Along with russia its interfering in the 2020 u. S. Election. Thailands government lifts emergency measures that fail to curb major protests in bangkok. Countries across europe are grappling with a rise in covert 19 infections in some places governments of had little choice but to shut down entire cities to contain the virus france is the 2nd European Union country to have more than a 1000000 confirmed corona virus infections the pandemic has claimed the lives of 34000 people by time curfews were imposed in paris at 8 other large cities on saturday a hospital intensive care wards in the capital and early fall. Spain exceeded 1000000. 00 infections just hours earlier the government which is accused of mishandling the crisis faces a no confidence vote in Parliament Bus is expected to survive Spains Health minister says that more drastic measures are needed to contain the outbreak which he admits is not under control but hes not alone. On the part of them with higher fines perhaps an exha
Top prize for human rights on early efforts against the president ial election while usually regarded as rigged. And the pollution blamed for poisoning iraqi waterways leaving fishermen broke and hungry. And im fond of hummus and i have all the sports european champions by munich kick off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fashion the democrat press next for nil at home. But we begin in nigeria where the president is holding an Emergency Security meeting as parts of lagos burned smoke billowing from a prison after earlier reports of gunshots that have been almost 2 weeks of protests which initially began against Police Brutality Amnesty International says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night when i go live to ahmed idris whos covering this from for us ahmed lets talk about that meeting 1st of all that the president is holding do we know any more about what theyre going to be discussing. I think its more like a reviewing this situation nationwide pr
Anna san antonio is here because of these missions. What is really kind of wonderful is that a lot of people who this their call parish home and come here can trace their ancestry to the colonial period, the people who build these mission buildings and built these churches. The missions are about the start of the city of san antonio. We are at the entrance. This is a part of San Antonio Missions National Historic park. This is a unit of the National Park service. There are more than 400 National Park sites around the country. Each of these 419 help to tell 419 plus units help to tell some part of the american story, the part of the american story that we tell here at the San Antonio Mission is the Spanish Colonial history of this area of this part of the world. Mission san jose is one of four missions that make up the National Park. The National Park is comprised of the four missions. We have got a model of this mission, mission san jose. This is a model that shows the exterior wall, t
Rich and deep history, the conditions are optimal for inventing president ial and first lady laura and legend, but as we see with the gilbert story, for example, history is often, gated and complex often complicated and complex. This and otherh programs on her website, where all of our video is archived. The cspan cities to her is exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History to be on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Experienceur we will the history of the history of this southwest texas city. The san with a visit to antonio mission historical park. Following that in 20 minutes we hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. Visit one of the citys most recognizable features, the historic riverwalk. Later, a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest old dings in the city, dating to the founding. We begin our feature at mission four colonialof Spanish Missions i
Narrator 11,000 miles from San Francisco, 8000 miles from new york, there lies a primeval desert, a mass of drifting sand and sunbaked earth, one third the size of the United States, a place of ancient glories, long ago a center of thriving trade where came the merchants from india and china to barter their wares for spices, and fell into eclipse and remained until very recent years remote, unknown and isolated. Most of its people were the bedouin camel herders and shepherds who roamed the area, hostile wastes from one oasis to another in the wake of scattered rains that produced shortlived patches of vegetation. Monotony and poverty were the common lot. But in their abiding faith, they found solace, for religion is not worn like a cloak in the arab land. It is a vital part of every good moslems life. Mohammed united the arabs, purified their customs, bound them into one people and filled them with a great faith. Five times a day, even the humblest arab stops his work, faces mecca, and