al-jazeera. and. it is just gone 10 pm in wilmington delaware where this hour joe biden will give arguably the most important speech of his long political career 22 years after he 1st ran for u.s. president the former senator and vice president will accept the democratic party's nomination to take on donald trump in november selection he will also get a chance to outline his vision for america then officially begin his campaign the

convention is continuing right now of course virtually streaming online because of coronavirus restriction speakers have been joining from across the country and to that live stream and we will have a look at that a little bit later on but right now he is the team for this hour kimberly halkett is our white house correspondent bed because there is a good chance the president will be watching and reacting to this speech in real time as he did yesterday but we're standing with alan fischer in wilmington delaware where the speech will be given by joe biden and well a moment 22 years in the making alan. longer than that 32 he ran in 1808 had to step down because of allegations of plagiarism seems your math is as good as mine. so it's certainly the biggest speech i think many people felt that when joe biden was vice president he was awarded in the the final days of the obama administration the presidential medal of freedom

that was the capstone and what had been to that point a long and fairly distinguished political career and certainly york today not to run in 2016 he was still recovering from the death of his son there was a feeling that. certainly from barack obama that he thought there should be a new generation of democratic leaders but come 2020 joe biden who'd been saying for a couple of years privately to a number of his friends he thought he could have beaten donald trump in 2016 no he will get the opportunity to try to do that in 202032 years in the making but no he has what just under 12 weeks to convince the rest of the country that he can be the presidential candidate that the democrats think he will be at the convention has been it's been an already evening with julia louis dreyfus who is an actress best known for the show seinfeld but more particularly globally the show veep she's had a joke in almost every link it is slightly jarred i've got to say it feels almost

like she's getting in the way of things and doesn't quite strike the same tone that the other horses have but then we had a television moment where there was a tribute to john lewis who of course was a civil rights icon who died just a few weeks ago essentially speaking to the convention from beyond the grave which if there are emmys ever given this is that that would have done it and i think that kind of crystallizes why these virtual conventions might become an important thing in the future speeches people can get nervous they don't line the lines. i think they're landing there's noise in the whole it doesn't quite connect with this this film about john lewis and his life certainly connected on many levels it really was one of those moments that people will remember for a very long time but you're right there's a lot of pressure know on joe biden he's got to deliver a speech that not only attacks donald trump and his record over the last 4 years but gives an image of what a biden pred is presidency would look like how he will reshape america how he will

take the country on and he's got to sell his ideas better than donald trump has been selling his and is there any indication of anything that might be said in the speech i've noticed over the last few nights that little have been released earlier i wonder if they keeping this one under wraps. these to they seem to be were getting the tour and that he will certainly strike a more optimistic picture than donald trump has been doing and recent weeks and kimberly will tell you how he's been doing it just in the last few hours as well what is interesting is we're told he's been working on it until the last possible moment and there is still a chance that he will speak extemporaneously so he'll make it up maybe not make it up but certainly adds to it as he goes on because that's the sort of thing that joe biden does know we're used to the tangents that donald trump can take his on and we

saw one today when he was talking about how he got a call to save the sharks and oh this endangered dolphins i don't think we're going to get into that territory with joe biden the noise he's got this window to make his case to the people of the united states for many people this will be what they see of the election campaign covered his change campaigning normally after a convention the 1st thing a candidate does is hit the campaign trail and off he goes crisscrossing the country sometimes hitting 345 different states in a single day joe biden can't do that so for many people they will make up their mind on this speech about whether or not they're going to vote for joe biden for president alan fischer in wilmington delaware will be back with you later on allen as we hear that speech from joe biden right now though let's go to kimberly how could our white house correspondent and well kimberly last night when president obama spoke the occupant of that building behind you was clearly watching and we got these well one of his classic tweets storms i guess we have to be on alert for another one of those tonight. yeah the u.s.

president will assume is watching in fact he's trying to get ahead of the speech by his democratic rival joe biden he has been speaking on twitter he also in the last few moments called into his favorite news network fox news to once again kind of employ some of the scare tactics that he's been using all week warning that a biden presidency would mean that taxes and crime would go up jobs would go down along with the stock market it's kind of a similar message the president delivered earlier today in scranton pennsylvania significant because that is the hometown of joe biden and the message that donald trump carried there was that joe biden left that state in fact he abandoned it later as senator and vice president as well by supporting trade deals that have cost american jobs along with a number of international agreements take

a listen joe biden is no friend of pennsylvania he's actually for the reasons we just said is your worst nightmare but i'm supported every single globalist attack on pennsylvania workers nafta giantess entry into the world trade organization which built china into a power keep p.p. korea the horrible ridiculous paris climate accord which stripped our nation of its energy. so once again we're watching twitter to see the president's rebuttal to joe biden's speech that all important pivotal speech in his campaign already donald trump has been trying to get ahead of that message by attacking joe biden's mental acuity and also in the last couple of hours once again leaving doubt in the minds of voters of whether or not donald trump will accept the results of

the u.s. election if he loses ok kimberly keep an eye on your phone twitter all the way to me how good is that white house correspondents very pleased to welcome to take it any easier now with us from texas political strategist with full circle strategies and part of the obama campaign in 2008 nice to have you with us to take a what are you expecting from joe biden tonight especially given and i said this to other guests already the fact that most of the speeches we've seen have had this attack on donald trump all this big truth bomb about donald trump to start with and have been pivoted to the idea of what a new presidency would look like do you think joe biden will follow that same sort of passion. i think tonight joe biden is going to speak to all of the mayor tonight what joe biden is going to do he is going to show the stark contrast between he and donald trump he's also going to show and i believe he's going to illustrate that he is the chief unifier for this country exactly what we need we're

living in a moment right now where the there are more than 170000 americans who are no longer with us because of the mismanagement of this president and this administration as it relates to coronavirus and there are millions of americans that are out of work and there are also many americans who are dealing with the structural racism and there have been people marching in the streets as it relates to just the unrest in this country america is divided internally now believe that joe biden is not only going to show us that he can unite this country but also that he can leave this country in a manner that is going to get our country back on track to take a swing is it mentioned the issue of price let's have a listen to kitchen on spot and so is of course the mare of atlanta she was speaking a little while ago addressed the u.s. civil rights movement and that will so pay tribute to the late congressman john lewis let's listen we know how important it is that we elect real

leaders like joe biden and camila harris people of honor and integrity who hold jess this close to their hearts and believe that the lives. for black children matter in the words of woman as poet audrey lord your phallus will not protect you congressman lewis would not be silenced and neither can we we cannot wait for some other time some other place some other heroes we must be the heroes of our generation your silence will not protect you that's quite an emotional line there. tell us a little bit more about just how important race has become in this election. it's it's in credibly important let's just look at this nation right now let's look at

the massive amount of americans of all races of all ages across all ethnicities that have marched in the streets to proclaim what we all know is that black lives indeed do matter we are at a moment in our century where we are at a reckoning in our country as a relate to how racism permeates through so many shockers in this country and i believe that tonight that vice president biden is going to speak to that he's going to speak to what is on the hearts and minds of americans everywhere i think also it's quite an oar in for vice president biden to speak to all of america yes he is going to speak to those that are undecided and show them why he is the best candidate to take our country in the direction that it needs to go but he's also going to speak to that democratic base that very wide earth party that we have seen

throughout this this convention and also into black women who are represent 16000000 voters in this country last night we all saw the historic acceptance of cammalleri harris in accepting the vice presidential nomination there's a there's a lack of energy in the party right now as it relates to this being a party and it's you get that it's going to unify this country and i think that night we're going to see that and hear that from vice president biden want to go back to that point you made about undecided voters has and i always think about that phenomenon of the obama crump voter the ones who voted for obama in 2012 and then switched. bringing them around is going to be some port and you're not going to bring around the hardline trump support and you've already got the democratic base with you how does joe biden new onset so that those people who might have switched to donald trump and 26 states come back to the democrats. you know i think

it's i think we just look at where our country is you know americans across all political ideologies are hurting right when you look at the fact that there are 16000000 americans that are adults were there are 170000 americans that are no longer with us you know in this country we represent nearly 4 percent of the world's population and nearly 25 percent of those that have come in contact with coronavirus in this country i think if you look at you know what's happening to ours across and there is a lot of pain and a lot of hurt and i don't think it's a very heavy lift for for for joe biden to actually reach those voters i think it's clear let's look at what their situations are and we've see american out there merrick even in this democratic convention talk about where they are we're seeing you know independents say you know they thought maybe donald trump was going to speak to them and he's now moved up to the task as president obama reminded us last

night so i think that joe biden yes he has to speak to those voters he has to convey his plans to those voters but also it's very important for him to speak to the base i don't think we should just assume that the basis is is there and yet the being is going to vote there's no alternative but it's going to be important for vice president biden in this campaign to consistently speak to that they sent consistently remind that base of how important they are to this election to take a great to talk to here and have them talk to him again later on once we have heard from joe biden thank you on screen right now people to judge who was running for president earlier in the democratic presidential primaries less lending his support. to joe biden right now one of many speakers we're also expecting to see mike bloomberg who was running in the presidential primaries as

well quite a few speakers yet to come and the video reports we've seen and then we will bring you live coverage of joe biden's acceptance speech at the democratic national convention a little later on mine. we'll take a quick break right now and come back with some of the day's other news russia's most prominent opposition leader lives in a coma and its staff suspect it could be poisoning. and the architect of donald trump's 2016 election victory steve bannan is accused of defrauding his most loyal supporters of the latest from outside course. but. we have further flooding concerns across central parts of china still plenty of plow showing up here you see the thunderstorms just blossoming and to the north

of that these are seasonal rains this is the my you front it's running across the yellow sea it will bring further heavy rainfall into north korea sliding down towards the north of south korea links back with the showers that will see into central parts of china just want to show is making their way towards japan the hate starting to break remember monday we get up to $41.00 celsius in tokyo by sunday it should be nearer $28.00 degrees or rather more comfortable $28.00 cells but the temperatures going in the right directions at long last further south we've seen some very heavy rain just around the philippines can see this area of cloud which is moving across luzon notching further north which pushing up towards the south china seas sunshine and showers across much of southeast asia and the heavy showers there continuing through borneo on into smarter and up towards the potential we're going to see further showers once again as well but expects across the eastern side of the by up and go mia ma still seeing heavy downpours heavy downpours there just

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deal with al-jazeera the top story this hour is the final night of the u.s. democratic national convention which is happening right now we're waiting to hear from presidential nominee joe biden right now a video called united we stand featuring all of those who ran against joe biden in the democratic primary that's made people there from south bend indiana use open standards a moment ago is going to cory booker there as well and elizabeth warren and we'll bring you joe biden's speech when it happens later this hour. right now some of the of the day's news and the u.s. is demanding that all international sanctions be reimposed on iran it's accusing teheran of violating the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement washington though with journey from that nuclear deal 2 years ago and the u.k. france and germany are rejecting this move they say the u.s. has no legal right to ask that sanctions be reinstated more from kristen salumi now

at the united nations in new. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o made a special trip to un headquarters to formally accuse iran of violating the 2015 nuclear deal in a letter submitted to the security council president he argues iran has been enriching uranium and supplying weapons to proxy militias in the middle east it's an attempt to trigger un procedures that would lead to the automatic reinstatement of sanctions this process will lead to those sanctions coming back into effect 30 days from today. our message is very very simple it isis will never allow the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons the un sanctions will continue the arms embargo the so-called snap back provision was part of the deal negotiated 5 years ago there's just one problem the u.s.

withdrew from the deal in 2018 but that it is now but it's not going to take a break up but got to do which is a but is a book and he should be away with us is not iran like russia says the u.s. move is illegal and the act of a bully that knocking is going to happen in 30 or $31.00 days because the u.s. has to enjoy the support of the security council which does not exist the u.s. position is being true that you know and the security johnson the united states has put its european allies on the security council in a very awkward position they didn't speak publicly but issued a statement saying they cannot support the u.s. is unilateral move because they want to preserve the international nuclear deal that is as long as the iranians hold up their end of it the one thing that could actually turn a lot of the europeans. back to the u.s. side in these discussions would be

a serious problem. i think that what we're likely to see is the iranians you know the u.s. electoral calendar simply white it could make for uncomfortable relations in the security council at least until november christian salumi al jazeera the united nations earlier we heard from corey mills chairman of the american defense counsel and an expert on middle east policy who believes this is a defeat for the u.n. security council. many will view this as u.s. defeat and or an iranian victory the reality is that this is really a defeat for the u.n. security council i mean their primary job was to uphold security peace and prosperity within the world we know that iran is the largest state sponsor of terror we know that on numerous occasions between 2016 and through 2019 that there has been seizures by the u.s. and allied forces of weaponry and ballistic missile parts that are intended for the

who these to utilize from yemen to attack our allies that being saudi aramco attack the international airport attack and bear in mind that former general secretary of the un donkey moon and even the terrorist has acknowledged the fact that these could be potential violations so i think that the u.s. as a 2015 j.c. way or u.n. security council 2031 signatory still has the snap back measure under paragraph 11 based on the fact that these violations took place prior to 2800. protests are being held in russia over the suspected poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny several cities including moscow and st petersburg saw hundreds of people gathering in support of the valley some were accusing president vladimir putin of the attack on many others they held banners simply asking who poison the tea leaves are reported to have arrested several of the demonstrators in

a valley himself is in a coma after falling ill on a flight to moscow on thursday where we challenge as the full details. the groans of a man in obvious pain medics come down the aisle to help according to the person who films this footage on a flight from siberia to moscow it's russian opposition leader alexina valmy later he's seen on a stretcher being put in an ambulance seemingly unconscious now in a coma in the city of doctors say they're working to save his life is just really as much. naturally poisoning is considered as one of the possible reasons of the deterioration of the condition but besides that there could be a number of acute states that lead to the same clinical science we are working on everything eliminate confirm and work unfortunately i cannot tell you more. never alys colleagues are already convinced his illness doesn't have any natural cause.

your puppy is new more. dogs are speaking on novell knees live you tube channel his spokeswoman. said doctors who told her they were confident he'd been poisoned to start with and now too scared to say this she thinks whatever it was was in his tea and she also said claims made on social media that he was drinking alcohol the night before and this reacted with medication a false. after initially being denied access no valleys wife yulia was eventually let in to see him but his personal doctor wasn't. good it's annoying that i'm not letting. i can't see him i'd like to check up on him and i don't know and i asked if an ophthalmologist checked him and his retina there is a response from the people his retina is alive. charismatic sometimes abrasive and absolutely fearless alexina valmy is the most prominent russian opposition figure. i expose in the corruption of russia's governing elite he's built

a huge following of mainly young people drawn to protest by his investigative you tube videos valley's followers are shown a willingness to defy police battens and prison time in a valley himself has spent repeated spells behind bars a fraud case started in 2014 landed him a suspended sentence a jail term for his brother and a ban from the valley himself to challenge putin in 28 teams presidential election . he has persisted despite the state pressure and despite the obvious risks of criticizing readymade putin's rule. another opposition figure boris nemtsov was shot dead near the kremlin in 2015 more have left the country the kremlin spokesman has wished me a speedy recovery and says any poisoning would need to be confirmed by 3 tests chalons. well a french president. the old necessary assistance he made that problems during

a news conference with. and that came from there then. both leaders expressed their extreme concern about the situation of the dissident russian politician aleksey now valley's saying that they were deeply concerned by the reports of his ordeal and both leaders saying that they felt it very important that the exact circumstances of what had happened to him should be made clear should be investigated soon as possible indeed both leaders then said that they would be prepared that they would allow their country to receive mr now vialli in a medieval axis and are in other words if he was to be medically evacuated from. to either of their countries they would be prepared to facilitate that that's important because one german n.g.o.s one german agency non-governmental agency has said it it is actively investigating flying mr nardelli from that situation that

hospital in to berlin their hope being that he would be able to receive treatment in berlin in a way which might stem the effect of whatever has before on him certainly that's their aim and in so far as the 2 leaders are concerned will they have expressed their extreme concern about what's happened to mr have on the medical and macron. also discuss the situation in belarus saying they're determined to keep supporting the protesters there on wednesday the e.u. said it rejected the elections that have kept the better russian president alexander lukashenko in power the block is also sanctioning government and security officials it deems to be responsible for brutally repressing the protests against. that comes as the general prosecutor's office in bellerose open the criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures protesters say though they will continue to

defy warnings by president looking for a new crackdown he's ordered security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations over the disputed election opposition leader. is now in lithuania and says she is set up the council to coordinate a peaceful transfer of power to the prosecutor insists it's a threat to security. a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus former senior white house strategist steve bannon has pleaded

not guilty to charges of fundraising for a warden money laundering this relation to an online campaign that raised $25000000.00 supposedly for donald trump's us mexico border wall the department of justice those as bannon received more than a 1000000 dollars of money raised through a nonprofit organization much of it used to cover personal expenses. or who is outside the court in new. through his lawyer he did it plead as you mentioned not guilty to both of the charges the entire hearing lasted less than 15 minutes it was pretty quick bannon didn't say much at all other than a couple words to respond to the judge when she asked him a few questions but other than that it was pretty quick he will now according to the judge's ruling will now once he's released from here awaiting trial he will not be able to travel internationally and will only be able to train move between virginia connecticut washington d.c.

and new york the 4 states where he has business ventures bannan is basically accused up with 3 other people of setting up this nonprofit and asking for money from people to hate that he said would go completely to build donald trump a border wall on the southern border but according to the indictment they received more than 25000000 dollars in contributions but the indictment says that steve bannon siphoned off about $1000000.00 of that for his own personal expenses a u.s. federal judge has refused an attempt by president to block the release of some of his financial records a new york grand jury is demanding 8 years of tax records as part of a case focusing on hush money payments and possibly bank fraud trump argued the request was too broad and constituted political harris meant judge a victim or a said the reasoning amounts to

a backdoor attempt to invoke absolute immunity. this is the ultimate fishing expedition nobody has anything we did we don't do things wrong but they'll say let's go in and inspect every detail each ever done let's get papers from 10 years every paper every deal he's ever side maybe we can find wish some lawyer made a mistake where they didn't dot and i where they didn't put a comma down someplace and then we couldn't do something this is a disgrace and they should never ever be allowed to happen again president trump was dealing with those questions about his taxes the same time he was hosting the new iraqi prime minister and most of the me they discussed boosting u.s. business and investment in iraq as well as the future of about $5000.00 american troops still stationed in iraq u.s. forces have already started to withdraw from several bases over the past few months prime minister says the withdrawal needs to be balance though with iraq's security needs well because that in this planet up it we will not allow any attack on iraq's

sovereignty similarily we cannot allow iraq to become a platform for any hostile act against any of our neighbors i believe all the parties are aware of the conditions and circumstances of iraq we are keen on ensuring our sovereignty and we cannot allow iraq to be a platform for any threats to any country in the region especially the turks israel has again launched air strikes against hamas sites in the gaza strip the military says it was in response to rocket fire and incendiary balloons israel has bombed almost every night for the last 2 weeks it's also time for the 3rd tightens the 13 year old blockade by suspending fuel shipments and restricting fishing. they've been warlord honey for half his maintaining his blockade on oil output after earlier indications that he was lifting it he is however allowing ships to collect some fuel made up the wide explains from tripoli. only 24 hours of thought at the

head of the eastern to be used to prove how petroleum facilities guard stated that they are lifting the blockade on the oil exports by instructions from the water lord seely for have to have to spokesman. and i answered that lifting the blockade will only include discharging or unloading the oil gas and other fuel to stored in the tanks there according to him by instructions from have to to eliminate an environmental disaster there now this indicates a contradiction because if after his giving orders to his forces to lift the blockade on the oil facilities he himself stated in the past that the blockade has been imposed by local tribes but also seems that there is no daughter or terminal lifting of the blockade at least for the time being despite international pressure now the state oil firm here of tripoli the national oil.