Working. Joe biden urges patience but says hes confident he will become president. Doing demonstrations biden and Trump Supporters at trade calls to count every ballot and protect the vote. Plus another record jump in corona virus infections at the u. S. More than 120000. 00 new cases confirmed on thursday alone. President trump has made his 1st appearance in nearly 2 days to repeat claims that the president ial vote is being rigged in stolen once again he offered no evidence to support this adding that legal action over the election could end up in the Supreme Court translate has been falling into key states as mail and ballots are counted raising joe bidens hopes of clinching the presidency lets look at georgia 1st thats where joe biden is. Now fewer than 2000 votes behind trump what was a soul the republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining maryland ballots are from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta are also st
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us exactly one week before possibly the most consequential u. S. Election secretary of state mike pompei own defense secretary mark esper has flown to india to meet with their counterparts its almost as if theyre running against the clock rolling out as much of their age policy in case their boss President Donald Trump loses the election india has signed a military agreement with the u. S. To share sensitive satellite information and the 2 will participate in naval exercises next month those are war games along with australia and japan all members of the quad a partnership of india pacific democracies. Joining us is korea mohan of the German Marshall Fund for more agreement pump aoe and the esper are in india but this is as much about china isnt it. Absolutely so this meeting comes in the backdrop of chinese aggression at indias border region which shows no signs of abating it also comes in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic t
Hello im so raman youre watching al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes critics in hong kong warn of increasing attempts to sideline their voices as 8 prodemocracy politicians make their 1st Court Appearance over a fight at a Legislative Council meeting. An economy near collapse we meet the refugees living on less than 3. 00 a day in lebanon. Welcome to the program and its another day has ended in the United States with still no clear answer on who will lead the country for the next 4 years the closer the count is to finishing the tighter the race becomes heres the overall picture with just 4 battleground states left to count any of them could give joe biden the victory that he wants now he has the lead in nevada here in the west and of course trump is ahead in the rest of the states for the margins are razor thin and those stay. Can be counted the ones that you see there in yellow over to the east of the map biden now has 264. 00 Electoral Colleg
A Legislative Council meeting plus an economy near collapse we meet the refugees living on less than 3. 00 a day in lebanon. Welcome to the program another day has ended in the United States and still no answer on who will lead the country for the next 4 years the close the count is to finishing the tighter the race becomes is the overall picture with just 4 battleground states left accountant any of them could give victory to joe biden now he has the lead in nevada here to the west and trump is ahead in the rest of the states for the margins are razor thin and those states being counted are the ones that you can see in yellow biden now has 264 Electoral College votes trumpets 214 that still puts both of them in the range of that magic number to become president. Of 270 lets take a close look at georgia joe biden is now just 463 votes behind trump not surprising because georgia has been a solid republican state for decades now the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are from the city
Protect the vote. Scenes of devastation across Central America storm and its left dozens dead and thousands more homeless. Joe biden is getting ever closer to securing that magic number of 270 required to clinch the u. S. Presidency with Donald Trumps lead shrinking in 2 key states georgia and pennsylvania thats over georgia for thats where joe biden is now just over 1700 votes behind trump what was a solid republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta were also still waiting on pennsylvania a very important state the state where joe biden was born translate has been consistently shrinking there about 22000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the do. Democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and the suburbs giving biden a very good chance of catching up lets look at the overall picture now the democrat