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
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de
Health, so i spoke with pulmonologist dr. Vinny job, to get some answers to your questions. We have been dealing with the smoke for weeks now, what are the longterm risks from breathing all of the stuff in for so long . Is there a cumulative effect as one of our viewers asked, is it going to be affecting us later like the coal mines did for people . We look at wildfire smoke, there is been, shown to be an increase in respiratory problems. Meaning bronchitis, potentially pneumonia, etc. , but not, not, the other things have not been shown meaning an increase in an increase in mortality due to cardiovascular effects. The jury is still out on those, the research is mixed on those endpoints. People with heart and lung problems honestly have risks with this air quality but what about the people who come you know, were otherwise healthy . How much of a risk is it for most people . If you are talking about air lein thred little bit each day, just a little bit of daily activity, then that is p
Mondays drier conditions and gusty winds meant no respite as nearly 100 fires continue to burn across 12 states get these otherworldly scenes are New California has now experiencing several summers of severe wildfires realizing predictions of a climate report released by the white house in 2018 but President Trump who flew to california for fire briefings continues to deny manmade Climate Change exists it will start getting cooler i will just you just watch i wish science and everybody else but. I dont think science knows actually trump has repeatedly blamed the wildfires on democrats accusing them of mismanaging forest lands in western states as the election nears hes dug into the pro fossil fuel policies of his Administration Former Vice President joe biden who seeking to replace trump in the white house challenge his record in a speech from delaware we have 4 more years of trumps climate denial how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many suburban neighborhoods will have be
West coast President Donald Trump arrives in california to visit areas ravaged by the blaze its locals pointing to a warmer planet but blames the fires on poor forest management. And is there life on venus scientists have found what might be our 1st clue. Im in tilton welcome to the program we begin in the u. K. Where british lawmakers have given their initial approval to a controversial new brecksville despite concerns that it breaches International Law. And hes in the house of commons back to the u. K. Internal market billed by 340 votes to 263 clearing the way for further debate over the next 2 weeks the bill gives the government power to override parts of the parts. Withdrawal deal agreed with the European Union just last year. Again these countries thats. A british reporter Jill Dougherty joins us now and hes been following that vote in the u. K. Parliament so joel walk us through this here what exactly is the significance of todays vote but with this bill Boris Johnson and his co