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bless america. thank you very much. cheering and applause. song. president donald trump, accepting his party ‘s nomination to run for a second term of office. he spoke for one hour and ten minutes from the south lawn of the white house, a highly controversial location, given the political nature of his speed and now fireworks are being sent off

near the washington monument. 2020, you can see that, as well as the name trump. within the grounds is our correspondent. jane, can you hear the fireworks and what did you of this speech? i am struggling to hear anything else above the noise of the fireworks going off, proclaiming trump 2020, and using not just off, proclaiming trump 2020, and using notjust the white house as the backdrop for a political party but also the washington monument on the national lawn. the hallowed ground of american history. he is quite an extraordinary scene, never before has tradition been broken in such a way, highly controversial, the use of the white house itself has raised legal question but president trump in almost hour—long speech, has set out

his vision for america and a vision that he says he can carry into the next four years, should he be returned to the white house. jane, i'm not sure whether you could hear this speech, what stood out to you? i think it was remarkable in that having been delivered in front of an audience, it wasn't the president trump fired up and energised by speaking publicly that we have come to know. it was very, very staged. it was almost flat. we did not hear anything new. there were many rhetorical flourishes but we have heard them all before over the last four days, talking about joe over the last four days, talking aboutjoe biden as being dangerous for america, calling him weak. trying to run him down in the same way that he did with hillary clinton,

making him unelectable in the eyes of anybody who may waiver from president trump's own support. jane o'brien, outside the west wing of the white house, thank you forjoining us. house, thank you forjoining us. getting some reaction from either side of the political divide. marianne marsh is a democratic strategist, joining us democratic strategist, joining us from boston and ron christie isa us from boston and ron christie is a republican strategist. maryanne, starting with you, i wonder, was this about the setting more than the speech? it actually ended up being both. i think the setting we will remember this because it was held at the white house in an overtly political convention, and act by donald trump having his acceptance speech for the republican nomination for a second term in front of the white house, unprecedented, a word way

overused in the last four yea rs, overused in the last four years, but this is what is important about the speech that donald trump tried to do tonight. we try to shift the race from a referendum on donald trump between a choice between donald trump and joe biden. an important point. donald trump cannot win a referendum on him. that is where he is right now. he used joe biden ‘s name 41 times do not, joe biden never mentioned donald trump last week. in those 41 times, he tried to define him as the antithesis of what donald trump is doing and would do. in these past four yea rs would do. in these past four years in another four year term if he had it. in every term, he ran into three of the same issues, covid—i9, economy and racial injustice. donald trump tried hard to make the race now a choice going forward, now that the general election officially begins now and we will see if it works, but i don't think it will go much beyond the people who were in the audience today, his face in particular will love it, there

we re particular will love it, there were certainly references along the lines we had this week to appeal to black voters, which is really to appeal to suburban women voters and certainly appealing to his face, he did nothing to expand that tonight but he is trying to make it a choice of. ron christie, we normally get balloons after speeches but tonight is fireworks instead. i wonder, speeches but tonight is fireworks instead. iwonder, if you have seen fireworks instead. iwonder, if you have seen one fireworks instead. iwonder, if you have seen one tweet going around, posted by the former director of the office of government ethics of the usa. he says this abomination may be the most visible miss use of position for private game in history, the abuse empowered to the man, empowered, a breach of sacred trust. how do you see it? good evening once again,. the way i see this is one who worked in the white house for four years and understands the nature of the act that says that political employees cannot

conduct political activities while on official duty and the vice—president and the president of the united states are officially exempt from that act and the notion that we heard from the other speaker that this is an abomination, that this is an abomination, that this is an abomination, that this is a political junction coming out of the white house, yes, is political but were also in a pandemic, and it's not against the law and it's not against the law and the office of the special counsel in the department of justice has lawjudge has ruled it was legal for him to do this but the president of the united states must be kept safe. having said that, one thing i wa nt having said that, one thing i want to make clear and i take great offence to what maryanne just said, donald trump, republicans, appealing to people of colour, was not an outreach of people to colour but white suburban women is highly racist and offensive. the president of the united states and the political party one to appeal to people based one to appeal to people based on their aetiology and philosophy and principles to say that black people are too stupid or incapable of voting

for a political candidate because you are just black and we're just catering to white people, is offensive and has no basis to be on the airwaves of the bbc. maryanne, iwill give you a chance to come back to that and then we will move the conversation on. i'd appreciate that. i didn't say any of those things and i haven't said anything that i haven't said before. the fact is and i'm not the only one saying it... stop you said.... excuse me, ron. you came out with that comment and i'm offended by that. he said he was not appealing to black voters he was appealing to white suburban women. that is racist. republicans can appeal to democrats and african—americans and your insinuation was offensive and has no basis and bearing on the bbc airwaves. maryanne, can you respond? thank you. i actually

said basically the same thing on super tuesday when we were together in washington, that the efforts by donald trump to highlight his record on matters of hbcus, crimejustice reform, all of those things, are in many ways designed to appeal to white suburban voters. i said that many times before. i'm not the only one saying it! i hear what you are saying but it's simply not, the intention you are assigning to me is simply not accurate. can we move on the conversation. maryanne marsh, looking at the picture that president trump was attempting to paint of a nightmare ofjoe biden ‘s america, do you think that was successful. we had a week's worth of that talk and certainly donald trump is the most effective communicator on that point. he is going to drive that message from tonight through the weeks to come. i think the challenge for him is

covid—i9, the collapsing economy and racial injustice is all tied together and has happened on his watch. the fact is it is donald trump you has to this. it is donald trump who has not been able to fix that. and donald trump is going to have to try to fix it before the november three election but that will not stop him from saying thatjoe biden won't do thejob, won't get saying thatjoe biden won't do the job, won't get it done and will be worse for america. that isa will be worse for america. that is a contrasty try to draw tonight. run, i would like is a contrasty try to draw tonight. run, iwould like to read you what joe tonight. run, iwould like to read you whatjoe biden has been saying because he has been tweeting during the beach and he said remember that every example of violence that donald trump decries has happened on his watch and leadership during his watch and leadership during his presidency. you have the battle lines drawn quite clearly there? i think you do. i look at this as a republican and stated this when we talk about black lives matter and racial injustice, we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people, black and

black violence in baltimore, philadelphia, atalanta, minneapolis and it seems to me from a political point, that democrats do not want to talk about what is going on in the cities of our great american cities of our great american cities but instead want to say that any viole nt cities but instead want to say that any violent act is somehow the fault of donald trump. we need to find a way to come together as americans and say this is our problems. these are out this is our problems. these are our communities and we need to solve what is going on. we need to quell the violence to do this together as americans, regardless of the aetiology and skin colour and say we do not stand for this level of violence in america. we have had the speeches now from both joe biden and donald trump. what does the race look like at the moment? it will be very interesting to see what the balance is coming out of the two conventions. joe biden got a little bit of a bounce, donald trump make it a little bit of a bounce but what we are really sealing here is a fixed

race. we have spoken of it over the last few days. voters are locked in in terms of who they wish to vote for so this was going to be an election won or lost at the margins. trying to pick up some votes, a higher turnout amongst the donald trump base, trying to get more white suburban women voters to come back to him and to try and suppress votes in areas that would vote against him. the democrats are going to have to try and broaden their support, get more voters to turn out and register, get more people to vote. between october and november three, that is the fight it again you will see it fought on margins of smaller slices of the demographics, smaller slices of voters, every little thing will make a difference and in this race it really will be inches, not yards that will win it. ron, a simple question, do you believe in convention bouncers?” simple question, do you believe in convention bouncers? i do. i think bothjoe in convention bouncers? i do. i think both joe biden in convention bouncers? i do. i think bothjoe biden had a modest bounce coming out of his convention and i think

president trump will get a modest bounce out of his. the real question is once you move beyond the bounds and up a couple of points here and there, how do you sustain momentum? how do you find a way to connect with voters in a difficult time in the midst of a pandemic and say you should vote for me, i am joe biden, i am the challenger, i deserve the opportunity to be the president. and how do you, as donald trump, the incumbent president of the united states find a way to stay you need to stick with me. i think we will see a lot of fine machinations over the next several weeks as these candidate calibrate their message and reach out to that very slender, very slim majority of independents and moderates who have not yet made up moderates who have not yet made up their mind. joe biden said he is going to start travelling a little more, visiting a number of swing and key state. might that make a difference to the state of his campaign? so

far it has worked for him. joe biden has a lead and has been able to keep that lead and not travel because of pandemic restrictions. he is considering doing things like that and if he can do it safely and i think what you are seeing in many campaigns are people struggling to campaign in a safe way that keeps everybody healthy. i cannot say what we saw tonight was emblematic of that in terms of the crowd and how it was seated and the lack of masks and all that. we saw that another rally donald trump has had where people have gotten sick afterwards. so i think this is something that everyone will wrestle with, especially as we move into flu season. covid—i9 is still here and has yet to be resolved in the flu seasonis yet to be resolved in the flu season is coming in on top of it and that is exactly when we have our elections. it will be a challenge for everybody and i don't think donald trump will change the way he does things but i thinkjoe biden and the tea m but i thinkjoe biden and the team will try very hard to message and model be safe way to handle this covid pandemic i

staying safe, wearing masks and being responsible about your activities. we were just like to play you a piece of what donald trump said aboutjoe biden. joe biden is weak. he takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who drive their cities into the ground while fleeing far from the scene of the wreckage. the same liberals want to —— takeaway school choice while they enrolled their children in the finest private schools in the land. they want to open borders, while living in walled off compounds and communities in the best neighbourhoods in the world. they want to defund the world. they want to defund the police while they have armed guards for themselves. this november, we must turn the page forever on this failed clinical class. ron, let's

analyse the attack strategy there. might it be successful to betrayjoe biden as weak? a trojan horse for radicals?|j trojan horse for radicals?” think he is trying to replicate what president nixon did back in 1968 when he spoke about the silent majority. there was a sense with all the riots going on in the united states, with the assassination of martin luther king and senator robert kennedy, of a restoration of law and order. i think what president trump was trying to do tonight was to hearken back to that error and hearken back to that error and hearken back toa to that error and hearken back to a sense of if you allow me to a sense of if you allow me to remain as your president of the united states for the next four years, i will restore law and order in our society, in out and order in our society, in our community, in our neighbourhood. so i think that has a very interesting dynamic at play for the president. why? because not once during the democratic national convention la st democratic national convention last week did you hear any of the democratic speakers or the vice president himself address what is going on in america. so

i definitely think that is something you are going to hear from president trump and his surrogates in the next days to come before the election. and how does joe come before the election. and how doesjoe biden fight back against that line of attack?” think it is simple because it is the covid—i9 pandemic that laid bare the racial inequities in this country, whether it was healthcare, law enforcement, how many black penetrated by police officers, the death of george floyd and the shooting ofjacob george floyd and the shooting of jacob blake. it george floyd and the shooting ofjacob blake. it is a long list and i think it is all inextricably linked. they are national problems. our economy racial injustice and covid—i9 and they require a national approach and that is usually something offered by the president of the united states. that is the contrast thatjoe biden will draw with donald trump, that this not only happened on his watch but he is not addressing it. tonight you heard him basically say that. if you want help, call us, but he sent troops into many of the cities he listed tonight as well. i think that is the real

contrast here. they are taking a national unified approach to ron's point, bringing america together to solve these three problems to one lens on the other and that is the way to do it. but i don't see donald trump doing that. ron, is there anyone out there in america who is still undecided and, if so, why?! as i said a few moments ago, i think that there is a silent majority out there who doesn't want to identify as being a trump supporter, do not wa nt being a trump supporter, do not want to deal with the council culture that is going on in the united states. that i genuinely do believe that there are people who say i do not like donald trump 's rhetoric and i don't like his tweets nor what he has done but i'm not quite sure if i want to go to vice presidentjoe sure if i want to go to vice president joe biden. so sure if i want to go to vice presidentjoe biden. sol sure if i want to go to vice presidentjoe biden. so i do think that there are people out there who may even be surprising themselves and saying well i think i lean this

way or that way but they have not quite yet pledged who they will pull the level four. i think it will be, as we have said throughout the evening, and the next president of the united states restore the economy, can they find a way to reduce the impact of the covid—19 crisis here in the united states and can we put an end to the social unrest we have seen the last 3.5 months? if they identify that candidate they will go from being undecided to been decided and committed to one candidate all the other. president trump and his family have just re—entered the white house. marianne, we love all the conventions and this is what we live for. do live for the balloons but they did not happen this year. when do ordinary americans start paying attention to the race?” think they already have. firstly when you look at the pandemic, many people were home for a long time in front of a variety of screens. most voters pick up information along the way. it is like a painting with dots that they fill in along the way and then come the fault

which, right around the corner, labour day right now, after these conventions start to feel that in because you start to see more activity and more advertising. you usually see travel by the candidates. they match that to what they have heard and learned before. i think that is a challenge for donald trump because people pretty much know who he is, what he does and what he represents. the question is can donald trump define joe represents. the question is can donald trump definejoe biden ina way donald trump definejoe biden in a way that hurtsjoe biden and helps donald trump was to mark that is what is going on. people are going on. —— people are paying attention all along but that is why this race is so intense. in the last few sentences, what were the last few months of the race be like? the last two weeks will be very tight, within single digits. it will break down from the mid—to the upper midwest as to which candidate can define themselves to say that i am the trusted

candidate for you and i think this is going to be a race where we could have a popular vote one by one and an electoral college boat won by the other. bbc news theme plays

hello there. the weather is set to change this weekend, but there's no sign of summer returning. the last 2a hours, it's been very wet across many parts of the country. some flooded scenes here in southern england, with an inch of rain falling in about an hour. there could be some flooding in northeast england in the morning as well with that persistent rain from overnight. that rain band will move southwards through the day, heading towards wales and the midlands. south of that, some sunshine triggering some heavy and thundery showers. the weather should improve for northern ireland and scotland, and later in northern england, with some sunshine. but for these areas, the winds will be much stronger, particularly windy around some of those north sea coasts, maybe blowing in one or two showers as well. a disappointingly cool day on friday. again, temperatures 15 to 18 degrees. now, the really wet weather that we're seeing across england and wales into friday is around that area of low pressure and weather front. it's trying to pull away

on saturday, getting nudged by this area of high—pressure in the atlantic, but with that sort of set up, we're left with a northerly wind on saturday. and that will drag down some colder air across the uk. indeed, right the way through the weekend, a bank holiday weekend for many, it's going to be quite chilly, and it's going to be cold at night as well. a lot of dry weather around and, after a windy day on saturday, the winds will be much lighter. but we've got those northerly winds on saturday, making it feel chilly. some sunshine around. we will see some showers, especially across northern scotland, and there's still the threat of some rain coming back towards lincolnshire and east anglia in particular. and it will be windy, especially in the morning, with the strongest winds down those north sea coasts of england. for a while, could be gusting 50 miles an hour. that, of course, will make it feel much colder, and those temperatures are below average for this time of year, 15—17 degrees. and once we see the winds dropping overnight and the cloud melting away, we're going to find those temperatures will fall sharply.

a really cold night for the time of year on saturday night, worth bearing in mind if you're going to be out and about — perhaps camping, for example. as we head into sunday and monday, this area of high pressure then moves across the uk, so the winds will fall much lighter. we've got a weather front arriving towards northern ireland by the end of monday, but ahead of that, a lot of dry weather. a little bit of sunshine from time to time, lighter winds, but those temperatures aren't really going to change a great deal. and before then, of course, we've got more wet, perhaps windy weather on friday.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. donald trump accepts the republican party's nomination for the us election, accusing the democrats of having a far—left agenda, and being weak on law and order. no—one will be safe and biden's america. my administration will a lwa ys america. my administration will always stand with the men and women of law enforcement. the end of the republican national convention signals the start of the final 8 weeks of campaigning ahead of the election on the 3rd novemeber. but america's divisons are laid bare, as anti—trump activists gather outside the white house to protest against the death