Were going to stick with this were going to win this election with actually one just a matter of counting the votes here. It may come down to the courts to decide who wins this election the closest battle for the white house in 20 years. So heres a look at the results so far with some closer attention to states that have yet to declare a winner as we said earlier our figures show that joe biden currently has 264 and President Trump 214 Electoral College votes was constant has become the latest state to fall into the biden column its 10 electoral votes which trump won in the last election now go to his democratic challenger now according to the a. P. News agency which is our main source for election data here at g. W. Biden has taken arizona please keep in mind other major outlets they say that this is too close to call and have not called this state it has 11 electoral votes well that brings us to nevada which has exactly 6 votes on offer that joe biden would need for the white house he currently has a slim edge in that states meantime georgia 60 electoral votes at stake there trump leading the way but his margin has narrowed in the state the trunk. Payne has filed a lawsuit alleging that ineligible late absentee ballots may be added to the count pennsylvania is the biggest prize still up for grabs 20 electoral votes at stake there the president currently holding a narrow lead but again remaining 1000000 ballots are expected to favor the democratic side so bottom line for now votes still being counted but the path to victory for donald trump appears to have narrowed as you can see there with those projections so lets get an update now from washington did have you correspondent carla bleicher is standing by there so we just saw where the race stands right now give us a little bit of perspective on what is going on right now there in those key states. It is definitely a very close race and votes are still being counted they have been counted throughout the night and into the Early Morning hours here and one said of course way it where it is getting closer is pennsylvania so President Trump is in the lead here and he is in the lead by the widest margin of all states that are still counting but that leads has been narrowing steadily ever since election day and the reason for this is that the votes that are now being counted are mail in ballots and as weve heard its democrats mostly who voted by mail and not republicans so this is why were seeing these numbers that are coming in mostly for biden in pennsylvania so its going to be interesting to see how this continues but we might still have to wait a while because pennsylvania is a state that still allows ballots coming in until friday that were postmarked on election day even though republicans are challenging those in court currently take us to arizona now because we saw in Maricopa County there we have seen protests of those unhappy about how the counting is going how much has the democratic process been thrown into question. Well President Trump has sown doubts about the election before it even started he has been talking a lot about voter fraud and this is something that he is claiming now to which is why many of his supporters believe you know something untoward has been going on and that this must be the reason why why states where trump 1st looked to be comfortably in the leaves are now inching closer and closer to perhaps a biden win but the reality is and this is very important to emphasize there has been no 6 evidence for any sort of voter fraud in these elections. Really things things are just taking time because we have so many more mail and ballots because of the pen demick and the fact that numbers are changing in favor of biden again because its mostly democrats who are voting by mail and its those ballots being counted right now so again no evidence for fraud just democracy taking its time georgia also looking like a tight race what can you tell us about how important this particular state is for both candidates. Georgias incredibly important for President Trump who is in the lead in the seats right now but again this this is also getting getting closer and it might be a stretch for for biden to win it but there is a chance that he still could and the fact of the matter is without georgia trump cannot cannot make it to the white house if we assume that biden indeed has won arizona as some news organizations have said others have not but if that is true trump has to win all remaining states and that of course includes georgia biden on the other hand could win 270. 00 electoral votes without the states so really it comes down to trump has to win here are live like are with you from washington thank you. So were now into a 2nd day without a conclusive result in the u. S. Election states have until december 8th to deliver the certified results that is supposed to help guarantee that all boats have indeed been counted that day is called safe harbor day because any state result delivered after that can be challenged and the last time this all came into play was 20 years ago in an election that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. November 2000 republican president ial candidate george w. Bush seems to win florida but the results are so close that the rules demand a recount the whole election hangs in the balance democratic candidate al gore request a manual recount in certain counties. Recounting by hand took a long time a legal battle slowed vote counting down and the state overshot the safe harbor date december 8th this allowed the Bush Campaign to ask the Supreme Court to stop a new statewide recount which it did bush was declared the winner by a margin of just a few 100 votes. Fast forward to this november another election without an immediate result the established law in some states is that counting early and mail and ballots can only start on the election day and this year the corona pandemic millions of people voted that way counting all these ballots takes guess what a long time. We dont know how long yet but that december 8th safe harbor deadline is starting to become visible on the horizon. President trump has already said he intends to use lawsuits to slow down or stop state counts which could push them past the safe harbor date and make them vulnerable to challenges his 1st comments after polls close pointed towards vegas he falsely said counting votes after election day was illegal. We were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this for led by us is a major fraud nation we want a load to be used in a proper manner so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court his democratic opponent joe biden had been expecting this and tried to take the wind out of trumps sails. Because of the on president early voting a mail in vote is going to take a while were going to have to be patient until the hard work of talent votes is finished. If un declared states missed the safe harbor date while theres still no overall result the u. S. Congress and Supreme Court could get involved bringing back memories of the bitterly divided 2000 contest. And for more on that im joined now by julie norman lecturer in politics and International Relations at the u. C. L. Center for u. S. Politics in london welcome to the program and thank you for joining us whats your view on how the counting of ballots is being thrown into question in the u. S. How stable is the system. Lets say the system is stable and as we heard from President Biden on election day this delay that were seeing this year was very much expected in contrast to what President Trump said there is no evidence of fraud or malice or you know anything anything of that sort this was a delay simply because of the huge number of mail and ballots this year due to the coronavirus that we are expecting these procedural delays the fact that trying to is throwing those into question is suggesting intense know disenfranchisement you really is quite reckless and potentially very inflammatory at this time in american politics but for everyone whos been watching this election we knew it would probably take a couple days for the count to be finalized so so what legal possibility is then are there for President Trump to potentially contest the results or stop some of the ballot counting. Well weve already seen that trump has taken several steps he has asked for a recount in the state of wisconsin which is within his legal remit to do so if the state has a less than one percent vote margin and they can be challenge so he is pushing for a recount there and is also pushing for a lawsuit already in the state of michigan in terms of having republicans overseeing the vote count so challenging on that friends but well see tries to use these legal mechanisms in different states his legal teams have been preparing for this he signaled before the election that he would probably be doing this but a key difference between this race and 2000 where the race did go to the Supreme Court is that in 2000 it really centered on one state on the state of florida and particular counties within that state so right now the race is still open in a number of states if biden wins by more than just one state will be very hard for trump to get a court case from one state all the way up to the Supreme Court that makes a real difference so a lot of this is a lot of go posturing trying to maybe delay the outcome but in terms of changing it that would still really be a long shot for him ok tell us just briefly now because you raise the specter of 2000 you know right now biden has the most popular votes of and the u. S. President in history the u. S. Of course calculating on the electoral system however since 2000 there have been 2 president s to lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College vote george w. Bush donald trump would americans accept that again and how high are the calls for reform. Well right so with the vote still coming in and with the votes still being tallied there is still a chance of course that trump will be victorious in the selection by the Electoral College its clear now that biden will take the popular votes and youre exactly right that if this is the 3rd election in just 20 years where the winner of the popular vote loses the presidency or loses that electoral votes that would be something that i think a lot of americans would really start seriously considering the Electoral College is already seeing those discussions and conversations starting in the lead up to the election but its important to note that the Electoral College changing that system would take a it would take a majority of states agreeing to it woods take a amendment going through congress it would take a lot of steps that quite frankly i dont see potentially happening any time soon even though there would maybe be a public will an interest for that to happen and norman with the view from london thank you so much thank you. All many tweets put out by President Trump since an election day have been flagged by twitter for containing disputed or misleading content i want to take a look at his latest post it contains a headline from far right Media Outlets breitbart alleging vote counting chaos and destroy which is in the closely contested state of michigan now the right particle that the Term Campaign has not been given proper access to the counting process that is what it alleges lets bring in fact checker. Who has been looking into the story he joins us now so what did you find out. Our team debunked this story and the bright part reported on poll workers in detroit covering windows as onlookers outside try to watch as ballots were being counted and obviously trying also to get into the polling station the police however did push back crowds who had begun pounding on the doors and windows and yelling stop the count which might have been influenced by President Trump who earlier said that all voting should be stopped however the breitbart article didnt mention was the fact that the election official said the people could not enter the room due to capacity concerns the allowed number of people in the room was exceeded and there were democratic and republican poll watchers beside me as media and lawyers in that room already according to present lawyers the tensions in that room began when republican poll watchers had gone to the poll workers by top talking and taking of them us getting too close to the workers or being even verbal ie aggressive they tried to tell the workers to stop counting so this was a serious problem for the workers the claims of being excluded by republicans were without reason and other members of the trumpet campaign are casting doubt on the election result itself and here is what toms lawyer with giuliani had to say in the in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. 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 a 5000 times the ballots could be from camden philadelphia unfortunately and say this about my own city has a reputation for voter fraud. So what are the facts say. A former mayor of new york and associate attorney general should know better made a voters can vote you cannot vote 50 or 5000 times like claimed not joe biden nor anybody else to vote by mail you have to be a rigorous 3rd board to voter and you have one vote according to several studies fraud is a rare in us elections a Data Collection by the law yaller law school only listed 45. 00 incidents of voter fraud in the last 20 years and that in relation to more than 1000000000 ballots cast the head of the study confirmed to d. W. Fact checkers but Rudy Giuliani insisted that mail in ballots in pennsylvania could be from everywhere from mars from the democrats or even from that people voting he doesnt deliver any evidence for this and independent election observers didnt find cases like this so far so giuliani called a local judge a political hack because of his party wasnt able to get closer than 20 feet to the ballads he claims and it was impossible for his party to observe the election we couldnt verify that but we have no reports of a big fraud in philadelphia like giuliani says and he is the one who has been sent by donald trump to challenge the Election Results in pennsylvania so sir if you ask me this statement has to be seen in the context as trumps side prepares a legal fight in several battleground states now lets move over to democratic candidate joe biden he gave a speech in wilmington delaware his home state he mentioned that he was optimistic about becoming the next president of the us only 3 president ial campaigns in the past have defeated an incumbent president when its finished god willing will be the 4th term. No sir its not in the history of United States 10 incumbent president s have been defeated at the polls when seeking a 2nd term of the presidency 10 president s last and president elections and 2 more in National Conventions of their parties the 1st what was john adams who was defeated by Thomas Jefferson already back in 1900 and the last was george bush sr who lost against a certain bill clinton in 1902 so if biden wins he will be at number 11 not 4 of this ranking yet have ever had given the facts straight for us thank you so much. First lets have a look at some other stories making news around the world the president of Kosovo Hashim toci is stepping down to face war crimes charges that the International Court toci was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army joining the kosovo war in the late 1990 s. Hes accused of committing atrocities against civilians he told a News Conference he will be traveling to the hague to face trial in. The United Nations has expressed alarm over of reports of armed clashes in ethiopia on wednesday even as Prime Minister ordered the army to confront the Regional Government of a province which has its own militia both sides are well armed and observers are warning of possible civil war in the horn of africa. Of tons that has reported a significantly higher 3rd quarter loss than expected the german carrier lost almost 2000000000 euros surpassing analysts x s expectations excuse me the pandemic and travel restrictions have seen ticket sales plummet the airline lost 5600000000 euros in the 1st 9 months of the year. Well the United States has registered 100000 cases in a 24 hour period a new record in the coronavirus pandemic infections have been surging cross the country as a percentage of the population in the midwest is currently hardest hit and in addition to rising cases hospitalizations are also a story north dakota says that it has only 6 of free intensive care beds in the entire state more than 230000 people have now died in the u. S. After catching the virus. And earlier we spoke with peter chain hong a professor of medicine at the university of california San Francisco and an Infectious Disease expert he told us that the election and in particular non socially distance rallies may have worsened the situation. Wouldnt mind dated in voting facilities in the United States during the season in fact even if your state has a mosque mandate the federal law didnt permit or didnt mind 8 or in force mosque going on these sites