paris has already shown it can put on 3 games — now, for the encore. joe inwood, bbc news, at st pancras station, in london. now on bbc news, who is kamala harris? the american people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. she's a chameleon. whatever anybody wants her to be, that's what she is. kamala harris. when i am president, we will continue our fight for working families of america. she is leading the democrats�* campaign for the white house. do we believe in the promise of america? crowd: yeah! christians have to stand up i and stop her from radicalising

america. born in california, she's risen fast. we did it, joe! a mother from south asia, she has a father from jamaica, she's married to a jew — doesn't get a whole lot more diverse than that. she is progressive, but she'sl progressive and she is tough. when we fight, we win! she has completely reinvigorated this whole election. she's under attack from donald trump. kamala is worse - thanjoe — is worse. she's a radical left lunatic. someone who suggests we should terminate the constitution should never again stand behind the seal of president of the united states! this will be the meanest, nastiest campaign in modern history. the impact on our democracy will be meaningful, measurable and horrific.

if she wins, what would she do? getting back our reproductive rights as women. _ we need that back. we're not going back. she's pragmatic. she's someone who wants results. she's not an ideologue. this is kamala harris�*s story — where she's from, what she believes in, who she is. we choose freedom. # freedom, freedom, i can't move... kamala harris, us democratic party star. # imma keep running. # cos a winner don't quit on themselves... the summer of 2024 saw her campaign for the white house get under way. the goal — to make her the first woman and the first woman of colour to become president of the united states. it's high time we had a female

head of state here in the usa. her republican opponent, donald trump, on the offensive. ultraliberal kamala harris will deliver crime, chaos, mayhem and death to our country. i don't like her. she's a california liberal. everybody's so excited i about being here today. i mean, she's definitely- reinvigorated the democratic party. she is the perfect candidate to run against trump. kamala harris was born in oakland, california, which is right across the bay from san francisco. her mother was an immigrant from india and her father was an immigrant from jamaica. they met at the university of california at berkeley, and this was in the very early 19605. herfather, donald harris, he was an economist. her mother became a cancer researcher. she represents both. the indian community as well as the africanl american community. she's someone who speaks to that very often. - she was able to maintain a lot|

of the customs and the culture of her indian heritage, - but also lean in on her black heritage at the same time. it was still a conservative time in america. berkeley still had segregated schools. white kids went to nicer schools. the kids of colour went to schools in the flats, where she lived. so, in first grade — five, six years old — she was bused as part of an integration plan to a school in the hills that had been primarily white, so she was among the first kids in berkeley who were bused to desegregate schools. her parents were obviously very liberal people and they went to protests. the late 1960s and early �*70s was a time of great political ferment. the united states was at war in vietnam, there were civil rights issues, there were a lot of protests. it was a big thing. they were part of it. they weren't leaders in it but they were certainly

participants. kamala harris represents the diversity, the melange, the melting pot — if you will — that the united states is becoming. it's really exciting _ and encouraging to see a woman and potentially have the first african—american woman be | in her position. well, she's indian, jamaican and so, they're trying to package her as an african—american but she doesn't have that heritage of folks who were brought here by slavery. she has a mother from south asia, she has a father from jamaica, she's married to a jew — doesn't get a whole lot more diverse than that. her parents divorced when she was quite young and they shared custody and i've seen what records there are of the harris divorce. her parents had very little. they split a couple hundred dollars in bank accounts.

they split books and they split record albums. they certainly didn't have money. she's a child of divorce, as most american children at this point are or will be at some point. at the age of 12, kamala harris moved to montreal in canada with her mother and sister. she went to high school there. she's doing what a high school kid does. she's having a good time. you can see yearbook photos of her and she's always, you know, big smile. she's having a good time. she studied at howard university, a historically black university in washington, dc. in choosing to go to a historically black college and university, an hbcu, being someone who also chose tojoin the sorority alpha kappa alpha — the akas, a black female sorority — that matters. so, i think that for kamala harris, it also speaks to some significant choices that she made early on, not only to shape her path moving forward but also,

because she is very prideful of her heritage. that heritage now questioned by donald trump and his supporters. she was always of indian heritage and she was only promoting indian heritage. i didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now, she wants to be known as black. so, i don't know, is she indian or is she black? she has always - identified as a black... i respect either one. i respect either one, but she obviously doesn't. the first thing that i thought of when i saw trump try to categorise harris and criticise how she communicates her ethnicity was, "ew." this is — this is uncool. this is not becoming of a 2024 presidential campaign. we have enough divisions in this country by partisanship, by age, by ethnicity. she clearly is not a black woman. i seems like we're pulling

apart as a country. and to insert race in the way that trump did was just icky to me. she is black when it's convenient for her and i think that's what his message was, is that she uses it when it's convenient. when you don't have anything i to really attack somebody on — especially if that - candidate is a woman — you go towards sexism, you go towards racism. | it makes me somewhat fearful. we already are horrifically polarised. thisjust makes things even worse. as the campaign continued, attention focused on the so—called rust belt — the swing states in the midwest that are america's former industrial heartland and key to winning the election. some observers were predicting that tv debates and rallies would generate even more campaign venom. ad: kamala knewjoe couldn't do the job, so she did it. _ look what she got done — a border invasion, runaway inflation, the american

dream dead. this will be the meanest, nastiest campaign in modern history. they have no respect for each other. they will treat each other horrifically and the impact on our democracy will be meaningful, measurable and horrific. i think this race has. i think this race has. the potential to be one the potential to be one of the nastiest and ugliest we i of the nastiest and ugliest we i have seen in american history. have seen in american history. fight! fight! and we have got to fight now and we have got to fight now more than ever for our nation. more than ever for our nation. i think trump — worse i think trump — worse than weird, he's dangerous. than weird, he's dangerous. he's a criminal. he's a criminal. the last 3.5 years - the last 3.5 years - have been a nightmare, have been a nightmare, and everybody knows that. and everybody knows that. kamala harris has been the nomination. | kamala harris has been a big part of it. - a big part of it. - vance complements trump, vance complements trump, who's an even bigger idiot. who's an even bigger idiot. i think kamala harris's i think kamala harris's campaign is more — campaign is more — it's all over the place. it's all over the place. she's a chameleon. she's a chameleon. whatever anybody wants her whatever anybody wants her to be, that's what she is. - to be, that's what she is. - he abuses women. he abuses women. he's horrible. he's horrible. i think he's i think he's a complete narcissist. a complete narcissist. it's notjust because she's- it's notjust because she's- a woman but it's because she's a woman but it's because she's a black woman, it's - a black woman, it's - because of the process because of the process by which she got by which she got

the nomination. | i think you can tell from some of the trump—vance rhetoric i that's already out there - on childless cat ladies running the world, and it's tough. we're effectively run in this country via the democrats, be it via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable... ijust find that comment completely unacceptable.

want law enforcement. we do. we want our grandmothers to be able to walk to church and be safe. we want our babies... in her 20s, kamala harris became a lawyer. she rose quickly — prosecutor, district attorney, california attorney general. she was a prosecutor, so she put people in prison. i was in need of somebody to head up our family- and children's services - division and so, i approached kamala as to whether or not she might be available. - i found kamala very easy to work with. i you had violent cases - where a prosecutor had to be tough, and she could do that, and she did do that. - i have... i will never make an excuse for saying this and — or apology for saying this. one human being kills another human being? a woman is raped? a child is molested? there needs to be serious consequence and accountability. applause. and i'm going

to always say that. but by the same token, the thing that i liked i about kamala was that — - and still do — is that she was a very kind person. she is progressive, but she's progressive and she is tough. and i think that that's something that you don't often hear together. the thing about this that is really interesting to me is that for republicans, it takes away their tough—on—crime mantra. that is what they've run on. she was an actual prosecutor — someone who prosecuted crimes. and that experience became a key part of kamala harris�*s presidential pitch, reminding voters about the criminals she had helped send to jail. predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. so hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. kamala harris married

doug emhoff in 2014. he's a lawyer and a campaigner against anti—semitism. in the 1990s, she dated willie brown, the speaker of the california assembly. willie brown is a very influential person in california history. he is mentor to numerous politicians and, certainly, he helped kamala harris in her 2003 san francisco district attorney election. so, i should say that it's been used multiple times against her in campaigns and voters have taken it into consideration and elected her. oh, i — you know, i've read . articles that said that kamala owes her career to. mayor willie brown — who, incidentally, is a good friend of mine as well — - and i think that's laughable. obviously, only she would be i

able to accomplish, you know, being district attorney, state. attorney general, us senator. i mean, she is the one thati accomplished those things. i'll repeat the question — can you think of any laws that gives the government the power to make decisions about the male body? i'm not a... i'm not a — thinking of any right now, senator. i think kamala harris- was a very tough senator. i think her questioning - of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh when he was — before he was sworn in was one of the best things i've ever seen. i it's something that i think will go down as one - of the greatest lines of - questioning of a supreme court nominee in us history because he couldn't . think of one. well, arthel, former vice presidentjoe biden, well, he now has enough delegates to secure the democratic nomination. kamala harris was one of those joe biden had beaten to become the democratic party nominee for the white house in 2020.

her campaign fizzled quickly at the time. when she took onjoe biden in the presidential debate in 2019, i thought, "this is the end of him "and the beginning of her" and, boy, was i wrong. it just came apart. the lack of seriousness, the lack of consistency, the lack of — of focus that you expect in a presidential candidate was not part of her campaign. it ain't easy, right, - to go from being a district attorney, quickly a senator. she didn't have much. time to learn the ropes of national politics. it happens to many. many people enter the race. many people don't last very long. - everybody and their mama, for lack of a better term, was running for president. i think that in a very crowded race, it's — it's tough. but you have to ask yourself did she really fail? -

now, when she entered the race, she was — she entered to win. she wasn't running for second place. but she ended up getting second place — she ended up becoming president biden's vice president. we did it, joe. you're going to be the next president of the united states. ..harris, do solemnly swear... i, kamala devi harris, do solemnly swear... ..that i will support and defend the constitution... now, vice president harris was given responsibility for tackling illegal migration across america's border with mexico. but the number of migrants entering the us unlawfully rose and the vice president's opponents pointed to what they saw as her weak response to questions about her approach. we've been to the border. you haven't been to the border. and i haven't been to europe. and i mean, i don't — i don't... i think that the republicans will make the border- and immigration a top - priority for them and point

to vice president harris's - involvement as the 'immigration tsar', as they call her. three years, she was the 'border tsar�*. she let it be known, "i am the border tsar". then, she never went to the border. these are... she's terrible. she's worse — she's worse than he is, i'll tell you right now. she was not a successful vice president. we asked people repeatedly, "name me a harris "accomplishment as vice president," and more than half the country cannot. i mean, she hasn't done anything in four years. l like, everything - she was appointed to, she hasn't done anything. like i said, everything i he says he's going to do, he does it. she's vice president for 3.5 years and they still can't point to anything that she actually did. it wasn'tjust her track record that came under scrutiny — there was criticism, too, of the style of some of her media appearances. their word for me is 'momala'. and so, they call me momala. we need you to be momala of the country. cheering and applause.

i eat no for breakfast. yes! she was attacked over her mannerisms, including the way she laughed. excuse my language! they're trying to make her into a, let's say, margaret thatcher. i don't think so. it's not going to happen. margaret thatcher didn't laugh like that, did she? did she laugh? it's interesting to me that the republicansl criticise a laugh. it's something that i really. find endearing about kamala harris. it's how i know that she enjoys what she does. i joe biden was being heavily criticised for a series of stumbles and gaffes. and now, i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine. ladies and gentlemen, president putin. president putin? he's going to beat president putin. president zelensky. then, injune, came this... the...the...the total initiative relative to what we can do with more border patrol and more asylum

officers. president trump? i really don't know- what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said, either. i ..a presidential debate disaster. less than a month later, the biden campaign was over. republicans knew that the likelihood of biden making it through the election campaign was very low. but in the end, they weren't prepared for it. the republicans may have been unprepared but inside the white house, kamala harris was not. i think someone who is as politically skilled as kamala harris would have a campaign waiting in the wings, no matter what. i think this campaign plan could have been put in place in 2028, or it could have been put in place injuly of 2024. and i think it's smart that she had as many phone numbers ready to go as she did, to call on other united states senators and other elected leaders across the country, to get them to endorse her within the first 24—48 hours.

within a few days, endorsements came from the highest levels of the democratic party. barack obama: we called to say michelle and i couldn't be - prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get i you through this election and into the oval office. | oh, my goodness. michelle, barack, this means so much to me. other, less predictable endorsements came as well. they included this one from the british pop star charli xcx. the harris campaign leaned in. it created a header image for the new kamala hq x account in the style of charli xcx's brat album cover. i am somewhat stunned by the speed with which the democratic party came together behind her. it was a matter of a day, 1.5 days, and i think it speaks to the degree to which democrats were very nervous aboutjoe biden's candidacy and the degree to which there was a consensus that the last

thing that the party needs now is a food fight. it would have been better for her to have won - the nomination rather- than to have been anointed. and if we had democracy, there would have been a primary and kamala would not be just picked out of nowhere. to have to prove yourself, - that kind of battle sets you up for the war, which you know you're going to have - from donald trump. in politics, trial by fire - makes a stronger candidate — a better candidate. stronger and better or not, what are the issues that a harris administration would need to address? getting back our reproductive rights as women. we need that back. we're not going back. in 2022, there were widespread protests against a decision by the us supreme court to overturn the landmark roe v wade legal ruling on abortion. roe v wade had guaranteed women the right to an abortion up to about 24 weeks.

kamala supports women and our right to choose for our bodies, and that matters more than anyone could ever imagine. people all have their rights to their own decisions, their bodies, their choices, women's rights. definitely crucial, definitely something that i look for, as a woman, as a woman who has a daughter. she's been the most vocal proponent of women's - reproductive rights and women's access to not only abortion - care, but also things i like in vitro fertilisation for women who are - working to become moms. she's incredibly focused on issues that are impacting certainly black women, but women generally in the united states. donald trump said he wants to punish women. booing. and as a result of his actions, today in america, one out of three women live in a state with a trump abortion ban. one out of three. she's a radical. she's an absolute radical on abortion. we need teachers to get

paid what they deserve. | we need nurses in every school. education. education is very important, and just caring about the people. she will have a focus on education that helps minority students, helps women achieve that equity that they — that they don't have at this point in time. voting rights and voting rights access. because one of the fears in any american election at this point is whether or not black voters will have access to the ballot. there are questions, too, about the war in ukraine. would a president harris keep funding the country's fight against russia? and what about israel and gaza? would kamala harris continue to back israel? i think for the most part, you'll see more continuity than change in a harris foreign policy. as far as we know, there really haven't been any fundamental differences of — of opinion when it comes to the big issues of the day — ukraine, dealing with china, the conflict in gaza.

kamala harris, as vice president, has already met with over 150 world leaders. and so, thinking through the relationships she's already built, i think that we would be very well positioned to maintain america's place in the world, should she become president. this man is helping kamala harris carry her agenda forward — her running mate, minnesota governor tim walz. she was likely hoping his reputation as an affable family man would be a big asset. hey, minnesota. governor walz here out here at the state fair with my daughter... hope. every year, we as a family do something old and something new. i get to pick something, a classic — the old mill ride — we do that. and then, hope gets to pick something new. i think we're going to go do the slingshot. screaming. oh, my... i think it's good to have, like, a moderate — - more moderate candidate

to be by her side. - the economic policies that the harris—walz campaign is pushing for is really what this country needs. but do enough voters agree? and will they put kamala harris in the white house as president? election victory for her would cap a spectacular rise. for many americans, it would mean much more. i think it's very significant for america to elect an african—american woman to the white house for the first time. kamala harris has been the first of many things — first woman attorney general in california, first female vice president. i think that her being the first assures that she will not be the last female president, and i think that's something that a lot of younger women can look to and aspire to. i'm not worried that someone won't accept the results of this election — i'm actually petrified. because i believe that our democracy in america is at a breaking point and i'm afraid that one more election

like 2020 will actually cause it to break. i have always said that - i always hoped in my lifetime to see a woman president. i hope i finally see that now. hello there. still very unsettled across the north and the west of the uk at times. more wet and windy weather to come here, but also some sunshine in the forecast and some late summer warmth too, especially for southern and eastern areas of england. now through the night, this front has been tracking southwards and eastwards. on tuesday morning it's still bringing heavy downpours of rain for northern ireland, western scotland, some of that rain falling on already saturated ground,

particularly across dumfries and galloway. so heavy downpours still here, windy up through these irish sea coast, but it's breezy wherever you are. a dry start to the day though for england and wales and very mild, particularly across northern ireland. now, on tuesday that front continues to slip further southwards and eastwards, the rain turning lighter and more patchy. behind the front things will dry out and brighten up. there'll be some sunny spells and some showers. the front, by the time we get to the afternoon, is draped down from north west england, wales and southwest england, so cloudy with outbreaks of rain here but ahead of the front there'll be a lot of sunshine and the highest of the temperatures mid 20s perhaps, but also possibly 20 or 21 degrees in parts of aberdeenshire. now, the position of the front could change on tuesday into wednesday, it's moving very slowly as it bumps into the area of high pressure almost stalls. it's just a narrow band of cloud, really, as we head through wednesday, stretching down from, say, north yorkshire, through wales and into south west england. behind it sunny spells but also some more heavy showers pushing eastwards

from parts of western scotland and northern ireland. again, more sunshine across many parts of east anglia, south east england. temperatures here could get to 27 or 28 celsius, perhaps, but wednesday does look as if it's going to be the warmest day of the week, because after that front clears on thursday, we draw in more of a westerly wind. so we're getting that fresher atlantic air back again, and there will be a drop in temperature, but still a lot of dry weather to come in the forecast. again, some more showers affecting parts of north west england, northern ireland and western scotland in particular, pushing eastwards, but further south it is a mostly dry story, but temperatures are lower across the board, generally 16 to 23 celsius north to south. then a ridge of high pressure may well build in as we head through thursday and friday, keeping things largely dry into the weekend and feeling a touch warmer.

live from london. this is bbc news. tributes to the former england football manager — sven—goran eriksson — who's died at the age of 76. all occupants of an east london block of flats are accounted for — after it's consumed by a fire. # slipped inside the eye of your mind...# and will they, won't they? the gallagher brothers tease fans with the prospect of a reunited oasis.

tributes have been paid to sven—goran eriksson who's died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. he was england's first foreign manager, and was seen at his peak as one of football's finest coaches. david beckham said he would be "forever grateful" for his decision to appoint him as england captain. prince william, who is head of the football association, called him a 'true gentleman of the game.�* andy swiss looks back at his life. he brought a swedish cool to english football. but behind that studious surface, sven—goran eriksson�*s reign was anything but dull. he had made his managerial name first with gothenburg, and then with the italian side lazio, but when england appointed him as kevin keegan�*s

replacement in 2000, it sparked a storm of controversy.