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but it was this being fans who celebrated last in barcelona, in right across the country as they earned a birth in this. and we find the unlike looking welcome us president joe biden has described his recent debate with donald trump is a bad episode and is vowing to stay in the presidential way. calls for binding to step aside, have been growing since the debate with concerns about his health and fitness for office in an interview with us media bite and said he was feeling terrible due to a cold and that the debate showing was nobody's fault but hits well joe biden is in damage control mode coming out, swinging at his legs,

his campaign of into the front foot of the question on so many mines probably her last we can say is my best performance, whatever. as i said, there's been a lot of speculation. we're still going to do. you're going to stay in the room. drop out what you're going to do. here's why is there are no waiting again. biden's defined speech was a far cry from his debate performance with donald trump, which had seemed shop quite a while through the democratic candidate, a $100.00 event. more if we finally b, medicare taken president and president trump. he's right. he did beat medicaid beat it to death and he's destroying medicare. discussion over the shaky showing is not going away in an exclusive interview with abc using

a george stephanopoulos present in bite and trying to allay fee is that up? so no, any keys, any serious condition. i was exhausted. i do listen to my instincts in terms of the parents and the bad night because my reception was feeling terrible. matter of fact, the doctor quickly as they did a cobra test to try to figure out what's wrong to do the test to see whether or not i had some infection. you know, a virus. i didn't just had a really bad cold. did you ever watch the debate afterwards? i don't think i did, says the end of the biden has pointed to trump's repeated lives during the debate, and has labeled from who is a convicted felon, a one man crime wave. but that doesn't appear to have stemmed growing consumes, at least for house democrats have called for biden to sleep down. speculation surrounds a possible replacement vice president coming to harris and california governor get

a new some are among names being bandied about. but bonnie didn't see as he is the most qualified person to beat donald trump in november's election and remains at him. he will not be leaving. the race dw reported william blue cross joins us now for more on this william. there was an awful lot riding on this. how did the president performing this latest interview as well? certainly better than the debate, but that's a very low bar to get over. you know, every politician, every president side steps, journalists, questions of course, but he really didn't land, you know, i watched the interview or read the transcript. he wasn't, he didn't have a clear message. he, he was going about various generic topics that he has, you know, gone through in his presidency and he has had a strong presidency. he has gone a lot done and i think the democrats and he in his, his people,

in particular haven't really, you know, hammered at home. but we didn't really see that in his interview either. and this is a time given all the concerned about his age and his health, to level with the american people and the american people are not appear to be waffling or side stepping questions about some very serious issues about whether this man to abide in can handle the rigors of the presidency. you could say the vultures have been circling, not just republicans, but democrats as well. what's been the response to this abc interview. the democrats, especially, right, are, are the ones, those from republican seem to be largely wisely. so staying quiet while they're up opposition, part of their opponents implode, just as democrats have done the same to republicans. and it's been republicans in trouble. um yeah, there is, of course it's, it's too soon to tell. we'll need to wait for a lot more pulling data, a lot more interviews with, with american voters. it's a mixed response so far, some people slightly more reassured others saying they're not buying it both at the

pundit level and at the american voter level. but again, as much as we should be skeptical about poles when you see a large number of poles and high quality poles, leaning all in one direction as which, as we see now, joe biden, trailing donald trump. that should give joe biden reason to pause which this recent interview shows that he's not well as we can all see this been has started at the white house. some might argue, a touch laid. the president hadn't yet recovered from a grueling travel schedule. he had a cold, do you get this sense of the damage done in that 1st debate can actually be repaired. of course, it can, the, the a campaign as well, and political memory is short. lots more things can happen. remember, just before this debate, we were all talking about donald trump and his, his criminal problems, his criminal prosecution. and now we're not talking about that at all. and i think we all should still be talking about that. and the particular kinds of dangers that donald trump poses the united states and places all around the world. so things can

definitely change. but this age question, this health question was with joe biden before this debate, and it is sure to last a stick with him. after this debate, but of good again, there will be many more developments on both sides of this equation to come. willing bite in has made it clear he's not dropping out, but that's not stopping the most popular parlor game in political circles right now . and that's weighing the odds of who might replace them. what names are coming up? i mean, off all the great estates, right. come on harris of course, who has a great deal of, of imaging problems of messaging problems of her own and popularity issues. but is the vice president so does have that platform. gretchen whitmore, a governor of michigan, is a very popular democratic candidate, a personality in a very important swing state. and of course, uh, gavin news. and we heard in that report earlier, the governor of california, huge state, but in terms of size of economies,

one of the largest economies in the world actually. and so these are kinds of the candidates, but again, what is room, or what is speculation? what is wishful thinking, what is really happening? these are very difficult things to parse out, and that's something we should be careful looking at and understanding those, those nuances as we go forward. however, this is going to develop, but it is going to develop and, and this could be one for the history books. indeed the greatest. so you really in the, our thanks to dw reporter william who crossed now to some of the other stories making news around the world as we speak. you leaders have criticize a visit to moscow by hungry as a prime minister. victor oregon, where he met russian president vladimir putin. it's the 1st visit to russia by a european leader since the early stages of russia's invasion of ukraine organ says he was there to discuss a potential peace deal shortly after visiting ukraine. lock is prime minister over it fits so has made his 1st public appearance and surviving an assassination

attempt. he was received with a standing ovation as he gave a speech, marking a national holiday. fitz so was seriously wounded in may after being shot 4 times at close range. a reformist masoud the possess scan has one runs run of presidential election possessed in god, well over 2000000 more village then his rival hardliners, so huge illegally an altar. conservative who opposes reviving nuclear negotiations with the west? it was easily comic republics. lowest presidential election turned out with less than half of eligible voters casting pounds in the quarter finals of the euro. 2024 football championships, france have secured a spot in the semi finals. they were all square at neil neil after 90 minutes an extra time. the game then went to penalties and the french held their nerve to send christiano. rinaldo is portugal home. from the tournament,

spain became the 1st team through to the semi finals. the spaniards scored 1st before germany equalized much to the rock and after the game went into extra time with the sides. wanted one all. but it was speed scored just before penalties were require. nichol, marino headed in the winter, sending fans in barcelona, and right across spain into a frenzy as their team entered the last 4. the dw sports corresponded daniel barcelona joins me now down near the hose team germany or out after a hard freaking loss. tell us what happened. yeah, it was definitely heartbreaking. i mean, it was almost too bad that we had to see this match. so early in the tournament, i'd say, would have been a match that you would have loved to see in a final, of course, because these are to the best performing sides coming into this game. now,

it was an absolute roller coaster of emotions for the fans. i was in the sands on actually last night watching it, you know, as being taking the lead and then for the inverse of the last minute, giving them a little more hope only for spain to dash their hopes again. absolutely, but it was a brilliant game. and while the german fans are pretty disappointed, there's a silver lining because they didn't crash oh and their performance is good. the last to a very solid spin side. of course, you saw 20 crews in his last much, ever. he's retiring. we have some of the reactions from the german national team players after the match. so we can actually take a look at that now for the moment and the moment when you saw the bulls lie into the go of the that was the closest step in the heart. it hurt it is according to every 2nd that you realize it's over. now that tomorrow you have to pack your bags

feels hotter and hotter. it's not nice. it's a very unsatisfying feeling and it definitely hurts and not getting confused on them. yeah, to talk inside savvy. i guess i'm is now we've played against one of the best teams in the world, and unfortunately we were knocked out. but fundamentally, i do believe that what germany is done with football, the way we performed here, we will, and you know, i did as a team picks up one of the hard. but i think you saw a mindset today that had been lost. yes. even just because of the late go that's happened a lot late thing was why are we believe in ourselves as a team? and i hope the team will believe in themselves in the future when i'm just a spect change that i'm so just a spectator now. well, france book is their place in the semi finals after a very tense penalty shoot out against portugal. tell us more about that. so well. germany in spain was brilliant. france and portugal was a little bit lackluster. and that is been the criticism of the sprint site throughout the tournament. a very strong side with some of the best players in the

world, some of the best attacking players in the world. now to put that into perspective for you, ok, france has only scored no goals from open plan to tournament. they've gone to own goals and one penalty shot. so they've been a lot of criticisms for video to shop to their managers, and he's very risk averse. he thinks about the defense 1st. now that being said, it's been effective for them. they have a lot of good players, and they have the capacity to have those players that can change the game in an instant. now we hope we do see a little bit more from france moving forward because they do play against spain next. and it's not going to be good enough to just scrape by because span is a very strong side. france can be so electric. it's so bizarre to watch. i'm looking for to day. what can we expect coming out? so we have 2 matches today. we have of course, england taking on switzerland. england is another one of those sides. it's been criticized for being a little bit lack luster, a very strong switzerland group. and the next game we have netherlands took,

you know, in this game, most of the talk has been actually off the pitch completely because defender, many dummy dogs. he was suspended by the way, fought for 2 games in the last game against austria. he scored. and he did a controversial celebration, a wolf salute with his hands, which is associated with the far right. now that has sparked a political debate that goes much beyond the pitch of the gun would be at the game of turkish officials that have criticized the fact that he was suspended, saying that there is a double standard. also, german officials have said this is a racist salut. there's no place for that in our stadiums. so a lot of tension going into this match tonight. i'll actually be there. we can expect that this conversation will not end here as if the drama on the pitch wasn't enough, dw, so done, your barcelona from dw sports thanks, is always a to and we will end the things that they're coming up. sports life meets

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