All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
A women especially of victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying in order to understand this new culture. For you another very little another nurse you want to become a citizen. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. This is deed everything is africa coming up in the next 15 minutes a big european delegation head to africa the e. U. Is near Commission President has already said she wants equal partnership for the neighboring continent weve heard that before whats different this time. And these baby locusts conflict yes but when they grow wings for middle swarms in kenya people are trying to kill them before that happens. Then africas history and grim. Initial reason and they say it is a project aimed at spreading knowledge. Hello im christy mondo welcome to africa its good to have your company a meeting between African Union officials and counterparts will take place in about on thursday it will be the 10 e. U. Commission to Commission Meeting
Allegations of 4 crimes and are for. Getting away with murder in mexico demonstrators say the epidemic of violence against women must be stopped. Hello we begin in munich thats where the u. N. Is urging for more accountability to enforce an arms embargo in libya Foreign Ministers from around a dozen countries met on the sidelines of a Security Summit to end libyas civil war there seems to be a consensus that efforts must be made to end Foreign Military support for the warring sides and stop the flow of weapons into the country were. Forces have been fighting to capture the capital tripoli since april. The truce is holding only by a thread with numerous over 150 violations reported and it is the libyan people that continue to suffer the most the Economic Situation continues to deteriorate exacerbated by the oil blockade and the looming banking crisis the purchase of pitting countries and organizations today among some there was a consensus on the need to lift the oil blockade i want to
South africa are the Rugby World Cup champions for the third time in the tournaments history. The springboks took the title injapan beating england 32 points to 12 in the final overpowering the english in the second half of the game. It was a historic win for the rainbow nation and for many it was more than just a rugby match as Andrew Harding reports from johannesburg. The final whistle, and across south africa, the sense of a nation coming together, celebrating more than just a rugby match. It means unity, it means unity to south africa. We have been needing this. So it wasjust an amazing atmosphere. Really the peoples enjoying it, everybody together, south africa as one nation. This is actually something positive that we can actually celebrate as a country, and yeah, well done to the boks. After years of slow racial transformation, south africa finally has a rainbow team. This is what we can do as a team when we decide on one goal and one dream and we give it our best, so thank you
An indigenous brazilian activist who campaigned to protect the rainforest has been shot dead in what appears to have been a targeted killing. Paulo gua ja jara had recently told journalists that he was scared about the situation in his reserve, where illegal loggers and miners were operating. Indigenous groups have accused brazils far right government of failing to protect them. Bill hayton reports. This was the kind of direct action paulo gua ja jara was involved in, catching illegal loggers red handed. A group intercepted a track loaded with tree trunks and the tools of this illegal trade. With the nearest Police Station hundreds of kilometres away, members of paulo gua ja jaras tribe feel this is the only way to protect their land from destruction. The guardians of the forest as they call themselves say that there home made weapons of cut illegal logging by half over the past decade. In an interview six weeks ago paulo gua ja jara said it was dangerous work. Translation im scared so