This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Mars and in the early hours of Friday the 12th of July, these are our main stories.

As more prominent Democrats call for Joe Biden not to seek re-election as U.S.

President, he made another gaff at the end of the NATO summit in Washington.

And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, ladies and gentlemen President Putin.

President Putin, he's gonna be President Putin.

He held a live press conference after that,

the toughest test of his abilities since

last month presidential debate with Donald Trump. In other news Israel's

defense minister has called for a state inquiry into what led to the Hamas attacks of October the 7th last year.

The Kenyan president William Ruto has sacked almost his entire cabinet after scrapping

proposed tax rises that caused nationwide unrest.

Also in this podcast, she was the epitome of horrified in the shining film.

We look at the life and work of the American actor Shelley Duval, who's died at the age of 75.

We begin in Washington. The US President Joe Biden has held a solo and

unscripted news conference at the NATO summit, his first since what was widely

seen as a very disappointing debate performance last month

against Donald Trump. This latest media event was considered as a major test of

his mental sharpness. Mr Biden's performance at that earlier TV debate sent shot ways through his

re-election campaign and several high-profile Democrats have since urged him to

drop out of the presidential election this year.

The 81-year-old US president has vowed to fight on and insists he is the man to beat Mr Trump in the November vote.

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