america that we have a choice now we have a choice in which direction we want to take this country and he reminded us that he is going to be a president for all of america i don't think that you know we can all agree i say that the current president is one that feels that he represents all of america and so tonight you know vice president biden and my. outline a great plan and he touched hearts and souls and minds and he actually gave us hope he gave us inspiration i think that americans across the country are feeling the speech they feel heard they feel seen and i think that night a lot of americans saw who you know who this man is who he is as a father is as a servant leader who he is as an eric and i think that he touched it with many americans tonight just quickly to take it before i go back to michael did he miss anything i know it's only one speech you can't get everything in one speech but was there any glaring omission along the way. i think he hit on the major points he

needed to hear not he showed the stark contrast between he and vice he and the current president i think also he spoke to all of the issues that americans are grappling with right now he spoke to his plan to get us out of this global pandemic that has just taking our country just to the right he talked about how he's going to invest in our country to get us back on our economically he also talked about our standing in the rest of the world and in talk about his ability to to you know make america better standing with our citizens and our fellow countries in the world and i think he hit on a policy point but he also talked about the issues that americans are grappling with issues of racism a shock to racism he was very bold on that and he also i believe was very bold in touching in reminding us who he is any showed us the strength i think you know

we've seen all the comments about him and sleepy joe and these things that you know these things that president trump has put out there at the tonight show america that he is wide open and ready to meet our nation on day one michael fauntroy let's come back to you that joe biden that we saw there the person the things which he says the things that he's promising is that enough or is there enough there to bring people back. to take and i talked about this earlier the obama trump voters people who switched in the last election they will be important if joe biden is going to win did you hear the type of software that would bring those people back to the democratic party. what i heard was him reaching out not just to the obama trump voters but also to those people who aren't just competent saying government you know when he was imprecise as saying the president president trumps failures around the coronavirus response that it's really about

competence it's really about can you do the basic things that need to be done and i think that given the way the country has been ravaged economically and sort of here in terms of humanity with regard to loss of life they put a lot of people what they want to be reassured from joe biden is that they actually will be voting for somebody in him who is competent enough to lead the government to get the get the country moving in the right direction on just the basics and i think that's enough of those obama trump voters many of whom according to public opinion polling in the united states have already stated that they they felt they feel like they made a mistake in the vote that they can just make this a last one. ok then michael thank you so much for your time and your thoughts michael fauntroy in washington d.c.

and then we also had just taken 80 joining us from texas thanks to both of you. ok i want to bring you some reaction from not so much donald trump but the trump campaign the trump campaign has put out a statement i'm going to read you some parts of it here he says by the campaign at least says. we got it yes by accepting his party's nomination tonight joe biden has formally become a pawn of the radical leftists his name is on the campaign logo but the ideas come from the socialist extremists joe biden is a twice failed candidate for president and is without question a far worse candidate the 3rd time around so that's come out from to murtaugh who is the trump 2020 campaigns and not a direct. quote that we can attribute to the president himself but certainly his campaign for this election right well this has been coverage of the democratic

national convention joe biden accepting the nomination and a number of other speeches through the course of the evening we heard from members of his family we heard from those who ran against joe biden in the primaries and we also heard from a lot of prominent democratic figures at the moment one of them the mayor of atlanta bottom's she addressed the u.s. civil rights movement and paid tribute to the late congressman john lewis in her convention speech we know how important it is that we elect real leaders like joe biden and come on harris people of honor and integrity who hold just as close to their hearts and believe that their lives. for black children matter in the words a woman is poet r.j. lord york 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 well in and except in speech like this is obviously not room for everything our guests and alan fischer referred to there as well foreign policy didn't get a huge mention but this will be an issue going forward in the u.s. stance on iran as one of many major foreign policy areas of ended by donald trump joe biden says he will take a very different approach if he wins in november mike hanna has this report on how that might look the meeting of the security council is called to order it was a humiliating defeat us attempts to extend an arms embargo on iran in the un security council earlier this month ended in abject failure the draft resolution

has not been a dr traditional allies like britain france and germany abstained the only country voting with the us was a dominican republic thing is that. it just demonstrates that. president trump and his team are not only bad at the strategy of approaching iran they are bad at just the day to day tactics of diplomacy it was then secretary of state john kerry who signed the 2015 deal with iran on the behalf of the u.s. and this week he appeared at the democratic convention in support of joe biden joe understands our values don't limit 'd our power they magnify it he knows you can't spread democracy around the world if you don't practice it at home in 2018 president unilaterally withdrew from the iran agreement which had been signed by china france germany iran russia the united kingdom and the european union doesn't she even for the european union one of their crowning achievements and so to trash

that deal to destroy that d.l. let's not only an attack on iran and i think it was written almost an attack on america's allies in europe we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs president began the process to pull us out of the world health organization this at a time of raging pandemic and action joe biden insisted he would immediately reverse as president president trump pulled out of the paris climate accords often labeling climate change a hoax something that joe biden has pledged to rectify on the subject of russia president trump has stressed the need for cold your relations and has dismissed accusations about moscow's interference in the 2016 election joe biden says

president putin is assaulting the foundation of western democracy by seeking to weaken nato thereby the european union and undermine the us electoral system yes yes i accept your nomination to run. for the right to run biden says he'll offer an international policy rooted in gears at the highest level of government. drawing on relationships with the will lead is built up the senator and vice president but the trump legacy is likely to linger the 14 dress aspect of the trump foreign policy is that it is really interest and burn policy it's hard to go back for example on the world health organization or at the paris paris climate court it's going to be hard for even a president by then to go back into those institutions and those multilateral court and be taken seriously a biden presidency may demand accountability for the actions of some that president

trump simply dismissed it might restore 'd the correct legal term occupied territory with regard to palestine and recommit to a 2 state solution. but the greatest challenge facing the biden team would be to restore international trust in a nation that once private itself as the leader of the free world. mike hanna out of syria washington so this was joe biden not long ago concluding the democratic national convention for 2020 delivering his speech accepting the democratic party nomination in a well a pretty empty room there he spoke for upwards of 30 minutes i'd say in the end never mentioned donald trump by name but certainly my plenty of references to him the last 4 years of his presence presidency and then eventually what joe biden

presidency would look like if he wins in november the current president is cloaked american darkness for much too long too much erring or too much fear too much division here and now i give you my word. if you entrust me with the presidency i will draw on the best of us not the worst i'll be an ally of the light not the darkness it's time for us for we the people to come together and make no mistake united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america will choose hope over fear facts over fiction fairness over privilege i'm a proud democrat and i'll be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election source of the great honor and your military i accept this nomination for

president of the united states of america. and following the speech in that largely empty room the celebrations outside the chase center in wilmington delaware democratic supporters in their cars flashing lights joe biden and his wife jill must stop alongside camila harris and her husband as well the fireworks over wilmington as joe biden and the democratic party celebrated him becoming the nominee for president of the united states as we mentioned before 32 years after joe biden 1st ran for the office of president of the united states at 77 years old he will be the democratic nominee against president donald trump in november those fireworks their concluding 4 days of the democratic national convention.

there's been some other news today as well so let's go through it the u.s. demanding that all international sanctions be reimposed on iran accusing teheran of violating the terms of the 2050 nuclear agreement washington of course with journey from that deal 2 years ago now the u.k. france and germany are rejecting the move saying the u.s. has no legal right to ask sanctions be reinstated and support from the united nations in new york with kristen sunday me u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o made a special trip to u.n. 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 u.n. 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 u.n. 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 not that it is now but it's not going to take a break up but got to do which is about the supposed to disappear way 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 critical of 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 kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations. a us federal judge has refused an attempt by president obama trying 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 harrison and judge victim a rare earths that the reasoning amounts to a backdoor attempt to invoke absolute immunity this is the ultimate fishing expedition nobody has anything we did we'll do things wrong but they'll say let's go in and inspect every deal he's ever done let's get papers from 10 years every paper every deal he's ever side maybe we can file wish some lawyer made a mistake where they didn't dot and i were 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 former senior white house strategist steve bannon has pleaded not guilty to charges of fundraising for what and money laundering as relates to an online campaign that raised $25000000.00 supposedly to go towards donald trump's us mexico border wall there bill is on the reports from new york. steve bannon emerged from

a new york federal court on thursday evening defiant despite facing the prospect of some serious prison time for all the tires. are going to cause the wild bill. earlier the former chief strategist to donald trump was arrested while on a private yacht off the coast of connecticut. he is charged with fraud over his role in a nonprofit organization called rebuild the wall a crowdfunding campaign that raised $25000000.00 from the public towards building president trump's much touted wall along america's border with mexico bannon along with 3 others is accused of siphoning off donations for his own use in bannon's case to the tune of more than $1000000.00 wearing a face mask band it appeared to be a video link and pleaded not guilty to the charges his bail was set for $5000000.00

bannon joins a long list of key trump figures who have fallen foul of the law roger stone paul mann afford and michael flynn just some of those who have been convicted in u.s. courts not for the 1st time the president was faced with awkward questions about a former ally i think it's a very sad thing for mr benn and i think it's surprising i thought that was a project that was being done for showboating reasons i don't know that he was in georgia i didn't know any of the other people either but it's it said this case could prove to be a dramatic fall from grace for not only a man responsible for shaping recent events in u.s. politics but also a key figure in shaping far right movements in many countries throughout the world bannan has forged links with european anti immigrant party leaders like france's marine le pen and the u.k.'s national. who he introduced to donald trump and he was

an informal adviser to brazil's right wing president. among many others with his arrest and ins days of fund raising for donald trump's border will appear to be over gabriel zonda oh. and york 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 gaza or almost every night for the last 2 weeks it's also tightened the 13 year old blockade by suspending fuel shipments and restricting fishing. well protests have been held in russia over the suspected poisoning of opposition leader alexei know several cities including moscow and st petersburg so hundreds of people gathering in support of me some accuse president putin of the attack others simply saying who poisoned the tea police are reported to have arrested several of the demonstrators or

a challenge as i report. 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 signs 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. dogs are speaking on a valley's 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 false. after initially being denied access no valley's wife yulia was eventually let in to see him but his personal doctor wasn't. because it's annoying that i'm not 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 he's retina is alive. charismatic sometimes abrasive and absolutely fearless alexina valmy is the most prominent russian opposition figure. by exposing 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 the valley's followers are shown a willingness to defy police battens and prison time the 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 teens 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 wish no valmy a speedy recovery and says any poisoning would need to be confirmed by laboratory tests rory chalons. the opening of borders with neighboring countries even though the west african regional bloc 15 members will keep the borders closed the president and senior government leaders were arrested

and forced to resign on tuesday the army is promising a democratic transition this report from the. new military released these opposition demonstrators after the spent 2 weeks prison. arrested by the former government. justice and good governance. good education health arrested just because of. the military leaders behind these disco in bali to gain trust and legitimacy. met with members of the opposition assuring them that the military intervention will be brief and that elections. but without setting deadlines. we have no political ambition we are soldiers we have other progressives other missions to deal with our objective is through the various meetings we had with the various social and political groups to hand over

rapidly the powers to a civilian transition for the continuity of the state and we are all aware today of the political and security situation in mali is going to. seem impressed at least. and preacher. announced he's withdrawing from politics after the meeting. he's a member of the. opposition coalition led demonstrations that eventually resulted in which forced the resignation of president. do you call us and i think the hardest part starts now it's a question of bringing everyone together there are no winners and losers we're all moderns even those who with kata if they don't have blood on their hands if they're not involved in embezzlement of public funds we must all come together military and civilian to defend the republic and impose democracy and good governance of the of iraq but the reaction from the rest of the world was talked of contamination the

united nations the african union and the west african regional bloc of all condemned them in the trick or course has improved economic and other restrictions including. cutting financial and economic ties and membership of the party. on thursday from sonos it's keeping its forces in mali to help bring peace to the region but without a civilian government and the continued threat of course these are challenging times for many the mahdi. al jazeera. the story of the day comes from wilmington delaware where joe biden has accepted the nomination of the democratic party for president of the united states this was just after the speech was hey jill his wife supporters of the party watched a fireworks display over. the democrat party candidates and thanks for staying with us through this continuing coverage with you

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it's inherent change. the love of books on al-jazeera. the. president takes no responsibility refuses to lead blames other cozies up to dictators and fans the flames of hate and division. taking aim at donald trump without naming him joe biden accepts the democratic nomination for the us presidency. if you entrust me with the presidency i will draw on the best of us not the worst. biden outlined his vision of america promising to unite the people amid rising racial tensions.