To try to boost peoples job prospects. Who do you think would win out of a lion, a hippopotamus and a rhino . Sir David Attenborough takes questions from the children he says hold the hope for the future in their hands. And coming up this hour. The water saving toilets wasting billions of litres every week. More than a Million People around the world are now known to have died with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. The United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres called it an agonising milestone and a mind numbing figure. Johns Hopkins University has recorded over 1. 1 million lives have been lost to coronavirus. The us has the worlds highest death toll with about 205,000 fatalities, followed by brazil on 1a1,700 and india with 95,500 deaths. And the total number of deaths from covid 19 in the uk is 42,001, according to department of health figures. 2 Million People in large parts of north east england are facing a legal ban from tomorrow on people mixing with other hou
Your humidity in august but this fear of my friends isnt coming from the thousands of protesters that have descended on the imaginal mall or Lafayette Square or the d. C. Residents navigating both the covert 19 pandemic and the black lives matter protests no no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the old will shape rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday d
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the spiral downwards depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but does it the commanding heights controlling the Financial System the media and the Business World are loath to admit it its the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in l. The cut city is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we cross to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s all right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media tha
Ergo rape is founded on a rape in a murder. Nothing changed so we said all respond to these situations still feeling. Sad every other day she is just sad people kill each other black people kill each other so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to shut down Law Enforcement this country doesnt work for us it doesnt function for us this is cant be happening in america. Michael brown say his name. There by one benefit. To shouldnt be. There mark be rather frightened. For 3 years you should pay as man. We miss you we love you you set off a revolution. What is whole country for his whole world. The thing about my brow was before that it had been several decades is america at uprising like that you know and we got a missed opportunity i feel like with the ferguson situation. I. Could. Look. Up. To the people of all. Races good to put. Good youve above all right the real thing. This day isnt for us this country doesnt work for us it doesnt function for
Ifi if i saw that next to me, i think i would have a heart attack time for a look at the weather. Heres susan powell. Lots of sunshine across the uk at the moment, simon, purpose of cloud on the horizon that les bleus quys cloud on the horizon that les bleus guysin cloud on the horizon that les bleus guys in the main. Heading east across east anglia, the skies look more like this. Cloud, rain and drizzle has hung back more than we anticipated yesterday, our recent satellite picture shows the area of cloud making fortran spite across lowestoft a nd cloud making fortran spite across lowestoft and hanging back into parts of the east midlands. Brightening across the south east, this cloud should continue to stain and shrink through the afternoon but some parts of norfolk and suffolk could be struck under that cloud to the rest of the day. Dry and bright elsewhere, something about the cloud, chance of a shallow macro across western scotland and the far south west of england. Chance of showe