With counting of the postal votes favoring his democratic party. And anxious u. S. Population to remain. Well im terry martin good to have you with us facing growing likelihood of defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump has again claimed without evidence that he won and that democrats are trying to steal the election from him in fact trump is losing ground as counting continues in 4 swing states that remain undecided lets take a look at some of the latest figures they show that biden show biden with 264 and President Trump with 214. 00 Electoral College votes youve got to have to 70 of course to win. And that was take a look at some of the states in georgia where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs its an extremely tight race biden and trump are still neck and neck there with 99 percent of votes counted the latest count has shown the former Vice President has less than 2000 votes behind the president and is catching up fast pennsylvania is the biggest yet to be decided with 20 electoral votes there donald trump currently holds a narrow lead but that gap is constantly narrowing and the remaining mail in ballots are expected to favor joe biden. Well lets look at arizona votes there are still being counted its to the a. P. News agency which is our main source of election data has called that for biden but most other Media Outlets have not called it yet 11 Electoral College votes are at stake there which were including in bidens count but again that could change joe biden currently has a slim lead in nevada the state carries the 6 votes that he needs to win assuming eels i guess arizona well there are still around 190000 votes left to count there in nevada with most in those in democratic favored areas so with votes still being tallied Donald Trumps path to victory is looking increasingly difficult look at that big map states in red or blue have been called by a. P. For trump or biden theyre already clear but states in the lighter blue or pink are leaning toward biden or trump respectively any one state will give biden the win trump needs a combination of states just to hang on. So facing tough thoughts dull trump has once again addressed the nation stating multiple false hoods and saying hes being robbed of a 2nd term the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop the count in some states state Election Officials say there is 0 evidence of wrong going wrong doing to the contrary they say counting is proceeding smoothly across the country heres what some heres what the president had to say if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly and a lot of those. A reporter is in washington and following all of this he joins us now i mean we just heard President Trump there talking about illegal votes and claiming that the election has been stolen from him how are those comments going down in america but of course trumps supporters those who voted for him are looking at his chances of a 2nd term slipping away in front of their eyes and theyre reinvigorated by his claims that hes going to be able to challenge the Election Results that theres a reason for him to fight this in courts but its interesting to see the reaction from the rest of the country from the majority who voted against donald trump but also from the media 3 Major Networks cut away from some of those comments he was making reminding their audience that these were baseless claims that jeopardized the electoral process so even fox news which is a major Media Network that is very favorable to donald trump very often has repeated that there are no theres no basis for these claims that the election is being stolen from here so a very divided reaction to these claims that hes making. Understand that election protests are being reported in a number of places in the u. S. Can you tell us more about what those demonstrations are about. So exactly right there about these comments that trump has made so a lot of his supporters have gone to places like in arizona where theyre counting ballots to protest that they need to count continue to count the ballots because there in arizona trump is gaining an advantage from these votes that are just being counted now so absentee ballots and things like that whereas in michigan where biden was declared the winner theyre going to have gone the polling places and demand that the count be called off but on the other side biden supporters or just people who are worried about trumps comments about not accepting the results are taking to the streets and demanding that every vote should be counted that we do this election like weve done every year that we count all the ballots absentee mail in everything like that until we have a final result and then determine the winner of the presidency ok so weve heard from President Trump one thing he did say that is definitely true is that the office of president is very important another man want to become president course joe biden hes been speaking lets listen to what he its a democracy sometimes messy and sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years this system of government governance has been the envy of the world. We continue to feel. We continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is true the Senate 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 you will know very soon. Joe biden theyre saying hes on track to win sounding optimistic and when will we know whos actually won what state should we be watching out for over the next few hours. Well georgia is one that is promising to have its votes done very soon over 9 about 99 percent of the votes have been counted there and its down to a margin of under 2000 votes at this point so very close and that would a would be a state that either biden could flip for the democrats or trump could secure for himself so were watching georgia right now and thats going to be coming in next pennsylvania has most of its ballots counted but in the other states pennsylvania nevada and arizona electoral officials are saying everybody has to be patient theyre not going to announce any results and so all the votes have been counted because the margins are so close so those are the states that are going to be were going to watch right now pennsylvania of course in trumps favor but as more votes are being counted that could flip toward biden and thats one of the main reasons why biden is optimistic because because if he wins pennsylvania he wins the presidency very exciting indeed i mean yes if theyre in washington thank you very much peter little a doll is also following this of course very closely hes with me in the studio to take a closer look at some of those claims that President Trump has been making lets 1st listen in to more of what the president had to say challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal eagle we want every legal vote counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you know election day and the laws are very strong that if you have an election and they dont want votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one its so important we want an honest election and we want an honest count. And we want honest people working back there because its a very important job so thats the way this country is going to win this way the United States will win and we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land will soon. Trump theyre casting doubt on the legitimacy of mail in ballots calling in a corrupt system talking about secret count rooms extraordinary from us president what are we to make of these claims you know if i could be honest with you terry i kind of wish i knew where a lot of this was coming from i mean i think there are no secret count rooms both parties have of servers during the elections the. Campaign is that also in pennsylvania for instance that they would like observers during the top elation process to state agree to that in theory but warned that it might slow down the process you know were look these claims of mystery ballots of illegal votes officials and and observers have both said that this election has been remarkably smooth this bike taking place in the middle of endemic reports of irregularities have been absolutely minimal in the mistakes that have come up have largely been corrected quite swiftly. You know were looking at an election thats seen the highest turnout in over century as i said its taken place the middle of endemic which is forced a lot of states to. You know come up with. Different ways to try to make this process a bit more smoother for instance relying more on and also of 1st of all obviously to have people stay safe during the demi so it is taken longer because we are looking at a mens backlog of mail in votes. So theres nothing unusual about any of the things that weve been seeing these past days i think whats probably true where is that were looking at an incumbent president who currently has a vero very narrow path to victory much more narrow than joe biden at this stage it looks like and who says henschel making up you know trumped up allegations to maybe say faced and to cast doubt on the integrity of a perfectly fair democratic process all this is what id like to talk about the process the because president tripp you can understand if hes afraid hes going to lose hes getting a bit desperate but the things hes saying cast doubt on the entire american electoral system hes saying its corrupt and hes essentially accusing the american electoral process of being unfair and corrupt what does that what sort of message does that give to the American People and to the other people the Republican Party can they sign off on that well weve seen some republicans starting to distance themselves the governor of maryland for instance later hogan. Coming out yesterday saying that from needs to stop casting doubt on this i mean keep in mind this is not just about trump were looking at a lot of republican states right now were looking at senate races were looking at local races does that mean that all those Election Results are illegitimate as well the republicans have over performed in congress does that mean that we need recounts there as well that the those votes no longer matter i dont think trump would agree to that so i mean where does this leave us it leaves us in a process where. An immensely chaotic process were looking at. Absolutely essential that whoever comes out victorious of this process is considered a legitimate presidency trump is currently doing everything in his power to undermine that that the genesee and keep in mind he could still win does that make him an illegitimate president remarkable questions absolutely i think people want to thank you very much for your analysis vigor. Now to germany where police are carrying out raids in connection with mondays terror attack in the austrian capital b. Ana the 20 year old assailant was shot dead by police after killing 4 people according to the German FederalProsecutors Office homes in several locations here are being combed for possible evidence and ties to extremists circles in vienna on thursday in moms and religious teachers of the Austrian Islamic Community met at one of the locations of the attack together with leaders of more than 7 religions they held a commemoration ceremony for the victims. For more on that im joined now by our Political CorrespondentThomas Sparrow here in berlin tell us what more can you tell us are people in germany suspected of involvement in these vienna attack. Not direct involvement thats at least according to German Authorities what they have said is that theyre basically looking for evidence here in germany in 3 locations in those not book in custody and pin about on what authorities have said is that they do not think that the people involved had direct in of involvement in the attack in vienna what theyre trying to find out is possible links to the alleged perpetrator in austria so were talking here about 4 people in particular 2 of whom were apparently in vienna with a man in july and 2 further people who he apparently met online there were no arrests here in germany and again the key element was to try and find evidence during these raids this does not come as a surprise terry actually interior minister jose hova had said yesterday during a debate in the German Parliament that there were suspected links between the alleged perpetrator in austria and people here in germany so i think that responds to the investigations that German Authorities have been doing hand in hand with their austrian counterparts what about germany itself told us how high is the current terrorists here because we have seen attacks in the recent past it is high and that is something that interior minister wholesale also stressed yesterday in parliament were knocked about it he referred to 615 potential perpetrators here in germany and he also stressed that you cannot understand you cannot explain what is happening for example in austria what happened in france only from an only from a National Perspective this is something that has to be dealt with internationally and thats why he also focused on that specific element of International Cooperation and in particular cooperation within European Countries as well. What about the 2 arrests that have already been made in switzerland in connection with that attack in vienna what more can you tell us. Well it is exactly related to what im just stressing this idea that this can and cannot be understood only as a specific element in austria and yes indeed there were 2 arrests in in switzerland in the week and that is part of the investigations that are being carried out in but taken up by all straight investigators but as we see now also from by investigators in switzerland and also here in germany as well always thank you very much thats our Political CorrespondentThomas Sparrow. Turning now to the corona virus pandemic germany has for the 1st time sapan asked more than 20000 infections in a single day more than 21 and a half 1000 infections were recorded within the past 24 hours according to data released on friday 116. 00 people died from cove it 19 in the same period pushing the death toll in germany beyond 11000. 00 while infections are increasing the reproduction rate of the piracy is declining however that means that the virus is spread is slowing down trend authorities hope will continue after the introduction of lockdown measures as. Well many countries are seeing private cases outstripping those when the pandemic arrived earlier this year some populations have accepted the return of restrictions on public life but elsewhere theres growing pushback to whats become known as lock down fatigue. Milans lot down begins on friday and its just one of the areas in the red zone which brings with it the strictest rules residents will only be allowed to leave their homes for work to exercise or to shop for essential over a quarter of italys population mostly in the north are affected. The government believes rapidly rising virus numbers have left them no will turn itself. We understand the discomfort this causes its causing psychological suffering and we must resist more working to mitigate the negative effects these restrictions have on the economy on citizens incomes on society. After the large number of deaths and months long lockdown in the spring theres a level of understanding on the streets of milan a lot i can only assume khana me and health dont go well together the virus is here but we also need to think about the shopkeepers. John the great ok c n n the measures overall are appropriate lets get through this now as well as we can. Meanwhile in englands clashes broke out between rafters and the police in some cities on the evening before a 4 week lockdown from thursday restaurants pubs shops except for essential supplies and gyms have been closed schools universities under nurseries remain open we dont want to go back to class before theyre not ready for that we might be forced into it but our government is so undecided about what its going to do. The bank of england has said it will do everything it can to support the economy its increased its Economic Stimulus Program by an additional 166000000000. 00 euros measures that are unlikely to brighten a gloomy economic picture. Denmark has announced it will eliminate the countrys entire population of farmed mix after mutated corona virus strains were reported among the animals more than 15000000 will be called in some cases the mutated virus also infected people medical experts fear that could jeopardize the effectiveness of any future coded back seems. There are more than 1300 main farms in denmark many of them are in the minister palette of the office including piano patersons the virus reached his farm in Early September he clearly remembers that day. And going to cornea it was like a wave passing through the stables it began at one end with the animal sneezing and losing their appetite and it kept spreading. But one week later on the following weekend it was over the animals were healthy again. The new mystery going to. Be on to paris and also contracted the virus now to be on the safe side all of his