Century and the World Health Organization warns that more people more excuse me more must be done to prepare for a potential coronavirus pandemic this as italy becomes the frontline of europes battle to contain the disease. And his critics are hailing the deal to verdict of course displaced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein its no longer a business as usual in the United States this is the age of a pallet of women and you cannot intimidate them anymore. But will weinsteins conviction for sex crimes are sure in a new era of perspective Entertainment Industry. Im sara kelly welcome to the program we begin in germany where police are investigating an incident in which a 29 year old man drove a car into a crowd at a carnival parade it happened in the town of folk mohsen in the Western State of has so police say that 52 people were injured 18 of them children some of the injured are in a serious condition. The driver was also injured he was arrested at the scene and faces several charges includi
And relate to the events that are cemented in history. Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Through the decades. The struggle for equality is baked into our american history. From its first days as an infant nation, the idea of who is equal in the eyes of our government was the subje in the centuries long evolution of this national conversation, the idea of equality has expanded to encompass rac gender and sexual orientation. Battles have been won on each of these fronts from the courts to congress. But, it is the president ial seat of power that has been most elusive in this discussion of equity particularly for the fairer sex. So, in the next hour of our parity from the woman who launched the suprise party, and a look at the some of great female political pioneers from Shirley Chisholm to Elizabeth Dole who showed us how to break those glass ceilings one at a time. But we begin with the struggle that laid the foundation for all to come. The womens fi
The office . Asking for a friend. Obama actually returned good question bill clinton. The handle comes with the house. Know anyone interested in flotus. President obama picked up his first 1 million followers in a few hours. Ive seen other accounts that hes had. This is the first one at potus. Its cute. What happened in ramada yesterday . The fall of ramada. I saw this last night. I saw quite a bit of news on this. Where is that . Iraq . Iraq and its very close to baghdad. They have them too right . Put that twitter account. Bill clinton and first lady and hilary and all. Yeah. Anyway good morning. Good morning, how are you . Hows wall street . Not very tame. You read my column today. Its still unethical. Lawyers, or madison avenue or government or politics. Anyway. On the front page of the New York Times today they were talking about the revival of wall street. How many private email accounts do you have . How about you . 16. But i got really good stuff going on. Home depots Quarterly
And other crucial battleground states, not because large numbers of democrats defected to the Republican Party. No, they believe they lost because large numbers of democrats just didnt vote at all. A very warm welcome to bbc world news. In an hour the Democratic Party in the United States will hold the third evening of its Virtual National convention. Tonight it will be the turn of former president barack obama and the Vice President ial pick Kamala Harris, to try to persuade voters to backjoe biden over president trump. Laura trevelyan is in wilmington, delaware for us. Speu spell out the formats tonight for us, laura, who comes first . What are we going to get . Well, it is womens night tonight at the Democratic National convention, christian. The house speaker, nancy pelosi is going to speak, the lion of the progressive left, Elizabeth Warren herself a contenderfor the democratic nomination. She is going to speak stop we will hear from is going to speak stop we will hearfrom hillary
The us president elect, joe biden, has outlined his plans to combat a deepening Coronavirus Health emergency which has left record numbers of americans in hospital, and a death toll of more than 280,000. He promised that in his first 100 days, 100 million americans would be vaccinated, and that he would push to re open schools. In some states, children havent sat in a classroom for 10 months. The president elect also again appealed for everyone to wear a mask during his first 100 days. Masking, vaccinations, opening schools, these are the three key goals for my first 100 days. It will start with my signing in order to require a mask where i can under the law. Like federal buildings, interstate travel on planes, trains and buses, 100 million covered vaccine shots into the arms of American People in the first 100 days. While the president elect was talking, the current president , donald trump, was holding an event to outline americas vaccine rollout. While the president elect was talkin