Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. But perseverance finishes its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. It is a great honor to be back at Ebenezer Baptist church in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, doctor Martin Luther king jr. To pay my respects of perhaps his finest disciple. An american, whose faith was tested again and again, to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance. John robert lewis and to those who have spoken, president bush and president clinton, madam speaker and the reverend, johns family, friends, his beloved staff and i have come here today to because i like so Many Americans, owe a great debt to john lewis and his forceful vision of freedom. Now, this country is a constant work in progress and we are born with instructions to form a more perfect union, explicit in those words is the idea that we are imperfect a
Community, was raided by police an event which led to days of angry protests against the stateendorsed persecution of homosexuals. Today, annual gay pride marches take place worldwide in honor of that uprising. Many countries have now recognized the rights of homosexuals. But theres still a long way to go. In poland, for example, homophobia is on the rise. A road sign designed to name and shame. Its a protest against nearly a hundred polish municipalities that have declared themselves free of what they call lgbt ideology. I post these photos online to show exactly which communities have opted to be lgbtfree zones. Filmmaker Bart Staszewski is himself gay. He travels to the towns where people like him arent welcome. We want to use these signs to trigger a debate over lgbt. The photos are emotive, designed to make people think about whether these resolutions are necessary. Bart has published a map highlighting the zone where gays and lesbians arent welcome, it covers nearly one third of
Up on beaches is being used to help fight the spread of corona virus. Live. And its the most advanced mars mission yet but nasa is already tackling a Technical Glitch on the perseverance rover. Donald trump is being condemned by democrats and Senior Republicans for suggesting a delay to novembers u. S. President ial election many states want to make postal voting easier because of Coronavirus Health concerns but trump insists without habitants that mail in voting will lead to a rigged result of White House Correspondent Kimberly Hauck that has more. Even by his own standards his tweet was nothing short of astonishing on thursday u. S. President donald trump suggested the november president ial election should be postponed alleging potential fraud associated with mail in voting truck tweeted delay the election until people can properly securely and safely vote the president has no Legal Authority to change the election date leading even members of trumps own Republican Party in congress
In the bay area alone. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken way and i pale more here is a look at the bay area broken down county by county right now Alameda County continues to lead with more than 11,000 cases of covid19 Santa Clara County not far behind with nearly 10,000 cases. Tonight, San Francisco county has more than 6,000 reported cases of the disease and city officials are preparing for a surge in hospitalization to get ahead of the curve these cities building a new temporary hospital to try to free up beds for Covid Patients. The new hospital will open for non Covid Patients who need shortterm medical care or observations kron fours tips aqui joins us now live from. Georgias avenue in the presidio where the new facility will be located taylor. Well the citys Health Director isnt sugarcoating things today. He said we are in a major surge of coronavirus cases. And thats exactly why they are opening this site here to be proactive rather than reactive now. The city says that thi
Dipping into pensions to pay for the pandemic millions in chile raid Retirement Funds as the impact of coronavirus hits home plus. John lewis will be a founding father of that polar bear. And former president s pay tribute to a pioneer of the u. S. Civil rights movement. Leading hong kong prodemocracy activist joshua wong says the decision to bar him from running in september is election is invalid and ridiculous is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the Legislative Council polls it says the new National Security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent on kongs electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with Foreign Forces hes just held a news conference. But you know and it is the most scandalous Election Fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest everyone into account they could even call of the election and create a Puppet Parliament elsewhere just gather with beijin