Harris names VP pick
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris has named the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, to be her vice-presidential running mate. Also: Bangladesh's president dissolves parliament, clearing the way for the formation of a new government, disturbing evidence of torture of Palestinians in Israeli jails, and the Algerian winner of Africa's first Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours |
| 0:08.0 | GMT on Tuesday, August the 6th. |
| 0:10.0 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | Kamala Harris has named her vice presidential running mate. |
| 0:15.6 | He's Tim Walsh, the governor of Minnesota. |
| 0:18.4 | The president of Bangladesh has dissolved parliament |
| 0:21.2 | to enable a new government to be formed a day after the |
| 0:24.4 | Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by protesters. Dozens of protesters have |
| 0:29.6 | been arrested in Nigeria for waiving Russian flags at recent demonstrations. |
| 0:35.0 | Also in this podcast, Israel's biggest human rights organization |
| 0:40.0 | exposes the brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners. |
| 0:44.0 | Big Tech finds itself in hot water in countries half a world apart and |
| 0:49.0 | it was a dream to one day take part in the Olympics but I never thought I could be an Olympic champion. |
| 0:56.2 | We hear from the first African to win a gymnastics gold medal at the Olympics. As we came into the studio to record this podcast, we got word that Kamala Harris has |
| 1:10.3 | named the man she's chosen to be her running mate for her campaign to become the United |
| 1:15.4 | States first female president. |
| 1:18.4 | He's Tim Walsh, who's currently the governor of Minnesota. |
| 1:21.4 | Well our reporter, Wilverinin is with me. What are we |
| 1:24.3 | hearing from the US then Will? Well we're hearing from multiple sources |
| 1:27.7 | including the BBC's partner in the US, CBS News, that Kamla Harris has made her choice. It is Tim Wals, the governor of |
| 1:35.8 | Minnesota. He was actually the bookie's favorite to be the pick. There was some |
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