The boards on the windows have come down. The holiday lights and the Christmas Tree are up. And stores are now hoping for the holiday rush they desperately need to survive. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Lets go to kpix 5s andria borba. Andria, despite the shutdowns, despite the pandemic, businesses are still hopeful . Reporter businesses are still open. Of course, on friday here in San Francisco, indoor restaurant dining will come to a halt per the mayors orders, but brick and mortar retailers and the large stores and small stores supported by them say they need this Holiday Season to be good in order to survive. Its kind of make or break. Reporter union square retailers say they need a big Holiday Season to survive after months of nearly empty streets and few shoppers. Some large chains have already filed for bankruptcy protection and the Small Businesses who feed on foot traffic from Bigger Stores say they are fighting to stay alive. We would really need them t
Risky crossing from frumps to britain. Most people who flee their homes do so out of utter desperation more violence human rights abuses hunger and the effects of the Climate Crisis are often behind displacement every year tens of thousands of people try to reach europe groups often change and new ones are added instead of leaving from libya many now set out from tunisia on a dangerous journey across the mediterranean or from lebanon to e. U. Member states cyprus. At the end of 2019 there were around 6600000 refugees in europe but landing on european soil marks the start of a new odyssey those who want to reach the United Kingdom face an illegal and potentially deadly crossing over the channel s. Human suggests that so far this year 7000 people have managed to use. Crossing the English Channel in rubber dinghies its a journey that more migrants are making than ever before the British Government is getting tough control of u. K. Borders was one of the conservatives biggest breaks it pro
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