And on the run ethiopians flee for their lives as the government orders the army to start the final phase of an offensive in the Northern Region of teak. Right . Well have the latest from mad as out of the nickel for good to have you with us. Tens of thousands of people have paid their final respects to argentinian football, superstar, Diego Maradona, and when osiris he died on wednesday at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack, his body was taken away for boro. After lying in state at the president ial palace cheering for their hero, one last time was outside the president ial palace. And despite the ongoing pandemic, tens of thousands of mourners have been lining up for their chance to pay their respects. Scuffles broke out when police moved to shut down, access to the president ial palace. Now the motions are running high. It isnt what you might feel today. The football has died. I have no words for me. Hes the greatest and all carry him in my heart forever. Yeah, that got us
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
William glue cruft welcome to the program its been over 24 hours since voting ended the u. S. President ial election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and president doll trump along with all of america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience and calm from everyone but the president has already claimed victory hes alleging voter fraud but has 0 evidence to prove that meanwhile joe biden has called for patience and his supporters are confident hes on track to win. Lets look at the results now with one big significant change recently our figures show that biden is currently on track with 264 electoral votes the President Trumps 214 that puts joe biden just 6 Electoral College votes away from the 270 he needs to win the presidency now in that very important state of michigan the counting is over and the state goes to joe biden with which has 16 elector
A state of emergency in new measures are in place across europe to stop the spread of covert 19. A call for a nationwide strike in belo rose after the president ignores the oppositions demand to step down. Celebrations are underway in chile where of looks like a referendum to change the constitution is set to pass with an overwhelming majority these are live pictures from the capital santiago many say the current guidelines imposed 4 decades ago under a military dictatorship have led to widespread inequalities the government agreed to the referendum following protests that began one year ago. In america added to the scene newman is joining us now from from santiago give us an idea of what the mood is like on the streets because it does seem as though. People are pretty confident that even though the final results are not yet in this is going to go ahead. Youre absolutely right there seems to be very little question about whether its i mean rather its not about whether but by how much t
A state of emergency new measures are in place across europe to stop the spread of covert 19. Call for a nationwide strike in belo to sell off to the president ignores the oppositions demand to step down. As a festive mood in chile where a referendum to change the constitution looks likely to pass with an overwhelming majority since polls closed 3 hours ago people have been gathering at a popular square in the capital to celebrate the government agreed to the referendum following protests against social and economic inequalities which began one year ago on latin america editor on the scene human is joining us now from santiago it seems from the very early hours of this referendum the people were absolutely convinced that this was going to go ahead. Absolutely and they were right in fact with nearly 90 percent of the votes already counted it has been and landslide in favor of those who wanted or rather in favor of the choice of rewriting to constitution what im seeing now is Something L