the late but yes the there on announce is a run off between reformist position the on and conservative julie and to be held next week. that's as none of the presidential candidate secured and effective majority and saturdays votes. new york times editorial board calls on biden to drop out of the presidential race, calling him a shadow of a great public servants after his training records of performance. in the 1st debates with donald trump independent us presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy junior argues that the nation deserves better than to choose between the lesser of 2 evils. people across the country are echoing this sense

please, or to your joys it is that honestly they both have like a disaster. it was really hard to watch. i think it's a national embarrassment that that is our representation of leadership and around threatens israel with a devastating war. if tel aviv decides to embark on full scale military aggression against lebanon's hezbollah, as israel says, it's ready to open another for us. the just afternoon here in the russian capital and you're watching our t international time, your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story with the votes for iran's presidential race officially counted the countries election, headquarters votes person has announced that a run off will be held on july 5th. our t brings you all of the latest details in our special coverage.

the 2nd round of voting was scheduled after no candidates managed to secure over 50 percent, plus one of the $2024500000.00 ballots. 2 of the leading candidates will take part in the run off, reformist must food possess keion and conservative side jointly around in selecting a new president for the country and a snap vote following the tragic death of abraham, right, you see in a helicopter crash last month but to get more updates on what's going on there and to ron were crossing to r t correspondence monday about see on is joining us from the rainy and capital. mati. can you take us through the latest developments going on there right now? definitely doing well of the final results are out based on the announcements by

the election headquarters 24500000 uranium have participated in this election. that's while the total population of eligible voters who were aged 18 and above was something around $61000000.00. the turn out is at 40 a percent. now, the breakdown of the shares of each candidate or as follows. the reformers candidate must be positioned on 10400000 votes. so you, you need the conservative candidates, 9400000 votes. while i'm at ball, they'll call you off the speaker of the iranian parliament, or imagine this 3300000 votes. and finally, in more stuff up for them will have money. 206000. what votes? this is going to be a number of blank votes, was a little more than 1000000 volts. now, as you mentioned, the country is buckling up for a run off election that will be held on july. i see it now from today until

a day before the one of the election candidates will have another chance to run their campaigns and track motors through their camps. now. uh, the other thing that i have to highlight uh is uh, the fact that, uh, based on the constitution of the 2 leading candidates in this election, namely position kion and jeremy b. as this john who own, let this election only garnered around 46 percent of the votes in order to win the election. the and the candidate was required to secure 50 percent plus one of the votes. however, this didn't happen. so right now i'm joined by political analyst and the professor a professor at the university of central and dr. mama matter and welcome to the show. thank you. so now we know the one off election is due and um,

what are your assessments? johnny, johnny lee and physician, and what do you think? how would this race be finished? well, both of them, despite having a lots of time on public television and the debates, there were 5 debates lasting 4 hours. so they've all, they both presented themselves to the public, but obviously they haven't turned out to be particularly popular or charismatic. of their votes are pretty close. but um, i think everything will depend on the debates that they'll have in the coming days . in the previous presidential elections, we had heavy weights that that were either very popular or they were known entities like present ac turned out to be very popular person. as we saw through his funerals, he was seen as a very decent for us sending

a very clean politician's a humble person before that we had time at the new job we had present. ronnie, we had present to me all of them who wanting competitive elections but have very different views. and so it's obvious that many people who voted for my the nation also voted for hot time. we also voted for the, the present real honey. so i think that proves that most people in iran don't vote face on political affiliation, think they look at the personality and they make a choice. and i think the coming week will be very key. who is able to present himself to the public as being more appealing as being a better eclipse to provide solutions to the countries of the problem. considering the fact that they have plenty of time to present themselves. dear thing in this limited time before the runoff election, the candidates can manage to do this. that's a very good point. the only thing i can say is that since that are only going to be

2 people, they will probably be spending more time on television as individuals. because in the past, for example, each candidate has many different shows where they go on tv or radio and make their points within the debates. there are 6 of them. and so they only had a few minutes each to make their case. i would assume that we're going to have the database, i'm not sure yet, but i'm pretty sure that will probably have debates in the coming days and then that they will be one on one. and so each of them and those are probably more widely watched for obvious reasons. so i would assume that these 2 candidates will have an opportunity to score with the public. but then again, it may turn out that will have a low turnout, like this room is unknown for me. i'm, i don't know, but i think that the, the, the week ahead will be interesting. definitely. and something else, a big, based on the different and maybe contradictory points of views of these 2

individuals jelly, the end position beyond when we talk about everyone's foreign policy in the future . okay. any of them that is elected by a popular vote? what do you think the pos of these law make republic of your one will be in the future? i think that the legacy of president or a c and none of these candidates are president re c. and i think that that was clear. but i think that's his legacy is going to be long term. his idea that we should explore better ties with the global sales with asian countries, with russia and china, india, brazil, and others to join the brakes and to be more involved in selling high cooperation organization. i think that's something that everyone has embraced. whether it's mr . position or dr. jenny b or the other candidates who either step down or who put in make it to the 2nd

round. what is the difference between miss or position, at least in rhetoric, with mr. jenny the is i think mr. present she on to is saying, well preserving what doctor race has done, we should try again. have to put in, put in a new ag effort into seeing if we can revive the nuclear deal. dr. jenny, be probably in private is saying the same thing. but in public, he's saying that the west is not going to fulfill that side of the bargain. but i, in general, i believe that the iranian politics has moved more to the center. and whether it is dr. a position young or dr. jenny, me, both of them are going to have to be more century again. i think they both are well, i think i don't know about both of them, but i think they're both going to have to be more centrist in sense. and neither of them have really a huge mandate the as the 1st round, as shown. i think that is going to even reinforce the, the center more than that if it was otherwise. thank you so much for the

explanations. ok, so we're getting ready for the run off election, and then the uranium nation will decide that their destiny and their future by choosing the next president of the country on july 5th, back to you. all right, that was our ti corresponded monday up a c on reporting from to ron. thanks a lot for bringing us that very critical perspective. stay with us here at our to international, both on air and online for the latest developments on a runs highly anticipated election results. the we go now to the us where joe biden is scrambling to manage the damage following his collaborative, showing at the presidential debate with donald trump, where the us president is struggling to keep up with his opponent.

2 the when we get the money, however, are not convinced with the new york times. editorial boards now calling for joe biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race altogether. the president appeared on thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. he struggled to explain what he would accomplish in the 2nd term. he struggled to respond to mister strums publications. he struggled to hold mr. trump accountable for his life, his feelers and his children plans more than once. he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence. mainstream media outlets are admitting the debate was a disaster for the incumbent president with headlines screaming for him to bow out of the race. a complete new term from earlier calls defending his mental capacities

. and they were having conversations about the president's performance, which they think was dismal, which i think will hurt other people down the party in the tickets. and here were concerned about joe by the agent. you probably don't know, don't buy the buyer is actually in good shape and now they're in a i won't say a full fledged panic but it's getting. there is a. busy so i'm panicked and i pray mentally, he's quite a cute bennett aid, who engages with him or reporters. we can see this. the gears of his mind are working the right way. media has so fixated on bite and inviting purportedly, having talked to the of issues. it's not just making an issue of buttons and it's, it's lying. it's saying he's seen wild things demand as the calls for binding to quit grow louder. the main stream media is looking into potential replacements, vice president, kamala harris appears the most obvious one, but she's got competition herself. that news for the democrats is that whoever may replace the parties, domini will likely still lag behind trump. and several polls back that up. a box

new survey concluded that biden's most popular replacement would likely be michigan governor gretchen whitmore. in fact, most democrat voting respondents said that the current president would be the least favorable candidate in the batch going forward. meanwhile, independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy junior sees the trump bite and debate as a moment. i'm mentally booster for his 3rd party campaign. he also says that the nation is weary of picking between the lesser of 2 evils and his view. democracy should elevate the cream of the crop. but this debate has shown otherwise, and this is a sentiment that seems to resonate with many media commentators and disheartening to voters a light a i think a lot of people just are in denial that these are the 2 candidates running for president like i, we just including myself, but yeah, we just have not actually internalized and accepted. these are 3 choices. is that um, you know,

i would like seen them answer the questions mark because they just were like you're, you're worse and yours is like, we know you're both bad. so what you're good that so honestly they both have like a disaster to be honest. it just seem like 2 toddlers kind of going at it. i think it's a national embarrassment that that is our representation of leadership and especially what they both have done, even more of an embarrassment. but it is a sad day for america and it was really hard to watch. like i wanted to turn it off almost immediately. my reaction was just a lot of sadness. i think we have not good choices. the post of the muslim community has been, especially over the last around 8 months. and that we have to not so great options . we spoke with political scientist, glen decent, who says that the options voters have for president through the country a disturbance? well, i don't think it was much of other bates or to canada,

so for 19 minutes exchanged insults and the talking points, which i mean there's seen a month. so i don't think it was a good look for the united states, and they did leave me with some sense of an empire in the terminal declines. i would say that the election and most between 2 the political candidates and most people probably ask themselves why the us couldn't produce any other candidates, which will be better. and i think the answer is that the merits across the so obviously undermined by the corruption of the political system. and also there are dishonest media. so also i would say that in the blue polarized, besides, if there is a sense of the need to excuse anything that your own side does this, the amount of for group loyalty means that is for a little room for criticism of one's own candidates. and this tends to result in corruption really festering itself in the system and there for not being addressed

either. so which side is one? i think all the civil far show steps have trump one, which is why there's now a huge advantage in the democratic party. so i also think it was a predictable decides to provide me with, obviously in cognitive decline and present. and it will be very difficult for my need to recover from this debate separated. so i'm clear and you know, if the democrats will put them on stage again or change, seek to replace them. and so i guess decided, excuse for our debates, for sense that it could also result in more people looking towards the 3rd party candidates, such as the kennedy. we get to the end in france, the national riley party of marine la pen and jordan bar. dell has broken its record in terms of voter support. 37 percent are ready to vote for the national riley party with the left coalition in 2nd place standing at 28 percent. and the

current presidential coalition trailing at just 20 percent diminishing the incumbents chances in the election are to contribute to rachel. marston takes a closer look at macro on 7 year track record. the photos are heading to the poles on sunday. the 2nd time in less than a month for the 1st round of voting and the national election called by president a men reading back home. where do you have to enter him? tossed his party 2nd place results against the anti establishment national raleigh party in the european parliamentary elections out of the from the risk now is that he could end up with 3 years left on the clock in his presidential mandate. but without government majority required to ran through his agenda since it's the advertise 1000 parties on both the right and the left that are consistently meeting the pulls right now. and who knew that mack home playing along with brussels, rejecting cheap russian energy that's built into basically every single supply chain here in france could lead to redeem changing his own governments. voters also

say that they really care about immigration in security, but also francis place in europe and in the rest of the world. so how does that going under mac home? yesterday's frank, a freak is being replaced by military was a freak economic trying to freak or diplomatic america freak. and what can we say unfortunately about the regression of the francophone in relation to the english language? it isn't a time to rethink our vision of africa and its connection with france. for our part, we do not resign ourselves to our gradual disappearance from the entire continent. friends have been, hey, around and this a hell region of africa with counterterrorism and stabilisation operations that were so successful that they led to choose right under the noses of the french in places like molly new shad. i'm virginia fast so and their own adventure will allister, which is a real problem for paris when, for instance,

france had been mining uranium in the shaft to power. it's nuclear reactors, but not cold defense most or just doesn't see what the big deal is. i cannot let it be said that operation ball connie's. been a failure around me is never stopped pushing back terrorist groups in this a hill saving thousands of lives on the ground and protecting those of french people from the threat of attack. so most oil, well guess if it's not a failure then it's a success, right? nothing says winning. quite like being dropped kicks back across the mediterranean buyer house. seems like asking countries maybe just got tired of having that whole suzanne and 3 officials like hotels, staff to the point of even snarking that the president of 14 a fast. so should really just go turn on the air conditioning already pretty decent . i'll get the whole thing to 1994 and it is not from his fault. i'm sorry to say it in such a prolonged terms. you have not been able to restore the sovereignty. neither military, no security, nor administrative of your country. you're talking to me as if i was still a colonial, powerless cut on. yeah,

but i don't want to be in charge of electricity and but keen and fast, those universities. that's his job. that is the job of the president. what's this? look? he's leaving. stop right there. maybe he's off to repair the air conditioning. the prizes rolling the world so important to french voters is also reflected in the overseas territories. new caledonia, for example, on the other side of the world in the south pacific, near australia, the 3rd largest producer of nickel for things like electric, car batteries and about 10 percent of the world's output. but a search in global nickel production has led to a 40 percent drop in the value of nickel since 2023. so team that came up with, i guess you say innovative solution to save the hurting new caledonian nickel factories to have highly indebted new caledonia and pay 66000000 euros to help fellow perez's limping cash cow,

which went over about as well as you might expect. once again, caledonian will have to contribute. this is all the more unacceptable as they already contribute, massively to supporting the industry that's a lot. and yet the commitments required of manufacturers are non existent at all based a team that calls efforts to mess with new caledonia and elections by legislating the addition of thousands more voters to the electoral roles to dilute the native county folks effectively. and all of that, of course, results in protests. the reason that the food is always there to set things a blaze. because for the moment it was he who started the civil war, new caledonia, by having the people he had caught there, deported to the penal colony in france on the domestic front. and nicole isn't really seen as a big winner on security and immigration issues. another top to topics for french

voters in this election when a french pop allegedly shot and killed a 17 year old french teenager, of moroccan and algeria descent at point blank range and a parisian suburbs last summer for failing to abide by a traffic stop of some of the beneficiaries of mac hose, open mindedness on the domestic policy front were trigger sparking about 5000 barbecues all over france and the usual scenery, chewing of buildings, cops, shops, and even police themselves. the, when the interior ministry report says 700 cops were heard, it's probably a pretty reliable indication that you've basically lost control. and the number one issue for french motors over whelming lee is the knack whole economy. he's cheered on brussels, sending french energy prices. so arrangement, process, girlfriends,

libraries, wednesday, then spent a fortune trying to offset it so that the french don't get too angry. looks like that hasn't worked out too well. but that's now come to an end. same with all the restrictions he put on daily life during co bed with to our codes and everything and not being allowed to just go about your daily life. normally paying people in business is to go along with his rate until he just couldn't pay them anymore. and a result of all that was that economy was the regulated even before the conflict in you frame. and really the french have been set off with all of this as well before when he tried to squeeze the carbon tax of the people on power fuel that increasingly they could not afford already sparking the yellow vast movements. the . so it's no wonder the next will figure that calling an election would be a good idea when he must've also figured that all these other things were good

ideas to. and once again, it looks like he just may be in for another really rude awakening. is there any emission to the un has warned israel, it will face and obliterating more if it launches a full scale attack against has blog in lebanon, and i'll be at a ron deems as psychological warfare. the zionist resumes, propaganda about intending to attack lebanon. should it embark on full scale, military aggression, and obliterating war will ensue. all options, including the full involvement of all resistance fronts, are on the table. this comes as the idea says that as carried out, a tax on several has blood targets in southern lebanon. and recent hours is rarely defense minister claims. the government prefers to reach a political resolution with hezbollah, but says israel is ready for war. if the lebanese on group wants conflict is rarely

defense minister claims that $450.00 hezbollah militants have been killed since the start of hostilities. ortiz, middle east bureau chief, maria, from ocean i visited the northern is rarely city of high fob, which has been marked by the lebanese militant group as a target in the event of a military escalation, a hi funds. these rows, the largest city and busiest ports to kilometers from the lebanese border, could be among the primary targets in the vent over the allow tour with his bella. from the spark on a high for hill, the beautiful bay area is at to your fingertips is rails largest. 4th is close by. the dog shapes, comedy and out, cargo being loaded and unloaded roughly 20000000 tons of goods passed through here annually. drone photos recently released by his butler shows baseboard as clearly as if they were right here. a stark reminder from the 11 on base militant, the group was changing any of the 10 minutes we do shows much of high for civilian

areas and also a detailed overview of the russell military industrial complex, including its factories, warehouses, and testing fields where it is rarely defense systems, i made that pool, which was also extensively filmed. if the video was meant to turn or intimidate it, clearly failed is real, responded with even harsher rhetoric and increased preparations for war on it snowed in boulder. i live up there and i have the port in front of the product. so i'm going back here. the nice is, this is this happening so nice is happening tonight. so we need to have us 1st and level of sarcasm, you know, so to deal with a room and is really aaron from the head ash body that promotes jewish arab cooperation. believes these really leadership is the one pushing for war. this government is already into war. this is the only guarantee for this and yeah, hopefully the co life as shallow as it may seem. this is unfortunately the

truth. the hyphen mayer early, who complained the doctor, his butler released the dreaded sewage. no one from these really, governments called his office to assess the situation. and this is a fashion price when government that is not really care about civilians about any civilians. not only that palestinians or labor needs and doesn't care about its own civilians. prime minister netanyahu ensues that both tours with him, us and his but less were imposed on these rails. but not everyone in the country agrees. this is lie that they haven't been saving. the surface is here saying only by power, only by war shall we exist. peace a v r, sir, because she ations will be on for having a palestinian faith is the answer. what more will never be the answer when his bolo syncronized its attacks on israel with him. as of october 7th, it said it would stop as soon as the war in gaza ends. but as these far adults have

once again stalled, the wars seems more real than ever israel once before, they will not say openly because though it will be many backlash as against them from abroad and also from here from within. but the definitely wants to before we had many, many $0.10 to avoid that, but they intentionally decided to move it even closer to the reality that we live in right now. where people are preparing for doomsday situations. guy and i do is, and design is an anti war activist from hi fi. remembers the 2006 world 11 on both of those things were free to q. ok. my parents took me and my brother and they brought us to the center of israel because they were scare other for, for a life like she feels that just like during the previous war, civilians were once again, they are the highest cost. israel tries to show that they are not afraid of the ban on a, they will not agree to make any deal with the we've come off the track,

the shoulder muscles and eventually who will pay the most. because of this, the situation this, the tourist, the question is the civilians themselves downtown high for appears normal with shops and you just loans. opens restaurants, operating as usual, home to about 300000 people. high for is a diversity with varies is and they cities, religions, political views, and different opinions on a potential world with has all of our family if it's not as well. if it's what it is, it is terry being can wake up tomorrow and feeling like in this is sending a silver toner. this allow of, of the food it's shown, indicates that hezbollah is psychologically playing with people's fears. nothing more, nothing less. they will always out of them, but the way i need to stay around on the flight, so nobody and the if you want to fight fight, if you're unsure true,

it's non talking to file. okay. we ask shop owners on this, my burn street east. they have phone shelters, they might need turns out that most of them don't. and while some are concerned about that, let's get, i don't know where they're coming. very role. father is believe they want to be in need. they fix it. uh, so i thought was locked and they do tend one day me says to day me says, and then we just started on, on the run on, on wednesday, the lebanese prime minister reiterated the feast country is not interested in war with these rel, global concerns over the escalation also grow as the war, we definitely impact the entire region. even these roads, closest ally, and long time so full to the west has voiced the concern, stating it will not be able to provide the same level of assistance against his bella. as indeed during the rent and retaliate.