A proposal to tighten restrictions in a bid to then relax them over the holiday period, restrictions on hotels, restaurants and gyms are to remain in place. A final decision will be made later this week. International donor countries are at a conference in geneva have pledged more than 10000000000. 00 euros in aid for afghanistan. The money will be delivered over the next 4 years, but some of it is conditional on progress made on human rights and peace talks with the taliban. This is d. W. News from berlin. Follow us on twitter and instagram, or you can visit our website, w dot com. 3 weeks after the us election, the transition of power from President Trump to president elect biden has officially begun the dal for the 1st time ever hit 30000 points, a jubilant wall street. While main street hardly noticed, trump continues claiming that the vote was rigged. 70 percent of republicans believe him. 70000000 people voted for him. Can joe biden change their hearts and minds . Is he bipartisan enough to bridge these divided United States of america . Im burnt off in berlin. This is the day the country is genuinely divided. How much damage has the president done . How much damage cant do that preceded donald trump . But it certainly was excel rated by his presidency. Well, i think he has definitely set back the democratic norms here in the United States. Be abuse. We can invite people to bridge the differences that divide us the division. Lets begin that work to heal, you know, to heal and unite in america as well as the world. Also coming up when are you planning to travel again, by plane . The pandemic has grounded air travel now, the Australian Airline quantz, it says, it knows how to protect your health and the health of the entire industry. And we are looking at changing your terms of contagions to say, for International Travelers. At that, we will ask people to fix nation before they can get on the aircraft. Our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin to day with the kind of american exceptionalism that no one is bragging about. According to pew research, the pandemic has revealed how uniquely pervasive and deep the divide in american politics in society is 90 percent. Say a victory by the other Political Party would result in lasting harm to the us. But it is not only politics here, religion, trust in science, respect for government, race relations, national identity, attitudes towards the media. These are all areas where people usually debate, but in the us they have become markers of a toxic, tribal and binary system that gives you 2 choices. Youre like us or youre like them. It is this demonization of each other that president elect. Joe biden has promised to address biden is the closest to a bipartisan president. Americans have known in a long time, a centrist, yet his ability to bridge the divide may depend on what voters in the u. S. State of georgia decide in january. He doesnt use Washington Bureau chief in this poll has more tonight on a nation deeply divided in the heart of one of the most divided counties in georgia. Nice. The town minutes with half of its population is white and 48 percent is africanamerican. In an antique shop in downtown, we find many items that reflect the time when milledgeville was jewel, just the state capital. That was during the civil war in the confederacy, including draw into fault to keep slavery. Some elements of that time still seem relevant to shop owner in their youth and seems to be stuck in the past. There is never, never going to be equality in race. He has a grim take on the current political situation now, and i dont think the republicans and the democrats are going to maybe own level play and fail. Floyd griffin has been doing his bit to level George Allens political Playing Field for decades. He was the 1st democrat to have been elected from this area to the georgia senate, and also served as milledgeville is mayor. The bottom line is racism here and an american president , majority of White Community are going to be in a minority here pretty soon. And they think youre that youre black and brown, people are going to take over the divisions here in milledgeville, broadly reflect those of the whole of the usa bringing together people who feel as differently as floyd, griffin, and, and seek shop owner. Larry used to do is a major challenge, but they need to Work Together on the many problems in the country and in the town. Stephen hall was or has some ideas. He is the director of the local library and tells organize the initiative on the table brings people together to discuss local issues in a constructive way. He approaches low drama and encourages everyone to get involved. I think the Biggest Issue for us is what is america . Weve had a lot of changes in the last couple years and a lot of the norms that weve had for better or for worse and gone away. And i think were looking at a future of what is our value . What are our ideas of how we should behave toward each other and what is the common purpose that we have . I think weve lost a little track about and id love to see that come together in the future for that americans have to start listening to one another and stop shouting over each other. Or you just poll just returned from georgia. She is back in washington d. C. Tonight. She joins me from our bureau there. Good evening to you, enos. You know, i enjoyed watching your story and i wanted to ask you, did you get the impression that voters in georgia . Are they fully aware of the weight of their votes in these 2 Runoff Elections for, the u. S. Senate you know, political x. , if people most definitely are in there has been a lot of voter outreach and voter rights or registration programs, especially actually from stacey average. Because that they hope that they can bring more voters out even after the 6 trini contentious election cycle. And unfortunately, when there is no president on the ballot, there is usually less voter turnout. But these are kind of the politically active people, the average people, they kind of tired of going out and vote. It doesnt seem very democratic or fear for one state to decide the fate of the u. S. Senate or maybe even the presidency. How many times did voters in georgia tell you the political system needs changing the, i mean, they have always been complains about how the 2 party system is set up. I mean, if you are able to hold your own, the left 2 options and people do come play in about that a lot. Even. So i mean, right now in this very divided country, those who are still strong trump supporters. They dont want any other party. They just want to be able to vote again for donald trump if you ask them. And we know george went for joe biden in this years election, or voters in georgia. Are they in love with joe biden . Or do they love the fact that he is not drawn . Thats a good question actually, and its good to ask the whole United States. I mean, we have to keep in mind at the end of the day, georgia is an incredibly red, conservative state. By all measures, there has been a mixture of pro biden and anti trump borders. I mean, i think what is really different this time is the democrats were able to get large turnout from democratic voters and new waters thats different from 4 years ago. And its not just about what can one. We know that its also about democrats and republicans in the its about this deep divide in the United States. How divided is the wider country at the moment . It is a very divided. I was able to travel the United States from one side to the other just before the election and we experienced that this country. And this also appears in the little piece we just saw, kind of has lost the ability to talk with each other to talk to discuss really complicated topics like abortion rights or gun restrictions or health care for everybody or the question, how much taxes people should pay but the problem here right now is that facts for many people dont really matter anymore. And that opens really the doors to conspiracy theories. So yes, georgia is very divided. So is the whole United States near before we run of the time. Just ask you if georgia returns to republican senators in this Runoff Election in january will, will that mean that the democrats will have to reach across the political aisle even more if they want to get anything done . Absolutely, i mean, if the senate stays in favor of the republicans, which actually many expect to happen biden will most certainly have to reach out across the aisle, which actually he is able to do. Thats kind of his political gift. But the real concern for him is how the liberal wing within his own party will then react. I mean, if, if he has to really reach out to conservatives, he might see some serious, serious political fighting within the democratic party. You know, you know, well see what happens in january. January will be the month when much is designed. In his poll our Washington Bureau chief in us, thank you. It was late on monday when us president elect joe biden finally received the go ahead to start the transition process, but biden, hes been preparing for weeks now. On tuesday, he presented the people he plans to nominate for Critical National security and Foreign Policy positions. Its a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. Not retreat from it. Once again, sit at the head of the table, ready to confront our adversaries, and not reject our allies ready to stand up for our values. In fact, it calls from World Leaders and ive had about 18 to 20 so far. Im not sure the exact number in the weeks since we won the election. Ive been struck by how much theyre looking forward to the United States reasserting its a story of groll as a global leader. Well, joining me tonight from washington is karen de young. She is senior National Security correspondent at the Washington Post here and its good to have you on the day you coauthored a piece in todays post that caught our eyes. The headline reads, bidens nominees have pushed policies that trump used to fuel his rise. We have a deck circle, want to show our viewers here. You write that democrats are worried about bidens pick so far. How they try to govern this time will be a major test of whether biden feels the need to respond to the anxieties among supporters of trump. Whether he views his election as a sweeping mandate to shift in an entirely different direction or whether he settles somewhere in the middle. Who among bidens picks have triggered soul searching and worries among democrats. Hello. Well, its good to be here. You know, it was interesting, bernie thing, anders who obviously represents the progressive wing of the party, put out a tweet today saying out where the progressives, in the cabinet, people that have to are there are very, very traditional people who have all worked for biden or with biden, for many, many years. Now, these are all the people who, who are going to be doing Foreign Policy and National Security. I think what sanders and the progress of the party care much more about are the people who are generating our economic and, and financial think so it remains to be seen who bidens going to who by is going to pick. Although it looks a surge and you know, and its going to be the treasury secretary probably have the Federal Reserve and i think that is not something that will make a progressive wing very happy. You know, thats true. We did see the dell go over 30000 points today on news of yellen being the nominee. Who would you, or who would be a good choice in your opinion, to send a signal to trump, voters that president elect biden is thinking of them too. Well, i think that, you know, they have everything he said during the campaign other, i dont think many, many troops of course, were listening at the point at that point. And certainly president sharpen his own campaign. Was sort of describing bidens platform in a way that wasnt necessarily completely true. I think that biden, you know, he said, look, my 1st interests are solving the problem of the coronavirus, righting the economy. And i think that thats one thing that democrats have said whether theyre moderates or progressives have said, look, we learned from the last time we did let manufacturing jobs go overseas. We didnt pay enough attention to people in socalled, red states who are losing their jobs, who are unable to, to adapt to a Service Economy to high tech. So i think that thats something that hes going to be stressing. He did stress during the campaign, but again, i think that not many times push listening to karen, you know, biden says that he wants to help heal the soul of america. He wants to end americans demonization of each other. I mean, when you hear words like that, i mean, you cant get much more centrist than that, can you . No, and i think hes serious about it. I mean hes, he, if he feels like his task over the next 40 years is, is to unify america, which is, which is as your previous speaker was saying, you know, its just extremely divided. And so i think that he does view that not only out in the country, but certainly in congress, you know, as, depending on what happens in the georgia runoff in an hour in january, i think that hes either going to find himself faced with a, with a very, very narrow majority or with no majority at all in the senate. And thats going to make it harder. Hes hoping that he can use relationships that he built over many, many years in senate south dealing with republicans to bridge this, divide him essentially get something done. And hes also hoping that a lot of these republicans in congress and senate are people who were secretly not very happy with trent, but, and of were afraid to stand up against him. And that now that the elections over that perhaps theyll be more amenable. Im not quite so sure how good a bet that he has, but i think thats his intention. I said at the beginning of our program that joe biden seems to be the most bipartisan president that the United States has had in a long time. Doesnt that mean that he is maybe, uniquely equipped and positioned to do to bridge this tremendous divide that exists in politics and in society . I dont think that that. Im not sure thats a fair characterization. I think that if you look at certainly bill clinton, george bush, or obama, they are started out saying, you know, when america unity, president about the americans. And i think that the, the divided government where you, in many cases have had, have had a congress at least one house, if not to a Different Party than the president has made that kind of governing more and more difficult. Certainly, i mean this in a better position than others to, to make that happen because he served in the senate and because he was known as a kind of guy who would reach out in the senate. And he was certainly like that as a bomb. As far as president , i mean that was one of the whole city played was to reach out to, to look into except for the beginning of first term were in the majority of the senate. Todays press conference with bidens picks. We were talking about in the newsroom. It was amazingly call, non boisterous and even downright polite. Im wondering for 4 years, americans and the world have been hooked on donald trump. And his style of politics. We hear now from americans that they want the temperature in the bar, you turned them down. Do you believe them here . Most of them want that. There are some who are not going to give up who are not going to turn the volume down, but i think by and large, people are exhausted. Its been a very tumultuous. 4 years. People are tired, people are tired of conflict then i think thats partly what, what biden is counting on. And thats why he hasnt been quite so fiery in a way that will generally be even more true supporters. I mean, you can forget the fact that 73000000 people voted for donald trump. Thats a lot of people. And many of them have been out of the streets. I think that these divisions are going to last for a while, but theres no question that you know, this sort of waking up 1st thing in the morning and see what crisis or disaster, or conflict or contentious situation is going to dominate the day, or even have today because sometimes a turnover in the middle of the day, i think a large, theres a big relief and that will give biden some points at the beginning. Not a whole lot. Not for a long time. Itll give him a chance, at least overwrites karen de young. So you National Security correspondent of the Washington Post there. We appreciate your time in your insights tonight. Thank you. 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