Aljazeera. Right well after. A surprise announcement from the oval office at the time is right i. Was talking like that just. Now we got it. Some for you said tom. I know others call an election nearing for trump and that ya. Know i mean actually to be sitting in for Richard Gaisford and youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week the Abraham Accords behind all the talk about peace between israel and the gulf states there is a lot of posturing and even more p. R. In the United States an affiliate of the under the network 80 plus is ordered to register as a Foreign Agent weve reported on mounting crises a chronically corrupt government a collapsing state and then came the blast whats it like to be a journalist in lebanon today. And a saudi musician teams up with an israeli 1. 00 to 1. 00 of the many member of the videos that have come in the wake of the evil how mccoy its. The talk in the middle east these days is of normalizati
Thailand tens of thousands are expected to turn out against the government. People across the United States and beyond are paying tribute to the u. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg she died at the age of 87. 00 she had pancreatic cancer death has significant political implications and comes just weeks before the u. S. President ial election ginsburg was a champion of womens rights and the leader of the courts liberal wing ellen fisher looks at her life and legacy. They started to gather on the steps of the Supreme Court in washington as news of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death broke it brought flowers and candles the number swelled people marking a loss they felt personally. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in Brooklyn New York in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in Ha
Continues. Host Mark Hugo Lopez with the Pew Research Center is here with us this morning, to talk about the latino vote in campaign 2020. He Mark Hugo Lopez, who is with the Pew Research Center, here with us this morning to talk about the latino vote and campaign 2020. Hes the director of global democracies migration and the research center. Remind our viewers how large of a voting bloc latinos made up in 2016. How they voted and what are the numbers as we head into november 2020. 2016 latino supported Hillary Clinton over donald trump. However, donald trump won almost 30 of the latino vote. In 2016, about 12 million hispanics voted. What is interesting is that that was less than half of the potential vote the latinos could have had. The turnout rate was only 40 . By comparison for whites for example, the turnout rate was almost like two thirds. Latinos have traditionally voted at rates that are lower with anothers. We see record turnout of hispanics in terms of raw number of votes ca
Go unreported for a week because of a technical failure in the data system. And the team behind the discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus and the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. And in sports a miami heat hit back in game 3 of the n. B. A. Finals the heat beating lebron james in the l. A. Lakers to revive their hopes of winning the championship. We start this news with the escalating fight between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of will go on. Now the conflict is now into its 2nd week and fighting is increasingly targeting civilian areas the regional capital stepanek yet has come under sustained bombardment azerbaijan has reported several missile attacks on 2 of its cities in the region it says some. Of its infrastructure sites in the city of men should be or were targeted nato secretary general has joined International Calls for a ceasefire in stoltenberg also called on turkey which has been backing azerbaijan to use its influence to calm tensions we are deeply concerned
Its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line. Hello im sam is a than this is counting the cost of aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week japan im aging population soaring debts and column e. In recession can japans new Prime Minister of 4 decades of contraction. Also this week pakistan is asias best performing stock market and the rally have a long way to go despite the pandemic. Plus famine poverty and uprisings a stark warning says the pandemic wipes out a decade of economic growth. In the end maybe in a conservative country the choice of continuity was too appealing chief cabinet secretary. Replaced his bastions as Prime Minister stepped down as the countrys longest serving Prime Minister for Health Reasons challenges to pick up from where they left off and make sure their twentys are not a wasted decade. I have attempted to turn around the stale economy with a 3 pronged revival plan we have inherited an