[000:00:00;00] the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. joe biden drops out of the d. west presidential race. the 81 year old bows for pressure from within his own party, amid concerns over his age and mental fitness. many democrats now haley, his decision as selfless and patriotic biden, and many leading democrats are now growing. there are some 4 behind the vice president, pamela harris, does she have what it takes to beat donald trump was now facing a new electoral landscape. also coming up on our show

a break in the bank with dash protest students, suspense demonstrations for 48 hours, saying they wanted reforms, but not at the expense of so much, bloodshed, the hello, i'm clear, richardson, welcome to the show. joe biden has pulled out of the us presidential race of bowing 2 weeks of pressure over his age and health. biden's run for re election was thrown into disarray late last month after a dismal debate performance against donald trump. and he's now back in his running mate, vice president campbell harris to replace him at the top of the ticket. and a growing list of democrats is now also supporting her nomination. after weeks of speculation and denials us president joe biden has

a band and his bid for re election in november. as in a statement. biden said, i believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president. for the remainder of my term. the capitalist was his debate against donald trump. i should be biden struggled to keep his train of thought or interest performance fueled concerns about his age and cognitive state. if we finally b, medicare bite and has now endorsed his vice president comma law harris as the challenger to donald trump. but americans are divided on his choice. awful, awful news, joe biden got 14000000 votes. he should be the candidate. she's a woman, but also, maybe she was make change for us on special. we mean

a lot of change. we need definitely some fees to. i don't see where they have really much a chance. i think it's over for, it's a, it's a party that is deconstructing it is failing and i think the whole world is, is witnessing that right now. donald trump reacted to the news thing crooked joe biden was not fit to run for president and is certainly not fit to serve. and he never was. he only attained the position of president by lies, fake news and not leaving his basement all those around him, including his doctor and the media. knew that he wasn't capable of being president . and he wasn't in 2020 harris failed in her bid to become the democratic nominee. now, she is closer than ever. it all depends on how delegates vote at the democratic convention in august. you have a pet couple of memory. many notable democrats have already endorsed harris, a former prosecutor and attorney general. as our call at some of the party's top

brass have not backed her. critics say harris lacks a clear vision and has been absent on the political stage. biden's late withdrawal has up ended the democratic campaign. the party must quickly find its footing with just months until the election date of these washington bureau chief municipal has more on whether biden's decision and not to run again has injected new momentum into the democratic party. they don't have the majority here in the united states was really not excited about the selection campaign at all. this is 12 men who had no new message to deliver. so the biggest crest you really felt was who is able to get more people out to vote. but this of course has totally changed over the last 24 hours. one clear indicator is of course the money pouring into this election, campaign of fundraising. really rems upcoming,

the harris race nearly $50000000.00 just in the hours of the president of biden and doors to her. and then there are of course, also the very important young voters and activists. like, for example, david talked with survived the 2018 mess, shooting and parts and raised over $200.00 also within hours on this social media calling. so yes, it's a totally different vibe in the united states, which is just waking up to this monday morning and abiding harris campaign. now of course the, just the harris campaign, if she does end up on this ticket, she's going to need a running mate for vice president. who might that be? yeah, and that of course will be cool. so because also all she is a woman and she is a black woman, and many people fear that the united states is still not really ready for having a black woman in the white house. so the b p. p will be crucial, and it's very likely that she will take a governor and

a wide governor from one of these crucial spring states. so pennsylvania, governor joshua piero, is one of the names which is circulating here. then of course, kentucky government ended this year and then there's also an interesting figure that's arizona, senator mark kelly. he's a former s one out and it's also fairly well known in the united states. i personally think of the camelot, harris found waived for too long until she will announce home she will pick a sleepy. i mean, this has really thrown everything into the air, hasn't that n as the trump campaign? let's talk about them briefly. they've, of course, been focused on biden as the candidate they expected trump to be going up against and now they're going to need to really shift the gears. what might we see from them going forward in terms of their campaign strategy? they chosen lead to right there, and we had a couple of conversations from the r and see the republican national convention

which does just finished last thursday in milwaukee. and they of course were totally 1st focused on to bite. and they ran many like pictures and little video clips about him falling down or falling up stairs and stumbling, mumbling. so they have to shift gears. they now try to kind of say that couple of harris was a total failure. that she being responsible for the a border control of failed and she was kind of or is responsible for the same politics. joe biden put out there. so they have to shift gear and they have to find a way how to beat this woman who is sole, was successful also on social media. i mean take talking to instagram, just loves come a lot higher. so it shall be interesting is a trump campaign is able to kind of to get a good on that. thank you so much for your reporting that his date of use washington bureau chief, you as over reporting. i also spoke earlier to rachel rizzo,

a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council. she told us how bite and dropping out of the presidential race will affect relations with the transatlantic allies as well. i think that the message that bite incent both during his campaign and during his presidency was that america is back that after 4 years of uncertainty and mercury on this under trump presidency, that america could be seen again as a reliable ally and partner. and that's certainly what he's been trying to message to the europeans for the last 4 years, with his art in support of both nato, the european union, and certainly the war in ukraine. and so i think with his remaining time in office, those are the things that's his legacy that i think in terms of foreign policy he's going to work on solidifying but. busy he passes the torch, come january of next year. so tell us

a little bit more about exactly what transatlantic partners are hoping to see now from a democratic campaign in the united states as well. we've sort of gotten into this weird dynamic, i think, in europe where the democratic party is sort of seen as the saviors of the transatlantic alliance, the champions of the transatlantic alliance. whereas the republicans are sometimes seen as the potential death. now of that, i certainly trump and his team have been much harsher on nato calling europeans free riders. calling the european union a project meant to undermine the united states. they've been much harsher on europe than the democrats have. so i would really like to see us get out of this dynamic, and i'd actually like to see a cala harris if she ends up being the nominee and her vice president. you know, take a tough line on your, if not, maybe go as far as trump has gone, but say, you know, america is back. but europe does need to pull more of its weight. does need to

figure out how to spend more on defense and shoulder more of the burden of its own continental security. because that's i think, where we're headed in the future as the united states continues this pivot to the endo pacific region. so i think your plans are expecting sort of a lighter touch from the democrats and they could expect that. but i would like to come to a harris or again, whoever the nominee is to come out, perhaps a little bit tougher than bite and has over the last few years. how likely do you think that is to happen that surely not what transatlantic allies would actually like to see as well? i actually think it, it could happen because we've seen this dynamic in the us where the republicans of sooner sort of cornered the market on this messaging, but biting has tried over the last few months, i think to increase of color harris has profile in europe. she has replaced

him at the munich security conference, both in 20232022 sent a message of unity, but also send a message of, you know, the need to increase defense spending and some of the issues that i mentioned before. so again, i don't think we're going to go, the democrats are good to go full republican on this messaging, but combo harris as someone who is not a foreign policy person, herself, takes a lot of her cues from her advisors and people who have been in this game for a long time. so let's see the kind of guidance they give her and where this might go over the next few months. but again, we'll have to wait and see a lot of things are up in the air at the moment. indeed, what about the war in ukraine? what do you think we would expect to see from a potential harris administration, a continuation of backend for ukraine's war effort in the same way we've seen under biden i think we'll see more continuity than change on that front. the problem really isn't with the white house. the problem is the difficulty

that the white house has getting potential a past on capital hill. the warren ukraine has turned into a highly partisan issue. we saw that a, that issue discussed a lot at the republican national convention last week. gigi vance has been very vocal about his desire to end us support for ukraine. so i think as a counter to that, we'll see cala harris or whoever the nominee is be a very pro ukraine in the same way that joe biden has been during his presidency. but again, it is going to be difficult no matter who wins the selection, especially if it's a democrat given the partisanship surrounding ukraine that has developed on capital hill. well, thank you so much for joining us today with your insights. that is rachel result with the atlanta council and we can bring you up to speed with some other world news headlines. services

u. s. secret service director kimberly chito has admitted that her agency failed to protect republican presidential candidate donald trump against and assassination attempt in pennsylvania. on july 13th shadel who is facing calls to resign, called it the most significant operational failure at the secret surface in decades, not off and took full responsibility for the attack congresswoman sheila jackson, lee, 5 people have been killed in a shooting at a nursing home eastern croatia, police say the gunmen fled the scene, but was later arrested. authorities are investigating the motive behind the attack and police in greenland, harassed and prominent anti wailing, environmental us paul watson on an international warrant issued by japan, police escorted watson office ship after after it docked in the capital. nuke is foundation, said the arrest may have been linked to one of his previous anti wailing interventions . or is you members? days are evaluating how to respond to trips, taken by hung, darian prime minister, victor, oregon,

to russia and china as well as his countries positioning over the use role and ukraine. or ben has described him as a piece mission, despite the fact that none of his e u partners mandated him to do so. the use top diplomats now discussing a suggested boy caught of an upcoming informal gathering of foreign affairs ministers due to take place at the end of next month in budapest was big into this and get across to brussels to talk to dw correspondent terry schultz. she's covering the story for us. terry, what was the outcome of the minister's discussion on how to react to hungry is a prime ministers behavior here? hi clara. well, this is something that's really gotten under the skin of the use official foreign policy chief of joseph burrell. when he came into this meeting this morning, he called it completely unacceptable. that hungry goes out as the 6 month president of the european council and make statements that appear to be representing the

entire block. he says that is not what hungry doing. for example, at the united nations recently saying that the us pro war well representing the you . so we understand that there was some very heated discussion about that behind closed doors today. but we haven't yet heard from bureau in his press conference, we're waiting on that. so we don't know exactly what the official outcome was, but a couple of foreign ministers who, who left the meeting already said that there wasn't an official conclusion between members states on how to handle this. the check for the minister said that people basically restated their positions and everybody stayed on the same side, but polish for administer. roddic sikorsky said that he had come up with what he thought was a good compromise for how to handle this meeting. next month of foreign ministers, let's hear what, what his suggestion was. the i sealed the compromise proposals proposal to hold the foreign affairs council in ukraine as we did before

a couple of years ago. and this was subjected to a, an info, a vote. in fact, uh, but uh hungry and was against and then in the minority of one unfortunate um the many voices objected to portraying as if hungry was speaking and by doing most cool all to donald trump on behalf of the you know, we respects the hunger and people who respect hunger, silver, and t, but, but there's also article 24 of the union treaty, which says that the member states obliged to loyally support agreed positions. and a agreed position is that the ukraine should ukraine's board is, should return to those that hot, internationally recognized that russia is the aggressor and the,

the aggressor should not be rewarded for the aggression. so as you heard there from ministers of course k, it's not just that victor or bon goes around pretending to be an amount of piece holding these high level meetings. it's bit hungry is fundamentally officially against helping ukraine, unimposing russia. so that's really the bigger problem here. and it will be interesting to hear how form policy chief burrell explains what happened in that meeting when he gives us press conference here, coming up very soon. it's certainly well, terry, another presidency that was not on the agenda. but of course, getting a lot of attention, how are you for ministers reacting to president biden, withdrawing from the us presidential race to you know that the voices ranged from being extremely a credit crediting president biden was taking this decision at a time when it must have been very difficult for him and a bare buck, for example, said that the bite in administration leads nato in a stronger position that it was before,

but loved the and foreign minister by revise. the also came up with another point, she said, for all of the criticism that trump level that nato, the us actually spent more on nato and positioned more american forces on european territory under the trump administration than it had under the obama administration . so she said, you know, we'll work with whoever comes into, into office, but let's deal with the facts once we have them. and of course, we don't even know whether cumberland harris will be the nominee. certainly not who she's choosing for vice president. so most for our ministers were playing it pretty carefully and basically hedging their best between what's going to happen next in washington. a lot of open questions, i'm sure will be getting reaction as more information comes out. thank you so much for reporting as always. that is a terry show for us in brussels. and we can take a look now at some other world news headlines for you. japan is experiencing record high temperatures as the capital tokyo hit 38 degrees celsius. the weather expected

to get even warmer and it's predicted the country could see its hottest day in a decade. that's according to an advisory. authorities have urged citizens to take precautions to prevent heat stroke and to stay hydrated. former vietnamese tie kuhn at trent fine crew yet appeared in court in no way on monday. the latest in spring of crackdowns, he is charged with fraud amounting to $140000000.00 and stock market manipulation. the trial follows the recent debt, the former communist party leader nguyen, a trunk who spearheaded a number of anti corruption campaigns to all the bangladesh. the student group leading protests against civil service hiring rules announced that a 48 hour deadline for the government to meet its demands. they are calling on authorities to restore the internet with a truck curfews and released obtains protesters more than a 100 people have been killed in classes. the unrest again after the government

reintroduced a controversial quote, a system where 30 percent of civil service jobs for set. aside for the families of veterans, the supreme court drastically scales back the quarter to 5 percent costs name. julio is a banquet, actually journalist who lives in exile in sweden. i asked him if the situation in bangladesh is now commer. thank you to the situation has come down a little bit. uh we have seen uh, i mean we did not see any major flashes interesting tarka. but uh, on the other hand, uh, i mean people's lives are really, really disrupted. i mean we, we are hearing reports that hospitals are a lot bang, so running go to blood there. as you know, there are thousands of injured people seeking medical care right now, more by the money of bangladesh, economies very much dependent on moving money. that is not working for my phone

connections locally, even though not working. so it's very, very disruptive. it's, it's very, very fluid. i'd have to say that communication has been difficult to, hasn't it. i understand that there has been a nationwide internet blackout in bangladesh for 5 days. now, why do you think the government is restricting the flow of information this way as well? this is not really surprising because whenever governments is saltisha of the crack down on their own population, they very often cut down shut down internet connections. i mean, we have seen that elsewhere in crush me. for example. you mean the indian look a little bit because she that whenever there is a, a crack, don't protest is there the indian government trust on the internet. sort of similar things are happening most of the district and all of that. but just government when they think that they're going to print, don't very prove to be on the protest is and they don't want the world to really

know in real time what is happening in the sense that that whole full of information by just cutting the lawyer i mean, in a quite political sense, i want to ask you, um, we've mentioned that the supreme court's decision to change this controversial quota system. so we've mentioned that decision, it is accommodating students' demands in a way, do you see this as a victory for the protest movement? of course it is a victory. the supreme quote, the judgment or the direction actually confirms what the students have always been saying. they have been saying and claiming that it is not, is truly about the quotes. it is actually the executive branch of development that has the authority that has the legal follow to do what do, or each one's ridiculous. so even if you look at the, they've verbal decision that came to disappear include yesterday,

the court is saying exactly the same thing. the government is free to do what every once the 5 percent a one percent of you know, most indeed is that the court has mentioned, the government is free to use and revised tools. so it is always, that's exactly what the students have been seeing. so the cool really was not an issue. i mean, if the government wanted to dig good, have accepted the students, 3 lead you to meet very valid demand on the want. instead of, you know, going into indiscriminate meetings of this protest. so is that what this is really about here? um, are there other specific, a demands that the students have or oh right now, the movement has completely moved be on the demand for refund to go to so you can go from the jobs right now. they're demanding, for example, the resignation of the home and it's the resignation of the one of the most senior

leaders of to really know me about the, the of the transportation and the soul, but who called there the one shape. i've seen the prime minister of sales to take full responsibility for all of the motors, gibbons, and ample jobs to the nation. they want all the police chiefs who had come unresponsive to do with the feelings to be fired and i'm in there like a settled 90 months. i'm not gonna really do that, but those are the major do months right now they have and i think these do, mom is a truly have widespread public support inside and outside bundle dish. can you help us understand how this student protest movement is organized? do you think this is a force that could potentially be politically active in the long term? beyond just this? it is a very good question. i mean, the people who are leading the movement of attracting all of the current straight people where some of them were the leaders of

a grassroots movement that we saw in 2018. okay. and do these were school students and, and they were protesting their where demanding a safety ongoing that issue routes. and that movement was also brutally suppressed . so, i mean, those kids that we saw in 2018 come out in the streets saying that we do not want to be any longer feed on the streets because of this a terrible safety situation, invalid issue. these are the same people who are extra to now organizing and leading these movements. uh, it is a very good christian. i think. i mean these are like a new generation of activities. bundle. dish is with this thing, the part of the new generation, and they are becoming pretty engaged on some of the most bonding issues in the country. all right,

well thank you so much for taking the time to share your insights with us. i'm afraid i'm afraid that's all we have time for now. we very much appreciate your time though. that is, it has me a little a bank with that sheet journalist joining us today from sweden. and just before we go, we can bring you a reminder of our top stories. at this hour, a us president of jo, widen, has ended his re election, said after weeks of pressure from the fellow democrats over his age and fitness fight. it has endorsed vice president cala harris to take on donald trump in november's election. and the student group, leading protests and bangladesh against civil service hire and roles, has suspended demonstrations due to spiraling violence into the country. more than a 100 people has been killed in classes after the government reintroduced a controversial photo system or civil surface. john that is your news updates this our coming up after

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