the, the you are watching the news coming to live from birth. let joe biden and, and donald trump go head to head in the 1st and us for us eventually debates really going to run to the job 90 minutes of insults from both sides and a phone to ranks performance from joe biden. that's less the democrats doing damage control. also coming up on the show you waiters and doors or set up on the line for a 2nd term as commission presidents with the confirmation vote in the european parliament court. the close

the, i'm sorry, richard signed a very warm welcome to the show joe biden, and donald trump have faced off at the 1st presidential debate ahead of november's elections. it was a heated showdown between the 2 oldest presidential candidates ever with each man accusing the other of being on fit for office bite and often stumbled in his answers. his voice would audibly rasp, as he promised to help americans struggling with health care costs and inflation. trump repeatedly ignored the moderator's questions peddled a false heads about his own record and painted an apocalyptic picture of the country under bite in the cause. any case you missed it here are some of the key moments from that debates. making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i have been able to do with the,

with the coverage or excuse me, with the dealing with everything we have to do is uh what if we finally be medicare taking president and president trump was right, he did beat medicaid, made it to death. i will have that war settled between food and angel lisky as president of deluxe. before i take office on january 20th, i'll have that were settled. my son was not a moves or was not a sucker. you're the sucker. you're those are the only portion of the stages. you can victor television and i'm looking at right now. what, what, what are you talking about? yeah, the most of that we can do to do the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum of present drunk. i really don't know what he said at the end of this is, i don't think he knows what he said. either look,

correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber, up late covering the debate for us and washington d. c. benjamin democrats went into this, hoping it would reassure voters, but biden is fit for another term. did that happen? so not really well, president barton himself thinks he did well and database many, spotty, see that differently. it was a biden's most important job to put to rest, voters concerns about his age, but he definitely felt it to do so. he fumbled on many topics, some of them very important. and for the democrats and issues elections like abortion. well, some analysts said that this debate sent shock waves through the democratic party. the debate organize us is cnn chose the following title. on his own page, it's rates. and i quoted biden's poor showing and trumps repeated falls. so it's, and the fact that the general focus and discussion right now is name on the 1st part of the titles and not the 2nd part is already a huge window for donald trump. so let's talk

a little bit about that 2nd part. then what about form or present donald trump's performance? how did you do it? challenges are definitely an easy, a position that incumbent there was not a surprise that he would be in attack mode throughout this 90 minute debate. that was the case. he was constantly attacking a by and by the also he once again repeated lies, made a false claims without any push back from the 2, and moderators to there was some questions. if it was ask you just answered something completely different. you put out claims, for example, the bite, and it allegedly gets paid by china, something for what, there is no evidence at all. and he was ask repeatedly whether he will accept the results of the 2020 full presidential election a to which he replied. and i quote, if it's a fair and legal and also a good election, so definitely something that many and will continue commenting on. and the next couple of days, you have to wonder what americans watching,

made of all of this are their numbers that suggests whether watching this debate did indeed change any voters. mine's. so that's a good question. also, cnn organized this debate. the 1st debate between these 2 candidates, even before and the t a conventions that it will happen from the republicans. but also from that the democrats and the 2 important and interesting also questions. the a, one of those is key numbers is that 4 out of 5 of the debate watch is said that this debate had no effect on the presidential a choice. and, and now the important question here is that 48 percent of the baseboards has set the trump better address, concerns about the ability it to handle the presidency compared to 23 percent. that's set the same with a presidential bye. benjamin. stay with us for just a moment. i'd like to see 1st more from what americans thought of this. our team was out speaking to democratic and republican voters for their view.

the oh, i think the democratic party is going is red alarm at the democratic convention for sure. i don't know if they're going to keep president biden as their candidate. i think this was a disaster for him. from the moment it started to the moment he was a disaster. benjamin, let's pick up on that. where do things go from here? how, how realistic would it be for the democrats to consider changing? they're not many changing their candidate at this stage. so there are many concerned voices within the democrats, and that's the big question. now of course, now these concerns are happening behind closed doors, but we're definitely at a stage where we might hear some of the democrats and also high ranking officials

within the democratic party coming out saying that the needs to be an alternative. because even though the democratic national convention is scheduled for august in chicago, the talks is surrounding replacing by and have definitely intensified off to this debate. but if they want to replace spine is and how many they will need chase, cooperation. and probably also take a decision quite soon. so the 2 big questions are it, when this talks will happen also with a joe biden, also, what is the leadership of the democratic party says? and then of course, who might be all the alternatives, these talks will happen soon. they will not wait for the democratic national. it conventions because we can, we can hear already that many of the democratic party are asking the questionnaire, saying the binding should not be then how many of their party for the presidential election or correspondent benjamin abra. grover and washington. thank you so much.

let's bring you up to speed now with some other world new stories at this hour. at least 7 people have been killed after a passenger train crashed into a boston southern slovakia. the train was traveling from the check capital project to budapest when it hit the boss at a railway crossing. it's not clear whether a technical failure or human error was to blame the us space agency, nasa has commissioned e one must company space acts to help the orbit, the international space station, essentially bringing it to a controlled crash on earth to end its operation in 2030, the i as us, has been operated by nasa in the space agencies of canada, japan, russia, and europe for around a quarter century from as you leaders have met in brussels to nominate candidates for the blocks top positions they've endorsed or so left underlined for a 2nd term, as president of the european commission, estonian prime minister pyre tell us is likely to become the use next foreign policy chief european,

and former portuguese prime minister antonio costa has been appointed as a new head of the european council. or so left on the line later. thank you, leaders for their backend and what plane and simply like to express my gratitude to the leaders when doors to my normally nation. for a 2nd mandate as president of the european commission. for me, this means that i had now we'll seek confirmation from the european parliament on my appointment after presenting my political guidelines for the next 5 years. so there's another step to do on the way forward. thank you. and dw jack barrack has this update from brussels, a, a big success for the european commission president, sort of on the lions. she's done a big campaign to get this nomination. and it's been approved be you. lead is did approve it, the italian prime minister. we know of stained don't georgia, maloney in the vote, the signal some complications between the 2 of them going forward. we also know

that kaya call us, the estonian prime minister has been nominated as the foreign policy chief for the next 5 years. and i post a slip on the line and kind of call us, they will have to be approved by a majority in the european parliament that will be done in the secret ballot. so well, they can carry you favor with that political groups and the political backing of the coalition that is expected to box them. some of those may descend, so they'll need to make sure that they can get that vote over the line. it will come in the next couple of months, antonio acosta. the former portuguese prime minister, however, he gets his job as the you kind of so president, he only needs be you leaders to approve that and they did it by a majority. so he, in december, we'll take his position. what's interesting in this, when we look at what the priorities of the you going forward will be with us sort of on the line. that is how we can expect to try to continue this speedy process for ukraine's. but coming to you members state that she has got going,

we also know that that will be a defense and security portfolio we expect in the next your p and commission is never be met before. she will try and make that in her image. i shall also press the high green deal to get back on track off to the last year or so. there's been shipping away if the sort of green i'm visions of, of the she had put in place that will be high priority going forward. it wasn't a big surprise that it was large. the expect to that these names would come. i mean, i broadly know what we expect the use the to ship to look for like, for the next 5 years, a jack barrack reporting there. now in your ron pulse of opened for a special election to replace late president abraham ra, you see who was killed in a helicopter crash last month. around 61000000 iranians eligible to vote. they will be choosing between the 3 hard liners and one moderate candidate. official results are expected on sunday. the change of leadership and iran comes at a time of high domestic and regional tensions. after 3 years of embrace these

hartline need to ship it on 61000000 borders. once again have a choice. stewart a bore economy, western sanctions and women's rights among the most pressing issues. right, so you put in a lot of effort for the economy, but on the ground things didn't change much for the general public and people were not happy to help us when the, the time of the election the he job will be taken seriously. but when the vote is the things we'll go back to the way they was, the young people are not allowed to remove that head scarves. it's the 2 practically team of supreme leader at the last. how many the towards a do make power in eat on? the 8 on your president sets domestic policy and has some influence over foreign policy. oh, sure. presidential candidates usually ally confessed with

a consultative supreme leader. but in an effort to gardner support from a public that largely feels a unique and destructive site. the candidates have campaign rights publicly criticizing the government as one of the presidential candidates, is mohammed kazi, buff, a former commander of the blue city god. he has promised indians to devise take on me, which has been back to it by rest infections. we will definitely compensate for the gap between the inflation rates and wages, by raising your wages and providing you with necessary goods and staples in such a way that your dinner table will never shrink. and their, their leading candidate is se deleting as drug conservative as the former chief new p d negotiator and wants to press the head with it on long standing and d, western policy disorders reform. this candidate is doctor mas to

this is kim. he has been the most critical voice against them. indeed, 3 his job, and the morality police. he also fever engagement with the rest. how long? by the way, we can talk to each other. we can also learn to talk to our neighbors and the rest of the world, and then we kind of fight everyone we shouldn't find. we should not show aggression to others. somebody, human rights organizations criticize the fitness, afraid on interactions, and do worse than historically lower levels of what they're doing now remains a big challenge in this selection as well. just before we go, a quick reminder of our top story, joe biden. and donald trump faced off in a heated 1st presidential debate ahead of november's elections despite trumps of repeated false thoughts. pundits, c biden's stumbling performance as a major set back for his campaign. and what is your news update this our

i'm sorry richardson in for lynn. if you want more news or analysis, you can always find that from the website dw, dot com, or ross on social media to that's asked dw nice, thanks so much for watching the i sorry, so one on 6 times to increase the current t more people than ever on the move worldwide in such a kind of one. great timing is very, very difficult to find out about time on storing info. my grands got any issues with a lot say what the

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