says his orders sacking a top general has come into force but the president and military leaders are pushing back also this hour a new step to reconcile with its colonial past france is to declassify secret documents related to algeria as war of independence and russia slows down access to twitter accusing it of failing to remove banned content critics say it s another attempt to silence kremlin critics of their own piece of it all the sports news consumer nelda and you ventus have crashed out of the champions league in the last 16 but a more later this new. hello and thank you for joining us south africa and india are leading a push at the world trade organisation to drop pay to interest strictures on covert 900 back scenes more than 100 countries say that would allow greater access to vaccines for developing nations according to a campaign group called one rich countries are hoarding excess doses preventing poor nations from getting them at sesame to the surplus of doses wo
a political comeback former brazilian president lula da silva addresses his supporters after a court ruling boosts his chances of challenging. and libya s rival factions agree on a unity government after suffering years of war. and i m peter simmons of all the days sports news i.o.c. president thomas buck says he fully expects the delayed turkey remember games to go ahead this july that and more later in the program. welcome to the news the u.s. house of representatives is expected to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill one of the largest in the country s history the bill will provide $1400.00 worth of checks to americans as well as extended unemployment benefits and tax breaks once it s passed it ll then be signed by president joe biden around $10000000.00 people in the u.s. a commonly unemployed a number that has risen sharply since the beginning of the pandemic a white house correspondent kelly healthcare to standing by with the very latest kimberly you kn
landmark relief bill. the house gearing up for a vote on the $2 trillion plan. it could get to the president s desk as early as tomorrow morning. that s a big deal. as a matter of calendar, it would beat the sunday deadline for renewing programs for the jobless. biden visited a hardware store that will benefit from this kind of support today, and he contrasted this money and the way he is going to deliver it, the new approach here with discredited trump programs where some of the money went the people who just didn t need it. an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that in fact weren t supposed to qualify. in the last administration fired its inspector general. so a lot of money went to people who shouldn t have gotten help. we ve got several aspects of this story, but we begin immediately with our experts, former governor of vermont and former presidential candidate and also a doctor howard dean, and washington post reporter libby casey. good to see both of you.
convictions have been overturned but the political future of brazil s former president now rests in the hands of the country s supreme court plus stripped of immunity from prosecution catalonians former president and 2 other ministers now facing possible extradition to speak. a day later than planned the court in the u.s. has begun the process of choosing a jury in the trial of the former police officer charged with killing george floyd but the process has already run into difficulties george floyd died in may last year after a white police officer derrick chauvin knelt on his leg for nearly 9 minutes floyd s death prompted mass public protests and calls for racial justice the court has set aside some 3 weeks to choose the jurors but people have already shown too much knowledge of the case law a court could cause more delays john hendren joins us now from minneapolis i mean having set aside 3 weeks for jury selection i guess tells you how complicated this process is going to
the chips are down the world faces a major shortage of semiconductors and 2 countries hold a virtual monopoly. a day later than planned a course in the u.s. has begun the process of choosing a jury in the trial of the former police officer charged with killing george floyd but the process has already run into difficulties george floyd died in may last year after a white police officer derrick chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death prompted mass public protests and calls for racial justice the court has set aside 3 weeks to choose the jurors but people have already shown too much knowledge of the case well a higher court could cause more delays john hendren joins us live now from minneapolis john i guess the real challenge is going to be trying to find people that haven t heard about this case so the jury selection has begun the cases and they too so what s happening at this early stage. well right now as you say they aren t talking to the jurors they re on a