In the next 30 minutes a low turnout as polls close in venezuelas general election which the opposition has dismissed as a fraud and crunch time for brett sick talks the e. U. And the u. K. Push for a trade deal to prevent chaos at the borders next year. Welcome to the program millions of people across the u. S. State of california harbor pairing for harsh new lockdown rules to come into place in the next few hours the stay at home borders places restrictions on the opening of restaurants salads and stalls while also limiting gatherings the measures come in as the state reported its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in a single day the recent surge in infections and prompting fears some hospitals could run out of i. C. U. Beds while covert 19 is now killing more than 2000 people a day in the u. S. Health officials are hoping the approval of a new vaccine will happen quickly the food and Drug Administration is set to meet on thursday to review it how did you castro how s
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at ha
Strength the stairs he kicks in is this the end of the middle east so will russia south africas unemployment ted a record high before the pandemic plus this fight to save the economy. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Hi im Steve Clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to su
The United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvard and princeton universitys hes written 20 books and he still has time for his new weekly podcast and its great that tight rope. Professor west thank you so much for joining us recently i was at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture and i saw the emmett till way i saw the wing that tells the story of the horrifying near genocide in tulsa in 1921 and if you can occur to me that george floyd a modern arbor Rionda Taylor could one day be a wing in a museum and we would still have everything the same today so let me just ask you bluntly is this is in Inflection Point to you or do you think that this is just