this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin senator coming to harris is set to become the 1st woman of color to run for u.s. vice president peres was named tuesday by joe biden as his running mate on the democratic party ticket we look at how she could impact the race for the white house and possibly help by donald trump. plus defiance mixes with grief and rage in baby groups thousands remember the victims of the deadly explosion a week ago as angry crowds again call for the president's resignation.

and a 3rd night of protests in bella ruse for just getting presidential vote which the e.u. says was neither free nor fair present the code could face sanctions against his main rival please the country. hello i'm terry march and welcome to the program u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden has chosen kamel harris to be his running mate in november's election the senator from california is the 1st black woman and the 1st person of indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party this isn't comes a week ahead of the democratic national convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed. one time rivals no joining forces to launch a historic presidential bid this was how joe biden asked the california senate. to

help him reach the white house opinions are divided. at the top of the fold over do you have a black woman the mother of the vice president i think it's a little bit risky because she's highly controversial can it be true for you in fact it was biden who welcomed the tough on crime prosecutor on to the national political scene when she was sworn into the senate in 2017. but looking at it. from there she burnished a credential as a combat's of lawmaker the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that statement and for the last time yes or now did you have any communications with russian officials striking fear into her opponents you know i'm not able to be rushed this fast it makes me nervous that in 2019 she ran for the democratic presidential nomination herself that campaign saw her cross

examine biden over his track record on race. joe's generation was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country which characterize my position across the board i do not praise racist they have buried the hatchet when she dropped out of the race and backed him to win the nomination. right up there on the ballot. and. on the ballot. and saw no is horace with the rumors that the aging biden merely say over single it's a landmark pick that may 1 day propel hard to become the 1st female president.

william good craft is following the story for us and joins us now in the studio good see you william perry so what does couple harris bring to joe biden's election campaign optics balance experience this is what a vice presidential pick wants they want that to be a vice presidential pick is always about balancing that ticket joe biden i even before the black lives matter protests and the racial justice movement that swept the country even before that people were rolling their eyes saying democrats this is who you have for 2020 an old white man so come on how ours has the optics of being a black woman she also has a similar ideological profile to joe biden joe biden is reported to have said he didn't want anyone that would challenge him too much on the issues they basically said he wanted a vice president presidential because someone was basically seeing eye to eye to him and she brings a lot of experience as and as

a attorney general of california as a district attorney of san francisco for that she has she knows how to argue she knows how to craft the question we saw in the report she knows how to ask pointed questions and joe biden wants a fierce debater and that's something i come o'hara's brings to the. joe biden had a lot of choice when it came to picking a running mate howard democrats would have democrats make of his choice here he did have a lot of choice he already promised months ago he was going to pick a woman so really that we are just looking at a field of very qualified women. being the vice presidential candidate now or the presumptive candidate now obviously the democratic party back that is not just up to joe biden who becomes his his nominee so the party is clearly behind him on this but the party is also different than the voters the democratic voters and many democratic voters especially ones further to the left of the party people who might be former bernie sanders supporters are highly critical of harris's record on criminal justice police reform police brutality when she was

a district attorney in san francisco when she was attorney general of california she was not not present but she wasn't present and people especially communities of color wanted to see her take a lot more forceful action on those very important issues to them so she's more centrist than a lot of democrats would like what about donald trump and his republicans what do they say or do you think. they're already calling her a part of the radical left trumps called her phony a weak bad candidate calling her mean horrible disrespectful of joe biden during the primaries and none of this is a surprise no matter who joe biden picked these would be the adjectives applied to really hard to make a case that she's from the radical left and she has such a long record of working with police of working with prosecutors of working with the criminal justice system so much so as i mentioned being criticized for being too centers for being too pro police. and as far as you know their relationship during the primaries all's fair in love and presidential primaries of course they

went after each other when they were vying for that cam of the sea and they make they make up and now here we are so donald trump is going to face some issues with kamel harris and more specifically mike pence his vice president his vice president is going to be facing her in october for a vice president's debate because as said she is extremely good debater wherever you might stand on the issues there's no disputing that she is a very very skilled debater and question looking forward to those debates william good crop thank you so much. now a quick check on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today new zealand's prime minister just sent are down has delayed a key step towards next month's general election and following a new help break a credit virus in the country and deferred the dissolution of parliament until monday for new cases of covert 9000 work in perm yesterday in new zealand's largest city with. a team of united nations experts have arrived in just to aid efforts to prevent an oil spill from further damaging the nation's environment salvage crews

are racing to pump fuel from the japanese ship which ran aground last week authorities fear the vessel could split into this crack in the whole row. tens of thousands have taken to the streets of mali's capital bamako to demand the resignation of president abraham boubacar kate opposition the protests have raged since june due to disputed local elections and received government corruption and incompetence tensions escalated last month when police shot dead at least 11 demonstrators. lebanon has marked one 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 of the government's failure to prevent the disaster or the 170 people died and 6000 others were injured when a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate blew up at the city's port. was

. the. one wake on beirut pause to reflect on the moments the toll of the city of pot. mom. that gathered amongst the ruins to mourn the loss of loved ones and strangest. the names of those killed were read aloud emmanuelle of those 9000000 money it was a day of mixed emotions on the very serious on rage on andriy our. good little souls. are years of claim respects to those who love all the lives lost and our daryn are not alone in feeling this way that's our role for the hopefully their better there's a hell of 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 this jury of reemerged for us. all those 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. now to belarus where unrest as erupted for a 3rd night with security forces firing rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse thousands of protesters they accuse president alexander lukashenko of rigging last sunday's election results which saw him win 80 percent of the vote amid the crackdown the opposition's top presidential candidate has fled the country

. a 3rd night of anger and under arrest in the below the capital. protesters here are still furious about an election they say was rigged but as demonstrators rallied once more to voice their outrage police moved in to make arrests. we are all but how is this possible fighting against your own people this isn't fair. president look i shan't go has vowed to crush the protests and crackdown on the opposition that crackdown has now claimed its most high profile a victim opposition candidate spent. on sunday she was claiming victory in the country's presidential election 2 days later she fled to lithuania citing concern for her children's safety. she and i made a very difficult the situation for myself and i've made it he's absolutely independently the it's me in the game in europe

a moot many will understand me many will denounce me and many will hate me. god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced. sorely that still are far. too for the families of detained protesters many have been gathering at detention centers like this one on able to locate loved ones arrested amid the unrest. children 2. yesterday in the evening my father was kidnapped they were walking on the streets when riot police ran to them and took him to the police vehicle police do not give any information 24 hours have already passed since he was kidnapped but we have no information about his whereabouts we are worried and we are searching for him.

at the european union has denounced the result of sunday's election which saw president look at shank when a 6th term with a widely disputed 80 percent of the vote in a tweet the e.u. used top diplomat yourself called the poll neither free nor fair and pledged to conduct an in-depth review of relations with by the roots he said the $27.00 nation bloc was considering sanctions against those responsible for violence unjustified arrests and falsifying election results. to w.'s emily sure win in moscow has been following developments in belarus and joy just emily the protesters were back on the streets again last night challenging the police and defying the president at great personal risk what do these protesters hope to achieve. well the main chant that we've been hearing from protesters is you which means go away protesters who've been taking to the streets

. across the country say that they just want. to leave power he's been power for 26 years and he says that he won the election with over 80 percent now the protesters say that that's not true that the elections the election results were falsified and they say that he said lalage was the real winner and i think there's also a growing anger at the scenes that people have been seeing playing out on social media on the streets as well where you know the police has been pulling people out of cars where they've been using rubber bullets where they've been beating protesters with buttons including there's been some video circulating of them beating women and under-age protestors children as it were so i think there's also some growing anger at the police violence that we've been seeing. now. has led the country anyone to lead this protest movement really.

well in a way the protest movement now is leaderless and the belorussian government the belorussian government has been making kind of emphasizing that in some ways there have been reports that. scott was really pressured to leave yesterday there was a strange video released of her calling on protesters to not take to the streets anymore that looked like it had been filmed under pressure of course we don't know and this morning there were reports as well in belorussian state media of the fact that the security forces had arrested allegedly leaders of the protest this morning but it seems like the leadership in these protests hasn't been so important in fact you are a self had never joined the protests she had kind of called for deescalation and yesterday those protests took place despite the fact that you can ask ourselves has

left the country the protests have been very decentralized they've been taking place across the country not only in men's and even in minsk they've been taking place not just in the center but across the city even in the suburbs really thank you very much for no that was the w.'s really sure when in moscow. of the corona crime crisis it took 6 months for the world to reach 10000000 coronavirus cases it's taken just 6 weeks for that number to double confirmed that 19 infections around the world have surged 20000000 more than reported in the united states india and brazil health officials believe the number of actual cases is much higher because of the limited testing vailable in many countries while the world searches for treatment russia says it's the 1st to register a coronavirus vaccine for the remain questions over its quality and safety.

president putin with the potentially world changing and now incident approval of the 1st coronavirus vaccine you see is next on the temple to try know that it is infected it provides a stable in unity and has gone through the necessary tests you know what you mean but i you do you. the new vaccine was developed here at moscow's gamma institute you know pill ations could begin in october but it has only been tested on a few volunteers but the studies will be carried out on the inside the production of a new vaccine research at the county sheriff says this is irresponsible for the. jones dealing with a hit or created here is something completely new what these vaccines on to the ball yet we don't know how it will behave and what will happen when someone is infected with the virus we also don't know how long and you know he lost the sense of comfort at the need to. despite many warnings 13000000 doses of the facts seem to be produced in russia this yeah another 170000000 are expected to be produced by

far in the future. russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the course submarine disaster a nuclear powered vessel sank in the barents sea on august 12th 2000 faulty torpedo exploded on board it wasn't until 9 days later that british norwegian divers entered the vessel after russian navy rescuers have repeatedly failed in their attempts no survivors were found thrushes then newly elected president vladimir putin faced strong criticism for his handling of the crisis. a small memorial is being held in kaluga in central russia. every year relatives of crewmen from the kursk meet in this orthodox chapel. this a found a family lost their son and brother. they say they still feel the pain today

20 years on. every morning i wake up and think about our son i look at people his age and i ask myself what our son would look like today what would he have achieved in life. she was born with you i just can't stop thinking these thoughts. these memories hurt him and i it was a very hard time. on august 12th 2000 the russian nuclear submarine kursk was taking part in a routine naval exercise in the barents sea. lieutenant maxime siphoned off was one of the subs navigation officers the 26 year old was among other things responsible for making maps. suddenly a faulty torpedo detonated. the sub screw all 118 men were killed.

upon hearing the tragic news maxime's father suffered a heart attack and almost died. even today he can hardly bear the loss of his son. one well our son was a very humble person he did not like being a center of attention he never wanted to be front and center but still people were attracted to him. or. he was a most professional officer and loved his job. but in one of his letters he complained that many officers were quitting their jobs. and he wrote it's hard to believe what this will mean for us. the officers who are leaving because they couldn't stand the conditions on board the submarine after the collapse of the soviet union the russian fleet was in desolate conditioned.

offices had to wait up to half a year for their salary. there were supplied making its problems. the navy's rescue service had basically stopped existing. the accident was initially hushed up whole russian attempts to rescue the sailors trapped in the submarine failed it wasn't until the 4th day that the navy top brass swallow their pride and ask for an expert's for help. but it was too late rushes newly elected president putin was severely criticized for his crisis management even today the exact details of the tragedy remain unclear and i think there are many questions and people who don't want to answer them when you when you heard 3 shots. to this day the cursed tragedy remains not just a personal catastrophe for the stuff in the family but also disgrace for the

russian navy 'd. in other news flooding in yemen's capital sana damage the world heritage listed old city conservationists say the roofs of over 100 of the city's distinctive mud brick houses have collapsed and they blame a severe rainy season along with years of neglect. more than $300.00 lent marks across london have been lit up to the plate to the live events industry during the pandemic lock down the national theatre the london and several skyscrapers were illuminator this part of the red alert campaign most live venues have been closed since march. the united states is moving ahead with plans to withdraw around a 3rd of its 35000 troops stationed in germany and while the american troop presence plays a major economic as well as security role not everybody will be sad to see them go

the spying dollar airbase in the western state of north rhine-westphalia will see some $4000.00 u.s. troops redeployed to w.'s mid drugstore each has this report from the town. spot on gollum in western germany has been one of america's most important bases in europe for nearly 7 years going to shine his family has lived in spawn dalam for generations the bases runway is just a few 100 metres from his home. that's what we mostly have to put up with during the daytime it's pretty severe. so this is for the most of. the noise has taken its toll schneider has had 3 heart attacks he and his neighbors had practically given up hope it would ever be quiet here again 10 washington announced it would be pulling u.s. soldiers out of germany including from spangdahlem but it announced shortly afterwards that the base would not shut down. this is not those moments

it's very confusing just now because of all the newspapers saying different things every t.v. report says something different. stockwell's on those. spawn dalam is one of europe's most modern military bases after the announcement that thousands of soldiers would leave german politicians began campaigning to preserve it one of them is your human stright. well you know my kannada american spend around 100000000 euros annually in the region on various services on rent and at restaurants but also in investments so construction firms and other companies make a living with and from the americans residents have different views on the plan plan in mind i think it's not good if the americans go. americans belong in america not in germany. although the f. 16 fighter jets based in spangdahlem are meant to relocate to italy the families of

most of the air force personnel will stay put while the military is not allowed to comment former servicemen like richard land feel free to speak their minds. he lives close to the base and says he has no plans to return to the us apart from his passion for old german motorcycles he says there's too much at stake. they've spent millions of dollars building a new hospital their dental clinic they've built a new school huge fitness center i just can't imagine that not being used. some think it's all a political game like farmer bill and he's also a local politician and lobbies for good u.s. relations. and you can chastise america you can try to blackmail german politics you can upset people but america can't give up this strategic nato location it would be giving up its claim to be

a world power but. the residents of spangdahlem cannot influence the decision they can only live with it's consequences good and bad. 2 american college football conferences the big 10 and the pac 12 have been postponed until 2021 they did so to protect the safety and well being of the student athletes during the coronavirus crisis decision followed a meeting that discussed the viability of a 2020 season however other major conferences intend to kick off their college football season it's florida state university part of the atlantic coast conference is gearing up to play despite the potential risk college football generates well over $100000000.00 a year. u.s. space agency nasa says it's found water on a so-called dwarf planet nasa scientists say there are reservoirs of fault of salty water beneath the surface of cirrus the largest object in the asteroid belt between

mars and jupiter they think it's craggy surface could have been formed from water using out of cracks and then freezing researchers don't know whether the door planet has ever supported living organisms for. you're watching d.w. news i'm terry marshall thanks for being with. an

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