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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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The US Vice-President, Kamala Harris, has chosen the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running-mate for the presidential election in November. Also on the programme: the president of Bangladesh has dissolved parliament, paving the way for the formation of an interim government; and a high-wire artist remembers the day he walked between the Twin Towers in New York.
(Photo: Photo by SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Minnesota Governor Tim Walz walks out of the West Wing to deliver remarks to the news media following his meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 03 July 2024.)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
0:08.1 | our studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall. The lineup for the US presidential election in November |
0:15.8 | is now complete. For the Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance, |
0:20.6 | while the Democrats presidential candidate |
0:23.0 | Kamler Harris has today picked Minnesota Governor Tim |
0:26.6 | Wals to be her running mate. |
0:28.8 | She's just released this video on social media. Hi, this is Tim. |
0:36.0 | It's Kamala Harris. |
0:38.0 | Good morning, Governor. |
0:40.0 | Good morning, Madam Vice President. |
0:42.0 | Listen, I want you to do this with me. |
0:45.0 | Let's do this together. |
0:47.0 | Would you be my running mate and let's get this thing on the road? |
0:50.0 | I would be honored, Madam Vice President President the joy that you're bringing back to the country |
0:55.9 | the enthusiasm that's out there it would be a privilege to take this with you across the |
1:00.6 | country. |
1:01.6 | Well Vice President Harris has expected to appear later with Mr. Wals at a rally in the city of Philadelphia. |
1:08.4 | We'll be hearing from there and from Minneapolis in Wals's home state shortly. |
1:13.4 | But first, here's the man himself speaking early last month outside the White House after a meeting |
1:20.8 | with President Biden before he stood aside as presidential candidate. |
1:25.8 | I had a great conversation with the president. Obviously we, like many Americans, are |
1:31.6 | we're worried because of the threat of a Trump presidency is not theoretical for |
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