Committee as well. Republican of North Carolina. Thank you for talking to our viewers. Greta, its been a pleasure to be with you and to answer the calls as well. We want to welcome to our table Michele Jawando at the center for American Progress. Vice president for legal progress. Thanks for being here for this conversation. Thanks for having me. I want to start with the Police Shootings in North Carolina, in charlotte and tulsa. And talk about the trend. The Washington Post has a story this morning that Police Shootings are on par to be what they were last year, around 1,000 police killings. So, you know, as we begin to kind of consider this moment again for communities of color, particularly the Africanamerican Community, there seems to be a vicious loop that continues to play out. And i think sometimes we separate the hash tags or seeing the protests, and we forget these are family members. These are husbands. These are fathers. And while we as a country are reeliing with this trage
His fathers footsteps as he is sworn in as Prime Minister. Well have all the days sport including world athletic investigated encryption charges. We begin this news hour here in the u. K. Where the governments have in the past hour announced that it suspended flights on egypts sinai region after suggesting saturdays plane crash there was caused by a bomb. The russianrun airbus a 321 was carrying holiday makers flying home to st. Petersburg when it came down killing everyone on board. Lets go to neave barker. What have we been hearing from downing street on this . Well, downing street made public in the last few hours, a key decision to stop all flights from the tourist hub on the red sea to the united kingdom. They say this mr. Provide vital time for Security Officials to travel to the area to assess any potential security risks. They say that those Security Officials should report back by the end of the evening. The government essentially saying that new information has come to light
Protest about kidnapped Nigerian School girls. And the decision, the High School Senior accepted to all eight ivy league schools, annoyanceannounces his choice. We begin tonight in iraq, where the country has held an election. Despite months of rising violence millions of iraqis are turned up and central baghdad, people particularly the elderly found it tough to walk to polling station but walk they did to cast their votes. We came to vote. The only thing we can do now is choose the right person for the right job. I wasnt scared to come here despite the dangers. I wanted to come out and vote. And kurd all can meet among themselves and against each other. After the elections in 2010, it took nearly eight months for iraq to get the government and the public utility climate back then was very different to the one now. Back then there was a leader. Faces a fight, that iraq faces a number of months without a government whilst all that, many thought would never come. An election free of viol
Post reports Vice President pences trip to arizona this week had to be postponed from tuesday to wednesday after several secret Service Agents either tested positive for coronavirus or had shown symptoms of being infected. Were going to speak to one of the reporters from this breaking story just ahead. But despite all of this, President Trump, who is about to headline a july 4th event at mt. Rushmore, where the governor has specifically said social distancing will not be required, continues to put forward a very different reality across this country. The crisis is being handled. Something to think about, china was way early, and theyre getting under control just now. And europe was way early, and theyre getting under control. We are likewise getting under control. Some areas that were very hardhit are now doing very well. Some were doing very well, and we thought they may be gone, and they flare up, and were putting out the fires. But other places were long before us, and theyre now it
Out of control. Its so serious that today the governor of texas did a controversial 180. He declared that wearing a mask in the Lone Star State is now mandatory in texas. Today we learned that Trump Campaign surrogate and former president ial candidate herman cain, seen here attending the trump rally in tulsa less than two weeks ago, hes been hospitalized with covid19. And new tonight, the Washington Post reports that Vice President pences trip to arizona this week had to be postponed from tuesday to wednesday after several secret Service Agents either tested positive for coronavirus or had shown symptoms of being infected. Were going to speak to one of the reporters from this breaking story just ahead. But despite all of this, President Trump, who is about to headline a july 4th event at mt. Rushmore, where the governor has specifically said social distancing will not be required, continues to put forward a very different reality across this country. The crisis is being handled. Somet