the united states democratic party has kicked off its 4 day virtual convention aimed at drumming up support for its presidential candidate joe biden the event is normally act with excited crowns and confetti but this year it's being held remotely because of coronavirus the d.n.c. will see the democrats formally choose biden to take on donald trump in november key speeches on the 1st day came from senator bernie sanders and former 1st lady michelle obama. for more on this highly unusual democratic national convention i'm joined now by our reporter william cohen kroft well you know this is a 1st for every one of these national conventions usually draw huge crowds it's a gigantic spectacle what are americans in for this time around the format of certainly differ and certainly an experiment thanks to coronavirus forcing everyone to pretty much stay home to be broadcasting from remote locations some of these are prerecorded messages happening at multiple locations all around the country that are being pulled in simultaneously over these next few days but it's still very much a spectacle there's

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the united states democratic party has kicked off its 4 day all virtual convention aimed at drumming up support for its presidential candidate joe biden the event is normally packed with excited crowds and confetti but this year it's being held online because of coronaviruses it will see the democrats formally choose biden to take on donald trump in november the speeches on the 1st day will come from senator bernie sanders and former 1st lady michelle obama. for more on this highly unusual democratic national convention i'm joined now by our reporter william glue travelling and welcome to the show. this is the 1st for everyone the national convention usually jah's huge crowds it's a huge spectacle what can we expect this time around you have these republican national republican democratic national conventions are often the stuff of royalty and not the seeming you know nomination of democratic elected candidates unfortunately this year will not be seeing hillary clinton in the muck arena as we have in the 1906 convention we're going to be having multiple locations all around the count

have been through months of debt -- in the united states, democratsbeen through months of debate. tonight, with the start of the democratic national convention, the selection process comes to its formal end. four days of grandiose speeches inupport of former vice president joe ben. what it will not be is the usual schmoozing and rowdy crowds. >> tens of thousands of people should have been descending on milwaukee to mark the start of the democrats' general election campaign. instead, the party will be holding an unconventional convention because of health concerns surrounding the pandemic. ♪ >> this is what it should look like, but the normally jampacked arenas will be replaced by two hours of virtual programming each night. over the four days, speakers include party heavyweights such as the obama's and clinton's, and a miss of modetes and progressive stars, such as bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez. heading into the convention, this poster says the biden -harris ticket is in a good position, leading by a large margin. >> conventions do not

. >>> the national convention of the united states democratic party has opened to officially pick itssidential candidate. former u.s. vice president joe biden is expected to be nominated on tuesday. the party initially plplanned t bring togethther memembers and dedelegates inin milwaukee b bu to l limit the in-person presen due e to the pandemic. most speeches at the four-day convention are being made online. >> together we must build a nation that is more equitable, more compassionate, and more inclusive. i know that joe biden will begin that fight on day one. >> biden is scheduled to participate remotely from his home state of delaware and will give his aeptance eeeech o thursd. the party wi a also provove s platform during the convtition which h servess an election ededge. the democrats llll forn incrse in spding to mbat e coronarus as wl as providg a vacce to eve erican free of charge. president donald trump addressed his supporters in wisconsin in the state where democrats are holding the convention. >>>> do you want to o crush our ececonomy ununder the crazy socialist policies o

if united states. democratic presidential candidate joe biden and his newly announced running mate have made their 1st joint campaign appearance event comes ahead of biden formally accepting the democratic nomination next week. historic debut for the biden harris ticket even though the pandemic kept the crowds away the democratic duo campaigning in person together for the 1st time in joe biden's home state of delaware the former vice president called harris a tough proven fighter whose background reflected the diversity of america. and this morning all across the nation little girls woke up special little black and brown girls so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities but today today just maybe they're seeing themselves for the 1st time in a new way. as a staff of president and vice president harris is the 1st woman of color to be the vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket she accused president trump of bungling the coronavirus response and failing to confront racism. the presiden

have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive presidential candidate joe biden at an online party convention. angry and exhausted by months of locked on argentinians take over the streets of listeners. it's taken 15 years and now a un biased court is finally delivering a verdict relating to the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafiq hardy he died along with 21 others in a car bomb attack in 2005 the 4 defendants are members of the armed group hezbollah which denies involvement in the attack they won't be appearing in court then a court of reports. it's been 15 years since former prime minister rafiq head 80 was assassinated in a suicide car bombing in beirut 21 others were also killed in an act that changed the face of lebanon. the special international tribunal investigating the case is due to deliver its verdict the accused are known members of hezbollah a lebanese armed group backed by iran prosecutors have based their case on evidence of a phone network that monitore

have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive presidential candidates joe biden at an online party convention. i don't know about this and this is all it is ever live from doha also coming up an international tribunal is expected to deliver a verdict on the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri . a powerful earthquake hits the central philippines we'll be live from manila. testers and bella who skakel president alexander lukashenko now the main opposition leader was calling on the military to switch sides. the u.s. democratic party has begun its national convention the events usually packs a stadium with huge crowds but because of covert 19 it's all being done online form a 1st lady michelle obama and vermont senator bernie sanders one among a number of prominent democrats and republicans who made speeches backing joe biden for president alan fischer reports. a moment of american political history the 1st but chill presidential convention the democrats gave

standing by live and we will discuss the testimony coming up of the postmaster general of the united states. democratsusing him of -- >>> right now we are less than 90 minutes away from cnn's coverage of the most unconventional convention ever. we learned kamala harris' secret service code name, it is pioneer and we got our first excerpts of former first lady's michelle obama's speech earlier tonight. jeff, tell us more about the big moments that we can expect over the next few hours. >> wolf, it is going to be the speech from the former first lady michelle obama that is certainly being described as the biggest validation for joe biden this evening. she is a character witness for him. i am told she will speak for 18 minutes or so in deeply personal ways. this is about the fourth convention she has spoken in and this is what she plans to say, at least a part of it, about joe biden. >> i know joe. he is a profoundly decent man guided by faith. he was a terrific vice president. he knows what it takes to rescue an economy, beat back a pandemic and lead our country. and he listens. he will tell the truth.

have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive presidential candidate joe biden at an online party convention. i'm all about this in and this is our desire.

is and how wrenching it would be to to our society, she is farther left the 97% of the democrats in the united states senate, she is a left of avowed marxist, democratic socialist, bernie sanders, she is not moderate like the new york times are trying to tell you, she would decriminalize the legal immigration, decriminalize the legal immigration, she rejects a physical law on the southern border. she compared the immigration and customs enforcement service that men and women in federal law enforcement who once come here

well also in the united states the democratic party has kicked off its 4 day virtual convention aimed at further solidifying support for its presidential candidate joe biden when the event is normally packed with crowds but this year it's being held for mostly because of the coronavirus convention see the democrats formally choose biden to take on donald trump in november on the presidential candidate bernie sanders was among those to give his endorsement to joe biden saying it could help unify a divided country the cyclists that see him and some others. joe biden will end the hate and the vision trump has created he will stop the demonization of immigrants the coddling of white nationalists the races spoiled whistling the religious bigotry and the ugly attacks on women i'm a lifelong republican but that attachment holds 2nd place to my responsibility to my country that's why i've chosen to appear at this convention what we do know is that we can do better and what we've been seeing today for sure and i know that joe biden with his experience and his wisdom it is decency can bring us

got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states. the democratic national convention begins a vatsal event which will see joe biden formally named the party's presidential candidate. and i'm the star here today and this is al jazeera live from also coming up. protestors and better writers heckle president alexander lukashenko.

are now to the united states the democratic party convention has kicked off with a rousing speech frommichelle obama the wife of former president barack obama this year's convention is unlike any other because of the coronavirus pandemic the event is being held online without crowds without the confetti the democrats will formally nominate joe biden as their candidate for president to take on republican incumbent donald trump in the november election. well our correspondent defines him and is following the democratic convention for as it's easier to do it that it would have been 4 years ago stefan you just have to watch television like everyone else on this probably is the most i would say unconventional convention ever because it is online hell where the democrats how are they dealing with these new conditions. could have said it better yeah absolutely right yeah i think the sentiment in the u.s. across borders fairly good actually for what the democrats cooked up there yesterday as you said everything virtual tape speeches there is no confetti there won't be any balloons dropping at

in the united states the democratic party is holding its national convention as a as a virtual event for the 1st time due to the coronavirus pandemic it kicked off with a rousing speech from former 1st lady michelle obama the democrats will formally nominate joe biden as their candidate for president in the november election. and authorities on the indian ocean island of moriches have arrested the captain of a japanese owned ship which ran aground off the island spewing tons of oil into the pristine waters the spill spread over a vast area of endangered corals fish and other marine life in what some scientists have called the country's worst ecological disaster. german chancellor angela merkel urged the government to embed a ruse to avoid violence and start a national dialogue with a yell position that's as the country continues to be gripped by under arrest in the aftermath of president lukashenko is widely disputed election win here's what machall had to say about situation earlier today. tomorrow the european council will hold a video conference about a reeves i spoke with russian

probably i present before you the name of jimmy carter as the party, of the democratic the next president of the united states. ♪ ♪ >> election 1976, the democratic national convention. analystt is political richard scanlon. richard inis is washington, with me are professor howard penniman and mr. stephen hess of the brookings and touche and. we want to discuss the democratic convention. we will do the republican convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. before we do either of the detailed discussions we have to spend a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of the nominating convention. one has said these are real ideological struggles told by circuses. penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the co-session of american convention? convention national is the nominating of the president and vice president. party hasone time the the national existence. delegates from every state. by the directlly primary. it reads as a national partnership. it is a platform upon which the kim -- candidate stands. it serves as a meeting place between the leaders of the party and unity as the

have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive presidential candidate joe biden at an online party convention. i don't know about this and this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up an international tribunal is expected to deliver a verdict on the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime.

violent protests in portland and calling recent attacks on assault of the government of the united states. democrats accused barr of violating protestors' civil rights and sending law enforcement to portland and other u.s. cities as a prop to bolster the president's reelection prospects. let's bring wall street journal columnist and deputy editorial page editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial page writer gillian. kim, did democrats achieve what they were calling on attorney general? kimberley: they claimed that they we wanted to hear from the attorney general but they didn't let him speak. the real idea behind this is they wanted to accuse him and the trump administration of essentially sending storm troopers into cities and abusing protestors' rights and wanted to accuse him of politicizing the justice department by having ordered reviews of what happened in the 2016 election in terms of the trump-russia collusion investigation and some of the mueller indictments. the problem is that the attorney general is very good in the hearings and he's on very solid legal ground and so in

president trump wants to protect the election system in the united states. democrats want to though that into chaos. >> i hear you. absentee is different. the certification is right there. you don't have to question it. i guess i'm saying this could benefit democrats, republicans or no one to mail. my last question, i wish i could keep you. i have so many questions, that was an hour long speech. the president said democrats are using covid-19 to win the election. how is that so? >> it goes back to the mail in voting. democrats are trying to up end the election system with just a few months by pushing universal mail in voting in the country. you see states trying to do this. you have seen it fail. in new jersey you saw one in five ballots thrown out in patterson due to fraud. it took six to eight weeks to certify a election in new york. a low democrat turn out. that was almost as long as iowa. president trump wants to protect the election system. trying to up end that and use the coronavirus as a reason to not vote in person, democrats are in chaos. we want to protect

many americans particularly black women in the united states who not only made such great contributions to the united states in general we're also the democratic party many describe black women as the backbone of the democratic party in the united states and certainly they've been key to joe biden's presidential campaign thus far getting the presidential nomination so it's very important to many people perhaps in a symbolic way largely of what she represents as a candidate intensely vice president as far as whether that will change votes our research would suggest that it wouldn't of course we have not had a black woman let alone a black person as a vice presidential candidate we have as a presidential candidate barack obama we can only speculate about some of those effects but many of the other effect that people tend to expect they have in the past about let's say like mike pence that he would bring in evangelical christians or bring in conservatives or that sarah pail who bring in women right actually our research shows that generally does not happen and frankly what you think republicans i make of this choice you know republicans will not

proudly i place before you the name of jimmy carter as the nominee of the democratic party and the next president of the united states[applause] ♪ ♪ >> election 1976, the democratic national convention. your host is political analyst richard scammon. richard: this is richard scammon in washington. with me are professor howard honeyman of howard -- howard university and mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. we want to discuss the democratic convention. we will do the republican convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. but perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions we conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an american national presidential nominating convention. one observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. we know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. but howard penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an american convention? howard: the national convention is the time of the nominating of the president and vice president. it is also the

part of the character and sense of our government -- and essence of our democracy in the unites states. democratso republican, republicans and democrats. that is who we are. we cannot allow donald trump to break that up. jonathan: having said that, were you then surprised that attorney general barr -- you asked him the jet -- the question, quote, if the results are clear, i would leave office. you were asking him if he would leave office at the end of the term if the president lost the election. were you surprised that the attorney general of the united states would not say unequivocally that he could? rep. jeffries: i was surprised that he provided a somewhat direct answer that he would leave. as the attorney general often does, he is a very slick character, provided himself some room and i did not have the opportunity to explore it during my five minutes of questioning. along with chairman nadler, we have sent him a follow-up letter and asking him, tell us what circumstances you think would not be clear. we think the american people are going to decisively vote donald trump out of office and re

violent protests in portland and calling recent attacks on assault of the government of the united states. democrats accused barr of violating protestors' civil rights and sending law enforcement to portland and other u.s. cities as a prop to bolster the president's reelection prospects. let's bring wall street journal columnist and deputy editorial page editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial page writer gillian. kim, did democrats achieve what they were calling on attorney general? kimberley: they claimed that they we wanted to hear from the attorney general but they didn't let him speak. the real idea behind this is they wanted to accuse him and the trump administration of essentially sending fireworks, ied's it's quite something else. i think this is a situation that democrats have allowed to get out of control. paul: a lot of federal officers were injured, some of them bad, i mean, including shooting including shooting saw the statistics. you have federal officers and have eye injuries and may never recover. federal officers who have been in the head with fireworks. it's trul

bilateral relationship aspects between the united states and taiwan that makes this visit appropriate and certainly among politicians in the united states whether democrats or republicans in congress cross the administration there's going to be great support for this visit because policymakers in the u.s. generally favor closer relations between the 2 between the united states and taiwan it's definitely more the optics and the message being sent to the taiwan government and the people of taiwan as well as to the government in china as far as what what level the u.s. wants the relationship with taiwan to be obviously the health secretary's doctor learned much during a 3 day visit and in fact taiwan the united states have announced various initiatives over the course of this year about joint efforts to do research on vaccines they've had video conferences between the u.s. health secretary as aren't his equivalent counterpart here in taiwan so it is more about the public relations and the messaging than it is about anything that is are could learn being here on the ground for a short period of time. a former top saudi intelligence agency has been given heig

have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states. democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive presidential candidate joe biden at an online party convention. it's taken 50 years and cost close to a $1000000000.00 now the investigation and trial and the assassination of former lebanese prime minister at a fico d.d. is finally reaching its climax in the last few hours a un bank's tribunal has been delivering its closing remarks ahead of the. picked the 4 defendants sole members of hezbollah and course refused to hand them over and denies any involvement had 80 and 21 others died in the suicide bombing in 2005 deep in exact area and political divides and their ruling judges have already said there's no direct evidence that leaders of hezbollah and syria were involved they say the nature of the killing was clear the attack was an act of terrorism that was designed to spread fear among the lebanese population it was committed full political and not personal reasons the trial chamber is of the view that syria and hezbollah may have had mo

corona virus infections in months as coronavirus king says all across europe and in the united states the democrats most unusual convention enters its 4th and final night joe biden is due to formally accept his party's presidential nomination later this evening from his home state of delaware. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome activists here in germany are tonight planning to send a rescue plane to bring russian opposition leader alexina vallie here to berlin for medical treatment of all the was on a flight from siberia to moscow today when he lost consciousness he. seat last seen drinking tea at the airport before boarding the plane tea that his spokeswoman says was poisoned and not long afterwards he became so ill that the plane had to land early he was carried off the plane in the city of ohm skin taken to a hospital there the volley is considered one of president vladimir putin's fiercest russian critics he has repeatedly been arrested at political demonstrations or french president emanuel macron in germany's chancellor angela merkel have of

united states, it was 1984. that was geraldine ferraro, democratic party. the first time a jewish candidate was on a presidential ticket in the united states, 2000, joe lieberman, democratic party. the first time an african american was on a presidential ticket in the united states it was 2008, barack obama, democratic party. the first time a woman was at the top of a presidential ticket as the presidential nominee of a major party, that was 2016, hillary clinton, democratic party. the democratic party keeps breaking these barriers, keeps making these landmark choices in terms of leadership. that said, only one of those pioneering tickets i just described actually won the presidency. barack obama in 2008. with his running mate, of course, joe biden. and now here comes joe biden with the running mate decision of his own and he has chosen the first black woman, the first woman of color to ever serve on a presidential ticket in our country. the first south asian american to serve on a presidential ticket in our country. kamala harris is the daughter of immigran

were news hour live from doha which will be dominated by the breaking news from the united states presumptive democratic party presidential candidate joe biden makes an historic choice in picking. to be his running mate for this year's presidential election we have full analysis and reaction. she's a big tax raiser she's a big. slasher of phones for our military and she's got a lot of difficult things that she's going to have to explain. also ahead a week after the beirut explosion people mourn with a mix of grief and anger as more evidence emerges that the government ignored warnings. leading opposition calvinism better restrains the country after a violent response to the contentious election result. and russia says it's won the race for a coronavirus moxy there are serious concerns though about the speed of its development . welcome to the program if you're just joining us the presumptive us democratic presidential nominee joe biden has chosen senator harris as his running mate for november's president. election in a tweet confirming his pick biden presented to her as his record on social justice i h

and in the united states, the democrats most unusual division enters its fourth night.oe biden will formally accept the presidential nomination later this evening from his home state of delaware. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers around the world, welcome. activists in germany are planning to send a rescue plane to bring russian opposition leader alexei navalny here to berlin for medical treatment. he was on a flight from siberia to moscow today when he lost consciousness. he was last seen drinking tea at the airport before boarding the plane. tea that a spokeswoman says was poisoned. afterward he became so ill the plane had landed early. he was carried off the planes in the city of home skin and taken to a hospital. he i is considered one of president vladimir putin's fiercest critics. he has repeatedly been arrested at political demonstrations. frech president emmanuel macron and angela merkel have offered assistance to the volte. -- navalny. here is part of what he said. >> we are ready to provide any necessary support for alexei navalny and his family for his health,

got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states the democratic national convention begins a virtual event which will see joe biden formally named to the party's presidential candidate. hello again i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a verdict expected and former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri assassination trial we'll tell you what it could mean for the crisis written country. the old. protestors and batteries heckled president alexander lukashenko and the main opposition leader calls on the military to switch sides you must tear gas and stun grenades fired at demonstrators and threw don demanding fans to change a year off to a power sharing deal the size. donald trump is the wrong president for the united states that's the overwhelming message from the 1st day of the democratic national convention that will now formally name joe biden as its presidential candidate former 1st lady michelle obama and vermont senator bernie sanders were among a number of prominent democrats and republicans giving speeches at the mo

i want to applaud the house democrats and the democrats in the senate for applying this pressure. the united statesostal service should not be politicized. people rely on it for medication and for important documents. we will be relying on it this fall for an election that will keep our country safe but allow people to cast their votes. >> a lot of elderly americans rely on the postal service to get their monthly social security checks. a lot of them get direct deposit into their bank but still thousands that rely on them. will washington, d.c., the nation's capital be involved in any of these lawsuits against changes over at the postal service? >> i will work our attorney general and be very supportive of making sure that we're doing everything we can do to protect the united states postal service. scores and scores of people have worked dill gently over decades for the united states postal service in our city and across our country. we also want to make sure those workers are protected. they know what is is happening. they are the eyes and ears in postal distribution centers across the country. g

she is further left than 97% of the democrats in the united states senate.he is left of bernie sanders. she is not moderate, she's not a pregnant test like thee others are trying to tell you, she would decriminalize the

united states. he failed to protect the american people democratic vice presidential nominee com allow us attacks donald trump's conduct ahead of his address to the republican convention. hello i'm down in jordan this is out there at live from doha also coming up nato warns russia are against meddling in belarus as president putin promises troop support of protests get out of control the. search and rescue operations are underway after one of the strongest storms to hit the u.s. batters southern louisiana thus. anger in argentina over a government plan to reform the judicial system critics say it'll be used to protect the political elite. democratic vice presidential candidate commissaries has delivered a preemptive strike on donald trump just hours ahead of his speech to the party faithful that the republican national convention harris condemned trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic and addressed the unrest over the police shooting of jacob blake saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully huma

democrats. just crossing the bloomberg, mixed signals from the president in terms of his mood were china. praising what he is doing on agricultural products, and then spies on the united statesover the weekend, he said the democrats have not said much about china. are they trying to stay away from that subject? leslie: right now, so much of the focus is what is going on at home in america. it is about the concerns over trying to obstruct the actual voting, the postal service, about the pandemic, unemployment. ongoingf course, is the foreign policy concern for the united states. the democrats will not want to be seen as looking weak or soft on china. focus will be primarily on the domestic agenda. leslie, again, china seems to be the only bipartisan issue out there as well. will a biden policy be that different from a trump policy? not in discourse but in final outcome with china? leslie: one of the key difference is is a blighted administration, as we know, will turn up in europe and ask the europeans to lineup, to ask the u.k. -- which is an easier position right now -- but to look across europe and say let's take a unified approach toward playing a tough card with china on

not state fallen so against protesters led to falling threats by president alexander lukashenko his government has also started withdrawing accreditation for foreign journalists democrats in the united states of accuse the intelligence services of betraying the public after it was announced they will no longer provide in person security briefings to congress on foreign interference in u.s. elections president trump says the changes to prevent leaks of sensitive information. he also announced 2 weeks of military exercises northwest of cyprus took his foreign minister is warning greece that its plans to expand territorial waters in the aegean sea could lead to war as been months of tension of a control of gas reserves in the eastern mediterranean. the suspended interior minister of libya's u.n. recognize government is in tripoli for an investigation of a recent government violence against peaceful protesters. and questioned over the response to demonstrations that took place on friday those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after super 30 states and that's what. these days it's hard to filter out the track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big is

to the united states where u.s. democrats have officially nominated former vice president joe biden as their party's candidate to challenge president donald trump in the november election biden celebrated with his family and supporters after clinching the required number of delegates on day 2 of the party's online convention speakers including biden's wife jill gave testimonials praising his character and nominee himself will address the convention in a much anticipated acceptance speech on thursday. for leaders of a military coup in the west african nation of mali say that they will bring about a political transition and hold fresh elections within a reasonable time this after mali's president obama announced his resignation just hours after being detained by armed soldiers his ousting follows months of protest over corruption and economic mismanagement while the events have been met with jubilation inside of mali they have sparked alarm among international observers. 7 gunshots that are meant to kill but to celebrate these

in the united states, the democratic party convention will start later in wisconsin.mean the four—day event will take place almost entirely online, with joe biden giving his acceptance speech from his home—state of delaware. in a major reversal, students across the united kingdom will now get the grade given them by their school or college. there was an uproar after 40% of a—level results were downgraded by the exams regulator, which used a formula based on schools' prior grades. opposition protesters in belarus have held a ninth night of protests against the president alexander lu kashenko, saying his re—election was fraudulent.

they were news live from doha which will be dominated by the breaking news from the united states presumptive democratic party presidential candidate joe biden makes an historic choice in picking. to be his running mate for this year's presidential election we have full analysis.

but 1st in the united states the democratic party convention has kicked off with a rousing speech from michelle obama the wife of former president barack obama this year's convention is unlike any other because of the coronavirus and that make the event is being held online without crowds or confetti the democrats will formally nominate joe biden as their candidate for president to take on republican incumbent donald trump in the november election. and we have to use stacy bivins with us to tell us more about what we are seeing at this convention hi stacy and what do you think day one of the convention told us about what the democrats are trying to achieve with its image kratz of trying to do is for change joe biden as an every man somebody that regular voters can relate to somebody who is sympathetic to their struggles and somebody who has enough big ideas where he can draw a big tent so we saw progressives represented moderate democrats and also disenchanted republicans who once voted for trump but are now looking for another option ok so the democrats are trying to pull all these st