Gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the already ministry of defense and Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director around the same time the u. N. Secretary general was delivering a message of unity as the world body mounted 75th anniversary the General Assembly is happening mostly via video link due to the pandemic. The u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace was one of the few to address it from inside the uns new york headquarters he urged countries to support the uns work. The u. K. s coronavirus alert levels been increased from 3 to 4 in strands mission is high or rising exponentially the governments scientific advisor says there could be 50000 new cases a day by mid october if no further action is taken in europe governments are trying to get a handle on a spike in the numbe
A political crisis that deepens. Homeless and feeling abandoned hundreds of thousands of people in pakistan struggling to recover after a monsoon rains destroyed their homes. Thats been fierce fighting over noise as armenia and azerbaijan continue their battle over the disputed mcgoldrick out about creech and these are pictures from the armenian side they show damage from shelling and sophisticate the main city in the goma cutback both sides accusing each other of targeting civilian areas. And this is a recently released video showing a missile attack on the azerbaijani city of ganja the azerbaijani side says on media has also launched attacks on several of its main cities resulting in more than 20 civilian deaths the rights group amnesty says there is growing evidence cluster bombs and now the use of the conflict by more than 100 countries but not by armenia or azerbaijan lets go straight to our correspondents in him because so whos live for us in. Azerbaijan bring us up to date with
A rate that is even exceeding what many countries saw earlier in the summer in june and july so its difficult to say that this is a 2nd wave many countries are still in what looks like the 1st wave other the pandemic is global the drivers of new cases in different communities may be very different and reflect the nature of the communities and the kind of meeting and mingling of people that is happening in those communities in many places after some are locked out measures in which people. Restricted their travel restricted interacting with others socially blocked on measures were able to slow the spread of the virus and dramatically in some cases slow the speed at which new cases appeared but as communities began to slow those rates and lift the measures and become more conducive in terms of being able to get out of the house being able to dine at restaurants being able to mix socially as well as going back to work and back to school were seeing people mix and in new ways now were seei
Were joined by the smithsonians michel delaney. Tell us what your title is and what your job is . Thank you. My job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian Smithsonians National team of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian archives center. So i have been working very hard in the years that ive been spent at this museum. I am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the American Indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me is an archivist. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote the this article a virtual tour of history. Thanks richard. We have a great magazine. American
A big can see this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in raw political power. No i dont believe the people of this nation will stand for. President trump told a rally in South Carolina on saturday hes sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. You average joes in yet but we have numerous women on the list that are thought to be 2 leading candidates amy corny but it is an Appeals Court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and theres barbarella go up a lot to move in from florida which would be the more Political Choice but the white house might not be able to push through any nomination before the election in the last 45 years the process has taken on average 68 days the election