Welcome to the program. Joe biden is edging closer to the white houses a final votes are still being counted three days after the election. The challenger is narrowly ahead in key states which have yet to declare their result. Lets have a look at the overall picture which has not changed for a while. Joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes in present drunk has 214. Trump has 214. Pennsylvania would be a massive prize with its Electoral College votes. Joe bidens lead is currently more than 30 and a half thousand with 98 of the vote counted. Georgia with its 16 clege votes is also extremely close. Biden has pulled ahead of trump but there are only about 1500 votes between them so that is likely to go to the recount. Overall, Donald Trumps path to victory is looking increasingly narrow. States in letter blue or pink or leading towards biden or trump respectively. Anyone state would give joe biden the wind and President Trump needs a combination. 0 so 2Electoral College runs up to up for grabs in pennsylvania. Our correspondent Stefan Simons is outside the Convention Center where the vote is taking place. Welcome. How is it looking. Well, nothing change from the last hour. Having said that, as i said before, we seencreasing numbers of Trump Supporters showing appear throughout the day but they are drowned out by this massive crowd over there having basically a party. Weee all of these posters and flags wriggling and drowning the Trump Supporters and they have no chance of being heard. The grievance as they say the election in pennsylvania has been stolen from donald trump. What they mean by this is that the count is ongoing of the mailin ballots. It is 20 Electoral College votes at stake here. Philadelphia and the counties around here, they are counting ballots which were sent in. This is as they say, not legal. Which is not true. It is legal. This is the process and votes have to be counted and it is a problem for Trump Supporters and the trump campaigns joe biden leads with about 30,000 votes. If he keeps this and if the trajectory of the votes counted still have him at 75 stake of winning this vote, then he will, mathematically at some point take pennsylvania state. Why . Because there are still 150,000 votes to be counted in pennsylvania. Not just here, the counties around and all of our predominantly, experts say, democrat. Not republicans, not Trump Supporters. Those guys over there dancing, they know that. Thats why they are dancing and this group over there with the trumppence flags, they know that too and its why they are little bit frustrated. One way or another, it is very loud. Good talking to you. President trump has made a series of unsubstantiated claims that he is being robbed of a second term, vowing to press ahead of the series of legal challenges, even though officials insist there is no evidence of any wrongdoing. The president says he will keep on fighting he is facing an uphill struggle. On friday, state officials expected they would have to carry out a recount due to joe bidens razor thin advantage. The focus for our office and Election Officials remains on making sure that every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately. As we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look towards our next steps. With a margin that small, there will be a recount in georgia. The news came as biden took the lead in both georgia and pennsylvania, other pivotal paddle grant state. The lead is little more comfortable within georgia but it is still a tight race. Backers from both sides have been facing off outside vote counting site, and winning the state is crucial for both candidates. If biden wins pennsylvania, he will have enough votes to get into the white house, effectively closing the door on trumps reelection chances. Election monitors have been out in force there is no evidence voting irregularities in pennsylvania or anywhere else. Nevertheless, donald trump has repeatedly made unsubstantiated allegation of nationwide voter fraud. He claims he has been cheated out of reelection, something that has resonated with many of his supporters. They are cheating. Taking ballots. They are clearly cheating. They have dead people voting for them and they do this every e. Ngle tim publicans have offered no evidence for such claims trump is refusing to concede. The official word out of the white house on friday, this is not over yet. Lets have a look at this with jim kohlberg, a senior transatlantic fellow. He is one of several prominent republicans who left the party after donald trump took over. He endorsed joe biden in the selection. Three days in and still no result. How are you feeling . I am feelinquite confident that we will have a new president in january. I have been checking wi my contacts in pnsylvania, arizona and nevada. The numbers in pennsylvania are going to continue to incase because all of the remaining votes to be counted are in philadelphia and pittsburgh. The number is just going to get larger. Georgia will clearly be recount but somebody said this morning that biden win looks like the size of a High School Student body in georgia. It is very narrow and recounts rarely change anything. In arizona, biden is ahead and we were worried that the votes being counted there were being counted differently because only votes being cast on election day are being counted right now and those were trending towards trump but the latest batch shows not enough. So im still feeling quite confident that biden is going to be president. Regardless of which way this goesar, ent you disappointed with the partys performance . An election that is too close to call against a sitting president who has seen the election time tank and faces accusations of being a racist to trash talks women. It is disappointi to see that trump has done as well as he did. We are going to have to analyze this to figure out why this is happened whether the country has become somewhat more conservative or nationalist, some of the same trends we are seeing in European Countries today. But there is a division between the urban centers and the east and west coast rural areas where in rural areas, trump is still quite popular and increased his margin. Certainly the performance of some in the house is very disappointing. Looking ahead wonder if it is too late. If trump wins, he will see it as a vindication of his policies and if he loses his supporters will seemingly never accepted. They will not. If you know one thing about donald trump, it is that he will never concede that will be the first time in American History that the losing candidate for president has never conceded. He will not concedon day of inauguration. He will say it was stolen s from him and he will continue to y that and it will make the healing process very difficult it will require a lot of work to reach out across party lines and i think he is the kind of person who would do that. He knows about working across the aisle to get things accomplished. Good talking to you. Thank you for talking to us. While they count the ballots, the world still turns so lets take a look at the other stories makingews arou nnd the world. Twitter has deleted an account linked to steve bannon after he published a podcast promoting violence. Saying that if President Trump is reelected, he should arrange for the beheading of key federal officials, coming amidst anhurry through flooding and landslides. The storm has been downgraded but torrential rains are flooding villages across the region. Forecasters expect it to regain strength as a crisis as it crosses the caribbean. Sanctions against the belarusian leader came into effect today in response of his suppression of a prodemocracy protest. The rallies have continued and have seen numerous arrests. Sanctions include asset freezes and challenge bands. Police in germany say they have raided a number of homes in connection with mondays terror attack. The gunman was shot dead by police after killing four people. Religious leaders have held a Memorial Ceremony for the victims. Governments in europe are battling to contain the second wave of Coronavirus Infections. In germany, the Health Minister says the system could soon be overwhmedel. New infections in one day have topped 20,000 the first time. A new summer record for germany. The highest record of covid19 cases in the country. Germany is in the first week of a new partial lockdown. Restaurants, bars and legal activities are shut down and travel is discouraged while shops and schools are allowed to stay open. Germanys Health Minister says the Health Care System is not currently overwhelmed but hard times are ahead if the rising cases is not stopped. The situation is serious. The number of people requiring support has doubled in the past 10 days. As of today, our Health System is still coping, but even the best system in the world cannot cope with a doubling every 10 days. The growth rate is very strong and we must break it together. Even germanys instant intensive Testing Capacity is under pressure. Labs say they are struggling to keep up with demand but there is confidence the creurnt shutdown will help bring the number of cases back down. The numbers we see today are and affect the situation a week ago. The numbers are slightly improved and the reproduction number is below one and its the first sign that things might get better here in our country. In berlin, people are taking reports about the record cases in stride. We see that even with restrictions in place, the number still go up. We try to live with it now to cope with the situation. I dont think about it anymore than usual. It is pretty shocking. All governments in every country are doing the best they can. A lot of people have faith in the vaccine. A lot of people believe it will help. Angela merkel and state leaders are expected to meet to take stock of the situation and decide whether to introduce tougher restrictions, something most are hoping to avoid. Meanwhile, denmark is to eliminate its entire population of farmed makes after mutated strains of coronavirus were found in some animals. In someli cases, the virus was found to have infected people and experts feared this could jeopardize the efficacy of future covid vaccines. There are more than 1300 make farms in denmark, many in this municipality. The virus reach the farm in Early September and he clearly remembers that day. It was like a wave passing through the stables. It began at one end with the animals sneezing and losing their appetite and kept spreading. But one week later on the following weekend, it was over. The animals were healthy again. Peterson also contracted the virus. And now to be on the safe side, all of his 10,000 make will be called. He never imagined the make farms could develop into hotspots. It is thought that the coronavirus stems from the animal world. It is believed to have first jumped via the pangolin in china. On denmarks make farms, it is no jumping back to animals from humans. Once it may make is infected, the virus spreads in less than two weeks. Virologists are concerned about the six sieve transmission. The team analyzed the mutation on the farms and found it matched the virus found on some region who fell ill. We can see exactly how the virus spreads. It comes from humans and is transmitted to minks where it is mutated in a manner we do not see in humans and in it jumps back to the population and thus the rest of the world. Every third case here can already be traced back to the make farms. How it spreads is unclear but with more patients in circulation, the pandemic will become difficult to stop. A vaccine could lose its effectiveness and the people who were ill i not be immune to mutation so we will never achieve herd immunity. That is white culling taskforces are now rapidly traveling through denmark. The animals are killed with Carbon Monoxide in boxes like this one and are then immediately incinerated, along with their valuable for. Protective gear is mandatory as any animal right be infected. We have to kill 39,000 on this farm. We have 30 workers, five vets and a standby team. They will need at least another four weeks to work their way through all of the farms. A total of 160 farms are affected and there are suspicious cases on many more. Million of minks have yet to be called. Detspm poland hasecorded a record 445 deaths over the last 24 hours. The National Stadium has been turned into a temporary field hospital. They have broken their own record for covid cases with more than 120,000 infections smashing the record set the previous day. China has barred arrivals from france. Have largely brought their outbreak under control but are closing themselves off through tight travel restrictions. The world is racing to find a vaccine against the virus. Beyondech is leading the way while another german from is also developing a promising candidate. Both have turned to south america to carry out their tests. Peru was one of the first testing grounds but residents of the islam paid little heed. They are more concerned with just getting through the pandemic. We did not even get Emergency Support from our government. It is the same for everyone here. They have forgotten us. But peru is not alone as a focus for testing. Most producers have set up shop and many are testing in brazil. In sao paulo hundreds of people enrolled in the study. They were given the candidate vaccine or a placebo. They are not allowed to speak to us, nor are they paid, many hope the vaccine will protect them. Our participants are not only hospital workers but ordinary resilience who have to get up early and spend hours on the bus to get to work. Brazil has the secondhighest number of coronavirus deaths worldwide, did the people in the study see themselves as guinea pigs . Of course there is a risk. It is unavoidable if you want to test the vaccine. Results on the efficacy could be available soon. They say it is further along than other vaccine trials. We think this vaccine will be effective. It will probably be one of the most important vaccine worldwide. The vaccine candidate could receive approval for the end of the year but will likely need more time. There are high infection rates helping to generate results quickly and the cooperation will likely help panama produce its own vaccine. Panamas collaboration with the german vaccine manufacturer certainly give the company a competitive edge. Sharing technology is also an important part of the deal for countries that host vaccines. That includes peru. But back in bella visa, many are worried that when a vaccine is distributed, they will once again be left emptyhanded. I doubt that perus government will give us the vaccine. It is almost impossible. We feel we were forgotten. Thanks the trials in south america, a vaccine could be approved this year but whether south americans themselves get widespread access is uncertain. You might have heard about berlins new airport. It opened years late and billions over budget. Not only that but plenty were perfectly happy with the old airport. The terminals there were famous for its architecture. Now it is closing in the original architects are saying goodbye. Tse are the last airplanes to land at this airport. And for plan spotters, its a last chance to take farewell photos. This is one of his favorite locations from which he practices his hobby. The special thing about this part is you have the airport in the background. If you turned left, you have some planes approaching from a nice angle and sometimes the light is just perfect. Claimed spotters specialize in photographing different types of airplanes, using an app that will tell them when, where and which plane is landing. He has captioned manys captured many special moments here. I have caught all of the government plays with my camera. One of my favorite was the last air berlin flight. Wait a minute. And the flight from the libya conference. Many government plans and erdogans new 747 was there. Seeing it for the first time was a highlight in many customize works he would not otherwise see. The airport lies in the north or berlin. Built in the 1970s, opened in 1974, named after a german aviation pioneer. The plan is an archittural landmark and around it sides friendly colors and hexagon are a recurring motif. All of these were designed by these german architects. The main terminal was declared a heritage building in 2019 now there are plans to turn it into university campus. It is too bad because it is good to have an airport on each side of the city. Ask my daughter is very sad. The airport was part of our childhood memories. We always divided our time between america and berlin germany. They have or to the airport for more than 25 years they have written a book about their experiences and for them, taylor is the greatest airport in the world. That was the great thing about this place. You came, checked in and were already seated on the plane. The airport is small and compact. It is only empty because of the pandemic. Before, it was overflowing with passengers and there are lots of anecdotes. 6 at most airports, arrivals and departures are separated into two different floors were terminals and here they are right next to each other other. That became emotionally eviden when you spent a lot otimef here. Any fans gather for the last time to say goodbye on the visitors terrace. Plane spotter felix also takes a few more photos. A lot of people are getting sad with the realization it is the end. It is an unfortunate reality. Though only an airport, it is a beloved place memories for berliners and travelers around the world. Many will say byebye and thank you. War world is at the top of the hour. I will be back in a couple of minutes as well to take you through the day. Have a good day. Welcome back to france 24. Were live from paris. This hour, joe bidens lead over donald trump widens in key battles ground states. Hes in the lead in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. If the trend continues hes on the road to declaring a victory. Donald trump says he wont be going without a fight. The u. S. President has filed multiple lawsuits and has made allegations of fraud without providing any proof. Over 60,000 Coronavirus Infections reported in the past 24 hours in france. This as the lockdown is in effect throughout the country to curb the