countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
lay out the cases for us. reporter: arguments in the two cases are teed up for this morning. the supreme court will once again re-examine affirmative action but this time with the solidly conservative court it is quite likely that the justices could ban affirmative action once they release their opinion sometime next year. this is all happening as the groups fighting to end the consideration of race in admissions they have been quite outspoken. diversity as important as it is, cannot come at expense of asian americans. reporter: these asian american students are leading a fight against affirmative action. it s time for asian americans to break up with woke diversity. they re at the center of a law enforcement against harvard, accusing the school of discriminating against asian americans to make more room for hispanics and blacks. calvin yang claims he was denied admission to harvard because of his race. it shows there s a trend here. a trend where asian americans
australia as voters headed to the polls to choose their next government. and the man behind film scores that mesmerised millions composer vangelis has died at the age of 79. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine s president says russian forces have completely destroyed the eastern donbas region, accusing moscow of senseless bombardments as it intensifies its attacks. in another development, the international red cross says it s registered hundreds of ukrainian prisoners of war who ve left the besieged azovstal steelworks in the ukrainian port city of mariupol. russia says all those who have left will be treated in line with international standards but there are fears that some could face prosecution by president putin s courts. from moscow our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. tired and wounded. moscow released these images of ukrainian fighters leaving the steelworks they d been defending in mariupol, giving themselves up to the
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine s president says russian forces have completely destroyed the eastern donbas region, accusing moscow of senseless bombardments as it intensifies its attacks. in another development, the international red cross says it s registered hundreds of ukrainian prisoners of war who ve left the besieged azovstal steelworks in the ukrainian port city of mariupol. russia says all those who have left will be treated in line with international standards, but there are fears that some could face prosecution by president putin s courts. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. tired and wounded. moscow released these images of ukrainian fighters leaving the steelworks they d been defending in mariupol, giving themselves up to the russians. ukraine is hoping for a prisoner swap, but in russia there are calls to put some of the soldiers on trial for war crimes. they are killers, they are criminals, but we g
Designers for architects. Wherever yourejoining me from Around The World, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, our cities, theyre home to governments, cathedrals, universities, hospitals, hundreds of millions of homes and billions of people. They dominate the Global Economy, but they also generate the vast majority, 70 , of the worlds carbon emissions. The world, it has become more populous than at any point in history. And since 1980, the proportion of People Living in urban areas, it has soared. In that year, it was just over 39 . By 2007, for the first time, more than half of the global population were living in an urban setting. And here in 2024, that number is now nearly 60 . Its projected to be 68 by the middle of this century. And if that trend continues, more than 80 , or four in five of us, will be living in towns or cities by 2080. That means therell be six times as many big cities with a population of more than a million people. But some regions