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Disproportionly benefit the communities as well. even though there are things like license caps which make it tougher for black and brown people to get involved because it makes the licenses more expensive, brings more cap room, well capitalized and well connected people into the mix but theres also things new jersey is doing right, priority licensing for micro businesses, setting up micro business licenses. its hard to pick one single thing thats keeping people out. its overall a sense that wer...

Storm franklin rattled through northern ireland first with gusts of nearly 80 mph. wales was hit, too. this was llandinam in powys, where homes were flooded. and york has a new tourist attraction. just one place where the water is still rising. the problems from this conveyor belt of storms arent over. danny savage, bbc news. our correspondent andrew plant is in ironbridge — yes, they have just finished putting up yes, they have just finished putting up the flood few flood barriers here. this ...

Something in common with him. i knew that i wanted to skate like he did, to have the lines| that he did with his arms and his legs, and just. the absolute technical. perfection that john curry was all about. john curry was such a pioneer and such a role model in so many different ways. breaking barriers, engaging with dance choreographers, bringing musicality in a new way to an art form, which was very much pure sport to begin with, being lgbtq and a role model in that sense and pioneering and b...

Until i got to harvard law school. as a student, i did not have the opportunities a lot of my classmates had, and getting young people to appreciate that they have the capacity to overcome these barriers is at the heart of what im trying to say. ive been in montgomery, without travelling as a result of the pandemic, for about 20 months, and its been really interesting to have this kind of time because ive realised that i stand on the shoulders of people who did so much more with so much less. im...

Issues, yes a online database to cure your mail ballots from the secretary of state but you need to put both of your i.d. numbers to get into the database so if you only have one i.d. number you cant get into the states database to cure your mail-in ballot. >> so it is a layering of this, the new election law, the confusion, the fear, the paperwork application, you got to yourself, are you tearing down barriers to help voters or putting up road blocks. >> its not just democrats who are a wanting...

Leann, how is d.c. preparing? >> reporter: well the city says theyre very prepared. theyve asked the pentagon for national guard troops, so has the u.s. capitol police. the pentagon approved 700 national guard troops. were seeing changes around the capital. the police are putting up barriers blocking some roads. there seems to be a little bit of confusion on exactly when these truckers are going to arrive. a small group of truckers was expected from pennsylvania. virginia state police tell us a ...

>> for the first time, the predecessor to this act. the first time i would say to use in peacetime and used twice before in wartime and used to suspend the civil rights. but what the current trudeau is doing is quite alarming and putting pressure and barriers on citizens in supporting these truckers. and that is attack ond free speech association and no reason for it.t. if you want to clear the road, clear the road. you dont need to do that. but he wanted to do something more. when you listen to...

To this world, the war is taking others out. across town, five people were killed in russian missile strikes. bringing the total since the invasion began to 2,000. according to state emergency services. overnight a russian missile slammed into this building next to a television tower in the capitol of kyiv. the air campaign is getting stronger. with the threat from russia, the ukrainian territorial defense remains on alert. while the bulk of russian forces are outside of the city. every car that...

It is wrong, deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. wednesday, i will send to congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote. this bill will strike down restrictions to voting in all elections. >> i think president johnson said what i expected him to say about voting rights and about submitting the voting rights act. what i didnt expect was for him to make it so personal. >> my first job after college was as a teacher in c...

United states, still has only had 13 black women on it. three of whom were appointed by president biden. so the structural barriers have been built in, and just to get to this day, judge jackson had to use her hercules efforts, and excellence, and poise, and grace, that we do not generally require of white men to get to this point. >> you know, i think it is just shocking that we are talking about the first black woman to the bench in the year 2022. but what is also so surprising, rachel, is tha...