Anniversary of the announcement of the end of slavery thousands rally against racism across the u. S. Canada as Prime Minister says hes disappointed that china has charged a former diplomat and a businessman with spying. On protesters call for malis president to resign for a 2nd time this month. Only wellies with the sports news and the latest on the condition of motor sports impala in p. Q. Well. Hes been seriously hurt in a place in italy and has undergone surgery for a serious head injury. Welcome to the news hour the World Health Organization has delivered an alarming warning on the coronavirus pandemic rather than easing the outbreak is in fact accelerating and the world is now in a new and dangerous phase so globally 150000 new infections were reported on thursday thats the highest number in a single day nearly half of them were in the america w. H. O. Is urging people everywhere to maintain extreme vigilance the world is in a new. Many people are understandably fed up with being
Taking it into their own hands well show you all right its time to use i q. An explosive report in the New York Times as receiving responses from the United States all the way to russia with many calling out the publication for quoting alleged intelligence officials but failing to provide any supporting evidence the article quotes Anonymous Sources claiming russia paid bounties in afghanistan to kill americans for more on this developing story lets turn to our views Rachel Blevins shes joining me here in studio as rachel what has the official response been from all the various sides while President Trump was quick to deny this report and he responded on twitter of course where we called on the New York Times to reveal these Anonymous Sources that they claim to be citing he then went on to say quote intel just. Reported to me that they did not find this info credible and therefore did not report it to me or Vice President penns possibly another fabricated russia hoax now a spokesperson
Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve had a century for these statues of those who foug
It, 202 7488001. If you are unsure, 202 7488002. You can also text us at 202 7488003, message us on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. A harris it was from poll that was released on the 23rd of june. 58said that at the time, percent of respondents said the statues should remain, while 42 say they should be removed. A number of confederate monuments were torn down in cities across the United States recently. If you go to the u. S. News website this morning, an activity that took place yesterday in georgia this is reuters reporting a predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters stormed through a park in atlanta, calling for the removal of the confederate rock carving that the site that civil rights activist consider a monument to racism. Many were dressed in paramilitary style clothing and wearing face scarves, quietly parading down the sidewalk at the park. Supremacists have historically used Stone Mountain as a rallying spot of their own. Thats in stom
Glad youre with us on this monday im Frances Rivera and im philip mena that breaking news overnight, nascar has opened an investigation after a noose was found in the garage of nascar driver Bubba Wallace it happened yesterday in alabama. Wallace is nascars only fulltime africanamerican driver for the latest on this, we turn to dara brown in our newsroom. What can you tell us about this . Reporter good morning. Details are breaking overnight it was discovered sunday afternoon before the geico 500 was postponed due to bad weather. According to espn, wallacer in saw the noose. It was seen by a member of his team and responded to nascar, which responded saying, we are angry and outraged and cannot state seriously enough how seriously we take this heinous act. As we stated, there is no place for racism in nascar, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all late last night, Bubba Wallace tweeted a statement saying reporter he goes on to say reporter