Mentioned at all. And also to come this the russian Prosecutor Generals Office says germany has failed to answer any of its questions on the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy its a probe into what happened to the opposition leader. Welcome to us internationally this friday afternoon on our coverage of the u. S. Election were counting in key states continue. What it has been 3 days since the election and the tension is now on states continue to be counted were still waiting for crucial results in nevada georgia pennsylvania alaska and also North Carolina and as it stands this things look joe biden has 264 lexs if you include arizona although some do say it is too early to call but if it does go. He will need just 6 more votes to reach the 70 required victory on the front meanwhile currently stands on 214 but that said it remains a very tight race because both candidates place gaps in different battleground states over night in pennsylvania from slade over biden has shrunk to barely 18000. 00 bags there while in nevada the former Vice President is leading by less than one percent and then in georgia biden has taken the lead by just a 1000 votes with 99 percent of the ballots counted incidentally the democratic candidate hasnt won that state in decades meanwhile the race in North Carolina is also too close to call for the moment so i want to sort of this may trump has more of an uphill fight if he wants to stay in the white house he has to win 4 of the battleground states excluding arizona which we mentioned earlier has been called by some media for biden however the former Vice President needs secure only one more swing state victory said there could be plenty of legal battles to follow with both candidates clashing on the results that have come in so far. If you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us in america voters sacred. People of this nation were were. It is the will of the voters no one else chooses the tragedy of. This tremendous litigation. And this is a case where theyre trying to steal an election theyre trying to rig an election each ballot must be counted. And thats what were going to see going through. And thats how it should be our goal is to defend the integrity of the election will not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election for that matter its a corrupt system that makes people corrupt even if they arent. Allowed. To discuss the tension around the country at the moment with mickey. The u. S. We need does pride itself on its democratic system does that now appear to have glitches with everything thats going on i would say that at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the United States the there are always something of a shoe for the entire nation but this this year in particular they seem to have outdone themselves you know its turned into this. Moony is dirty slaw go to market see sometimes messy sometimes requires a little patience as world but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance the envy of the world well the envy of the world perhaps in days long gone now with endless government shutdowns all the Political Violence the bureaucracy partisanship the Polarization DivisionHealth Care System and Pandemic Response that has frankly been a worldwide embarrassment i wouldnt say perhaps envy of the world is the right phrase if youre in the United States you just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote where you show up at the polling station and theyll turn you right around and tell you to go and register 1st except you have to register 2 to 4 weeks in advance depending on the state you know different procedures everywhere and to register you have a say you have to have a special id card which not everyone has so far ok you will well prepared you did it you you went and registered next youve youve got to get time off work either that because in the United States whereas in europe it is always inside everyones free everyone who vote in the United States sunday is a jewish holiday and they would make it a National Holiday voting day so you have to go. During a wednesday for example you have to ask your boss for some time off work which he may not give now theres a pandemic it is dangerous it is literally dangerous to do in sound and huge lines of people with the very little social distancing you mail you have of you mail your vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and its lost 150000 votes have been confirmed sue for are lost in this election and theyre still counting the theres potentially tens and tens of thousands more in an election as clues as this where every vote matters theyve lost so many already ok let lets just lets just presume everythings going fine you came prepared you registered early you got and lied when you said your vote didnt get lost and now your president is saying that you vote this potentially for dell and Democrat Officials never believe they could win this election honestly i really believe that thats why they did the mail in ballots with this tremendous corruption and fraud going on thats why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited bellas they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures i get is or even determine whether theyre eligible or if it was a voter it is a nation divided more now than it has been in living memory the level of polarize ation and division Political Division in the United States is tearing the country apart and it isnt doing anyone any favors everybody understands what is happening in america but there is very little you know that nobodys willing to take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things done their way and and this is being would repeated across the country protests violence Political Violence to level to get beaten stabbed because of the color of the had that youre wearing the slogan a new t. Shirt and this is this is being seen. Worldwide this is nobodys envious of these in europe theyre saying look we simply cant afford and cant allow europe to become as divided as polarized as the United States of america should be a warning for europe we are successful because we preach differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise our democracies are in danger. In america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the United States its important the result is the accepted by everyone its easy to be a winner but sometimes its hope to be a loser at the end of the day the how close this election is how close the vote is well that both candidates a lot of leeway both are claiming that they are the part of victory that theyre winning but will be contested lawsuits of fire being fired off like firecrackers by trump especially the this election will be condensed interim self said that you know this is a lonely and in the Supreme Court now despite the warning of legal action several alexion commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported International Observers have also said that the ballot proceeded lawfully they have slammed Donald Trumps allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in Democratic Institutions and rights lawyer herricks wrote can believe the president they will fight tooth and nail to stay in the oval office. I think its there are advantages and disadvantages to a extended legal. Battle if you will i think that yes if the matter is not resolved by Inauguration Day that seems to be to create a constitutional crisis in the United States however if the Supreme Court is quite aware of when an operation a day they set their briefing schedules they will eventually irrigates that will. And will issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life hes knows hes going to be prosecuted criminally when hes released from the presidency and if not he wants to stay on this is very personal to him however the Supreme Court can hear the matter and hear in a quick way but i wouldnt be surprised if they want to throw that kind of curveball into it and make everyone have to hold their breath and be plugged into the drama into january but i suspect that the matter will move much quicker and i believe that it will have the president elect when the vote count has been particularly complicated in this contest and it has thrown up many contentious issues america discussed some of the. I. Look at what the prison is doing legally the places theyre trying to intercede and serve and so if they want to stop the county other states i want to continue county to get a good concrete standard for that and as well as after show be re holder in 2014 we had to look at Voting Rights we need to move the ministries records of who the president is we authorized to make things at the 5 Voting Rights act to have National Standards only legends we cover republican were fighting against that since the like these and the what i was saying that metastasized into this years election now i dont know what about that why dont we have one uniform federal law that says when youre voting for president maybe put it on a separate take it im not sure how this will work but why dont we have one federal law for that the question is what youre asking is a great question theres a better question to which i think transcends that why is it in the year 2020 when we can map of the genome we still have this archaic system which i think speaks to something which is which makes it right and right if for any kind of shenanigans we know so much about how the votes can be stolen we had terrible days of poll taxes and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst but he also say that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all theres hardly anything new selectors and that sort of thing they never got around to it so the question we have to ask is how is that right now that we see that we have something as archaic and as stupid as it. Seems i think is really its gotten him if this is not the donald trump that were used to this is not the same fire and brimstone have bob how did you take it down to one degree. If it will say it was embarrassing it was the sad final chapter to all set chapter in American History that something you want here. On an internet war were looking its a choice you want broken to beat him cards that almost everything you said in that speech was a lot its all those little moments you find yourself getting angry a bit of the. Whole call understanding that there is no pair. Would you want joe biden to drive you home from the airport let me just talk about something right now where you put all this is side this is this says either something about is good or bad when we have a man but im not even sure knows where he is and he is most probably what we see is correct going to be sworn in as the president and i further predict since since we are predicting he will serve one term shorter than William Henry harrison of 31. 00 days when kamel harris will be removed immediately something will happen joel will maybe perhaps that aneurism god forbid something will pop up maybe coded maybe 8 maybe senescence but he will be moved because if you think of anybody thinks that joe biden is going to be if he is the he is the intended get it and you think that well my friends happy birthday cause you were born yesterday robert can you respond to that do you think that there is a likely ive heard from a lot of people on both sides who they all seem to believe that biden will not serve his entire 1st term and i hear from democrats who say that the time with me i hear from republicans who say it would be a scandal but ive heard very few people disagree with that idea do you disagree with. Of course i disagree with that idea or still by the term i think its important that he does because hes a throwback to the era of oh thanks but we were not governing your me 51 to 49 country we were we have bipartisan agreement we did big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon we won cold war 2 we liberated oh there were western civilization thats what america used to do when we worked across party lines. This is a sham the fix is in the fix has been in from the beginning all these states so you know just going around the voter and changing the voting rules claiming that its because of cold setting up the scenario where you think they cant finish counting the votes in georgia or North Carolina or whatever theyre just theyre just waiting theyre coordinating with the biden people and theyre just waiting to see how theyre going to do this we all know its a joke every night after night after that i sit there and i watch the big boards you know whether its on c. N. N. Or ever it is and guess why the numbers more votes have come in in this state more votes have come in in that state and guess what biden picked up close trumps lead is evaporating without a surprise this is really a travesty what would you guys say is the actual role of the press in these elections i mean arent we supposed to be the observers of the process because these days it does seem like the media wields so much power that it could actually steer perception steer the publics and ultimately steer the election itself. Yeah absolutely you know were supposed to be in the media the observer the impartial observer were not supposed to be influenced or in this case weve moved past that to become the decider in fact that were in the arena for combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i mean they come to a position of being a never trappers somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hopes to use defeated and yet find themselves very sympathetic to the president when he complains about the media because steve is right my friend steve is right the president has got an unfair shake from this media and i think its all people out there like me who dont think good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media now wrangling on the election has overshadowed another race in the country at the moment because both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrats to spend large sums of money on campaigning and had hoped to make both the house and the senate blue however that hasnt happened the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still trickling in 218 seats in needed to win a majority there and so far we can see that the democrats are on 208 and the republicans there on 193. 00 some experts calculate to bring majority will actually be thinner this year and so far they are down at least 6 incumbents now theres also a tussle as you mentioned for the senate so we can have a look at whats going on there democrats still need to gain 4 seats to flip control of the upper house although it looks increasingly unlikely as the republicans have already won 48 seats and have been leading in 3 of the remaining 4 races to get to 50 now lets go back to the president ial race because the democrats were expecting the blue wave to before voting started in that one Election Integrity activist and independent journalist and a house they told us why the contest has been much closer than expected. That stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candidates that i thought could beat trump which would include gabbert Bernie Sanders and i would even argue andrew yang those arent the ones who are allowed to go up against wrong in the moment that they selected the one of the male democrat in joe biden whos basically been by our standards a republican who is pro fact fracking just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on Foreign Policy than trump then you are setting the stage for walk a fine well go wall half the vote in support base awful party lines because that seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on and by that expire extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. To remind the then of the numbers in the president ial race democratic nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes leaving him just 6 short of the presidency donald trump is trailing on 214 biden is currently holding a narrow defeat in the traditional red states in georgia these are all safe slightly ahead in nevada meanwhile trump is making gangs in pennsylvania of course well stay across the board of the developments as the results come. In. If you can save someone if you have a small and direct means saved on the painting that you can then save your thousands of other lives well my response is that the way we should think about that is just is that just as theres a child in a store experiment right there in front of you in this burning building you can say it also just thousands of children around the world and take millions of children around the world you could potentially state it with its light weight in this situation in the being im facing a burning building just all the time. Seems wrong. To me. To shape out these days. And in the game equals betrayal. When so many worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. The russian Prosecutor Generals Office says that germany has failed to provide a single meaningful response to his request to investigate the alleged poisoning of. The political activists was allegedly poisoned in august in russia. Has more. On the one hand if we look back at how the most senior e. U. Officials treated the alike saying of ali case perhaps we should have expected much from berlins response to the official request from russia but then on the other hand if you think about what if surprise surprise that reply ended up containing details in abundance on all d the tests that were undertaken with a like saying the volley well now the russian officials are saying that they do have that message from germany which literally contains 0 answers to all the questions that were put forward by the russian side which according to moscow is an indication that germanys still unwilling to cooperate on the matter that its up to work to be German Authorities wrote a response cohen on russia to provide Additional Information on the investigation over the hospitalisation of alexina valmy however not a single question from the russian side has been concerts taken this into account it is clear that to date requests by the Russian Prosecutors Office have not been met such a delay by our foreign colleagues is regrettable and leaves russian authorities with no opportunity to study the circumstances of the incident. Now to some other key points of that statement by the Russian Police there are saying that none of the members of the bloggers team that were with the like seen a volley in siberia are willing to get in touch or meet the russian authorities plus in that statement its being reminded that the russian doctors didnt find any traces of poisoning and the bloggers body and also that courting to the doctors and some chronic illnesses could have led to that charge a ration of his health in fact theyre also reminding that the russian doctors found a like scene of ali in a state of aggravated pancreatitis in any case the bottom line from russias law. Authorities is that they cant move on in their investigation without the details that they are requesting from berlin and this is something that was also echoed and that keeps being echoed by the statements from the Russian Foreign ministry actually theres the video it is clear that berlin and other european capitals forget International Law when it comes to russia and megaphone diplomacy is preferred to mutually respectful dialogue so any objective analysis even without knowledge of applied chemistry and chemical nonproliferation issues quite naturally gives the conclusion of a staged amateur performance his main aim is yet another short of sanctions. Which stands firm against impose truce at the expense of National SovereigntyInternational Law and simple common sense so it looks like were in for another deadlock with a vague response or as the Russian Police authorities put it a completely useless response from the german side and if we look back at what angola merkel once said that russia pretty much wouldnt get anything unless it is willing to clear up the issue in the meantime anticrime all activists alexina volley has laughed off the statement by the russian authorities he pretty much said hey guys what else are you going to find in my body up until august 20th was absolutely healthy. So just to remind you of the timeline of this very complicated story with a like scene of ali the opposition activist was traveling from siberia to moscow on a plane when he fell severely ill the pilots went for an Emergency Landing to save his life then the doctors and were fighting for a like scene of all these live he was then moved up on the request of his family to berlin for treatment and then we heard from european officials that alexei the volley was poisoned by a nerve agent of the novacek group russia once proof of that but as the officials in moscow are saying theyre not getting any up until this point in a prank that will from russia analysts mamak already says that getting to the bottom of what actually happened is kate. The key question of course is that they must do would like a sample well to know the joke agent which allegedly poisoned the well and he would believe will not give it up until their sentence marred with a russian response germany into interprets International Law through the spectrum of german law i was not Even National you have to give this information but then the german say no we dont because our interpretation is different theyve decided not to supply. Russia with a vital sample of note of not talking. Because they say that were going to hold it back until were satisfied that your investigation the Russian Investigation in russia its all good now as i realized through perception and through the prism of russian law so therefore we have in fact a situation where the russians are saying according to our analysis according to iraq. To britain whether have been horribly protests on the very 1st night of a new. 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