The reality is that, yeah, this is where covid19 is taking its steepest toll. This is this is who is feeling the brunt of this disease. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Consumer Cellular offers nocontract wireless plans that are designed to help you do more of the things you enjoy. Whether youre a talker, texter, browser, photographer, or a bit of everything, our u. S. Based Customer Service team is here to find a plan that fits you. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporatn for public broadcasting. And by ctributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff two different pandemic plot lines are playing out in washington tonight. The president is defend
Time in weeks as infections and deaths decrease. And alive and apparently well is finally seen in public after weeks of speculation about his health. Situation a lot in americas overcrowded prisons is growing increasingly desperate as governments try to prevent the corona virus from spreading in venezuela more than 40 people have been killed during a riot it started over the demand for relatives to be allowed to deliver food to inmates and its a similar situation in brazil where their prison riots over a ban on visitors its the country hardest hit by the pandemic in latin america and the last 24 hours nearly 5000 new cases and more than 400 deaths have been recorded. And in argentina there have been protests about the transfer of hundreds of prisoners to house arrest some violent offenders have been released because of their age or underlying illness since there is a poll has the latest on the riot in venezuela. Human Rights Organization and demanding a full investigation into what wen
Florida with about 450 kilometers away from the capital had access apparently and according to government sources a group of prisoners tried to escape they brought down the fence that surrounds the prison they were armed and it didnt end well there was a shootout between Prison Guards and the inmate the warden of that prison and it up being stabbed venezuela was one of the 1st countries to impose a lockdown in the region and because of that lock down visitors have been restricted visitors are crucial for many of those for inmates in venezuela mostly because they depend on the food on the medicine on Hygiene Products someone other things we know that some prisoners have been demanding on the situation inside of venezuelas prison among other things there was another protest theres been a history of protests in venezuela in the past in the state of police that last year 29 inmates were also killed and thats why in a way human rights were going to a solution are demanding an investigation
Allowed outside to exercise for the 1st time in weeks as infections and deaths decrease. More than 40 people have been killed during a prison riot in venezuela the protests started over the demand for relatives to be allowed to deliver food riots in latin americas overcrowded prisons have been increasing as coronavirus restrictions are put in place that is a book reports. Prisoners from indiana penitentiary taken to a local hospital and dozens of them were hurt after a shootout at the prison located in the city of 190 around 450 kilometers away from us relatives were anxiously waiting outside and i thought that it a muscle it and we want to know what really happened to our relatives weve been waiting since noon and we still dont know anything human rights representatives have not turned up or anything like that i want to know what happened. Pictures shown in local media show dozens of inmates dead the government says they were trying to escape but human Rights Groups say they were prot
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