Michael dukakis. Candidates took questions on taxes, the budget deficit, defense spending, and each candidates choice of running mate. Good evening, on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to the second president ial debate. Im bernard shaw of cnn, cable news network. My colleagues on the panel are and cotton of abc news. Margaret warner of newsweek magazine. And Andrea Mitchell of nbc news. The candidates are Vice President george bush, the republican nominee, and governor michael dukakis. [applause] for the next 90 minutes will be questioning the candidates in a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening. And the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and
Falsely accused of staging what locals call the corona jihad. And god of his welcome to the program Germanys Health minister says the coronavirus is controllable and manageable the countrys agency for Disease Control says the infection rate infection rate is on the decline germany has seen one of the highest number of infections in europe but comparatively low death rates something official say is due to widespread testing in the early stages of the outbreak but as germany plans a gradual easing of lockdown measures next week the Health Minister has also urged caution. The 1st round of pandemic control measures is coming to an end a gradual relaxation is in the cards but closures social distancing and face masks are set to remain the new normal germanys hospitals have i. C. U. Space to spare at least 10000 intensive care beds are free possibly more as hospitals nationwide begin complying with a new regulation to inform guards about their daily capacity Health Minister young says the He
Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
The recent test of a u. S. Missile has heightened alarm among anti Nuclear Activists that a reckless new arms race threatens humankind the launch of the modified tomahawk missile on august the 18th came just 2 weeks after the u. S. Formally withdrew from a missile treaty with russia that was after 32 years but the actions of other countries are also fought with risk analysts say that a recent radioactive explosion in northern russia is a sign that more sco is developing new weapons that can evade a Missile Defense and differences between Nuclear Armed india and pakistan over kashmir have jangled nerves across south asia what can activists do to convince the World Leaders to abandon the bomb for more were joined today by Cicely Thompson williams hes executive director at beyond the ball thats a Grassroots Campaign to prevent nuclear or from geneva we have bit trist fin executive director of the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons or i can. The campaign won the Nobel Peace
Makers and talk about the stories that matter does iraq. Welcome to the stream my family ok a group of atomic scientists warns that the world stands at 2 minutes to midnight thats their way of showing how close the well it is to nuclear war kind of anti Nuclear Activity the Doomsday Clock centerfolds from twitter. The recent test of a u. S. Missile has heightened alarm among anti Nuclear Activists that a reckless new arms race threatens humankind the launch of the modified tomahawk missile on august the 18th came just 2 weeks after the u. S. Formally withdrew from a missile treaty with russia that was after 32 years but the actions of other countries are also fought with risk analysts say that a recent radioactive explosion in north of russia is a sign that more scope is developing new weapons that can evade a Missile Defense and differences between Nuclear Armed india and pakistan over kashmir have jungle across south asia what can activists do to convince the World Leaders to abandon