tonight how's he performing and can he stay out in front of the tonight do you think. well we don't know how people are going to read you know seeing this performance where hujan castro and others just tried to kind of you know bully him up and beat him hard at the beginning you had people to judge any clothes which are kind of come to his defense and so maybe the sense that there was a bit of unfair play may actually play to his advantage because joe biden plays well with americans who feel like they've been left behind and they want to feel like somebody is emotionally on their side that's joe biden strength but what happened tonight which i think would be worrying the biden camp is that he stumbled a lot he got a lot of framing wrong i've been listening to the debates the night is even talked about areas he knows very well particularly foreign policy even in that in talking about iraq just the sentences that he offered didn't have the clarity that i know joe biden typically does have so maybe some of this threw him off but i think it

may have gotten some sympathy support steve so i thought the debate just touched on health care gun violence immigration even white supremacy i mean how important is the domestic agenda and who else on the stage tonight nice of well on the big issues like immigration and gun violence. well i think what has to happen i mean i think immigration and gun violence everyone's on the same page on gun violence what they're not on the same page is is how far they would go in taking guns away from people or paying for the you know amy amy cobra said she wanted a voluntary program for people to give up assault rifles as far as something that would be far more intrusive but i think the big thing that continues to resonate deeply and it is a divide a deep divide among the candidates is what is going to be the character and composition of a future health care plan and will that health care plan be something that disrupts their health care the incumbent health care of about 180000000 americans who already have health care but but elizabeth warren who is you know very clearly

a front runner and people waiting to see warren and biden fight this out but the divide has really been over sanders and sanders saying he right wrote the health care plan for medicare for all etc and i think that is a much deeper divide oh you may want to pretend that immigration and gun violence and white nationalism are the issues but it's health care the domestic politics may be important but i'll be lucky do you think to be tested on some of the big foreign policy issues john bolton sucking afghanistan china syria how his foreign policy likes to play out on the stage tonight. foreign policy has already been discussed to a significant degree about china about iraq that the taliban and what whether we would just elizabeth warren made a very bold statement saying that she would leave afghanistan without settling a deal with the taliban so these are interesting items that continue to differentiate some of these individuals from one another but as we know in the polls i am fascinated by foreign policy and national security issues but most

americans are not it's not the defining issue as they look forward to john bolton firing does not register with most americans and how they feel about america's place in the world all right steve clemons washington editor at large for the hill thank you very much indeed for sharing your insights with us. my pleasure thank you lots more to come here on the news hour including rounded up and dragged away russian security forces crackdown on opposition figures. let's come back one more time. see you in 2020. 1 of the all time greats of women's tennis is coming out of retirement for a 2nd time. thousands of protesters have gathered outside argentina's national congress demanding action to tackle a hunger crisis the high cost of living means a growing number of the country's poor are going hungry but the government says

it's doing what it can to raise about reports in the capital one as ours. for today's event might have been as has been living on the streets of one of sightings he and other family members set up a camp right in front of the argentine congress to demand a food emergency plan to help the poor. the other top 100 by the situation is dire for all of us i'm a construction worker but there is no work it's difficult to feed my children that's why i come here because the president's policies are slowly killing us. thousands of people took over the center of one aside is on thursday when they know where chambre met last a food emergency plan to cope with the ongoing economic crisis in the country. the law was 1st passed in 2002 right after the economic collapse in argentina now it's been extended once again the government said these protesters are manipulated by the opposition to head up october's presidential election but this people say they

come here to request government help to help them cope with a double digit inflation rate i didn t. know that makes it difficult for them to eat every day. this is a congressman for the ruling coalition he says the government has been trying to help those in it we know. we have lifted taxes from basic food items increase to minimum wage increased cash handouts and lots of other things to help those who need it i don't understand why people continue to protest because we are giving them what they need. i didn't tina has been in a recession since last year and has one of the highest inflation rates in the world running at more than 54 percent. this month in an attempt to prevent the loss of foreign reserves the government implemented new restrictions on currency transactions so now that you have capital controls i think. that some degree of stability or at least of calm tense calm one could say has come to the to the

markets and things will be stabilized it remains to be seen at the end of the day today how many reserves the central bank actually sold to maintain the exchange rates but i think with the with the controls in place the demand for dollars should somewhat. go down or should you should see some calm and. at least for the time being. i didn't dina's economy is unlikely to reactivate anytime soon the crisis is having a deep impact among those who need help the most. in somalia the united nations is warning that 2000000 people will face starvation by the end of the summer unless the world takes action it's been one of the dry seasons in more than 3 decades mohamed that though reports now from by in southwest

somalia. there seems to be no letup in the flow of people into the city of by door in southwest somalia. they've been displaced by drought and most are hungry and desperate. the few medical facilities run by agencies are full of sick. children. like most people here more than a limb had to walk more than 10 kilometers to get help for his sick child i don't think we get it. my son is a year old and has been secret 2 months i had to bring him here for help i have no intention of returning to a village tilly's fully recovered. on the outskirts of the city we meet more displaced people who have just arrived. during droughts in the past many left it too late before moving to seek help but that seems to have changed the must have movement of people to the cities ha seen a huge rice in the number of pumps for the displaced in by door in 2016 there

were just 70 such comments today there are 400 unthawed to 5 of them with a population of more than 360000 people. that is more than the original inhabitants of the city aid workers say the world has failed to respond adequately and they need more donations to have a mission id be the numbers of those in need keep growing by day and far outstrip the resources we have the donors are trying their best but we never seem to be able to catch up with a growing number of displaced. if you will the united nations emergency aid coordinating husband visiting by door he says people here need much more than food aid haitian development away solution ideally people would have a chance to go home and rebuild their lives it's not always possible say then is a question often of land access to services and support where they come to and that

in that means there is a need for a supportive discussion from the local authorities some of the displaced told us that also fled the violence of al-shabaab fighters who are also forcing children to join the group this crisis is happening as communities are already struggling to recover from a 2 year long drought that ended in 2017 nomadic pastoralism has been a way of life for millions of somalis for centuries but the droughts are threatening that many of the displaced say they now have no farms or hearts to go back to and it's unlikely many of them will every time how about the world has either baidoa in southwest somalia. dozens of people are feared dead in the democratic republic of congo after a train derailed in the eastern province of tanganyika a congolese government minister said at least 50 people were killed and several others injured the freight train was carrying illegal passengers at the time of the

crash. sudan's new prime minister is in south sudan for his 1st official visit since taking power he wants to improve relations between the neighbors but he's also there for talks with groups have been fighting the government in khartoum for years even morgan reports. in a nod to the relations between the 2 countries that were once one sudan's newly appointed prime minister abdullah chose south sudan's capital juba as his 1st foreign visit accompanied by 4 ministers from his cabinet he met his host south sudan's president salva kiir to mark the start of a scheduled 2 day visit. from his. leave after i have been sworn in and that my friends visit will be. here today. looking for a very strategic. very distinguished relationship between the 2 nations. while some took held talks with his host his ministers met their south

sudanese counterparts topping the talks were economic and trade ties to south sudan seceded in 2011 with most of sudan's oil facilities they once brought in more than 60 percent of the country's revenues but sudan's pipelines and ports are needed to export 1000 and oriel the 2 also share the longest land border in africa and parts are yet to be formally demarcated more than 80 years after south sudan's independence that's caused tensions in the past and was discussed in the talks we have discussed many bilateral issues concerning outstanding issues in the peace agreement not the reason one but the comprehensive peace agreement where the issues of borders issues of operations issues of economic and political issues seem to be discussed and those weren't the only things brought up over the discussion table the prime minister has repeatedly stated he aims to achieve peace in conflict areas within the 1st 6 months of the transitional period on wednesday

a coalition of sudanese armed group signed an agreement to start talks with the sudanese government mediated by south sudan on thursday how much with those groups to see how he can achieve what he terms as his top priority. the armed groups had expressed reservations to and some outright projections of the agreement signed last month that led to the creation of a transitional government in sudan and while they have agreed to talks to end conflicts they say achieving that will not come easy one of those telling us. whether the current government in khartoum. the ability to overcome that the the constitutional difficulties the current political setup has been designed by the the constitutional text in a way that would put a lot of difficulties for the peace process the voice mostly i'm doc is only starting his job as prime minister but the country has been marred by conflicts and

a troubled economy and it seems that he's looking to sudan southern neighbor to help find some solutions for the challenges he faces he will morgan on to 0 juba. a rout has broken out between the family of the late zimbabwean president robert mugabe and the government of aware when he buried its bodies lying in state at a stadium and harare a memorial service will be held on saturday reports from the zimbabwean capital. saying goodbye was too painful for some the body of robert mugabe is about his former leader lies in state at a forest stadium in the capital harare this is where he was sworn in as prime minister at independence in $1980000.00 came to pay their respects. the. last of the. favorites and straight. even to concerts with both found. there was

a stampede when some of the mourners tried to jump the queue to view his body but most people waited patiently this is the only time they'll be allowed to get this close and stake a bite is about is found later but there is still confusion of a way mugabe will be buried some family members have made it clear they are still bitter at the way he was ousted from power by the army in 2017 that means the government's plan to bury him on sunday might not happen the family says his body will be in his rural village that day no we are not witnessing the period and what is supposed to happen on sunday is that we're supposed to. have growth points for people. to. pay their last respects until the disputed resolved supporters say they've come to say thank you to the man who liberated the country from white minority rule educated them and gave blacks land robert mugabe was a polarizing figure in life and in the stadium the mood is only light it's

completely different. the stadium isn't by a township one of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in harare. other places in the country many people don't have access to clean running water electricity supply is erratic and there's high unemployment. like. macgyver least behind a legacy of disputed elections in trance corruption allegations of human rights abuses abductions and disappearances of many opposition supporters in the early 1980 s. thousands were murdered in much bill and province for allegedly trying to remove him from power he called that period a moment of madness. right now 4000000 struggling economically just seems uncertain just like the location of mugabe's final resting place if the stanley don't insist

on a private funeral it's expected he will be buried at the here is a casino in the capital next his 1st wife sandy who died in 1902 how do we. have. time for a short break here not just when we come back. i'm here mohamed on the island of borneo where indonesia's new capital is judged to be built we'll tell you why people here are also concerned. that his boat has gone from bad to worse for the usa the basketball world cup and you were here with that story marla stay with us. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts well for the eastern part of china over the next few days things are looking quite nice plenty of sun in the forecast but that also means your temperatures are on the rise and we're

talking about temperatures into the low thirty's across many areas here up towards the north her though we're getting close to $41.00 at $38.00 degrees for you over here to go at $35.00 hong kong and for sure the rain is on its way back to miti as well we're talking temperatures of about $31.00 degrees but notice off towards the east watching the circulation very carefully for the potential of a developing system that could bring some very heavy rain to type taiwan and make its way towards the north we'll be watching the location of that very carefully over the next few days down here towards the south though we are looking at very nice conditions across much of indonesia as well as malaysia heavy rain though is expected across parts of vietnam cambodia and laos over the next few days that's going to be increasing holtzman city with a temper a few of $29.00 degrees really expanding in the rain across much of that area bangkok you're in between 2 rate areas but we do think it's going to rain for you at $33.00 degrees the. down toward singapore it is going to be 30 degrees for you well here across central india very heavy rain is expected over the next few days we're talking anywhere over $500.00 millimeters across the central areas for new

delhi though it is going to be right on the edge with a temperature of $34.00 degrees. the weather sponsored by catherine. and new political sitcom after 27 years of dictatorship that going to destroy them that we have can we overcome it i mean challenges here in looks at the new democracy and ethiopia's fos changing political landscape through the stories of food divest ethiopians know them or simply this is my studio where i shoot the sitcom. my ethiopia on al-jazeera. in the heart of the amazon believe in family is that the law is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it too

believe me out. on al-jazeera. welcome back to the top stories here on the al-jazeera the u.s. is set to release the name of a saudi arabian official believed to have been involved in coordinating the september 11th attacks the name will only be revealed to a limited circle of people including lawyers and victims' families. but top 10 u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls are going head to head in a heated debate in houston texas is the 1st time the front runners former vice president joe biden and senators was both warren and bernie sanders sharing the

same stage. and the u.n. says more than 2000000 people face starvation and somalia and it's called on the world before it's too late the country is experiencing its driest rainy season in more than 3 decades. the british prime minister abbas johnson has been forced to deny lying to the queen about his reasons for the 5 week suspension of parliament with exactly 7 weeks until the scheduled brags that date the use chief negotiator says there's no sign of any workable proposal for a deal john holl reports from london. to him these have been forced into recess but football is johnson the battle has shifted to the courts judges in north. and have joined those in england in declining to rule the prohibition of parliament illegal but scottish judges on wednesday said johnson's advice to the queen to suspend parliament had been unlawful and motivated by a desire to muzzle parliament did you lie to the queen when you advised her to

provoke to suspend parliament absolutely not. and indeed as i say though the high court in england plainly agrees with us but the supremes court will have to decide opposition m.p.'s meanwhile a clamoring to return to work after succeeding in forcing the government to release its internal operation yellow hammer report it contains worst case scenario predictions for a no deal breaks it clogged up ports fresh food and medicine shortages price rises and civil unrest but of course no house of commons to scrutinise its findings that's why you know that's why i was so angry that parliament was perot's because i should be in parliament at the moment with the ability to interrogate the prime minister and ministers now approach we can do that and the prime minister again this is a worst case scenario which civil servants obviously have to prepare for but in the last few months particularly in the 50 days since i've been prime minister we'll be

massively accelerating our preparations boris johnson says a no deal breaks it is not his desired outcome he says he's doing everything he can to reach a new deal with the european union at an october leaders' summit just a few days after parliament is due to return. no mention of the new law requiring johnson to seek a break sit extension if no new deal emerges nor any detail on water new deal may look like and again no parliament to ask any questions it's all pretty be we'll drink when viewed from brussels i think that is all a plan is to take the u.k. out of the european union without any. yield but busy at the same time being in a position to blame the european union for inflexibility all eyes on the supreme court next week then with the government in the meantime giving each very best impression of being entirely unmoved jonah how al-jazeera london. nor makers in the

us are voted to move forward with an investigation that could lead to the impeachment of president trump the committee voted along party lines it was approved despite unanimous republican opposition and allows enhanced questioning of witnesses. this could be gauged to gauge that will allow us to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment with respect to president trapped that is what we are doing so because of this crisis. so ph would vest a geisha there's no legal difference between these 2. good care to argue about the don't equate to the man accused of killing 22 people in el paso texas last month has been formally indicted by a us grand jury most of the people shot inside the wal-mart store were hispanic the accused 21 year old shooter told police he was targeting mexicans if convicted he could face the death penalty. well as well as president nicolas maduro says he will

not travel to new york for next week's u.n. general assembly he's warning his country is prepared to defend itself in the event of an invasion run petie has more now from a neighboring colombia. a show of military might for the rest of the continent to see. again the ploy to its army along the border with colombia this week for war games increasing tensions between the 2 troubled nations but those studying many military say this is mostly posturing for political effect from an increasingly unprofessional force well the venezuelan military a squad of politicized force right you are promoted because of loyalty to the government and its military professionalism must suffer drastically the pedro marsh element is visible and the fact that they have 2000 generals that is more than all the countries of nato combined. meet has been researching been as well as armed

forces in their relationship with their ally russia he says that when commodity prices were high the oil rich country bought some impressive pieces of equipment such as 2 dozen state of the art jets but received little training on how to use them you know if we look at the us will navy in the 1990 s. it used to be a reasonably sized force with somewhat advanced equipment and now we know that if 6 frigates 3 have sunk out the pier and the other 3 might be moralists immobilised as well. as roughly 120000 troops less than half of the colombian army with the reasonable number of armed vehicles but no aircraft carriers or destroyers the government says 2000000 citizens militias have been armed and trained to protect the country a number nobody can confirm. and while. high level officials remain loyal to

president a number of soldiers as deserted this year in an actual war scenario what you would see is probably the colombia made for the blockading when it's way along ports with ready probably great effectiveness then the question is when will be united states . they are ready to defend their homeland from an invasion even if you're not being a key moment in the venezuela has people who defend it with ideas with words with politics with diplomacy and with weapons. colombia told its citizens to remain calm has been carrying out the military drills along the border while the united states and other countries and ways they called for the activation of a regional mutual defense pact in case of an attack on colombia something few believe possible allison that i'm. worth that. forecasters are warning

a tropical cyclone could hit parts of the bahamas already battered by hurricane dorian 1300 people are still missing the number dropped from about 2500 after government checks at evacuation centers the u.s. has announced $4000000.00 in new humanitarian aid for the country. now when israelis had to the polls on tuesday many will do so unsure of who to trust there's been an increase in leaks to the media about looming corruption charges against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu but he's pushing back study deca reports from western roots of. building a new form of a world champion in fake news israeli prime minister takes to facebook to discredit an israeli journalist and the channel he works for for broadcasting leaks to do with the corruption cases against the prime minister israeli media now reporting that the journalist has hired a bodyguard because of the anonymous threats he's received in that then you know i . think the media is a very important gives a lot of importance to the media and he wants to shape the public opinion he wants

to influence and is obsessed and is panic this terrified you can never see that because as a good actor he never shows his fear but this week you always saw some signs of it because there was a recording that was leaked that they were screaming. in a secret recording netanyahu can be heard screaming at his then communications minister telling him to intervene in order to allow a sympathetic channel to broadcast news something it had not been allowed to do before netanyahu had been banned by the attorney general from interfering in the affairs of the media. and this an official campaign video from likud the prime minister's party once again singling out journalists who've reported on leaks related to the corruption cases this video tells the audience they will not decide this is the 2nd election in 6 months and the big question is can benjamin netanyahu

win again and if he does any form of government but it's really the day after that's going to determine what happens to israel's longest serving prime minister just a couple of weeks after the vote he faces a hearing on corruption charges and the worst case scenario for benjamin netanyahu is just netanyahu is facing 3 criminal cases of corruption and fraud 2 of them are linked to allegations of giving the prime minister favorable coverage in the media and you know the media is both the strength of his success the secret to his success and the possible way that it's going to get a failure i like to say that for and it's and you know the media is like kryptonite to superman because it can disable him and he's afraid of it in almost every problem that he's had legal problems and bribery still had to do with protecting his image in the media. voters go to the polls on the 17th of september but in the end the fate of israel's prime minister lies in the hands of this country's legal

system stephanie decker al-jazeera west jerusalem russian security forces have carried out mass raids on the homes and offices of opposition figures searches were carried out in more than 40 cities and towns targeting associates a prominent kremlin critic a mixing of only authorities say the crackdown is part of a money laundering investigation step. the scale of the rate is unprecedented in more than 40 cities across russia officers fleeing to the country's main opposition figure alexina folley was searched and employees detained like here in st petersburg and he documents and a u.s.b. driver confiscated his when he was close to my daughter called me and said the police came to search the apartment actually they cheated their way into the apartment because she opened the door for a neighbor to novell me it is clear they raise our president putin's revenge for the loss of the ruling party in sunday's elections but. this

time he got really upset because of the tactical voting as his offspring his sweet child i would say the united russia party has been busted in moscow and seriously beaten in the regions after opposition candidates were banned from running in the elections tens of thousands took to the streets in the largest protest in russia in years when the ban remained in place and i found he called for a so-called smart vote against united russia his strategy worked in moscow with the ruling party lost one 3rd of its seats mainly to the communist party for years alexina has been the subject of investigations and the tensions the most vocal critic of florida may put in has spent hundreds of days in prison in the last 8 years but never before he managed to hit united russia and indirectly with him as hard as last sunday now says he won't give up but looking at the rates today he

could be facing some difficult times ahead. al-jazeera. at least for afghan soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing near an army base in the capital kabul the taliban is claiming responsibility it's the 1st major attack since u.s. president donald trump cancel peace talks with the taliban tony berkley has more now from kabul. the suicide bomber struck in the afternoon at an afghan army special forces basic risk or 25 kilometers from afghanistan's capital kabul the taliban claimed responsibility for the last week there has been apprehension on the streets of kabul that the taliban would launch a violent backlash in response to president trump's cancellation of peace talks so far a major response hasn't materialized inside the city one rocket landed close to the u.s. embassy in the green zone there was little damage and no casualties the lack of attacks is being seen by some as a positive thing that there is

a possibility for resumption of talk so if there are war attacks in kabul there will further exasperate the situation we did not want to sign. that. trumpet said the talks were dead but secretary of state mike pompei always indicated the u.s. is still interested in striking a deal and the departure of the national security adviser john bolton who oppose the taliban talks is seen as another encouraging move it has given hope that there will be a resumption of talks but the result is a caveat now this process can go either way either day would resume that be stuck or either there will just try to double their power in a very harsh in deadly situation. there is growing international pressure for the u.s. to get back to the negotiating table but also an expectation that any talks should include a cease fire and with good reason. away from the capitol the fighting is reported

to have intensified with the u.s. and the afghan government forces claiming big successes against the taliban the afghan army says it captured this base in but of ch'an province on wednesday after 5 years in taliban hands the u.s. claims its recent aerial bombing attacks killed 1000 taliban fighters in a 4 day period and those bombardments may be affecting taliban. as well including our province more than $150.00 taliban and i saw fighters have surrendered to government forces but the civilians caught in the fighting are still paying a high price for the. many civilians are still being killed as the fighting intensifies we have asked all sides to reduce the use of horse and heavily populated areas but they don't listen. there is some hope that peace talks will be resumed but probably not until after the forthcoming afghan presidential elections they've always been a catalyst for attacks and violence but with a pro.