Hello and welcome to bbc news. We start in the us. It s been less than 48 hours sincejoe biden announced he was pulling out of the presidential race. But kamala harris campaign for the white house is building momentum. Yesterday she announced that she had enough support to secure the democratic party s presidential nomination. Today, she ll be in the critical swing state of wisconsin making her case to be commander in chief directly to voters for the first time. Ms harris has already been clear about her agenda. On monday evening, she visited what had beenjoe biden s re election campaign headquarters in delaware to rally the staff who will now be working for her. Her message there that she ll continue to push for gun control and protection for reproductive rights. For all the latest, here s our north america correspondent david willis. 24 hours into her new role and kamala harris was already on the verge of becoming the first black and asian woman to win the presidential nominatio
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Headlines with gabbing. gabbing. Some huge news in the last couple of hours britain sjoint most decorated female olympian, charlotte dujardin, has pulled out of the paris olympics after a video emerged showing her making an error ofjudgement. The six time dressage medallist, said she was under investigation by the sports governing body and won t be competing while the process takes place. Jo curriejoins me now. Jo, what do we know? charlotte dujardin is the poster girl of titian question, and now days away from competing in the purse olympics but in the last hour orso purse olympics but in the last hour or so she released this unexpected and shocking statement saying she had to withdraw after a video emerge from four years ago would show, in her words, showing an error of judgment in a coaching session. And for dujardin, who had a history in front her. What happened was completely out of character and does not reflect how i train my horses or coach my pupils, however there is no e
that officers are not going after offenders of lower level crime such as shoplifting, vandalism and theft. now the home office says it s got agreement from police chiefs that they will pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry if a perpetrator could be apprehended. since 2015, forces have had to say how many of the offences they record result in someone being charged. back then it was 16%, but now it s just under 6%. political pressure to improve that number is coming from all sides. i think the key is in the use of the word reasonable. now, what s reasonable for one force won t necessarily be reasonable for another, given the types of crime that they re investigating. and it s absolutely right that police will always base it on threat, harm and risk. but certainly in my own force and otherforces, i do think that there are times when we should be investigating further and it s absolutely reasonable and the public and the government are right to expect us to do so. but police chi
of young people around the world like coco. it s illegal to sell it to under 18s but she tells me that never stopped her or her friends. the older kids sell to the younger kids and lots of shops don t check id. you can just walk in there, you can even go in your uniform and they ll sell it to you. we re coming up here to the other vape shop, whichever gate the kids come out, there s a vape shop. there s one just here. like many mothers, marnie wilton is worried about how prevalent vaping has become. and this is the primary school, 60 metres away. she said new regulations which include keeping any new vape shops more than 900 feet from schools, failed to address the problem. absolutely does not go far enough to help our children. the laws that the government announced, the new laws, do nothing to affect existing stores that are already built. only a few weeks before the new rules were due to come into effect, another vape shop opened near local school. parents took to the stre