President at state of displacement the u. N. Says that one in every 100 people on earth has been forced to flee war persecution. Burundis new president takes power 2 months early after the sudden death of his long ruling previous attacks on. The u. S. President donald trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court after it ruled against him for the 2nd time this week the judge has blocked trumps bid to end a program that stops hundreds of thousands of immigrants being deported on monday they threw out the trumpet ministrations case that gay and transgender workers shouldnt be protected under federal law i was here as mike hanna reports from washington. And crowds gathered outside the u. S. Supreme court many here are socalled dreamers the children of undocumented immigrants who are now assured of the right to residence where the 4 see a. Future between 7 and 800000 people are affected by the Supreme Court decision ive had dark eyes since i was 1516 years old and its allowed me to go to coll
She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
Surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation and poverty all because of the pandemic are suffering severe mental stress and the Italian Government invites migrants to help harvest fruits and vegetables some voters do not like it but farmers warn their crops are in danger of being in the fields with the like. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome the coronavirus it is no equal opportunity pathogen in the u. K. More than 30000 people have died from coded 19 since the pandemic began and a disproportionate number of them are from ethnic minorities for example analysis from the u. K. Office of National Statistics reveals that black people in the u. K. Are 4 times as likely to die from the disease as white people are you sure lots of thoughts reports now from one. Has had enough which is why she came here to downing street to protest even though shes 6 months pregnant she had to fight for a protective hospital because it just wasnt enou