Today and always. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. I am in washington and this is bbc world news america. A major opposition figure in belarus has disappeared. An eyewitness says she was bundled into a van by masked man. Doctors treating the poison russian Opposition Leader navalny say he is now out of his medical induced coma. Brutality in the Security Forces of south africa. Research suggests at least one person dies every day at the hands of the countrys police. One community in n york struggle with food insecurity. How they found help fromn unlikely source in John Bon Jovi. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. Three women took on president Alexander Lukashenko in belarus. Two of them have since fled into a exile after eight highly contentious election. A witness told local reporters that she saw maria bein
And india says 20 of its soldiers have been killed in clashes with chinese troops at a disputed border site in the himalayas. Brent i am brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, and others, welcome. We begin with what is being called a breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus. Researchers in the u. K. Say they have identified the first drug that significantly reduces the risk of death in patients hospitalized with covid19. In a major trial, the low cost steroid dexexamethasone was foud to cut deaths by one third i patients on ventilators and by 1 5 in patients receiving oxygen. Doctors are expected to begin treating people with the drug immediately. One of the trials chief investigators is hailing this about saving people with advanced covid19. He really has quite significant effects, and it is really important, because the drug itself is very widely available. It is almost on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital. It is available throughout the world and is extremely cheap. So we
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