Is empty. Hello we begin in the United States where the trumpet ministration held its 1st Coronavirus Task force briefing in almost 2 months the Vice President mike pence was a bit despite americas recording the spite america recording an all time high of virus infections around 40000 new cases were confirmed across the u. S. On thursday alan fisher has more. Cases after almost 2 months so we its back this moment in the coronavirus pandemic is different and faced with the surgeon cases across the country the white house Coronavirus Task force faces a renewed threat were in a much stronger place the truth is we did slow the spread of the current recent days have brought a Record Number of infections 16 states are seeing a rising number of cases and infection rates states like texas which had started to reopen no bringing back all distractions after a 145 percent rise in cases in just 14 days bars closed restaurants cutting capacity Public Gatherings Limited pistons meare calls it a cris
Infectious disease expert makes a plea particularly to young people as an action surgeon several states. Mexico citys police chief is wounded in an assassination attempt hes blaming on a powerful drug cartel. And lebanese protesters hold a symbolic funeral for the economy and country they fear cannot be seized. The leaders of egypt and sudan say ethiopia has agreed to not start filling its new mega dam without the 3 countries reaching an agreement on it of been unable to resolve the increasingly bitter dispute fear years if europe is built the renaissance dam on the blue nile which is the source of most of the river gnarls water egypt and sudan downstream depend heavily on its unfair their Water Supplies will be put at risk if your obvious says the hydro power the dam will produce is essential to its economic growth. There is have a morgan in sudans capital khartoum says this still much to result it took a meeting between the Prime Ministers of sudan egypt as well as other members of t
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Restrictions after a spike in new cases pacing back at twitter as fact checks Donald Trumps executive order aims to remove some of the neagle protections given to social Media Companies. Thank you very much for joining us 3 days of protests over the killing of an unarmed black man in the u. S. City of minneapolis have exploded into a new night of violence across the country the Police Station where the 4 officers involved in the arrests of george floyd worked has been set ablaze a large crowd began gathering outside the building a few hours ago and several other fires were late in the area and National Guard has been called into the city and the man has declared a local state of emergency for 72 hours. There is a lot of pain and anger right now in our city. I understand that our entire city recognizes that what we have seen over the past several hours in the past couple of nights in terms of looting is acceptable our communities cannot and will not tolerate while the u. S. President ha
Ha. Ha. Ha anti semitism may not be new to the United States it is more i see this story. But in recent years the american consciousness has been pierced by anti semitic threats and violence. Was. Played up in 2017 the us saw an unprecedented surge and antisemitic incidents. The same year hundreds of neo nazis converged in the streets of Charlottesville Virginia primary of paranoia and you know theyre now in. The following year a white supremacist stormed pittsburghs tree of life synagogue in what became the deadliest anti semitic attack and u. S. History. And in 2001006 people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded in a spate of high profile anti semitic attacks across the country. In this episode of thought violence week salman this trending violence against Jewish Americans. And the anti semitic conspiracy theories that often inspired the. Morning feinberg is the founder of 2 for center an interfaith addition to the combats anti semitism in hate speech so this is my. Mother in laws