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🗓️ 8 August 2024
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The first TV debate has been confirmed between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It will be hosted by ABC on September 10th. Mr Trump has said he wants another two debates in the same month. Also: Muhammad Yunus is sworn in as head of an interim government in Bangladesh, and the drones that could save the forests of Madagascar.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
0:07.0 | This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 9th of August. |
0:11.0 | Donald Trump does a U-turn and agrees to debate Kamla Harris on the 10th of |
0:15.0 | September. |
0:16.0 | Mohammed Yunus has been sworn in as head of an interim government in Bangladesh days |
0:20.1 | after the authoritarian Prime Minister was ousted and Ukraine's presidents as Russia |
0:25.2 | is feeling the consequences of bringing war to his country. |
0:31.0 | Also in the podcast, using the drones enabled us to get to close forest areas that we wouldn't be able to get to on the ground. |
0:38.0 | We can see super high resolution imagery and we can start looking at real detail at mapping what's going on. |
0:45.0 | How drones could help save the forests of Madagascar. Is Donald Trump starting to worry that the battle for the White House will be tougher than expected? |
0:59.0 | Since Carla Harris became the Democratic candidate, momentum has swung away from the Republican hopeful. |
1:04.8 | A recent ipsoce poll put him five points behind the Vice President. |
1:09.0 | In order to try to regain the initiative, the former President has given a news conference in his Florida |
1:14.0 | resort and despite previously backing out of a planned presidential TV debate hosted |
1:19.0 | by ABC News Mr. Trump has now agreed to do it and offered two more dates as well and he suggested |
1:26.2 | his opponent would struggle to debate him. The other side has to agree to the terms |
1:30.9 | they may or may not agree. I don't know if they're going to agree. |
1:34.2 | She hasn't done an interview. She can't do an interview. She's barely competent and she |
1:39.0 | can't do an interview. But I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight. |
1:44.4 | I asked our North America correspondent David Willis what he made of it all. |
1:48.5 | Well this was the first press conference of course that Donald Trump has held |
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