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

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and this edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday the

16th of July.

At the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump names

O'HIO Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate for the US presidential

election. The Pakistani government moves to ban the party of the jailed

former Prime Minister Imran Khan and

lawmakers in the Gambia defy religious conservatives to uphold a ban on female genital mutilation. Also in the podcast, most of the knowledge we have about polar bear movements and habitat

selection and behavior comes from female bears.

So these tags give us a window into seeing what these

males are doing during different times of the year. The tracking device

scientists hope will give them a new insight into the world's largest land-based

predator and could a cave on the moon to the world's largest land-based predator,

and could a cave on the moon provide shelter for astronauts?

Just two days after Donald Trump narrowly escaped assassination, his Republican Party

has begun its big pre-election jamboree in the swing state of Wisconsin.

Delegates and alternate delegates, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2024 Republican National Convention. Proceedings began with a state-by-state roll call of delegates officially nominating Donald Trump as their presidential candidate.

One of the first up was chairman of the Republican Party in Iowa, Jeff Kaufman.

Over the next four days, we will hear about the many failures of the Biden Harris administration.

The sustained criticism does not proceed from a mean or narrow partisanship, but from the broad and sincere concern for the well-being and safety of our fellow Americans.

More importantly, we will also hear about Donald Trump's broad

and inspiring vision for our country.

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