A stampede in im gonna start off with thousands of people gathered to apply for visas to. Thailands Prime Minister suggests list an emergency decree thats done little to stop a growing protest movement. And a nasa spacecraft grabs a handful of cosmic rubble from an asteroid to bring back to earth. And. The oldest sport Manchester United. Mine the Champions League at the red devils its going to late 2 into one in paris. Thanks for joining us we begin in nigeria thats where protesters against Police Brutality are defying a 24 hour curfew and a call for calm by president mohamed to bihari. Security forces and lagos opened fire. Fire on wednesday morning after several demonstrators were reportedly shot dead on tuesday in another part of nigerias commercial capital a large fire burned at a bus station. These videos are emerging of many uniform opening fire and killing people in lagos on tuesday but Security Forces are denying any involvement. Lets bring in a disease for an update hes joinin
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You. Protest as a defying around the clock curfew in Lagos Nigeria after reports demonstrators were shot on tuesday. Protestors out wherever sudans struggling economy hit with tear gas by police. Coronavirus cutbacks at Cathay Pacific hong kongs flag carrier announced a 6000. 00 redundancies and the end of its regional subsidiary. Will start this hour with a crisis thats overcome many communities in the United States not coronavirus this is in fact the fight against opioid addiction in the past hour the u. S. Justice Department Says the drug manufacturer pharma has pleaded guilty over its role in the countrys Opioid Epidemic in a deal with the u. S. Governments the company pled guilty to 3 federal criminal charges and will pay a fine of 8300000000. 00 more details now with she had britannicas following the story in washington she had. Were just taking you know all of the details but as you say pleading guilty to 3 charges effectively that they the father misled the Drug Enforcement adm
Victim of the Global Pandemic. And no red carpet but we will tell you how the largest Film Festival in asia is getting around the coronavirus. Family how much now have all the fault. Is the defense with. The German International has tested positive for coronavirus. We are starting in nigeria where protesters against Police Brutality are defying a 24 hour curfew and a call for calm from president mohamed to behati. Security forces in lagos the commercial capital of the country opened fire on wednesday morning after several demonstrators were reportedly shot dead on tuesday in another part of lagos a large fire burned at a bus station as well. Videos are also emerging of men in uniform opening fire killing people in lagos on tuesday Security Forces though deny any involvement so were starting with a correspondent in the capital of buju what more you hearing 1st of all ahmed about continuing violence. Well its been its been very very bad in the morning that things may have stabilized in s
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without