[000:00:00;00] the, the vote counting is underway in iran, as the people choose, a new president following last month's death of abraham racy and a helicopter crash. the new york times editorial board calls on biden to drop out of the presidential rates, calling him a shadow of a great public service after his train rec performance. in the 1st debate with donald trump, the independent us presidential candidate, robert half kennedy junior argues that the nation deserves better and to choose between the lesser of 2 evils. people across the country are accurate and echoing this sense,

and i think we have not good choices. these are clear choices is bad. honestly, labels is like a disaster. and iran threatens israel with a devastating war. if televi decides to embark on full scale military aggression against lebanon's has the law, as israel says, it's ready to open another from the just about 88 am here in the russian capital and you're watching our t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. our top story radians have cast their ballots to elect a new president for the country and a snap vote following the tragic death of abraham, right, you see. and a helicopter crash last month with over $12000000.00 votes counted reformist. my sold positions key on is reported to be gaining over conservative, said joe lily,

in the radian presidential election polling stations closed on friday evening after several extensions allowing all those ready and willing to cast their boats. if no candidate wins at least 50 percent plus one votes from all the ballots cast, the country will hold a run off between the 2 top candidates. but to get more on this story now we're going across live to r t corresponding my d. c on thanks for joining us from to ron marty. you take us through the latest developments and the reigning and capital well, since last night after the closure, the official closure of pulling the stations across the country, soon, the process of vote counting began under the supervision of official observers, as well as the representatives of the 4 candidates to oversee the, the process of a vote counting the iranian interior ministry. the body in charge of releasing the

result has been gradually giving updates. uh, giving out updates about uh, the number of votes counted and about the detail of which candidates has garnered. how many votes based on the latest updates, the leading candidates are the ex health official. uh, health minister. uh, actually a lawsuit position beyond. uh, who has a slight lead over uh, site. yeah. the, the, the ex, uranian nuclear negotiator. uh, so for 14000000 votes have been counted and based on the numbers published by the interior ministry lawsuit position the on has managed to garner of 5900000 votes. more of the site jelly. how so fort secure uh 5500000 votes. mama boulder valuable on will stuff of poor mama the are in 3rd and 2nd, the 4th place. but the gap between the last 2 is widening the 1st 2, which means johnny and position

b on are the main contenders and the real race is between them. now are the points i have to highlight is of the flags of that. and as we mentioned, as you mentioned, the winning candidate based on the constitution is required to secure, more than 50 percent of the votes. if the case continues to be the same as it is now, neither jellies nor position beyond cannot reach the limits required to win this election. and probably the possibility there will be a snap election. sorry a um a run off the election held on july 5th. the next, next friday, and again, iranians have to, uh go to the pulling stations to choose between the winter and the runner up of this election back to you. all right, r t corresponding monday i must see on bringing those those details into around thanks a lot of stay with us at our

t international on air and online for the latest developments on it runs highly anticipated election results and other news, the new york times editorial board is calling for joe biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. this comes after the us president struggled to keep up with donald trump in their 1st debate and the election cycle. the president appeared on thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. he struggled to explain what he would accomplish. in the 2nd term, he struggled to respond to mister strums publications. q struggled to hold mr. trump accountable for his life. his feelers and his children plans more than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence. mainstream media outlets are admitting the debate was a disaster for the incumbent president with headlines screaming for him to bow out of the rates. a prominent champion of the democratic party, comedian john stuart,

offered this marketing send and let's see how it began. most men came out and oh yes. ok. and then both men are ambulatory. they are both right. level one clear. we know the bar that's been set up for each to pass biden as a not look a and not have a senior moment go. 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 coven, i should be with dealing with everything we have to do is if we finally b, medicare, take you, president 5, i'd the

okay a high pressure situation, a lot of times you can confuse saving medicare with beating it. i'm sure it's not something that repeated throughout the debate, causing democrats across the country to either jump out of windows or vomit silently into the nearest recycling. then anybody can as talking as the calls for bite and to quit grow louder. the main stream media is looking into potential replacements. vice president, kamala harris appears the most obvious replacement, but she, herself, has competition. the bad news for the dams is that whoever may replace the parties nominate will still likely lag behind donald trump. and several polls back that up, a fox news survey concluded that biden's most popular replacement would be michigan governor gretchen whitmore. in fact, most democratic voting responded and said that the current president would be the

least favorable candidate in the batch going forward. meanwhile, independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy junior sees the trump biden's debate as the momentum boost for his 3rd party campaign. he says that the nation is weary of picking between the lesser of 2 evils, sent in his view. democracy should elevate the cream of the crop, but this debate has shown otherwise. this sentiment seems to resonate with many media commentators and disheartening voters. a like a, i think a lot of people just are in denial that these are the 2 candidates running for president like i, we just including myself, but yeah, we just have not actually internalized and accepted. these are your choices. is that, um, you know, i would like seen them answer the questions mark cuz they just were like you're, you're worse and yours is like it. we know you're both that tell us what you're good. and so honestly they both have like a disaster. it just seem like 2 toddlers kind of going at it. it was really

hard to watch. like i wanted to turn it off almost immediately. my reaction was just a lot of sadness. i think we have is not good choices. the pulse of the muslim community has been, especially over the last, around 8 months and that we have to not so great options. i think it's a national embarrassment that that is our representation of leadership and especially what they both have done. even more of an embarrassment, but it is a sad day for america, and we spoke with political scientists, glenn decent. who says that the options for voters have for president do the country a disservice? well, i don't think it was much of other bates a door to canada, so for 19 minutes exchanged insults and the talking points which have been the

rarest seen a month. so i don't think it was a good look for the united states, and they did leave me with some sense of an empire in the terminal declines. i would say that the election and most between to the political candidates and most people probably ask himself why the us couldn't produce any other candidates, which will be better. and i think the answer is that the merits across it is august, may have undermined by the corruption of the political system and also their dishonest media. so, so i would say that in the blue color i society, there is a sense of the need to excuse anything that your own side us just amount of for group loyalty means there's very little room for criticism on one's own candidates . and this tends to result in corruption really frustrating itself in the system and there for not being addressed in addition to that either. so which side one? i think all the civil far show us about trump one, which is why there's now

a huge advantage in the democratic party. so i also think it was a predictable disaster providing was obviously in cognitive decline. presidents and it will be very difficult for my need to recover from this. the page separated. so i'm clear, as you know, is the democrats, so put them on stage again, or change states to replace them and way of so i guess decided, excuse me, for debates, for sense could also result in more people looking towards the 3rd party candidates, such as the candidate, what do we get to total benz a few hours after the showdown, joe biden returned to his re election campaign trail in north carolina. and then the parent display of damage control the american liter claims that while he's not as snappy as he used to be, is it least honest. unlike his republican rival, the democrat also defended the nation's economic record under his presidency of the day. we have the strongest economy in the world without exception. 15 to job

a 100000 miles to job the 4 percent for richard, 2 years in a row to store unemployment. but some leading financial analyst beg to differ. the international monetary fund has stated that the us government's handling of the economy crates, serious problems, not just for washington, but the entire world hi deficits. and that creates a growing risk for the us. and the global economy potentially feeding into higher fiscal financing costs. the ongoing expansion of trade restrictions and things sufficient progress and interest and development abilities, both pose important downside risks. yeah, map also questions the intensifying of us trade barriers saying that the us economy could bear the brunt of such practices and recommend its recommendations include

income tax increases and reform of the benefit system such as welfare and the medicare program. the country's national debt, which measures what the west owes to its creditors, has balloons to a record $34.00 trillion dollars. let's get more on the story now. we're going across live to mark humphrey associate professor of finance at the university of new south wales business school. thanks a lot for joining us. mark. the 1st question i want to ask is about the i am app saying that the us, the us is debt poses the risk for other countries. so would you say that this makes keeping reserves in dollars that much more risky for countries all around the world of those things that had to make and actually the us dish is no great use really go anywhere roast the list of us did is ballooning well the us then, but a basis of issues in terms of, well that's the reliability is a repeated and also in terms of the interest rate that, that is going to accrue. so for example,

a new listing just rates coming up with the interest rate on every all the us nominated. it also is going to go up. and that's supposed to go to effect firms that enable companies or countries that are needing to borrow in us dollars, which might cost me to wants to bus $5.00, where they have borrowing diversify, some of the currency base. when do the borrowing in r and b, whatever else they're going to be borrowing in instead of us dollars. so he does pose a broad, a challenge and a particular for us to be increasing more and more and more live might try to sort of more of the capital flows from other countries. they looked into creating some capital, rationing, more generally in the, in the global fixing come up. well the 1st u. s. presidential debate took place on thursday. what do you think? what kind of impact do you think november's elections will have an economy? uh, what kind of effects do you think uh, biden's tr horrific display of the debates will have on the confidence of other countries in the united states financial capabilities and which of the candidates

or parties could you do you think would manage the risk best to? well, us debt showing no signs of getting 80 there. so for example, it's over $34.00 trillion dollars at the moment in 2020. is it the one trillion dollars or a little bit off to that? and that was during the peak of quote, quote. so as jessica who was the us, this is not really showing signs of significant improvement. anyway, so the was deficit in 2023 is running at $1.00 trillion dollars. that's up to when create created in 2020, to the east, off from the co. the peak of $3.00 for again, basically we're talking prints of dollars in depth, which is fun going, which is just good at the desktop publishing for any depths that you need to borrow to balance the books. the not potty isn't really going to get this under control, but good different id, logical ways to try to apply to basically wants to increase taxes, which has some downside to a subcontract in terms of what companies,

desirability to go out and look how the origin rate in bold worth, i either or more texas is going to be generated. those companies potentially going to have a blessed money left of it's going invest in capital expenditure in the black. and the money would go into government revenue, which might be spend efficiently, which is being the tories, the, the case in the united states. by contrast to book president, trump was to reduce taxes and his gold a tried to stimulate economic growth and grow the time with generally separate certainly was the car company types has to 20 percent is an underlying logic. if the company texas go down, going to generate more growth, and when companies generate more good, they are paying more taxes on i put in dollar terms. and also the replying will people in high wages, again paying high taxes. so we've got 2 different approaches here. neither is really going to significantly tackle the spending issue with us and political non stop. so for example, in the door, i'm saying you'll come medicare or medicaid, isn't very difficult for you to get elected,

which exacerbates the structural depths and that is under the and the whole problem . now to some extent, president trump approach is probably going to generate more economic growth. but there's a downside involved in tax. so potentially imposing a power of 10 percent of the old impulse has some significant risk associated with it. to be ideal, potentially the tax cuts the president trump is looking for and trying to manage the spending growth is always inherent in both government spending the spending of the money east, albany inefficient west. president biden doesn't to be to have a good plan to generate more growth because these plans effectively go in increased capital gains taxes. so an increase taxes on the bench and capital in private equity go removing the tax breaks rosemont increasing taxes on higher income owners will just leave the united states for home, co listing or pull married other locations. president trump hasn't been a plan to generate growth. however,

neither is necessarily going to get in the depths it down to 10 at the moment. hold on a 2nd. yeah, i am a fraud attention to is the expansion of us trade restrictions. it said that it poses a risk for america itself. do you think that the us is now going to potentially reconsider it's sanctions regime considering the fact that i mean it's already clear that it's had boomerang and negative effects for western economies as a whole to well, i stick to the us, he's on what the reconsider is the sanctions regime or the back of what the by and this is saying, however, looking it, particularly president from the peace would re calibration, the sanctions and power free shapes. in some ways that might lead to higher power sections in some ways, lower towers and sections. so for example, that is the goal of bringing in or his goals or bringing in more power. so inputs generally, which appears to be growing based, at least for example, the country could demonstrate that there's not dumping goods in the united states.

so that's what he's privacy with is with task particularly on inputs coming in from china. which could, of course, increase prices and have some negative ramifications for us in terms of sanctions. if he's president, trump might try to increase sanctions on some countries. in particular, a rod seems to be on the radar. the hell of a president from a piece to want to try to drill us involvement in european conflicts, such as those in ukraine to an end, which might reduce some of the terrorists that impose your relation to russia and black. so i suspect it'd be some big steam pets. i'd not expect the us on the present button, but would significantly recalibrate it starts right now. and i suspect to the, i have this expectations and likely to drive that change. all right, mark humphrey associate professor of finance at the university of new south wales business school. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. thanks. that'd be great with you.

and now we go to france where the national riley party of marine la pen and jordan bar. dell has broken its record in terms of voters support. 37 percent are ready to vote for the national rally party with the left coalition in 2nd place. standing at 28 percent and the current presidential coalition trailing at just 20 percent or to contributor rachel marston takes a closer look at microns 7 year track record. price voters are heading to the polls on sunday. the 2nd time in less than a month for the 1st round, the voting and the national election called by president a man reading back home. where do you have a town to him? tossed his party 2nd place results against the anti establishment national riley party in the european parliamentary elections out of the from the risk now is that he did end up with 3 years left on the clock in his presidential mandate. but without government majority required to ran through his agenda since it's the as

far as 1000 parties on both the right and the left that are consistently leading the pulls right now. and who knew that mack home plain along with brussels, rejecting cheap russian energy that's built as you basically every single supply chain here in france could lead to redeem changing his own government. voters also say that they really care about immigration in security, but also perhaps as a place in europe and in the rest of the world. so how is that going under mac home? yesterday's frank, a freak is being replaced by military was a freak economic trying to freak or diplomatic america freak. and what can we say unfortunately about the regression of the francophone in relation to the english language? it isn't a time to rethink our vision of africa and its connection with france. for our part, we do not resign ourselves to our gradual disappearance from the entire continent. brands have been hey, around and this a hell region of africa was counter terrorism and stabilization operations that

were so successful that they led to choose right under the noses of the french in places like molly new shad. i'm burkina faso and their own adventure will allister, which is a real problem for paris when, for instance, france had been mining uranium in the shaft to power. it's nuclear reactors, but not cold, defense minister just doesn't see what the big deal is. i cannot let it be said that operation ball connie's. been a failure around me is never stopped pushing back terrorist groups in this a hill saving thousands of lives on the ground and protecting those of french people from the threat of attack. so most toil, well guess if it's not a failure then it's a success, right? nothing says winning quite like being dropped kick back across the mediterranean buyer house. seems like advertising countries mean. ready just got tired of having my whole suzanne and 3 officials like hotels, staff at the point of even snarking that the president of for tina fast. so should really just go turn on the air conditioning already. pete is not going to 1994,

and it is not from his fault. i'm sorry to say it in such a lump terms. you have not been able to restore the sovereignty, neither military nor security, nor administrative of your country. you'll talking to me as if i was still a colonial, powerless cut on. yeah, but i don't want to be in charge of electricity in the keen, a fast as universities. that's his job. that is the job of the president of what's this? look, he's leaving to stop right there. maybe he's off to repair the air conditioning. the prizes rolling the world so important to french voters is also reflected in the overseas territories. new caledonia, for example, on the other side of the world in the south pacific, near australia, the 3rd largest producer of nickel for things like electric, car batteries and about 10 percent of the world's output search and global nickel production has led to a 40 percent drop in the value of nicole since 2023. so team that came up with,

i guess you say innovative solution to save the hurting new caledonia in nickel factories to have highly indebted new caledonia and pay 66000000 euros to help fellow perez's living cash cow, which went over about as well as you might expect once again, caledonian is we'll have to contribute. this is all the more unacceptable as they already contribute, massively to supporting the industry that's a lot. and yet the commitments required of manufacturers are non existent at all based a team that calls efforts to mess with new caledonia and elections by legislating the addition of thousands more voters to the electoral roles to dilute the native count it vote effectively. and all of that, of course, results in protests. the reason that the food is always there to set things in place. because for the moment

it was he who started the civil war, new caledonia, by having the people who had caught their deported to the penal colony in france on the domestic front. the black hole isn't really seen as a big winner on security and immigration issues. another top 2 topics for french voters in the selection when a french pop allegedly shot and killed a 17 year old french teenager, of moroccan and algeria descent at point blank range. and a parisian suburb last summer for failing to abide by a traffic stop of some of the beneficiaries of mac hose, open mindedness on the domestic policy front or trigger, sparking about 5000 barbecues all over france and the usual scenery, chewing of buildings, comp, shops, and even police themselves, the, when the interior ministry report says $700.00 cops were heard. it's probably

a pretty reliable indication that you basically lost control. and the number one issue for french motors over whelming lee is the whole economy. he's cheered on brussels, sending french energy prices soaring, twin presses, girlfriends. liners, whiskey, then spend a fortune trying to offset it so that the french don't get too angry. looks like that hasn't worked out too well. but that's now come to an end. same with all the restrictions he put on daily life to a co bed with to our codes and everything, and not being allowed to just go about your daily life. normally, thing people in business is to go along with this rate until he just couldn't pay them anymore. and a result of all that was that the economy was deregulated even before the conflict in you frame. and really the french have been set off with all this since well before when he tried to squeeze aparment tax of the people on par fuel the increasingly they could not afford already sparking the yellow rascal events

the . so to under the figure that probably an election would be a good idea when he must have also figured that all these other things were good ideas too. and once again, it looks like he just may be in for another really rude awakening. breaking news here on our t 5 people including 2 children, had been killed in an overnight ukrainian drone attack on a residential building in rushes. kirk, regent authorities say to other people were wounded and are now receiving medical attention in a hospital. we will bring you more information as it comes in. now the rainy admission to the un has warned israel, it will face and obliterating more if it launches a full scale attack against hezbollah and lebanon. albeit iran diems as

psychological warfare. the zionist resumes propaganda about intending to attack 11 on should it embark on full scale military aggression, and obliterating war will ensue. all options, including the full involvement of all resistance fronts, are on the table. this comes, as the idea says, it has carried out. attacks on several has blood targets in southern lebanon. and recent hours is rarely defense minister claims. the government prefers to reach a political resolution with hezbollah, but says israel is ready for war. if the lebanese armed group wants conflict is rarely defense minister claims that $450.00 has blood militants have been killed since the start of hostilities. parties, middle east bureau chief, marine, if an option of visited the northern is rarely city of high fives, which has been marked by the lebanese militant group as a targets in the event of a military escalation. a hi funds. these wells,

the largest city and busiest ports, 30 kilometers from the lebanese border, could be among the primary targets in the vent, over the allow tour with his bella. from the spark on a high for hill, the beautiful bay area is at to your fingertips, israel's largest board as close by the dog shapes comedy in and out, cargo being loaded and unloaded roughly 20000000 tons of goods passed through here annually. drone photos recently released by his butler shows this board as clearly as if they were right here. a stark reminder from the 11 on base militant, the group. we are watching in any of the 10 minutes we do shows much of high for civilian areas and also a detailed overview of the raphael military industrial complex, including its factories, warehouses and testing fields where it is really defense systems. i made the pool, which was also extensively filmed. if the video was meant to turn or intimidate it, clearly failed is real,

responded with even harsher rhetoric and increased preparations for war on it smelled in boulder. i live up there and i have the port in front of the product. so i'm going back here. the nice is, this is this happening. so nice is happening so nice. so we need to have us for some level of sarcasm, you know, to, to deal with a room and is really aaron from the head ash body that promotes jewish arab cooperation. believes these really leadership is the one pushing for war. best government is already into war. this is the only guarantee for and that's a yahoo political life as shallow as it may seem. this is, unfortunately the truth. the hyphen may or earlier complained the doctor, his butler released the dread footage. no one from these really, governments called his office to assess the situation. and this is a fashion slide when government that does not really care about civilians about any