subscribe to the documentary. this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin sen coming to harris is set to become the 1st woman of color to run for u.s. by president harris was named to say 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 also please help my feet. was arrested hong kong media tycoon jimmy blind is greeted by thousands of pro-democracy supporters after his release from 40

hours and police custody. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us us democratic presidential candidate joe biden has chosen kalama 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 the decision comes a week ahead of the democratic national convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed. one time rivals now 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. up again but the fall over due

course to have a black woman. the vice president i think it's a little bit risky because she's highly controversial candidate through free 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 to. get 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 in 2019 she ran for the democratic presidential nomination herself that campaign so hard cross-examined biden over his track record on race. joe's gender roles

he 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 risk or my position across the board i did not present racist they have buried the hatchet when she dropped out of the race and backed him to win the nomination. right there on the ballot. and. on the ballot. and saw no is horace with rumors that the aging biden me only 7 a single it's a landmark pick me one day propel hard to become the 1st female president. is william good croft 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 selection

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 state of the the racial justice movement that swept the country even before that people were rolling their eyes saying democrats this is who you have to 2020 an old white man so come on 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 every saw in the report she knows to ask pointed questions and joe biden wants

a fierce debater and that something come on harris brings to the table. joe biden had a lot of choice when it came to picking a running mate how are democrats what are democrats make of his choice here you know 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 it's 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 his 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 are they saying 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 or it's 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 are 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 candidate c. 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 presidential 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 let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today new zealand's prime minister just cinta are down has delayed a key step towards next month's general election following a new outbreak of coronavirus in the country are down to further the dissolution of parliament until monday for new cases of covert 1000 were confirmed yesterday in new zealand's largest city ah well. new figures show britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4 percent between april and june the period when the country's coronavirus lockdown was at its tightest the contraction means the world's 6th largest economy has entered its 1st recession since 2009. and 3 people have been

killed in the southern indian city of bangalore after a facebook post seen as derogatory to muslims sparked violent protests thousands of people took to the streets over the provocative post about the prophet muhammad which was allegedly written by a relative of a local politician. hong kong pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lie has been freed on bail 40 hours after he and other critics of china were arrested as part of a crackdown on dissent his supporters greeted him as he was released waving copies of his tabloid uppal daily the 71 year old was detained on charges including colluding with foreign forces it's a new offense on the chinese territories new national security law it comes after around $200.00 police officers searched the news room of his tabloid which is unapologetically critical of beijing. our correspondent phoebe kong in hong kong has been following this story all along and jimmy and other activists are

free again on bail does this mean that authorities there are no longer see them as a threat. well it's not just a. correlation in this way but. we have to know that all of the rest well we are released on bail which means the investigation you know. the case isn't over yet but it's like that. 7 monday strong. internet no question and answer that the u.s. secretary of state's right michael. we are both by jimmy lines arrest but the authorities didn't say that they will release them without any conditions so the case is there and they're investigated and there is the u.s. hans an official like for our chairman and other activists to be prosecuted. because jimmy law issued in

a coma since being released. but you knew i was released last night and today he would turn to apple that he had quarter media organizations found out and by you and i knew was welcomed by the south of the newspaper and. although he didn't review it musty tell us about his case he did i express i. had him his has his great want to support my from the city and stout and he also said i think he is moved and touched by the fact that really this support and this paper by buying all this yesterday we saw that. 155-0000 copies all at with 80 were printed and so so this is pretty i sign like boy they support what you mean i. feel the very public arrest of jimmy lai was widely seen as

a message meant to intimidate anyone advocating democracy or criticizing the store to use there is this having that effect. oh yes definitely and i though she would i am not after this thing putting the lead up to this and i would not prosecute it yet but the way all the authority carrying out the operation that you know high profile went on monday that than a chilling effect to the city and also to a journalist so this is definitely at the tarrance to activists and not to members of the public in hong kong. thank you very much for the it was deep. news feed we call in hong kong. now to belarus where unrest has erupted for a 3rd night was 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 unrest in 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 how's this possible fighting against your own people this isn't fair. president look or shango has vowed to crush the protests and crackdown on the opposition that crackdown has now claimed its most high profile victim opposition candidate. 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. i made

a very difficult to sit in for myself and i've made it these absolutely independently the answer. mcguinn 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 ahead of anxiety too for the families of detained protesters so many have been gathering at detention centers like this one on able to locate loved ones arrested amid the unrest. children. 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 with me about what was said . 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. the u.s. space agency nasa says it's found water on a so-called dwarf planet scientists say there are reservoirs of salty water beneath the surface of sirius the largest object in the asteroid belt tween mars and jupiter they think its craggy surface could have been formed from water using other

cracks and then freezing researchers don't know whether the dwarf planet as ever supported living organisms.