These voters are going to be waiting about an hour and i have to cast their votes. The city has consolidated. Normally 180 polling places, this time just five. Workersh Department Keep people six feet apart while other voters wait in the drivethrough. I think it is the most serious thing that ever happened. They should have postponed this. We are going to get people sick out here. Georges primary election making national headlines. Precinct closing late at night. Calls for investigations following elevations of voter suppression. The results are still coming in with the secretary of state saying it could take longer than usual because so many people chose to vote by absentee ballot. Erin geithner smith, those are scenes from recent primary elections. Are they a harbinger of what this country might expect in november or aberrations . Erin i hope they are not, but i think a lot of preparations need to be made. It is so important that we have these test runs, the primaries, to kind of see
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And free speech. The website is parler. Com, and joining us from las vegas is the ceo of that website, john matze. Thank you so much for being with us. Guest thank you. Host if you were to put a Mission Statement to your website, what would it be . Guest our Mission Statement would be to create a town square for free Speech Discussion and to protect peoples privacy while doing it. Host so why a need for yet another social media site . What is motivating you and others to start this . Guest well, lately i am sure you have seen a lot of the present surrounding what is going on politically and people feeling like they have been censored in the United States. Theres a lot of people that feel that they cannot reach out on social media, and they think that they are going to get ba attacked for their point of view, and they are looking for another place to go. And actually, this is a lot broader than the United States. This is happening all over the world. I spoke to people in israel, brazil,
Family members and friends are becoming a lifeline for corona virus patients and mexico. After 3 months of closed borders and restrictions through the coronavirus pandemic some European Countries are now opening up to some of their neighbors germany has opened its border to all your members except for spain finland norway and sweden frances president maduro macron is claiming the countrys 1st victory in the fight against code 19 restaurants and cafes are operating at full capacity but micron is cautioning for people to be vigilant while the u. K. Is still working to contain the virus england is easing restrictions anyway allowing nonessential businesses to trade again wales and scotland are still waiting to hear when stores there can open we have teams on the ground dominic amos at the german danish border Natasha Butler standing by in paris 1st lets go to censure. In london our town hall is standing by live so you are on Oxford Street one of the busiest shopping streets perhaps in the
Us her in a sentence says 16 years in prison for spying in russia putting more strain on relations between the 2 countries. I think we can hold the power to account. We cant do anything a big blow to press freedom in the philippines 2 journalists are convicted for the 1st time in a libel case. And after years on the run sudanese militia leader alex shay because of war crimes and are for appears before the International Criminal court. Around 15000000 people in the indian city of shinai and several neighboring districts are going back into lockdown as corona virus infections sore the region recorded 1974 new cases on sunday taking the total number of infections more than 44453 people have died. A full lockdown will be enforced starting on friday until the end of the month india had been gradually easing restrictions over the past few weeks even though new cases were still being recorded lives with raanan joins us now from new delhi so liz lifting restrictions always comes with the risk