Hello, welcome. We start in india, where the country is once again going through grief and outrage following the deaths and alleged gang rapes of two young women. In 2012, there was an outpouring of anger after the Sexual Assault and murder of a female student in delhi. Tougher laws against rape in india have been brought in, but the countrys still struggling to tackle Sexual Violence against women. The bbcs Arunoday Mukharji has this report from delhi. She sobs devastated and heartbroken. Another indian mother torn apart by grief. Under indian law, we cant show you herface, nor the face of the victim, her daughter. Her death came two weeks after four men allegedly brutalised, tortured and gang raped her. Some details too horrific to relay. A heinous crime, but one that india is all too familiar with. She was a dalit, formally known as untouchable, the lowest in the hindu caste system. Her case has brought into focus the powerlessness felt by those at the bottom of it. The dalit girl s
Hello and welcome. We start in india, where the country is once again going through grief and outrage, following the deaths and alleged gang rapes of two young women. In 2012, there was an outpouring of anger after the Sexual Assault and murder of a female student in delhi. Tougher laws against rape in india have been brought in, but the countrys still struggling to tackle Sexual Violence against women. Bbcs Arunoday Mukharji has this report from delhi. She sobs devastated and heartbroken. Another indian mother torn apart by grief. Under indian law, we cant show you herface, nor the face of the victim, her daughter. Her death came two weeks afterfour men allegedly brutalised, tortured and gang raped her. Some details too horrific to relay. A heinous crime, but one that india is all too familiar with. She was a dalit, formally known as untouchable, the lowest in the hindu caste system. Her case has brought into focus the powerlessness felt by those at the bottom of it. The dalit girl st
Good evening from washington, d. C. Im mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. For the past year, we have been inundated with numbers, facts, statistics, how many electoral votes in every tightly contested state, the Record Number of jobless claims, and the staggering charts of covid cases, hospitalizations, deaths. But today, one number stands out above all the rest. 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Because thats the number that dominated at a minneapolis courtroom today. In the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with murdering george floyd last spring, when floyd was first killed, videos from the scene shows chauvin kneeling on floyds neck for an extended period of time, even as floyd could be heard saying he was in pain and could not breathe, but chauvins lawyers, not unexpectedly, blamed everything and everyone except for Derek Chauvin. They said floyd was killed by an underlying heart disease. By his use of fentanyl. They said he resisted arrest and actually
Months after the last peak and four months into this pandemic, we may very well be back to where this country started. Today the White House Coronavirus task force meets for the first time in nearly two months. The president is not expected to be there. He is going to his golf course in bedminster, new jersey. A state with a strict quarantine rule now in place for those who have traveled to states like arizona, where of course the president recently held an event. The president will not though follow those quarantine rules. And in a latenight filing in the middle of this pandemic, the Justice Department tries one more time asking the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care act. Were reporting every angle from across the country. We begin though with the big picture here, what you need to know. About 32 states seeing a rise in case numbers. Elizabeth cohen, you will hear the president and the supporters saying this is an increase in tests, the facts are different. The fa
Been stand offs between activists and the police. In other news pupils prepare to go, back to school as the British Government introduces a further relaxation of the lockdown. Brazil becomes the country with the fourth highest death toll from coronavirus. Nearly 29,000 people have died in south americas largest country. And christo the world renowned artist best known for wrapping buildings and landmarks in fabric had died at the age of 8a. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. In the last hour, the capital of the United States washington, dc has gone under curfew. As the lockdown to protect the country from the coronavirus pandemic had all but ended, the death last week of an unarmed black man george floyd after a white Police Officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes, has sparked local protests which have now spread across the nation. Right now protestors are still on the st