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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 23rd of August,

these are our main stories.

Kamala Harris officially accepts the Democrats nomination for the US presidency.

India's Prime Minister Norendra Modi embraces Ukraine's president on a trip to Kiev just weeks

after he sparked anger by hugging Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The UN says the military and political situation has deteriorated in Libya in recent months

with reports of paramilitary forces mobilising in the capital Tripoli.

Also in this podcast, a transgender woman from Australia wins a discrimination case

after being denied access to a women-only social media

app and a new discovery about how mosquitoes use infrared to detect the presence of

humans. It heats up some neurons at the end of the antenna on the

mosquitoes and that is what's being sent.

Kamala Harris has promised a new way forward in American politics as she accepted

the Democratic nomination for president. Addressing cheering supporters at her party's

National Convention in Chicago, the vice president said there was

a fleeting chance to move past division and bitterness.

She'll take on Donald Trump in what's likely to be a bitter fight for the White House in

November. Our correspondent

Emmavardi was at the Democratic National Convention to see her set out her

vision for the nation she hopes to lead. A month ago many people did not envisage this moment.

America's lesser known second in command propelled into the starring role. Now Carmelah Harris is the

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