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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Saturday the 24th of August,

these are our main stories.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. suspends his bid for the US presidency

and backs Donald Trump. A trial is underway of a vaccine for lung cancer

using the technology that produced leading COVID vaccines.

Authorities in Bangladesh are continuing efforts to evacuate areas in the country's east

affected by flash floods.

Also in this podcast, affected by Flash floods.

Also in this podcast. Not a glitch but the sound of 1970s computer game Pong. Now scientists have taught a blob of jelly to play it.

He is a sign of the Kennedys, the most famous political family in the

United States who produced a Democratic president in John F Kennedy and an attorney general in Robert

Kennedy. Last year his son, R. F. K. Jr., broke away from the Democratic

Party to announce he was running as an independent candidate for the US presidency.

Now he's suspended his electoral campaign and thrown his support behind Donald Trump.

Giving a speech in Arizona, Mr. Kennedy, who suffers from a disorder

that affects his voice, explained his reasons.

The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president, along with ending censorship in the Ukraine

war. It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.

He also said the Democratic Party had departed dramatically from the core values he grew up with.

The decision has appalled five of RFK Junior siblings

who pursued a joint statement denouncing their brother's decision, describing it as a

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