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President ial election as a battle for the soul of the nation the day after being chosen by joe biden as his candidate for Vice President biden and harris will make their 1st appearance together at a Democratic Campaign event in just under 2 hours time harris is the 1st black woman to be included on a major partys president ial ticket the 2 will deliver remarks in wilmington delaware thats. Bidens home town is just ahead of the event the biden House Campaign released its 1st ad since the announcement. I was raised to take action my mother knew that she was raising 2 black daughters who would be treated differently because of how they learned growing up whenever i got upset about something my mother would look me in the eye and ask so what are you going to do about it we are in a battle for the soul of this nation but together its a battle we can win we just have to take action. Us President Donald Trump took aim at harrison a tweet he said carla harris started strong in the democratic primaries cannot hold on to support he went on to say that makes her the kind of opponent everyone dreams of. Joins me now live from washington d. C. Alan so this event to delaware its not going to be your usual formal running mate introduction is it. No normally thats a big rally a big parade those losses supporters lots of the Party Hierarchy ready to give their endorsement and their support to the pick because of course it will be very different there will be media there but there wont be so many supporters there wont be many people from the party were told that both camelot harris and joe biden will speak i wouldnt expect them to take questions its not the sort of thing where you want your message to be thrown off by an awkward question from an awkward reporter so or be a much shorter type of event but will certainly be joe biden introducing camelot hardest to the nation not that she really needs that much introduction shes forged a reputation for herself on capitol hill as a senator or for the last few years shes had a high profile as a potential president ial running mate she dropped the campaign before the farce of voting but it will really have to say to everyone here we are together this is the democratic ticket this we are the people that we hope you will support when it comes to election day on november the 3rd allen is coming to her is seen as someone who can unite the democrats. Well certainly the republicans are trying to paint her as someone who will split democrats who has please neither wing of the party neither the Progress Service nor the more conservative elements in the Democratic Party and its perhaps a failing on their part that knowing for at least a month she was one of the front runners that they havent been able to define their message and havent been able to convey that to the public very clearly over the last 1824 hours or so or certainly she will draw some criticism for her time as the attorney general in the state of california she with their skin said that she didnt prosecute alleged cases of Police Brutality quicker that she jailed people who are convicted of marijuana offenses but if you go on social media you will see that she has attracted a great deal of support and a great deal of attention you will see from the Biden Campaign who see that between 4 and 5 yesterday the 1st hour after the announcement was made that they raised a Record Number when it came to fund raising cash the see that she herself has raised 5000000 for the campaign itself and she will generate votes she will generate votes among women among people of color and joe biden is hoping that the momentum that that is gathering right know will continue all the way to november. Thanks for that alan fischer there live for us in washington d. C. Lets bring out of Barbara Perry who is professor and director of president ial studies that university of Virginia Center she joins us by skype from Charlottesville Virginia thanks for your time what do you think kamel house brings to the table. Oh i think she brings 1st of all a breath of fresh air as a younger candidate as a woman as a woman of color a woman with a background that is jamaican and therefore black and indian and therefore asians out asian and brown so its unprecedented for a woman like that with that background to be in the Vice President ial slot so i think she has really energized the Biden Campaign and energized the entire president ial landscape what do you see as her biggest potential pain points baggage history that might be picked on by trump. Right well we saw a glimpse of that already from President Trump not just the team but led by president yesterday right after the announcement it color disrespectful because she had taken a swipe and in one of the debates the 1st president ial debate against joe biden about the fact that she said he didnt support bussing and that she had been bused to an integrated school when she was in the 2nd grade out in california so there will be that there also be the fact that she didnt impose the Death Penalty so from conservatives and tea trump in the president ial get that and then the president has a propensity to say that women are nasty if they are rather outspoken or some might say aggressive you know no one says this about male candidates but i suspect hed trump will go after that and then also say shes a wild god left wing socialist liberal. You mentioned an interesting point about what one of my main you know being a woman no one inmate does have to walk a particular line here shes allowed to want the job because i want it too much shes allowed to be outspoken but not too outspoken. Yes and it was so oh my goodness a politician whos ambitious again we tend not to say that about me ill additions we presume that they wouldnt be running for office is they didnt have some ambition and usually a large ambition if they are at me for the white house or the vice presidency but i think we still have enough sexism certainly in this country that she will be blamed for being ambitious if she ever gives any sense that she would run for the presidency and for a year should president be elected but only serve one term for example but shes already running for president and we dont hold that against male candidates and so i dont think it should be held against her but i think people will say that about her. Do you think shes energized saying enough to pick up those democrats further to the left who supported. Your elizabeth warren. Is she is not quite there on that spectrum but she certainly is a liberal and where else would they go they certainly are not going to vote for President Trump and that ticket if they choose not to turn out theyre only in effect voting for trump if they both for a 3rd Party Candidate or some other party figure like people voted for jill stein for example which just votes away from hillary and probably cost of the election or people to go to a from al gore in 2000 and florida voted for ralph nader so if those people who are so far left are socialistic stay at home or are right in a candidate or vote for someone else they are in effect reelecting donald trump. Barbara perry professor and director of president ial studies at the university of virginia mina center thank you thank you ken. The u. N. Security rise sheets michel bus has condemned the violent crackdown on the by the balor regime the government told protesters after 3 nights of Unrest Police have arrested more than 6000. 00 people during the protests that followed sundays disputed president ial election thats away nearly a year and poland are offering to mediate say sanctions may come of that offer is not taken up steadfast in reports from minsk thank. Worried about the fate of their loved ones relatives and friends outside this Detention Center in minsk child cries of support without knowing if they can hear it. Or you are all heroes they scream calling out her sons and daughters wives looking for their husbands after days of arrest many are still missing a 17 year old boy was released after he was arrested while sitting on a bench in the city center he says he was severely beaten the. Riot police came to me with 6 men and started beating me when i grabbed the stick there started to beat me even more and sprayed something in my face it was burning when i asked for medical aid they did not help me volunteers are trying to help locate the thousands of detainees president Alexander Lukashenko has condemned those detained describing them as a criminal underclass because the core of these socalled protesters are people with a criminal past and those who are currently unemployed those who dont have a job walking the streets and avenues thats why im kindly urging everyone who is unemployed to get a job Police Violence has increased and bellows during the 3rd night of protest with the daschle and cars attacked often randomly. But that did not deter hundreds of women from protesting to condemn the violence a march for peace and Fair Elections president lukashenko has been in power for 26 years says he won sundays disputed president ial poll with more than 80 percent of the vote a claim many in bellows have called. Desert and cant trust a police man wearing black all these women are wearing whites carrying flowers as a sign of peace stop beating us is their main message women have been leading the growing Opposition Movement against look a shanked Us Government with 3 women dominating the Election Campaign now again women are defiant and are risking arrest they can come to your home they can break the door in your apartment they can catch you anywhere when you go shopping or go to the hospital they can find you and detain you and beat you yet which still i dont. And sounds to die for peaceful by the roost and for Fair Elections under streets drivers showed their support for the protesters including bus and Truck Drivers but emotions running high after what have been traumatic days for many belorussians it seems unlikely to strategy a fired insta government is using will work step 5 and aljazeera mints. Lebanons president says more than 15000000000. 00 of damage was caused by last weeks port explosion which killed more than 200. 00 people a large humanitarian effort is underway across beirut but the Health System is close to collapse the World Health Organization says half of the citys hospitals are not functioning but its with reports from beirut. Rich or poor the beirut explosion didnt discriminate 10 people died in the luxury Seaview Apartments that overlook the port and alice assads house. She and her 2 children had left home half an hour before the blast they raced back to find this. Alice pays a rent fixed in the 1960 s. The common practice here if the landlord cant afford the repairs or release the funds home will probably stay like this i now must learn to most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably with food we will not starve but we need our home back. Businesses too must find the money to rebuild if they think its worth it. This country was already enjoying an economic crisis after a shortage of foreign currency last year sent its currency into freefall i dont know if you will be able to put more money into it i dont know we need. Not only also earlier everybody would. Need some 70000 homes and a so far uncalculated number of businesses were destroyed or damaged when 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded at beirut port last tuesday. A dozen schools also need rebuilding this is the citys oldest the school of the 3 doctors in the challenge is huge an explosion of the scale is exceptional before rebuilding you have to appraise the structure see if everything can hold up sometimes you have to consolidate sometimes you have to destroy. To rebuild so it will take real building expertise. Every homeowner every business every Institution Needs glass and Building Materials and nearly all of that is imported. So they need dollars. But their money is locked in inaccessible Bank Accounts for many here its effectively stolen by a political elite thats been running the country for decades. So the pressure is on parliament to appoint a new Prime Minister and a new cabinet and its been made clear to them that theyll be no International Funds for the citys reconstruction until the Parliament Ends the dominance of iran backed hezbollah and its allies french president emanuel says he wants to see progress by september the 1st Bernard Smith aljazeera beirut chef jose on there is the founder of world central kitchen in beirut he tells us about Food Assistance service and his organization has been providing on the ground since the blast. We came over 5 years ago years 48 hours after the blast was 100 content was he able to debate. I got to tell you that the need i see because the blahs is them many people that need help for example weve been through many hospitals like this and your Church People which is one of the closes goes with those to the ground 0 weve been feeding firefighters that there still are doing war in the in the port area and we are feeding them every day we are feeling a lot. Let me tell you that people will be road is amazing they all came together as one right now i see that the food is flowing a wrong the road what was a drug attorney is trying to do is call for the blind spots of the system to make sure nobody goes counter right now were doing ourselves 10000 meals a day in partnership with 9 restaurants we have a main teacher and we had great shabbes weve had chef a leader and chef come out and many orders that they came together to help us provide relief to the great people of iraq what i see in beirut in the area i am which is providing relief for the people in but that by these blasts i see things are ok but we understand that in the next weeks and in the next month lebanon as a whole is going to be having a problem i see already that when you go to the supermarket things go its 3. 00 and 4. 00 times more that what they used to god when people dont have enough money to buy food that keeps increasing on price is when the crisis began so lets hope that the people of lebanon the government of lebanon these able to control the cost of food that these abilities simple solution to make sure that people have enough money to afford to feed themselves 24 had on the news on quitting around the clock half you 3 days of violence in Eastern Sudan needs to have a restriction its. A plea for negotiations from taiwan a hong kong journalist an act. Vests where rest 600 new beijing impose National Security dome. And its for a little later on bad news for anyone is called the heart set on competing with one of the worlds most iconic race its. True lankas new cabinet was sworn in on wednesday at one of the most sacred buddhist temples in the country the ceremony sent a strong message of gratitude to the majority Buddhist Community but a safe minority is wondering if the new government will also act in their interests but often and as has more from colombo. Are the only. Missing for a new government at the temple of the king. Junkers new cabinet was sworn in by president go to the rajapaksa in the audience hall of the Sacred Temple of the 2 in kandy the mahdi governing candy is seen as the sort of center of both religious and secular power because the story is those who possess the tab the 2 will lead the country you know and the days all of that so yes a very strong symbol of the primacy of the single a buddhist majority. 74 percent of sri lankas 22000000 people are single the buddhists a large number of them voted for the sri lanka peoples front party giving it 60 percent of the votes the raja boxes of work hard to get the support of the majority Buddhist Community after then president by the rajapaksa suffered a shock defeat in 2015 many blame minorities who voted against him in large numbers. At the decision to campaign on strong nationalist buddhist lines appears to have paid of 1st with president go to this election in 2019 he was sworn in at an ancient Police Temple that represents historic seeing how his power. His brother mine the rajapaksa who got the highest votes of any candidate in the august 5th the election was sworn in for his 4th time as Prime Minister. He too chose an important temple where the lord buddha is believed to have visited with an entourage of 570 motor says having adopt