Ben platt. Musical guest brittany howard, and the legendary roots crew its the tonight show at home edition. Steve and now, heres jimmy. Jimmy hi, everybody. Thank you so much for watching our show im jimmy fallon, welcome to the tonight show. Here we go time to get some news, and it isnt good the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Is at its highest level since the peak in april. Yup, apparently the rising numbers in america have forced other countries to make a tough decision the European Union is considering a ban on travelers from the u. S. Over the coronavirus failures jimmy yeah, the european leaders disapprove of trumps handling of the virus. Right now, the only ones who approves of trumps handling of the virus is the virus thats right europe is banning americans from entering. Even worse, europe was like, how do we put this . Um, this has nothing to do with the pandemic we just hate americans okay byebye. When europe said theyd block americans from entering trump
Reelection this last time, he announced that he has parkinsons disease. Johnny isakson has legislated, as has been mentioned, with his heart. When we worked on skin cancer, he talked about his skin cancer. When we worked on an opioids response act, he talked about his familys loss because of an opioids overdose. And hes not been afraid to stick his neck out. There was a time during the atlanta olympics when one of the county commissions passed a resolution saying gays arent welcome at the olympics. Senator isakson said he wasnt a senator then the bill of rights does not have an asterisk in it. The bill of rights is for everyone. And as his comments about john lewis would reflect, Johnny Isakson was willing to speak out sponsor civil rights in the south when not everybody was. I often think that members of the United States senate are generally men and women who once sat in the front row of their First Grade Class with their hand up hoping that the teacher would call on them. These aren
In south korea is an opportunity for these grandmothers to go back to school. Chinas president has called on hong kong to restore order and bring violence to an end following the latest protests. Xijinping also warned that the unrest could threaten the principle of one country, two systems, under which hong kong has had significant autonomy from beijing. Earlier, protesters barricaded themselves in University Campuses in anticipation of possible police raids. Im joined by verna yu, who is a freelance journalist based in hong kong. Of course, you have been following this story for six months now. We know these protests have continued. What do you think hong kongers are going to make of these latest state m e nts going to make of these latest statements by xijinping, one of going to make of these latest statements by xi jinping, one of the few times he has spoken out, a p pa re ntly few times he has spoken out, apparently speaking in brazil . Yes, i actually believe this is the first tim
Investigation. The bribe is to. And a low birthrate crisis in south korea is an opportunity for these grandmothers to go back to school. Hello, its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 9 00am in beijing, where chinas president has made his strongest comments yet on hong kong. Xi jinping called on the territory to restore order and bring an end to the violence following the latest violent protests. Chinas president also warned that the unrest could threaten the principle of one country, two systems, under which hong kong has had significant autonomy from beijing. Earlier, protesters barricaded themselves in University Campuses in anticipation of possible police raids. Verna yu is a freelance journalist based in hong kong. Yes, i actually believe this is the first time that president xijinping has spoken out on the issue. Previously, in the communique of a key Party Meeting over a week ago, they made a pretty strong statement about the signalling the need for tighter control in hong
In more than 50 years. Investigators examining the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine in 2014 have disclosed intercepted phone calls that they say indicate close links between senior russian officials and the rebels accused of attacking the aircraft. Nearly 300 people on Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 were killed. In the phone calls, close aides to president putin seem to be organising supplies of weapons for separatist fighters. Gareth barlow has the story. Investigators say the intercepted calls show ukrainian separatists and russian officials were in frequent contact before the attack, with russia directly aware of and influencing administrative, financial and military matters. Translation what we see our separatist leaders, almost on a daily basis, were in contact back then with officials in the russian government. They used a secured phone is an unsecured phones. We suspect these had been provided by the russian intelligence service, fsb. The transcripts appear to show