the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. joe biden drops out of the u. s. presidential race, the 81 year old, balanced, or pressure from within his own party. i met concerns over his age and mental fitness. many democrats, now, he like his decision, as selfless and patriotic abiding, and many leading democrats now throwing their support behind vice president, comma, la harris. does she have what it takes to beat donald trump, who is now facing a new elect, oral landscape. and with us politics and turmoil, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu heads to washington, where he's due to address the us congress. also coming up on our show

a break in the bank with dash protests. students suspends demonstrations for 48 hours, saying they wanted reforms, but not at the expense of so much lunch at the inquiry. richardson, thank you so much for watching. biden has pulled out of the u. s. presidential race filing 2 weeks of pressure over his age and health, joe biden's run for re election was thrown into disarray late last month after a dismal debate performance against donald trump. he is now backing his running mate, vice president campbell, a harris to replace him at the top of the ticket. and a growing list of democrats are also supporting her nomination. after weeks of speculation and denials us president joe biden has

a band in his bid for re election in november in a statement by and said, i believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. the capitalist was his debate against donald trump. i should be biden struggled to keep his train of thoughts or interest performance fueled concerns about his age and cognitive state. if we finally b, medicare bite and has now endorsed his vice president, common law harris as the challenger to donald trump, but americans are divided on his choice. awful, awful news. joe biden got 14000000 votes. he should be the candidate. she's a woman. what also maybe she was make change for us on says what we mean

a lot of change. we need definitely some fees to. i don't see where they have really much a chance. i think it's over for. it's a, it's a party that is deconstructing it is failing, and i think the whole world is, is witnessing that right now. donald trump reacted to the news saying cricket joe biden was not fit to run for president and is certainly not fit to serve. and he never was, he only attained the position of president by lies, fake news and not leaving his basement. all those around him, including his doctor and the media. knew that he wasn't capable of being president . and he wasn't in 2020 harris failed in her bid to become the democratic nominee. now, she is closer than ever. it all depends on how delegates vote at the democratic convention in august you have a technical memory. many notable democrats have already endorsed harris smith, a former prosecutor, and attorney general as our cause. some of the party's top brass have not backed

her. critics say harris lacks a clear vision and has been absent on the political stage. biden's late withdrawal has up ended the democratic campaign. the party must quickly signed its footing with just months until the election to really our correspondent janelle de milan talked me through possible options for who couple of harris might take as a running mate. clare, it might be, it might seem very aggressive uh to even talk about in this way, but uncomfortable realities are still reality. so we are talking about potentially the 1st black woman to appear on the top of democratic ticket. as such, the names we are hearing in circulation to belong over whelming lead to white men. so white men who could potentially help pamela harris by being from a purple state or a swing state, or by being moderate and balancing her out because she has thoughts of being progressive. so currently there was a lot of attention on and the but she or he is of the governor of kentucky. so he's

a democrat and a deeply red state. so that makes some interesting. people are also looking at josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania. now pennsylvania, of course, being one of those must win states. one of the blue wall estates jobs. so the democrats are trying to retain the other ones being wisconsin and michigan. there's also mark kelley, former need him in and out of asked or not. so he is a senator from the purple state of arizona, so he has that so macho street cried going on. there's also j. b. print skirt, the governor of illinois. it's interesting because he has the pockets and who could help finance the campaign. so those are just some of the names, but it goes to show that kimberly harris has options here and a relatively deep pool of democratic talent for which to draw upon. indeed, all these possible choices aiming to broaden out the potential appeal of the ticket . you know, what i find really interesting is that now the trump campaign not up against the candidate, they thought they would be. how are they going to pivot here at this point in the

election cycle? yeah, so the trump campaign was really bend to be a campaign to be joe biden. not anyone else. now, while they were really going after jo biden's age and mental fitness, mental acuity, and now they have to pivot to come to harris. so in a situation now where it will be donald trump will be the old man in this campaign, and they also run the risk cabinet harris by not even be the nominee at the end. arguably though, they wouldn't be more equipped to attack pamela harris over an unknown quantity she was on the ticket. so what we are expecting is that in the next weeks there will be attack ads launched against her in battleground states where they sort of for trade or as the one pulling the strings in the bite and administration involved and cover up. so around jo biden's health, they're also going to attack for, for policy areas where they, the republicans feel they are strong and they view the democrats as weak as,

for example, the board or, and immigration. the board are having at one point been part of camelot harris's portfolio. they're going to keep hammering the point that she is somehow worse than joe biden. so these are just some of the ways that we could expect the trump campaign to pivot in the days to con. janelle, thank you so much for that analysis. that is it. janelle, jim alone for us in washington dc. i look at the view on biden's decision to drop out from here in germany, chancellor, all actual saying, quote, my friend joe biden has achieved a lot for his country for europe, for the world's. thanks to him. transatlantic cooperation is close. nato is strong and the usa is a good and reliable partner for us. his decision not to run again, deserves respect. and germany's for administer and elaina burbock echoed those sentiments at an e. you meeting in brussels. a cabin close to the specs for the inside. don't have great respect for the president's decision and items that joe biden is putting his

country's interest above his own, and he has done an incredible job for grants. atlantic relations during his term as president, a low pc cooperation is perhaps stronger now than it has ever been by decides to do, intern z for the need to for ask for political correspondent julia. so jelly of what we just heard there from the chancellor. and then from the foreign minister reflects the general mood in germany. i would say may do, we've heard from across the aisle, from members of the government, as we've heard, but also from members of the opposition. a lot of expressions of respect for joe biden, for his decision to withdraw from the race, but also for what he did as president of the united states. we've heard, for example, also from so the big man's he's the leader of the conservative opposition party c u c to u, sorry, appraising his decision biden's decision to step back. but also remembering that he served the us of the american people for

a 5 decades. so also looking at biting as a politician overall, there is one exception to this general mood of praise and respect that is coming from the far right. a sd part of here in germany, we've seen some leading members criticize bite in almost a mockingly. talking about bite and, and his decision to step down. but overall there is a mood of, of praise and respect among politicians here in germany. deep and tell our audience how important of a difference it makes for germany, who eventually ends off in the white house as well. it is seen as crucial by many here in germany who is going to become the next us president. whether it's going to be donald trump, or the democratic candidates who is going to be the actual democratic candidates, is of less concerned because the thought is that whoever will be the next candidate cobble a harris or somebody else will follow in the footsteps of what joe biden has done

so far, but were donald trump to become the next president? and then concerns have actually been mounting here in germany for a while. now, looking back at trump's previous presidency relations between germany and europe in general. and the us had soured quite significantly. donald trump was regularly criticizing europe, germany, but also personally the chancellor at the time here in germany, i'm going to america with personalized attacks against her. the concern is that we're trying to return the relations could again sour, and that a more isolation is a more america 1st us could mean trouble for the transatlantic relationship, but also for a specific issues like military and financial support for ukraine. the fear is that we're the us to withdraw most of the supports here of would not be able to sustain the burden on its own. and we know that behind the scenes politicians here in germany, but also in europe have been working on contingency plans were trumped to become

president again. but we've also seen a scene from the reactions today and yesterday that there is a hope that it will actually be a democratic candidate to them for male. what thank you so much for that. that is our political correspondent, julia. so deli, so if couple of harris of wins the democratic nomination, she would be the 1st black woman and 1st south asian woman to talk a major parties. tickets, let's take a closer look at what she might bring to the campaign. as kamala harris has already made history, one's 5 being the 1st female, and the 1st black vice president of the united states. she was in no hurry to get rid of fighting, initially holding the line for him. after his disastrous debate performance, we believe in our present jo by them, and we believe in what he stands for the soonest to this. oh,

this begins to push the hood to replace him. if he stepped to side is the scenario . few would have predicted just a couple of years ago. the style of her vice presidency was overshadowed by criticism. some said hers was failing to make the most of her role and was being an effective. how are the supports his claim, she was being sidelined and held to a higher standard because she was a woman on black. yet perhaps on surprisingly for one who managed to become the vice president of the us. she's not the person to back down there going to be many times in your life where you're going to be told that can't be done. it's never been done before. it's not time, they're not ready for it. and then this is the one i love. it's going to be a lot of hard work. don't you listen. i, you know,

for breakfast some other fun to the also working in a favor. she's already on the ticket and a search would automatically inherit the infrastructure and funds of biden's campaign with tens of millions of dollars. she also has the highest name recognition of all the alternatives. and he's already a player on the global stage to she's become a leading voice on abortion rights. one of the key issues of the campaign and has prioritized finding solutions for the migration crisis of the us as southern border . but most crucial level, perhaps in the weeks after the debate, i think companies showed harris had a great to chance to buy a winning the election and does rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to washington dc where

he'll deliver a landmark speech to the us congress, ahead of his trip. nothing yahoo sanctified and for his contribution to us as well relations following the president's decision to end his re election campaign. that's me all who also said israel will be the united states strongest ally in the middle east, regardless of who is elected in november, dw corresponded abraham in jerusalem, has more on what we can expect from netanyahu's visit to washington as well. this is a visit that was obviously planned well before us president biden's announcement to and his bid for a 2nd term in office. and it also comes after a time of really for us to relations between nothing yahoo and bite and over israel's conduct of the war. in gaza and more specifically, a israel's incursion on a rough which the united states had been

a quite critical of after you know, sort of more or less unconditionally supporting israel, following the attacks of october, the 7th. and now we're seeing missing yahoo strike a more unified tone given a given biden's announcement. he's a good to me. i was expected to address the congress and there was a lot of speculation, but that speech would try to play up a, his perceived a, his perceived lack of support from biden's. but we're now hearing that that speech to congress is likely to strike another uh, you know, more of the, of what we've heard today. more emphasis on the unity and everything that biden has done for a israel. at the same time. this comes at a kind of more or less a low point for that's an yeah, who's popularity of the war and it's not on the 9th month now and with hostages

still being held.