well he started off in both a good position and a bad position a good position because he was the front runner and a bad position because that put a target on his back he fired the 1st shot attacking camila harris's plan for publicly funded health care but then an avalanche of attacks came back at him harris attacked him on that julian julian castro attacked him on immigration jay inslee the governor of washington state attacked him on climate change it was one after another and biden did his best firing back every time he was attacked but he was clearly rattled by the end of the debate he even gave his fundraising phone number wrongly in his closing remarks so he may have done is well as he could under those circumstances the polls will show later whether that left a truly lasting mark but it was a rough night for joe biden and did so do you think came out looking the strongest

from these debates to gain the most traction with. well if you look at many viewers if you look at the internet i'm hearing a lot of people say that elizabeth warren on night one actually won these debates she came out strong with her a number of progressive positions she was attacked repeatedly by moderates but not moderates of huge stature in the party really the person she was talking to in her opening remarks when she said she didn't want to be a party of of small ideas and spinelessness and was joe biden she didn't mention him by name but she was very strong you know dominating that time on the 1st night i think a lot of people who liked bernie sanders also liked her and interestingly those 2 didn't go at it at all on night one they were very supportive of each other and they have a very similar plan so it would be hard to attack each other on substance but right now it's. you've got in the number one through 4 positions you've still got biden

who was polling in that number one position warren was polling 2nd before these debates began and then after that you've got. bernie sanders in and come away harris called harris have both a good and bad night as well because she's in that top 4 she was also attacked for her history as attorney general of california where she pursued some policies that some democrats are saying contributed to the over population of prison so it was a rough couple of debates the next ones may be more more telling because there will be fewer candidates there were 20 people over 2 nights in this series of debates next time we expect more like 8 to 10 and then the field may really narrow down after that john hendren wrapping up the democratic debates for us thank you. and still ahead and. more protests are planned against

saddam's military rulers after 5 demonstrators including 4 students were killed in police firing it's. fairly warm across much of the united states and we'll seeing the fairly typical showers and thunderstorms we see this time if you want to just popping up and that's where we'll see most of those often in thunderstorms as we go through thursday it's a warm day into new york 30 degrees celsius no sign of any rain few but we could just have an often thunder storm into washington d.c. 30 degrees celsius certainly down into the southeast into atlanta with a high of 32 and feeling a bit cooler of course across in san francisco the hive 18 celsius in ages this massive cloud across the central plains that will sort of linger a bit on friday maybe push

a bit further towards the southeast kansas city sunny you will see some rain showers with a high of $25.00 degrees celsius and the rain is fairly widespread across much of the caribbean this bit of a disturbance we watching is just sitting very close to on your yes so really spreading those rains westwards right the way across as you can see into much of cuba so a wet couple of days ahead temperatures typically in the low thirty's and then central america on thursday we've got some rain really quite heavy at times into panama that will begin to push further tools the west into course mala as we head into friday and again we could see some rain showers into southern portions of mexico 24 celsius is the high there few mexico city and 33 in kingston. to maine the intersection of reality and comedy in post revolution tennessee are. mission to entertain educate and provoke debate through satire. weapon

of choice. and intimate look at what inspires one of tuna's his most popular comedians to make people laugh. miten asea half on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera let me take you through our top stories this hour the united states has imposed sanctions on iran's foreign minister minister mohammad. promotes what it calls the reckless agenda of iran's supreme leader. back saying it's all because he's considered

a threat to washington's agenda. a 2nd round of debate between u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls has ended there was renewed focus on the frontrunner joe biden the former vice president has repeatedly forced to defend his record on health immigration and. the u.s. national security adviser says no it's. not to violate a pledge it made to stop testing long range weapons said it tested a multiple rocket launchers system on wednesday. foreign ministers from asia pacific nations are meeting in bangkok the trade war between beijing and washington is likely to dominate those talks you a secretary of state my pump well me chinese foreign minister why need you later the foreign ministers of south korea and japan as countries force are facing a trade row of their own have also met on the sidelines well for more on this let's

go to scott huyler's joining us live from bangkok scott as we said they're bilateral meetings between japan and south korea in the midst of trade to protect trade war that's affecting both their economies any anything likely to come out of that from these meetings. i guess it probably depends on how these negotiations go between the 2 foreign ministers on this bilateral meeting here while the us the on foreign minister meetings go on for these several days and also be a couple of regional forums tomorrow on friday i guess it really depends on if there's any progress i would imagine that they might come out afterward that hasn't been anything scheduled there's nothing on the books to say post this bilateral meeting between the japanese in the south korean foreign ministers there will be a press statement we're not seeing anything like that i think it just really depends on how it goes and as you've mentioned this is a trade route that has really hit diplomatic relations between these 2 nations some say the worst in several decades so obviously it's going to be a very difficult conversation to have and it depends on how that goes as to who

will say what's after the meeting hard to tell of course and my pump am to speak candy to hold his own meetings on the sidelines what's likely to be at the top of his agenda. well the top of his agenda you know the biggest one the foreign ministers from outside the region come here to meet with all the foreign ministers of these 10 nations that are part of us on these southeast asian nations but it's also about the bilateral meetings with their counterparts and one of the bigger bilateral meetings is between mike pompeo and his counterpart from china now one you know that's going to be interesting to see what comes out of that what's going to be discussed there obviously the locks between those 2 nations need to be discussed you've got tension over territory in the south china sea that has been bubbling and ongoing for quite some time and also there's a very specific reason it's being held here these talks are being held here because our nation several of them have issues with what china is doing like the united states has issues with what china is doing also it's the trade war you know the

negotiations between the united states and china over this trade war that's been going on they had some meetings negotiations in shanghai over the last couple of days no real announcements coming out of that we don't know if the negotiations move forward they're not saying anything or if there's just no movement at all that obviously is going to be discussed when this american chinese bilateral meeting goes on right now we're expecting to hear some comments from mike pump a as the day goes on he's got other meetings and there are opportunities during those meetings that he might say something but then also at the end of the day he's going to have a press conference with his tight counterpart obviously talking about the issues but clearly he's going to address other things depending on how they went in these meetings today scott thank you very much now bangladesh is struggling to contain its worst ever break of dengue fever and these 14 people have died often 1st broke out in the capital dhaka earlier in the air and mosquito borne infection has now spread across the country hitting 61 out of 64

districts where the 15300 cases have been crimes in january and nearly 2 thirds of those diagnosed this month. doctors in the democratic republic of congo have quarantined 15 people in south kivu province over fears that the been infected by ebola all 15 are members of the same family and they recently returned from the provincial capital city of goma where its 2nd person had died from member will and wednesday if the 3rd case has not been detected there catherine so reports from nairobi this is the clinic in goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and health workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. more than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda. we did not know what

was happening we just saw people looking like doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to the mater. we are free and resident because we have seen how people are dying it would term burn binny night and day the 2nd worst outbreak in the country's history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people it's 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago health workers trying to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast regions where villages are hard to reach. for to mark a humble is an airborne a survivor who spends her time taking care of children whose parents are the sick or dead she also talks to people and have believed in the town of benny about the importance of health care some congolese want to know about a new a ball

a vaccine they've hired out from other tantra but still people are saying the new proposed vaccine isn't good enough workers need to seem surprised people so they can understand because this virus needs to go away the proposal by the world health organization to use a vaccine for clinical trials is controversial critics say the drug is experimental and shouldn't be tested on congolese people w.h.o. says vaccination is important for such experimentation is very clear we need to. clinical trials to get more information on the. effectiveness this is a lot of more concrete recommendations the best way because. this is a lot. for the 1st barking go my doctors try to work out how to stop the disease from spreading health workers in goma say the wall prepared to deal with this situation they've set up hand washing points in different parts of the city they

say the treatment centers are well equipped and they have enough personnel but they're also warning people to keep vigil avoid unnecessary contact with each other but not to worry but people that we've been speaking to in goma a telling us it's very difficult to keep calm at this moment catherine soy al-jazeera nairobi kenya. protests leaders in sudan have called for a 1000000 man march on thursday to demand justice for the killings of 6 demonstrators the rallies have been taking place ever since security forces far on a student protest on monday morgan has more details from neighboring ethiopia. for the 3rd successive day students in various parts of sudan raise their voices calling for justice and accountability and trials for the soldiers who opened fire on fellow students on monday at least 6 were killed and dozens injured in north dakota fun as they protested about the cost of living the protesters called for justice i repeated by the african when. i went in they did how do you think the

african union case it directly denounces the killing of students taking pass in a peaceful protest and offer our condolences to the families of those who lost their lives we urge the quick arrest of those responsible for the killings and for them to stand trial and face punishments according to the laws in this country. monday's shooting happened as high school students complained about the lack of bread and the rising costs of fuel and transport as students took to the streets to mourn and voiced their anger at monday's killings the military council blamed the opposition put to death and ordered the closure of schools nationwide the opposition coalition known as the forces of freedom and change continues to negotiate with the military to form a transitional government oh it's aimed at replacing the military rule in place since long time president obama to be sure was ousted in april the sudanese communist party one of the opposition parties which is part of the coalition and

nouns that it wouldn't participate in talks to form a government. and we as a party will not go down that path or play a role in the transitional authority communist party takes the side of the masses we will escalate the situation in the streets and continue efforts to achieve the hopes and aspirations of our people to bring about radical change. most of the protests have been led by the sudanese professionals association it says the communist party's refusal to participate. and called for more protests to pressure the military to relinquish power plant was surely since it was toppled all the parties said they would not participate in any of the levels of the transitional authority so the communist party is no different but that does not mean that those parties will not take part in the future government civilian government has been the demand of demonstrators ever since they took to the streets in december now they're also demanding justice and accountability for the rising number of

protesters being killed while campaigning for change he will morgan. if european more than $100.00 migrants from libya stranded at sea are now allowed to come ashore in italy after it reached an agreement with the e.u. last week deputy prime minister matteo saw the need blocked the italian coast guard vessel grego to 30 from docking and so european union nations agreed to take in a solemn seekers it is the most contentious part of the brakes of a drawn deal between the e.u. worries over the so-called irish backstop dominated boris johnson's 1st visit to northern ireland as prime minister he has vowed to overhaul the deal this by the repeatedly turning him down again bubba has this report from belfast. 7 grabbing the attention of the prime minister or trying to these belfast shipyard workers are set to lose their jobs their predicament just one of the challenges northern ireland's devolved government here at stormont could be addressing if it

were up and running. for its johnson promise to spend no effort to make that happen it's great to be to be here in northern ireland and. clearly the people in northern out of have been without a government without stormont for 2 years and 6 months so my my prime focus this morning is to do everything i can to help that get up and running again the 5 political parties here have been talking since may about how to get the northern irish assembly back in business it was set up in 1980 as part of a peace deal that gave this part of the u.k. a degree of autonomy but issues including irish language rights and access to abortion remain divisive on top of that politicians have wildly differing views on brics it and specifically boris johnson's insistence that the e.u. scraps the so-called irish backstop keeping the whole of the u.k. closely aligned with the u. rules until there's a trade deal in place and it's very clear that the end is the backstop that has caused all of the difficulties with the winter olympics and therefore that needs to

be the subject of focus negotiation and therefore we will support a minister and other party say the backstop is essential to prevent a hard border they're worried what they call the prime minister's hardline strategy will backfire and see the u.k. leave the e.u. without a deal but in their view would inevitably lead to physical checks at the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. and fission fein the main nationalist party it could even mean a push for a referendum on uniting north and south we've made it clear to him that the extensive planning that he tells us he is carrying ios in respect of a potential crash ranks as hostile includes the constitutional question and the issue of a border poll here in ireland. also is and always has been achieving a united ireland and a clear warning to the prime minister is the way he's going about bricks it could make up prospects a great deal more likely. for now the action at stormont is outside the parliament

not in sight even if the assembly does against all expectations receive its work in the near future the challenge of protecting the good friday agreement that created it could make delivering any kind of threats it an uphill struggle. al-jazeera belfast. hello you're watching al-jazeera and these are main stories the united states has imposed sanctions on iran's top diplomat and is accusing dods a reef of spreading propaganda for around supreme leader ayatollah ali how many so we 1st pondered on twitter and ridiculed the measures roselyn jordan has more. they basically say that this is a situation where because of the u.s. is concerned they actually need to be engaging with people who they believe could actually make real change but they also indicate that they don't think that this is

possible because they are continuing the sanctions and they are continuing to look at other possible targets basically anyone who is working at the direct leadership at the director has to i should say of the supreme leader ayatollah common a. second round of debate between your summer caddick presidential hopefuls has ended there was renewed focus on the frontrunner joe biden a former vice president was repeatedly forced to depend defend his record on health immigration and race the u.s. national security adviser says north korea's recent missile test does not violate a pledge it made to stop testing long range weapons. tested a multiple rocket launchers system on wednesday state media reports that the leader kim jong un personally oversaw the operation. foreign ministers from southeast asian nations are meeting in bangkok the trade war between beijing and

washington is likely to dominate those talks well those are the headlines we'll have more news after my teenager that's next. cambodia is on the free. for profit illegal timber trade. investigates the cambodians for. 100.

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