pratt's debuted a new presidential ticket joe biden is due to make use of 1st campaign appearance today alongside running mate countless hours a selection makes history in the u.s. but much to the vice president really matter also on the program. that in scotland after a passenger train comes off the rails the 1st minister declared a major incident as emergency services attend the city. i'm phil gale welcome to the program u.s.

presidential candidate joe biden is due to make his 1st campaign appearance alongside his running mate comma harris the new democratic ticket will debut at a high school biden's home in the state of delaware today harris is the 1st woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major party democrats hope her profile will boost efforts to peta donald trump in november. one time rivals no joining forces to launch a historic presidential bed this was how joe biden asked the california senate. to help him reach the white house opinions are divided. but that is all but the ball over the course of a black woman the mother of the vice president i think it's a little bit risky because she's highly controversial candidate through freight 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. people.

from there she burnished a credential as a combats 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 saw her cross examine biden over his track record on race. instead of joe's gender when he was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who have built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country mischaracterized 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 was right up there on the ballot. and so on. * and saw now is harris with rumors that the aging biden mainly 7 single town it's a landmark pick that may 1 day propel hard to become the 1st female president. so 2 presidential running mates matter while who better to ask than the author of a book by that name christopher divine joins us from dayton ohio in the united states a welcome to you what will come of the harris's job in the campaign be. bill good to join you i hope they're watching you do it you know you every day so early that when to be here so come here is this real campaign 1st of all is to reassure voters about joe biden's judgment that's what we find in our research my book with

coke was a little town college we find there are primarily running mates influence how people think about the presidential candidate so come on here here's needs to show that you talk to the job that she could step in to be vice president the president necessary in our research shows she does there are you likely have a positive effect on how voters you joe biden and maybe make them more likely to vote for biden although not dramatically so just at the margins ok so 3rd job at easter is to bring in the outliers of biden supporters is can i count tries it that way. you know i think everybody is to apply to swing voters but also maybe some people who are leery about him in the progressive base of the party i mean one thing that's tricky about camila harris is that she's hard to place ideologically is she a win for the progressives in the party she is more of the left but you know she's not exactly when according to make progress they think that she's not progressive enough so you know she's designed i think to appeal to

a wide range of voters primarily in the democratic coalition but also if there are people who are let's say disaffected republicans maybe independents or other swing voters at least they probably won't be alienated by this pick like they would be if i had a record with electoral gamble and pick someone you know just to try to win a swing state run and indicate to voters that maybe this guy does have the judgment to do the job as president much is being made of cabinet horace being about a woman of color a person of indian heritage to be selected as a candidate for vice president how much do these racial fasts still matter. i think a very poor for many people for many americans particularly black women in the united states who not only made such great contributions to the united states in general we're also the democratic party many describe black women as the backbone of the democratic party in the united states and certainly they've been key to joe biden's presidential campaign thus far getting the presidential nomination so it's very important to many people perhaps in

a symbolic way largely of what she represents as a candidate intensely vice president as far as whether that will change votes our research would suggest that it wouldn't of course we have not had a black woman let alone a black person as a vice presidential candidate we have as a presidential candidate barack obama we can only speculate about some of those effects but many of the other effect that people tend to expect they have in the past about let's say like mike pence that he would bring in evangelical christians or bring in conservatives or that sarah pail who bring in women right actually our research shows that generally does not happen and frankly what you think republicans i make of this choice you know republicans will not like her policy views there i think people who are already going to vote for down drop are not going to be thrilled with a comma harrison will probably pay her in the worst light for those who are let's say the john cases republican former ohio governor who speak of democratic convention they may at least be reassured that she has the qualifications to do the job as president as vice president and also that she gets along well with joe biden

which would suggest that she could be an effective operator in the white house good talking to thank you for joining us christopher divac thanks to a place in scotland say 3 people were killed when a passenger train came off the tracks in the northeast of the country they were passed that at the scene 6 of us have been taken to hospital today violent fall of the night of heavy rain and thunderstorms in the area minutes at nicola sturgeon academy to incidents and convened an emergency response me. is one of the 1st pitches to emerge from the scene of the crash. it happened on a railway line new star in haven in scotland about 160 kilometers northeast of edinburgh. the sound of sirens could be heard from a fog and fix smoke billowed from behind the huey terrain authorities say they were

called to the scene just before 10 am on wednesday morning dozens of emergency vehicles arrived soon afterwards. shortly after the 1st reports of the crash scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon addressed local make is. emergency services are currently on site and a major incident has been declared i have just come off a call with network real and the emergency services and details are still emerging i am afraid to see that there are only reports of serious injuries. in a tweet british prime minister bar's johnson said it was a very serious incident and his thoughts are with all of those affected. the cause of the incident is unclear although the area was hit by thunderstorms and flash flooding overnight. these images released on social media by network rail the company that maintains scotland's railways.

they are working alongside emergency services as investigations continue. like a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in sudan where flooding has forced an estimated 135000 people from their homes in south sudan or the worst affected is the town of bor where heavy rains caused the nearby white nile river to burst its banks efforts to reinforce a levee prevented even more of the time from being swamped. germany has pledged $20000000.00 euros for relief efforts in lebanon on a visit to beirut foreign minister heiko mouse said the aid was contingent on that but he's all sorts he's tackling corruption matin merging save responders at the site of last week's massive explosion which killed more than 170 people. 3 people have been killed in the southern indian city of bangalore after

a facebook post to consider a debugger to muslims a sparked a violent protests thousands of people took to the streets of the post about the prophet muhammad. believed to have been written by a relative of a local politician. in singapore started to destroy 9 tons of seized elephant ivory and what it says is the largest such option action in recent years authorities hope to disrupt the global supply chain of illegally traded ivory conservationists say the trades pushed elephant poaching to crisis levels in asia and africa. but many palestinians only know gaza the way it is today a war zone surrounded by israel and controlled by hamas but memories of another gaza do exist in the form of black and white photos where they were taken by an armenian photographer who bought one of the territory's only studios until the 1970 s. the w.'s tanya crabb has been looking at efforts to preserve this important part of

gazan history is a preview of her documentary collective memories which begins airing on doubly this week. maher one saran 0 helping to preserve gaza's history. this box contains photographs from the 1940 s. through the 1970 s. they pass of a huge collection from the former care home photo studio which was later in the care of tourists he and his family. this is a picture of anwar sadat when he was a young officer in gaza or one of these photos were taken by a camera. and here's a picture of mohamed nasheed the 1st president of the arab republic of egypt. are there to give this a shake of honor when he came to gather in 1959 that he was welcomed by the mare and some other local dignitaries. obama. these photos has are

a treasure trove of gaza's history the negatives and prints reflect the culture and identity of the local residents. but only a few of the photographs have survived many were not properly stored and suffered significant damage from moisture. the 1st aircraft were taken by hunchy how young he was born in armenia in 1915 his mother fled the armenian genocide and took her infant son with her to syria care how malaysia settled in jerusalem and in the early 1940 s. moved to gaza where he started working as a photographer. tell you about catherine he started his photography studio of 947. in 1900 many palestinians fled to gaza in the west bank. had experienced a similar situation in armenia. armenia. he considered gaza his 2nd home

and started taking pictures of various events including the war. archive all of his photos so that future generations could see that. i want to run as he is trying to preserve this material because it provides a detailed account of gaza's rich and turbulent history with displacement and loss looming large in people's collective memory. like my one to rosie with his treasure trove of photographs they all want to preserve this material for future generations. their common goal is to keep alive the history of. the cultural identity of its inhabitants. tanya chroma gaza and you can see how special report collected memory is in full detail documentary you tube. though a fossil 100 britain has discovered a new species of dinosaur bugs pebbles on

a beach. now on this piece of don't know. and i would have paid. intelligence robin warda turned up to bones while searching for fossils on the line of white scientists studied the bones and concluded that he found a new species of 3 toed dinosaur researchers say it's loosely related to tyrone or solace rex and died in say about a 150 years ago. this is news life from brother and his reminder of our top story at this hour u.s. presidential candidate joe biden is due to make his 1st campaign appearance with running mate come on how it's made to set us up from california is the 1st woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major cause. on police in scotland have confirmed that 3 people died when passenger train details in the country's northeast 6 of us have been taken to hospital the incident follows a night of heavy rain from the storms in the air. to chill up to date i'll have

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