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dueling campaign event in the same city as his democratic rivals. as gaza civilians suffer from malnutrition we speak to a doctor about the dire conditions on the ground. ♪ caríona: hello and welcome to "world news america." i am caitríona perry. u.s. vice president kamala harris who is now the certified democratic candidateor president is on the campaign trail with her new running mate, minnesota governor tim walz. they are focusing on midwestern states and holding a rally in wisconsin. it is one of several battleground states likely to decide the election. with just 90 days to go, governor walz told voters about what he believes he brings to the ticket referencing his rural upbringing and teacher career.

democrats are campaigning largely on the issue of reproductive health rights, governor walz is sharing his family's personal experience. gov. walz: some of you might have heard this. when my wife and i decided to have children we went through years of fertility treatments and i remer each night praying the call would come with good news. the phone would ring, tenseness and then the agony when you heard the treatments had not worked. it was not by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter we named her hope. [applause] when vice president harris and i and everyone talks about freedom, we mean the freedom to make your own health care decisions. [applause] caitríona: governor walz went on to welcome vice president harris to the stage and in her speech

she referred to her record as a prosecutor in an attack on the republican ticket. she said one of her key priorities in office would be to bring down the cost of living. v.p. harris: when i am president it will be a day 1 priority to fight to bring down prices and we will take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging. i will take on corporate landlords but unfairly raise rents on working families. i will take on big pharma and cap the cost of prescription drugs for all americans. [applause] and continue to bring manufacturing jobs back to america. caitríona: meanwhile just across town, donald trump's running mate, senator j.d. vance, held a campaign event at the airport in eau claire, wisconsin. he -- acknowledged he was there is a contrast. he railed against illegal

immigration and the flow of drugs across the border and blame the vice president for higher prices. sen. vance: every single thing americans need to buy to live a halfway decent life have become more expensive because of kamala harris' economic policies. instead of saying i am sorry or we should go a different direction she is refusing to answer tough questions and hoping a campaign will earn her a promotion. i would say you are fired. your policies did not work. your agenda does not work and it is not with the american people want. caitríona: the trump campaign believes it can capitalize on harris' selection for running bait. donald trump called into the fox and friends morning television show and said of governor walz he is a very liberal man, he is a shocking pic and i could not be more thrilled. donald trump accused kamala harris without evidence of not

selecting pennsylvania governor josh shapiro as a running mate because he is jewish, sink democrats were afraid of stoking divisions over the war in gaza. mr. trump: it turned out not to be schapiro. i have no doubt that it was because of the fact it is because he is jewish and that think they will offend somebody else. you would not feel very comfortable if you are in israel right now with this team. caitríona: after wisconsin, kamala harris and tim walz moved to a second battleground state, michigan. that is where we are, detroit. there is a lot of energy within the democratic party after the unveiling of governor walz yesterday. what has the rection been like in michigan? >> i am sure you can hear the reception is very enthusiastic. onstage is the chair of the democratic party.

theris a fairly large crowd. this incident airport hangar. the airport hangar opens up into an airfield because there is overflow. they will set up some big screens because so many people have signed up to attend. they want to see kamala harris and tim walz. this reflects what we saw in philadelphia and wisconsin. one thing important to note about this crowd is there is a heavy union presence. a lot of members of the united auto workers. the president of uaw is sent to speak tonight. he has endorsed kamala harris. very important in detroit for the democrats in this battleground state. many people are enthusiastic about kamala harris and tim walz. take a listen to what a few people told us. >> she is qualified. overqualified. it is high time we had a female head of state in the usa.

we have them in mexico, south america, all over the place. the person that is running against her -- he will remain nameless -- i think he is running scared now. he has no program. >> anybody but trump is the most important thing to me. if my dog was running, i would vote for him. anybody but trump. i am not thrilled with harris. . i did not like her first pick. there were better candidates. i want to learn more about both of them. >> as you can hear, there are some mixed voices but generally a lot of excitement for the harris-walz ticket. we spoke to some voters who were not part of the rally and they were concerned about some big election issues like inflation, immigration. we will talk about that with a

congressman from the state of michigan. great to have you with us. i am shouting because it is loud. we were talking about economic issues, important in the battleground states. what message have kamala harris and tim walz needed to deliver to michiganders to win their vote? >> they need to hear that we want to continue to work on rebuilding american manufacturing. this part of the country has been focused on manufacturing for over a century and it is the strength of our country. what we will see under the biden-is harris administration is movement of jobs back to the u.s., investment in green energy. people want to know the agenda equates to jobs. that makes a difference at the kitchen tables of america and in michigan. the message is it is about kitchen table economics. if we focus on that, we win. >> one of the aspects is the fact -- we spoke to a voter who

said groceries, gas prices are hitting hifamily hard. we have seen j.d. vance, the republican vice president nominee is blaming for kamala harris and joe biden for that. >> the reason we are dealing with this is the reason the world is dealing with it -- the pandemic was devastating to the economy. donald trump botched the pandemic. joe biden inherited a mess and we have been righting the ship. what we need to do is stay the course but acknowledged what people are feeling at the pump and the grocery store is real and that we have a plan, agenda to drive those costs down. simply giving massive tax breaks to the wealthiest americans will not make a difference when it comes to the kitchen table costs, the cost of gasoline. in fact, in donald trump's case,

he has made it clear if the oil and gas industry gives him $1 billion, he will do what they want. i guarantee that will not be to lower gas prices. it will be to maximize profits. >> the other criticism we have heard from republicans is tim walz is a far left radical just like kamala harris. do you think he is possibly too progressive or voters here in michigan? >> no. the issues tim walz has worked on -- we are good friends -- he focuses on the needs of families. whenever policy is required to do that he will focus on. he does not consider it progressive or conservative. it is about being family-centered. you look at his track record. a teacher. a coach. a veteran. a guy who has devoted his life to serving others. the republicans do not have an answer for that. of course they label everyone as too far left. the truth is it is not about

left and right -- it is about the center of the kitchen table. if we focus on that, we will win. >> the battleground states including your state of michigan, are you confident they will be able to win this estate in november? >> it will be a close race no matter what. the energy that came with the nomination of kamala harris and the incredibly brilliant selection of tim walz, we are in a position to fight for this state. it is a long way from over. it will be a close race. on the margins, everything matters. the selection of tim walz, an indication of her judgment, ss to people in michigan that she sees us, they are coming here on their first full day as a ticket and it means a lot and will make a difference. these races asre settled -- are settled by a few thousand votes either way. >> thank you for joining us. it is a toss up here in michigan

if you look at the polls. republicans and democrats will be fighting hard to win these votes, especiay undecided voters who have not made up their mind. one said someone has to prove themselves to me in the next three to four months. caitríona: we will hear from you on bbc news later. president joe biden has done his first media interviews since deciding not to seek reelection. he has been speaking to a campaign correspondent with cbs. that interview will be broadcast in full on sunday morning but here is a little snippet of what the president said. >> are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power january 2025? pres. biden: if trump win, i am not confident at all -- if trump loses, i am not confidenat all. he means it. all the stuff about "if we lose, it will be a bloodbath." look at what they are doing now

in local districts where people count the votes. putting people in place in states where they will count the votes. you cannot love your country only when you win. caitríona:caitríona: the israeli army has issued an evacuation order for palestinians in gaza. this time for people in the north. the army says it is in response to a series of rockets fired from the area into israel on tuesday. israel's army chief vowed to find, attack and eliminate hamas' new leader. he is israel's most wanted man for his role in the october 7 attacks in which hamas and other armed palestinian groups killed around 1200 people and kidnapped more than 200 others. iran said its response to the death of the hamas leader in tehran will take place at what he describes as the right time and in the appropriate shape. iran and hamas accused israel of

carrying out last week's assassination. israel has not claimed or denied responsibility. saudi arabia said the assassination was blatant violation of iran's sovereignty. communities in northern israel are preparing for an attack including a vast underground hospital in a city where we find our correspondent, jenny hill. >> deep underground, a place of last resort. this car park is now a hospital. if there is an attack on the city the vast bunker will shelter the sick and taking the injured. >> when is it going to happen? nobody knows. we talk about it a lot. in general people are optimistic. we hope it will be -- >> there are operating theaters, a maternity ward, a command bunker and supplies to keep going for three days. >> they tell us they are fully prepared for an attack.

israel insists it is ready for any eventuality. and yet you can sense the unease. you can feel the fear. this port city is vulnerable. lebanon and hezbollah's rockets are close by. just look across the shipping lane. you can see the border. >> it is a ticking time bomb. any minute there could be an alarm. will i die? will i have time to go to my family? >> it will probably be drones or missiles. it will be problematic for us to evacuate. >> he opened his coffee shop six months ago. the constant threat has dulled the fear. are you afraid? >> i am not afraid. >> the mayor, sleepless nights. he ran the city when israel was at war with lebanon nearly 20 ears ago.

-- 20 years ago. >> there is a fork in the middle east. leaders are only concerned about destruction, killing, fighting instead of building. >> the doctors continue to prepare their fortress hospital. international diplomacy is ongoing. hope still they will never have to use it. jenny hill, bbc news. caitríona: the world health organization says it will send one million polio vaccines to gaza. the virus was detected in the region last week. children in the enclave could soon be infected if preventative measures are not taken. for more on the humanitarian situation in gaza i have been speaking to a pediatrician and internal medicine doctor from arkansas who spent a month working in the hospitals in gaza. he traveled there with a global charity. you are a pediatrician. you have worked in intensive

care units in the u.s. the world health organization is concerned about a polio outbreak in gaza. it is sending a lot of vaccines to the children there. what would a polio outbreak mean for the children and the whole population in gaza at this time? >> i think it parallels everything else i observed while i was there. the complete destruction of the entire health care infrastructure across all of gaza along with the combination of the breakdown of infrastructure, sanitation and clean water act says, we are seeing and extent of disease that is far more than anywhere else in the world. the gaza health care infrastructure has been blasted back 50-70 years and polio puts us back in the 1950's. we are in an environment where doctors and health care systems are not prepared to deal with at this point. caitríona: you traveled there

with a global organization. tell us about the conditions you and other medical professionals are working in in gaza. were you prepared for what you saw? >> i do not think any kind of medical training could be enough -- emotional, psychological training -- for what i saw while i was there. what i saw was an everyday traumatic experience for the gazan civilian population. what i saw was an overwhelmed heth care infrastructure that had to deal with vast quantities of chronic illness that had regressed significantly over nine months with no access to typical medical supplies and medications. along with a daily incoming barrage of trauma patients, people in pieces is what i would describe it as, every single day in the icu at the hospital i was staying at.

caitríona: has there been any improvement in access to medical supplies for professionals for the hospitals that are still operational? >> i would say the opposite. it has gotten worse, which you would not believe is possible. while i was ere -- i got in in the last weekend of june -- i was prohibited in taking in the medical supplies donated in anticipation of this medical mission. i was restricted to one suitcase. when i entered the hospital i was in shock at the low levels of supplies that existed for the most basic and necessary items to take care of people in anywhere in the world. we did not have enough gauze, we did not have enough senate cessation materials or supplies that needed to be reused. we did not have enough tubes to intimate people. we had people dying of wound care problems because we did not have the most basic first-aid materials. all medical supplies up and choked into gaza.

caitríona: in terms of how you are operating and people are triaging them, that most impact who you can treat and how you can treat them. >> listen, it is hard not to get emotional but there were moments there every day where we had to choose which child who was badly burned would get a tube to breathe. there are memories that will be seared forever in the back of my mind that -- where we had to choose which child would get a machine to breathe for them, we knew they had airway burns and it would only get worse. that is a daily occurrence for the health care staff in gaza. caitríona: the hamas-controlled health ministry puts t death toll around 40,000 at this point. do you think it could be a lot higher? >> listen, there was a vast

consensus for international aid worker and humanitarian dr. that the number was multi fold more than any number we have heard in the media by either side. the reason i feel comfortable saying that as a physician whose eyes for on the ground and hands were on these patients is we are not including the patients who are dying from their chronicle medical needs like dialysis needs, cancer patients who have not gotten chemotherapy and nine months, patients dying of simple wounds and simple waterborne lnesses that could be treated with basic medical first-aid that are dying of these illnesses in the backdrop of severe about nutrition which makes it almost impossible to trauma.ter from these levels of i think the number is well above the numbers. i think we will all be devastated as a society when we

finally get eyes on the ground and are able to survey what we will all see. caitríona: we are told today by the u.s. state department that they are very close to a cease-fire deal. if that deal is done and there is a pause in the attacks and the violence, what will the long-term health impact before the people of gaza? >> we are talking about decades of building infrastructure that it will take to get back to where we were. when we talk about the health care infrastructure, money will not solve this problem. it is going to take a tremendous amount of coordination and time and help from everywhere to get us to a place where the gazan people get the type of care they receive from a dignity perspective and health care perspective. what i will say is as a pediatrician we have done a lot of other trauma affects on the psychology of children when they

suffered severe trauma and an early age when their brains are forming connections, they have a level of trauma that no one should see in their lifetime where they cannot escape.n gaza where the adrenaline associate with the fear of drones above their head is constant and the visuals of them seeing their family members get torn apart -- we are talking about a problem that will take generations to heal. caitríona: thousands of antiracism protesters have taken to the streets of cities across the u.k. this was the scene in london. organizer say the r value against islamophobia and showing solidarity is with communities targeted by recent riots. in birmingham they were met by counter demonstrators marching near an immigration asylum center. some clashes broke out as people stepped into control.

police stepped into control the crowds. more than 6000 police officers have been deployed to contain outbreaks of violence. it all comes after a week of widespread disorder and rioting in england and northern ireland. anti-immigration protests turn violent in many cities with more than 400 people arrested. the first of those to be convicted of violent disorder were jailed on wednesday for up to three years. let's have a look at some other important news from around the world. thailand's constitutional court has resolved a party that won last year's election. the court moved -- the court ruled -- overthrowing the state. the party's executives have also been banned from engaging in politics for 10 years. the u.s. said it is deeply concerned by the ruling. authorities say taylor swift's three concerts in vienna this we cap been canceled after two

suspects were arrested on wednesday for allegedly plotting a terror attack. police say one of the suspects was radicalized on the internet and pledged an both to the leader of the islamic state. vn as head of police at 65,000 people were expected to attend each concert. ♪ that is it for today. as always you can find out more about the day's news at our, bbc.com/news. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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