in public service but today's speech will perhaps be his most important setting out his vision for the presidency it comes a day after connell harris officially became the democrats' a vice presidential candidate making her the 1st black and asian american woman on a major presidential ticket tonight's event kicks off 2 months of campaigning ahead of the november election. well we're going to be carrying that speech live for you once things get underway but 1st let's get some analysis he is a washington bureau chief you know as paul is covering this story for as a from joe biden's home state of delaware where he'll be giving his acceptance speech and joining me in the studio is reporter william a group blue croft thank you both let's start with you in as biden is set to speak tonight from wilmington where you are and perhaps as we heard the most important speech of his political career what can we expect to hear. right this is the

3rd time he runs for president you always have to keep in mind clear and it's going to be interesting because so far i have the feeling the only message the democrats are really having is we are not donald donald trump they make this whole election into a referendum against donald trump so it will be crucial for biden to find a way to really mess out his political ideas i think it's going to be not enough to convince the swing voters the republicans who don't want to want to vote for trump are going to convince them to vote for democrats this in this year's elections if you doesn't really show a political plan and biden and the democrats surely hoping the 3rd time is the charm but this is a virtual convention is unlike any in the democrats history fitting for this unprecedented moment in time but do you think a lack of an audience will help or hinder biden in this case. that is

a very good point i mean i covered the last conventions that it's really like a huge party it's a mix between a family party a church and a way people come together from all around the country you know this is this energy there and they spread the energy kind of to this huge united states for biden actually might come as an advantage because he is not such a great speaker and he made some major mistakes lately so some experts say actually for him it might be really an advantage this were conventions all right we'll have to see and i'd like to turn to you now william and have you tell us what challenges biden does face in beating trump in november i mean i think it's in his pointed out converting the anti trump sentiment that is you know across the country into actual votes those are 2 very different things i think a lot of people take for granted that just because someone doesn't like donald trump or maybe even voted for donald how much of that 16 and as the democrats like

to paint have now feel they've made a mistake are remorseful and are looking for another option that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to go out to vote for joe biden on november 3rd or in advance of these postal ballots that we hear so much about and that's what democrats are really pushing hard on that it's not enough to just hate donald trump you've got to go out and vote you got a vote for joe biden if we don't see that joe biden is in for a lot of trouble and biden among democrats isn't necessary doesn't generate necessarily a lot of enthusiasm that's what they're hoping can help him with so getting that turnout which we didn't seem to best 16 which really hurt democrats as we know hillary clinton won the popular vote but not enough to actually win those electoral college votes that she needed to become president and that's the risk they're running again in 2025 so turnout is going to be absolutely crucial in this election in particular but you know as let's talk also about how. other high profile democrats have been making the case for biden over the past few days at this

convention even ones from the party's progressive wing who'd previously been highly critical of his campaign do you think that can really unite democratic voters. again i think the democrats are uniting behind the hate of donald trump it was quite amazing the list of speakers it will be especially interesting to see who's going to speak next week when the republicans are holding that could mention so this whole democratic convention is really started with this huge bang with michelle obama she delivered a speech very unprecedented for a former 1st lady criticizing trump harshly and really kind of focusing on the needs to heal this country then we had other big shots like bill clinton there was hillary clinton who spoke and there were some republicans that's also very very very interesting also referring to what william just said. john casey

spoke to a republican former governor really trying to convince those republicans who do not want to go to trump again to win this to vote this time this very time maybe once in their lifetime democratic so there were some some big speakers and obviously yesterday it was correct obama who delivered one of his best speeches i think he was very presidential on the one way on the one hand but then he was also really really harsh and sharp in criticizing. donald trump and then we had to come a lot harder is who not only needs to bring in the woods from african-americans and from from female voters but she also has to appeal to younger voters because joe biden has a hard time getting those kids to the ballots are writing as

a poll in delaware reporting for us and william grillo croft here in the studio with me we will get more from both of you as i didn't make his speech. and we will of course have full coverage of joe biden's acceptance speech when it happens for now. let's take a closer look at one of the battleground states in november's election pennsylvania democrats are hoping to win the state back after donald trump won it narrowly in 2016 they're hoping kamel harris can boost enthusiasm among black voters black voters in philadelphia could be among the kingmakers in the november election president trump carried the state of pennsylvania only by a slim point 7 percent margin in 2016 less than 45000 votes this time around democrats hope the nomination of qamar harris as vice presidential candidate will tip the scale in their favor. nominee goss is already vice president of she can win an organization that supports women running for political office for her hair

is is the best role model she can think of. for many women that are seeking to run for office she is what you would want to kind of try that poorly she maintain that level headedness and i'm sure that there's a ton of frustration that she's faced and she'll continue to face so you know i think they can learn determination and i think they can learn create they have an opportunity to watch how she handles this for many of dominic's black friends come all the harris nomination is an inspiration that touches them on a very personal level. to finally see someone. who comes from similar backgrounds who comes from a similar understanding culture to be in a position to actually make some change as a culture and as a people i think when we see. you know our per our people rise in our women such

a way you feel connected you just instantly want to support them but not every black voter thinks that way reverend todd johnson has been a pastor in philadelphia's black communities for 30 years and he's one of the very few staunch black republicans for him harris is little more than a publicity stunt by democrats. looking for a person of color to appease their base and they were looking for somebody of female gender so that they could appease their basis ok we've got to check but i don't think we should be choosing people for positions based on their gender or based on their race that to me is the stench that i don't want that. for my daughter or my granddaughter i want to say to them when you want to get a job because of your color and because of your gender but many in philadelphia see more income on harris than just a candidate who was chosen for her race and gender. i think is the best thing

that's happened to this country not only that she's a woman but she's and she's a boy bush she is a woman that's going to make a change she shows. ambition. don't give up on your dreams people always tell you you can be nothing you can do think you know it is good to see people to show that you can be anything you want to do anything. in philadelphia is black community many are enthusiastic about the 1st woman of color our presidential ticket the question for democrats is will that be enough to carry them across the finish line. let's turn now to some other news russian opposition a politician alexina vonnie is fighting for his life after a suspected of poisoning a german n.g.o.s says it's sending an air ambulance to bring him to germany for treatment he lost consciousness while on a flight from siberia to moscow we had been a picture drinking

a teeny at the airport before leaving t. his spokeswoman believes it was poisoned and not long afterwards he became so ill that the plane have to make an emergency landing in the city of homs where he was rushed to hospital and is considered one of president putin's fiercest russian critics exposing corruption and organizing demonstrations despite official bands the french president and germany's chancellor angela merkel have both offered to help and they've been holding a summit in the south of france and across it went as far as to offer asylum to the kremlin critic here's what he had to say. this is done we are ready to provide any necessary support for alexander novotny and his family for his health for asylum and for his protection this goes without saying and we discussed it at length. on earlier detail these moscow bureau chief yuri russia gave us an update on

alexina these condition one of the doctors at the clinic in peoria when i've only is currently being treated his condition had stabilized a little so he did allow himself a glimmer of hope of all his doctors are already pushing for a transfer to europe and there reportedly has even been talk of the shutting take clinic in germany and believe that could or the 2 would be ready to treat of on the media reports about the special airplane from germany that would bring the valley to berlin soon obviously the main concern here is not just as the bill as i saw the petition but also to examine the substance of that may have poisoned him and european gleanings the german initiative in berlin are supposedly better suitable for this of course a lesson out on the is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often not laid at the door of the kremlin there has been a long history of russian dissidents falling ill or dying from poison t.w. takes a look now at some of the most high profile cases in recent years. in march 28th

a poisoning in the u.k. city of selves pretty shocked the world russian double agent surrogates and his daughter yulia were found unconscious on a park bench. they had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent a u.k. investigation blamed russia for the attack moscow denied any involvement and while the screech survived others weren't so lucky one woman who came into contact with residues of the nerve agent later died and before then another russian defector had been poisoned in the u.k. all members will note is the death of alexander litvinenko in 2006 the former russian agent alexander litvinenko fled to london in 2000 he became ill and died in 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium 210

a british inquiry found that his killing had been ordered at the highest level. that further. that the. operation to. mr litvinenko was approved. but. the head of the f.s.b. . and also president putin another case is viktor yuschenko in 2004 he was a ukrainian opposition leader running against moscow's preferred candidate he fell ill after having dinner with ukrainian security officials doctors say he was poisoned with the chemical dioxin he survived going on to become president of ukraine. and activist piaffe to vesa love who has ties to russian protest group percy riot managed to survive what he says was a poisoning attempt in 2018 his theories backed by doctors who treated him in

berlin says he was targeted because of his activism. but it's more like. a kind of like a warning gesture so as to indicates to other people who might want to go down that path to do it's the kremlin has consistently denied involvement in these cases and while it can be almost impossible to prove who's guilty there's a lot of and others sure who is to blame. well as i mentioned earlier chancellor angela merkel has been visiting a french president and i know micron for talks in the south of france apart from offering asylum to alexina vonnie the 2 leaders discussed how to revive europe's economy without causing a 2nd wave of covert 19 if you leaders also stressed the need for reaching a poster brecht's a deal and the political turmoil in belarus. chancellor merkel says she is

open to dialogue with bella roost if they are willing to accept. good signal with us we are showing that we seek dialogue with russia and if want to with beller us too although president bush and co has so far not spoken with anyone on the phone but we will of course insist on certain conditions the release of christmas no violence free speech the right to demonstrate an inclusive dialogue in that country those are the values which we stand for not just to home but also for those brave people in better roasts. and bicycles but. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of wildfires a sparked by lightning and california have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the san francisco bay area authorities say at least $175.00 structures have been destroyed including homes with fires still threatening $50000.00 more. south korea's intelligence agency says it has seen

signs of a power shift in its reclusive communist neighbor north korea dictator kim jong un is thought to have transferred to some of his powers or to senior officials most significantly his sister kim jong il the move has fueled speculation that she is being groomed as kim's successor. to london's essential criminal court has handed down a life sentence to the brother of a suicide bomber who killed the 22 people had a pop concert in manchester in 27. it was convicted of murder attempted murder and conspiring it to cause explosions he will spend a maximum of 55 years in prison. when germany has confirmed its highest in 24 hour total of new corona virus infections in months more than $1700.00 new cases public health officials say they're confident they can keep the virus in check but the rising numbers are causing concern as children across

germany return to school. germans are coming home from their vacations abroad and are returning to school and work but just as the country goes back to its daily routines a new spike in corona virus cases is causing alarm. over 1700 new infections were confirmed on thursday the highest rate since the end of april the number of new cases had been falling over the summer but the trend has recently reversed the situation is still far from the peak of over $6000.00 daily new infections reached an early april but colvin 19 is far from gone. we're still in the middle of a pandemic it's not over yet we don't know what's yet to come but without a doubt we've so far made it through so well because we have a strong efficient resilient health care system. and even with the well prepared

health care sector the aim remains to keep the virus from spreading out of control . this berlin secondary school is counting on widespread testing to prevent any major outbreaks the school is one of just 3 in germany to offer free coronavirus tests to all students and staff once a week they use a self testing kit at home and bring the swab back to have it analyzed. it keeps increasing the taking part in these tests more than 1060 out of 1300 people who work and study here regularly taking the tests every week and the trend is on the up. there has been no positive test results in the 1st 3 weeks the hope is that any infections can be detected swiftly so the school can remain open after spending months studying alone at home students don't want to miss out on learning in the classroom with their friends. the pandemic is also

receiving of the biotech industry as investors a pile in to support small often unproven companies in the hope that they can produce a vaccine one of the firms in this race is german company back who c.e.o. has told the w. that it aims to have a vaccine on the market by the middle of next year. german pharmaceutical company q havoc 20 years old $480.00 employees and it dreams of change in the world it has sights set on the most sought after of prices a coronavirus vaccine and the newly listed company is making progress we are planning to have the vaccine array somewhere mid next year and depending certainly on the data we are running clinical trial it will be prudent after 1st clinical data it would we expect in september october but it should be affordable so you shouldn't overdo it with a price there are certain settings already done we are in

a very low base cost of goods and should be reflected in the price there as well so i would guess somewhere between 10 and 15 years when went public in new york on friday it shares rose 249 percent during the far city of trading gotten airlie may have struck it rich cure vacas just one of many quoted vaccine hopefuls $170.00 companies from all over the world including the u.s. china japan the u.k. and india are also in the race. last week russia claimed a breakthrough president vladimir putin proudly declared they were the 1st to approve a vaccine for he said his own daughter had been vaccinated but scientists doubt the russian vaccine named sputnik 5 is really ready. what's beyond doubt is that thanks to high tech methods used by the likes of cure research

is moving faster than ever in normal times it would take 10 to 15 years to get a vaccine to market no some companies have reached a clinical trial phase in a matter of months regulators are expecting a breakthrough as early as next year no other product in the world has a larger potential market many nations have already placed orders for hundreds of millions of doses cure back plans to produce a 1000000000 per year if it's faxing comes to fruition the question is whose will hit the market 1st. so let's go back to our top story and presumptive presidential candidate joe biden is due to officially accept his nomination in just a few minutes on the 4th and final day of the party's national convention what's normally a scene of cheering delegates the crowning of their candidates has been changed to an online event because the coronavirus biden has spent almost 50 years in public service but today's speech will be perhaps his most important setting out his

vision for the presidency and kicks off 2 months of campaigning ahead of the november election. i'm joined once more by inas pole who is in wilmington delaware where biden will be giving that speech and of the reporter william glue craft here with me in the studio william let's start with you who exactly does biden need to motivate to get out to the polls i mean in short really everybody this entire week of this convention and the entire biden harris ticket is trying to be something for everyone we've seen an effort to appeal to moderate democrats and even some republicans to come to their side then we're see we've seen a push also from bernie sanders saying to his further his supporters further to the left a democrat had a party that this is also someone you should be voting for. we have you know with the pick of couple of horus you have someone a person of color

a woman and that for some voters is enough saying we just want to see a person of color a woman in this position and for others are looking at her record and saying we like that she's a centrist really like that she's pretty much established in democratic politics of course are more progressive more the progressive wing of the democrats that's that's a negative point for voting for them so they're trying to really go after everybody and it's just a question of will that be enough will they be able to convince enough people from the centrist all the way to the further left that they that joe biden is the candidate for them when it must be said that generally when more people vote democrats when so how are they going to make sure that they can actually get people out to the polls. we've seen repeatedly this plea an urgent plea from every single speaker this week of the conventions you need to go vote they're treating it like an emergency action plan we've even heard terms like you need to make a plan like something you would hear if there was an earthquake or some other kind

of natural disaster make a plan with your family figure out how you can be ready to even be prepared to stay 3 hours in line if you have to so that make sure that your vote is counted democrats are really really worried that there's going to be a problem with turnout which as you mentioned they are bay benefit when there is a higher turnout in 2016 there was not a lot of enthusiasm for hillary clinton among democrats a lot of people stayed home in fact among black voters who are very reliable voters for democrats there was a 7 point drop in voter turnout among black americans between 20122600 that's a huge drop just a small percentage and that could have flipped the balance towards hillary clinton so they need to make sure that doesn't happen again in 2020 so this these are the challenges that they're having and on top of that we have the coronavirus we have problems we have fears about mail in ballots if those votes are going to be counted we have problems at polling stations budget cuts too in different states to kind of polling and because of the krona virus we also have issues that the volunteers who run the polling stations many of whom are retirees and therefore at risk groups

that they're not going to have enough people to run the polling stations so there's so many factors here that democrats are worried about that's going to suppress one way or another the vote which in turn usually is a disadvantage to them all right and you know as i want to turn it back to you and to the political acceptance speech that we're expecting to hear from biden any minute now what is the key message that biden needs to get across from this speech and tell us what you're going to be listening out for. well you know i mean he really present himself as the perfect alternative to. present himself as a reliable person as a person who is taking care of his family his whole life through it's a very. speer ian's politician who can work with both sides and that's really what he has done has been working very well with republicans is needed what we will have to look out for tonight is if you really is delivering a political plan and if you is not like saying what he's fighting against but if

you really kind of maps all of the way he will take care of better health care he will fight racism he will fight discrimination of women and minorities so this is something we will look out for and as william said he has to find a way to convince the swing voters so this whole last 3 days are focusing in on how how they how they can allow republicans to were vote in this year's election for a democratic presidential candidate so this is something we will also watch closely how he's kind to kind of reaching out to republicans and yeah well show them hey you can vote for me i will take care of your needs and i'm not too radical so you do not need to be afraid of me when he has as you've said even more than this is an

election about biden it does seem to be a referendum on a trump as president so is biden that simply an anti trump or does he have something else to offer to voters. that's a very good point i mean i think most and mainly he really is a trump but he is kind of enough of a moderate so he can be eligible for as we just talked about for republicans but there are many critical voices wondering how a country like the united states with so much young talent from all around the world elects a 77 year olds. white man who will be 78 years old. if he wins the election so there is this question why again a person from the establishment was picked and not a more younger. and more and energizing candidate that's right it's going

to be the choice between 77 year old biden and 74 year old trump william let's turn it back to you what voter groups are the most important for a bite into window between now and november 3rd if we look at the 2018 midterm elections the people that gave the democrats the house were not the squad it was not the progressive or the far left side of the democrats it was conservative districts in states that trump won that flipped especially suburban districts suburban districts is have become very fighting ground for both republicans and democrats on top of that as we mentioned black voters are very reliable democratic voters they are often seen as the linchpin the.