General assembly gets underway in new york tension between the u. S. And iran is set to dominate. Mali it marks 60 years of independence a day after a former defense minister was appointed interim president by the military job plus. When we receive lets say a dollar only 0. 25 maximum is what were able to use it by inflation aid agencies helping flood victims in sudan say their work is being hampered by an economic crisis. The anger on the colombian in the colombian capital as a march against Police Brutality turns violent. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is accel raising globally but fewer people who get. Dying a 2nd look at the global picture focusing on the 5 countries that have seen the most deaths from the virus the u. K. Is 5th in the world more than 41000 people have died but its curve is going the wrong way the u. K. s Health Minister says that hospital admissions are doubling every 8 days across the atlantic nearly 200000 americans have d
Post by the end of next months. The better roosts protest leader accused of undermining National Security Maria Kolesnikov to face new charges. Army wellings with a sports news is the former head of world athletics is found guilty of corruption let me india it was sentenced to 2 years in prison at the trial in paris the full story coming up. Below un investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters and the Fact Finding Mission found reasonable grounds to believe president Nicolas Maduro ordered the crimes to silence oppression the report says police and military killed and tortured. Anti madeira protest as their tactics included arbitrated tensions the authors concluded the crimes were part of state policy and not isolated incidents based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses report says the International Criminal court should open an investigation if the venezuelan authorities fail to act d
U. S. President again cast doubt on whether hell accept the results of the november poll we want to make sure the election is honest but im not sure that it can be i dont i dont know that it can be with this whole situation unsolicited ballots. His press secretary says trump will accept the results but with conditions the president will exact except the results of a free and fair election. How exactly the white house defines free and fair or is not clear casting grave uncertainty over the integrity of the vote trump is particularly concerned with mail in balloting which states are offering so voters dont have to travel to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic Top Republican and democrat leaders in congress on thursday tried to reassure voters on twitter Mitch Mcconnell the republican leader in the senate wrote there will be an orderly transition just as there has been every 4 years since 792 democrat House Speaker nancy pelosi went further criticizing trumps failure to commit to a
Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
Waldman we will start now with that tense situation for bart riders today, a man was stabbed at a bart train in the east bay and this is video now from the scene we just got it into our newsroom. It happened at the warm springs station in fremont bart shut down the station while police investigated what happened. But trains right now are running again. We did hear from a witness who says that that person tried to help the victim. Train tree just to get some air because i get a little woozy when i see blood. It was a lot of blood coming out of these there saw somebody laying on the rocks. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be ok. The suspect has been arrested. Its not clear right now what led up to the stabbing. Now to the other big story. Were following today at 3 San Francisco mayor london breed has put out a timeline for when restaurants can reopen indoors. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco, a details that so many have been waiting for goo