Escape bitter poverty. Worldwide women are more affected by poverty than men theyre generally expected to look after the family when they can work they earn far less can save less and their jobs are more insecure. In times of crisis women are generally hardest hit the United Nations says that more than 70 percent of Domestic Workers lost their jobs in the 1st few months of the pandemic the vast majority women. According to a u. N. Study by 2021 around 435000000 women and girls will be living in extreme poverty 47000000 more than today and the situation isnt likely to improve by 2030. These n. G. s on their way to a woman who lives in rural albania with her children in fear of their lives a group of 7 follow. Tears has been sent here by a foundation called a different weekend the organization has 12000 volunteers in all. The woman calls herself scored she doesnt want us to use her real name she and her children were repeatedly beaten by her husband and he was eventually sentenced to 18
A deal that could revive yemen peace talks. The u. S. Is on track to break all records for the most early votes cast ever before election day. And im peter stemmed with all day sports news Will Champion south africa withdrawal from the Rugby Championship citing player welfare as their main concern. Lets begin in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a fault in the center of the capital was a can was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 2nd night in a row thousands of people defy the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy the recorded statement the thai king said the country needs people who. Love the country love them all mickey scott high the has more from bangkok. There was that major confrontation at. A barrier that the protesters makeshift bury the protesters had used even using Police Barricades and thats resell the water cannon use there was another a secondary barrie
Mexicos former defense minister has been arrested in the u. S. Now new details about the charges against him will be live in mexico city. Lets start in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a force in the center of the capital water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 3rd day in a row thousands of people defied the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy scott hide the reports. Face to face in bangkok antigovernment protestors and thai police got into a violent confrontation 3 months in the making. The mostly Peaceful Demonstrations started in july but for the 2nd day thousands ignored the risk of arrest under emergency decree issued the day before. As promised in an announcement just after the violence began taia 30 began using everything at their disposal to stop the protests including water cannon with burning agent laced with water the protesters are demandin
No freedom at all. They will put this Great Republic on the trash heap of history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Both facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories. Twitter censored the stories. Facebook saying they needed to be fact checked. And twitter called the stories, quote, potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes both social media platforms had put an end to the free flow of information in this country. The free flow of information that underpins our very democracy. They blocked millions of their users, including myself, to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they called their hack materials policy. It is a powell that twitter ceo policy t
In a move that could lead to the cash its breakup. We will speak to law professor zephyhr teachout, author of break em up recovering our freedom from big ag, big tech, and big money. Plus, we will talk about her call for Senate Democrats to use every procedural tool possible to block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Then to mexico. It is an unequivocal example of the decomposition of the regime, the governmental body was degraded. Amy former Mexican Defense secretary general salvador cienfuegos has been ordered held without bail in the United States after his shocking arrest last week at Los Angeles International airport for working with a Major Drug Cartel while heading mexicos military. We will get the latest and look at what this means for victims of human rights massacres during his time in office. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. We begin headlines with the story that incl