nikos feeney german made. this is g.w. news live from berlin and we now know who will be joe biden's vice presidential running mate her name is come all the errors biden has selected california senator kemal here is to run with him tonight we'll look at her impact on the race for the white house and biden's bid to beat donald trump in november also coming up the woman who wanted to be the next president the bella ruse is now a woman on the run. scott says that her decisions of leave her home country

was her own but her supporters saying she was pressure she's calling for an end to protest over an election that she has described as rigged. golf it's good to have you with us we begin with breaking news just a few moments ago the u.s. democrats presidential candidate joe biden announced his running mate for november's election he have selected california senator kamali harris to be his running mate and she is the 1st black woman to be a major party's candidate for vice president this decision comes just a week ahead of the democratic national convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed to challenge president donald trump and vice president mike pence for the white house. we will be going

live to washington for more on that decision in just a moment but 1st we want to go to belo roots now where the opposition's top presidential candidate has left the country amid a massive police crackdown in a video message today but lana the head of scalia said that she was safe with her children in neighboring lithuania she urged supporters to end their protest against sunday's election result which handed president alexander lukashenko a 6th term. scalia had initially called for a recount but allies say she was pressured to back down. proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election run. by monday she was gone her whereabouts on urn her tame unable to reach her. now spent lot of taken off scalia has reappeared with the sunday message online. to say the companion

i knew what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me was that i could withstand anything. but perhaps i'm still the weak woman that i was in the beginning as a nation i could put employees in the chair in the opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the country's foreign minister taken off scales says she was not forced out of her country and the belarussians government also insisted that she left on her own a call and. i made a very difficult decision for myself and i've made it absolutely independently the it's in the ne in the game in europe a moot many will understand me and many will denounce me and many will hate me. is that united to god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced because i was here to prepare the paci came off to share refused to concede defeat in

sunday's fart election officials said authoritarian president alexander lukashenko won his 6th term in office with a landslide 80 percent of the verdict took another scale one on the 10 percent but has dismissed the results but fulfilling she submitted a formal demand for a recount. i sounds of belarusians have also rejected the results taking to the streets for a 2nd night of protests demonstrators in minsk were met by security forces who deployed stun grenades rubber bullets and tear gas injuring dozens or another video of scalia is also circulating on social media appearing to show the opposition leader reading a prepared statement it's believed to have been recorded in bella ruse just hours before she left for lithuania or she was the latest from the comparables yes informed almost all they did was a chance to focus and that is not all poor we see here all sort of. so that these

$22.00 we have the shares of some customers but part of the intense feeling more suited to the. formosan is above us oh goodness when you watch the news of course he will shoot don't shoot again the question bus the visit to the states we need to move on to that question to slow down you put it that's for asians to passengers to pay to see them saying these don't risk your life she said as well joining me now is delusion journalist an analyst from not yet short. the video is bizarre to say the least what do you make up. yes it's bizarre for people living then civilized world in the western countries where the moccasin exists for the audience of years but that's normality for belarus if you are caught by k.g.b. and they can force you to do whatever you want we still have k.g.b. which is called k.g.b.

was to have. informants and every organization on every corporation every political party who are basically are working as agents and what you have seen that's their standard soviet style k.g.b. tactic they put you in front of a very tough decision that perhaps the telescope was shown the video of her husband who has been who has been tortured or they told her that they will. do something bad to her relatives and family who is living in belarus and she decided to lot risk but just to to to step down and go to lithuania temporarily for the do we have any word on the condition of her husband her husband was kept for many weeks in then solitary confinement which is like the harshest punishment in the prison and there was no contact with him for many days

as you know lawyers are not all always able to talk to a prisoner and the fortunately we are not able to get all news about his condition but also condition of other political prisoners they recites to how most there are more than 250 prisoners and 30 of them are regarded as political prisoners but in the video that we just saw you know it's going your calls on for just or is not to gather and not to resist the police are they likely to listen to were. no i don't think professor spell listen to her because they see that she's read in the paper the paper was given to her and this media looks like a hostage media like in the movies perhaps your record that you know there is a gun in front of you and you do what will they say to do but they small mint lease exactly moment protests are continuing in minsk and police is use an extreme

violence they are beaten arbitrary people staying at the bus top's they stop the bikers they beat the cars that they're honking so it's like the bandits on the street i'm watching this media us right now and i am shocked that belarus turned into such a house in in the few weeks and this congress is created by the government which doesn't want to step up the russian journalist an analyst in front of us work up front we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you art let's go back now to our top story and that is the nomination of kemal here to be dry by vice presidential running mate in the 2020 presidential election sponsored in his poll joins us from new work in new jersey you via telephone so we missed what did you think were you surprised by the selection. it is actually interesting because you

know she had big fights with vice president on the campaign trail so she opened the attack biden record as a senator actually not as a white president so in a way it was the. biden to pick her. young by b.p. 1st it always was a little bit of a question will he really kind of not hold any grudges against. what we know about him all the herods i mean yes she is the 1st female. african-american but also native american to the named as a vice presidential running mate what more do we know about. the do you know she really is charismatic so people hold that she really energizes the democrats and. she is very good relationship with bill hill she has a national re-invented recognition so she says no she should bring some attention

and some energy into the company. how do you think this is going to impact joe biden's bid to defeat donald trump. well that is very important that someone under tight you know we helped him so she has a history as an attorney general and that could actually be a little bit because she was in her area part of the top flight and she also jailed black men during her time so there is some criticism about that but in recent years she kind of changed their rhetoric on that you know it's an interesting point there has been concerns of the african-american community would not support her but we've also heard that because the african american community loves joe biden so much that maybe than those 2 would balance each other out let's

talk. the bit about the role of the vice president how important that office is considering also that we have a presidential candidate as well as the current president who are bones older men the oldest actually to run for office and to be in the white house does that make the vice presidential position even more important moving forward right. joe biden when the election will be 70 years old on the ration that makes him actually the oldest president ever on the ration day so then why president. might be the one you know if something happened to joe biden who really didn't really and . so she's been one heartbeat away from the president right now one thing that the other still fighting probably won't run for 2nd so if you don't like autumn like you did. then with. 4 years for president though she might well become the

1st nonwhite female president of the united yeah that's a very important point to make joe biden himself has said that his presidency would be a bridge to the future we will see in his poll our washington bureau chief with the news coming to harris will be the vice presidential running mate for joe biden in this thank you lebanon has marked a week since a massive explosion tore through its capital beirut on tuesday hundreds gathered on the city's streets in memory of the blast victims and in protest at the government's failure to prevent the disaster more than 170 people died and 6000 others were injured when a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate blew up at the city's port. was on. the moon one week on

beirut pause to reflect on the moment the toll of the city of pot. mom. they gathered amongst the ruins to mourn loved ones and strangers the names of those killed were read aloud money on a manual of a it was a day of mixed emotions monies are running very with your ears on rage on andriy our lives are good little souls. are here to play my respects to those loved all the little oftentimes they are you know are not alone in feeling this way that's not our role for the hopefully there are better days ahead a lot of anger sadness no words i think i can kill. i feel for all my friends. been through it we lost people they love. it's

a disaster. at nightfall the fury re-emerge with force. yes. older lebanon's entire government resigned on monday many protesters say it's not enough. they want the resignation of the president who they say is in part responsible for last tuesday's devastating explosion. you're watching the news live from berlin we want to remind you that top story we're following for you breaking news u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden has to come all the hero's to be his vice presidential running mate in november's election the california senator will be the 1st black woman to run on a major presidential ticket she quickly became a leading contender for vice president after ending her own white house bid and harris are expected to make their 1st joint appearance on wednesday president

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