Gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the already ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director around the same time the u. N. Secretary general was delivering a message of unity as the world body mounted 75th anniversary the General Assembly is happening mostly via video link due to the pandemic. The u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace was one of the few to address it from inside the uns new york headquarters he urged countries to support the uns work. The u. K. s coronavirus alert levels been increased from 3 to 4 in strands mission is high or rising exponentially the governments scientific advisor says there could be 50000 new cases a day by mid october if no further action is taken in europe governments are trying to get a handle on a spike in the numbe
Justice department is pushing prosecutors situ protesters in portland with a rarely used law and the pandemic disrupts education for millions of children will look at the lengths remote communities in indonesia are going to to keep the classrooms open. Thank you for joining as the World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over a surge in corona virus cases in europe something it says should serve as a wake up call the number of cases is now passed 30000000 worldwide the United States is the worst affected country followed by india and brazil and the virus is once again spreading in europe theyve been more than 300000 infections there in the past week the w. H. O. Is urging countries not to cut quarantine period warning that could waste soccer feiss being made now the British Government has admitted Testing Capacity there is unsatisfactory and a has a report from london. Newcastle northeast england a major city and now parts of a huge region under new covered restrictions from fri
A rate that is even exceeding what many countries saw earlier in the summer in june and july so its difficult to say that this is a 2nd wave many countries are still in what looks like the 1st wave other the pandemic is global the drivers of new cases in different communities may be very different and reflect the nature of the communities and the kind of meeting and mingling of people that is happening in those communities in many places after some are locked out measures in which people. Restricted their travel restricted interacting with others socially blocked on measures were able to slow the spread of the virus and dramatically in some cases slow the speed at which new cases appeared but as communities began to slow those rates and lift the measures and become more conducive in terms of being able to get out of the house being able to dine at restaurants being able to mix socially as well as going back to work and back to school were seeing people mix and in new ways now were seei
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question are evangelicals giving President Trump the votes he needs to win a 2nd term lets get to the bottom line. About a 3rd of americans identify themselves as born again or as evangelical christians and among that group almost all of them voted for donald trump in 2016 and the vast majority say theyre going to do it again in a few weeks in return trump has pushed the religious rights agenda with this culture war and socially conservative policies the appointment of conservative judges and support for israels government but what is this huge group in American Society and how did they become such an enormous influence on americas political scene what do evangelical christians believe it and what do they want my guest today is spent his life researching and writing about American Christian fundamentalism and its Global Network he is jeff sharlet the executive producer of the family a document that was released on netflix last year based on his own book
The belorussian leader to quit 100000 protesters marched through the compliments. The u. S. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden has called plans by donald trump to rush through a vote for a new Supreme Court judge an exercise in raw political power trumper said he will announce a nominee to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as early as next week but biden wants republicans to delay a confirmation vote until after the president ial election official reports from washington d. C. The Supreme Court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the United States donald trump says hes going to move forward with filling a b. Can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in the wrong political power. No i dont believe the people of this nation will stand for. President trump told a