After the opposition called into the republican election when. Europe meanwhile expresses hope of better. Though. Not everyone. Is convinced. Me but. We expect a 3rd wave in spring the usual season. So we hope this wave will be less powerful when it comes to the rate of infection. In the world this is R T International pleasure company and you. Are breaking news story today. Says it has launched an investigation into a Russian Military helicopter over armenian or space to up to 3 crew members on board were killed russia says it has accepted an apology from unsurprising. We assess positively the fact that book who immediately admitted its guilt we also know the assurances given to us by the as are bijani site that a prompt investigation of this incident will be carried out and the perpetrators will be punished well here i get the latest developments on details with our tease here in the studio. It took the observer johnny saw it only a few hours to admit that it was their military behind the downing of the russian plane and to issue an apology theyre making it clear that it was a tragic accident citing Poor Visibility darkness and also in general how heightened the pressure is on their military at this point which automatically makes this escalation much less dangerous and shows that perhaps at this point for their body john all of the combat zone fighting in which is about 170 kilometers away from the crash site is enough that they dont want to bring this conflict on to a whole new level they dont want to expand this war geographically if indeed that attack was a mistake so heres a part of that statement of apology from the Foreign Ministry as a by john visits apologies to russia for this tragic incident it was accidental it was not directed against russia as well as john is ready to pay compensation the russian combat helicopter me 24 was attacked in armenian airspace but very close to the border with us or by john as it was accompanying a russian convoy of military vehicles that are permanently stationed in armenia there was a Russian Military base there that appeared that was set up a long time ago and the units and the russian hardware theyre stationed there arent taking part in the nagornokarabakh call so that helicopter was hit by a surface to air missile the aircraft lost control and crashed in a mountainous area of armenia 2 people were instantly killed and one of the crew members was injured hes being treated at a hospital and has already been brought back to that russian base now again like i said potential. The situation was explosive but now with that apology from us or by john it looks like things have calmed down and perhaps what the sides should do right now is focus on the settlement of d the conflict in the corner car back. Another u. S. Election and more claims of meddling only this time not by outside doctors but from the inside with donald trump accusing the democrats of mass voter fraud after joe biden was proclaimed president elect. Of current incumbent president term pose yet to concede the election he claims theres been serious vote fraud and is vowing legal action we believe these people have fever the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the poster rim britton wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that its impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of these states where it mattered they stole what they have to steal or clashes have been occurring in several states between rival crowds with several arrests made as well as Trump Supporters stunned by their president and questioning the election result. Well the election was last tuesday but just 48 hours ago was when many Media Outlets called the race provide enough to deniz all of their projected president as promised to help america become a nation healed but like in 2016 its all got off to a shaky start with more allegations of meddling as daniel and. For Many Americans the 2020 us president ial election had so much riding on it it was symbolic a long awaited chance for justice to prevail for the country to correct the mistakes of 2016 at least thats how the media and many people saw it where were you in 27. When we had the worst president we could argue its unfair to rank trump as a work for the never after just one year but clearly those scholars see in him a Great Potential worst in most dangerous president in the history of our country are the worst words hes americas ever meet thousands of people celebrating on the streets a far cry from the scenes we saw after the last president ial election seemingly the only tears this time with those of joy. Vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered for years ago when trump won broadcasters showed scenes of people in shock and crying today a biden declaration shows coverage that would make you think jesus had returned all 4 hours might be exaggerating but to some it really looks like a savior of the senate upon america except this is a reality for only half of the country bidens predicted landslide or blue wave didnt happen and no matter how many times he was called the worst president in American History the worst president the countrys ever had trump still managed to gain the support of close to half a lecture it and they alongside his Campaign Team are not giving up without a fight. I. Realize this is not it will be over and immediately. With the democratic leadership all trump has so far also refused to concedes making a slew of allegations about the legality and accuracy of the voting process if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us and trump steam up behind him ready to do battle in the countrys legal system and highest courts to stop what they see as an injustice these are a lawsuit will be brought starting on monday as you know from the very beginning the mail in ballots were a source of some degree of skepticism if not a lot of skepticism as being innately prone to fraud this fraud war between the trump and biden camps wont end anytime soon how do we know this well that simple the last one dragged on for trumps entire term a democratically elected president was accused of just about every wrongdoing trump is already acting like a russian try. Is actively or was actively colluding with russia hone told mahlers office about more contacts between trumps orbit and its it appears trump himself in russia they didnt believe trump when he denied there was any collusion for example so why should he give his of positives the benefit of the doubt what claims the president made yesterday were simply not supported you know i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner well its not for us biden or trump to decide whether any wrongdoing took place during the 2020 lection it looks like math will be down to the Supreme Court but what we do know is that trumps 4 years in office might have taught him a valuable lesson about how to fight his bottle and so far it looks like theyll be little unity along the way if we ask the number of gas whether there is any merit to Donald Trumps allegations of ballot fraud. Theres no doubt of that but that joe biden is the president elect and will take office at noon on the 20th of january next year there are no court cases that have any merit the margins are such that they are not capable of being disputed and it to be also clear joe biden won the election by 5000000. 00 votes the most votes that any candidate has ever gotten the countrys polarized but there was an extraordinary turnout in this election largely because of donald trump and because a majority of americans wanted did not want him to continue as president not joe biden got over a 50 percent of the vote for. Hillary clinton and won by 3000000 votes but she didnt get 50 percent there are teams of lawyers in every state with question marks on them and their purpose is to put together their part of a case thats going to be presented to the public and to justice as a full case that shows that the election outcome was altered by the fraud that it was that significant number to give you just one of those mathematical mere impossibilities to show you how you can obviously see that things were done that are not right to. Vote for Hillary Clinton was very strong and a lot of democrats Capital Cities including the ones in the swing States Joe Biden got fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in every a major American City except for and those 4 are milwaukee detroit atlanta and philadelphia the 4 cities where much of the obvious chain are you is going on so joe biden got more votes than Hillary Clinton coincidentally in the 4 Capital Cities of the swing states but less all across the rest of the country and still he gets a Record Number 74000000 popular votes for president. How does this happen when only 4 cities have to make up a disadvantage to your previous candidate in the previous election its just mathematically nearly impossible i think theres a lot of circumstantial evidence a lot of self evident impossibilities like that and you have to assemble them all into a single detailed chase and i think thats what president trumps team of lawyers is doing right now. Later in the program us to follow our job with the vote continues we look at questions being raised over the entire us an electoral system. And we will of course be seeing across the latest developments in the election legal challenges and all as donald trump seeks to prolong his stay in the oval office son joe biden is up a genuine or gratian. Moving on now in russia that kobe had 19 pandemic is spiraling with the daily rate of new infections topping 20000 for the past 3 days the main infection hotspots are moscow and St Petersburg the 2 cities have imposed a number of. Demick rules including mandatory masks and gloves in Public Places to cope with the growing infection rate moscow has opened a number of field hospitals are russian channel went to check out the conditions. So paula from temple to temple. And the. Floor for. Almost 2. Years or to. The 2nd week how is a different from the 1st i think people have become less vigilant what do you mean people get used to it yes people got used to it but there are those who refuse to believe there are 2 groups now those who are extremely concerned about coronavirus know what it is who lost their loved ones and those who say you are all liars in the summer we relaxed let ourselves go and here you are now were seeing the consequences of this in autumnal didnt we relax because there were some objective reasons for that or were we just being stupid no we are not stupid we are just human beings how many temporary 1000 hospitals were set up in moscow 5 and all them can accommodate over a 1000 patients approximately 430 to have sort of the reporter for. The pulse of earth but it was of the thought if the. News and it will slowly be shown some ventilators has the survival rate grown since march for patients on a ventilator it hasnt changed much what is the rate 25 percent however our approach has changed a lot of them for us now placing a patient on a ventilator as a last resort when all other possible treatments are exhausted or the question will come there if this is not the feeling of the most ill middle of the earth incredible at sort of that clearly there. Taking with them is meaningless how has the hospitals work changed since march. On the one hand the team has gained confidence in their actions but on the other hand everyone is exhausted. When will you be able to get back to normal routine work because we expect a 3rd wave in spring the usual season for all viruses so we hope this wave will be less powerful when it comes to the rate of infections and if it goes like this probably by june we will be back to normal i hope so but maybe even earlier well see i was with the short. I. The us pharmaceutical giant pfizer sayings its corona virus vaccine has been proven 90 percent effective in large scale trials the news has been met by widespread optimism but the governor of new york where the firm is based saying is it not all positive the bad news is. Its about 2 months before joe biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine claim. While manufacturing of the pfizer drug is already underway and trials will continue into december its part of a vast global effort of course to find a working covert 19 vaccine in the u. S. At least the process has been highly politicized. We will massless tribute in the backseat in just a few short weeks it will quickly eradicate the virus and wipe out the child to play once and for all if the doctors tell us that we should take it ill be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if Donald Trump Tells us i think that weve taken on not taking we heard from dr john braun. Me director of the Washington Pain Center now he believes the political point scoring risk to undermining the governments vaccine strategy all in all the covert 1000. 00 pandemic at least in the United States is been a political football a thing to her donald trump the economy they will play up and the other side is this is the same way so i think its very scary that were here which were seeing this tremendous and tragic intersection between politics and science which is not the way to move forward and we need educate people what weve done now is politicized and we need to take down the temperature theyve done the studies done for several months for you know 46000 patients and theres a large number and they show that the effectiveness is quite high 90 percent and the safety profile is quite high so weve not seen those same issues almost like in m. S. Kind of neurologic problems that you would get such as astra zeneca had. Lets return in the program to the u. S. Election where of course ramifications of it are being felt outside american borders europe has been taking an intense interest in the election with joe biden being widely hailed as president elect brussels has expressed the hope bilateral ties will get a boost though some of the continents political top brass are skeptical of things will actually improve under the new administration picking up the story for us charlotte dubinsky. Only e. U. Leaders were signaling their congratulations or sense of relief i think in europe that biden is the president elect there was a lot welcome particularly over the fact that biden has said he would bring the us back into the paris climate agree women fold but there was also this carefully wooded suggestion about the challenges that are faced in the future and cooperation on those challenges together one of the big issues the european leaders are going to be thinking about is nato trump was seen as being divisive not particularly supportive of the alliance whereas joe bidens seen as somebody who is a big supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he wont be changing from the trumpet administration in clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g. D. P. That trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share thats likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden will not be making a u. Turn on other important decisions joe biden isnt going to change washingtons approach to International Issues overnight because he cant its a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing we are all so many issues where i dont think anything is going to change there. Theres also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e. U. Products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u. S. Trade deficit of 170000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars with the e. U. So trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue theres also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for airbus and boeing so that is unlikely to resolve itself very soon now the e. U. Has also been pushing ahead with this agenda of more sovereignty in defense in trade trying to perhaps sort of rally itself up against the u. S. And that is also unlikely to change when it up this marks a new chapter in european history one where europe is independent where we can be proud of our european culture and identity will be able to stand up against china against the United States against the disorder we are currently witnessing european strategical told them is goal number one for generation were sending a message not only door citizens but also to the rest of the world europe is the world power and then of course theres the issue of braggs it those negotiations not going to well between the u. K. And the e. U. But the e. U. Is hoping that a biden presidency will not give special treatment to the u. K. Particularly if there is no deal breaks it so lots of issues that europe is waiting to find out about but the reality is joe biden has so much on his plate domestically trying to create the harmony within the u. S. And lets not forget that trump gained more than 70000000 votes trump is and is alive and kicking and joe biden is going to have to do an awful lot to reach out to those voters. We spoke to curran care nurse a los tree is former minister of foreign a further she believes that under biden ties with europe will not be u. S. Priority personally i dont see the European Union issues being top on their chanda we might believe that we are so important that watching wakes up in the morning and now care is 1st and foremost about how to repair the alliance how to get back to better relations with the various Member States no i think they are 1st and foremost Foreign Policy a chanda will be the peoples republic of china and how to handle all the open issues with them but personally i would share the position by former president of the you being commissioner jocular do you think its going to change because although he cant change a lot and there are certain konstanz. Factors there that will continue one of them is the trade deficit and the other one is the trade dispute and of course the burden sharing within the alliance. The continued wrangling over the us election there is a growing move to rethink the Current Electoral College system colorado is the latest to the idea the National Popular vote is a very straightforward concept one person should always equal one vote and the president ial candidate who gets the most votes should win the election. Well just to explain in the Electoral College system each state gets a certain number of electors based on its total number of representatives in congress now the National Popular vote compact is an agreement which wouldnt completely eliminate the Electoral College but instead have its electors back the candidate who won nationwide as opposed to statewide it has now been signed by 15 states and washington d. C. To be enacted the agreement needs to be backed by enough states that would collectively represent 270. 00 Electoral College votes that is the threshold for winning of course the president ial election at present it has 196. 00 votes well im delighted to welcome onto the program the dog on the block good jones lead on to democratic strategist and lawyer william professor of sociology at the university of california in Santa Barbara benedict founder of the libertarian Political ActionCommittee Good to see you all thanks for taking the time today is can we kick off with you is the Electoral College system is it a relic of the past and should it be consigned to history. Most of the time whoever wins the popular vote would also win the Electoral College of course weve seen Something Different in 2 elections which was kind of surprising 2000 in 2016 im in texas which is a big state and im a libertarian so i dont prefer republicans or democrats one or the other i am what i tell voters here to try and get them to vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election we know republicans always win texas just like democrats always win california so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. That example demonstrates how the Electoral College does make a lot of voters preferences not very influential ok the Electoral College it gives a voice to the voice lee does it not how this power to small states that generally see themselves as being ignored if it was just the popular vote no counted it would bother trying to win them over what they were why should the vastly populated coastal areas dominate the entire nation. Well its very simple you know you said it in your intro one person one vote its pretty simplistic we have to remember that the look toward a college what they designed at the 12th amendment during a time when we did not have the technology that we have today the process of counting votes took much longer than it does today now we have the ability to have each president ial candidate be counted by their vote so the idea that the Electorial College was made initially to make some type of fairness between the states make it proportional based on the number of congresspeople which is based on your population and the number of senators which is to from each state however what weve seen is in the elections that were just previously described by the other viewer were seeing a change where there is no longer necessary we also know and the most important part the idea the left or your college was not just built on the fairness for the sad that the state but it was fairness to the southern slave owning states to make sure that they did not get an overabundance of votes based on the number of people who were slaves and there and which oftentimes group of the population is say also has vestiges in White Supremacy and history that we can probably get rid of now william theres a practical issue here as well isnt there if you scrub the Electoral College on one side is helping the contest the result when you need to count every single vote nationally again not would just make matters prolonged and generally for the worse. No i dont think clearly theres any relationship between that theoretical you know 3 radically that technical problem and and switching to this to the what the con compact is proposing but i want to make a larger point here i think the compact is just one step in the direction of a much more Democratic Political system because im in california and we have a situation where 55 percent of the electorate votes for the democrats 45 percent vote for the republican and that 40 the republicans up 44 percent has no voice whatsoever so the contact would certainly coarseness towards a more democratic system but as and the Libertarian Party you know member of that comment that demonstrates that we still have a situation in which we have winner take all and theres that locks the whole political system into this rigid 2 party system i think we need to even move beyond the compact and have a system of proportional representation we have a long history in the United States of 3rd 4th and 5th parties trying to break into the political system and they cant because 1st of all we have this because be before theres even discussion of the compact we have this this richard 2 party system that is based on winner take all so the contact again is a 1st step in the right direction but its still not enough where as we have an election which has taken days the current t. V. Networks are the home of the clearing the winner and the losers the clearing the whole thing a fraud is the entire u. S. System isnt fit for purpose as a currently in its current galleys. Well you know its i know its a bit of a mess but i could see the same thing going on if you whether you had the electoral system or a National Popular vote you could still claim that there was voting fraud and want to have recounts and you would debate whether you recount a whole state or the entire nation or just a county or what have you of course as a libertarian i would love to see a much smaller less powerful government so that we really didnt care so much who won the election. Lotto an isolated case is a fraud the dont speak for the whole system is that not correct are you throwing the baby out with the bop water here by getting rid of this generations along system. Is so i think its 2 things are completely separate so theres no real identification of fraud in the u. S. Voting system we have a secure system what you have is a level of mistrust between