Really fight. I couldnt going, i didnt realize at that time, because of the color of my skin. The story of africanamericans in world war ii is indeed a legacy of patriotism and valor. In 1941 americans looked at their world and saw war everywhere. Across the atlantic adolph hitlers german troops occupied nearly every inch of europe from france to russia to the baltic sea and in north africa. In the pacific, the Japanese Army and navy had already captured parts of china, manchuria, korea, and a number of nearby islands. Pearl harbor would soon stun the United States into war. Monday morning, the first thing i did, was go down to the Army Recruiting station to enlist in the service of my country. I was told there was no quota for black troops. Youve got to remember that this country was very discriminatory, segregated, and there was no change. First of all, black sailors, as sailors per se, other than as mess attendants or stewards, werent permitted into the navy. Given the fact that i w
Efforts to end a more than 3 year blockade imposed on qatar and goals in political and economic crises. Perus gets its current president in a week and al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate his immunity from prosecution. But with infections surging worldwide, and governments struggling to respond, theres been another dose of hope in the battle against covert 19 years. Pharmaceutical firm, a durness says early tests show aids vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective in preventing the virus fellow drug maker. Pfizer reported similar results. A week ago, helen fisher reports now from the white house. The number of cases is soaring, states are bringing back the dont reinstating limits on gatherings. Closing schools, 1000000 new cases were reported in just 6 days. The virus is killing more than 1000 people in america. Each day, against that backdrop, another drug company has announced it has made a breakthrough in the hunt for a vaccine. But dana s
His california cabinet member won the election. And nations in Central America and the caribbean rushed to help those made homeless by Tropical Storm into. The transition to a joe biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some decisions expected in the hours ahead the president elect is due to announce a task force to tackle what he says is his top priority the coronavirus pandemic on sunday biden visited a Church Cemetery where a family members are buried including his late son donald trump spent the day playing golf outside washington and is refusing to concede defeat his campaign is planning legal challenges in states where hes disputing the counting of votes World Leaders including israels Binyamin Netanyahu and saudi Arabias Mohammed and so man have congratulated biter on his victory well former u. S. President s and republican george w. Bush also sent his well wishes his. More of what george w. Bush has said in a note posted on instagram he thanks guys and for
Have held a Memorial Ceremony for the victims. Germanys Health Minister says the Health Care System could be overwhelmed if the covert caseload is not brought under control and was speaking as germany top 20000 new infections for the 1st time the virus is hitting many european states even harder now than when it was 1st arriving here. A new somber record for germany the highest number of 1000 cases ever registered in the country germany is in its 1st week of a new partial lockdown restaurants bars and leisure activities are shut down travel for tourism is strongly discouraged while shops and schools are allowed to stay open. Germanys Health Minister yes spahn said the countrys Health Care System is not currently overwhelmed but hard times are ahead if the rise in cases isnt stopped. The situation is serious the number of people requiring support in intensive care units has doubled in the past 10 days from as of today our Health System is still coping but even the best system in the wor
Seek regulator approval to sell a vaccine by the end of November Dominic kane has more from berlin in the people who this is being trialled on as it were 90 percent effective 90 percent immunity is coming from this vaccine and so some of the people involved in this from pfizer are saying this is great news from their perspective and they hope very much to be able to to spread this out as far as possible theyre talking about being able to create in the rest of this year in the 10s of millions of doses and then in the course of 2021 potentially more than a 1000000000 says yes president elect joe biden has a lot of his transitional cave at 918. 00 he says tackling the pandemic will be one of his 4 big priorities. Ivory coast president has been officially reelected after the Constitutional Court endorsed the results of octobers election position members disputed for a running for a 3rd term more than 30 people were killed and post election violence. A new round of talks on libya is getting