Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
Stream later this year not novak says its trials show its job to be nearly 90 percent of fact against it 19. Plus china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference. To begin this hour with breaking news from the netherlands where the court of appeals has ordered the Oil Giant Shell to pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they accuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills its the 1st time a Dutch Company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary lets go straight to step fasten shes standing by for us in. Step with a ruling then gone against shell what are the courts say. Exactly same here as a clear victory according to a friends of the earth or nablus who actually filed this case to get away for a nigerian farmers against shout the court said that the Daughter Company of shell s. P. C. In nigeria is liable for the pollution that
You missed it last out the launch of teslas futuristic cyber truck shatters expectations along with the groups glass windows. With stunning the south america where protests in several countries of crippled major cities bringing many of them to a standstill this chilly 1st of all protests initially started going back to last month when students in santiago demonstrated against a subway fare increase since then its grown with demands for political and economic reform and youve got colombia a proposal to change the minimum wage as well as introduce possible pension tax reforms led to a strike at huge rallies in bogota and in bolivia protests was sparked by that disputed president ial election president evo morales denied any electoral fraud but he eventually resigned under pressure from the military he fled to mexico but his supporters have been protesting and calling for his return. So lets start with chile look at those live pictures there protests of ramped up again as the defense mini
Countrys murder rate is improving but the evidence on the ground doesnt support that last well have the latest on the victims and damage found in the aftermath of japans deadly typhoon. And. Hello the rain reports from west pop here are significant dam poles and theres the line that goes through sort of ways he and through borneo this whole lot of course is the season rain going sighs with the sun but its going south fairly slowly wont get a job for the next day or so the clouds increasing and certainly shop attention in sumatra borneo is a long way north as well along the coast of vietnam seems quite wet cambodia central thailand and the southern philippines also are in that rain band so those are all generally speaking going size and start making huge progress on the immediate future the same can be said of the change of season australia each time the warmth comes another front comes out of the bite and particularly for adelaide and melbourne a. C. T youll find temperatures drop in t
All our little case only trapped in osama does have another month or so to make that appeal hes expected to be back in Court Next Year towards the beginning of the year until then zuma is speaking to people like this outside the court asking for their support maintaining his innocence. Still ahead on aljazeera so all shows off its military might at one of the biggest Defense Industry trade shows in the region. Hello the weather in this part of asia is now much quieter the sun is out so are almost all of japan and the Korean Peninsula and a good posture and thats a bit of a hint of incoming cold weather but it skips northward so its still in the teens nothing much colder than if last 9 is a max in still teens in beijing as well youll notice there is a potential of some rain just coming in to the western side of honshu reaching tokyo slow moving not particularly heavy but rain nevertheless and thats the picture for thursday and the cloud that comes across the green but as you might use a