Welcome to the daily social distancing show, im trevor noah. Today is wednesday the 14th of october. Which means that if you live in kansas, rhode island or tennessee early voting is now open in your state. So go out there, get your vote in early because that way youll get the house to yourself when all your roommates are voting on election day. Think about it, it will be the first alone time you have gotten all year. And you know what that means shake up a martini and celebrate being home alone, baby, yeah, anyway coming up on tonights show we catch up on what is going on in the reeled world, roy wood, jr. On the vote and the crazy plot to kidnap the michigan governor. Lets do this. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Alsos be honest guys, there have been a lot of upsetting news over the last few weeks. Suks months, year and a half, four years and it only seems to be getting worse. Coronav
A ban on elephant hunting that had been imposed 5 years earlier it now permits the killing of 402 year promising a field day for sports hunters the government says the hunting should be allowed specifically in areas where elephants human conflicts are most common or what elephants we have learnt over time about elephants is that when the north is the danger they will not go to those areas and we use the controlled hunting to achieve that not to reduce numbers but to create better. So that people can continue about livelihoods i mean. Its been estimated that the elephant population will continue to grow significantly even if 400. 00 a kill each year. Trophy hunting is widely despised in europe for example but can it actually fulfill a useful function. Some conservationists think it can. The impact will be positive because botswana is absolutely committed to having any resources that it gets from sport to go to the communities rural botswanans live with 150000 elephants and they have not
Let up in the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed territory of nagornokarabakh the 2 countries project calls for peace talks as the conflict threatens to escalate into all out war. Im rebecca richs welcome to the program there was no holding back here u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden went on the attack in a chaotic 1st televised debate Moderator Chris Wallace struggled at times to control the discussion as the candidates repeatedly interjected and talked over each other the debate topics ranged from the coronavirus to the economy Race Relations and health care but the answers often devolved into angry exchanges and personal insults would use the words more. So you said you went to delaware state but you forgot the name of your college you dont go to delaware state you graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class dont ever use the word smart with me dont ever use that word or give me that because you know what t
As more of a political win for iran its something president Hassan Rouhani it said just in the past few days that its a very important step for the year a new nation for them to have something specific in tangible as a result of the Nuclear Agreement of 2015 now just to give you an idea of how much money iran spends on its defense of program it between 2016 in 2018 it was around 45 percent of its g. D. P. That was between 18 and 22000000000 dollars thats not likely to change. In less than an hour voters in guinea will head to the polls to choose their next leader in a tense election that follows months of unrest both president alpha conde and his longtime rival sort of dull and yellow held rallies ahead of sundays vote this is the 3rd match up between the pair 82 year old conde insists his attempt for a 3rd term is legal the opposition says it violates the constitution voters are heading back to the polls in the self declared republican Northern Cyprus for a president ial run off their
A government ban calling for the Prime Minister to stand down reform of the monarchy and the new constitution attorney chang is out those protests in bangkok they have showed very clearly that they can still attract the numbers after the crackdown on friday night where police used to have a riot police use was a cannon with chemical laced water in seeds that they surprised many thais. But they are still coming out they came out yesterday despite the fact that a lot of public transport was shut down the central bank of the same thing happened today with the police repeated the threat that anyone turning up at these protests would be arrested and charged. Guinea ends are voting in a tense election that follows months of unrest nearly 5000000 eligible voters are choosing between 12 candidates including incumbent president alpha conde and his longtime rival selu danny and. The un arms embargo on iran has expired after 13 years it was lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal with world power