And walked down, all the board were in there. He said, david, i want to pledge the support of the sunday times and all the power we can muster to take these people on and get the due compensation to which the victims are entitled. He was invaluable, he really was invaluable and i will miss him greatly. Evans moved to america with his wife, thejournalist tina brown, shifting from a golden era in newspapers to one in magazines. Now in a new york power couple, he was a long way from his north of england roots, but remained forever a news man at heart. He excelled at everything journalism required. He was a fine writer, had a greateye for layout and design and typefaces, he had an instinct for a story and he believed in investigative journalism. And he took all that and he used it to create the modern sunday times. The embodiment of a humble hack, taking on mighty forces with nothing but the truth, harry evans putjournalism itself in a debt to him that will never be serviced. Sir harold ev
Protections. Currently social media giants like twitter receive an unprecedented liability shield based on the theory that theyre a neutral platform which theyre not. Interested in the water comes as twitter begins Fact Checking trumps tweets but its likely to face stiff legal hurdle plus france puts its face in a voluntary track and trace the diploma as it relaxes coronavirus prescriptions but critics say the app has major short poems. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the National Guard has been deployed to the u. S. City of minneapolis on a 3rd straight night of unrest angry protests have spilled over into violence and looting they come in. Response to the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody earlier this week the citys mayor has called for criminal charges to be filed against the officer who was filmed kneeling on george boyds neck during his arrest Us Department of justice has launched an investigation into floyds killing which protesters say was fueled by
And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers li. Thank you. Laura this is announcer this is bbc world news america. Reporting from italy, i am laura trevelyan. It really tries to recover from the economic fallout of coronavirus. Will the crowds becoming . All 50 u. S. States have started to reopen, the death toll in americapa sursses 92,000. Government guidelines on how to reopen safely are finay released. ,000 people in michigan are in vacuum after two dams failed. The governor warns there could be historic levels of flooding. We hear from the u. K. Dr. Who survived coronavirus after weeks on a ventilator. You give yourself goals. My goal was just to get home. Laura to all of you watching on pbs and around the glowo, welcome tod news america. S the whorning that rising numbers of cases are in poor nations. Even thoug rich countries, like the u. S. , are emerging from lockdowns. The biggest daily increase in all 50 u. S. States are starting to reopen, along with much of europe
Tomorrow, but the one that really matters will be an 8 30 in 3. 5 hours time in washington, the jobless claims number to show a labor economy in america that really borders on depression. Lotcine we will talk a about the modeling out there and we will look at modeling in europe. Lets get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with china, accusing the u. S. Of trying to shift the blame for its own coronavirus outbreak. Beijing responding today to the bloomberg report, china concealed the extent of the problem. Bloomberg has learned the u. S. To community concluded beijing under reported both total cases and deaths. China calling that moral slander. The pentagon is asked to provide as many as 100,000 body bags for potential civilian use. Bloomberg has used the military as has learned that the military has about has learned that the military has about half of that on hand. And more leverage will allow a absorption of lack of liquidity for treasuries, pl
And democrats living abroad said, one democrat abroad, leave me out of this. [ light laughter ] former congressman beto orourke appeared at a Joe Biden Rally in dallas yesterday and announced his endorsement in spanish then out of habit, biden said, that sounds good, ill have that. [ laughter and applause Election Officials in multiple states are encouraging voters to use mailin ballots due to the coronavirus. That story again, several states are fighting coronavirus by asking people to put their saliva in the mail [ laughter and applause just send it out, just get it out of there [ cheers and applause former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg said yesterday that he would vote for senator Bernie Sanders if he was the democratic nominee but, quote, would not be happy doing it. Yeah we know. Youre [ laughter ] youre never happy [ light laughter ] you always look like youre on your way either to or from a colonoscopy. [ laughter ] msnbc anchor Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement y