In the coming week, diplomacy intensifies to prevent wider war in the Middle East.

The U.S. presidential campaigns ramp up with a complete democratic ticket,

and Bangladesh prepares for a new interim government after its longtime leader fled.

It's August 8, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

Carla, let's kick off in the United States.

This week was a big one for the Democratic side of the competition for president.

Vice President Kamala Harris

was certified as the Democratic presidential nominee, and she announced her running mate,

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Now, governors tend to not have large foreign policy portfolios,

and as we know, vice presidents don't necessarily come in with a major foreign policy portfolio as well.

However, we are the Council on Foreign Relations and we like to talk about these things,

whether it's vice president or president.

Wait, let's back up here. We had Al Gore, who took responsibility with Clinton took responsibility

for Russia and Joe Biden with Obama, more experience on foreign policy. But please continue.

No, as has been borne out, and we actually have a background around this on our site,

vice presidents actually have stepped up and taken on important initiatives in foreign policy.

But as you get into the campaign, as President Trump said recently,

the president is the one that matters.

And so we'll see.

It got a lot of attention.

Tim Walts was the leading news cycle figure in a very busy news week at the start of the

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