if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow. presumptive us democratic party presidential candidate joe biden makes an historic choice in picking camelot hermit's to be his running mate for this year's presidential election where full analysis and reaction. she's a big tax raiser she's a big. slasher of loans for our military and she's got a lot of difficult things that she's going to have to explain. hello i'm daryn jordan this is our 0 live from doha also coming up a week after the beirut explosion people mourn with

a mix of grief and rage as more evidence emerges the government ignored warnings. greece asked for an urgent a u. meeting to discuss its growing dispute with turkey of oil and gas reserves beneath the mediterranean sea. and mexico's former president and if that any eto gets sucked into the scandal in latin america and valving bridesmaid brazilian construction. well after much anticipation joe biden the presumptive u.s. democratic presidential nominee has chosen his running mate for november's election campbell harris is to be the 1st person of color to be nominated for the post a vice president in a tweet confirming his pick biden praised sen harris's record on social justice i have the great honor to announce about coming to her wrists a fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants as my running mate and this is what caliber harris tweeted joe biden can unify the

american people because he spent his life fighting for us and as president he would 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 alan fischer reports now from washington. pamela harris has been the favorite to fill the democrats the piece look for some time i'm 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 both 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. and such and a dynamic or and really good message right she's really good at talking about complicated objects and making a 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 apart arguments put forward by the come to me station but that all title has also brought criticism during her tenure as attorney general there are a lot of questions raised about her when asked to intervene in a variety of types of cases including a police excessive use of force our patients as well as areas around drug policy that could really become a problem or. in the 1st democratic presidential candidate debate she had a tense exchange when she said joe biden's past few on the segregated schools was heartful 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 alan fischer al-jazeera washington for

president trump has taken aim at harris saying her liberal record gives him plenty of targets as the election campaign is. by number one draft pick and we'll see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. primaries as you know he was expected to do well. and she was share that happened right around 2 percent . spent a lot of money here a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked her all right like not too hot or castro who's in maryland just outside washington it didn't take long for president trump in the trunk campaign to respond there i want more they can say. that's right and their line of attack really is no surprise at all as you've seen in the last weeks and months since the pandemic since those mass protests for black lives matter we've seen president trump really targeting what he calls the liberal

left as his enemy as his foe in the upcoming elections and no surprise that he has characterized senator harris as representing what he calls that liberal left while her supporters would very much disagree with that characterization in fact she was seen as more of a safe pick for joe biden in selecting a running mate in fact when harris was writing for to become the presidential nominee of the democratic party the fear had been that she wasn't liberal enough that she may not attract enough progressive's and now with having that label as a leftist coming from the president and from his campaign ironically there are analysts saying that this might actually help harris attract more of those progresses from the democratic party she herself has not fired back against these allegations from the president she has only she has been silent on that on twitter however we expect kind of the harris to join joe biden on a fund raising stage on wednesday will be the 1st time we see them to gather

campaigning as running mates and as you've said before she's been characterized by biden as a fearless fighter in his words and expectation is as she will also be hitting back at trunk and hitting him hard and heidi it's only oldest now in the elections are in november always starting to see any sort of strategy emerge here i mean by being seen as transformation in the bumps wanting to energize young voters and women. that's right and certainly in selecting harris as his running partner he has checked many of those boxes selecting a woman of color who is much younger in age and who also from the democratic establishment is seen more as a moderate and as a safe pick at this point joe biden certainly enjoys the advantage if you believe the polling in the us which show him with as much as a double digit lead over president trump in some very key swing states and so the

strategy behind his campaign and picking harris is one more evidence of this is simply to not rock the boat keep it steady keep the amount of support that's behind biden at its current level and grow it and selecting harris as a running partner many are saying that was a good pick to make heidi thank you all right let's bring in species an associate professor of political science at emory university in atlanta georgia. let's talk 1st about the wider implications of joe biden's pick of comedy has some and some people already saying this is significant and important in political terms as obama doesn't even go beyond that and i think it's a very important moment so joe biden is not a transformational candidate and he's not billing himself is that he's the candidate that is pledging to return america to some form of normalcy but he's doing so with an eye towards the future and so somebody might come a heresy

a young woman of color couldn't that be transformational so we don't know yet what her future political aspirations are but you can see the future in somebody like comma harrison so that you chair is female and that future is of color and so it is very much embodied in her life story and i'm not an important point to make because there aren't that many black women in positions of power in the u.s. what does this mean for her and also for black women in america broadly. well this is also a recognition and knowledge mean of the importance of african-american women to the democratic party coalition so we know that african-americans had outsized influence in the democratic party because in general about 9 out of 10 african-americans to vote democratic in presidential elections when we break those numbers down by gender african-american women are more so democratic than even their black male counterparts and so there has certainly been a push by activists within the democratic party and that has certainly been buoyed by the protests this summer for racial justice to give african-americans their due

by not just taking their votes and taking them for granted but making sure that african-americans are very well represented in positions of leadership so this is definitely the culmination of a lot of agitation by democratic party activists to make sure that black women are not just behind the scenes providing votes and doing a lot of the grunt work but that they also get to serve you know sit at the table and sit at the seat of power i'm sure how much does her pick infuse new energy into the biden camp i mean she's relatively young fresh faced articulate and a woman who spoke with her fellow democrats and senate says she'll go toe to toe with vice president mike pence not to the baton to see how she was beaten in such a debate. obviously i expect that she's going to be a pretty dynamic debater and so we'll see what the interchange looks like between the 2 of them in general historically vice presidential candidates haven't actually mattered much in terms of their partner being able to gain or lose votes there are some notable exceptions to that and this is the year where the vice presidential

pick could be potentially important given joe biden's age that he had to pick it running mate who looked like she could serve from day one so the 1st thing is to pick somebody who looked like they were young and healthy and then also somebody had the requisite experience in order to be able to step into that position and given senator harris's profile given her demonstrated ability to win a state that seems to be a nice stepping stone to be able to help propel a national candidacy but also say that especially given the amount of discussion around the importance of picking an african-american woman running mate had biden chosen not to pick an african-american woman running mate that would have had the potential of de mobile as an african-american voters i think it would have been disappointed in the pick and would have seen that as a as a problem i'm going to final point from you i mean some of joe biden's allies thought that harris was too ambitious i mean trump has already branded her a tax raise and she's also come under fire for her criminal justice record is she a safe enough paragons for the democrats in country rise above all these

accusations do you think so i would say that she's safe enough in every vice presidential nominee has their liabilities and i would say that relative to some of the liabilities of her other of the other potential nominees i think her assets more than outweighed her potential liabilities they think she's going to have to address but she was the safer choice in the consensus choice and some of the murmurings against her i think were rooted in racism and sexism and so they're going to have to be addressed within the party i'm going to speak great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera thank you thank you. well political strategist joy when him's believes that choosing a household mobilize more women of color to push for a democratic party victory it was black women who have been propelling it who have been the most loyal supporters and loyal voters of the democratic party for some time and it was black women that you know following the conversation not only on social media but that was are also being signaled to the biting campaign that if

you want to infuse the excitement into the race if you want to pull out the people who will knock on doors who will make phone calls who in this pandemic situation will still commit their time and resources to make sure that we have a win in november and that's going to be black women and it was black women who voice that we want to return on the investment that we have given to this party and we demanded representation in terms of a vice presidential pick that was one of our own demands but we see today that biden understands the moment he understands and wants to. honor the people who have been loyal to the democratic party not only in votes but who actually go out like i do those calls making sure to pull people out to vote and recruit donations in order to make sure we go on to victory. all right time for

a short break here al-jazeera when we come back back out in force on the streets of mali the opposition rejects figures from breaching. the rhesus opposition leader takes refuge in lithuania governments accused of violence against protesters more than spend. hello there is already the 4 calls across much of asia plenty of time here on the satellite in the last year as i have had some pretty ferocious thunderstorms but really creating a some dramatic images here across into shanghai the business district as you can see an awful 5 to should be a fine day on wednesday across areas around shanghai but across areas to the west the central areas to the north as well we have got a very distinct line of heavy rain and thunderstorms developing not a bad day generally across the korean peninsula or indeed across into japan there

will be some showers the could be some thunderstorms but then as we head through thursday this line of rain works its way further tools east and eventually that will also head towards north korea so again very heavy amounts of rain and we could have a some more flooding that we had across into south asia the waynes here of course again very widespread that being very heavy over the last few days meanwhile this up and this is why i was saying the flooding now you can see here the water on the streets but this is what it does of course it really does cause a huge amounts of problems on the roads with the traffic and the rain will continue to add to the flooding across areas of bangladesh we've got more rain in the 4 calls north especially have a bit wary widespread and fairly persistent but really as madhya pradesh and again . through wednesday on into thursday we'll see the very heavy amounts of rain. progress. for a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our

life. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better or worse. in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the impact of they are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data land on al-jazeera. the in. the room. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour presumptive u.s. democratic party presidential candidate joe biden has picked senator come on her wrist to be his running mate one of them does presidential election irises the 1st

woman of color to be on a major part to. the u.s. president that was going to take aim at paris stomach trump says she's a liar and a surprising choice for joe biden. it's been a week since a huge blast in beirut killed more than 200 people and destroyed much of an already suffering city on tuesday the community united in their grief to honor the lives lost a service has been held a day off to lebanon's government resigned under pressure from the public zana has more now 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.

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 say all those in power knew about the explosives reports and the 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 the fire of unknown origin we're up against incompetence we're all 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 a sin that is flawed we want bury our dead before we bury their corruption before we bury them the blast deep in the 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 loans of course . that's going on i lost my job 1st and i lost my home and i lost my god from the schools 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 institutions that really. were substituting. the country and the government's role towards its people it will be a very interesting step the government has now resigned as though it will remain as a caretaker ministration until a new cabinet is formed 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. in new political order he didn't elaborate then including. israel's military says it struck hamas targets in gaza in response to balloons which cause fires being sent into its territory pictures of the strikes have emerged on social media the army says similar balloon fire attacks targeted southern israel earlier this week israel's been threatening to shut its only gaza border crossing in retaliation. now a state department watchdog says 829000 u.s. arms sale to saudi arabia was legal but did not assess the risk of civilian casualties in yemen the trumpet ministration issued an emergency declaration to

push through the $8000000000.00 deal the 2 golds arab states without congressional approval the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs has described the report as deeply damning the secretary of state. and the ministration. despite months of restrictions the number of coronavirus cases in colombia has passed 400000 the outbreak has killed more than 13000 people intensive care units nearly 90 percent full in the capital bogota. new zealand is trying to find the source of a new outbreak which has put its largest city oakland back into lockdown for cases of the 1st local transmission of the disease in more than 100 days and there are questions about whether the general election will still go ahead next month as planned. now well primary focus of course is on the response in these immediate stages over the next few days we do need to ensure that we're giving ourselves as

much flexibility as possible to deal with what we luna over the next 72 hours callum and dissolving doesn't mean that if we needed to convene powerman for any reason we wouldn't be able to do sorry we've before decided it would be prudent to defer the dissolution of parliament by at least a few days to preserve all options for if if needed reconvening comment or if needed for that this is of the date of the general election and australia's recall that its deadliest day of the pandemic 21 people have died in the past 24 hours in the state of victoria the epicenter of the country's resurgent outbreak melbourne victoria's capital is under strict 6 week lockdown with night curfews and compulsory mass rules let's talk a nickel a gauge she's in australia's capital canberra nicholas so victoria's had its deadliest day 21 people dying in the last 24 hours just put all of that into perspective for us. well it's not anything anyone was hoping for given that strict

lockdown measures that currently in place in melbourne and i have been for the last wake 21 more deaths and it really wasn't expected it wasn't a surprise of all that given the number of people who are in intensive care in hospitals in victoria another element to this is many health workers have been testing positive as well but many of those deaths have been linked to the aged care sector which have had a lot of issues probably it daniel andrews have also been under a lot of pressure over his handling of what's happening in victoria and even though the lockdowns front lee in place are expected to last another 5 wait he has warned citizens of victoria that they could last until next year if those numbers don't drop and they're going to just bring us up to date with a situation in new zealand a small outbreak off of the country seem to be doing so well yet full cases seems

to be maybe a drop in the ocean compared to other countries but we need to remember that new zealand hadn't seen a case of covert montane in the community for several months now it had essentially eliminated the coronavirus and now the scrambling really to find out where these community transmission has taken place at the full of people with from one family and the prime minister just in toronto has taken no chances bringing back restrictions to the city of all plans they will only be in place or 3 days at this stage but of course that just we need to say what happens over the coming days in terms of tracing testing and when that anyone else tests positive in new zealand are identical again in line for us then combine it can i thank you for that. now despite regional mediation efforts mommy's political crisis is getting worse huge

demonstrations continue against the government demanding president. to resign because reforms. watched by security forces a defiant crowd gathers in the capital's independence square at their rallies in defiance of the west african body ecowas which has called for an end 2 weeks of protests determined demonstrators say they'll continue their civil disobedience movement. don't you learn president again the police and into the people it seems that all demands are falling on. there's been no step forward illegitimate national assembly is still in place the cabinet. is not a national unity government despite all of all the men spoke change nothing is changed. from the comfort of her home to the m.p.u. are always watching the political crisis unfolding while echo us recommended she along with 30 other m.p.'s resigned after april's contested elections has no intention of giving up her seat. we were not afraid of being sanctioned this would

be a disaster part of the population would be unhappy and they'll come out to support us. president. goodluck jonathan watch the swearing in of knowing constitutional court judges absent with the leaders of the protest movement who are calling for more public protests on behalf of a very. good love miley. discourse. jonathan met with the leader of the m 5 opposition movement he accused former colonial power france of baccy the president instead of listening to the aspirations of these people. while the french president has been vocal when it comes to the affairs of another former french protectorate lebannon his response to the mine crisis has so far been muted the french don't want to be seen interfering in the country's affairs and yet 4000 french troops on the ground supporting the

mali and state italian swedes and other european special forces are joining the french in an attempt to stop more attacks by armed groups they're based in mali but are also blamed for attacks in neighboring countries 8 people were shot dead in each year at the weekend including 6 french aid workers the growing insecurity as well as state corruption and the perceived inability of president created to protect his own people are driving the protest movement and increasing demands for him to quit nicholas hawkie al jazeera authorities in sudan have imposed an overnight curfew in the eastern city of course of 3 days of violence and medical sources say at least 25 people have been killed since fighting broke out between members of rival ethnic groups last year state of emergency rooms and post after fighting between both sides there's been a 3rd night of unrest in béla ruth says anger and accusations of election fold continue to grow over the picture of president alexander lukashenko thousands of

opposition supporters have been detained during the protests which erupted after sunday's vote the opposition candidate to kind of is now in lithuania. well as all that was happening president lukashenko was praising his government's response to the coronavirus demick saying it did the right thing by not shutting down the economy the handling of the outbreak is one of the reasons people in belarus have been protesting. so you believe that you had enough room farmers in looking well as never before we have sugar now the products and we also have consumption all the countries of clothes themselves and shut down the record of these while we've been working go on so products markets are open all you need is to work britain and france are working on a new plan to stop growing numbers of boats carrying refugees and migrants across the english channel britain's immigration minister made the announcement as he held talks in paris hundreds of people including unaccompanied children have been intercepted during the past week there's a new twist in

a scandal that's rocked latin america allegations have now been made against the former mexican president and the. it's alleged that he took funds from that's a construction that's admitted to paying bribes and 12 countries including mexico john holmes in mexico city and explains what the allegations are. mexican authorities have been after lasorda for quite some time and they managed to get him he's been extradited from spain where he's on the run and what he has said according to the attorney general is that he's fingered ex president. and his finance minister luis feed the guy and he said that they instructed him to pay more than $4000000.00 worth of bribe from this from a construction company a brazilian construction company called a lot of pressure to pay compelling consultants in the 2012 election race in enrique pena nieto his campaign he's also alleged that enrica opinion it on video

could i directed him to pay bribes to lawmakers to congress people to get votes for reforms that x. president and we could pin it to was trying to push through in 20132014 so it sounds big and it is for a couple of reasons the 1st one is the old oppression this brazilian construction company has really become synonymous with with with corruption across latin america x. presidents have fallen in peru in brazil different government and public officials in various countries have been convicted in relation to corruption in besant scandals involving this company but in mexico up to this point not have been convicted no one had been put in jail and convicted as a result of this so people are thinking that this might be the start of that process. finally some sports college football in the u.s. is being perspiring across several states because of coronavirus the multi-billion

dollar industry will be put on hold until early next year in the western midwest and parts of the south the season will start as usual but with fewer games president trump opposes such moves tweeting recently that student athletes have been working too hard for their season to be cancelled. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera presumptive u.s. democratic party presidential candidate joe biden has picked harris to be his running mate and event as election harris the 1st woman of color to be on a major party ticket president trump was quick to criticize her. by number one draft pick and we'll see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. primaries as you know she was expected to do well. and she was she ended up at

right around 2 percent. spent a lot of money here a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked or. tuesday mob one week since a massive explosion devastated lebanon's capital crowds gathered near beirut support that's the site of the blast to hold a vigil. it was a moment of saddam's for the more than $200.00 killed their names were read out loud people also went through some of the worst hit neighborhoods and marched towards all of. israel's military says it struck hamas targets in gaza in response to balloons which cause fires being sent into its territory pictures of the end strikes of the merged on social media the army says similar balloon fire attacks targeted southern israel early this week israel has been threatening to shut its main commercial gaza border crossing in retaliation despite months of restrictions the number of corona virus cases in colombia has passed 400000. the outbreak has

killed more than 13000 people intensive care units on the 90 percent full in the capital over top. of strain has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic 21 people have died in the past 24 hours in the state of victoria the epicenter of the country's resurgent outbreak victoria's capital is under a strict 6 week lockdown with nightly curfews and compulsory ma schools out authorities in slowdown of the party's done overnight curfew in the eastern city of port sudan after 3 days of violence medical sources say at least 25 people have been killed since try to put up with the members of rival ethnic groups. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after we one station consulship life a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of

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