Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Would like any information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcasts you can also find us at. Ford slash science. Because at 19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the worlds ability to track and respond to major Infectious Disease outbreaks. The 2014 to 16. 00 it total are epidemic in west africa short of long standing weaknesses in the International Health system and how for that it was for a major outbreak. For years on and even countries thought to have strong response capabilities failed to detect the early signs of. Corona virus outbreaks all respond quickly enough meant that Community Transmission of the virus was already well established before governments could react. Think tanks and Public Policy Institute Like have been pushing for massive investment in outbreak response and care capacity. Demick preparedness has been described as a Global Public good. And yet globally its been left u
Increased with no signs the government has managed to flatten the curve. Im melissa chan and welcome to news asia researchers in australia have identified and mapped more than 380 suspected detention facilities and she that northwestern part of china where the government has in turn hundreds of thousands possibly more than a 1000000 muslim minorities including the weekers thats 100 more facilities than previously known and they used to satellite images to build their database one trend has stood out the communist party is building more high Security Prisons and decommissioning the lower security ones in other words in the last 3 years theyve doubled down on this crackdown despite growing international. Well pressure and whats happening directly contradicts beijings narrative china 1st tried to deny the existence of cannes and then it said most people in there have returned home and now with these latest revelations this is what the Chinese Foreign ministry said. When outputs and. Socal
He is one of hundreds of thousands living in limbo. Or is it you back now to france where frustrated bar and Restaurant Owners in the Southern City of mass say have rallied today to protest against tough new coronavirus restrictions the government has ordered bars and restaurants there to close because of a surge in new covert 1000 infections a french Prime Minister says traitor measures there and in other cities are necessary to prevent the kind of national log down that they saw back in march while on thursday air france serve reported more than 16000 new infections and more than 6000 people and are hospitalized with the virus. Marci on maximum alert as the number of killed at patients in intensive care searches. Nonemergency operations are being canceled to keep Critical Care beds free authorities worry a 2nd wave could overwhelm the Health Care System to contain the flare up bars and restaurants in frances 2nd largest city will be forced to close for at least 15 days starting on sa
Picks mrs lugo is Ruth Bader Ginsburgs successor and the innocent youve been traveling the country all over the United States what is energizing people what are they telling you what are some of the motivating factors that have voters determined to cast their ballots this year. There like to be honest i would have expected it to be the pandemic because we have no more than 200000 people who died of coal with 19 but that is not the case for many the economy is the most crucial topic as they lost their jobs because of the pandemic and many people think that donald trump is the right person to lead this country forward because they see him being much stronger of that than his competitor joe biden so its after all the economy again i assume which will decide the outcome of this elections and has pulled into these Washington Bureau chief thank you. And paris 2 people have been injured one seriously in a knife attack thats been treated as terrorism well to suspects have been arrested the inc