Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance, vows to stay

Questions about Mr Biden's mental and physical stamina to serve a second term has come into sharp focus after his performance at the Thursday night's presidential debate. For more, we speak to Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres, who represents California's 35th District.

Millions of people have been voting in Iran's presidential election. The choice is between a tightly-controlled list of four candidates close to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. We are joined by Abbas Milani, is Director of Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University.

Also in this hour, German kebab makers are pushing back against a Turkish request to grant EU protection to their version of the donor kebab - risking a diplomatic spat over the famous dish.

And, what started as a festival of pop, blues and folk music in 1970 attended by about fifteen-hundred people, has now grown into one of the world’s biggest performing arts festivals. British photographer Liam Bailey has been attending Glastonbury festival since the 1990s and has just published a book of the pictures he’s taken there: Glastonbury: The Festival and Its People.

In the studio, Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Marine biologist Helen Scales and Harmonie Toros, Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK.

(Photo: The first presidential debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is projected on a screen during a watch party hosted by the Michigan Conservative Coalition. Credit:Emily Elconin/Reuters)

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