This is alJazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tens of thousands of refugees looking to start over in europe have more options this morning. Germany announced it has the ability to take in half a million Asylum Seekers each year for several years to come. Germany expects to receive 800,000 people this year alone. That is four times higher than its 2014 total. Germany has been insisting other european nations take in their fair share of refugees, as well. We are live in vienna, where thousands of refugees have been arriving. Weve seen you on the train, at the train station as they have streamed into that country. Describe how they are being treated in austria. Every man, woman and child refugee that i have spoken with has said they are being treated very humanely here in austria since they arrived in vienna. When they get off the trains, they are greeted with applause by aid workers and volunteers, volunteers and translators walk around with signs
[indistinct] they are telling us a miracle is coming. Its a disgrace, hes a disgrace. Im ric Rick Leventhal, overe next three hours will be bring you the latest updates on election 2020. As millions of voters from coasttocoast to make plans to head to the polls and million more already casting ballots to decide who will be in the white house running this nation for the next four years. Hello, everyone, never before in modern history have americans faced a choice between candidates offering such opposition and it comes at a time with deadly pandemic has forced many of us to alter the way we make our selection for the highest office in the land. But, with the arrival of election day causing concerns about our democracy, what will happen once the ballot has been cast and counted . Are we facing days or weeks of Court Battles before a winner emerges . Or can we put political divisiveness behind us and peacefully accept the outcome of election 2020. Its a sad commentary where were at. To se
Were cast at a drive through polling station. Had just got back on their feet. Plus, the dutch train driver at every stage, the Prime Minister who had a lucky escape, thanks to a fortuitously placed art has been too slow, behind the curve. Installation. Hello, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. We have a lot of us election news to get through but first to a breaking story out of austria. Police there say shots have been fired in central vienna, injuring several people. The interior Ministry Says one attacker is dead and the other is on the run. A large security operation is under way. Lets speak to benjamin nagele, hes the secretary general of the jewish communities of austria, and is currently locked in a restaurant in vienna. You are a locked in a restaurant in vienna, tell us a little bit of the geography of what you have seen and heard . I am close to the city centre, although we didnt hear anything regarding the attack itself, we just got phone calls from o
This is bbc news, im simon mccoy. The headlines at two. Austrian police make more arrests after four people are killed in vienna in what the chancellor called an islamist terror attack. It was an attack of hatred, hatred of our basic values, hatred of our way of life. Hatred of our democracy where we are all equal in rights and dignity. We were in the city centre of vienna and we heard shots everywhere and the police, the helicopters were flying around us. We got really afraid so we decided to hide ourselves in the restaurant to hide ourselves in the restaurant to be safe there. The city of liverpool will be the first place in england to trial mass testing for coronavirus. Criticism of the governments decision not to allow Grassroots Sports to continue during lockdown in england. The campaigning is over
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The Austrian Interior Ministry told Germany's dpa news agency on June 11 that Vienna had annulled the accreditation of two correspondents for Russia's TASS news agency in April "due to a negative security assessment by the security authorities."