but we know but we knew what he conduct. but we know what he doesn't, that when women succeed, america succeeds and so we are succeed, america succeeds and so we are unleashing the power of women to take our rightful place in our national life by championing a woman's right to choose and defending roe the wade, safe and affordable childcare, social security and passing equal pay for equal work. who is standing in the way? mitch mcconnell and donald trump. we will remember in november when we will elect joe biden for president whose heart is full of love for america and rip the country of trump's hustlers. it gives him the courage to lead. joe biden bottom of love gives him the strength to persevere. joe biden is the president we need right now. the will that my battle tested, honest and authentic, he has never forgotten who he is fighting

for. kamala harris is the vice president we need right now, committed to our constitution, brilliant in defending it and a witness to the women of this nation that our voices will be heard. our mission is to fight for future equal to the ideals of ourfounders, for future equal to the ideals of our founders, our hopes for oui’ of our founders, our hopes for our children and the sacrifices of our veterans, our brave men and women in uniform and their families. we will increase our majority in the house, we will win the democratic majority in the senate, we will elect kamala harris vice president and elect joe kamala harris vice president and electjoe biden, president of the united states of america. bless god you, and god bless america. nancy pelosi there, the 80 year speaker of there, the 80 year speaker of the house of representatives, the house of representatives, the first female speaker of the house of representatives. laura trevelyan is in wilmington, delaware for us. a very clear message. the republicans are a block in the

road to change. this is what she is claiming, and of course she is claiming, and of course she made also a bold prediction there that democrats would increase their majority in the house of representatives, that they would win the senate and they would win the senate and the presidency and of course then put kamala harris in as vice president as well. of course that is what democrats are hoping for. they are hoping that in their wildest dreams if they control congress and the presidency, then they can enact real change because that is what happened in 2008 with barack 0bama, what happened in 2008 with ba rack 0bama, that what happened in 2008 with barack 0bama, that is how democrats were able to pass 0bama care. then democrats lost the senate in 2012, donald trump has not been in control of the house of representatives since 2018, divided government in this country is very difficult. that is why you are hearing this message again and again, vote, vote. you see the women wearing white. that is a tribute to the suffragists, not the suffragettes as we call them in britain, by the women

who campaign for the right to vote a hundred years ago. the desire by democrats to build on the wave of rivers and by women, which followed the defeat of hillary clinton. —— defeat. talking about the record number of women house of representatives in the democratic party. so clearly there is an attempt tonight going on to harness the power and the energy of women on the democratic side to try to win the presidency, or increase the house of rivers we will see what republicans think about that. nancy pelosi touching and we have heard from any other speakers, we will hear much more from joe biden from where you are on thursday night. the sense thatjoe biden perhaps has empathy and that in a time of such trouble president trump does not partly because of his extraordinarily tragic family history. it has been said many times if you put his history

into a movie, nobody would believe it. well, that's right. democrats are trying to contrast what they say is donald trump cosmic lack of empathy, his lack of empathy with 170,000 americans who have died from coronavirus, lack of empathy when it comes to separate families at the border. they are trying to contrast that, which donald trump sees as strong leadership, contrasting it with joe biden and his empathy and the fact his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car crash and he lost his son, and we are seeing video after video in which regular people who have metjoe biden say how much he means to them. he is able to connect. 0f he means to them. he is able to connect. of course in this strange virtual election that we are having, joe biden doesn't have much ability to connect with regular voters in the way that he would like, so i think you are really seeing democrats trying to showcase that side of him. of course republicans already putting up all these ads saying they think joe biden is weak, he doesn't

speak as fluently as he could, the trump campaign has a ton of ads running on facebook to that effect on youtube. it is interesting, this is a narrative democrats are trying to get out, and a real you have republicans running around with a counter narrative all over digital media. laura, thank you very much. we have been seeing a video highlighting the violence against women act, joe biden very involved in that, and its legacy. still to come, and its legacy. still to come, a focus on the economy and a speech by elizabeth warren. we will be back to the convention ina will be back to the convention in a moment. thanks. just on a very related point, all eyes will be on kamala harris tonight as she stepped up harris tonight as she stepped up to accept the nomination as the party's up to accept the nomination as the pa rty‘s candidate up to accept the nomination as the party's candidate for vice president. she'll become the first woman of colour in us history to do so. kamala harris is halfjamaican, half indian, and her indian heritage has been key in shaping her ideas. rajini vaidya nathan reports. my grandparents were phenomenal. we would go back to india every other year.

in social media videos, kamala harris has often talked about the importance of her indian roots. my grandfather would take me on his morning walk. it was on the pristine sands of elliot's beach in the south indian city of chennai where she says her political views were shaped. a young kamala harris would join her grandfather, pv gopalan, on walks with his friends. i would hold his hand and i remember the stories that they would tell and the passion with which they spoke about the importance of democracy. it was those walks on the beach with my grandfather in besant nagar that had a profound impact on who i am today. her uncle told me the family were raised to be open—minded in an india that could be deeply conservative. i think these are the values they picked up, be tolerant.

if your children want to do something that you will not do, do not stop them from doing that just because you would not do that. do not worry about black, blue, yellow, green, orange, anything. in another video, kamala harris speaks about how her mother shyamala defined her life. my my mother proved them wrong. shyamala gopalan moved to the us to study at the age of 19 and married jamaican student donald harris. and because of who my mother was... they later divorced, with shyamala raising their two daughters. all the civil rights activity, so from a very young age, she was strongly influenced by shyamala. how do you feel about president trump's attacks on your niece? she can take it on the chin, she is quite capable of doing that. one thing shyamala taught her children was don't take anything lying down. if anybody questions your

individuality or anything that you do, fight back. in her family's ancestral village in south india, signs wishing kamala harris good luck. in many ways, herjourney to one of the biggestjobs in politics began here. who knows where it will end? rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. the demo —— democratic party strategist that w castro, i asked him what encourages her and makes her worry about the virtual convention and the biden harris campaign in general so far. i think we are seeing a lot of energy, and a lot of people enthused and the first night i believe there was actually 2.5 million viewers, which is something that is absolutely incredible. the way the demo parts are running it this year, it is a chance to

actually engage with new voters, build a new coalition and bring new people into the group. iam and bring new people into the group. i am a budget for tonight, excited to see kamala harris get her speech and all the excitement that is going to be generated around that. you dodged the question around what worries you have concerns you have about the way this is going on the way it is going with voters? at the moment, i think the party is doing the best with its outreach that it can. what we are face up against right now is a national pandemic. it isa it is a pandemic the president has not been able to get a handle on and has not been able to address. the president has chosen to use as rhetoric, chosen to use as rhetoric, chosen to use as rhetoric, chosen to attack vice president biden, chosen to attack paris. the attacks are falling flat. democrats have an advantage moving forward. people are out of work. people are facing eviction in our country. people are worried if they are going to receive the next paycheque. in the president is on twitter

co nsta ntly, in the president is on twitter constantly, every single day, just waiting away, nasty deceitful comments and i don't think it is getting him any attention. if you look at the polls, joe biden is up in the polls, joe biden is up in the polls, kamala harris is up in the polls but we still have a lot of work to do until november. i know the party is saying a lot of people are watching on their phones instead but it is quite tricky to generate enthusiasm when you're not seeing enthusiasm from a mass of people, you're not seeing a balloon drop on the screens. i will tell you this — when senator harris was announced, i saw enthusiasm, i personally cried myself with her announcement. i know there were tonnes of young girls around the country, especially women of colour, who really saw themselves and felt represented. so i think between the time of her announcement and what we're seeing tonight, especially with her remarks coming this evening, i think you're going see

another surge of enthusiasm. women during this convention, from jill biden last night to michelle 0bama's speech and her remarks, women are a critical voting bloc in this election come november. and the way that the party has been conducting its outreach and what we have seen thus far in engagement, i think they're doing a greatjob. signs are that in those crucial swing states, there are a lot of democratic — normally democratic party voters who simply didn't vote in 2016. are you convinced that joe biden and kamala harris are the people to bring them back? i am, without a doubt. i thinkjoe biden has a sense of empathy, a sense of outreach. when we have policy plans on top of that that are engaging people, you have speakers tonight at the convention such as elizabeth warren who ran for president herself on a progressive platform. you have this engagement that was done during the entire presidential campaign. people got to know senator harris because she ran her own campaign and i think

seeing them come together tonight really says something. and on top of that, we currently have a president who has a racist tone and delivers racist remarks co nsta ntly. what is a better historic message to send to the american people than nominating the first black woman as vice president? we've just been seeing on our screens — i don't know whether viewers are getting it as well — gabby giffords, the former member of the house of representative for arizona, a victim of gun crime. gun control clearly a message the democrats want to get over but it is also a message that the republicans push very hard, "the democrats are coming to take your guns." it's a message that they continue to push and one they're not going to give up on. but at the same time, the other day, the party of donald trump decided to push birther messages,

decided to push racist and sexist messages and those are falling flat. they want to continue the gun narrative, but at the end of the day, the people are smart enough and are going to come together and say, "well, you weren't so truthful with us behind all of this, so why should we believe you when you say this?" people are ready for change, people are fed up and tired over these past four years. and i think gabby giffords standing up there and delivering her message tonight is so crucial. we obviously know the pain that she went through, as well as her husband, mike kelly — he is running in arizona right now, which is being considered a purple state, and he is up in the polls. so to be frank, if anyone should be worried, it should be the republicans. there is the appearances that the party's far more unified than it was in 2016. is thatjust pr orjust an appearance, or not? try and be honest. i will 100% be honest. i think there is unity.

i was out there on the campaign trail as you mentioned before with secretary castro. and as the candidates all came together, maybe there were differences on certain issues or differences on how to actually articulate them or go ahead with them, but everyone believed in the same message — everybody needs healthcare, everybody needs to get a paycheck coming in, people should not be working twojobs. we have to raise the minimum wage. so maybe there were differences in how we actually achieve and go about reaching these goals, but there was unity in the sense of the message and what we represent as a party. and i also believe, as we watched in these nights in the convention, we have seen a coalition of speakers come together. we have seen diversity on that stage. we have seen democrats, republicans, more to the left progressives. we have seen it all. so i think that really represents the unity that the democrats have been stating. donald trump has called for a boycott of the american tire

company good year, stoking quite a bit of controversy over political expression in the workplace. alleged the company banned its employees from wearing clothing which support any political party. the largest tire company in north america and now in president trump's bad books. what they are doing is playing politics and the funny thing is that the people who work for goodyear, i can guarantee you, a poll very well with all of those great workers in goodyear, and when they say that you can't have "blue lives matter", you can't show a blue things that are marxist in nature, there's something wrong at the top of goodyear. company found itself in the president's crosshairs after a report based on a slide from a presentation which had been shared by a goodyear employee.

the slide said black lives matter and other equality issues were acceptable whilst gear bearing the trump campaign slogan "make america great again" plus "all lives matter" and "blue lives matter" were deemed unacceptable. they want to wear a maga hat or if they want to where blue lives matter, you know that, right, it's policemen and women. that's a terrible thing. and they are using their power over these people and these people want to wear whatever it is they want to wear. you have goodyear tyres on the presidential limousine. if there were an alternative, would you want those tires swapped out? yes, i would swap them out based on what i heard. you are going to have a lot of people not wanting to buy their product anymore, and they will buy from a competitor. made in the usa, too. goodyear said the slide in question had not been

prepared at its headquarters and that it's rules about activism that falls outside the scope of racialjustice and equity issues, plus, contrary to reports, it wholeheartedly supported both equality and law enforcement. it isn't the first and it won't be the last company to get caught up in battles of politics and race before november's election. back to the convention, elizabeth warren is speaking. since covid—19 hit, one got lunch after another. i am here at the early childhood education centre in springfield, massachusetts which has been closed for months. childcare was already ha rd to months. childcare was already hard to find before the pandemic now parents are stuck, and ideas when schools can safely reopen and fewer childcare options. the devastation is enormous and the way i hit said, big problems demand big solutions. i love a good plan. plans to bring back unionjobs in good plan. plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing good plan. plans to bring back unionjobs in manufacturing and clea n unionjobs in manufacturing and clean energy. plans to increase

social security benefits and billions in student loan debt and make our bankruptcy laws work forfamilies and make our bankruptcy laws work for families instead of the creditors who cheat them. these plans reflect the central truth. 0ur economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. but we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what broken. just plan to build back better includes making the wealthy pay their fairshare, holding corporations accountable, preparing racial inequities and fighting corruption in washington. let me tell you about one of joe's washington. let me tell you about one ofjoe's plans which is especially close to my heart, childcare. as a little girl growing heart, childcare. as a little girlgrowing up in heart, childcare. as a little girl growing up in oklahoma, what i wanted most of the world was to be a teacher, i loved teaching and when i had babies and wasjuggling teaching and when i had babies and was juggling my first big teaching job down in texas, it

was hard but i could do hard. the thing that almost got me, childcare. one night, my aunt called just to check in and i thought i was fine but then, i just broke down and started to cry. i had tried holding it altogether but without reliable childcare, working was nearly impossible. and when i told aunt bea i was going to quit my job, i thought my heart would break and then she said the words that changed my life. i can't get there tomorrow but i will come on thursday and she arrived with seven suitcases and a pekingese named buddy and stayed for 16 years. i get to be here tonight because of my aunt bea. i learned a fundamental truth, nobody makes it on their own it here we are, to generations of working pa rents to generations of working parents later and if you have a

baby, you are on your own. here's why it is wrong. we have roads and bridges and communication systems so that people can work. it keeps our economy going. it's time to recognise childcare as part of the basic infrastructure of this nation, it is infrastructure for families. joe and kamala will make high—quality childcare affordable for every family, make preschool universal and raise the wages of every childcare worker. that is just one plan and gives you an idea of how we get this country working for everyone. donald trump's ignorance and incompetence have always been a danger to our country. covid—19 was donald trump's biggest test. today, america has the

most covid—19 deaths in the world and an economic collapse in both crises of falling ha rd est in both crises of falling hardest on black hanging by a thread. this crisis is bad. it didn't have to be this way. this crisis is on donald trump and the republicans who enable him. on november three, and the republicans who enable him. on novemberthree, we and the republicans who enable him. on november three, we will hold them all accountable. whether you are planning to vote, wearing a mask, please ta ke vote, wearing a mask, please take out your phone right now. and text vote to 30330. we all need to be in the fight. we all need to be in the fight. we all

need to be in the fight. we all need to be in the fight to get things done. our grandchildren will ask what we did during this dark chapter in our nation ‘s history. we'll be able to look them squarely in the eye and say, we organised, we persisted and we changed america. elizabeth warren of course, very shortly now, perhaps almost immediately we are expecting to hear from former president barack obama. accepting the nomination as vice president, the convention for grounding women tonight, partly because it is 100 years before women since women for one the right to vote and there is this political analysis which suggests donald trump is losing the support of college—educated women. i think

we are in a video setting out history for barack obama. let's hear some of that. for your love of country and your lifetime of service which will endure through the generations. i'd like to ask, the military tojoin us on i'd like to ask, the military to join us on stage. for the final time as president, i am for the final time as president, iam pleased for the final time as president, i am pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honour, the presidential medal of freedom.

for the first and only time in my presence, i will bestow this middle an additional level of veneration, and honour of my three most recent successes reserved for only three others, popejohn paul reserved for only three others, pope john paul ii, reserved for only three others, popejohn paul ii, president ronald reagan and general colin powell. ladies and gentlemen, i'm proud to award the presidential medal of freedom with distinction to my brother, joseph biden. will the aid please read the citation. vice presidentjoseph please read the citation. vice president joseph r biden junior ina careerof president joseph r biden junior in a career of public service spanning half of the century,

he has left its mark on almost every part of our nation, fighting for a stronger middle—class, at their judicial system, and a smarter foreign policy, biding unyielding support for our troops, combating crime and violence against women, leaving our quest to cure cancer and safeguarding the landmark american recovery and reinvestment act from corruption. with this charm, candour, unabashed optimism and deep and abiding patriotism, joe biden has garnered the respect and esteem of both parties and the friendship of people across the nation and around the world. while summoning the strength, faith and grace to overcome great personal tragedy, this son of scranton, claymont and wilmington has become one of the most consequential vice presidents in american history, an accolade that nonetheless rests firmly behind his legacy as husband, father and grandfather. a grateful nation

thanks vice president joseph grandfather. a grateful nation thanks vice presidentjoseph r bidenjr for his thanks vice presidentjoseph r biden jr for his lifetime thanks vice presidentjoseph r bidenjr for his lifetime of service on behalf of the united states of america. applause. good evening, everybody. as you've seen by now, this isn't a normal convention. it's not a normal time. so tonight i want to talk as plainly as i can about the stakes in this election. because what we do these next 76 days will echo through generations to come. i

am in philadelphia, where our constitution was drafted and signed. it wasn't a perfect document. it allowed for the inhumanity of slavery. and failed to guarantee women and even men who didn't own property the right to participate in the political process. but embedded in this document was a northstar that would guide future generations. a system of representative government, democracy. to which we could better realise our highest ideals. there is civil warand highest ideals. there is civil war and bitter struggles, we improve this constitution to include the voices of those who had once been left out. and gradually we made this country morejust. and more equal. and morejust. and more equal. and more free. the one constitutional office elected by all of the people is the

presidency. so at a minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us. regardless of what we look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have or who we voted for. but we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy. we should expect that regardless of ego, ambition or political beliefs, the president will preserve, protect and defend the freedoms and ideals that so many americans marched for, went to jailfor. 44, americans marched for, went to jail for. 44, and americans marched for, went to jailfor. 44, and died for. i have sat in the oval office with both of the men who are running for president. i never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies. i did

hope for the sake of our country that donald trump might show some interest in taking thejob show some interest in taking the job seriously. that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some revere nce of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that have been placed in his ca re that have been placed in his care but he never did. for close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding the common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. no interest in treating the presidency as anything other than on more reality show he can use to get the attention he craves. donald trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. and the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 americans

dead, millions ofjobs gone. and while those at the top taking more than ever. our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before. now, i know that in times as polarised as these, most of you have already made up your mind, but maybe, you're still not sure which candidate you will vote for. or whether you will vote for. or whether you will vote at all. maybe you're tired of the direction we are headed but you can't see a better path yet or you just don't know enough about the person who wa nts to enough about the person who wants to lead us there. so let me tell you about my friend, joe biden. 12 years ago when i

began my search for