At a media dinner in Washington on Saturday night, US President Joe Biden used his opportunity at the podium to to call on foreign governments to release detained journalists and roast his presumptive Republican running-mate Donald Trump over his age and literary tastes.
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00:00 US President Joe Biden used his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech on Saturday
00:06 to request the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich.
00:10 Russia detained the Wall Street Journal reporter last year on charges of espionage.
00:14 The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate also used the star-spangled occasion to toast
00:19 journalism.
00:20 To a free press, to an informed citizenry, to an America where freedom and democracy
00:26 endure.
00:27 However, Biden's 10-minute speech noticeably made no mention of the ongoing Hamas-Israel
00:33 war or the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
00:37 Hordes of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the dinner to vocalize their criticism
00:42 of the Biden administration's handling of the war as well as the media's.
00:46 The International Federation of Journalists claim 102 media workers have been killed in
00:51 the conflict.
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