underneath that 10 to 40 meter deep water layer is a sea bed that itself contains an enormous store of current i'm concerned that he or me see waters can destabilize the carbon see that so this area of water it's releasing a lot of extra heat into the atmosphere and what that will do is per patchouli this condition of open water that's probably part of the delay of the return of the frozen sea surface. this is al jazeera these are the top stories saddam is the latest country to agree on normalizing ties with israel and a u.s. brokered deal announced by president trump that the deal in just 2 months with the

u.a.e. and already signing up to establish diplomatic ties with israel alan fischer has the latest eyes for donald trump well he seems to embrace the idea of making small deals across the middle east rather than look his previous s.s. trying to build one all the compassing middle east deal he believes that this changes the reality on the ground he already got a deal signed between the united arab emirates and bahrain to recognize israel remember the abraham accords were signed here at the white house just in september just over a month ago and he believes that there are 5 other countries who are ready to sign up to this deal libya's rival factions have signed a permanent ceasefire agreement the u.n. broad compact which orders all foreign fighters out of the country comes ahead of political talks next month it was signed into naval officer nearly a decade of conflict. tensions been growing in guinea where the army has mobilized

after results show the president winning a controversial 3rd term security forces have dispersed opposition protesters with tear gas and he's 25 people have been killed in the unrest since sunday's vote unrest over police brutality is continuing in nigeria with gangs blocking major roads in like ghosts groups on with sticks and knives set small fires on fridays and grew over a speech by the president mohammed bihari appeal for calm but he failed to condemn the killing of a least 12 people protesting against police brutality the president of bolivia supreme electoral tribunal has declared the leftist candidate louise assaye as the winner of this year's presidential election. as the headlines inside stories next.

over. donald trump defends his. job. done days ahead so how is cope with 19 shaping the presidential race in the u.s. and he's. been saying this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump and democratic party nominee joe biden have held their 2nd and final debate less than 2 weeks before the election the threat of having them

back with phones muted laws due to interruptions making for a less chaotic event than the fast that still spawns about the coronavirus response racism in america and accused of corruption will bring in our panel of guests to discuss this but 1st this report from our white house correspondent. it was a stark contrast from the 1st debate fewer interruptions and more substantial discussion with the 2 presidential hopefuls donald trump and joe biden who most respected the rules the moderator even earned a rare compliment from the u.s. president so far i respect very much the way you handle it this. the debate opened with a disagreement over the handling of the covert pandemic that's left more than 223000 people dead in the united states we're learning to live with it we have no choice

we can't lock ourselves up in a basement like. you know we're learning to live with people learning to die with proper insists a vaccine is just weeks away even as most scientists suggest it could be moderates and infections in the united states are surging trump lash back suggesting biden's policies to lock down the country are draconian and would hurt families and small businesses trump and biden also took aim at their respective alleged foreign entanglements trump hitting biden on his son's business dealings with ukraine and china and whether biden put policies in place as vice president that helped his son profit i have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life we learned that this president paid 50 times the tax in china has a secret bank account with china biden lashed back accusing trump of cozy relationships with russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim

jong il good it's a relationship trump defended claiming it's prevented conflict and tensions he inherited from the obama white house there was a very dangerous period in my 1st 3 months before we sort of work things out a little bit ok there was a very good they left us a mess what has he done he's legitimize north korea he's talked about his good buddy who's a fog has already gone and we had a good relationship with hitler before he in fact invaded and domestic policy trump tried repeatedly to portray biden's policies as extreme and too little too late considering his years of government he alleged of biden presidency would bring the united states closer to socialism when it comes to health care president tragically he was there on tour 47 years he didn't do. as america continues to grapple with the issue of racial injustice property tax bided for his role in passing a $994.00 crime bill that locked up a disproportionate number of african-americans for possessing

a small amount of drugs he never did a thing except in 1094 when he did search harm to the black community and they were called and he called them super predators all 100 voted for a bill on drugs and how to deal with drunks it was a mistake on climate change trump defended his decision to withdraw the united states from the paris climate accord stating he believed it was too costly for small business but when biden suggested the u.s. should move away from an economy based on oil trump had this response oh i wish rendition because you know exactly what i'm saying is you're going to destroy the whole industry the final presidential debate was supposed to be about policy and that is exactly what american voters got with 47000000 ballots already cast there's little time for either candidate to win new voters can really help al jazeera

nashville tennessee. joining us. in washington d.c. . franco a republican strategist is also former adviser to senator john mccain in salt lake city utah rick wilson co-founder of the lincoln project and author of everything from dies in a hospital clock back sicko former north carolina state democrat senator and elected delegate to the national democratic convention welcome or to the program a doll for. as a republican i think the general mood yesterday was this was going to be a game changer for trump in other way this could be his last chance do you think this was a waste of the porch and it. well i don't think it was a wasted opportunity and i was happy to see that there was an opportunity to have a contrast between the 2 candidates you know for most we can certainly double into

the details here go back and forth on on the points that were discussed during the debate but generally for the american people and the voters it's you asking about it being a game changer it's an impression that is left. and for my take on the impression is at the end of the the evening you have again donald trump is a non-politician an outsider with results that's what he was projecting the other side joe biden is a person who's been in washington for nearly 50 years in key positions in government and insider part of washington and what the american people still want to continue with that course of action without frankly results and there i'd say this just very quickly. bob gates who was the secretary of

defense for vice president biden and president. obama said that in his book in his reaffirmed it that joe biden was wrong on every decision in his entire career so you had a candidate and i think trump hit him hard on this saying i'm going to i'm going to i'm going to do the following things why have you done it and that's why i think the impressed and i think in the next 12 days with a question for americans to see and whether they will agree with that particular characterization rick do you have do you think they that term can still change the trajectory of the race. i think it's very late in the game i think last night donald trump needed a knockout blow against joe biden he didn't get it joe biden decided to survive the fight and he did but you know the idea that donald trump can can change himself as a person something that we as americans learned is not

a possibility we've also learned that that you know the vectors of this campaign in swing states are moving away from donald trump about for him. you know right now he's tied in texas right now he's beginning to lose ground in kansas he still had these lose ground in kansas one of the most red states in the country so 'd you know that without some shocking development in the campaign right now you know americans are exhausted by the incompetence of a truck the mouth these it's a truck and they're looking at a different set of choices on another 3rd i think it's a very difficult to change the game at this point ok klock the the handling of the pandemic was a key issue during the debate and throughout the the campaign do you think that by does aggressive federal action and but he was talking about the doc when i had this could be it playing to his advantage in the ne in the coming days oh

absolutely i think biden made a great statement when he said i will shut down the virus i don't want to shut down the country and the ultimate insider in washington is to present the united states donald trump is the president of the united states so what has happened in cope it 19 the pandemic ultimately responsibility is donald trump you cannot walk away from the fact that 220000000 people have died 40000 are in hospital today and a 1000 people are dying every single day. donald trump had to do 2 things last night he had to show the american people that he had a plan to deal with a pandemic which he did not and the other thing was he had hoped that joe biden would fall or states joe biden is sitting on a lead but he didn't sit on that lead last night he went on the attack and you show the american people basically the change here that is wanted is someone with the

direction to decide what to do with the pandemic how to handle global warming how to deal with the racial issues and a plan in a vision for the future and that's what he did last night adolfo when you have in some surveys 70 percent of the voters saying that health care is going to be an important thing for them and compounded with the outbreak of covert 19. comes to the podium and says that he is determined to axe obamacare do you think this was a misstep at this critical moment. well let me let me just respond by saying that the most important thing remains in terms of the polls the economy and as it always been and always remains that and the latest gallup poll yesterday showed the president's. approval rating and preferences for him handling the economy rose one point to now 57 percent. now obamacare has been something that i don't know about

rick in the past before although he was not a trump supporter but certainly the republican party as a whole has been against obamacare almost unanimously from the beginning of 2010 we want to replace obamacare and in a sense perfect it so i think that message came through i just want to make a couple of observations here but quickly 220000000 americans have not died it's 220000 in the 1st instance secondly as the president's point it's always hard to pull will prove a negative the planes landing and so forth the president made a very good point had his actions which were criticized by the former vice president not been not taken prudently and quickly against the advice of dr filed gene others for example shutting entry from china the death toll would have been much higher those are dr 5 g.'s words so obviously it's a global pandemic lastly the mortality rate in this country which nobody wants to

talk about is going down and it's far lower than most european countries so the president has handled the pandemic 2 quick things when a candidate talks about darkness which is what. joe biden is talking in negativity that usually doesn't play well president trump is talking about optimism i started in washington as a reagan person in the 1970 s. and he was always about optimism the president was is optimistic and that is the president's role and the president has handled the coronavirus very quickly the only gaffe last night was. about fracking in oil rich talks about the bible see how cancers vote well and how texas i think that was a major mistake by the vice president on the energy issues i think going to cost him in pennsylvania it's going to cost him in the states ohio included ok just on that in a long rick adulteries thing they say clearly the handling of the car one thing was exemplary was what was to rhetoric by president. well the american people already

made up their minds about the president's handling of covert in that in every survey they view his handling as a disaster there are 220000 americans who have died because of coded and if we have the same death rate as germany where we had a where there was a competent leadership that directed people early in the process today that they didn't have a somewhat of a shock who lied to americans for 3 months now and what he knew about this virus lied to americans for 3 months about a severity and at about the impact of it we would have a different outcome there probably the $50000.00 fewer dead americans now i will say this the the the polling judge but it's quite clear it's abundantly clear the fact that donald trump is having to try to compete in states that he won last time like texas and kansas now of all places is a disaster for this president it's also another thing that the that was mentioned

that the old people had not darkness it doesn't work well donald trump is a fundamentally pessimistic candidate he's always talking about people coming to kill you the caravans and this 13 if all these a magic villains in his head that he's always portraying as this as a media trip they're coming to your suburbs to destroy them etc this is a guy who's a who's primarily primarily a recursive dark pessimistic message i think that that shows through very often but again last night donald trump need he didn't get it clark the these are extraordinary times in the u.s. and by did yesterday hinting that if the supreme court was to scrap the affordable care act he would go ahead and own it as biden cat is this something that could. be another tough moment for by then if the

supreme court decides to axe the affordable care act well you'd be a tough moment for the american people if that happens i think with joe biden has said regarding the court is that obviously if you're looking at politics sort of in play and look at what mitch mcconnell republicans have done under the leadership of donald trump completely different what they did 4 years ago when president obama had announced his candidate. that was not taken up this time they're rushing through someone and the idea is that if you go back to the constitution is nothing in the constitution that says we have to have 9 justices that is just a historical development we've had 6 we've had 5 we've had 9 and so it's legitimate to say let's have a non partisan or bipartisan group look at that issue and decide if this is the best way to go forward and not it's made no commitment on that but on the obamacare but joe biden has said it's we want to that is

a 1st step to start step toward more health care for more people and american people deserve that and that too joe biden was talking to last night he looked directly in the camera and he said that to them and i think that will resonate adolfo you said that the economy was tom's strength but you know his trailing behind in states he won easily in to 1016 then to say this an indication that people are looking forward to time that's up to donald trump. well you know all this stuff about trail eenie and we're behind and it's news to me i'm on the campaign that we're competing in texas and kansas and we're writing about these things of course this program could have been a program that we could be having 4 years ago you know i can get election night coverage of my friends on the panel here remember this. on television on election night and that morning the new york times predicted that there was a 92 percent probability that i was the last polling data 92 percent probability

that hillary clinton would win the election and so i think it's a very different scenario that's been painted here it's it sounds great to try to frighten people on this is that the somehow this election is over far from rama by campaign itself has issued a memo saying that they're 'd worried about a over over confidence that the election will largely be decided in 4 or 5 states i think one of the key states is pennsylvania i think the vice president hurt himself yesterday on oil and that's my view and in the fracking positions in pennsylvania a key key state so the election is very tight in those 4 or 5 states that are going to decide the election and then the other states that are traditionally red and blue it's pretty much decided i don't buy that it's a nice talking point here that really has about can't just blame play but that's a that's just not it the last thing yes i think too bad the guest here is not on t.v. the talk about for packing and the fact that it's been 133 years and it's been tried

60 years ago that to try to do this when it's not going their way they want to change the rules and have it larger court believe me it will run the other shoe be a different or something rushed about this process it's absolutely constitutional and it's absolutely appropriate and note how they don't want to talk about any komi baird anymore because she was a stellar a candidate for the court nominees should say and the performance was suspect but dr but i hope they bring up or acting all right i hope they bring and they want to change our system and of course not tell the american people what they have in mind to their elected. rick the swing states florida pennsylvania michigan north carolina i was so in and wisconsin we've seen the many republicans joining in now and spending on those states trying to tell the ground in favor of joe biden which of the states you think could be the size of. well look i'm

a florida guy from the beginning and florida is always going to be close by who's maintaining a small but but meaningful lead there it's going to be a tight race no matter what. wisconsin and michigan seem to have safely drifted out of trump's orbit and are looking safely joe biden to this point pennsylvania is similarly moving toward biden we're seeing enormous numbers and of of the collar counties around philadelphia performance is very high there. ohio will also be close the swing states are what are that for a reason they are swing states arizona which is formally a republican state seemed safely out of trump's grasp and again we there's a highly competitive that is true this year in the state of texas more people have voted in texas this year so far than voted for trump in 2016 the turnout demographics we're seeing in texas in the early voting are very favorable for joe

biden i'm not saying texas is going to go red blue necessarily what i am saying is it should even be a problem the other thing we've seen. is that donald trump's campaign is off the air in many of the swing states now they basically still have the congress advertising program only in florida north carolina they put some money back into pennsylvania the last few days but they've been dark or low or largely dark for several weeks before that so there's a lot going on here you can't analogizes a 2016 for a host of reasons most most importantly that hillary clinton was a deeply unpopular figure and joe biden is not in the same category in the minds of republican voters as the sort of demotic 30 year nemesis that they've missed so it's going to be close we've got arguments going to be a landslide all beat like it to be a landslide because we believe trump and trump is a more proximate danger to the country but you know. this is a race where donald trump should have had here 1000000000 dollars

a 1000000000 with a b. and he's now down to you know taking his ads off the air in most of the key swing states there's something has got badly wrong campaign obviously so we're going to see our shakes up obviously that it's going to be a tight race. clark i see the optimism of the has been expressed by democrats over the last few weeks at this stage you seem to be quite confident the 3rd of november is going to be an historic moment for the americans do you have any concerns about voter suppression but let me address the 1st part having been on the ballot i've never agreed to let our guard down until all the votes to be counted. we've seen this before and it we have an electoral college that makes a decision not a popular vote and those crucial states are going to be so and so important the swing states but there's a huge difference between 20202016 donald trump could run as an

outsider there no question about it now he is the president of the united states is harry truman said the buck stops here and all the things that we've been discussing he has all too much responsibility but that he cannot blame joe biden who has not been in office the last 4 years it is donald trump an adult folks what do you think would happen in the upcoming days until the before the day of the election what are the chances for donald trump to tell the ground in his favor. well i actually think it's in his favor of of if there was no different take the president and house now has announced day by state swing again he's been on the campaign trail unlike the other candidate that has been you know used the term the president uses correctly pulled up and is. in his bunker and delaware in

a basement and not really going to you know why because he can't have crowds of us and they're going to say it's cold and the rest of it bring up 30000 cards ok they're there so there but but let me let me just tell you i think that a bradley has been a dominant on us on the ground and it's going to be hitting the states i don't swing states i don't think this is an important point for the viewers just to hear now they're whistling that it's a different tune in 2016 nobody before the election was saying that donald trump was going to hand her that she was such a look at it but let me some one last quick quick thing about rick you can't have it both ways oh it's going to be a close election which it will be but you know we're winning aren't exposed in texas and kansas and they're out of the air wisconsin and so forth it is going to be a close race and alcohol trump a whimper but you can't have it both ways to send simply say it's a runaway and then say it's a close race there they want to make it look like it's a runaway election in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania are very much in play

and very much within the president's grasp unfortunately we're running out of time adolfo franco brick wilson clock plaxico i really appreciate your contribution your insight thank you. and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website www dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for was last a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is a.j. and so i saw it from the house and the entire team here by phone now.

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a driving force of the protests. took to al-jazeera. in doha the top stories on al-jazeera saddam is set to become the 3rd country to normalize ties with israel a u.s. brokered deal was announced by president donald trump who says at least 5 more arab states want the same agreement following the u.a.e. and behind some of the deals the palestinians are calling saddam's move a new stop in the back reports from washington d.c. i want to just congratulate from the oval office another part of u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan falls into place even if he is submerged in.