[000:00:00;00] the, this is dw news line from berlin, ron alexa reform is president, results from fridays run off show my sued, vist, that spinning with a convincing victory over his hard line rival. but it was the lowest turn out in the islamic republic. history also coming up. i don't think anybody's qualified to be present even when does raise us prisoner joe biden insist in an interview that he is fit for another 4 years in office. that's after the 81 year old looked frail and confused in last week's debate. an extra seat in spain,

as it's national team wins or birth to the euro, 2024 semi finals, an agony in host nation, germany as fancy their championship dreams extinguish the unlike. look who welcome in a run. reform is former health minister must food possession and has been elected president. the electoral authority says, possessed in got more than $16000000.00 votes out of about $30000000.00 tasks in friday's run off. he was the only reform candidate allowed to run his hard line rivals who opposed reviving nuclear negotiations with the west got fewer than 14000000 volts. it was the lowest turn out for the presidential contest since he is lubbock,

with public was founded with less than half of eligible voters casting ballasts or at least a totally new job is founder and director of the center for middle east and global order. i asked him how significant possess gains victory is for the country. i think 1st of all, we have to note the fact that a majority of the ones did not participate in this round of elections and the 1st rounds, the official rates. uh, there was a mouse, was 40 percent this time around around so you know, almost 50 percent. and again, those are official figures. so when i was asked to the counsel of it and secondly, shows that there has been some, you know, support for a position that could be interpreted as a kind of protest vote against a power centers of the wrong and the supreme leader. and the urgency side ged is contender was basically a re on part the reincarnation of this hotline,

a stance within the center of power in the wrong and potentially some, you know, very, very social base of the reforms also cast it about for him. so this explains why he has one, you know, people might be curious about what difference of reformers can actually make in iran, given that the last word, if you will, comes from the nations conservative supreme liter. as absolutely, there is a lot of confusion in the west when it comes to uh, so hold reformers or reform is within the song of the public a wrong the most in most cases noise figure is a glorified there, misinterpreted as to be you know, moderates or to be really willing to embark on a, on a, on a path to reform. whereas as you suggest, um you know, the power centers are still there and so they have not changed. is the supreme

leader out in harmony? you see? so hold office, which is a course are parallel to government plus, plus the sun rose regard court and positions. john, even within the reform is kind of, he's a super loyal loyalist visa v. this a pa sensor. so in other words, whatever he has pledged to the wrong people during the campaign season to bring your balance is more than questionable because he's not the one who's deciding. but he will, the will that he will be the one who was implementing any kinds of decisions. beach and sadly, beatrix generally that is decided by the so, so i just want to, i'm so sorry to interrupt you, but i just want to be clear about this or you're saying that he's effectively a reform is in name only that he wouldn't actually be in a position to effectuate change on the ground or yeah, the thing is that we don't have the, you know, good understanding what reform is

a means within the confines of the song republic and those reformers. and this is why they've lost a lot of popular legitimacy over the last decade and more because they have not been looking for ways to really push for change. so i mean, at best, they can be explained as a very loyal opposition. but even the, you know, the name opposition would not be fitting. so uh no, those are not reformers. those are not before the reformers, according to this sense of the world that we normally would, is uh with would take for grant. let's talk briefly about external policies. how much of a difference will this make on some key questions for iran, ranging from nuclear issues, to complex in the middle east? the loser issue and relations with the united states. um, but also it runs, uh, regional policies are all decided by the supreme leader to be sondra with regard to

the court and the president. so it is not going to change the president going to be probably a nicer phase of ease of use, especially the west. so this may be also part of the cop calculation from the power center to allow them to run in the 1st place. so that the reform is, presidents can, uh, can a word of some pressure from the west on the quiet, you know, quite advantages for the power center and for the combination of iranian policies as we've seen it. so this may be also some of you know, part of the calculation from the power center to allow them to run, to, to portray this kind of misleading a, you know, image a positive image, especially to the west. our thanks to all the fact all new shot founder and director of the center for middle east and global border again. many thanks,

sir. thank you. you as president joe biden has described his recent debate with donald trump as a bad episode and is vowing to stay in the presidential race calls for bonnie to step aside, had been growing since the debate with concerns about his health and fitness for office in an interview with us media biden said only quoting now, the lord almighty could persuade him to drop out, but so far that isn't happening. joe biden is in damage control mode coming out, swinging at his legs, his campaign of into the front foot of the question on. so many mine probably her last week scans here is my best performance. whatever. so i said there's been a lot of speculation. we're still going to do. you're going to stay in the race

rob of what you're going to do. here's why is there are no waiting again biden's defined speech was a far cry from his debate performance with donald trump, which had seemed shot quite a while through the democratic candidate, a $100.00 event. more. if we finally b, medicare taken president by the president, trump was right, he did beat medicaid beat it to death. that is destroying medicare discussion over the shaky showing is not going away in an exclusive interview with abc using ca, george stephanopoulos prison, and bite and trying to allay fee is that up? so no, any keys, any serious condition? i was exhausted. i do listen to my instincts in terms of parents and as a bad night because my reception was feeling terrible. matter of fact, the docs with me, i asked they did a cobra test. we were trying to figure out what's wrong to do the test to see

whether or not i had some inspection. you know, a virus. i didn't just had a really bad cold. and did you ever watch the debate afterwards? i don't think i did to the end of the biden has pointed to trump's repeated lives during the debate and his label. trump, who was a convicted felon, a one man crime wave, but that doesn't appear to have stemmed growing consumes, at least for house democrats have called for biden to sleep. down. speculation surrounds a possible replacement vice president come a harris and california governor, get a new some are among names being bandied about. but vitamin c is he is the most qualified person to beat donald trump, them november's election, and remains at him. he will not be leaving the race sports now and in the quarter finals are the you owe 2020 for football championships,

france have security spot in the semi finals. they were all square at neil neil after 90 minutes and extra time. the game then went to penalties and the french held there and served to send christiano renados portugal home from the tournament . spain became the 1st team to to symbolize the spaniards scored 1st before germany equalized. much to the joy again went into extra time with the sides. wanted one all, but it was being restored just before penalties were required. nichol moreno headed in the winter were sending fans in barcelona, and right across spain into a frenzy as their team entered the last 4. as the w sports corresponded. daniel barcelona joins me now. down here, the host team, germany or out after a hard freaking loss. tell us what happened. yeah, it was definitely heartbreaking. i mean,

it was almost too bad that we had to see this match. so early in the tournament, i'd say, would have been a match that you would have loved to see in a final, of course, because these are to the best performing sides coming into this game. now, it was an absolute roller coaster of emotions for the fans. i was in the fans on actually last night watching it, you know, as being taking the lead. and then for inverts at the last minute, giving them a little more hope only for spain to dash their hopes again. um, absolutely, but it was a brilliant game. and while the german fans are pretty disappointed, there's a silver lining because they didn't crash out and their performance is good. the last to a very solid spin side, of course, you saw 20 crews in his last match ever. he's retiring. we have some of the reactions from the german national team players after the match. so we can actually take a look at that now. a moment's minds of the moment when you saw the bulls flying into the go. that was, of course,

a step in the heart. it hurt you. it is according to every 2nd that you realize it's over now that tomorrow you have to pack your bags feels hotter and hotter. it's not nice. it's a very unsatisfying feeling and it definitely hurts a lot of eating food on the talking because every time it now we've played against one of the best teams in the world. and unfortunately, we would not count. but fundamentally, i do believe that what germany has done with football, the way we performed here, we will in united as a team. it's one of the hard, i think you saw a mindset today that had been lost. yes. even just because of the late go that's happened a lot late thing was why are we believe in ourselves as a team? and i hope the team will believe in themselves in the future when i'm just a spec change that them. so just a spectator now will french book their place in the semi finals after a very tense penalty shoot out against portugal. tell us more about that. so well. germany in spain was brilliant, france and portugal was

a little bit lackluster. and that is been the criticism of this french side throughout the tournament, a very strong side with some of the best players in the world, some of the best attacking players in the world. now to put that into perspective for you, okay. france has only scored no goals from open plan to tournament. they've gotten to own goals and one penalty shot. so they've been a lot of criticisms for video to shop to their managers, and he's very risk averse. he thinks about defense 1st. now that being said, it's been effective for them. they have a lot of good players, and they have the capacity to have those players that can change the game in an instant. now we hope we do see a little bit more from france moving forward because they do play against spain next. and it's not going to be good enough to just straight by because main is a very strong side. france can be so electric. it's so bizarre to watch um, looking for today, what can we expect coming up? so we have 2 matches today. we have of course, england taking on switzerland. england is another one of those sides. it's been

criticized for being a little bit lack luster, a very strong switzerland group. in the next game we have netherlands turkey. now in this game, most of the talk has been actually off the pitch completely because defender medi dummied out, he was suspended by you waif. up for 2 games in the last game against austria, he's scored. and he did a controversial celebration, a wolf salute with his hands, which is associated with the far right. now that has sparked a political debate that goes much beyond the pitch of the gun would be at the game of turkish officials that have criticized the fact that he was suspended, saying that there is a double standard. also, german officials have said this is a racist salute. there's no place for that in our stadiums. so a lot of tension going into this match tonight. i'll actually be there. we can expect that this conversation will not end here as if the drama on the pitch wasn't enough, dw, so done. you're barcelona from dw sports, thanks as always, thank

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