going to the table, hard from the presidential go to some we cannot take the fact that he was suddenly present as not that important factor. he had the story on talk to how does era, the historic moment us president joe biden drops out of the 2020 full presidential race less than 2 months before the election, the to the, to the throne. and this is ours is the are life from don't, how is so coming up by and has endorsed, his vice president coming to harris says she was the nomination and beat donald trump and republican presidential candidate donald trump says biden was never fit

to run for president and that coming to harris as even mess competent plus the country res will as a black woman to be president over convicted felon from dfcs in delaware, american versus wade on how they think the race has changed. the it's full j m t. that's midnight in washington. dc off to a pedestal day in american history. us president joe, by them hasn't dropped on to the 2020 full presidential race against donald trump. he's endorsed, was president come of the house to take his place. so have over a 100 congressional democrats, a white house correspondent, company how couldn't begins coverage after days of isolation, recovering from cove it and deliver ration, consulting with his family and

a handful of friends. us president joe biden made his historic announcement on x. he'll no longer seek the democratic nomination for president. i believe it's in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. i was so deeply moved by the presence, powerful and poignant statements which was truly courageous and visionary present by them has been one of the the greatest most courageous and consequential presence of american history. the calls for by then to drop his bid for a 2nd term exploded last month after what many critics described as a disaster is debate performance. it goes for were us president donald trump

stepping down 5 in immediately endorsed vice president comma la harris to be the democratic nominee. harris responded, saying, i'm honored to have the president's endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination. commer harris is the easiest pick based on the back to the vice president. and i think it would be tough for the party to try to go a different direction than that. his performance was, has been a debacle. i think that it made the public very nervous. the democratic national convention is just a month away bite and had secured the most delegates to win the parties. nomination was biding, gone. those delegates still automatically passed to harris. it's now what's known as an open convention with delegates free to support the candidates of their choice

. the terrorists already has too powerful endorsements. former us president bill clinton and former 1st lady, and the 1st female nominated for president hillary clinton. but for us, president brock, obama and former 1st lady michelle obama have not endorsed harris. in the statement, obama writes the party will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. republicans are threatening to challenge jo biden's decision to step down. they argue a president no longer fit to be, the nominee should also no longer be running the country. kimberly health is l g 0. the white house that spring on, correspondent preston, saloon issues. joining us live from new york and moines, new people. democrats coming out and support has come with harris and pushing the money within. now, since to preston. as we have been seeing key democrats

rally behind vice president carmella harris and her bid to take the democratic nomination for the presidency. we've had state party officials, the majority of them weighing in her favor as well as key state delegates who were pledge to support by the in and out the nomination. now saying that they will get behind her states like michigan, a key battleground, state, south carolina, north carolina. those are states with strong minority support for cala harris, who would be the 1st woman, the 1st woman of color to run for president. and the 1st woman president and president of the 1st female president, if she were to succeed. uh the question is, the support is clear and the amount of money that she's been raising just since she announced earlier on sunday that she would seek the endorsement $47000000.00 has

been raised on her behalf. you can see that democrats, who were so worried that joe biden didn't have what it would take to take on donald trump, are now pouring their support into the coffers of cala harris, so that she can run against him. someone that democrats see as a threat to democracy. that said, key democrats have been staying away from endorsing her. former president obama has yet to weigh in on who he would like to see heading the ticket. that raises the issue. and the question is whether or not there might still be challenges to her coming up in the days and months ahead of the democratic convention. yeah, i'm really interested in keeping a very close eye on who's endorsing have a sort of file who hasn't. you mentioned north carolina for democratic delegation, that angels think was really important because north carolina is saying it's so

close to the crucial wednesdays in this election. kristin, what happens between now and the democratic national convention next month? what will change and the procedure leading up to and at the event so the vast majority of the delegates were pledge to jo, biding by him dropping out of the race. he can recommend that binding be his successor and advocate for that. but technically, the delegates now have to decide and cast their votes. they are not bound to support commer harris. they were bound to support joe biden, so she still needs to convince them. and while we are seeing this ground swell of support from the base of the democratic party, the question remains is, do democrats have enough support in the swing states? those crucial swing states like you mentioned, north carolina, but michigan in pennsylvania where our middle of the road more working class

traditional democratic voters have shown weakening support for joe biden, and the democrats and more support for trump after his assassination. certainly since that convention we've seen that in an attempt to rally more of those independent voters, voters who might be concerned about issues like inflation and immigration can become a law. harris, with the support of the party went over more people like that. it'll be interesting to see who she suggests as her running made, and if it is one of the swing state now, voters that were considered possibly as challenger's to her. people, like gavin newsome, the governor of california or josh appear of the governor of pennsylvania. they've thrown their support behind her, indicating that they're not going to challenge her for the nomination, but will they be named as nominees, one potential spam or in the works for her?

is jo mansion from virginia, the swing state there he had been calling on joe biden. to step down, but had refused to say that the towards should be handed to come to a harris summer speculating that he might try to take over the nomination from her for when it actually comes to a vote and a month from now. it's not still a month away, so it's very possibly a others could try to come in and knock her out of the way. but we're seeing from the bottom up certainly an attempt to rally behind cala harris and have a unified voice when the convention finally hits kristen, thank you very much for that. that is kristin salumi with all the latest live in new york largest across the us have been speaking about vital decision. let's now hear some more reactions this time from washington dc. i know that women can read absolutely. i will support her if she is, and i mean,

i wonder if she would be chosen. i think the party needs to think about who can successfully when and is which country i'll put it bluntly is this country res will at a black woman to be president over convicted felon having a little bit of youth with actually go a long way. you know, president trump, uh president trump the 78th and our current president, 81. so um, yeah, i actually think that age limit terms would be on the other side as well. cuz i think that obviously it's a little bit more complicated and you know, uh, you know, all of us them, as we get older, you know, obviously natural things started occurring while the republican presidential candidate donald trump has posted on his social media platform truth social. he says, joe biden wasn't fit to run for president and

a certainly not fit to serve all those around him, including his don't to knew that he wasn't capable of being president. and he wasn't. look what he's done to our country with millions of people coming across the border. we will suffer greatly because of his presidency. allow refresher was in washington dc, and he says the republicans would have to change tactics as coming to harris becomes the democratic presidential candidate. and i'm hearing from some republicans that they're going to in american terms, flood the zone, which means essentially they're going to go on all low to attack against come allowed us to try and disable hard at a very early stage. they want to attack cars that are going to tire the problems that the board, the going to say she knew about job items. the client in is condition and did nothing about it. and they're going to say that the problems with a emigration and inflation can also be traced to the bite and hottest white house. and they're going to spend a lot of money doing this. i'm doing it very quickly. but i'm also hearing that the

democrats have raise their own $75000000.00 since the a nice meant that joe biden was going to step down. so we're going to see a lot of political lads, a lot of postering and a lot of talking. they're going to try and stop, come to how does before her campaign even begins to ignite across the country. but of course, we're 4 months away from the election. and that's expensive. and at the moment, the republicans on raising that sort of money miss wayne states, donald trump had to lead and that lead was increasing. however, if it comes to how does up against fuel bite and, and then that's a completely different. so you put, come louder is up against donald trump. that's a completely different equation. she starts to tie and in some cases, even leave, i missed those polls. the effectively told joe biden he had to get out of the race because not only was he behind in swing states, but he was behind in states like virginia, a new mexico states that the democrats expected to win and did not expect to spend

any money fighting those states, essentially, joe biden has passed to the presidents. they went from there to there. it disappeared, not quite overnight, but certainly in the last 3 weeks since that terrible debate performance. and so what the democrats will be hoping is a couple of hours will open up that path will be able to push forward. she will get the nomination from the convention in chicago next month. and then we'll spend 3 months so on the campaign trail and certainly from what we're seeing. it looks as if a lot of big name endorsements are flying behind. and it would really a speaking to one democrats, but it would be political suicide for anyone to go up against her at the moment. this is really going to be the coordination of come up to a couple of hot us. and she is going to, more than likely be the nomination. well, the speaker of the house, mike johnson says the republican party could legally challenge the replacement of joe biden. these elections are handled at the state level. every state has its own

system in it. in some of these it's, it's not possible to simply just switch out a candidate who has been chosen through the democratic small, the democratic process. over such a long period of time, 14000000 democrats voted to make joe biden to nominate. so it would be wrong and i think on lawful it in accordance to some of the states rules for a handful of people to go into the back room and switch it out because they're, they don't like the candidate any longer. that's not how this is supposed to work. so i think they would run into some legal impediments in at least a few of these jurisdictions. and i think uh they'll be a compelling case to be made that that shouldn't happen. and so i think they've got legal trouble if that's there. and yeah, you know, that's our intention and that's their plan. a bruce fine as a form, a us associate deputy attorney general. and he says there's no legal basis for the house because claims i think secret johnson was stating nonsense on stilts. is your fellow during the dense upset about the

british common law? the united states supreme court held the case many years ago called cousins against will go to that political parties are private organizations. and they have exclusive jurisdiction to prevent any state government from deciding who should be attending and voting as they will at a convention to select a presidential nominees. there was a case concerning a dispute, internal party dispute among the democrats who would represent the delegation from illinois. and the court made it quite clear. no. the democratic and republican parties are private organizations. they have exclusive authority over deciding who gets the vote for the nominated for press. i think this would be relating to the internal party routes that may provide that if you were selected,

committed to vote for a particular candidate like bite. you are a pound and you cannot vote for someone else to be so called faithless delegate. but here, where mr. biden is the one who would say i'm releasing you and i don't know whether he could direct them to vote for campbell harris. he could urge them to do that. i think if he released them from voting for himself, they may have been free choice to vote for the wherever they want. now that may be more academic than real, depending upon how much loyalty they have for bite. and so they may vote for a camella harris, but that's kind of a small glitch. i do not think that's an insuperable problem. and remember that the democrats, again, being a private party, could change the rules with regard to how you deal with situation, which is unique. in a long time, we're a candidate drops out after having one delegates and is

a fall authorizing is delegates or directing them to vote for a different can. still ahead on knowledge of say, i would have the basis from europe, asia, imagine america as the world reacts to bottoms decision, stay with us the the have that there's lots of hate to be found across the middle east. the event at the moment and things ongoing to get hotter in the days ahead, we've got heat wave conditions affecting eastern areas of the mediterranean, with yellow temperature warnings out for cyprus, israel and 11 on as well. but even syria, we'll see the temperatures. pick rights up 40 degrees in damascus on monday. 50 degrees in q 8 city. so exceptional, dangerous heat here. we'll see that heat start to push its way for the south coming

into doha tossing figures the sitting up into the high forties in the days ahead. but it is looking cooler for places like to you a e as well as on the temperature. sitting 39 degrees celsius in dubai and must got on choose day. and it's cool down across the north west of africa, thanks to cooler wind blowing out of europe. you can see temperatures coming down full out julia to new z a and libya. that's not the case with egypt, the temperature of a sitting very high laundry, hot and dry conditions here through into the middle of the week. it's much which are farther south of this of more heavy rain thanks to the easterly waves for nigeria is a long, sweet, dry picture of the southern parts of africa looking woman in cape town on monday. the rain comes back on choose day. in india's remote tribal areas, hockey use depression, so it gets selected for the national team play for the country. that's my 3 tribal

athletes, a contributing to english international policy research and and the support is transforming that communities one. 0, one east reveals india's tribal healthy trans on outages era. the challenges here with of the the you're watching me, elizabeth donovan, doha reminder of our top story this our us president joe biden has dropped on to the 2020 full presidential race against donald trump. he says he'll focus on some

feeling his duties as president for the remainder of his to provide and was quick to endorse weiss, president coming to hire us to run in 5th place. she's also had the support of chief chief fitness including california government, gavin newsome to was a potential revival for publicans. on the other hand, have been clicked to attack harris, the trump campaigns release to video disparaging for, punish for record. trump himself as a vice president will be easier to be invited. a while the democratic national convention is set to kick off on august 19th. that's where the policy will make the final decision on the nominee. my kind of reports the spotlight is now shining brightly on coming to harris. president biden's endorsements may make a pos to the democratic party nomination a lot easier, but they are still many hurdles in who way. former president bill clinton has endorsed his party candidates,

along with some of his former colleagues on the senate. but for my president bulk obama, i made no mention of kamala harris and his statement reacting to president biden's decision to step down. instead, he said we will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. but i have extra old re confidence that the leaders of potty will be able to create a process from which an outstanding no many images. there's also be no immediate endorsement from the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries or the former speak up the house of nancy pelosi. cumberland harris broke one jen to ceiling when joe biden, us to be, as vice president, picking the 2020 election going on to become the 1st email to hold the office or the way did it. so you're getting a really nice president of the united states. congress pointed proudly to the historic nature of the appointment as vice president. but while i may be the 1st

woman in this office, i will not be the last, the because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. as vice president harris was tacit, tackling the sony issue of immigration, giving a trip to guatemala, she was criticized for what some liberal so as a harsh message do not do not come under relentless attacks from opposition, republicans and the right we can use media, power struggle to wouldn't widespread public approval, although she remains popular with young voters and people of color into run for re election power. so to really vote is around issues of civil rights, excess to abortion, and gun violence. we will not be defeated. we will not be

deterred. we will not come supporters with quick to go and attack posting video, accusing the of creating what is described as a per folder invasion and runaway inflation lation. paris, a soap released the statement, thanking president biden for his leadership and accepting his endorsement as candidates. we have a 107 days until election day. she concludes together, we will fight, and together we will win california. georgie, win the nomination and defeat donald trump. in the election, the door twelf, jamaican, an indian immigrant parents would become the 2nd, the black president of the united states, and the 1st woman to hold the office. mike, hannah, i would just say around washington island,

minsky is the executive director of progressive democrats of america. and he says, any challenge to house has nomination within the policy. one of the easy, as far as i know, all the names that really were being mentioned to challenge here. so we're seeing as possible challenges have already announced their support for her. so it's a faith seems to be updated complete at this point. now i do think one of those things, it's true about the people who are holding out on their endorsement. i don't think it's technically unwise. in fact, i think it's, it's quite a strength move because 2 things could yet happen. i mean, there could be, and i, i'm not saying that this is likely if i could, because very unlikely. but there could be, say, a bad media appearance in the other thing could be bad poll numbers in the next week. again, both things i think are unlikely. i think there's going to be a so called honey moon for calmly harris as a candidate i imagined her pulled numbers will go up quite significantly. in particular, you have to remember that for months, going back when the american public was asked about this, again, the concepts,

the re match between biden and trump, the majority position was dissatisfaction with the choices people wanted. another choice i think is going to be a lot of relief that probably will extend to independence again, a sort of a honeymoon period for the candidate. so i don't really expect there to be those kind of things that could trip up a candidate terrorist. but it is still shrewd to leave. you know, that let it be known that not all of the democratic powers that be, are fully endorsing. and therefore, when you get to the convention, there could possibly be a window open for reversal, especially if you're facing growing numbers from latin america to europe and asia. that has been global reaction to biden's his stock decision. he has a lot of training and prominence to anthony. all the names they had to say today, president button has night. the difficult decision to not say re election at the

presidential election would be held in november as he's done. so at hazing, tatami public law fee is acted in walk. hate to say this to be the best interest of the united states of america. he is someone who in january will be able to retire from public life with an extraordinary restful spring. and i entities a correspondent, jessica washington. she's joining us live on the capital vege akasha. jessica, what more are you hearing from leaders in the asia pacific? one place we haven't actually heard much of our audience just had a few more moments ago from these trailing and prime minister antonio been easy. what he also said was that presidential bite and could be proud of his record. and he thanked president biden for his leadership and ongoing service, and you also listed some of the areas in which us to straining a ties of strength. and it's noted that the relationship has never been stronger.

he noted specific examples of corporation on economic status, security and climate change as well. we also heard earlier from the prime minister of japan for myoshi to whom noted that he recognized president biden's effort to make the political judgment that but that he could not comment on a domestic situation in the united states. we've heard a similar response from other leaders and governments around the region that it's not their place to comment on domestic matters of politics in the us. but no doubt the season moves that has been keenly watched by the region. 2 very different to us presidencies over the past decade. jessica, what's biden's legacy being there as well? that's exactly right. and if we take a look at the impact of the by the administration on this region, a key foreign policy objective of the bond administration was to have a more effective in the pacific strategy. and alternatively, that have been many examples of the success of that strategy. if we look

specifically at the southeast asia, asia region which was relatively neglected under the trump administration, the relationship has gotten stronger with many countries in southeast asia. and that's guided very much by the us effort to compete with a james growing influence here in southeast asia, a list, some examples. in the philippines, we've seen an expansion of the number of philippine military bases under the enhanced defense corporation agreement. that means the us can pre deploy equipment temporarily operate on those 9 bases and the, the ties between manila and washington have indeed never been stronger in vietnam. those ties as well advanced to the highest level on the vietnamese, a diplomatic scale. i was there in hanoi when president biden visited vietnam. he received a very warm welcome indeed. and those ties elevated to the highest level that is significant. given the fact that vietnam and the us didn't have diplomatic relations until the mid ninety's in indonesia as well,

cooperation on the economic and defense fund. so certainly a sense that the in the pacific strategy has been effective that the region has the meaningful cooperation with washington. and perhaps the reason for that is a recognition that has come from the bottom administration that countries in this part of the world, we're not looking to choose sides between washington and badging in terms of the us china competition. but rather looking to leverage opportunities, working with both badging and washington. and if we look specifically at the us china relationship, while it certainly does remain contentious, if it is of course, a said that the relationship between the us and china has also stabilized to a degree. we also saw president, she didn't ping and present inviting help by didn't hold in a summit, meeting in san francisco late last year. the relationship has stabilized. well, there is a degree of competition that confrontation that we saw before the by the administration appears to have diminished jessica, thank you very much for that. jessica washington with the reaction from asian live

in chickasha. so people in mexico have been reacting to biden's decision to exit the u. s. presidential res immigration is a key election issue. donald trump has promised hod cracked down on migrants crossing the boat to well now the fight and has withdrawn. people say that even more concerned about the chances of getting into the with the close on who goes with joe by then we had guaranteed the passage up here for the i think it was the best option because he had no chance of winning against trump with joe biden, the board was not as close as it is with donald trump trumpet, strong. go with that. and he pushes migration further away. and the latch in america, editing to see a newman has reaction from santiago. the general feeling in latin america is one of release and also certain puzzlement as to what to go by just so long to decide to step down. and that's because the general consensus in this part of the world as in

many others, in fact is the joe biden had become an electable. he could not be re elected. and that's what really concerns most countries.