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

I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Tuesday 11th of April, these are our main stories.

The US President Joe Biden has given his strongest indication yet he will run for a second turn in 2024.

A mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky has left five people dead including the gunman

and injured several others. Rescue efforts continue to save more than a thousand migrants

stranded on two boats in the Mediterranean Sea.

Also in this podcast,

a British Israeli mother dies after a West Bank shooting in which two of her daughters were also killed.

Donald Trump has a fondness for pinning nicknames on his opponents.

And when it came to Joe Biden, he went with Sleepy Joe, a clear attempt to focus on his rivals' age

and supposed frailty. Fair or not, the fact is that Joe Biden does hold the record for being the

oldest person ever to become US President, 78 when he took his seat in the Oval Office.

Now he's given this clear sign that he's going to be going for a second turn. Mr. Biden was

speaking at an annual White House event known as the Easter Egg Roll and told a television

presenter from NBC he'd be at the White House to do this event for many years to come.

I plan on at least three or four more Easter egg rolls.

At least three or four maybe five maybe six.

Help a brother out.

No, no, no, no, no, I plan on running out but we're not prepared to announce it yet.

Our State Department correspondent is Barbara Pled Asher.

I asked her how important President Biden's age was in all of this.

It's something that is very much under consideration in terms of people who would be for or against

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