vulnerable are other u.s. cities? i ll speak with fema administrator deanne criswell next. plus, rematch? president biden gives a stark warning to americans ahead of the midterms. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism. as we learn more about donald trump s handling of classified material, three ex-advisers to the former president will join us. hello, i m dana bash and the state of our union is hitting the campaign trail. happy labor day weekend. the unofficial end to summer and kickoff to campaign season. president biden is heading to key midterm states tomorrow, two of them, he s visiting wisconsin and pennsylvania, after he warned americans that his predecessor, former president trump posed a threat to the future of american democracy. today we re going to test how that speech and other top issues like the economy, education and abortion are resonating in the midterm campaigns. we re going to get the view from both candidates in a race that co
nearly a week without running water as the city s supply returns, it is still not drinkable. this is a really complex situation. who s to blame and how vulnerable are other u.s. cities? i ll speak with fema administrator deanne criswell next. plus, rematch? president biden gives a stark warning to americans ahead of the midterms. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism. as we learn more about donald trump s handling of classified material, three ex-advisers to the former president will join us. hello, i m dana bash and the state of our union is hitting the campaign trail. happy labor day weekend. the unofficial end to summer and kickoff to campaign season. president biden is heading to key midterm states tomorrow, two of them, he s visiting wisconsin and pennsylvania, after he warned americans that his predecessor, former president trump posed a threat to the future of american democracy. today we re going to test how that speech and other top
welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to fe
hello and welcome to bbc news. there are fears of food shortages in pakistan, after the devastating floods washed away nearly half of the country s crops. so far around 1,200 people are known to have been killed but today unicef said many more children could die from a rapid spread of diseases lik cholera and malaria. our correspondent, pumza fighlani is in pakistan. meet this boy, he s two days old, her sixth child. as he sleeps under a tree that s become this family s only shelter, his mother is anxious. this is no place for a baby. translation: we don t even have a tent, just this tree. . we spent the whole night in the rain running away from the flood, trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won t stop. it s very difficult. the baby was born in a nearby hospital, but she was forced to return to the river bank because she d left her husband and five young children. hundreds of familie
like cholera and malaria. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has scrapped plans to reopen a key gas pipeline to europe. the company claims it can t restart nordstream 1 because of an oil leak in a turbine, which will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. people in jackson, mississippi struggling people injackson, mississippi struggling to cope with an ongoing water crisis. it is now the fifth day they have been forced to live without clean running water. more than 150,000 people injackson, 150,000 people in jackson, mississippi s 150,000 people injackson, mississippi s state capital predominantly black population affected. the problem started after flooding affected a water treatment plant. i don t want no groundwater, i don t want no ground water. me and six kids, i have to constantly remind do not brush your teeth with your daughter, do not wash your face without water. this is currently life for most of the 200,000 residents in jackson, mississipp