Declaring himself a president ial candidate. To discourage abortion, he says everyone who has a baby should get 1 million. He claimed Harriet Tubman never freed the slaves but had them work for other white people. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 20th. Thank you for joining us on this monday. We begin with the debate over coronavirus funding taking center stage as the National Death toll surpasses 140,000. Overnight the bahamas announced it is no longer welcoming american visitors. Starting wednesday its borders will be closed to travelers from the u. S. As confirmed cases of covid19 across this country continue to surge. Today people can visit the statue of liberty again as new york city enters phase 4 of reopening, but no one will be allowed to go inside. Abcs Megan Tevrizian has the latest. Reporter the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb. Nearly 64,000 new cases reported. Numbers rising in 80 of states across the u. S. , prompting Los Angeles Mayor
Whole chunk you mentioned the 1st time in my 25 years living in a hong kong i see the truth you mention closed nothing of the like happening but when the Police Water Cannon house the nearby mosque that day its great blue dye on the entrance of the building although the police later apologized and the protesters saw it as a deliberate attack on the citys south asian population most families had moved here during british rule as the city moved away from its colonial past there gotten little attention suddenly that all changed a week after the paint incident the protesters were back at the john king mentioned this time folks remained open. To everyone who voted to try mention the god study vote here they also this hour. They are home contests. Suddenly the south Asian Community was a focal point of the protests. Because but holds himself a 3rd generation pakistani of hong kong or has also taken part in some of the protests why most elderly prefer to stay out of politics he says more and
Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
Workers are some of the hardest workers. They will take your order, they will take your payment, before you even get to the drivethru window, and have the order waiting for you outside of the window. And they also save lives. Yall know how right before the break we were talking about trolls . How am i a troll . Still eating that chickfila . Turning now to south america where thousands of people have flocked from around the world to witness a rare celestial especially since this is a story about workers doing amazing things. Abcs rob marciano is in chile with the latest, rob . Reporter hey, janai and kenneth. We are coming to you from la serena right in the half of totality here, the fourthlargest city in chile right along the coastline. And much like the Great American eclipse that we had in the states two years ago, its going to be very similar across the entire country. We were in oregon and went across the rockies in through wyoming, slid across the tennessee valley, all the way to
A jungle well show you the urban landscape that might just rival and cold ones. Im sumi so much gaga and this is deja news asia thank you for joining us now we start with a closer look at the growing Climate Crisis affecting asias most vulnerable communities environmental disasters are threatening vast swaths of land in low lying coastal areas bangladesh is among the hardest hit it is densely populated and has weak infrastructure so a psych loans and rising sea levels are particularly devastating there and its children who are bearing the brunt the United Nations childrens agency says the lives and futures of 19000000 young people are at risk because of Climate Change will these children and their families lead the next big wave of climate refugees. In the future wont exist rising sea levels caused by Climate Change are gradually washing this island off the map. 3 People Living here are at the front line of the Climate Change problem they can try moving their makeshift homes to Higher