Kamala Harris announces her Vice President

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The US Vice-President Kamala Harris has chosen the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, as her running mate for November's presidential election. We hear from one of his old friends.

Also on the programme: the president of Bangladesh has dissolved parliament to enable a new government to be formed, a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted by protesters. And the British government condemns Elon Musk's comments that civil war is inevitable in Britain as unrest continues across the country.

(Picture: VP Candidate Tim Walz, the current governor of Minnesota. Credit: Reuters)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to New Zauer from the BBC World Service. We are coming to you
0:08.2	live from London. I'm Kruh Barbati. Great to have you with us. Coming up in the program, we'll get the latest on the situation in Bangladesh, the day after the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit and fled the country.
0:19.2	No, no, there is no political uncertainty. The government is taking control of the whole thing and already the political parties
0:26.0	they have asked the people to keep quiet, to keep calm and we are also the political
0:31.0	parties are also doing the same parties doing the same thing.
0:33.0	There is no portion of instability.
0:35.3	We'll also hear about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners
0:38.4	in Israeli prisons.
0:39.8	All of that coming up here on Newsau.
0:41.5	But let's start with that story that's
0:42.8	broken and is developing over the past 30 minutes we've heard that the US
0:47.7	Vice President Kamler Harris has chosen the governor of Minnesota Tim
0:51.2	Waltz as her running mate for November's presidential election.
0:55.0	Here he is speaking on the 3rd of July, outside the White House after a meeting with President
0:59.8	Joe Biden.
1:00.8	I had a great conversation with the president. Obviously, we, like many Americans, were worried.
1:07.3	We're worried because of the threat of a Trump presidency is not theoretical for governors.
1:11.1	We've served when Donald Trump was president and the threats to
1:13.9	our nation were real and so those concerns are real to us and what we understand
1:18.6	was a Trump presidency was chaos destruction a Biden presidency was dealing with COVID using the science investing
1:26.8	in infrastructure and working to the middle class.
1:30.1	Washington correspondent Jenny Kumar joins us now with more details.
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