Elections and students arrested for online posts and a beijings new security law. And a suspected russian mercenaries are detained in belarus accused of trying to disrupt an upcoming vote. So theres more proof of the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic with the United States seeing its worst economic slump since 1940 s. Its economy has shrunk at the fastest pace on record all down 9 and a half percent between april and june and in the past week another 1400000 people applied for jobless benefits the same time europes biggest economy germany has plunged into recession shrinking by a record 10 percent the pandemics wiped out nearly a decade of growth there and now u. S. President donald trump whos talked of the strength of his countrys economy is asking whether novembers election should be disposed. Well lets go straight to our White House Correspondent complete kimberley still missing figures on the spectacular decline of the u. S. Economy i think Many Americans were shocked
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And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not least and that many of you will know in the
Much of this moment and forces us to confront challenges that our society has had trouble with in recent years, this is a time that makes us wonder how stronger institution will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge i and i think i cant help but see it as a time of a crisis but because it is a time of testing at the time to think about what americas strengths are, what were good at as a country how we can build on that to address the innermost problems. How did we get here . Thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality in the individual one hand and some form of strength of community on the other, every free Society Faces the tension in our society has in the past halfcentury emphasize individual, emphasize liberty and emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side can look Like Division and fragmentation and
History of slavery and jim crow laws. In an unprecedented threehour report, nbc news presents, the American Revolution of 63, a study of s quest for negro equality. Here is nbc news correspondent frank mcgee. Frank there comes a time when man seems is life is being altered forever, that an old order is dying in a new one the new ones being born. For some, the moment arrives when a deed of new dimension sets the hour apart, for others, when words are spoken more sharply. Later, but still suddenly, it seems men are saying and doing things they have never said or done before. Then we know we are experiencing a revolution. But we cannot say, though hell store ins will try though historians will try, when it began. We know that autumn does not begin with the turning of the leaves, but earlier, on some afternoon when a shadow passes over the fields, and it is no longer in summer. So did the American Revolution in63, begin in birmingham 1955, or in montgomery, or in 1954 with the Supreme Cour