Supreme court we want to rule voting just as youre prepared for any efforts republicans make in any court and the states to advance the absurd theory that the president is ours last night. Theyre watching our to International Coverage of the 2020 u. S. President ial election my names donald quarter and ill be joining you for the program its certainly a nail biter so lets jump right in the fate of the u. S. Presidency rests in the hands of half a dozen states still counting votes right now results they are hanging in the balance and could still go either way making both donald trump and joe biden confident theyll win the white house earlier the democratic candidate gave a prefix 3 speech of sorts while the president took his case to twitter caleb maupin explains. Joe biden gave remarks that seemed somewhat contradictory he emphasized that he was not declaring victory but he believed he was on the road to a win biden said he will plan to lead the country in healing the wounds and divisions that have come out of the trump years take a listen to what joe biden said once this election is finalized and behind us it will be time for us to do what weve always done as americans to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us to lower the temperature to see each other again to listen to one another to eat to hear each other again respecting to care for one another to unite to heal to come together as a nation now biden emphasized that he plans to govern on behalf of all americans whether or not they voted for him that seemed to fit the theme of his remarks this is more from joe biden i we are campaigning as a democrat. But i will govern as an american president now donald trump has tweeted out quote we have claimed for electoral purposes the commonwealth of pennsylvania which wont allow legal observers the state of georgia and the state of North Carolina each one of which has a big trump lead additionally we hear by claim the state of michigan if in fact there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported that tweet has been labeled by twitter as quote disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process now and are to see those tweets you actually have to go to the president s twitter page and then click on a disclaimer in order to see those tweets they dont show up in peoples news feeds and its quite quite a concern there not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots they could be from mars as far as were concerned or they could be from the Democratic National committee joe biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know with 5000 times the ballots could be from camden. Philadelphia unfortunately and you say this about my own city has a reputation for voter fraud you have a reputation for dead people voting and were going to go look at just how many dead people voted here now the Trump Campaign has filed a lawsuit to stop the counting of votes in both michigan and pennsylvania citing concerns about transparency now at this point weve got 2 different narratives coming out of the major candidates trump seems to believe he is in the lead and that there is ballot dumping and fraud going on on the part of democrats biden on the other hand is arguing that it appears that he is going to be the winner hes not ready to declare victory yet but feels he will be the winner now trump has already raised the specter of bringing the u. S. Supreme court in and people across the country are essentially stuck watching and holding their breath watching and waiting as it is the day following the u. S. President ial election but there is no clear result. We spoke to lawyer and political activist christian man sara about President Trumps claims of fraud. Coming out and saying that theres some foul play without having concrete evidence falls into the narrative of the last poll d ways claims of the president is igniting a divide and making claims with all the evidence but it does portray a scenario where the president is saying its definitely a weird situation where he was winning in many key states and now the states are of which are in most cases trolled by democrats and an extreme left leadership are now trying to in some way make these maly ballots count in order for the election to be handed into joe biden so i would not agree with the making the claim that you think that there are more important things right now to worry about than to go out and generate more divided more emotion but i do believe that there is something going on and we dont have the evidence at this point we have to be very careful we have to wait until every vote is counted i do agree with that but i do believe that the president had a very important lead in many states and it does seem a little bit concerning that overnight things have begun to change so well have to just sort of an attention to how things begin to fall. Neither donald trump nor joe biden seem willing to concede in accusations of voter fraud and threats to take the matter to the Supreme Court are only putting more stress on the already existing divisions within American Society soskin taylor discussed the current Political Climate with arties morag as. Well that theyre claiming that they would get with an election this close with an election this close well where youve got to wait until the final hours to see who voted for whom who is actually leading you need to set a precedent g. D. To create fear and need to make noise to make sure that when it comes when it comes the time for a recount perhaps or a challenge to the Supreme Court you can say that over remember i was shouting about this or i was i was screaming about voter fraud there was this was unfair so its all about sitting in creating a precedent these this was an Ugly Campaign the situation the streets in america is ugly people are completely divided and its a 2 cabs and this wasnt a blowout those polls indicate after all this was a much cusa election suggesting that theres still a lot of americans despite everything that the United States has been through this year that support trouble and theyre all b. S. You to be very unhappy if theres a blue president in the white house so now trump has created all this noise shouting and screaming about the fraud and you know illegal activities and errors in boot county you had him tweeting about 128000 boots magically appearing provide 1st of all its worth segues balance that was likely a recruiting error to immediately sense that the comment but it but its everywhere now and this is this has been trumps tactic you know if you create new ways then in the future youll be able to point out that this was you know trouble point and here we have a situation in which theres all sorts of crises in every state as you know something that either side is unhappy with and now theyre claiming that theyre going to go to the Supreme Court we want. It to be used in a proper manner so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want to. Voting just. We dont want them to find any ballots at 4 oclock in the morning in the list. So youre prepared for any effort republicans make in any court in any of the states to advance the surgery. Last night where there was such a mixed reaction to trumps speech up to am that when you came out all smiles by saying this is far from over and its not the blue wave as many were protecting as youre quite right and sad but i mean still a lot of people for you know what preelection this is just a lot of people saying all that were going to fight about but they didnt maybe expect it to actually get to this point always surprised that i actually got to a point of 2 president ial candidates saying were going to go to court well 2020 and all that of course there was no put it this is the worst Case Scenario if one of them had more than a polls indicated you know i would be fired it would be in sword the new president the other would be forced to concede the clues through these the mall worst Case Scenario it is because theres no room to contest the election i mean there were 50 c. Observers for the entirety of the United States though there was no you know theres no outside d observers who you could then ask. People who have you knew bush neutral you you could ask is this fair with business for i mean some of these allegations if this election was in ukraine or in russia that be shouting and screaming about how unfair and unfree it was here its completely different the mail in ballots as well the early voting it all skewed the balance of what was expected and what wasnt with with the with the letters being counted obviously they favor biden because he had called it as worthless malin rather than a ted with trumpet it was the opposite and with different states having different regulations you know different vote counting mechanisms and procedures its just all sort of confusing to the point where you can say anything which is what both candidates have been saying you know you like. And you can tell the people anything you want anything you want your supporters theyll support you just because of the color of the of a hat youve got on your head other supporters of the stabbings in front of while white house near the white house today i mean people are taking out their disagreements physically oh mon another i mean this is this is completely and president and it just to show you how cool rise the now divided the United States is more so than at any point in living memory. Former u. S. Weapons inspector and analyst scott ritter has no doubt the election will be decided in the u. S. Supreme court. No doubt that these are not empty threats. Both i mean this is an extremely close election closest elect or result in the history of president ial elections in this was supposed to be a blue wave for joe biden and there be no doubt that this is an election that will be decided. In the Supreme Court of the United States we have to understand is that the Supreme Court in and of itself cannot. Just decide to hear a case you know they can say hey were going to intervene you cant take something directly to the Supreme Court so you know in the case of donald trump he is going to have to establish your stiction in a state. You know make it make a case that fraud has occurred or somehow a legal right has been denied present that to a state court and then the state court will decide that probably against dropping the trump will seek to get this appeal to the Supreme Court like a result is a is a different question but theres no doubt that legally. Quantifiable. Arguments are going to be prepared by the trump team regarding wisconsin and other you know in the other states so if you look hard enough youre going to find something that you can make a legal argument to to appeal with battles over the tally revving up in several states hundreds of people marched through the streets of new york city demanding that all votes be counted these are some pictures from that protest. Chicago is holding a similar demonstration right now local police have stepped up patrols but the situation remains under control for now now the road to the 2020 alexion has seen america starkly divided and the main question now is what happens after one side grabs victory either earlier i took a closer look at why americans are not seeing eye to eye. It was all high hopes and big promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed a hero now its time for america to find a division have to get together. Republicans and democrats and independents are crossness nation i say it is time for us to come together as one United People turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor. 20 twentieths president ial election seasons looks more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the Pandemic Response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to defund the police altogether. And instead of trying to unite people americas dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the socalled peaceful protests which lets be honest were not so peaceful problems citizens. Peacefully protest. Not a bad way to dip your toes into the more radical left and black voter pools but on the other hand. F. Trump who decided to play the tough guy calling anti racism protesters vandals and anarchists trump sent federal troops to put down uprisings in cities a move that one support from a number of Police Unions and people who didnt want to see their white picket fence neighborhoods ruined now the law and order doctrine also embolden some of trumps more radical supporters so that seeing armed right wing militias and anti freely Walking Around the streets of American Cities became a new reality and one of both candidates done to fix all this point the finger it is what it is is the raese whats going on and he doesnt want to see a lone order because he cant because you lose his radical live supporters proud about stand back and stand by but ill tell you what tell you what somebody has got to do something about anti fair and the left because this is not a right as we know is a direct this is a new way to go about where each of us is the radical left would you she wasnt it is on both sides of the political spectrum weve got armed groups white nationalists proud boys right wing militias and the whole bunch so what exactly will happen when the election is over well everyone just sit down and decide to accept the results. According to Daniel Mcadams executive director at the wrong Paul Institute us elections have their share of problems. Different i spent a lot of years as an election observer and i think the process in the us if i were observing it somewhere overseas i would say it was a deeply flawed process i would say the words all should be brought into question by the way the process is. Its the idea that you go to bed in the middle of the night they stopped counting the votes in several key states mysteriously stop counting the votes and then all of a sudden particularly in wisconsin and michigan all of us to make huge chunk of votes over 100000 in each state show up and 100 percent of them going to buy this thanks to high have and im telling you as an election observer something very very fishy is going on the problem is the whole system has failed the idea that you start voting weeks in advance that you may allow ballots to everyone these are classic classic classic things that come up when youre looking at an election thats not conducted properly you wish should have a vote on the day of voting it should end at a certain time there should be a specific chain of custody for the ballots you dont see any of that thats all he wrote it out over the last 4 years i suspect the people who made up russia gate the people who are counting coronavirus are the same people who are counting the votes right now. The elections in 2002016 both demonstrated that the number of states a candidate wins matters more than the popular vote in both cases the winner failed to win support from the majority of americans and it all comes down to the countrys Electoral College system used to determine the head of state. My colleagues tosca taylor discuss the general pros and cons of the current electoral system as well as the influence of 3rd parties on american politics with how we hawkins from the Us Green Party and west benedict from the libertarian party. The one percent that libertarians get. Does play a significant role i dont know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a National Election but he may be now went into elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how its want to pick up on something that was just said to he said you know were talking about a single percent support for thought pa to town today thats right its kind of spread quite even 4849. 00 for the republicans and democrats so its almost sad to say that that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority of americans do you think that as you know you disagree with that absolutely i mean look at Public Opinion polls majority of americans want a Green New Deal which is what the green party is for to do with the Climate Crisis get the economy going again majority of americans want medicare for all in both the democrats and republicans oppose those houses promise or let the system. We have who are already winners Single Member district when you take all system. Which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil the most people are voting against the other major party rather than for their own party so i think if we can change the electoral system replace the Electoral College with a National Popular vote using right Choice Voting for president ial elections. I think the greens will move. In the boat we get currently the state in the us is kind of how how it hearkens mentioned its people for trump and people who hate trump thats what theyre voting about and theyre there strategically choosing one of the major parties its not that they necessarily agree with the platforms of those parties and was that there is a lot of white hudson criticism saying full party actually can create problems more problems and build and just wason the defense and because that essentially stealing quotes you know folks from parties that would actually when for example the republicans or the democrats in this particular case why it is so close and those states that were saying yes sometimes even less than a percentage point how would you react to people who say that if i had to choose we want 21. 00 of the major parties i would flip a coin because i equally dislike both of them. The difference between the republicans and democrats is mostly about personality and style when it comes to the substance of the issues theyre both for the deficit spending theyre both for spending and taxing too much theyre both for continuing the wars and those are things that libertarians oppose and even grains oppose some of that stuff as well so i actually like it when the republicans and democrats get mad at libertarians because it causes them to focus on us and it gives us an opportunity to say hey heres why you guys are wrong and heres why we wont vote for you this is what we stand for what we need real Political Parties that actually have members i mean what we have now are 2 major parties you tell the state which party youre in in order to vote in their primaries theres no local organization no local chapter of the party no you dont agree to a set of principles and they do sort of party to join you just tell the states. Which party. So that you look good as adam myers in disconnected from the political process. With the world still waiting on the edge of its seat for the result europes been reacting to the situation my colleague Andrew Farmer discussed the response with ease ali in london charlotte youve been skimmed paris and peter all over in berlin. Weve heard from a few senior figures within the e. U. Most notably the Prime Minister of slovenia of all places yet is he has said that hes already called it basically for donald trump and mike pence. His tweet was followed up with one from the chief Spokes Person of the e. U. Commission who said that the democratic process was still underway in that there was still chances things could change but weve also heard from munford verba whos one of the most senior any ps in the European Parliament saying that we should look here in europe towards the United States and if we dont sort out our problems in the e. U. We could end up as divided as america thats been pretty much the message as well for mayor in germany from one of the countrys main tabloid newspapers good look mr president whoever it is on the front page of the build saying that this was the most important d vote in the world right now that was going on what we heard from senior figures though here in berlin from Angela Merkels cabinet is that whoever is in charge of the United States following this election the problems that are in existence between berlin and washington they are going to go anywhere. Like the German Government and Defense Ministry we have to deal with any reality on the ground in the us regardless of who gets to point. At some point about the need for more german and European Defense spending not stream through relations with russia have also been blown up by the democrats do the time is different but in principle the demands are just as tough on that martin prior to the Trump Presidency germany had been one of the United States closest allies politically economically and strategically some of those issues have been spun in a new way on the trumpet with berlin and washington it polar opposites when it comes to north stream to a pipeline bringing gas from russia directly into. Many well trying to say its a new start everything it can to try and shut that down including putting in place sanctions against german entities involved in it something that would have been on thinkable in the past then its the relationship between donald trump and chancellor Angela Merkel it clearly well its clear they dont get on a lot of senior figures in germany and in the political sphere. Would really rather a biting presidency not because the problems would go away but because while donald trump has demonstrated hes willing to air the dirty laundry in public that perhaps would be done behind closed doors under a biting presidency. The u. K. Has a special relationship is it keeps a with the United States what it said given that the election is hanging in the balance in the United States socalled special relationship between the former imperial power the u. K. And the. Sun if you will the United States and thats a term that was courting by Winston Churchill many years ago and it has survived and downs in the relationship in recent years perhaps some strains creeping in on the donald trump youve seen differences on things like the 5 g. System here in the u. K. With trump pressuring the u. K. To lessen or completely kick out chinese influence in the 5 g. System differences with regards to the iran deal and perhaps all of those reasons why the foreign secretary dominic robb was somewhat circumspect saying that its not really important who the president is because he believes that special relationship will overcome any ups and downs depending on whos in the white house there are always slightly different contours of the opportunities and the relationship but come what may im very confident that the bedrock of our commitment ties our Security Cooperation to show values will mean that the friendship the strength of economic ties cultural ties the shared interests im very confident that the relationship. Go from strength to strength all of these dont exist in a vacuum the United Kingdom itself is really her cling to wards and no deal brags the coronavirus pandemic is meant to talk to hard enough as it is u. K. Were banking on a trade deal between the u. K. And usa but weve seen previous democratic president barack obama saying that the u. S. Is priorities would be a trade deal with a big block like the e. U. The u. K. Would be to the back of the line it remains to be seen whether biden would take a similar stance to that of his democratic colleague but then on the other hand you have donald trump say that he does want to strike a trade deal with the United Kingdom so many people here watching those Election Results very closely to see what it means for the future of the United Kingdom here in pretty much diplomatic responses so far with the election hanging in the balance is that the story too in france president mark owen has been incredibly tight lipped on twitter in regards to this election but we did have one slip from the minister of the economy hes treated in the last few hours that what ever happens in the united States States europe must strengthen politically and economically in the face of not just the United States but also china so a sense that regardless of the outcome of the election over the other side of the atlantic france and europe will be more to their own tune when present michael was elected hey back in 2017 trump was already in office in the u. S. He invited trump to come and spend basti day here in france and it did seem as if the choose genuinely go solo with each other but that quickly soured and there have been big problems in the relations over the last few years lets start off with the Paris Climate AccordPresident Trump said he was going to leave the Paris Climate Accord which meant president michael was very unhappy about there was also the Iranian Nuclear. Deal which again trump said he was going to leave not present microloan was trying desperately to keep that to rein in nuclear coolant light trump is the winner of this election we can expect that there will be a bumpy ride over the next he is now if biden is the winner of this election perhaps doesnt change too much over some of the issues but biden has been clear that he would take the us back into the Paris Climate Accord the suggestion that he might go back to the new sating table over the Iranian Nuclear deal and as i said the e. U. Is holding off on those retaliatory tariffs because they think if its a boy didnt president see they might be able to open those negotiations and smooth over the issues but lets be clear if boyden is the winner he is going to have a lot to deal with on his plate domestically so regardless of whether this is a trump or a biden when of course the administration here in france will work with that new administration in the u. S. But it doesnt seem like its going to be easy sailing. Only a small number of states remain up for grabs right now it appears biden has secured 264 electoral votes and trump has taken 214 as the struggle for the white house continues stay here with our 2 international for continuing coverage. Next as a bible god lets learn about