A state of emergency ethiopias president moves to replace the Regional Government in the troubled north. Of ivory coast Opposition Leader is arrested for forming a rival government challenging president Alassane Ouattara as reelection for a 3rd term. And sport the German Bundesliga gets ready for its biggest game of the season so far anyway rivals barring the dortmund showdown on saturday. So it is just after 1300 hours g. M. T. The u. S. East coast and democratic nominee joe biden says that he will emerge victorious after one of the most divisive elections in u. S. History but the votes are still being counted and President Trumps campaigners last while to pull legal child. Jesus heres where we stand by is ahead in pennsylvania and nevada and georgia hes predicted to have won 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 dont forget the number required is 2170 byte needs to win only one of the undecided states to get over the line. In pennsylvania is ahead of trump by more than 28000 votes the remaining mail in ballots mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh a win there will propel by impost that 270 block biden is leading in georgia by more than 4000. 00 votes in an unusually tight race but officials in georgia say they expect a recount there as per the lore of the state a candidate can request a recount of the margin of differences within north point 5 Percentage Points we have correspondents across the United States covering that story for us tomorrow is how is it joe bidens home state delaware alan fisher is in washington d. C. And kristen salumi is across that crucial county in pennsylvania well hear from them all in just a moment but 1st rob reynolds begins our coverage with this report from los angeles. Joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we dont have a final declaration. Of victory yet but the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race. By now leads donald trump in pennsylvania by a significant margin and a narrow one in georgia he also remains ahead in nevada and arizona as vote counting continues and whats becoming clear each hour is that Record Number of americans of all races faiths religions chose change over more of the same theyve given us a mandate for action on covert economy Climate Change systemic racism. Biden called for healing after a bitter and rancorous campaign lets put the anger the demonisation behind us its time for us to come together as a nation to heal its not going to be easy we have to try the Trump Campaign launched a barrage of lawsuits seeking to halt vote counting or to toss out mail and absentee ballots tabulated after election day but the president s lawyers provided little if any evidence of fraud no i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as jimmy carter did just as george h. W. Bush did and frankly just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country that as attorney general called the Trump Campaigns voting fraud complaint in his state garbage multiple studies over the years have concluded that vote fraud in the u. S. Is extraordinary rare in georgia bidens lead is so slim a recount is being planned as we are closing in on a final count we can begin to look toward our next steps with a margin that small there will be likely a recount in georgia pro trump demonstrators continued to protest around the country convinced that foul play was underway it raises the hair on the back of your neck where theyre trying to plan where theyre planning again theyre going to theyre going to steal this election. Meanwhile biden supporters celebrated in the streets of several cities after days of painfully slow vote counting most americans are eager for this election to finally be over but given trumps apparent determination not to concede defeat the legal battles could stretch on for weeks robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. Or import. Encounter in philadelphia as soon as christensen to me is that we can expect another batch of votes to be released another bunch of numbers in well any time now they say. Thats true the vote count does continue but it is load to a crawl as some of the most contentious and contested ballots are now left to be counted as you said earlier about 28000 votes in the lead is joe biden this morning but theres still an estimated 150000 ballots still to count its hard to know exactly how much but these are the estimates from what we are receiving around the state in those 150 or so 1000 we have mail in ballots that have yet to be counted as well as 85000 provisional ballots so let me break down the difference there the mallon ballots some of them the majority of them apparently were received before election day a smaller percentage were received after election day between the 3rd and the 6th of november by laws of the state those are allowed to be counted but thats being contested by republicans who say they shouldnt be allowed to be counted and so they have filed a lawsuit and yesterday judge alito of the Supreme Court ordered that those ballots be set aside he didnt say that they couldnt be counted but that they should be segregated in the case of further legal action so we may hear later today exactly how many of those ballots there are. Estimates are that there in the low thousands the secretary of state here said that they dont think there are very many for example philadelphia here received 500 ballots after election day i should point out that they had to be postmarked by election day so even though they can accept them afterwards they still had to be mailed by election day but a. Of course the president and his legal team are fighting to get those out of the count the tricky part then is the provisional ballots so some 85000. 00 provisional ballots in these are ballots that are given to people when there is some question about their eligibility to vote so for example if i asked for a mail in ballot but then decided that i wanted to vote in person went to the polling station and didnt have my mail in ballot with me well officials there would need to know that youre not voting twice so they would give you a provisional ballot and then that ballot has to be. Individually checked before it can be counted by Election Officials in that county so its a much more tedious and a much more arduous process so thats why were seeing the vote counts low this is also where republicans seem to be putting some hope on making ground on joe biden here getting some ground back in pennsylvania because as you may recall prior to the election the president was casting doubt about voting in person and encouraged about voting by mail and encouraging people to vote in person so it could be that more of his supporters at the last minute change their mind and vote it in because of the scenario that i described had to get a provisional ballot that said the mail in ballots so far have been skewing heavily for joe biden 3 to one particularly in the urban centers where most of the ballots remain so this is really coming down to a squeaker here in pennsylvania the biden camp as you say seems very hopeful that they are very xpect and they do expect to get a victory here but nothings official yet all right chris somebody thinks indeed kristen salumi there live in philadelphia lets go to joe bidens home state of delaware all of the jamal ohio is in wilmington delaware so the Biden Campaign still pretty hopeful that theyve got this in the bag what are we to make of last nights speech less of a victory speech more of a sort of a. Speech. Well yeah i mean thats something that maybe is disappointing some of his supporters who are really eager to essentially let loose and celebrate theres actually some agent whove camped up in their cars have slept overnight they came yesterday in anticipation that biden was going to take to the stage and declare himself the next president that didnt happen they are expecting it to happen at some point and therefore decided not to go back home and sleep in the trucks here but one of the more important things that came out of that speech was maybe the tone and the messaging that came out weve been saying it for a few days that biden has been calling for calm hes been calling for respect of the democratic process but maybe there was a little more detail in terms of whats he will give us an insight into in terms of what his priorities will be if in one he is announced as president s we heard there he believes that he has a very strong mandate if indeed all the votes are what the numbers have been telling god he has received more than any candidate in the history of the United States and that mandate he believes will make him focus on 4 things primarily with obviously the pandemic which was a huge decider in when people went to cause the ballots the economic crisis that has been as a result of covert but also other issues and as well as like during boil prices and so forth he spoke about the environment maybe not as strong as those true in terms of voters minds and systemic racism so his agenda at least in the interim period once it starts you could say at least the headlines of it. Yesterday he did speak about this idea of a need for healing how quickly that could happen whether indeed it even could happen people are skeptical about it because were hearing some very very strong views on all sides of this. There are those who genuinely believe that there is some foul play going on they genuinely believe that their democratic right has been taken away from them that the democrats or they are essentially trying to steal this election away from them whether hes going to be able to convince them or whether thats view is going to be actually further entrenched by donald trump and the rhetoric thats been coming out from the white house were yet to find out but biden so far just stopping short of announcing himself victor people are waiting for that victory speech to take place once that happens maybe its what provides some sort of closure but there is still anticipation here in wilmington delaware i was a shell in joe bidens home state delaware many thanks indeed lets go to washington then ill just who is alan fischer is there i dont apart from a few trump allies including Lindsey Graham the campaign the president himself have been pretty quiet the president hasnt tweeted since a retreat at midnight last night is this is signed perhaps the president has at last decided to put on his big boy pants. No i dont know and conceived this election there are those who are close to him are saying that hes got to be more visible that hes got to do the things that a president does so that he can send a message to the country that its business as usual that he believes that not only is he the president he will continue to be the president but the forecast on saturday youre in washington is for a Beautiful Day its going to be relatively warm for early november so i would suspect we might see the president but probably heading out to play golf there are those in his orbit who believe that it could be a couple of days before the president realizes that hes not going to when the selection but if you look at how he lead things out its really gone the way that donald trump said it would only on in the summer he was decrying mail in ballots he was telling his supporters that there was the possibility of fraud that could be tampered with not to do that then as we get closer to the election he said look theres going to be a red wave even though as observers were telling him you cant tell them not to vote by mail thats going to heart is in the end and then when they started counting in places like pennsylvania arizona nevada even georgia you saw there was a red wave as all the on the deed ballots were counted and then suddenly his vote totals started to go down and why did they start to go down because they started to call and mail in ballots and that was because the democrats from very early on prioritized that in the time of covert so this is all happened the way that donald trump said it would of course what happens next is likely to be what donald trump said it would be and that he will dispute these ballots he will try to get them to stop counting either the mail in ballots and hes tried that in a couple of states unsuccessfully or he will go to the courts to challenge those mail in ballots which is what were seeing now and this could well end up at the Supreme Court and of course that is why he talked about putting 9 justices on the Supreme Court with a. 60 conservative majority because he believed that the with 3 of them having been appointed by him would have a loyalty to him and the Republican Party and therefore they would make sure that he won a lot of people have drawn parallels with florida in 2000 was a couple of differences there 1st of all george bush was ahead in the provisional counting in 2002nd thing was he had a high profile team of election lawyers ready to go including being headed by james baker former secretary of state the man who for many years was it was said to be the man who run washington he made everything tick he made sure that everything what they were meant to what donald trump doesnt have the high profile team he didnt have the lawyers ready to go the man hes appointed to head this team isnt even a lawyer so hes were arguing on the political side of it and hes trying to do the p. R. But what you really need as a legal and for sir to push this through the courts so we get a concession from donald trump is about was a very long answer to a very short question the answer is not in the next couple of days what we might get to see that is going to be a peaceful transition of power but given that just before the election he was talking about how many votes he got last time that he was talking about Hillary Clintons email you can be certain that he will continue to talk for the next few years about how this election was stolen from Al Jazeera Alan Fischer there live in washington many thanks indeed Lincoln Mitchell is a Political Science professor at Columbia University he joins us now live via skype from new york good to have you with us how long then before but if things stay as they are before the president realizes that he has indeed lost what will the country have to go through before he does. Well when the president realizes when hes lost its a question of his psychological condition and i dont feel fully qualified to speak to that he may never fully internalize that hes lost it doesnt matter the constitution doesnt say the president has to say i lost or can see the biden will win the Electoral College will vote in december 14th and then will move ahead and drink will he may fight this to the very end eventually and i think it will be necessary you can be escorted out of the white house he doesnt have the legal case he thought he would have partially thats because the victory was so clear its so clear for biden and partly because he didnt do his work by putting his lawyers in place early by documenting things the way our court system works here you cant say there was massive Election Fraud thats a political argument a legal argument has to be here of the cases here are the examples that we can prove and they have nothing additionally his Political Support isnt what he thought it would be youre not hearing a lot of noise from flight level of what youre going to ted cruz is but youre not hearing for example bill maher standing by his side right youre not hearing Mitch McconnellMitch Mcconnell is not going to hide right now because hes got the senate and he can live with present by the senate so trucks are pretty that place right now a one way to make of the fact that as you say theres theres been this this deafening silence from some pretty big republican beast at all so. The media the the outlets that have been traditional trump supporter has appeared to be softening up his supporters for a loss. I think for a lot of people around dont trump a lot of not around him but people Republican Leaders whether thats in the Senate Whether thats in the kind of permanent government in washington various state governors or the republican propaganda outlet box news this week where hes done what donald trump would have to do to stay you know that would be so destructive to the country it would really tear the country apart and while donald trump may be willing to do that for donald trump not a lot of other people are its one bridge too far exactly Mitch Mcconnell across even that is asking bachmann. Who runs the country in the 2 a bit months between this election and the inauguration of the next president whoever that might be obviously if its going to be donald trump itll be business as usual but but obviously theres a theres an agenda that the Biden Campaign team will want to be getting on with. Yes and the constitution and the norms that we have here are clear about that theres an expression we only have one president at a time here and people should really understand that donald trump is president until the 2nd job i can take that of any if another Supreme Court justice retires or dies if we have an International Crisis managing the economy managing quote any logs any piece of legislation will be signed into law any president ial responsibility even think of it as 100 percent donald trump until his term expires even if biden is the winner now we also have things for example biden will begin getting security briefings right the Transition Team will begin liaising with those in the truck o