but who has more to learn about the ways of the world. a route to mexico's contemporary record and its mr. you fall in love at the start because you. donald trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the united states. he failed to protect the american people democratic vice presidential nominee attacks donald trump's conduct ahead of his address to the republican convention. there also outside the white house protesters threatened to disrupt trump's long awaited keynote speech.

hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up nato warms russia are against meddling in delarue says president putin promises troop support if protests get out of control. and the crisis deepens in the eastern mediterranean as turkey and greece stepped up the rhetoric over a maritime dispute. the. democratic vice presidential nominee comedy harris has delivered a preemptive strike on donald trump just ahead of his speech to the party faithful at the republican national convention how is condemned trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic and address the unrest over the police shooting of jacob blake saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human. and we have yet to

fulfill that promise of equal justice under law well earlier trump praised the national guard's efforts to quote protests in the city of can osha suggested the same approach should be used in other cities like portland but that's not stopped protesters from assembling outside the white house this threatening to disrupt trump's acceptance speech of his party's nomination for a 2nd term in office well alan fisher is standing by for us with more on those protests but 1st let's cross to kimberly how it can be said the democrats have clearly thrown the cats amongst the pigeons haven't they on trump's big night out a couple of hours lambaste in trump over the pandemic racial divisions tell us a bit more about what she said there's no question the vice presidential nominee for the democratic party harris hit donald trump very hard what many are calling up 3 bottle of events of the president's excepted speech at the white house she attacked the president for his handling of covert night saying that he made early

missteps in the early days of the pandemic hitting the united states and made it all about him she said and she says that as a result that cost not only american lives $180000.00 dead and counting but also it threatened the health and safety of the american people more broadly a pandemic is unforgiving if you get it wrong at the beginning the consequences are catastrophic and it's very hard to catch up you don't get a 2nd chance at getting it right well president. he got it wrong from the beginning. and then he got it wrong again and again i'm kimberly all eyes of course will be on trump's official acceptance speech

in about half an hour's time presumably we can expect him to go on the attack against biden and harris what's he likely to say though. yeah already. audiences assembling on the south lawn of the white house a little bit astonishing that there are more than a 1000 people who will be watching this speech as donald trump delivers it most of them in the shots that we've seen so far not wearing masks and sitting shoulder to shoulder which is a sight you just don't see anymore given the pandemic of the number of deaths in the united states but this is the backdrop and not usual one at that given the fact that the white house is the people's house and never in modern history if we see the president campaigning so blatantly like this now in terms of what the president is expected to say he's expected to hit back hard a couple of harrison some of the statements in recent days from joe biden we expect that he will go in on joe biden specifically accusing him of hiding in his basement in order to deal with the pandemic problems saying that the economy will not be

able to come back better as biden says if he is elected president pointing to the fact that he has been in office for decades and the president we expect to hear him accuse biden of saying he has not stood up to china and he will usher in one of the most radical agenda is that has ever been seen by any sort of political presidential candidate so donald trump certainly firing back as the tone was set earlier by the democrats all right kimberly thanks for that for the time being no doubt we'll come back till a bit later. the president has made that speech let's go outside the white house now on the streets and talk to alan fischer who is there for us now on so protest has already gathering there on the streets behind you what's the mood like and are they presumably trying to drown out trump's big speech. bill this is really about as close as they can get to the white house you can see the building behind me again speak speech will be on the one behind the white house

people have been here for several hours they've come from all over the country i spoke to someone. from texas and also someone who made the journey in from portland just to protest donald trump speech there's a lot of families here there is a wide range of people and there's a variety of causes that are being celebrated here from black lights matter and demands for social justice to people who say they're simply campaigning to make sure that donald trump and mike pence don't get 4 more years in the white house it has been largely good natured you can see that there's been some painting on the ground here this is what's now known as black life matters plaza which we took all the way from city center down to 600 pennsylvania avenue and the bit of painting that you can see maybe not terribly clear at the moment but it says the fund the police many people here are very upset about what's happened in canoe over the last few days what's happened in the united states over the last several months several

years some would argue and they're very upset about what's about to happen at the white house behind me how was the security situation there where you are meant could we see police trying to break up those protests there if things start to get heated later on. a lot of the routes into the white house are blocked off by police lines police vehicles and also there are barricades that have been erected up and around the white house but the police are keeping a relatively low profile here that the church donald trump went to the very one you're talking to in the clear protesters so he would have a moment holding his bible in front of that many people said peaceful protesters were cleared for the photo op is that likely to happen in the next couple of hours i think that's highly unlikely one because of the bad publicity it would generate but to as i say there are a lot of families here i've seen children who are incredibly small to people who must be in their eighty's or ninety's so it would be

a bad move from the police to start to move these people out particularly given at the moment it is good natured it is. peaceful people trying to have their voices heard what's also important is there are people moving through the crowd and they're telling people to remember to register to vote they say it's great that you're here it's great that you're going to try and trumpet when he starts making your speech but what's more important is that your voice is here in november the 3rd so the people to make sure that the register to vote and can cast a ballot when it comes to the election call it out and fish in there outside on the streets of the white house that alan will no doubt come back to you a little bit later possibly after trump speaks let's bring in john feehery in washington he's a republican strategist and partner of the advocacy that's a lobbying firm so what do you make then of course is that dress i mean she blasted trump's handling of the pandemic she basically said look trump doesn't understand the presidency how much will this attack of unhinged trump and got his

speechwriters scrambling to respond i don't think you'll see the president trying to respond to carol her whatsoever i think that he's very focused on what he wants to say i don't think. her attacks will have any impact on his frame of mind which is to make america great again i think may very republican is not a really good convention they've had a lot of people from middle america speaking out eloquently about why they went down from you and i think that you know he feels very confident right now despite all the polls and he's going to come back and win so i don't think he's worried about the i don't you say that though but i mean trump's ego won't allow him not to attack biden and harris tonight is the danger for the republicans that trump goes off message gets sucked into some kind of political ambush by going on the offensive but leaving little time to address the real issues that affect americans

like the pandemic jobs and the economy. i think that the president has been very disciplined when he gives big speeches like he's giving tonight you know when he gave his nomination acceptance 4 years ago it was very much a very tightly scripted moment the same saying for all of his state of the union i don't think that he's going to scramble off i think i know you're saying that sometimes you think he could be on display but i think for this kind of speech this kind of moment he will be very very firm and were he very disciplined in his approach and i think he will attack joe biden i don't think there's any doubt that because that's all part of his d.n.a. you know this is a contrast election i don't think he's going to go after paris and her speech john we know that trump has branded himself as the law and order candidate and says look america won't be safe on that joe biden but let's look at the facts i mean the protests the pandemic the millions of jobs lost are all happening in trump's

america right now so you can't blame biden biden is not even in charge well i think that you can blame china and by his close to china i think he's also can blame the coronavirus and i think he could say that we had the best thing i can on performance we were had in our history before the pandemic if you vote for me we're going to get the economy back and there's a lot of evidence to show that he's actually the economy is coming back and i think when joe biden says i want to raise taxes i know most americans don't think that's a good way to get jobs flowing again and i think they like the president's approach just a final thought to you john so tonight brings the conventions to a close and as things stand trump is trading biden in the polls worryingly in many of the key battleground states so where does trump go from here how does he have void defeat come november. well keep in mind that he was down in the polls

4 years ago he's a lot less in the polls this time around i also make the observation that the betting markets have all said that the right now the race is a is a toss up that 2 weeks ago they were overwhelmingly you saying that joe biden was you know and now they're not so sure i think you're going to see these polls close i don't think 5 got any bombs from his convention i think president trump will get a bounce from this convention and i think that you'll see him have a lot of momentum going into the on tomorrow archon don't see we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for your insights thank you. all right let's take you live to the white house now because donald trump's daughter bunkers there bring her speech before she introduces her father the u.s. president that's as misnamed so what she said. thank you i our president rapidly millikan i thank it is why our president rapidly mobilized

the full force of government in the private sector to produce ventilators within weeks and built the most robust testing system in the world and to develop safe and effective treatments and very very soon a vaccine my father isn't deterred by defeatist thinkers the word impossible well it only motivates him donald trump rejects the cynical notion that this country's greatest achievements are behind us he believes that nothing is beyond our reach and that the best is yet to come thanks i have seen all of my life how my dad believes in the potential of each individual . earlier this evening we were all inspired by the incredible testimony of alice johnson a great grandmother who was sentenced to life in prison for 1st time nonviolent

drug offense i was with my father when he decided to commute alice's life sentence together we watched alice leave prison after nearly 22 years as she ran into the arms of her family and they celebrated a joyful reunion my father got very quiet i could see the emotion on his face after a long silence he looked at me and said imagine how many people there are just like alice from that point on he became a voice for those who had been unfairly silenced in our prison system president trump rectify the disparities of the $994.00 biden crime bill that disproportionately hurt african-americans. against all odds people ought to get the republicans and democrats and passed the most significant criminal justice reform of our generation and we're just getting started. my

father did not campaign on this issue he tackled this injustice because he has a deep compassion for those who have been treated unfairly more than rhetoric and per little prose the ability to build consensus and achieve bipartisan success will help heal our country's racial inequities and bring us forward together. president trump is advancing the american values of work and family. 4 years ago in cleveland i said president trump would deliver for working women last year over 70 percent of all new jobs were secured by women. 4 years ago i told you my father would focus on making child care affordable and accessible in president trump's 1st term we secured the largest ever increase for

child care funding giving more than 800000 low income families great childcare at a cost they can afford. as part of her public and tax cuts in $29.00 live pictures there from the white house donald trump's daughter ivanka trump giving a speech to the republican national convention and she'll be introducing her father of course to president donald trump in about 1516 minutes time of course bring you that live at the white house giving her speech to the convention. what does donald trump or past official accept his party's nomination foreign policy experts are assessing his impact on the world stage and what another 4 years could bring our state department correspondent robin george reports. donald trump entered the fight house promising he would be a different kind of president when it comes to foreign policy his critics say trump has been that to the u.s. is detriment nato. you know their relationships with our core

western european allies but you also look at east asia south korea japan where there are significant questions about the dirty tests the relationships that have had many of these countries to look more closely chores trying. to relationship trungpa said the u.s. should not bow to what he calls bureaucrats at the united nations or pay for the security of other members of nato the u.s. has been pressuring other nato countries to spend at least 2 percent of their g.d.p. on defense even as it continues to station troops in europe to protect them from any potential russian threat way to deal with and as trump has tried to build closer ties with russia's vladimir putin ties his political rivals have called inexcusable in light of russia's document meddling in the 2016 u.s.

allotment. trump has also spent his term focused on isolating iran 1st by quitting the 2015 nuclear deal and then by launching what the administration calls its maximum pressure campaign it's meant to stop terror han from sponsoring terrorism and building nuclear weapons china is also an administration target truck is trying to ban companies such as walk away and tick tock from the u.s. market has closed the chinese consulate in houston and is pulling student and worker visas to ferret out spies by contrast the white house has nurtured the u.s. israeli relationship by moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and by unveiling its palestinian israeli peace plan which trump says provides for 2 independent states guarantees israel security

and supports the economic aspirations of the palestinian people palestinian officials have rejected the plan because they say it would give israel control of security in palestine legalize settlements in the occupied west bank and prevent the formation of a single palestinian geographic body obviously the plan that the tribal ministration launched on israel and the palestinians didn't succeed at all but i think that was just a tactical lure really to try to move toward arab states making peace with israel so far only the united arab emirates has agreed to normalize ties with israel trump says his foreign policy focus is clear america 1st and experts say that won't hurt him at the polls come november voters have other things on their minds. with the impact of the google. in the united states specifically as

well as the economic consequences of that. that's what people are going to be voting on when they go to the polls in this election year as in every other election year the public's top concern remains the same rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. now hundreds of federal and regional troops are patrolling the u.s. city of can oh sure after several nights of violent protests spot by the shooting of a black man however there's been relative calm on thursday activists are pushing for charges against the officer who shot jacob blake the 29 year old who was shot 7 times in the back as he opened his car door on sunday the incident led to protests across several cities 2 people were shot dead during demonstrations in connection on tuesday a 17 year old suspect has been arrested and charged live now to john hendren who's

in john so major national guard and police reinforcements were sent into going to last night what's been happening there today john. that's right daryn lots more police and it seems to have been effective for the 1st time overnight wednesday into thursday morning people got up and didn't hear about places being looted places being set on fire a big change from every other night before on tuesday night there were 3 dozen buildings that firefighters had to respond to all of them set on fire some of them leveling whole blocks but tonight while there is protesting and i can hear it from where i am in the town square hundreds of people who are violating the curfew that came into effect about 2 and a half hours ago it seems to have been peaceful with all those police they are seemingly holding those streets so the town is still pretty well locked down and so what you've got is everybody's got plywood and today they have been taking places

like this coffee shop and sort of beautifying them because i think everybody has figured out that it's going to be a while before they can take these plywood down these protests are going to continue notice most of these this one says love and hand signals and you know she is strong. often vaguely supportive of the protesters. some of that sort of a polite way of saying please don't hurt this building meanwhile we have the news of 17 year old kyle rittenhouse being charged he's been charged with 2 counts of deliberate 1st degree homicide that is a murder charge a couple other charges endangering the public but interestingly because he was 17 years old when this happened he was also charged with carrying a dangerous weapon under the age of 18 it gets confusing because america has a lot of different rules a pending on what state you're in but here under 18 carrying and

a ar 15 as he was is not legal he's being charged with that but the way he was treated has angered a lot of people so there's a video of some. an allegedly him according to police is not down by protesters this is a white teen and then fires into the crowd kills 2 people and wounds another again according to police but he walks away past police with his hands up is not arrested they probably didn't see the shooting but people are yelling to police and he's carrying a gun and then he is arrested a day later well that's upset not just protesters but also sports icons so the national basketball association has postponed its playoff games that major league baseball national hockey league and others the women's n.b.a. as well all doing this so it's become not just something for the protesters not just something for sports fans but a cultural event here in the united states now always

a john hendren there live for us and kind of wisconsin john thank you for that well benjamin crump is jacob blake's lawyer he also represents the families of george floyd on brown a tale of black americans old killed by police he explains why this incident has caused so much pain. here really. justify the unjustifiable actions they have taken and so that's what's called out room. on civil rights community. activists even the national basketball association and may do. everybody is are outraged about this so now because i'm out in the in the reaction or. no lines within the white house that ministry should. concentrate now all we have now law and i want to you know we can have a province where. the only by. now has taken

place you could know sure wisconsin. why me who shot jacob do you 7 times in the back. now the u.s. takes an easy an hour in texas have been bounce and by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the region nora made landfall in the early hours of thursday morning as a category 4 all right let's take you live now to the white house where president trump's about to give his long awaited keynote speech just listen to what the u.s. president has to say through the convention years and brimming with confidence in the bright future we will build for america over the next 4 years the as the. thanks we begin this evening our thoughts are with the wonderful people who have just come through the wrath of hurricane laura we're working closely with state and local officials in

texas louisiana arkansas mississippi sparing no effort to save lives while the hurricane was fierce one of the strongest to make landfall in 150 years the casualties and damage were far less than thought possible only 24 hours ago thank you and this is due to the great work of fema law enforcement and the individual states i will be going this weekend and congratulations thank you for that great job out there we really appreciate it we are one national family and we will always protect love and care for each other here tonight are the people who have made my journey possible and filled my life with so much joy

for her incredible service to our nation and its children. i want to thank our magnificent 1st lady were ok thank. you ok thank you i also want to thank my amazing daughter ivanka for that introduction and to all of my children evocatively stand up thank you were her i do all of my children and grandchildren i love you more than words can express i know my brother robert is looking down on us right now from heaven he was

a great brother and was very proud of the job we are all doing thank you we love you rather well. let us also take a moment to show our profound appreciation for a man who has always fought by our side and stood up for our values a man of deep faith and steadfast conviction our vice president mike pence thank you ok thank you and mike is joined by his beloved wife a teacher and military mom karen pence thank you can't we were ok

thank. my fellow americans tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the the over . the republican party the party of abraham lincoln goes forward united determined and ready to welcome millions of democrats independents and anyone who believes in the great does of america and the righteous

heart of the american people to it in a new term as president we will again build the greatest economy in history quickly returning to full employment soaring incomes and record prosperity to it we will defend america against all threats and protect america against all dangers we will lead america into new frontiers of ambition and discovery and we will reach for new heights of national achievement we will rekindle new faith in our values new pride in our history and a new spirit of unity that can only be realized through love for our great country

. thank you. because we understand that america is not a land cloaked in darkness america is the torch that enlightens the entire world thank. you. gathered here at our beautiful and majestic white house known all over the world as the people's house we cannot help but marvel at the miracle that is our great american story this has been the home of larger than life figures like teddy roosevelt and andrew jackson who rallied americans to bold visions of a bigger and brighter future within these walls lived tenacious generals like president grant and eisenhower who led our soldiers in the cause of freedom

from these grounds thomas jefferson said lewis and clark on a daring expedition to cross a wild and hard charted continent in the depths of a bloody civil war president abraham lincoln looked out these very windows upon a half completed washington monument and asked god in his providence to save our nation 2 weeks after pearl harbor franklin delano roosevelt welcomed winston churchill and just inside they said our people and of course to victory in the 2nd world war in recent months our nation and the entire planet has been struck by

a new and powerful invisible enemy. like those brave americans before us we are meeting this challenge we are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. thanks we will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before thanks what united generations past was an unshakable confidence in america's destiny and an unbreakable faith in the american people they knew that our country is blessed by god.