the the, this is dw news live and from berlin. tonight, us democrats dismayed and worried after president biden's shambolic debate performance. finding donald trump went head to head 90 minutes of insults trumps fault toads and a shaky showing by the incumbent. many now questioning biden's decision to run for a 2nd term. also coming up tonight, irradiance voting for a new president to replace abraham re easy who died in a helicopter crash last month. is one reformers candidates up against 3 parts. one, [000:00:00;00]

the break off is good to have you with us on this friday. us president joe biden's campaign is scrambling to contain the fall. well, from thursday's election, debate against donald trump. democrats had hoped that the showdown would dispel any doubts about biden's fitness to serve a 2nd term. in the last hour, 81 year old by you has spoken again in an election rally in the state of north carolina. he told the crowd that he intends to win in november, saying when you get knocked down, you get back up. but in the television debate last night, the americans saw him deliver a stumbling performance and struggle to counter attacks and false claims being thrown at them by donald trump. busy 46, president of the united states jo by the president's loyal supporters. blended on a bad night. a head cold set his campaign. but many americans,

especially those planning to vote for his challenge or donald trump signed by in what they've seen for a long time. failure to get his point across under pressure, trump often appeared to struggle to understand by it and rather than to disagree with all those people, the idea that they're going to, i'm like, i'm proposing that everybody's a paper. so it's really, there's a one percent one percent so known and after i would not raise the cost of social security for anybody under $400000.00. after that, it began to make the wealthy began to pay their fair share and how much for his part, trump focused on voters pessimism about immigration and the economy and claim things were better when he was an officer. we have the greatest economy in the history of our country. we have never done so well. every, everybody was amazed by it. other countries were copying us from supporters were in high spirits after the debate. the 1st 3 seconds when president biden was speaking. my,

i was what happened to his voice. he's staring into oblivion, and i've never heard so much mumbling. it was scary. some loyal bite and supporters were left looking for a silver lining, but calls immediately came for desperate measures, replacing biden with a more capable democratic candidate on the optics. and by the last that on the fact 5 and one big. so you have to determine what's more important. you optics, your stocks, and i'm big on the fax on still like bind one of the date for me. but i know he looked at the wrong bite and agreed to debate from much further ahead of the november election. then, as usual, in order to drum up support for his campaign. according to even some top democrats, that plan seems to have backfire. while i'm joined now by the german american political scientist, catherine clipper ashbrook, she's the executive vice president of the barrels man somedays, and she joins me tonight from zurich. kevin, it's good to have you with this. i assume you stayed up like a lot of us did last night or to watch the debates. um,

what did you say as well as was indeed a short night and it was a difficult night. i think for anybody who is just interested in the health of american democracy in the future of the country to watch 2 men struggle to basically articulate facts. one who was lying 30 times according to the new york times. you called it falls to it. i would call them lies and then the other, who really just struggle to get a sentence out to present to do the one thing that he needed to do in this debate, which is to seem lucid to seem energetic and to seem anywhere beyond his 81 years and in that sense we watched, i think almost a dual failure and others to get a better understanding of the state in which the united states finds itself and who might lead it into the next phase. and yet the fall out today has been for by the democrats not for trump and the republicans. i mean, we've got calls from within the democratic party now for by not to run for

a 2nd term. and is, is that the reaction? do you think that this is a proportional reaction to what happened last night as well? i think it just goes to show the anxiety in a race for which many of our conns cannot find sufficient passion to even consider coming out to vote rental your, our mind, you and the viewers that what we're talking about here is garnering the votes of 5 to 10000000 americans who are quote unquote, still on the fence and we're likely residing in swing states. and neither of those 2 men in that sense, deliberate, a convincing performance. but that's exactly who they were out to get yesterday. and you have a double risky strategy now to continue with this candidate, this aging candidate, clearly who seemed to struggle with everything, including formulating a simple sentence yesterday, but also running the risk that within 6 weeks ahead of a convention, you might be playing with the idea of either an open convention which we had last

time in 1950 to one broker convention which we had in 1968. both of them by the way, held in chicago. both of them ended in chaos and how you would position a new national can that that wouldn't also look like you were perverting american democracy because 99 percent of those delegates that will show up in august in chicago branch knows our president biden's delegates. and how you would do that in a way that doesn't also hamper and hinder the functionality of democracy that is entirely unclear at this moment. so both ideas are risky, keeping joe biden on the ticket and trying to replace them was 6 weeks ago in a convent. i mean, i, you know, i would start to do a tom friedman, paul crewman, just as a new york times writing saying that he should step down or that he should not run for a 2nd term. what's, what's, what are your thoughts on this is what we saw last night with mcgrew. bye. what about if it's not old age? what about if, if there's a medical conditions i've,

i've heard some people say that maybe he's got parkinson's disease in it. that's the case. okay, that's a disease, but there is no mental problem there. um, do you think that there's a fear that americans would not re elect a president to has parkinson's for exam as well? again, this is about signing those voters who are in such a tight and difficult election in such a polarized country and decided which is almost hard to believe that you have those voters in the united states of america today. but you do, and both of those call them this and others have called on the inviting to do the patriotic thing, to not mimic the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, who held on to her supreme court role literally until the day that she died and demand that a conservative moved into the supreme court and with all the decisions that came with it. the only way by the way, the fine by the look of the democratic party can photocopy removed from the top of the ticket, is if he himself decides. and one way would be under this idea that

a president might be incapacitated to conduct his role in the office. those were things that were put in the d. c. rollbook in 2016. and as a result, by the way of hillary clinton's spells painting spells on the i'm pain. so again, the decisions and to keep running or not keep running is entirely 1st and foremost job items. no matter what the upon to treat or as a columnist and then your times and the atlantic suggests that's a very good point. and we've heard from bite. and in the last couple of minutes in raleigh, north carolina, saying that he intends to you know, continue running into when again. so we will say kevin has been good talking with we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. thank you. any time, right, so for the u. s. supreme court today rude that hundreds of defendants were wrongly prosecuted over the january 6 capital riot justices rule that a charge of obstruction requires proof that the accused tried to destroy the

evidence. only some of those allegedly involved in attacking the capitol fall into that category. you have to break something. that decision also cast out on some charges that are being slapped against former president donald trump. now to your role and the ratings have been voting for a new president to replace abraham res. so you may remember, he was killed in a helicopter crash last month. boating has been extended, the supreme leader ayatollah. how many has called for a high turn out. he oversaw, by the way, the selection of the candidates who are running. the leading contenders are 3 hard liners and one reformers. many voters are angry about government action against protest in the country while regional tensions are running high over the war in guns. after 3 years of embrace these hartline need to ship it on 61000000 borders once again have a choice toward

a board economy western sentence and women's rights among the most pressing issues. right, so you put in a lot of effort for the economy, but on the ground things didn't change much for the general public and people were not happy about 20 of the time of the election the he job will be taken seriously. but when the vote is the things we'll go back to the way they was, the young people are not allowed to remove that head scarves. it's the 2 practically team of supreme leader. i the last, how many totes do make power in eat on. but the aidan and president sets domestic policy and has some influence over foreign policy. oh, sure. presidential candidates usually a lie confessed with a consultative supreme leader. but in an effort to gardner support from a public that's largely fields

a unique and destructive site. the candidates have campaign by public and criticizing the government. one of the presidential candidates, is mohammed kazi, buff, a former commander of the blue city god. he has promised indians to devise. they've gone to me, which has been back to me by rest infections. we will definitely compensate for the gap between me and inflation rates and wages by raising your wages and providing you with necessary goods and staples in such a way that your dinner table will never shrink. and their, their leading candidate is se deleting as drug conservative as the former chief new peer negotiator and wants to press the head with it onto long turning and d, western policy disorders reform. this candidate is doctor mas to this is kim. he has been the most critical voice against them. indeed, 3 hid job and the morality police. he also fevers,

engagement with the west. how long just by the way, we can talk to each other. we can also learn to talk to our neighbors and the rest of the world, and then we kind of fight everyone we shouldn't find. we should not show aggression to others. under somebody, human rights organizations criticize the fitness of food on indications. and the worst thing historically, lower levels of what they're doing now remains a big challenge in deflection as well. this is just so new yet is a human rights lawyer and board member of the iran human rights documentation center. i spoke with her, i asked her if any of the exclusively mail candidates, if, if any of them stand for anything that could be considered women's rights. yeah, i think this is an excellent question. there is a lot of discussion of these candidates, but the truth is that this election doesn't matter much in the end because really all the power is concentrated with the supreme leader, ali common

a. and these candidates are not offering anything different that has happened in the decades prior. so one thing to note is that the regime is very concerned about low voter turnout. and so they have allowed, possess key on these somewhat moderate candidate to also be part of this lineup. but he's not offering anything different in terms of change. in fact, he was somebody who um, wasn't power at the time that saw her that her causing me any wrong in canadian photo journalist, a woman who is taking photos outside of every in prison was torture. a key sort of over saw the medical examination of that that denied that. and so he has never been a champion of women. and i think that is really motivating a lot of young people to not vote. all right, let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. people in mongolia have been voting for

a new government. the mongolian people's party is expected to secure another term under the prime minister, looks on them to ride o u n d. but there is growing frustration over corruption. the high cost of living and lack of opportunities for young people in earthquake had struck off the coast of peru, the quake hit south of the capital. lima authorities initially issued a c. nami alert. no deaths have been reported in germany. you will be taking on denmark in the last 16 on saturday. i'm talking to course about the road 22.24 soccer football tournament. and it will be the elephant is to be believed. the germans will emerge victorious from this encounter. the so called oracle made the selection by you're watching his taking a. busy towards a goal in or enclosure in the german state of the range. here she shot on denmark side on her 1st attempt,

but then changed her mind and scored 2 goals for germany. now if you don't trust her judgment, let me point out that movie has so far correctly predicted the outcome of all in germany's game for the trunk like that. you bet you like, you need to be names. i'll be back at the top of the hour. hope to see that the why do, how many does not get drunk? why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much do we need per day? press stop comp, claim for help. find the on fis gets much on dw science, outtake talk channel.

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