A 2nd lockdown to try to try to drive down the coronavirus cases. Its getting colder for an awful lot of people in western and Northern Europe now this is the cold front cause it doesnt look much from behind it a bit of a clue from the shape of these clouds these a shower clouds over the water which indicates cold air above contd convection now most of the rain from it is going to be shot its been hitting denmark recently is on to the coast of norway and then look at spain and portugal in fact revolving just the west of portugal another building area of low pressure which means a circulation of persistent rain heading into was portugal remember the flooding for a month or so ago around lisbon that could happen again so thats an active area where everybody else is enjoying the sunshine for pretty cold mornings and even by afternoon were talking about the low teens if youre lucky for virtually everywhere except of course being around the mediterranean to clear the eastern med which again for the next 2 days going to be fairly wet its been sundry with hail and significant rain for southeastern turkey cyprus lebanon and it stretching down a little bit through the coast of syria and its going to be this general area that continues to get wet weather as it spreads slowly in changing the feel of the weather throughout levant in the next day or so was tensions dropping and the winds picking up jerusalem is just one example down to 16 degrees. 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Hello time now for a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera the race for the white house is still too close to call just minutes ago joe biden won the key battleground state of wisconsin the results from 6 states are still outstanding but that hasnt stopped donald trump from falsely declaring himself the winner despite votes still being counted. All the from campaign has announced that has filed a suit to halt the vote counting in the state of michigan just hours after saying they would request a recount in wisconsin joe biden leads both states by less than one percent has been tweeting throughout the day with return labeling at several of his comments as disputed and might be misleading. So lets speak to aaron call now hes director of debate at the university of michigan and joins us live via skype 1 from the city of navi thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so whether its by twitter or in his speech or really hes been insinuating it for weeks and months so we do see the president casting doubt on the validity of the results where do you think this is going to end up. I think its going to be a lot of noise but i dont think theres going to be a big tangible impact given the likely margin in some of the states you mentioned wisconsin michigan pennsylvania will be potentially tens of thousands of votes and not be able to be overcome by a recount or things like that but clearly there are going to be litigation and in all the eyes of the nation the world will be on a roll those states for at least the coming weeks because its worth reminding our International Audience that this is more like 50 different elections as opposed to one generally a National Election like in other places so when come talks about going to the Supreme Court is that accurate to what all of this have to be done initially at state level exactly 3 court is the last remedy in the Judicial Branch that started at this level one and the from campaigners are engaged in that they filed a lawsuit in michigan. Or claims a level to stop the counting and then again and try to get more of their observers into it and then depending on how that goes they could be brought to me earlier or it could be appealed up to either the. State Supreme Court federal court of appeals that eventually Supreme Court so its not a one stop shop of the Supreme Court like that but it thats Something Else again what would happen over weeks or even months i mean you say weeks and months weve had precedence before in 2000 for example and between gore and bush they go on for weeks but what other precedents do we have for this getting tangled in in the Legal Process for as you mentioned potentially months. Yeah thats a record of the best example from 2000 thats something the florida courts before the Supreme Court of then eventually the Supreme Court if there is a time line there the recounts in many states they have to be completed within a month there is a Safe Harbor Provision usually december and then the electors meet in january the inauguration the january so theres not much that i. Did that will be extradited back in but we see recalcitrance in the q. And something election there was a recount side of the earth Party Candidate after one of the south and it didnt go anywhere with turnout and local retaliates and like michigan other wisconsin we had recount but thats youre talking about 300 votes maybe that could be changed if youre under arrest now the margin in the sense that youre 20000 so you say a recount is nowhere near where needed to make a tangible difference in the overall result do you think that these accusations you know since the veil the knowledge of voter fraud and potential delays could shake the faith that americans have in the democratic process. Girly i mean a country is very divided and there was a lot of conversation about. Before the work. They do even if you end up losing his guy and im going to order. You know youre so old all of the parents and out they are and so so yes. Make it very difficult so they have the sorry joe biden presidency under a cloud like this it will get received question certainly not where you want to start and then also it will call at all issues between the parties to try to reach compromise on one of our 4 dysplasia and other things like that. The way to try to get the country for many years and called the director of the bay to the university of michigan joining us live from the city of navi sir thank you for sharing your expertise with us thank you of course. Ok lets take a look now at some of the worlds of the stories now the results of trials for a promising coronavirus faxing should be available by the end of this year and the production is set to be delayed the scientists leading the joint project by Oxford University and the drug from astra zeneca told british m. P. s he was optimistic that there would be results in the center he said doses of the vaccine were already being made but out of 100000000. 00 ordered by the u. K. Only 4000000. 00 will be delivered by the end of the year. Meanwhile england goes back into lockdown in a few hours for 4 weeks jonah holism london and says there are concerns about how much the countrys economy will suffer. Well take a look at the scene behind me this is for a street soho Central London the scene pretty much tells its own story low footfall the optimism of the summer long long gone there will be a surge in a short while after work as people turn up to enjoy perhaps their last night of of eating in a restaurant or having a drink in a pub under the existing restrictions of course for the next 4 weeks before this lockdown comes into effect at midnight until as you said the 2nd of december the mood among traders here ive been speaking to someone talked about an air of panic there are lots of people apparently who dont believe that this lockdown will be lifted in 4 weeks time as the government has promised that it will need to be extended into the immediate run up to christmas this is a time when hospitality and retail do much of their turnover for the year and the extension to this lockdown would spell real real trouble more of course than is already on its way remember this is something the government said would not happen Boris Johnson had rejected the advice of his own Scientific Advisory group in the middle of september just last week he said a National Lockdown would be disastrous for the country then a whole slew of pretty scary new figures came out last week that thousands upon thousands of new deaths hospital admissions rising to their april peak by the end of november if nothing is done and the government forced into well just the latest really embarrassing u. Turn as it battles again to combat a resurgent covered 1900. Charla hall in london there will occur the virus is having a lot of side effects around the world and denmark is actually going to call its entire herd of mink after a corona virus mutation found in the animals spread to humans the Prime Minister there metaphor there except announce that up to 17000000. 00 mink will be killed she said the cull is necessary to rule out the virus mutation losing any risk to the effectiveness of a future Vaccine Health authorities found of the virus strains in the mic showed that decreased sensitivity against antibodies. Go to kenya now the president there has extended the countrys nightly curfew to contain a surge in corona virus cases who announced the measure will last until the 1st week of january their rate of infection shot up to 16 percent in october 4 times what it was just a month earlier the Health Ministry had raised concerns that a revival of political meetings would have been among the causes of the virus is spread. Still to come on aljazeera this news hour tensions escalating in the ivory coast as president allison what celebrates winning a 3rd term in at the speech of. Ethiopia has begun military operations in the north of the country amid an escalation in tensions there the local government in the t. Gray region has been accused of attacking federal troops local authorities though have dismissed that accusing the Prime Minister of plotting conflict a 6 month state of emergency has been declared by the federal government welcome web is in nairobi in neighboring kenya he explains what has led to the tension. Was due to hold nationwide elections in august but they were postponed the Central Government said because of covert 19 grain Regional Government said that meant Prime Minister. And his government were no longer a legitimate. Regional government when they had organize their own region elections in september the Central Government didnt accept the results of that election so we already had a situation where these 2 or thirtys werent recognizing each other the central federal government and threatened to cut funding to the region its also significant that the majority of ethiopias armed forces are stationed in the to great region including most of its tanks and its heavy artillery the Regional Government has said that part of the military known as the Northern Command has defected to its side to the Central Government refutes that certainly any split within ethiopias large military along with a line militias already on that side do pose a very high risk of a very dangerous civil war and now the reason for so much of the military being based in that part of the country is because of decades of conflict between ethiopia and neighboring eritrea and now that conflict was finally resolved 2 years ago when Prime Minister came to power he was even given a Nobel Peace Prize for ending it so now we have a situation where eritrea is allied with the Central Government in addis ababa a conflict between. And to great could see eritrea being drawn in on this about as side risks spreading the conflict around the region and destabilizing the whole of the horn of africa. Well and they have a son is the senior ethiopian analyst at the International Crisis group he says tensions between the gray and the federal government have grown steadily since september well this is the culmination of the political disputes that emanated from the Prime Minister coming to power in 2018 the antigovernment protests before that and then the t. P. A. Left a Great Ruling Party the loss of power during the transition and that resulted in yes very toxic politics different accusations big thrown about for example we had in the great regions that they were unjustly their officials were unjustly accused of various crimes then there was the creation of a National Party and that puts a great out of power at the federal level and left them just in power the regional level then when we had the election delayed this year due to cop it 19 and the t. J. Left obviously oppose that they went ahead and run their own Regional Election and that meant we have this very stark constitutional dispute with the federal government and its a great government accusing each other being unconstitutional the problem that we have now is that the parties have not been talking for months instead weve had a deteriorating political situation that is now escalated into conflict so it is wrong to say that talks are by any means on the table but it is absolutely right to say that talks any form of talks is absolutely imperative it all be an active must embrace dialogue they must draw back from this conflict which threatens to be devastating and all of the g. O. P. S International african partners and further afield must put pressure on all ethiopian Political Parties to step away from conflict. Its go back to our top story now here is how the u. S. Election picture looks joe biden has moved closer in the past hour to that magic total of 270. 00 votes for the white house adding the 10 Electoral College seats from the state of wisconsin but all in Trumps Campaign is already demanding a recount in that state and his father lawsuit to try and stop the counting of votes in another key swing state and thats michigan the results are also unclear in georgia and pennsylvania both could be the key to the path to the white house. Now from all we can go back speaking to our political and social analyst Jason Nichols who has been joining us he joins us live now from washington d. C. Via skype good to talk to you again so weve had the news of arizona now going to. 2 biden just the paint the picture again of what you think is going on not just with the president ial votes for crucially something were not really talking about Congress Senate and the house whats that looking like. Well right now it looks as though republicans are going to keep the Senate Democrats are going to keep the house and maybe add 5 or 6 seats but you know one of the things that were going to see is that were going to see a lot of divided government and which means a lot of washington gridlock so even if biden is able to pull this out there probably wont be a whole lot that gets done at least not major initiatives same thing with trump so its going to be frustrating i think for the American People regardless of the end of the outcome of the senate races democrats had how i hopes of taking in iowa race and they ended up losing they wanted to take a michigan race with Susan Collins and they ended up losing. It looks like probably the races and there were 2 races in georgia and they look like theyre both headed for runoffs so this is not necessarily a good day for democrats in terms of the senate they thought that they could possibly unify the government take the executive and the legislative branch doesnt look like thats going to happen right now looks like republicans are Holding Strong in the senate going to keep a large majority but in order to get things passed you also need 60 votes in the senate and theyre not either party is close to that and said it Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell who democrats one point had a hope of. Unseat getting one of his seat back you know handily so it looks like were going to have a lot of gridlock moving forward a lot of major initiatives that both parties and both president ial candidates promised are not going to get done. I mean joe biden the promise that he could be the unifying candidate the person the prop the country together it doesnt you know regardless of what the result is it doesnt look like hell be able to do that now the u. S. Says obviously going through weapons that make like the rest of the world the economy is going through a difficult time again like most of the world what reaction has there been then to this still undecided electio