section 2 for you granted her because she's been in so many people in the past. i can't tell you what she's voting for i don't think she knows what i think joe knows even less than she does but i was surprised that the pick a lot of people say that might be the pick i was more surprised than anything else because she did so poorly many people did much better than her in the primaries she did very poorly in the primaries and that's like a poll you know that's like a poll also a few policies doesn't trump card yes pfizer has something down slightly sense to most republicans there was pfizer use tremendous those are the losers justice department i see scalia with her ph mortification but all of you were actually born to 2013 that the surveillance court was allegedly wrote for stan was approving surveillance house hearings i don't think as president you commented on it would suit him but you think you should be allowed to return without present. so as far as pfizer abuses going to syria there was tremendous pfizer abuse it's amazing that it's taken this long and everyone knows it it's been proven very substantially not

only pfizer abuse changing documents and putting documents in front of the pfizer court and courts that are a disgrace well that they could have done it and the fact is we caught. joe biden president obama the whole group you can look at brennan and call me and clapper the whole group we caught him spying on our campaign this was an illegal act. like no other illegal act this was treason this was at the highest level of treason and obama and biden got caught spying on my campaign using intelligence agencies of the united states government to do it both before and after the election so before the election then after i won they continued it's totally illegal activity and now we just have. to see what's happening but as far as. kemal

is concerned she's a big tax raiser she's a big. slasher of phones for our military and she's got a lot of difficult things that she's going to have to explain plus she was very very nasty to one of the reasons that surprised me she was very she was probably nastier than even pocahontas to joe biden she was very disrespectful to joe biden. and it's hard to pick somebody that's just respectful when she said things during the debates to the democrat primary debates that were horrible about sleep and i would think that he would have picked over here. just to see our council vote. for. the. prize so we've been listening to president on all trump speaking about

a number of issues but just touching on the joe biden selection of commodity how rice as his running mate just there and he said that he was very surprised by the nomination and he made that point a number of times he also said that she was very gnostic to brett kavanaugh of course cavanagh now a justice on the supreme court's. his nomination became a real flash point in the u.s. last year when he faced sexual misconduct allegations will allen fisher is listening into all of this so allan donald trump saying that he was. that if this took him by surprise the selection of hours. he would be in the minority on that one. if he's surprised that camel house is a choice that he hasn't been paying attention there's an interesting irony there

that donald trump attacks camelot is saying that she's lied about a lot of things she's lied about position on health care about defunding the military about our position when it comes to how much fun should be diverted to the police and then he follows that up by claiming that the obama biden campaign committed treason by spying on the trump campaign which isn't exactly what happened so donald trump perhaps previewing a line of attack which maybe people might begin to talk him out of but we're certainly getting a taste of where the trump campaign is going we saw him right at the top of the briefing talking about the disquiet the protests in places like portland and chicago there has been some violence there and he's saying look this is the democrats' blueprint for what they want to turn the rest of america into and that is what we are going to hear a great deal of and you remember if we go back to 2016 and donald trump's acceptance speech at the republican convention it was a very dystopian a very dark view of what america was and could be and only he could fix it

certainly has brought some energy to the democrats and many people on social media and elsewhere and people that we've been speaking to seem to think that this is a very good choice for joe biden and something that will energize voters particularly voters of color which the trump campaign would be keen to try and steer away from the polling place and sam least get away from joe biden there were a number of people who had being considered for the post the vice president all of them women after joe biden committed to that much earlier in the primary process he brought forward the names of a number of women who have no gained national recognition but in the end for joe biden there was only one person he wanted on the ticket someone he would consider a friend. had similar houses been the favorite to feel the democrats the piece look for some time here. she brings a high national profile as

a former presidential candidate a senator from california. and family connections to biden she was close friends with his late son beau because this is my belief child of a mother from india and father from jamaica she takes 2 important boxes as a woman of color. such as dynamic or and really good message and she is really good at talking about complicated subject and made very clear to the audience in to the american people former attorney general of california she's used her skills as a prosecutor in senate hearings to pick apart arguments put forward by the come to ministration but that all title has also brought criticism during her tenure as attorney general there are a lot of questions raised about her going to intervene in a variety of types of cases including police excessive use of force our patients as well as areas around drug policy that could really become

a problem. in the 1st democratic presidential candidate debate she had a tense exchange when she said joe biden's past few on desegregating schools was hurtful but in modern u.s. politics it all seems a long time ago smart and charismatic she's been the front runner for a reason and 55 more than 20 years younger than the candidate she's seen as the next generation of democratic leaders. and of course alan you are saying have to be very careful about reading too much into polling numbers right now and presumably no one is predicting a similar or a part of a tree for joe biden but i suppose the hope is that harris would strengthen his position against donald trump. what will happen and this happens almost inevitably i can't think of a time in modern american politics what hasn't happened there will be a vice presidential bones he will get a kick in the polls that will concern the republicans that will concern donald

trump because he hasn't been doing terribly well in the polls recently i think if they continue to to push this is being of the radical left it might not resonate when he's talking about. wants to bring in universal health care that is actually quite popular when he talks about camel house wanting to cut military spending and divert to elsewhere that is actually quite popular at the moment so clearly these messages have to be refined but we're already seeing on social media that they're saying look the ticket should be called hardest by them because this is going to run the board it's not the 1st time that that sort of attack has been used but joe biden is popular at the moment there's a long way between now and november but certainly a woman of color on to his ticket will increase his popularity almost certainly in the short term he's going to be able to maintain that momentum all the way through to the election in november if you want to win the white house and

a few wants to be the 46 president of the united states all right thank you very much alan fischer launching 10 well joe biden has tweeted about his decision of running mate of course he said that he said i have the great honor to announce that i pick a model harriss a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants as my running mates and then also harris has she's been giving her reaction as well saying that joe biden can unify the american people because he spent his life fighting for as she says and as president he'll build an america that lives up to our ideals i'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief or hiding castro's also monitoring a story from maryland. and there has been some reaction from the g.o.p. chairwoman describing it as a woman of extreme positions raising taxes to abolishing private health insurance

and we heard much the same tone in president trauma's press conference just really lashing out against the selection of a lot. on joe biden's ticket. that's why we're seeing the republican establishment falling in line behind this new line of attack against harris really characterizing her as an element from the extreme left now what's interesting about that is you'll find many moderate democrats who are actually quite happy with the selection of kemal harris to be joe biden's running mate as my colleague alan fischer was reporting she checks so many boxes here not only enthusing those who are among the more progress is of the democrats because she is a woman of color but she also does seem to appease the democratic establishment in that she wasn't one of the further left candidates among the field of contenders back when she was still running to be the presidential nominee herself however you

are seeing president trump in his statements that he just made certainly trying to take away from that narrative and rather saying that kamel harris is from the extreme left he retreated a video from his campaign war room that characterized her as being taken over by the leftist mob even asserting that joe biden would be a transition candidate and that the real power if joe biden were to win the white house in the campaign telling would lie within the hands of kemal harris is certainly trying to push her to more to the left at least in the eyes of the voters . thank you very much from mary jo castro thanks heidi. or bring you some other stories we're following as well and it's been

a week since and massive blast in beirut killed more than 200 people and destroyed much of an already suffering city today the community united in that grave to honor the lives lost it was a service held a day after lebanon's government resigned under pressure from an increasingly angry public saying a hunter reports from beirut. was . a moment of silence for the dead the wounded and the missing church bells rang alongside the muslim call to prayer for a few moments at least this deeply divided and broken nation came together. the in. lebanon remembered a moment that changed the lives of so many people it's been a week since the explosion of beirut port destroyed lives and homes just meters

from the blast site people gathered to demand justice and accountability so all those in power knew about the explosives at the ports and they risk the lives of the people the should be an international investigation because we don't trust the lebanese investigations lebanese authorities including the president knew there was a large stockpile of ammonium nitrate at the port. but the 10 firefighters who died in the blast were not aware of the risks when they were sent to put out a fire of unknown origin we're up against a competence where our up against corruption we're up against all that system that got us where we are today and it's the whole system that is wrong it's also system that is flawed and we want to bury our dead before we bury their corruption before we bury them in the blast. then already dire economic crisis which pushed half of lebanon's 5000000 people into poverty aid agencies are distributing food and medicine filling the void left by a government that has long failed to provide basic services the state is close to

bankruptcy this is all that it got from the doctor on the hospital norms of course . that's why. i lost my job 1st and i lost my home and i lost my god from the explosive private hospitals were owed billions of dollars by successive governments which left the public sector ill equipped and underfunded i just want to say to the international community if you want if you can help the situations that really. were substituting. the country and the government's role towards its people it will be very interesting step the government has now resigned as though it will remain as a caretaker administration until a new cabinet is formed there are these people want what they call an independent salvation government but there are others who still support the sectarian system that they believe protects that they want a national unity government that will bring back the same political elite. that is

what people fighting for a new country fear they have the will but not the tools to bring change. french president. is leading an international initiative to solve the crisis he says lebanon needs fundamental change and a new political order he didn't elaborate. beirut. so i have for you on the program hong kong newspaper publisher and beijing critic jimi ly is released on bail after his arrest under a controversial security low. and no coverage of corona virus and no foreign content without permission tanzania's government cracks down on what journalists can report. hello their penchant for call several small southern areas of australia and our low

pressure sitting in the great bites and then all this long line of the way across towards the southeast but conditions have finally improved along the new south wales coast but not before this flooding this is the river it burst its banks the wall some local flooding here and then to the south of the narrow we have the flooding in just a few days ago this is the sea foam that washed up on at the beaches now to say things that have improving that we could there see if you shot one c. in and around sydney along the new south wales coast but the winds should be certainly and this is where we'll see the strong winds working the way across south australia on tools that toria leaving a very cloudy a picture across western australia on wednesday by thursday they will break in that cabin again we could have one or 2 shots in fact the showers extend all the way from the south coast in the western australia right there trolls towards that torah and eventually pushing on towards tasmania to find a way across both on and over new zealand there is more rain in the 4 calls into no they should have seen some strong thunderstorms as you can see here shanghai the night skies were really let up by some fairly ferocious storms we could see more of those although actually on wednesday it's much better day in shanghai but you see

all this rain out across the west the central areas that will extend further east north as we go through thursday and once again head towards the korean peninsula. global food production is wasteful and it's training our planet. but pioneers are adapting with new food sources jellyfish is delicious with a very light seafood taste of the texture and some that tell him our aid. and innovative production techniques i've seen a vertical farm before i would never in a restaurant have to say this is great earthrise feeding the 1000000000 on a jersey you know. the old.

look at the headlines now. has made history in the united states becoming the 1st black woman and asian american on a major presidential ticket california senator has been chosen as democratic candidate joe biden's running mate in the race to the white house. crowds gathered near beirut support on tuesday for a vigil marking a week since a catastrophic explosion shattered the lebanese capital there was anger as well with clashes between protesters and security forces continuing near the parliament building for a 2nd day. now russia saying it's developed the world's 1st vaccine

against covert 19 after less than 2 months of human trials are concerns that moscow might be putting national pride before science and safety charlie rangel has more. it's a race everyone wants to win but rushing it could prove fatal president putin says russia has approved a vaccine against covert 19 despite not completing crucial phase 3 clinical trials next week i'm using the su and you know today in the morning to use the 1st vaccine against the new corona virus infection was registered although i know it works they effectively form stable immunity and i repeat it has gone through all the necessary checks dubbed sputnik 5 after the 1st satellite in space the vaccine has only been tested on 138 people one of them putin's daughter based on a proven vaccine against adding a virus the common cold this vaccine allegedly gives immunity against kobe $1000.00 for 2 years but the results of the nima 2 trials have yet to be made public.

coronavirus has ripped through russia it has the 4th highest number of cases in the world the health ministry says doctors and teachers will receive the 1st doses before a mass vaccination program starts in january 20 countries have rushed to preorder it red 1000000000 doses according to moscow but the world health organization says the vaccine has not got best on top of approval yet we are in a close contact with the russian how her car keys discussions are going to respect possible government truck requalification of democracy yeah pre-publication of money maxine the rigorous review process all required in effect. and the scientific community say the speed of development and lack of transparency is causing them concern we have no idea whether even the claims that are being made about the safety and the immune response of this virus are true or not i hope they're true you know once there is a safe and effective vaccine personally i don't care where it comes from we need to

work together to get this to everybody around the world one of the things that i worry about is that you know this is really more about you know sort of geopolitics and being able to claim victory it may put pressure on other countries to cut corners on safety and effectiveness as well and that could put us all in danger. until the w.h.o. give the vaccine the green light this is not a race russia can claim to have one child there while health organization is saying there are some worrying spikes in virus cases in countries that have previously managed to control the outbreaks places like colombia and argentina colombia is close to reaching 400000 cases with the mayor of the capital bug atar expected to announce a new lockdown in parts of the city to control the spread and there are concerns about rising infections in the dominican republic which has more cases than all of the other caribbean island nations combined. when new zealand announced its 1st community transmission the virus in more than 100 days are going to citrus and are

done as ordered or can into lockdown after 4 new cases were confirmed there and leave all 3 you're asked to stay at home in your bubble other than for essential movements such as going to the supermarket or local recreation if you are in oakland you must work from harm unless you are an essential service worker or schools in childcare facilities in oakland are closed as of tomorrow morning except for the children of essential service workers and those who are who are involved will remember that it leave all 3 we allow you to x e schools and do a childhood for a level 3 for a cinch will suit us we use only or public facilities 3 strong same businesses must close by mid day to more and more a story we've been following closely growing anger and accusations of electoral fraud after the victory of president alexander lukashenko in belarus thousands of

opposition supporters were detained during the protests which erupted after sunday's vote opposition candidates fellas atlanta taken off skier has been given shelter in lithuania after fearing for her safety step in reports to us from minsk . after she suddenly disappeared from belo on monday night video of step plan at the sky emerged on tuesday morning of her in lithuania who just. i made a very difficult decision it's a decision i made absolutely independently so the my friends nor my family nor the campaign staff could influence it in any way the presidential challenger urged belorussians to stay safe and said she wanted to join her children abroad shortly after her 1st video appeared in nada showed her reading a statement urging belorussians to stop protesting opposition leader maria kolesnikov us asked the kind of guy i was locked in the room at the office of the election commission for 3 hours with 2 unknown men she went there to complain about

the election result which gave a 6th term to president alexander look i think she was pressured because of course . to present from. authorities. out for all these out internet news out here laura. everybody will understand what happened i the departure of the main opposition challenger happened while thousands of russians protest of for the 2nd consecutive night against what they say was a fraudulent and rick election. because shankar was been in power for 26 years and he won more than 80 percent of the vote police and soldiers responded to protests with violence and detentions thousands were taken and many are missing. at the tension centers around the country relatives are waiting for news this woman says

her son was detained after the election on sunday night she hasn't heard from him since. my heart is breaking he had no molotov cocktail stick he wanted to see it because he wants to live in a free country but he was based in. for the past 3 days we don't know where our children are only a few of us know the children here yesterday one man was told that is relative wasn't here when he shouted his name he responded. nicole for who complained with the crown of sky and another wife of an opposition figure is now the only woman of the so-called 3 young for us still in palo ruth she condemns the government to spy on student protests it's all form. it's can be used in 21st century of europe and of course. my heart is with the russian people you're not afraid not not if you have not got any threat to your. show must go on.

an eerie calm here on the streets of minutes compared to previous nights police seems to be in control at least for now but after thousands of these that inch and a violent government crackdown pressure on lookers shanker to step down will only grow step process al jazeera minsk a media tycoon in hong kong who's a major critic of the chinese government has been released on bail jimmy lyon to this sons were arrested under a controversial new security law he was surrounded by supporters in the media as he left the police station people chanted fight till the end and have an apple a day referring to lies apple deniz paper which has vowed to keep criticizing the government the u.k. and france are now working on new measures to stop immigrants from crossing the english channel so far this year more than 4000 people have successfully made the journey on small boats and since thursday at least 600 people have been intercepted making the crossing u.k. immigration minister chris philip is in paris for talks there he says the 2 nations

will work at pace to finalize a new plan for shutting down that route. any border is a shared responsibility and the united kingdom and france today we knew they reaffirmed their absolute commitment to making sure this border is properly placed on this route is completely ended that's what any 2 countries we do regardless of whether or not they're in the european union towns and areas and forcing a tough new media crackdown under the new laws news on the pandemic will essentially be silenced it's also fear that it will prevent fair and balanced reporting on presidential elections due to take place later this year catherine sawyer reports that being a journalist in tanzania is becoming increasingly difficult new changes to the media low forces local media organizations to get government approval before publishing or broadcasting material from international broadcasters the legislation also compels foreign journalists to be accompanied by government minders while out

reporting the clampdown comes 3 months before the general election last week some media rights groups say the new regulations aren't a complete surprise now getting to a situation where it seems almost. to say anything to do journalism in a critical and independent way this is these are not regulations or amendments that are coming out in isolation these are part of the trend that we've seen in recent months in recent years by which seems to have been ratcheting up and. position leaders are already complaining that they're getting on them media coverage in the run up to election they accuse president for his government of introducing policies meant to stifle media and political freedoms the regulations also come during the coronavirus pandemic government guidelines make it impossible

for journalists to report on the disease unless the information is coming from the president prime. health minister always deputy kind of easy sequel but it is we have to have these qualities to look just for journalists the government is denying citizens the right to get pretty well and correct information and to express themselves without fear we're hoping that they will be consultations between the government and journalists to reach middleborough dot com they brought us to do our jobs for the. officials from the communications authority say the regulations are aimed at streamlining media operations improving the quality of broadcasts and holding media stations accountable in correct or biased reporting generally say that dealing with the government intent on controlling the message catherine soy al-jazeera. off or on that story and everything else we've been covering for the past few hours as always our web site al jazeera dot com all the latest breaking

news there of course the selection of a son into commodities as joe biden's running mate in get some analysis on that and also you can watch us on life streaming there as well and blogs from our reporters as well al-jazeera dot com is the address. harris has made history in the united states becoming the 1st black woman and asian american on a major presidential ticket a california senator has been chosen as democratic candidate joe biden's running mate in the race to the white house and if president donald trump is voted out in november harris would become the 1st woman of color to occupy the vice presidency or president trump himself is criticized. in the past half an hour also saying that he's not sure why she was picked. i can't tell you which is going forward oh there

she goes would i think joe knows even less than she does but i was really surprised that the pick a lot of people would say that might be the big i was were surprised at anything else because she did so poorly many people did much better than her in the primaries she did very poorly in the breadwinners and that's like a poll all in all the headlines crowds have gathered near beirut support today for a vigil marking a week since a catastrophic explosion shot at the lebanese capital. survivors held a moment of silence for the more than 200 people killed and read the victims' names out loud blasts injured thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless meanwhile i'm going spilled out into the streets again as that with clashes between protesters and security forces demonstrators set fires and hold stones at the parliament building now a report suggests lebanon's leaders of been warned just last month about excuse

explosive material that was stored at the port. russia claims to have developed the world's 1st vaccine against the $98.00 after less than 2 months of human trials there are concerns moscow might be putting national pride before science and safety because there is information about trials that hasn't been disclosed. the world health organization says that's been spikes in virus cases in countries that initially controlled outbreaks like colombia and argentina also knights of the dominican republic has more cases than all of the caribbean island nations combined finally about a russian opposition leaders fat lot of chicken off sky has taken shelter lithuania after rejecting election results the e.u. says the vote was not free and is threatening sanctions and that's it for myself and my colleague daryn jordan picks up from here with more of the day's news including of course coverage from the u.s. back a lot harris has been selected by joe biden as his running mate. all

right thank you mark and we'll continue with our coverage of presumptive u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden choosing senator kennedy harris as his running mate for november's presidential election in a tweet confirming his pick biden praised as his record on social justice i have the great honor to announce that i picked a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants as my running mate and this is what coming out harris herself tweeted earlier she said joe biden can unify the american people because he spent his life fighting for us and as president he'll build an america that lives up to ideals i'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief so here's our team brought bernal's is in los angeles and coming to harris's home state of california john hendren is standing by

in chicago to tell us about how the important swing voters of the u.s. midwest are likely to react and alan fisher is outside the white house to 1st though cullen's report on joe biden's running mate. for some time. she brings a high national profile as a former presidential candidate a senator from california. and family connections to biden she was close friends with his late son because this is my belief child of a mother from india and father from jamaica she takes 2 important boxes as a woman of color. such as johnny or any really good message right she's really good about complicated and made very clear to the audience into the american people former attorney general of california she's used her skills as a prosecutor in senate hearings to pick up.