yes after the elections especially in a polarized political environment. people imprisoned in celebrating the landmark birthday of their national treasure the football of pele he turned 80 on friday and to celebrate the christ the redeemer the redeemer statue in rio was lit up in yellow and green pele is widely considered to be one of the greatest football players in history of the only one to win 3 world cups. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines and i was there a transitional government has agreed to normalize ties with israel it's part of a deal little allows the lifting of u.s. sanctions that have hurt sudan's economy sudan's foreign minister says that the deal still has to be approved by a yet to be formed parliament before it can move forward. on the little bit it's a long process that requires a lot of work so this is an agreement to normalize that took place between sudan

and israel and we are now waiting for the completion of the democratic institutions through the formation of the legislative council so that it can decide to ratify this agreement and if that happens then we will begin the steps towards normalization palestine says the deal between sudan and israel is another stab in the back iran's foreign ministry described it as blackmail and shameful the u.s. ambassador in ethiopia has been summoned after an apparent threat from president trump about the construction of the renesas on stem he suggested that egypt might blow it up if the project continues if you piers prime minister says his country would be deterred by aggression. armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of shelling residential areas in the disputed region of the goto karabakh areas the product city suffered heavy damage overnight hundreds of people have been killed since fighting began last month 2 russian brokered cease fires

a failed poland's president is the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus andre duda is said to be feeling well and is in contact with doctors from current in poland like much of the rest of europe is imposing more restrictions trying to slow the high rates of infection the u.s. has posted another record daily jump in the number of covert 1000 cases the 84000 infections were announced on friday an art installation in washington highlights the growing toll with a white flag for every american who's died guinea's army is on the streets to quell demonstrations of the president of a calm day one a controversial 3rd security forces dispersed opposition protesters with tear gas at least 26 people have been killed since sunday's election there's the headlines more news feel the inside story next.

over. donald trump defend his. but joe biden dog days ahead so how is covert 19 shaping the presidential race in the u.s. 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 mostly 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 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 provinces 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 cropping biden also took aim at the 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 to sun profit i have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life we learned this president paid 50 times the tax in china as a secret bank account with china biden lash back accusing trump of cozy relationships with russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim

jong il and 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 folk on 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 a biden presidency would bring the united states closer to socialism when it comes to health care as a tragedy he was there on tour 47 years he didn't do as america continues to grapple with the. 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 such harm to the black community and they were called and he called them super predators 100 voted for a bill on drugs and how to deal with drunks it was a mistake on climate change truck 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 leadership 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 touch dies in os will clock back soko 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 dove 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 with out 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 and it's 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 thinking why haven't 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. 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 not toward 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 mouthpiece it's a truck and they're looking at a different set of choices on another 'd 3rd i think it's a very difficult to change the game at this point ok clark 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 who are 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 pirates 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 covert 19 in the pandemic ultimately responsibility is donald trump you cannot walk away from the fact that 220000000 people have died 40 seance are in hospitals today and ourselves and people were 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 the pandemic which he did not and the other thing was he had to hope that joe biden would fall into space joe biden is sitting on a lead but he didn't sit on that lead last night he went on the attack and he showed 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 is the president's point it's always hard to put look 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 coke was $90.00 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 it's a very 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 judgment is 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 mention

that real people have 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 imagined villains in his head that he's always portrayed as this as a media threat 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 star step toward more health care for more people the 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 trump's strength but you know his trailing behind in states he won easily in to 1016 don't you see 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 could get election night coverage of my friends on the planet europe 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 being painted here it's it sounds great to try to frighten people on this is that the somehow this election is over far from ramat 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 on the fracking positions in pennsylvania a key key state so the election is very tight in those 4 'd 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 that's just not it the last thing is 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 barrett 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 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 shouldn't 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 to 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 maced so it's going to be close we've got are you it's going to be a landslide at all we do like it to be a landslide because we believe trump and trump ism are approximate 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 or 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 are 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. adolfo 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 a bit of the 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 use the term the president uses correctly pulled up and is. in his

bunker in 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 anybody's going to dominance 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 ok donald trump a whimper but you can't have it both ways dissent 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 clucked mexico i really appreciate your contribution your insight thank you. and thank you to for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot called for was last a lot of you can also join the conversation on twitter a.j. and from the hash a lot about the entire team here by phone now. held

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i'm rob matheson in doha but the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's traditional government has agreed to start the process of normalizing ties with israel as part of a broader deal that allows the lifting of u.s. sanctions the palestinians are calling it another stab in the back after similar moves by the u.a.e. and bahrain so dan's foreign minister says the deal is still has to be approved by a yet to be formed parliament a development on the pull bit it's a long process that requires a lot of work so this is an agreement to normalize that took place between sudan and israel and we are now waiting for the completion of the democratic institutions .