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Florida began their apparent competition for the most voter suppressive state in the union, georgia was point zero. in two days, a cross-section of the black faith leaders will rally at the state capital in protest of what's happening across the country. in advance of a congressional vote on the voter protection bill named for one of georgia's most famous sons, the late congressman john lewis. joining me now are bishop jackson and reverend bryant, timothy mcdonald and lee may. as i should say, georgia was really the first shot fired in this war of voter suppression. for many, a measuring stick...

>> reporter: tonight it's the last lifeline for millions of desperate syrian refugees trucks carrying food, medicine, and barely a trickle of covid vaccine to people living in border camps. their homes destroyed by ten years of civil war. with now russia threatening to close this crossing next month. >> they stand a chance of dying >> reporter: president biden's u.n. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield arriving at the border today with more u.s. aid. $239 million >> it's life and death. on top of war, which continues as we speak, there's covid. how does that add to the dimensions of this crisis...

arrived. Many get a glimpse of a new life once they enter Algeria, before being arrested, held – often without food – and deposited in the desert at a location that has come to be known as Point Zero, MSF said in the report released in mid April. From there, they must walk the 15 kilometres to the village of Assamaka, in Niger. Even in the height of summer, Algerian lorries and buses left depositing migrants, including the young, the old, the infirm and pregnant women in the desert, before leaving them to endure temperatures of anywhere up to 48°C as they make their way across the dese...

20 Apr 21 Safi Keita, from Mali, made her living in Algeria by selling spices. Her two children had stayed in Mali with her mother, and she was four months pregnant with her third child on the day that police arrived at her home. "The gendarmes broke down the door,” she says. “They took everything: money and phones. Then they took me to the police station.” "They put us in crowded trucks"  The following day, Safi was put in a truck and sent to a detention centre. “They put us in crowded trucks – it was very cramped, there were many of us and no one was wearing a mask,” she says.

Her 1975 novel demonstrated a far more radical feminism than was common in Africa and the Arab world – a precursor of the #MenAreTrash anger of today.