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

I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Friday the 28th of June these are our main stories.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are preparing of June, these are our main stories.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are preparing for the first televised debate of their

latest US presidential race.

US Supreme Court judges have rejected a multi-billion dollar bankruptcy deal linked to the country's

opioid epidemic. Kenya's High Court has upheld a decision to deploy the military to quell mass

demonstrations in which more than 20 people have been

killed.

Also in this podcast,

The International Space Station is a state-of-the-art microgravity laboratory that is unlocking discoveries not possible on Earth.

But it's also very old, so what will NASA do with it?

We begin in the United States and as we record this podcast, final preparations are in place in the city of Atlanta,

where the two main contenders for this year's presidential election will compete in a TV debate.

It will be the first time a sitting US president has held a debate with his

predecessor and also the first face-to-face meeting between Joe Biden and Donald

Trump in four years. If their previous encounters are anything to go by then this

CNN debate in Atlanta will not be pretty. The BBC's Katrina Perry is in

the city and explains the complexity of the television debating format.

It's going to be very different, can't overstate that really, you know, they're used to what they did in 2020 with an audience, but also they both came through primary debates that

time round as well where there were other candidates and live audiences and that's

what they're used to they haven't done any debating at all since then now they're going to be in a studio with two moderators.

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