A number of states suspicious long wait for results and. Divisions and questions over americas much champion democratic system we asked people on the streets for their reaction. Oh you know. You go. To our. Son he needs to find out what hes fighting for because to resign kind of in this country. Are you watching R T International this saturday the 7th of november which does mean it is now 4 days since the u. S. Election and were still waiting for official results in the. Well despite the white there democratic contender joe biden does say he is on course to beat donald trump although did stop short of declaring victory youll have a final declaration of victory yet but the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race ran track to over 300 electoral votes Electoral College votes so this is how the numbers look at the moment biden has the backing of 264. 00 electors if arizona is included although some do say it is too early to call the election
History. So if you will join you for just a second and reflecting together on that. And then we could start a little belated. [silence. Alright thank you. So this is a book that began, i began writing this book in the fall of 2014. And i began writing because i was invited to st. Louis to give a talk on washington university. I felt called to talk about the murder of Michael Brown in the protests on the uprising. So i was invited to october, went there and felt that i had to go out and present what was happening because i am a missourian and i felt that was a history in which i was both one i knew very well, and one that i was implicated in. And so with the particular kind of turn of mind, that i have, i started to look at the political economy with a particular simple straightforward riddle which is how could it be that the city of ferguson that has a 26 billiondollar corporation within the city limits, 26 billion a year, emerson electric, how could that city the funding poor black mo
Have heavy crime tape restrictions in place and heavy restrictions on any foreigners trying to enter china and this is simply chinas why of dealing with what they believe could be a 2nd wave of infections 180 cases its certainly not a Great Development but china would say its particularly in recovery mode at this stage compared to the rest of the world but there have been a number of questions about the accuracy of these figures coming out of china weve had last week a senior british minister Michael Goves questioning tried as transparency about the effectiveness of this particular virus and present donald trump has also said he questions the number of deaths he said the death toll is on the light side looking at the overall figures coming out of china the total number of deaths of 3343. 00 so thats certainly low in comparison to the rest of the world and 83134 cases of the crowd a virus infection so this is why the questions are appearing and increasing about chinas transparency and i
Are being affected dramatically by covert 19 was it originated in china but by march it was clear the coronavirus was a global problem. Italy altered a National Lockdown 2 days later the World Health Organization made a red declaration deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the island mean the level of this action. We have that for a man to be an assessment that 19 can be contacted i used as a pandemic when the w. H. O. Declared a pandemic all march the 11th there was a total of 118000 cases globally nearly 4300 people had died but 90 percent of those infected with hiv 19 were in just 4 countries china south korea italy and iran a month later much has changed the number of known infections is approaching 2000000 across more than 180 countries and around 100000 people have died the United States has more confirmed cases than any other country wealthy nations with sophisticated Health Care Systems have struggled to contain the virus so what chances that the
A nationwide the number of new cases per day is flattening substantially suggesting that we are near the peak and comprehensive strategy is working overtime or guidelines to slow the spread or decreasing the rate of new cases very substantially and will result in fewer hospital admissions and were seeing that its. Incredible i think with with no exceptions its looking like its low. The u. K. Has reported its highest daily death toll but there are signs the number of cases are leveling out in spain and italy the italian Prime Minister says restrictions there will be extended dominic kane reports from berlin. Its a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday papal Passion Service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among Health Workers in some countrie