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 College votes trump 214. 00 and then it still puts both of them in range of that magic number of 270 so lets take a close look at georgia 1st i remember joe biden is now fewer than a 1000 votes in fact 665 is the leader that trump pass and thats surprising because georgia has been a solid republican state for decades the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are from the city of atlanta which generally tends to lean towards democrats as take a look at pennsylvania which is still waiting for the results there is a state where joe biden was born trumps lead has been consistently shrinking and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and their suburbs giving biden a potentially good chance to catch up that were also in jordan has more on the count and the controversy surrounding it counting the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u. S. President on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal verts they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but its actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isnt just complaining hes suing in nevada the Trump Campaign is hoping this woman story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count there are going to vote in the cold i have a vote i personally can order. You and yours for her it started in person this current been mailed out the ballot and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckeys charges saying they did Everything Possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trumps request to halt vote counting in that state around the clock Trump Supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his Campaign Staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process so you know i would continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is truly Shannon Harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and dad will know very soon so no declaration of victory just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges roslyn jordan aljazeera well my connor is in bidens home state he says the democratic candidate is calling for unity among divided votes as. On the course of the day his Campaign Team briefed reporters saying that the numbers that they were crunching indicate that joe biden was doing very well indeed in a number of these absolutely tense fraught states in the course of the day to have joe biden having a meeting with his Campaign Staff and then coming out and making that statement that basically hes feeling good that the campaigns looking good however he continued to call for calm and above all d to call for patience but what hes also calling for as well is an appeal for a sense of unity joe biden very clearly attempting to lay some Building Blocks for what may come next should he be declared victor in this particular election and knowing that he may well have to be dealing with a Republican Senate knowing that hes also going to have to deal with the consequences of 4 years of Bitter Division in particular and hes at this stage attempting to create some sense of unity asking for all to come together at this particular time well for the very latest lets cross over to the white house where our correspondent complete health at his watching the action unfold of course is the dead of the night where you are kimberly so just bring us up to speed on whats the latest were hearing now from both the trump and the biden camps. Well youre right it is the dead of night and if you can see the white house behind me there are only a few lights on and one of them is well i cant say that one of those is the belongs to the u. S. President because that isnt exactly where his bedroom is as far as i understand the math but hes awake and hes tweeting and he is not giving up what he said and we should point out that this has been flagged by twitter as being potentially misleading it says i easily win the presidency of the United States with legal votes cast the observers were not allowed in any way shape or form to do their job and therefore vote except to during this period best be determined to be illegal votes u. S. Supreme court should decide so it appears the u. S. President is willing to take this right to the Supreme Court where we know that he has a favorable number of judges that could assist him with any legal challenge but in terms of clarifying the president s position some observers were allowed in some cases weve got you know 50 different states different sets of rules what hes talking about specifically is pennsylvania where there was a challenge the Term Campaign did win that challenge but then it appears that the officials have worked against that challenge in terms of allowing the Truck Campaign to observe these votes being cast or rather i counted and so as a result donald trump is making the case that since that happened this was not legal and those votes should be counted and as you have reported the top of the show in fact the. Pennsylvania as well as georgia are not looking good for donald trump we can see that joe biden is closing in on that lead in a matter of hours if donald trump loses both of those states theres no way really that he can claim the presidency so what he is saying is that hes going to challenge all of this and go to the Supreme Court now this is a little surprising to. Typically about this point historically in modern history at least with the u. S. Presidency i candidate whos in the circumstance would for the good of the country and to bring about unity would concede but dont have a said that he very clearly said this in 2016 hes saying this again that he may not accept the results of the election i think that tweet is very clear that hes doubled down on his assertion of that so this is where things stand a very divided country a president who is likely to become a one term president but still fighting very hard even if he has to take it to the highest court in order to get a definitive answer in his view on whether or not joe biden who is potentially going to become president elect can really claim that or donald trump is challenging this and i should very quickly point out that many are saying that the president s claims are baseless they have no evidence these are the things he would have to prove in court indeed and we say the night is still young get really is young when it comes to whats coming out of the white house for the moment complete thanks so much and lets bring in scott lucas weve been speaking to him through the tape for us from American Cities at the university of birmingham in the u. K. Scott good to have you with us again and im sure you heard what can be had to say i mean all eyes right on pennsylvania georgia wagner many suggest this outcome of the election will be decided potentially in the courts is it not looking more or less likely considering trumps questionable comments that this is where were heading to. Yes we have 2 different paths i think the political path is much clearer today and that is joe biden has that lead in the bottom thats likely to expand that along with arizona would give him victory but in addition hes now with an 800000 votes in pennsylvania with the remaining about coming from the democratic areas and just a few minutes ago he closed the gap in georgia to only 665 votes and again those democratic vote to come in there and remember he only needs you know one of those states to try out what is unclear is the legal d path and ill be honest with you the Conspiracy Theory and that is the legal part is the truck people will try any legal means to try to halt the remaining counts so they are not certified and then theyll try to get mail in ballots thrown out now that is a process that could take weeks to go all the way Supreme Court and what is intersecting with andy amplifying that is trumps conspiracy theories and i need to say Conspiracy Theory because there is no evidence that there was mail and fraud it is not true that his observers were not allowed into polling stations and theres no evidence that there are illegal votes for joe biden yet it 2 30 am in washington only 40 minutes ago donald trump was on twitter saying all of those things that evokes counted for joe buyout by are now illegal that the election is about to be stolen from him and that is very very dangerous because you and i can try to present the plants to deal with that but on the streets people might hear it they might invest in it and they might react sometimes violently but of course with such a vitriolic Election Campaign there are vague similarities to what happened 20 years ago when it comes to vote counting the mismanagement perhaps a vote counting the democrats have been well prepared for this election in terms of making sure that they have very strong legal teams in respective states should the Trump Campaign challenge the certification of the final vote what seal impression of the way that they are behaving the way are they are challenging the Trump Campaign. How this election is unfolding. Well youre right i mean since july when donald trump said he might not recognize the outcome of the election we saw this on the cards in late september when he said that he wanted a county beret on the court as a Supreme Court justice to hear a case about fraudulent ballots we knew where this was were heading and indeed there were court cases before the election from pennsylvania to michigan almost all of them ruling against the Truck Campaign but this is now the latest pass and i think the democrats know that i think what is important on top of that is precisely the message that came out not just from joe biden but from democratic politicians and from a few republicans which is we need to count the votes keep calm this is not just a question of an election believe it or not this is a constitutional crisis this is a crisis of the american system and it is very important in the next few weeks and months that dialogue and calm take over from division and one mans twitter feed woll casting a vote and counting a vote doesnt seem to be you might say a problem there are questions now about sort of the electoral future of america doesnt let true reform need to be considered talked about discussed and if so can these 2 major parties meet and talk about this in any shape or form of is it just to a divisive issue depending on which state youre talking about there are 50 to choose from. Well we need Electoral Reform of the Electoral College but that aint going to happen on the issue youre raising which is the electoral process which is at state level where its over saying im not at National Level the process is working. Fewer than 1200 about 1200 ballots in 40 years have been fraudulent and almost all of them have been caught point 0004 percent of ballots are fraudulent according to the Brennan Center and almost all of them are caught and this process which is taking days is precisely to make sure that this is a secure vote that the system isnt being manipulated by anyone so amidst all the turbulence of this a lot and despite the misinformation which comes out from donald trump and i have to say as allies the system is working now where the system be respected if donald trump loses the election thats the big media question indeed to say its always good to speak to scott lukas the professor of american studies at the university of him in the u. K. Thanks for the times thank you. Well still ahead here on aljazeera the opposition calls for protests in tanzania after the president is sworn in for another term. And scenes of devastation across Central America west all actors left thousands homeless and stay with us here on aljazeera. 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House has come out strongly against Donald Trumps claims while not naming him directly adamant kinzinger has tweeted that of course every vote needs to be counted but if someone has legitimate concerns about fraud that evidence must be presented hes also calling for a stop to the spread of what he describes as debunked misinformation well the most senior republican in Congress SenateMajority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has been playing down Donald Trumps allegations saying everyone should wait until the counting is over. The. Action. Is different. And approaches. Now the u. S. Has seen another record jump in corona virus infections 2 days after the president ial vote more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before thats according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins university an average of 850 people are dying from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago. The entire population of liverpool in the United Kingdom is to be offered a test for covert 19 its part of a trial for mass testing aimed at helping hospitals and lifting restrictions about 2000 military personnel have been deployed to help. Chinas National Health commission has reported at least 36 new cases of covert 19 it says 30 of those came from overseas there hasnt been any new deaths a strict Border Closure has been imposed to curb the spread of the virus. 8 prodemocracy politicians in hong kong are appearing in court over fines at a Legislative Council meeting more than 5 months ago its their 1st appearance since being arrested earlier this week theyre accused of contempt and obstruction related to the incident in may but critics say its part of an increasing attempt to sideline dissenting voices no