You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

We are recording this at 13 hours, GMT, on Tuesday the 23rd of July.

The US Vice President, Comila Harris has secured enough support to become the

Democratic Party's presidential candidate. China says Hamas, Fatar and

a dozen other Palestinian factions have agreed to set up an interim

administration for Gaza and a warning from Brazil to the controversial

Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. Also in the podcast calls for Maduro.

Also in the podcast calls for Kenyan police to show more restraint after the deaths of dozens of protesters.

So the laws are not the problem.

I think what is problematic is the culture of policing in a context where there is

confrontation with the public. And diverse dolls, the first blind Barbie, goes on sale.

The US Democratic Party meets in Chicago next month to formally choose its presidential candidate.

But we already know it will be the current Vice President Kamala Harris.

In the two days since Joe Biden quit the race, she has secured the backing from the majority of party delegates

to become the nominee while her rivals have stepped aside. So what is the

significance of this well of support the question for our North America editor

Sarah Smith.

It means that as soon as the party actually takes a vote, a roll call vote of all of those delegates,

she will become the party's nominee.

She isn't yet just because they've pledged her support, but

there are no other candidates in this race. Nobody has stood up to challenge her. And more than half of the

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