see you. everyone. facing off in the vice presidential debate might. confront the escalating crisis including the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and what the american people. from the very 1st day president donald trump is going to help . the american people have witnessed the greatest feeling of any presidential administration history and.

i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i want to get for you what i got and i'm going to make it free you're not going to pay for it. to assure the american people it's 1st day in office since returning from hospital. to a legit members of the so-called i sold beatles appear in court in the u.s. over hostage torture and beheadings. u.s. vice president mike pence and his democratic challenger. squared off over the crises facing the u.s. the debate took place as president recovers from coronavirus throwing the race for the white house did turmoil in the handling of the pandemic was both defended and criticized during the 90 minute exchange in salt lake city the vice presidential

rivals also locked horns over china and race relations but far from the chaotic and confrontational style that characterized donald trump's clash with presidential challenger joe biden in their 1st debate mike. called deal. kemel harris slammed the u.s. president's a downplaying the pandemic she says americans weren't given the information they needed to pass they knew what was happening and they didn't tell you he knew imagine if you knew on january 28th as opposed to march 13th what they knew what you might have done to prepare they knew and they covered it up the president said it was a hoax they minimize the seriousness of it the president said you're on one side of his ledger if you wear a mask you're on the other side of his ledger if you don't and in spite of all of that today they still don't have

a plan vice president mike pence defended the trump administration's handling of the pandemic when you look at the biden plan and it reads an awful lot like what president trump and i in our task force have been doing every step of the way and quite frankly when i look at their plan that talks about events and testing creating new p.p.a. developing a vaccine. it looks a little bit like plagiarism which is some joe biden knows a little bit about i think the american people know that this is a president who has put thank you guys america 1st in the american people i believe with my heart can be thank you proud of the sacrifices they have made it safe thank you mr unless. speak to rob rials in salt lake city where the debate was held in rob i think it's fair to say this was a slightly more civil and dignified affair compared to the presidential debate right. well i mean some of the thing about the

presidential debate was that was such an outlier no one had ever seen anything like that in the history of debates so it was more like a wrestling match than a debate so this one was more of a welcome return to the normal course of political debating scoring some points trying to come up with some some verbal zingers i don't think there were any particularly memorable a lines in here that are going to be repeated over and over but i think that you're right the debate was much more cordial much more low key much more polite campbell harris did as she knew she had to do a strong job of going after the trumpet ministration for its handling of the covert 19 pandemic and the 210000 americans who have died during the course of the. pandemic this was the 1st topic of the debate and it was the thing that most

americans i'm pretty sure shared the most about certainly more so than relations with china for example but it was notable that senator harris was very strong she called the trumpet ministration in. in constable and incompetent she repeatedly attacked that there there are knowledge of how dangerous coronavirus was at an early stage when they were downplaying it to the american people and when vice president pence repeated that the basically his his main defense was that. the president trumpet. shutdown travel completely with china early in the pandemic which is actually not true because the 10s of thousands of people still travel back and forth between the 2 countries but he well when they come to that sort of cast criticism i would try to catch

criticism of the trumpet ministrations efforts as sort of an insult to the american people and their efforts and. harris fought back very strongly saying you want to talk about respecting the american people then you should tell them the truth that's a good point because they did that although it was more civil they did go off to each other and the records of their presidential candidates to the trade wall for example with china we saw canada harris criticize the trumpet ministration for what she characterized as a failure of leadership that's costing jobs listening to what she had to say because of a so-called trade war with china america lost 300000 manufacturing jobs farmers have experienced bankruptcy because of it we are in a manufacturing recession because of it and when we look at where this

administration has been there are estimates that by the end of the term of this it ministration they will have lost more jobs than almost any other presidential administrations last. freed war with china joe biden never fought it. joe biden has been a cheerleader for communist china through over the last several decades and again center here's your title your opinion you're not entitled to your own facts when joe biden was vice president we lost 200000 manufacturing jobs and president obama said they were never coming back he said we needed a magic wand to bring them back in our 1st 3 years after we cut back regulation unleashed american energy this administration saw 500000 vice president jobs created. they still managed to have a go at each other are we seeing the analysts and commentators come up with a winner yet. i think that remains to be seen in this that kind of

instant. you know punditry is is is is maybe not not really that worthwhile but i think about that interesting exchange about china both candidates scored some points but have a low blow there by the vice president calling biden a cheerleader for communist china for decades and i don't think that that is factual but i think some of that this shows that american politicians are still really coming to grips with a changed reality in the world with the role of china the importance of china in the american economy and the global economy they don't quite know how to deal with it the trade war was of course one attempt to deal with the rising china and the attacks on china over the coronavirus as well but it shows that this is going to be a very very significant issue rising china

a relatively declining united states perhaps over the course of many decades so this is going to be maybe in the next couple of debates this will be the 1st question we don't know but it's going to be recurring that's for sure i'm not sure those a lot of new information or headlines that came out of this so one thing that caught my attention is the comments that the moderator made at the end about the next presidential debate where do we stand without we know that donald trump got diagnosed with. 19. yeah mike my ears perked up when when susan page just said that it was going to take place i think that's that remains uncertain. i have not heard of any definite agreement or handshake between the biden and trump camps to have that and with the president of course. still. receiving treatment for

a cold that 19. joe biden of course you know wary obviously as anyone would of becoming infected with covert 19 it seems that there's a lot to work out for plexiglas will it be virtual will they do they really need to go to miami to have a debate when everybody is having zoom kohls all over the world right now i mean that there's a lot of questions to be answered so a lot depends on the president's condition and on negotiations between the 2 camps and on the health officials that the commission on presidential debates says has taken on board to make some final determinations about how to hold debates safely. that's a good point it was said to be a lot easier to control a debate if it's just fade down someone's already thanks so much from the holes there especially if you had a if you had a mute button that would come in handy. for violence over killings of black

americans at the hands of police was one of many issues that came up during the debate kemel harris spoke about the killings of george floyd brown and taylor while mike pence spoken defense of the police and law and order that cops are baffled that we need reform of our policing in america and our criminal justice system which is why joe and i will immediately ban chuckles uncrowded george george going to be alive today if we did that we will require a national registry. for police officers who break the law we were on the issue of criminal justice reform get rid of private prisons and cash bail and we will decriminalize marijuana and these are here we will expunge the records of those who haven't visited a victim of marijuana this presumption that you hear consistently from joe biden and kamel harris that in america systemically racist and that is

your biden said that he believes that law enforcement has an implicit bias against minorities. is is a great insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement and i want everyone to know who puts on the uniform of law enforcement every day and president trump and i stand with you on that speak now to peter ralf in washington d.c. he's a contributing editor with newsweek magazine good to have you with us ultimately do you think this debate especially it comes to the fact that it's a debate between vice president is going to release way the election how impactful is that you think it could as susan page the moderator pointed out the next the next man to be inaugurated president of the united states will be the oldest to ever hold the office whether it's biden at 78 or trumpet 74 the 2 people we saw on

the stage tonight i think stand a better chance than many who preceded them of actually having to move into the oval office in people kept out in mind when they were looking at the 2 candidates and i think they saw a much more polished more presidential presentation from mike pence than they did from senator harris who frankly i thought distracted from her remarks with her. facial tics and gestures and and other. other other body language interruptions that what the vice president sent they had a very different approach as you'd expect when it comes some of the key issues rice well ations taxation the environment foreign and trade relations did anyone do better than the other that in your opinion in getting their message out and detracting from their opponent well i think that vice president pence did

a. much better job of defending his administration's record than the president did last week senator harris however. her campaign said through an adviser deceiving that her job was to go out on that stage and now mike pence to the wall and leave the travel blood behind her as she left and i don't think she achieved that object she got off a couple of good lines i thought her observation that there had been no african-americans appointed by the trumpet ministration to the circuit courts was an important concern that was glossed over what i think most of the hard punches this evening were landed by the vice president. are we seeing also a bit of a different pattern here now that we've seen both this vice presidential debate and of course the presidential the 1st presidential debate a pattern here of paps the democratic candidates trying to speak directly

to the view over the elect more than their republican rivals you show that from joe biden certainly in the 1st debate it is a tactic that he has gone over his nearly 50 year career in public life i think tonight you saw both vice president pence and senator harris speaking pass the moderator directly to the american electorate particularly to undecided voters many times during the course of the evening and we forget to point out of course this was a much more civil affair right. yeah you could say that yes it was very much it was a much more civil if there although i in in in calling around quickly for some briefings some people who were conducting focus groups of independent voters said that they they thought that while vice president pence's continual going over his allotted time was annoying that the facial tics and expressions and other body language

actions of senator harris was far more off working all right we'll leave it there thanks so much stovall thank you thank you sam. i had an al-jazeera. anger confusion and a tale of 2 prime ministers in kyrgyzstan plus. violence in greece after a far right political party is rumored to be a criminal gang. but . it's very much a case of the calm before the storm across north america then dry and fine for the

u.s. but we do have our condell up across the gulf of mexico and that's going to keep an eye on over the next couple of days and i've it's also west of them a welcome rainfall making its way towards the west coast we're seeing creasing cloud and rain just spilling in here and we could see some useful rainfall as far as the wildfires are concerned back down towards the deep south this is friday's picture delta making landfall late friday going on in sas day. to rancho amounts of rainfall up across louisiana into arkansas across the mississippi delta the southeastern corner seeing some very very heavy right flood to make landfall as a major storm still of course possibly still a category 4 system up to a northwest this is what we're talking about there whether they're around the pacific northwest even down east and northern parts of california so some much needed rainfall coming through where we don't need the rain that was across the yucatan peninsula and here we go this is dealt with the moment making landfall across the peninsula fading out into the open waters of the gulf of mexico through

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comeback you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now the us vice presidential debate between mike pets and kemah harris has taken place in salt lake city. the past faced off over a number of issues in the 90 minutes and that was a threat of virus at the heart of many disagreements. if the trip administration approves of x.e. before or after the election should americans take it and would you take it if the public health professionals if doctors without if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us that we've taken i'm not taking the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine if a vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is is unconscionable and senator i just ask you stop playing politics with people's lives the reality is

that we will have a vaccine we believe before the end of this year. dog trump has a short americans of his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic he released a video filmed outside the white house where he calls his faction a blessing from god the u.s. president was back in the oval office for the 1st time since he was released from hospital on monday i went in i wasn't feeling so hot and within a very short period of time they gave me regeneration it's called regeneration and other things too but i think this was the key but they gave me regeneration and it was like unbelievable i felt good immediately i felt as good 3 days ago as i do now so i think this was a blessing from god that i caught it this was a blessing in disguise i caught it i heard about this drug i said let me take it it was my suggestion i said let me take it and it was incredible the word work i want

to get for you what i got and i'm going to make it free you're not going to pay for it it wasn't your fault that this happened it was china's fault and china is going to pay a big price what they've done to this country china is going to pay a big price what they've done to the world. mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . he's talking about the monoclonal antibody cocktail called regeneration which was given to president trump while he was in hospital now there's a huge amount of problems associated with this the trial studies for this particular cocktail were only released at the end of september it is still in development it is nowhere near final trials or nowhere near if da approval now president trump got a. certain exception that he was allowed to use the compassionate use that is

termed now we understand as well wolf from one of the co-founders of the company itself that president trump is one of only 10 people outside clinical trials who's actually received a dose of regeneration saying it's going to be free to all americans well that means the federal government is going to pay for it president trump says as well that the military will distribute it and we understand from regeneration officials that the 1st contract for the 1st 300000 doses has been signed to the department of defense so the 1st body that will get doses of this drug is the department of defense which goes in accord with president trump's claims that at the military will actually distribute the cocktail but it's a long way away from that just to produce this volume of cocktails before final clinical trials of even being concluded is very difficult situation to see. brazil has now passed 5000000 confirmed coronavirus cases it's latin america's

worst affected nation more than 148000 brazilians of died from covert 19 the president has played down the threat of the virus. 2 former british nationals accused of being members of an eyesore cell of appeared in court in the u.s. and chafee a shake and. face trial accused of beheading 4 americans as well as citizens of the u.k. in japan shall about us reports to islamic state fight is far from the syrian battlefield now shackled in f.b.i. custody and streamed into the genea court. feels shake and alexander kotsay face trial for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of western hostages in syria they've been how in u.s. military custody since october last year behind me are the dedicated prosecutors from the eastern discover genya who have been working tirelessly to bring this case

to the point we're at today which is the 1st step in achieving justice for the victims of this alleged offense. or alleged to be part of an i.c. groups dubbed the beatles because of their british accents they were u.k. citizens but the british government has withdrawn the citizenship of the 2 are captured in syria and 2018 and gave this audio interview alleging there was a media campaign against them no fair trial when and to be told in the media no fair trial because the jury or the judge or whoever is going to come to a decision has already been influenced is too late the us indictment says they will keep participants in the murders of american journalists james foley and stephen sort of along with aid workers peter casey and caylee mueller and alleges and 24 tane al-shaykh same to family member photos of decapitation hades i saw routinely dress their captives in orange jumpsuits and recorded their dates to release as

islamic state propaganda the families of those victims have suffered the painful loss of their loved ones at the hands of brutal killers. and while their pain may never fully subside today with the announcement of this indictment we're beginning to bring them the justice they deserve in order to gain british evidence you re spross acuteness have agreed convicted they would not face the death penalty shana dallas which is era of former us police officer charged over the death of george floyd has been released on bail set at $1000000.00 derek chauvin is facing murder manslaughter charges after kneeling on floyd's neck during his arrest in may floyd later died which triggered a nationwide protest shaaban is expected to appear in court again in march there's confusion about who's taking over as the prime minister of kyrgyzstan following her but her explorer nobs resignation replacement was named after

a parliamentary session on tuesday but opposition parties have rejected that nominated their own candidate the uncertainty follows the announcement of sunday's parliamentary election that many say was rigged. but the russian opposition leader . has been put on russia's wanted list it's not clear when she was added to the database or exactly what she's wanted for the kremlin bank's her opponent but a russian president alexander lukashenko he's been facing mass protests after a disputed election in august. germany and france have announced plans to sanction those they blame for the poisoning of russian opposition figure alexei navalny the country's foreign minister saying moscow is failed to provide dances about the attempted murder of danny's a vocal critic of president vladimir putin. russian authorities open the criminal case into what caused

a mass death of sea life off the country's eastern coastline hundreds of animals have washed up dead on the remote come chat company in sierra local officials admit the level of water pollution in the area is high the exact cause isn't clear vironment like to say it will have a long lasting impact on the area. a court in greece has outlawed a far right political party 18 former golden dollar and pays for a convicted of being members of a criminal organization a supporter has been found guilty of murder the party was once greece's 3rd largest political force holding seats in parliament john reports from athens. the guilty verdict against golden dawn could not bring back her son but for the mother of murdered rapper published pieces it was vindication. you did it she said

. it was a very positive decision we're very satisfied with the verdict we want to wait and see if the sentences will be satisfactory as well as justice has prevailed because what happened was very unjust on the street outside the supreme court thousands gathered they are not innocent of this by the nazis in jail but another and when the verdict was announced there were 2 years of joy and applause and relief. to the arrest and investigation of leadership for dozens of violent crimes against immigrants and leftists these were not isolated incidents the court decided but a pattern of behavior by golden dawn members who took the orders from the top on wednesday the party's 18 members of parliament elected in 2012 were all convicted of membership in a criminal organization and the most senior including party leader. convicted of forming that organization in. today's decision and the impunity of criminal

fascism in greece and stops the rallies of nazi violence on the question of whether golden dawn is a criminal organization the cult says with a capital yes it's also seen as a day of relief by many of greece's minorities it was a very common phenomenon going down to the train. in the morning on the platform to get started to get a robot to get ripped off your papers that was so common that you know many of these people were undocumented so all those people they were so reluctant to go and report it to the police in. a lawsuit golden dawn 17 percent of the vote in 2012 during the worst economic crisis in greece is history as austerity policies put almost a 3rd of the workforce out on the street the mainstream parties that enforced those policies lost votes to a populist fringe including golden dawn even so it's election came as

a shock greece was occupied by nazis for 3 and a half years during world war 2 they killed an estimated 1000000 people through mismanagement of the economy and starvation as well as conflict for many greeks the resurgence of fascism as a political force was a cause for national shame but last year golden dawn fails to enter parliament and it has now been condemned for many greeks wednesday's verdict has again put the country on the right side of history jumped up last al-jazeera. let's have a look at some of the headlines here in algiers there are now the u.s. vice presidential debate between mike pence and canada harris is taking place in salt lake city the pav faced off over a number of issues in the minds of most reviled run a virus at the heart of many disagreements. if the trump administration approves a vaccine before or after the elect.