And the Tampa Bay Lightning have won the stanley cup your first pandemicera champion in a major u. S. Sport is the Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa beat dallas 20 in game six of the stanley cup final to win the franchises second championship. And the crowd went wild outside. Definitely not inside. The crowd celebrated outside the teams home arena in tampa. The series was played out without fans in the nhls edmonton bubble. Pilots for United Airlines have avoided the chopping block for now. The union and the carrier reached a deal yesterday to avoid 2,800 pilot furloughs. The agreement keeps the jobs safe until june and includes reduced pay and flying hours. Turning to the new milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. The worldwide death toll has passed 1 million people. With more than 205,000 of those here in the u. S. It comes as were seeing a troubling spike in cases among children. I spoke earlier with dr. Ryan ribiera. New data released overnight shows the number of children infect
President and the hope is only that these protests remain peaceful mariyam have very importantly saying the largest demonstrations in the country certainly in recent years thank you from santiago money. Well to Political Developments in bolivia now the United Nations is saying it supports an audit of the disputed election result after allegations of fraud protests broke out after the incumbent president evo morales was to cap the outright winner in sundays vote extending his rule to nearly 2 decades but critics say the ballot was regs and their International Calls for an election runoff john homan reports from the palace. There was no way through the cars in the southern zone of la paz but the living capital on friday. Groups of neighbors stood on street corners stopping traffic to protest against president ever more oil is on the vote count the claim to the outright winner of last sundays election. People are coming out that the government can see to and they have a whats happened its
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the European Union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. Despite a slowing economy continues with its Infrastructure Spending ahead of the fifa world cup talked to Qatar Airways c. E. O. About airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. Plus cant count out build on the success of homegrown giants aljazeera and b. In sport by attracting more Media Companies to set up shop here. In a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the European Union its somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this weeks show isnt about briggs it this is about africas decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next European Union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born 24. 00 nations came together
Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
On may 11, 1943, about 12,500 u. S. Soldiers landed on atule island, alaska to force out a Japanese Army that had occupied the area for almost a year. Fought in the harsh climate and terrain the battle of at t u as one of the blood attu. Next, journalist mark tells the story of experiences of a japanese medic and an american officer in his book the storm on our shores, one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten attle of world war ii. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic column bine in april 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with ome of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law p