Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
It also allows biden and vicepresident elect Kamala Harris access to National Security briefings. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said gsa administrator emily murphy and her team should do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. He said he had instructed officials in his administration to do the same. The gsa announcement came shortly after officials in michigan certified biden as winner of the battleground state in the november 3rd election. Biden has been moving quickly to form his cabinet. Hes now unveiled nominees for several key posts, including Antony Blinken for secretary of state. Blinken was National Security adviser during Barack Obamas first term as president. He served as deputy secretary of state during obamas second term. Biden says former secretary of state john kerry will be a special president ial envoy for climate. Linda thomasgreenfield will be ambassador to the united nations, and alejandro mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary. Avril haines, form
Hundreds of people attended thursdays ceremony. Floyd died after a Police Officer pinned him to the ground and kneeled on his neck, despite floyds calls that he couldnt breathe. Everybody wants justice. We want justice for george. Hes going to get it. Hes going to get it. Elsewhere in the country, people continued to protest. Floyds brother joined more than a thousand demonstrators at a rally in new york city where they held up banners and repeatedly called flois name. Amid the protest, the state of virginia is removed the statue of confederate general robert e. Lee. The government says the statue was wrong then and is wrong now. And i believe that we learn more when we take that honest look at our past. We must do more than just talk about the future. We must take action. Northam says the statue of general robert e. Lee will be put in storage and that his government will work with the community to determine its future. The removal of confederate statues is a contentious issue. Some se
A new UN report criticizes the killings of human rights and media workers in Afghanistan in recent years, and urges the Afghan government to establish a protection mechanism for them.
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It has been a year since Japanese doctor and aid worker Nakamura Tetsu was killed in Afghanistan, but his legacy lives on through a dedicated Afghan student living in Japan.
Nakamura spent decades in Afghanistan, providing humanitarian support to improve the lives of people there. In addition to his medical activities, he dedicated nearly 20 years to projects that bring water to arid regions, supporting around 650,000 people.
He hoped his efforts would help bring an end to the violence and turmoil that still plague Afghanistan. “People are fighting these battles to earn a living,” he said. “They have no choice, but no one would want to fight if they had water and could farm.”