A suspected poisoning an air ambulance is on its way to siberia to bring id like see an evolving to germany for treatment. Im going to richardson thanks for joining us in the u. S. A joe biden has officially accepted his nomination as the democrats president ial candidate due to the coronavirus pandemic he delivered his acceptance speech from an empty Conference Hall in his home state of delaware on the 4th and final day of the Partys NationalConvention Setting out his vision for the presidency biden a vowed to represent all americans and unite the country he promised to tackle what he calls for crises facing the nation the coronavirus pandemic economic downturn Structural Racism war and Climate Change biden urged voters to have their say in what he said will be a life changing election which he framed as a stark choice between hope and unity or fear and division. The current president has called american darkness for much too long. Too much anger too much fear too Much Division here and now i give you my word if you entrust me with the presidency i will draw on the best of us not the worst ill be an hour of the light not the darkness its time for us for we the people to come together and make no mistake united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. But we have Team Coverage of the convention with a d w z as a whole in wilmington delaware where biden made his speech and you have a reporter william a glue craft here with me in the studio in as i want to start with you what do you make of this speech and do you think biden a lived up to the expectations of the evening. Yes clear i mean there were the reactions are overwhelmingly positive even. Like reporters from fox news which is known to be very pro trumpet praise his consistency praise bidens energy. Praise the way he really reached out to all americans to both sides dont some didnt like it too said it was a weak speech but yes really one of the rare person so i think biden made it don it is his 3rd attempt to gain the weight White White House to win the white house and today he really i think came a pretty big stiff step closer when there was a strong message of unity throughout the convention and in this speech tonight in particular but are these just lofty ideals or do you think biden really can unify such a polarized country. Now that is a very good question and who knows but. I mean if there is a person who is very very experienced who is kind of in an age you know where he can use this experience but at its best i think he might be the right person but you cant do it alone so therefore is it it is very very important that canada hair is fulfills the expectational and it should be interesting because for his cabinet since some experts actually say that he might name these people earlier the normally so people know whom they vote for its not only him its not only chemical harris but we might learn over the course of the next 2 weeks. Which members he will pick for his cabinet as well right voters will be keeping their eyes out for that potential announcement william id like to turn to you now because biden is going to have to cobble together a Diverse Group of voters can he mobilize some of those people who didnt turn out in 2016 or is this just going to be a repeat of that election hes certainly going to have to i mean democrats always have the problem of being the Big Tent Party meaning they have so many via compete competing interests within their party spanning from the centrists all the way to the left you have young you have old you have you have white people people of color you have all kinds of people that democrats represent or claim represent or try to represent republicans always have a much easier republican the Republican Party is often compared to as a business in the president as a c. E. O. In the business is going in their direction and they have one issue and they stay on it and although the democrats are more diverse and therefore have a maybe more people they can rely on for a vote republicans can be much more consistent in focusing on just the people to bring them out to the polls so democrats have to have all kinds of messages to all kinds of people to try to bring them to the polls its very hard to do and we saw that f. These last few days trying to appeal to republicans trying to appeal to centrist democrats trying to appeal to Bernie Bernie sanders supporters and Elizabeth Warren supporters of the far far left all saying you need to come to the to the polls jim cliburn a well known civil rights leader and congressman from South Carolina said dont compare joe biden to the almighty compare joe biden to whos on the other side who the other potential candidate is put aside your you know your the things you dont want the most and make the pragmatic choice hes appealing to democrats make the pragmatic choice choose joe biden whether he can really pull it off is the big question there wasnt a huge amount of enthusiasm among democrats in 2016 for Hillary Clinton there was a 7 point drop in the black vote between 2012 dozen 16 black voters who are very reliable reliable voters for democrats didnt come out like the democrats needed them to just 16 and the question is will they do that now in 2020 thats the big question that were going to see on november 3rd well lets assume out from the domestic politics side of things for just a moment were of course following this election a from a berlin and a president has had a fraught relationship with the e. U. And particularly with germany what would a biden presidency mean for the transatlantic relationship i dont think its any secret that many leaders around the world are quietly if not off the record rooting for a biden when of course no country has diplomatic policy they would never involve themselves in the domestic politics of another country but its very clear that joe biden is much more of an internationalist hes looking to rebuild those bridges he would probably be a sigh of relief to many countries around the world particularly here in europe but theres a big question if we can really put paid to our back in the box if we can really go back to a preterm era of what is commonly called the post war world order if we can really go back to those alliances too much has been broken. And in a way thats a good thing there have been challenges in these last 4 years under donald trump that have been posed to the European Union that have forced the European Union to ask itself where do we stand in the world are we just you know in the shadow of the United States what kind of identity do we want to have what kind of political power do we want to have in the world what is our own identity here not between not just china and russia and the us but what is our own way forward and that is i think a very important question for europeans to be asking themselves that will that will so that will continue were gorgeous of who wins even if joe biden is president wants to reconnect to those alliances i think its going to a very different relationship no matter what our idea is william thank you so much for that analysis and to you even as poll in delaware for your reporting on the convention the from there. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 3 people have died as dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning rage in california tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the San Francisco bay area Authorities Say at least 175. 00 buildings have been destroyed including how was is. South koreas Intelligence Agency is says it has seen signs of a power shift in its reclusive communist neighbor north korea dictator kim jong un is thought to have transferred some of his powers to senior officials most significantly to his sister kim jong il the move has fueled speculation that she is being groomed as kims successor. To Londons Central Criminal Court has handed down a life sentence to the brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a pop concert in manchester in 2017 passion of a he was convicted of murder attempted murder and conspiring to cause explosions he will spend a minimum of 55 years in prison. 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When air ambulance has taken off to bring a russian opposition politician alexina vonnie to germany for treatment but there are fresh doubts he can actually make the trip doctors at the hospital in siberia where hes being treated say hes too sick to be moved and on the is fighting for his life after a suspected poisoning he lost consciousness while on a flight from siberia to moscow while he was pictured drinking at tea at the airport before leaving his spokeswoman believes was a poisoned and not long afterwards he became is so ill that the plane had to make an Emergency Landing in the city of homs where he was rushed to hospital and yvonne the is considered one of president putins fiercest russian critics exposing corruption and organizing demonstrations and despite official bans. This isnt the 1st time tina valmy has cried foul in august last year alexina vanny said hed been poisoned with an allergic agent while in jail hed been detained for calling an authorised protests and his dog did resistance to kremlin control has long made him one of president Vladimir Putins biggest nemeses. No vanity rose to prominence with his exposure of corruption at russian state controlled companies at rallies he took direct aim at the kremlin and its occupants dubbing putins United Russia Party the party of crooks and thieves. As he began proving his pulling power with opposition supporters stints in jail and the courtroom became a regular feature. Charges of embezzlement in the city of kirov in 2013 saw him banned from entering the political process and running for office. In 2070 moscow saw some of the biggest Anti Corruption rallies it had seen in years thousands were detained along with the violently he went behind bars for 15 days for his part in organizing them. That same year he was hit with chemical green dye and hospitalized leaving him partially blind in his right eye more arrests and more jail sentences followed in 2018 but as ever in a van they responded with defiance. Ok for sure but you know right. Now these pictures show the Opposition Leader being transported to hospital in arms its what supporters are calling the latest in a long series of attempts to silence alexina vuln a. Long thursday german chancellor Angela Merkel met in berlin with climate activists good attitude and back and to louise annoyed our they discussed concrete steps to mitigate the effects of Climate Change and they talked about how to keep the publics attention on the climate amid the coronavirus pandemic. Its been 2 years since swedish climate activists claim to to bug went on strike from school for the 1st time to call for more action against Climate Change since then her activism has led to Worldwide School strikes but the global current virus pandemic has kept her testers at home a 90 minute meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel on thursday provided a chance to refocus attention on the Climate Change crisis we want people to listen to the science and to act on the science to back in line with the science. That is all we also thats also in our demands that we should establish annual binding called them budgets based on the contest available science and then of course based on the budgets which gives us the best chance of staying below 1. 5 degrees of global average temperature rise so that is that is what we are all school for 2 but 3 of the european activists also delivered an open letter signed by 125000 people to demand stronger environmental legislation from a years lead as the meeting came as temperatures continue to soar during germanys heat wave the government also confirmed today earlier that it would have missed its 2020 climate goals had it not been for the large drop in Greenhouse Gases caused by the economic havoc of the current virus pandemic. 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