Mr. Lehrer good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight, well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another threeandahalf minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates, under their rules, may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The
2020. 5 and descends into name calling rude interruptions moments of whats been described as a messy and chaotic 1st president ial debates coming up later in the program. Very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on. The u. N. Security council is calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan between the 2 sides now into its 4th day as the belligerence once again vie for control of the long disputed border region. And r. T. Crew is on the ground there and filmed this exclusive video shows the wreckage of a drone shot down by the Armenian Army is the only media outlet that amin is permitted to enter the conflict zone. Right now between the position of the. Army. Right now were between the positions of the Armenian Army which is over there and the there by joining forces which are stationed right over this hill and here is the debris of a massive unmanned drone that was shot down by the Armenian Air Defense this is the main piece but not the on
That were arrested this Morning Police initially tried to stop them from staging this protest but at some point there were too many protesters for them to hender. Pushed back a little bit of what they issued a warning saying that this protest is in need following the busy issue often much as it did create this morning and theyre warning that every participant might get arrested these photos have been going on for several months now why has the government declared a state of emergency now. This morning the government said its extremely necessary to issue this emergency decree to maintain peace and order one of the main reasons they cited was an event yesterday when a royal motorcade boss briefly obstructed by prodemocracy demonstrators the motorcade was carrying the queen and the son off counting in thailand and it took a while for this motorcade to pass through to protest as they were shouting protest slogans at the motorcade and this was a very unusual a thing to see here in thailand.
Division side prepared to face off against european champions. Welcome to the program prodemocracy protesters in thailand have started gathering in bangkoks Central Business district again they are defying a government decree issued over not that bans gatherings of more than 5 People Police have set up checkpoints in the city to prevent further demonstrations the government declared a state of emergency as part of a crackdown on the protests the ban on demonstrations comes after thousands gathered on wednesday calling for a change to the constitution and an overhaul of the molecule. They had come and that. Once again calling for Prime Minister piute chair not to resign the protestors that. To remain until their demands were met. The next morning the government take back its arrested opposition leaders and remove demonstrations come types in front of the Prime Ministers office. Is also banned gatherings of more than 5 people and the publication of news it deems a Security Threat to. The
Item makers on this weeks edition of the talkers. How do you feel about the issues that you are expecting tonight. Listen, the reality is the president s been practicing every day for this. I mean, hes running the country. Hes doing an amazing job of that. Hes getting peace deals done in the middle east, pulling us out of endless wars or, combating coronavirus. Maria how come nancy pelosi wont allow democrats to be part of this task force . They dont want to focus on where the virus came from, thats china. We want things to be made in america. Maria ratcliffe outlines that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to link thencandidate donald trump to putin. Its something that weve known all along, that this designed for some type of october dirty trick, some type of october surprise. It had all the markings of some type of disinformation operation. Maria who do you think the mastermind of this was . Was it Hillary Clinton or somebody else . From what ive seen, john brennan was right at the midd