A 2nd wave of the pandemic. Anger grows in cyprus against corruption often aljazeera investigation forces the government to dump a controversial passport scheme. We begin in thailand with breaking news where a crackdown has begun against Anti Government demonstrations riot police has started rounding up protesters shortly after the government announced an emergency decree over ongoing protests it comes as thousands of protesters rallied in the capital bangkok calling for their Prime Ministers resignation demonstrators are also demanding reforms to the countrys powerful lets go straight to a correspondent on the phone from bangkok scott it is still very early in the hours of thursday morning where you are with the government clearly desperate to nip those protests in the bog whats happening. Yes exactly what did happen is emergency decree was asked about 2 hours ago 4 am local time and this was to disperse. The protesters remarks from democracy monument yesterday wednesday down to aroun
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Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa