the, the, this is dw, use live from berlin, joe biden defined in the face of growling pressure to have binding his re election campaign. the us president tells the world's media, he's the best qualified person to be. donald trump. didn't says he wants to finish the job in the white house. also coming up united states as to station long range, cruise missiles, here in germany. berlin and washington saved the deployment, demonstrates their commitment to nato understanding europe. russia is considering a military response, the

unpopular phone any as welcome to the program. us president joe biden says he's still running for president heading, journalist. he can still get the job done bite and appeared at a news conference in washington at the end of nato's 75th anniversary summit. he spoke at length about his achievements in office the saying he was the best qualified person to run for president. biden's mental fitness has been under scrutiny since he appeared confused at the bait. last month. several top democrats of withdrawal and their support for his campaign. for re election in november, a buffer more or less, cross 9 to washington, where d w. 's bureau chief in this poll is standing by for us. it's always great to see so much anticipation ahead of jo biden's press conference. he answered that, let's say multiple questions about his future as the candidate for the democrats in

november, is that us selection? what's your take away from it? oh, yeah, it's actually really interesting that to be honest with so many questions because, you know, before the press conference menu said, always probably only allowing 3 or 4 questions. but no, it went on for i don't know. 1520 questions. it fed at least a very long time. so those 2 holes that off to this press control rented would be clearer if donald trump quite sorry, it's joe biden, would stay in the office or not. they are disappointed, you know, he performed quite okay. he made only like one bigger mistake, calling donald from the vice president. but other than that, he just kind of tried to, to show how much knowledge she gained over his long time in office, in foreign policy. and also his a kind of his knowledge in uh,

economical questions. so overall it was an okay performance. i shall say. okay, well in a, so i've been keeping an eye on that. what's being said in the us media, i'm sure of course you are to will all of this be enough to silence his critics. you know, politics is all about perceptions, isn't that didn't i followed quite a couple of press conferences and i saw a lot of interactions with joe biden to suppress over the last couple of years. and it was, at least in the beginning of this press conference, a really hostile environment. one could feel the president fight and is really mad about the reporters because of these many, many critical reports coming out lately. i honestly think this will change pretty much nothing. those who think you should run the good for presidents will keep doing so, and his critics won't be silenced by this performance tonight. right. well, in a stay with us, because we're gonna come back to you in

a moment to talk about the actual nato summit itself. a book 1st, as even this has mentioned questions about jo biden's mental fitness were fueled and as well earlier at when he introduced the ukranian president using the name of the russian president. and now i want to hand it over to the president ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination page. i'm a president of the big president present list. i'm so focused on the boot and we got to worry about it anyway. suppresses on bed. you are a whole lot of things from us. all right, let's go back to washington where dw is bureau, cheesy, and his poll is still with us, anus had at that moment to go down at the so must have that other leaders and

attendees been commenting on biden's mental fitness. that was of course, a shock and it was right before this highly anticipated press conference, but i think we have to be fair here to buy it and correct it themselves right away . and that's exactly what, for example, the, the drum and chancellor or lock charts referred to when he was asked about that saying, or lock shows that many people make mistakes much more than one would think. i just referred to to joe biden as a president. donald trump, you know, people mix up names, i think that's not really the problem here. you do that after a long conference with these hours and hours of meeting and high performance, which joe biden did. it's more of the, the kind of the optim off of this, this is really this, the page which was such a deep, the, these officer and, you know, everything is kind of adding onto that. and the big question will be, is

a job. i didn't really will be able to clear that. and again, with this press conference today, he wasn't able to do that. yes, as i mentioned before at, we were going to talk about the actual nato summit itself, strong support for ukraine at to say the least. and what is being the big achievements and successes that joe biden mentioned in his press conference? yeah, so it's definitely, um, the fact that ukraine gets a billions and billions of dollars and additional weapons, they will get these badly needed air defense fight. and they will good fighter jets and, and the is also a huge accomplishment from the perspective definitely of sa lensky. that they agreed on the irreversible pos to a full membership of ukraine. you know, the kind of piece of salt here is that everybody said that even this,

that support ukraine will not be able to counter the or offensive of is before the russian offensive before next year. so yes, they get all the support they wanted. but is it still too late? i seen this leave it there, dw, washington, bureau chief is always the pleasure of the united states will begin stationing long range themselves in germany from 2026, washington and berlin site. the deployment cements their commitment to nato and european defense. the agreement includes tomahawk s, m 6, and hypersonic me solve the weapons or nuclear capable and have a range of more than 2000 kilometers. they were banned under a treaty with russia until the us withdrew from the treaty 5 years ago.

when at the nato, so many in washington, german, chancellor or shells, welcome the us decision to station long range themselves in terms that's i think it's also important the results of this meeting together with a decision to organize coordination and responding in germany, which i think is really a better step forward altogether, i think it is the right time for right decisions. well, that's another aspect which is important for me at the united states decided to deploy at the precision strike capabilities in germany, which i think is a very good decision. and it fits into all the decisions we already took, is now a russian plots to assassinate the boss of a german weapons manufacturer was foiled earlier this year. thanks to us intelligence that's according to network cnn. the broadcaster says, i mean poppy,

i got the chief executive of i'm a task, was among defense industry executives across europe targeted by the criminal us intelligence services, passed the details of the plan to german authorities. pop aga has been a high profile supporter of ukraine's war effort, and his company has produced artillery shells and military vehicles for keith. our political correspondence menu has more details. we lost a run by tell the company whether they could confirm any of the details about this alleged assassination plots. and they told us that the count call me don't companies security matches, but that they are in regular contact with the security services here in germany. and they take measures as necessary. now it's worth knowing. ryan midtown is one of the biggest european arms manufacturer, is a big supply of tanks and artillery munitions to ukraine. in fact, it saves itself,

it's the largest maker of on tillery munition in the world. and this company in june just opened a uh, a joint venture with the ukranian state firm to repair and possibly able to build tanks in ukraine. it goes as plans to stop producing at all to re munitions in ukraine as well. so this is a company that is significantly involved in the ukranian war effort. so i'm a young there. let's take a look now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the hazards of people have gathered in trevor needs to commemorate the killings of 8000 bosnian muslim men and boys in 1995. it was the worst of massacre in europe since world war 2 to international courts have ruled 8 with genocide. actors shelly, devout has died at the age of 75. deval made her name in a series of landmark 19 seventies classics, including 7 films with a director,

robert altman. she's best known for her role in the shining. devolve, died of complications from diabetes. rio de janeiro has put up an array of colorful statues to raise awareness of the threat to the endangered jaguar. the fiberglass scroll sculptures are being displayed throughout the city before being sent around the world. jaguars are struggling to survive in the amazon rainforest. the canyon president william rudo has dismissed almost all of his cabinet ministers of this promising to form a new government. ruth rios and i have spent follows weeks of interest over an unpopular finance vill opponents say the law would impose on affordable tax rises on people and businesses. more than 30 people have been killed in the protests dw phoenix miranda is in. i robi and we asked him about the response to real transaction. so generally kenya's happy. he reads the announcement to day with

president william brutal fi ad. almost everyone is coming in just retaining that kind cabinet secretary and the deputy president. and most of it, people feel that the president had actually you why did politic cause cronies and they were not being the country in the way they were supposed to. so in that expertise, just last week, the president, i knew that to the fact that some of the company that secretary's love a few lent him their dealings to walk or wrapped. and they need dads to, to do a shakeup. so everyone thought, uh the president was going to add yourself with these cabinets, but people are happy that actually, all those cabinet secretaries have gone home and it will be a new start. as, as a new team comes in the next few weeks. fixing ringing their,

their firefighters have put out a blazing the spire of juan cathedral in northern france. 3 workers at the side suffered from smoking, elation the cathedral is more than 800 years old. i'm was painted by the impressionist clothes on a as witnesses captured at the moment. a smoke rose from the spire rolands, medieval cathedral. and that's the one that come on if you all know to all foot the national tool we heard via that's our got turned round. and so the cathedrals by a breakfast, the material covering the restoration work was spinning details that would be explained on the black smoke up of what i put me out. this is the 1st thing we thought about was what happened in paris with the not for them fire, for 2019 fire know to down cathedral in paris, coupled it's buyer and collapsed. it's roof. there was on everyone's mind as 40 fire engines with scores of firefighters race to the side of the almost 1000 year

old cathedral at some 120 meters above the ground fire. cruise located the source of the blaze on a spire undergoing restoration work. but officials have not said how the play started, firefighters stayed on scene to ensure a new hot spots could re ignite. all damage was assessed. so again, when you say we're talking about the heritage site that has very high value and some specialized firefighters supporting us when conducting an inventory of outlets, for example, with that could have the water damage from finding the final single day. i'll do the school when that extra food, i think the little the beloved cathedral, which was repeatedly painted by impressionist artist clog no name, remain standing. authorities say there is no risk of it collapsing due to the fire as all right, that's all for this show. don't forget there's plenty more news and information on our website, the www dot. com. and you can also follow us on social media or handle is d w use.

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