Tolan people demonstrate for a 7th straight day against and near total ban on abortion we take a look at the widening protest movement for womens rights there. Im nickel for lishka to have you with us germany closes down at least partially german chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a limited National Lockdown for most of november the goal is to stop an out of control rise in corona virus infections which have hit a new one day record of more than 16000 bars gyms and theaters will shut next monday while schools and shops will stay open. The deserted streets of the spring are about to become all too familiar again in germany for 4 weeks from november 2nd the entire country will be under a partial lockdown faced with another record high of daily coronavirus cases on wednesday chancellor Angela Merkel in the country 16 state premiers quickly found consensus theres a. Lot of it today is a difficult day for policymakers i have to emphasise that because i know how much were asking of peopl
By david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of douglas and especially of what is going on in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america. Boy ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, passionist and former slave but he insisted from the earliest times in the 1840s, almost towards the end of the 19th century, that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. He was very clear about what the goal was. And so any of his words ring true today and i really recommend this biography to everybody is a long read but it is really powerful. Peter one of the things that i learned about Frederick Douglass this year was that is also very active secretary. Connolly yes he was very consistent and had a distinguished career and was able to talk to a mixed audience. In a time when that was unusual to say the least. And really its powerful when they had been id
A surge in corona virus cases. One of cinemas all time greats is gone james bond star sean connery has died at the age of 90 he shot to stardom in the very 1st bond film at dr no in 1962 and went on to dominate the Silver Screen for 4 decades the veteran scot one of many awards throughout his long career including an oscar and 3 golden globes. This is g. W. News from berlin and follow us on twitter and instagram at state of the unions or visit our website dot com. This week on world stories. The u. S. Wants a reformed police force Mikhail Gorbachevs life is a play. But 1st we start in azerbaijan the car cation country is at war with its neighbor armenia more and more civilians are being killed in the process the warring parties blame each other for this. If you go far as a live shows as well he used to live until very recently. To see a rocket take his house in early october he says. So. Articles quite off base sure that. His home for 35 years burned down to the walls. In their work or
Says that the situation is extremely urgent that the next few weeks in france will be very very tense indeed hopes for a vaccine are growing the British Health secretary says the government is preparing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year and the balkan has more on that from. Shred of optimism here from the u. K. Of course the oxford team in partnership with the pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca plowing ahead with trials at the moment im called to the Health Secretary hes been speaking this morning has been talking about very optimistically about the hope of rolling out a mass vaccine for general consumption general use in the 1st half of next year asked whether or not the vaccine may be available to some before the end of the year he said well who isnt ruling it out but it is the governments central position that they believe that the vaccine will be available a vaccine may be available at the start of the year Libyas National Oil Corporation says it has reopened its last
Agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting Fake News Media is going full on. We are rounding the turn 99. 9 percent and hes attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have provide its trouble believe the number one reason im standing here because of trade and we turn that around. 7 days from now were going to win the great state. Were going to win for years. But joe biden kept the discussion centered on what he describes as the trump administrations failure to deal effectively with the pandemic this administration has yet to offer a single plan. Thats one of the reasons why the most one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world the new england journal of medicine the president quote dangerously incompetent or not as president turned a crisis into a tragedy im ready to act i know what to do. Biden spent the day in georgia which polls indicate has come strongly into play for the Democratic Party its been a solidly republican state for decades with fu