this is deja vu news live from berlin accepting the democratic nomination joe biden vows to end what he calls a season of darkness in america shores of the great honor and your military i accept this nomination for president of the united states of america. doing so by urged americans to unite and return to optimism also coming up on the show. what happened to russian opposition leader alexei no volley he's fighting for his life at this hour after a suspected poisoning his wife says no one can visit him in hospital raising doubts

he can be moved to germany for treatment. i'm brian thomas could have you with us today the new democratic white house candidate joe biden has promised a radically different type of leadership in his acceptance speech in his home state of delaware he said president trump has quote cloaked america and darkness of speech was the capstone of a political career spanning nearly half a century setting out his vision for the presidency the 77 year old vowed to represent all americans he promised to tackle the pandemic the economic downturn racism and climate change which he heads into the campaign with a clear lead in opinion polls over trump but was $75.00 days to go the republican incumbent has plenty of time to narrow the gap. the current president is quote

american darkness for much too long. too much anger too much fear too much division here and now i give you my word if you entrust me with the presidency i will draw on the best of us not the worst i'll be an ally of the light not the darkness it's time for us for we the people to come together and make no mistake united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. let's bring indeed of easiness poll who joins us from wilmington delaware today to enos joe biden there painting a dark picture of today's america can he touch a chord with this imagery that will appeal to america's undecided voters. right and she actually wasn't the only one you know we heard that over the course

of the last 3 days from many people saying these are dog times seats these are the dog darkest times in america since many many years this is really crucial for you to get out and vote so this is the main message and joe biden obviously also kind of tried to put that out will this appeal to democrats probably is because they unite kind of behind the fear of another 4 years of donald trump but is this the right message to convince undecided republicans that's a question we shall see now enos what kind of president would joe biden be and what would he do differently than the incumbent. well he made it really clear in his speed show that he sees himself as a president for everybody and this is actually trustworthy because he's in politics so we mentioned that in our little piece we were playing he's in politics since so

many years and he was working with both sides of the ale he was working intensively with republicans he has republican friends so this will be really a huge difference evil not peace as divisive as on will top. what kind of a president will he be regarding amount of time he's going to spend in the white house that is a big question he has made crystal clear but she's not running for a 2nd term and some people wonder if he has the strength. to fulfill the 4 years if he would get elected that puts a big emphasis on his choice for vice president doesn't it come along heris she's been very present in this democratic convention so far as well hasn't she. i mean this country was waiting for quite some time he has announced early on that

he's going to pick a woman and then there were kind of a lot of women in the game and when he finally announced her some days ago he got a lot of applause for that white because she's able to reach our to the black community this is crucial for democrats he will be able if she will be able to reach out to female voters this is also crucial in this election and she's only 55 years old she's the one who kind of. a kind of sense for continuity if something to joe biden happens she would be there she would be ready with all her experience from day one on so yes she carries quite some burden on her shoulders when you look at all the tom lehrer's to bring to the table and in speech we heard from joe biden could these 2 together mobilize the voters who did not come out for hillary clinton in the last election cycle in 26 states. that was one

underlying theme here during these last days and actually also the days before when kamelot harris was introduced by joe biden and that was kind of giving republicans the permission to vote for a democratic president this time they brought in quite some big republican names that was case it who gave a speech she kind of indoors. joe biden these a former republican governor and there were others so. this will be the big question if the 2 of them are able to do so and speaking for joe biden yes he is a moderate democrat who is able to reach out to to republicans and come in the harris we shall see she has the refugee station to be really. law and order person so she probably is also able to reach some republicans ok now

now there is a considerable lead right now for joe biden when you look at the polls but how concerned are democratic party leaders nonetheless that there could be a repeat of 2016 and upset at the voting both in $75.00 days. right there is still 75 to is to go and we know many things can happen you know we always have to keep in mind that 4 years ago it wasn't really don't know trump who won the election it was really hillary clinton who lost the election joe biden is not such a polarizing figure as hillary clinton but still sure there are concerns if coming here isn't joe biden biden really will make it and it's a far away from already been decided in his thanks very much for that from wilmington delaware where joe biden has given his acceptance speech thanks

a lot. let's get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news this hour at least 3 people have been killed as dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning rage in california tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes in the san francisco bay area already say at least 175 buildings have been destroyed including a number of homes. days after mali's president was ousted in a military coup neighboring governments are pressuring leaders to return it to him but a car to power west african countries fear the political upheaval could allow is the most extremist to again gain ground in the region. the trumpet ministration has written to the un security council requesting that un sanctions be reimposed on iran washington says tehran is in violation of the 2050 nuclear deal president abandoned that agreement 2 years ago. an air ambulance is underway to bring

russian opposition leader alexina vali to germany for treatment for suspected poisoning but there are doubts he can actually make the trip doctors at the hospital inside syria where he said to be in an artificial coma insists he's too sick to be moved his wife has arrived in the city of homs where he was rushed to hospital after losing consciousness on a flight from say period to moscow. the mali is one of president putin's most outspoken critics and has exposed corruption and organized demonstrations that despite official bans here's what his wife yulia had to say it was the doctor refused to speak without and simply ran away he didn't want to say anything. move your pain doctors visit the patient. no one is being allowed in they did not even let me is what interested him i have not seen him today. let's get the very latest now it did of use

a moscow correspondent emily sure one emily can you bring us up to date on the situation. well there's a lot of kind of unconfirmed information and a lot of inconsistency is swirling around especially between what news team is saying and what officials on the ground are saying including the head doctors there for example we just heard a statement from the head doctor saying that. he would be a risk to his life. team say that up until now they had been preparing the documents for enough need to be transferred to europe he had dr has declined to answer whether it could have been poisoned yesterday doctors at the hospital said that they would provide a diagnosis within the evening or by the end of the day today they had doctors said that it would take 2 more days for tests results to be confirmed and we also

had a very strange and again unconfirmed statement from these team they say that they overheard transport police telling doctors that they had found some sort of substance so that's all rather strange and again we've heard reports of police being at the hospital and even of investigators being at the hospital when actually no official investigation has yet been opened so we have to wait to confirm a lot of the information swirling around but it is rather strange we're also waiting to hear whether he's going to be transferred to germany for treatment why would he need to come to germany. well his condition yesterday was absolutely very serious he was unconscious he was on a ventilator and this morning according to the local health ministry a council of doctors examined him including experts from moscow and they decided

that his condition was still too unstable for him to be moved now and. again they have been saying that this is a political decision rather than a medical decision and they think that perhaps doctors rather than looking out for not buying these life may be biding their time to wait for talks and to leave. body before he can be moved to as they say an independent hospital in europe. but his condition yesterday was very serious and presumably is can is very serious today as well and european hospitals they say are more even more able to have that expertise to help him and to save his life as well. following the story for us in moscow thanks very much german chancellor angela merkel has met in berlin with climate activists greta to unburden

louise annoyed bauer to discuss steps to mitigate the effects of climate change and they also talk about how to keep the public's attention on the climate amidst the growth of our respond. it's been 2 years since swedish climate activists claim to to bag went on strike from school for the 1st time to call for action against climate change since then her activism has led to worldwide school strikes but the global current virus pandemic has kept protesters at home a 90 minute meeting with german chancellor angela merkel on thursday provided a chance to refocus attention on the climate change crisis we want people to listen to the science and to act on the science to back in line with the science. that is all we also that's also in our demands that we should establish annual binding called them budgets based on the contest available science and then of course based

on the budgets which gives us the best chance of staying below 1.5 years of global average temperature or so that is that is what we all scheme for 2 or 3 of the european activists also delivered an open letter signed by 125000 people to demand stronger environmental legislation from a huge lead as the meeting came as temperatures continue to soar during germany's heat wave the government's also confirmed today earlier that it would have missed its 2020 climate goals had it not been for the launch dropping greenhouse gases caused by the economic havoc of the current virus pandemic. let's get your modern out of our top story at this hour. joe biden has become the democrats' presidential candidate he officially accepted his nomination in his home state of delaware during the party's national convention and vida set out his vision for the presidency by value to end what he called the season of darkness in the united states. this is the w.

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