Southern senators in the sixties who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote afterward chief vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. When were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern it isnt an american concern. This is about the american peoples right to vote. Unfettered. It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way, because nobody is debating i dont believe, whether all americans have the right to vote. The bottom line is that the president and i are very clear to support as one, to support the john lewis Voting Rights act and the fight is not over. Since january of this year, just since january at least 14 states have a net did 22 new laws that restrict access to voting.
Protesters calling for the president to step down. And garzas only power plant shuts down leaving 2000000. 00 people with only 4 hours of electricity a day. Hello what appears to be a coup is unfolding in one of west africas largest country soldiers have staged a mutiny as a military base near malis capital bamako and of detained the president and Prime Minister the head of the United Nations has demanded their unconditional release but mali has been in crisis for months with demonstrators demanding week after week the president Abraham Boubacar kater step down beat barca reports. Hundreds of antigovernment protesters border to the streets of the body of capital public radio. Some ransacking and burning government offices. They were responding to reports of an intervention in the countrys troubled politics and the rest of president abraham. A Prime Minister to say i. Have to be on troops were seen as scorching a vehicle believed to be carrying the president. We have come out today to c
Because visionary. During times when its hard to say what next week. In one thing in. The world change. For the. Thomas wright executive director into near futurist at colorado its been changed its just great to have you with us so much to talk about you know all the conveyance of the moment that stuff to condemn make will never be to say like it was like post 911 will there will be a past corroding world but why are we so sure because they did back the world not after 911 it really didnt end up being that much different. Yeah. There are several factors that make mr different 1st of all the coal economy was never designed to just shut down and be restarted and yet. Were going to start saying all kinds of whole send in things from the start. Start up again our supply chains are going to be all messed up. But people go back to work a lot of people on earth have had time to think about what their job was and what they were doing and a lot of people are going to decide that they dont want
The coronavirus surpass 20,000. You can see numbers right now on your screen check it out nearly 19,000 people have died so far. Yesterday Health Officials reported more than 2000 deaths and thats the highest number of deaths in one day here in the u. S. But despite that number Health Officials say that the curve in the u. S. Is leveling out. You can see for the first time that in the United States were starting to level on the logarithmic phase like italy did about a week ago and so this gives us great that occur not only in specific places but were starting to see that change to well here in california were actually seeing a positive trend, according to state Health Officials right now there are more than 21,000 coronavirus cases in california and nearly 600 deaths now thats according to Johns Hopkins university. And also in the bay area there are more than 4600 confirmed cases since Santa Clara County continues to be the hardest hit locally with more than 1400 cases there, 50 people
People from minority backgrounds more likely to get seriously ill from covert 19 in the u. K. An inquiry attempts to find that. Nigeria Security Forces killed 18 people while enforcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of Rohingya Refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Thank you for joining us we begin in the u. S. Were 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched the trams guidelines are being revealed in just hours after unemployment figures showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since president from the cleared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago. 22000000 americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so kimberly we are exp