In the press - First Trump / Biden televised debate: "A fist fight"

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On the front page of the press, the first reactions to the first televised debate last night between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

"A confused debate and multiple attacks": "What we can say without taking too much risk is that this debate was not the calm exchange of political ideas that the moderators could have hoped for" :

estimates that "Joe Biden delivered a more energetic performance than that which his adversary and his allies" could have expected and that Donald Trump "attacked, with the expected aggressiveness, the course and intelligence "of the former vice-president, whom he sometimes seemed to shake by his constant interruptions" - even if "Mr.

Biden also counterattacked, ”the newspaper notes.

"Raging Bull: lie, cheat, bark, denigrate": the

borrows Scorcese the title of his film about the legendary boxer Jake LaMotta and gives Joe Biden a slight advantage over Donald Trump for this first round - an exchange that turned into a fist, "arguably the most chaotic and presidential debate the most toxic of modern history "of the United States, in the continuity, finally, of the" negative tone "adopted by the campaign teams of the two candidates in recent days, according to the site.

"Trump pounding Biden during a high-stakes confrontation": advantage to the president, for

, which evokes a Donald Trump "combative" and an "exasperated" Joe Biden, two candidates "bitterly at odds on everything, of the street delinquency in the health system, from the beginning to the end of their confrontation ”.

On the front page of the press, also, the reply yesterday from the head of Hezbollah to Emmanuel Macron, who blamed, in part, on the Lebanese Shiite party, the responsibility for the political crisis.

According to

, Hassan Nasrallah said he supported the initiative of the French president for the formation of a government, while saying that he did not accept his "accusation of treason": "We reject and condemn this condescending behavior" , he asserted, asking Emmanuel Macron not to behave like "governor or wali".

The French president also suffered earlier this week the wrath of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whom he invited to "go" - "raw words, without detour", according to

, which reports that the Elysee " fully assume "this" true speaking "in matters of foreign policy.

“The president speaks directly and frankly with his interlocutors.

He doesn't have a trembling hand, ”says an adviser to the president.

evokes, him, "a voluntarism which contrasts singularly with the procrastination of the last weeks on the Franco-French front: hesitation in the management of health crisis, postponement of the speech on separatism, radio silence after the terrorist attack in front of the former

premises

”.

"I have the feeling that he is using foreign policy to mask its ineffectiveness and its lack of results at the national level," comments the President of the Republicans, Christian Jacob.

Still in France, the government yesterday announced a series of measures in favor of wild animals.

Among the measures announced, proposals in favor of wild animals in captivity, in zoos, circuses and water parks - hence the front page of

, “Sauvé, Willy?”, A diversion of the title of a film on the friendship between a little boy and an exhibition killer whale.

The daily notes that these measures come at a time when the government is "criticized (by environmentalists) for its environmental inaction", in particular since the announcement of the return of neonicotinoids - powerful insecticides, accused of harming biodiversity.

Libé regrets that the majority renounces "to approach the real divisive subjects: intensive breeding and hunting".

In the animal section, always,

tells the misdeeds of 5 parrots, 5 birds named Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson, adopted last August by a zoo in Lincolnshire, England and who learned, in a few weeks to hard to say a whole bunch of swear words - nothing out of the ordinary, you might say, but the problem, it seems, is that these five scoundrels would have encouraged each other, so to speak, to swear like carters.

So much so that it was unfortunately necessary to separate them.

Zoo officials deemed it preferable to preserve the chaste ears of young visitors from their exchange of bird names ...

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