the, the, this is due to be news live from berlin, joe biden, and donald trump clash and the 1st debate of the us presidential campaign. the 2 men tray to tax over issues like the economy and immigration, as well as each man's basic fitness for office. we'll look at what use voters like we saw in the context. also on our show, you leaders nominate or slough on the line for a 2nd term as commission president, head of what's expected to be a close confirmation boat in the european parliament. the

hello and welcome to our show. just even due to the in berlin, we did get in the us were joe biden, and donald trump faced off at the 1st presidential debate ahead of november's election. it was a heated showdown between the 2 oldest presidential candidates ever with each man accusing the other of being unfit for office by nothing stumbled in his answers, his voice audibly raspy, as he promised to help americans struggling with health care costs and inflation. trump repeatedly ignore the moderator's questions. settled false, so it's about his own record and painted an apocalyptic picture of america under his successor. let's go down to our debate coverage team and his poll in our washington bureau, janelle, to malone and a democratic watch party in dc and benjamin alvarez group or who is that a republican watch party also in washington dc reading. so you all, you know, so let's begin with you. what did americans watching this debate? see tonight they actually saw the sitting president losing it

big time and basically putting the democratic party in a panic mode. i mean, the main objective providing tonight was to demonstrate just a couple of ability it to being fit for office, but it just struggled immensely throughout these uh, 90 minutes. i think it's fair to describe it as a huge the saucer as he fades not only to restore confidence, he was re, i'm able to respond to basic questions like, for example, the crushing crucial topic, abortion rights and, and rob of focusing on a boy are these important topics for the democratic voters. he wasn't really able to hold his a thoughts together. so this debate isn't only sisters of the attention away from the bathing the lice. donald trump presented. i'd really also spock discussion on

how the democratic policy can prevent bite and from running again. that's what we hear. the even higher ranking the members of the democratic party. i know, thinking if it is a possibility to open the convention and electing a difference, a candidate before november 5th. so the democrats are currently in a state of panic. you know, we talked earlier about the importance of binding in particular avoiding these kinds of gas that you know, spoke about the need to appear fit for another term. you're at the democratic watch party. what did the audience there see when they saw his performance of the well, i can only underscore what you know said there if the mission was to appear fit to for another term, he did not manage to do that. and i have to say, i am going to watch party of d. c of d. c. democrats. these are some of the biden's, most committed supporters. and you could really see that they started the evening

on a high, they cheered every time that joe biden mentioned january 6 or democracy. but you could tell that as the debate were on, the move got more and more subdued. and even they did not manage to avoid the reality that joe biden was just not at the top of the dave, even after a week of preparing our camp. david's say saw that joe biden had a message problem. he had a clarity problem. he had an energy problem. now nobody here is going to bolts any differently, at least that's what they told me, they were not quit. they were not swung by this debate. but a few of them did tell me afterwards. they felt that that this may have an effect on undecided voters. they thought that this debate would swing more undecided voters towards trump. so even if it's supporters can see that even his supporters can see that. and that should be very worrying for job. i didn't indeed and benjamin we spoke earlier about trump trying to stem that internal k austin night. in many ways he had the lower hurdle known for being an exaggerator,

known for his many mistress. was he at least successful in trying to keep order? he was especially if you just look, for example, at the body language, there was a lot of coughing, a lot of applause. we just left the place. we're just outside the plays with this were public and it was party happened. they turned on the music. it's really a party mode in there now, a lot of coughing, a lot of saying that he did a really good job. but if we just look at the body language, trouble quotes in attack mode, it's easy for him not being the, the, the actual or a president right now. but really on an attack mode with fine looking to the side, looking down, taking a notes. and there was a lot of copying, many of the, his supporters that were he and that we also talked to to, they said that the democratic party is indeed in big trouble. and benjamin, the trump's commitment to basic democratic principles is a massive concern in this election was by unable to successfully drive that point home. and the trump really do anything to alleviate those concerns. he

tried to do it with several, several times, but also this is something that we, we spoke to a lot of people and also saw some of the reactions and social media because it's not only one of the what the candidate sat. but also, if it's packed, checked or not, and specially. and now on this debate with cnn, we saw some claims. donald trump, for example, said the president biden is paid for china. there is no evidence for that. several of those claims to the effect check on our social media, but that's of course opens the bigger discussions, not only what the candidates say, but also if there is an intervention. if there's another question by the report is over, they just continue it to the next segment. and that's something that happened during this 1990 minute long debate. and as we know that here in europe, there are many questions about ukraine, about trade with america also about the conflict in israel. did european capitals here anything new in this debate or anything alarming? i know not really. and also this was a lot of the bass and there's been, yeah,

i mean, just said, you know, the to moderators from the cnn. they didn't really force the tool presidents to form a prison in the sitting president to really answer questions. of course, a trundle is really critical because the european nato is members saying that he force them to pay their fair share in the united states is paying for too much, but you didn't come up with anything you and of course a joe biden who sticks with the support of would stick with the support to ukraine . but again, this wasn't the debate and i think we have to, we also really critical with the whole form of how can it be that someone like donald trump is putting out all this lies move over and over again. and does not even got questions here. so this debates which most of the debate, i'm sure with spock, a lot of questions about this forward and format and future debates if they happen

between these 2 man. alright, let's leave it there for now. thanks to our debate coverage team and his poll, janelle, doom aloud and benjamin alvarez group are all in washington dc and turning now to our other top story, the leaders meeting in brussels have endorsed candidates to fill the blocks top jobs. they've nominated ortho left on the line for a 2nd term as president of the european commission. stone in prime minister kaya carlos is likely to become the next foreign policy chief, former portuguese prime minister. antonio costa has been appointed as new head of the european council. while about 12 months to a conservative for malta is expected to be elected for a 2nd term as president of the parliament. were some of these nominations for top posts have yet to be confirmed. in a secret ballot. i asked correspond to jack park and brussels if there were any surprises with the nominations for these top jobs? no, really, to be honest with you,

steven. it has gone off as we have lodge. we expected it to and that's because the sens risk political majority that basically one of the most folks in new york, the impala meant elections in the beginning of june. they clumped together and decided that these nominations would be the one to be put forward. so now we know the sort of on the line that you are paying commission president will be nominated by the leaders here. but she has to go to a vote in the european parliament where the 720 elected members. they get to decide whether they approve her or not, and they don't have to vote on political lines because it's a secret ballot. so she has to pretty much get the best part of 400 votes in order to get herself over the line. she can expect the european peoples policy, there's the political groups she comes from the day you will approve her. but we don't know if all of the others, the socialist and the liberals, that she needs the best thing of as well in the european parliament. well that whether they would vote in line, it's not a done deal yet,

but most people do expect that while it might be typed on the line will be able to secure those voters. kaya kyla, the stony and a prime minister, who's just being voted just being appointed the foreign policy chief, she'll have to go through the same thing, antonio. acosta though he doesn't have to do it. he gets his job today. he'll start in december as you are being kinds of presidents. we know the 5 years ago that vote for funded line was actually quite close. it looks to be close again. this time, what is going to be necessary to bring her over the line? what you'll need to basically courier enough to support, make sure she gets those votes from her own political party and keep the socialist on line in line. what's interesting here tonight, what's happened to this summit? the was the voters among the other leaders as well because it's an east, georgia, maloney, the prime minister. we know that she actually abstained the co sources. those told me that she abstained on approving the appointment of us to live on the line going

forward. the hard right group that was known as the easy, all group in the european parliament with georgia miller and his policy sits within they are seen in quite upset that they didn't, despite the miss the biggest policy in the european parliament. we expect this dose and changing focus on how they will group together. she felt that they deserved one of these top jobs, but instead is going to a sense, a right to christian democrats, a socialist, and to a liberal politician. so the abstention really say some says something, it means that the italians, one in favor and is quite ready for a big economy like it to lead to not to prove the european commission president in the vote like we saw here tonight. how did, how, how that will affect things going forward. but it will show that the relationship between the italian prime minister and the, the future commission president, if she gets approved us live on the line that may be rocky going forward. i'm assuming that funded line does when, what can we expect from her and from the commission in the coming 5 years. so it's

a high priority, and we actually had a the, the ukranian pregnant, the president brought him, it is a landscape here in brussels that the summit today, high priority is to get ukraine in new york in union. we saw that membership to start, but that will have to overcome a veto specifically by the hun, gary in 5 minutes to victor. o'brien who is basically said he's opposed to everything that's happened today, including funded lives nomination, including many of the other things that have happened and gardens are often opposing things, but nobody was able to veto this show. also try and get her green deal back on track. there was some shit, so way of some of the green deal agenda to try and make the european union the 1st climate and mutual confidence as the priority to us of on the line. so you'll have a lot of pressure to do that and specifically as well, what we know going forward, and we've heard it in, in the press conferences off of this summit, is that the issue of security and defense is going to be a priority. it's widely expected that in the next you repeat and commission that

will be a specific uh, sort of unit, a bio defense of security, which that has an ever being really specifically in your opinion before how that will look, how that shape that will be in the on the lines, image fixed, you can pop that you're past that you are a problem. if i drop park and brussels, thank you very much. let's have a look else. some of the other stories making headlines around the world to at least 7 people have been killed and several more injured after a passenger train crashed into a bus. in southern slovakia, the train was traveling from the check capital, prague to budapest. the collision occurred near novas um key 110 kilometers east of the capital process lava researchers in china, i have opened the chunk of 6 lunar probe at a ceremony and begging it return to earth on tuesday, after collecting the 1st ever samples from the far side of the moon, the rock and soil samples are expected to help scientists understanding of how the

moon formed and evolved the space agency nasa has commissioned deal on most of the company space x to help the orbit the international space station in 2030. essentially bringing it into a controlled crash on earth to end its operations. the i s. s has been operated by nasa in space agencies of canada, japan, russia, and europe. for around a quarter of a century, farther and farther away. and finally, to alton illinois in the us, where a mass of sink hole has opened up in the middle of a football field. measure some 30 meters wide and 9 meters deep and it's swallowed a light pole, and winters. no injuries have been reported. officials say the field was laid on top of an old limestone mine, which could have cost the collapse that's all we have for now. we'll just be back soon with more headlines. in the meantime, you can check out, check out our interview series,

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