charges of crimes against humani. He led ethnic albanian guerrillas during kosovos war of independence from serbia in the late 1990s. He has repeatedly denied the charges. As i promised, i would not aow the president of the republic of kosovoo go to court. To protect the integrity of the presidency of kosovo, am resigning. Stephanie he is one of 10 former rebel leaders indicted with murder. And a conflict is as bleeding between the government of ethiopia and an opposition region. 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