Democracy itself was at stake in this election and then she went on to mention these essential values rule of law human rights democracy she did that 4 years ago as well but it was quite interesting because there was a difference when she offered her congratulations in that statement to donald trump she said on the basis of those values we wont work closely together here she didnt consider such conditionality or this kind of a warning apparently necessary but essentially listed the topics where shes hoping to Work Together something that she also mentioned quite in phatic leave was she could graduated kamel harris Vice President elect who no matter what your politics are i mean it is just a fact this was really a historic moment for the United States 1st woman 1st person of color to you know when as v. P. In an election in the United States a big moment wasnt thats right and the fact is that the chancellor is generally quite restrained and understated but that moment was really a personal moment where she can grab. Later harris and talked about how much shes looking forward to meeting her and you know we have right behind us while were speaking this wonderful photo of come to horace in her white suit the color that was worn by the feminist suffragettes when they were fighting for womens rights century ago and the chancellor she broke the mold when she became the chancellor of europes biggest most important. Country in terms of economic clout and become a harris is breaking the mold as well becoming a model for many many young women and people of color in the u. S. Has come to her as pointed out from her remarks and i think the chancellor was genuinely showing a bit of perhaps uncharacteristic. Joy there how genuine do you think the hope is right now for a reset also when it comes to Transatlantic Relations because i mean if we just take the rhetoric aside. There are some fundamental issues when we look at the Transatlantic Relationship right now will joe biden be able to smooth those over i think a lot of the issues will remain whether its defense spending within nato and the fact that the u. S. Is looking to europe to do more whether its 4 trade relations and how you try to find a good balance between taking care of workers at home and at the same time essential in some ways working to rein in globalization and relations with china very big topic for joe biden hes made it clear he views chinas strategic rival hes going to push back on Human Rights Violations and wants to see china do a lot more to open its markets germany itself has declared a reset in relations with china but there are questions about how genuinely it means that and whether it will push back harder on some of these points but i think what we can pretty much count on is joe biden and his administration will look to reestablish multilateralism dialogue working with the allies to find common approaches on these issues and that means things are going to get a lot more predictable and hopefully constructive cooperation where its possible ok melinda youre going to stick with us right now we want to drill down a little bit deeper in terms of what we could see now over these next weeks over these next months because u. S. President elect joe biden has signaled that he wants to get to work immediately forming his administration hes expected to start with naming a 12 mt member Coronavirus Task force later today and tackling the pandemic will be bidens 1st major task his team says that they plan to do more testing across the country americans will be asked to wear masks mr biden also saying that his administration will focus on the economy tackling racism and Climate Change including rejoining the paris climate agreement however President Trump. Yet you can see his lawyers saying they will launch several legal challenges to the Election Results later on monday. Greeted by chance of losing. The u. S. President ial motorcade weaves its way to Trump National golf course for the 2nd day in a road. Donald trump taking a shot at forgetting and election loss. He spent the morning in stopping to know i love his defeat refusing to concede to Democrat Joe Biden and giving air to disproven theories of Election Fraud several prominent republicans in congress have made supportive statements saying the elections not over yet. There is a lot of shenanigans going on here if our President Trump i would take all this to court fight back and from a Republican Point of view mellon balloting is a nightmare for us the post office is now the new Election Center now more than all the republicans have expressed more confidence in the electoral process while saying trumps legacy will endure. He is without question the most powerful voice in our party. He will have an enormous impact on our party Going Forward. I believe the great majority of people who voted for donald trump want to make sure that his principles and his policies are pursued. With the Trump Administration planning multiple legal challenges over the voting process a concession speech still seems far off. And lets bring in melinda crane again to talk a little bit more about that trump not conceding defeat yet bringing it to the courts what does this mean for the transition you know the chance to talk about rule of law and the importance of democratic process well that concession is not simply some kind of symbolic gesture thats a nice to have that concession is part of the essence of democracy which is the peaceful transfer of power when the former president soon to be former president doesnt make a concession hes basically once again calling the bennett essential democratic process into question and sending a signal to his supporters that things remain open and thats a big problem things dont remain open as far as we can see at this point the majority of joe biden is likely to expand if anything the process is appear to have been followed correctly in all of those swing states where the counting was so careful and. It is almost certain that this is the next president of the u. S. And we need to move the process onward now also to bring americans be behind the new government we have never seen this in modern memory we have to say by the way there has always been a concession speech which has really rallied the country behind the winner quoting bush gore by the way absolutely absolutely and also including the republicans that have pursued a trump as well tell us democrats have been really focused on getting trump out of office but now that we have president elect biden that we have Vice President elect kamel harris they really have quite a lot of work ahead of just talk with us a little bit about the challenges that theyre now going to face 1st of all the pan a pandemic were seeing infection rates guy rocket again in the u. S. So president elect biden has now declared a Corona Task Force that will begin meeting immediately you talked about some of the things theyre likely to put into place widespread testing free of charge more. Or sick days for American Workers who often feel impelled to go to work even if theyre showing some symptoms because they dont have those sick days stabilizing the Health Care System which at this point is reaching its limits once again in many places all of that will be very important hopefully the new president will be able to get buy in on that essential area because the u. S. Economy is not coming back to they get that pandemic under control then economic recovery build back better thats bidens program and meaning lots of investment if he has his way on green tech on infrastructure something President Trump said he wanted to do but it never happened he may get some buy in on some of that it may be harder though anything that involves tax changes whether to fight income inequality or for example carbon tax unlikely to go through a divided congress we still dont know how divided but the majority if the democrats have a majority all its going to be a razor on top of this a little bit about yeah exactly that the majority of the fact that they didnt perform as well as they had hoped and down ballot races especially in congress we know that the senate theres going to be a runoff in a number of races we wont know until january how those shake out joe biden you know during his tenure in the senate was really known as a compromise or we have to say when it when it came to legislation sometimes he was up he was criticized in fact by his own party for doing so. Is that likely to work to his advantage as president or are you know the fault lines the 2 sides so entrenched right now. What would it mean for his presidency are we likely to see a lot of gridlock now in the next 4 years it is possible its really too soon to say for a couple of reasons 1st of all joe biden does possess important political skills he was in the senate for 40 years hes known as having good relations with republican colleagues the only. A republican who attended the funeral of joe bidens son beau was Mitch Mcconnell the ridge majority speaker who in fact often is a blocker when it comes to democratic initiatives maybe that will change is hard to say i think whats going to be absolutely central is what kind of soul searching to the republicans do after this they won a significant share of the latino vote in florida they didnt do too badly amongst afroamerican men africanamerican men are at least they did get some votes there it is conceivable that the republicans could decide hey you know what we need to open this party up we are on a losing track if we shrink our base to White Christian older Men Without College Degrees that is not a winning card to get majorities so if the republicans decided to take a different tack we might see them become more cooperative much will depend on how they define their selfinterest Going Forward gridlock is not out of the question so interesting to see what might happen over the next weeks over the next months melinda crane breaking it all down for us our chief Political Correspondent thank you. Now lets get a quick check of some other stories making news around the worlds azerbaijanis have been celebrating after their president announced the capture of shusha a key city in the disputed region of no porno car about azerbaijan has been fighting Armenian Forces from late september to retake control of territory it lost in 1904 armenia denies that shoe shop is now in our suppressions hands. Police in the georgian capital tbilisi have used water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters demonstrating against last months parliamentary elections Electoral Commission says that the ruling Georgian Dream party won the vote but the opposition has rejected the results and is calling for a fresh hold in that moment you know lets have a look at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic meantime the total of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has now surged past 15000000 following record numbers of new cases in several countries including russia and brazil the u. S. Has the most cases with nearly 10000000 people testing positive it is reporting more than 100000 new cases a day over the last week and argentina has signed a deal with drug maker astra zeneca to deliver around 22000000. 00 doses of vaccines the aim is for the vaccines to be available in the 1st half of next year. Germany is making a one week or sees the fark in one week since authorities tight dress directions on public life for a 2nd time to fight the spread of the coronavirus bars or tells their all shut restaurants are open for takeout only but schools remain in session d. W. Had a look around berlin to see how people are handling the situation. For lin the legs on the profits in the popular areas the shopping in strolling a safe distance is not guaranteed safe politicians. Thats why there are compulsory mosques even outside thats finished its own for i find it terrible why should i put on a mosque out here now when nobodys working but i mean you have to be able to bring fresh air im with mine at all no one does so of course i do not find it ok a mosque has to put on in certain places even it because i mean that its really outdoors what is actually that supposed to happen in public buildings im just. Trying everywhere but not here in a Public Square and you can cut. To politicians need to explain more clearly what theyre doing to combat the pun number. Of can think of him over the whole thing doesnt only depend on the politicians the whole thing is a social g. T. Like many others in a democracy people have to support it in some form or another in the law we will have to live with this far somehow and we actually need a social debate how its going to look exactly if we compare the situation in germany with other country last week and then where relatively ok that people carry me through a peer group can go to most mobile storage because dont talk so much something has to be pushed through analogous cooking we can read them we have to look at the end of the day to see what happens. Indicates the mentions of the right one or what comes out at the end will it go on like this with the wave get higher and higher and of course one has to ask the question what we still have to do. To lose do for. Mom doing even more hardly possible for the restaurants and cafes in the capital they have to close for a month again. This can be seen almost 5 kilometers away in the trendy district of friedrichs on. There are usually hundreds of people in this pub district. Tourists but also learn this. Needs these security measures to put down the virus and disease so it does he said said i work in the Hotel Business myself and my hotel is also closed yes. So it says it is a center nov its fine nov 8th that is a no no because i think everyone who is not affected is fine with it. So i dont have any big problems to do with out now for a while. But also because i dont walk in the Hospitality Industry and have nothing to do that. I can understand that people are angry and secure and that after i read them professionally im not like that stuffed people they show. Up the same time most restaurants have invested a lot of money in hygiene measures. Some officer had to go to at least a little money. And lets get more now we are joined from berlin by correspondent nina hoss and you know we have to mention that the Health Minister has warned that the Health System is being overwhelmed that it is that serious risk what is the Current Situation well when you look at the hospitals experts are saying that the situation is currently already worse then during the peak times in spring because there are considerably more covert patients in regular hospital beds now than there were in spring and many of those people will end up in i. C. U. And it takes 4 weeks for the Current Record numbers in new infections to translate into much higher numbers in i. C. U. Patients and some hospitals are already saying that theyve exceeded their capacity that transferring patients to other clinics there are currently some 7500 free i. C. U. Beds nationwide but the big concern is that that number might windell very fast and that is one of the reasons why the chancellor has not excluded even stricter methods potentially tell us a little bit more about it at the same time because you know that you were in leipsic over the weekend we saw tens of thousands of people demonstrating on the streets against the current restrictions how is that possible. Well like you say i was in life to myself and i asked myself that very question as well of course freedom of assembly is valued very highly here in germany but when you looked around the crowd tens of thousands like you say 20000 people as the estimate they didnt keep their distance hardly anybody was wearing a mask and of course these people go to these demonstrations to protest against the wearing of mass so this was predictable and the authorities should have known that also from the experience of previous similar demonstrations so there is a lot of anger here about what happened in lights and with many people including politicians and theyre afraid that it will undermine the support for the overall anti corona strategy here in germany also because similar protests in other cities were not allowed to go ahead for example but in lives if they did and then the situation did get out of control and it was out of control you must say from the very beginning germany is facing an acute situation with cases continuing to rise but you know if we look toward the future when we look toward the prospect of a vaccine we understand that group of experts has presented a recommendation for a potential strategy walk us through that recommendation well germany is expecting to have access to a vaccine pretty soon theyre saying maybe at the end of the year or in spring next year but whats already clear is that there will by far not enough for everybodys straightaway which is why the government and its agencies or the experts are trying to prepare the population that they have to be priorities 1st people with who are considered high risk would get it and then people in the cat industry and doctors nurses would get it and then people like the police who are vital to maintain public life you know has a berlin thank you. What with schools and daycare facilities remaining open in germany the partial lockdown has impacted children less on average than adults but its kids are finding out their 2 rules are rules. Its called a big coronavirus and in the middle its around green. In the. Air and has thoughts coming out of the hospitals in the wh