You are in the nick of time. Live from london this is business today, im sally bundock. We start in the United States, where Vice President Kamala Harris whos standing for president has a busy week ahead of her. As youve been hearing, the Democratic National Convention is set to kick off in Chicago Today and runs until thursday. Delegates will hold a ceremonial Roll Call for the president ial ticket and Kamala Harris and her Running Mate Tim Walz will formally accept their partys nomination. Among those speaking this week will be former president s Barack Obama Bill clinton and former Secretary Of State hilary clinton. For many watching what the democrats plans are for the economy will be key in Novembers Election and Kamala Harris outlined some of her economic proposals late of friday which include cutting Taxes for most americans, a ban on so called Price Gouging by grocers and to build more affordable housing. Shes also pledged to introduce a new Child Tax Credit and lower Prescript
Situated next to kursk thats where the Ukrainian Offensive began last tuesday. The Acting Governor of the Kursk Region said ukraine was in control of 28 villages there, President Putin claimed ukraine was trying to imporve its negotiating position. Translation the defence ministrys main task is to push and kick the enemy out of our territory. The enemy is probably trying to improve its future negotiating conditions. What negotiations can we conduct with people who are targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure . Or those trying to threaten nuclear Energy Safety . But the main target is a military one, to slow the russian advance in other parts of the front. So what . The speed of the russian advance has increased 1. 5 times. What will this mean in the wider context of the war . With more on developing sutiation heres our security correspondent, gordon corera. Russian citizens who fled their homes amid fears that fighting may spread. This is in the belgorod region today, where 11,0
Inside russian territory. Local authorities are now evacuating residents from a second Region Belgorod which is situated next to kursk thats where the Ukrainian Offensive began last tuesday. The Acting Governor of the Kursk Region said ukraine was in control of 28 villages there, President Putin claimed ukraine was trying to improve its negotiating position. Translation the defence ministrys main task is to push and kick the enemy out of our territory. The enemy is probably trying to improve its future negotiating conditions. What negotiations can we conduct with people who are targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure . Or those trying to threaten nuclear Energy Safety . But the main target is a military one, to slow the russian advance in other parts of the front. So what . The speed of the russian advance has increased 1. 5 times. So what will this ukrainian advance mean, in the wider context of the war . With more on this rapidly developing situation, heres our Security Corre
But, you know, ithink its the right time. Like, this year felt like such a bonus. And i got to compete in front of my, um, family, my kids. So. And i got to be flagbearer. So, yeah, like, Bucket List ticked off on every occasion. And your kids must be So glad that daddys home and, you know, Well Daley was one of the few hundred Team Gb athletes who returned to London Today many showing off their medals. Team gb won 65 medals and though they were only behind Usa And China in terms of the total number, only iii of them gold their lowest tally since 2004 and that saw them finish seventh in the Paris Medal table. We had a fantastic outing in terms of total medals won. Yes, we wouldve liked to have win a few gold medals. At that and often its fractions of a second, its tiny little things, of a clay that fails to detonate. It is a different Line Taking around a sailing bleed. The beat of Adam Pdp as my fingers when hes got covid. These are the things that separate the gold s. The irishman s
Walz joined Kamala Harris on the Campaign Blitz this week. But, what should americans know as the Minnesota Governor introduces himself to the nation . To answer that we are asking his Governing Partner Penny peggy flanagan. Good morning to you. So good to see you. I love this detail from a Mother Jones piece titled, how Paul Wellstone helps give us tim walz. The instructors were mostly young politicals with campaign experience. Penny flanagan, 25yearold Veteran of the wellstone campaign, and the Native American organizer who had the previous year winning Minneapolis School board seat. He worked tim Walz Instructor before you were his governing partner. If i had told you 20 years ago that he would one day be a Vice President ial contender, would you have been surprised . I probably wouldnt have been surprised, because he really embodied all of the things that we love so much about senator wellstone. That he was authentic, and connected to people. And just knew who he was. You know, whe