For nepotism, including giving jobs to his family. Hes about to take on the presidency of the southern african development community, but can malawis president even honour the promises he made to his own country . Lazarus chakwera, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Now, lets start with the situation as regards covid, because there are currently 11,000 active cases reported in your country. Thereve been 1500 deaths, but that will be underreported. Whats your assessment of the situation at the moment . You know, it is possible that it is underreported, but we go by what we have officially. And if you look at the figures, this Third Wave has pushed us to that level. Because even Positivity Rate had come back down to almost 0. 5 , and now that rate has gone all the way to 26, 25 . And there are some specific places where more positive cases have been indicated, like the blantyre city. Now, one has to understand that for a country like ours and for all that we are doing in order tha
Represent less than 0. 8 of the 164 Million people who have been fully vaccinated here in the u. S. So that is less than 1 . And 98 to 99 of the people who are dying are unvaccinated. So these are the preventable deaths. This is not like last year when doctors were overwhelmed watching the patients die as they tried in vain to save them, so now we have vaccines and while they are not to Stop Transmission 100 of the time, they do Stop Transmission in the vast majority of the people. And the people who are vaccinate and get sick are less likely to be hospitalized so say the experts. Now to the flip side, and to say it is alarming is an understatement. It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated but that is still the epidemic of the unvaccinate and still in arkansas and Louisiana And Missouri is an epidemic that could have been prevented and the stories of the people in the icus saying that i wish i had been vaccinate and a final Text Message from a 39yearold Father to the wife, i wish i had the
Joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. I work a Lot Of Saturdays but the senate really doesnt and we have been following a Raresaturday Session in the senate today. Senators are waiting for the final text of that bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. It includes 550 Billion in new spending. Now, our understanding is that the text could come, pretty much, at any point this weekend. This evening, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the senate remains in session, and the discussions are ongoing. After weeks and weeks of negotiations, the senate voted, wednesday, to advance the package, 6732. That number, 67, is key. That means, 17 republicans supported the move. And that is seven more than the 60vote threshold. But the bill they voted on was just a shell. Its a placeholder that the actual Fulltext Bill will replace. Clearly, Leader Schumer would like to see that text, asap. I have said, for weeks, that the senate is going to move forward on both tracks of infrastructure before the begi
But is it politically probable . And how might a pared down voting Rights Bill affect that . From nbc News World Headquarters in new york, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. I work a Lot Of Saturdays but the senate really doesnt And we have been following a Raresaturday Session in the senate today. Senators are waiting for the final text of that bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. It includes 550 Billion in new spending. Now, our understAnding is that the text could come, pretty much, at any point this weekend. This evening, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the senate remains in session, And the discussions are ongoing. After weeks And weeks of negotiations, the senate voted, wednesday, to advance the package, 6732. That number, 67, is key. That means, 17 republicans supported the move. And that is seven more than the 60vote threshold. But the bill they voted on was just a shell. Its a placeholder that the actual Fulltext Bill will replace. Clearly, Leader Schumer would
It is the culmination of a Fourday March that comes 19 days after democratic members of the Texas Legislature broke quorum, traveling to washington, d. C. In an effort to block new restrictive voting legislation. Former Texas Congressman Beto orourke joined us earlier to discuss the importance of the rally. Theres a lot of good energy and a lot of good power and thats what its going to take to get the for the people act through. Weve got to get the president and members of the senate the power they need to get this done. Thats why were rallying at the capitol. Also breaking, millions of americans are facing eviction as a federal moratorium is hours away from expiring. Missouri Congresswoman Corey Bush slept outside on the Capitol Hill steps in protest after house democrats failed to push through a lastminute extension. Msnbc caught up with her earlier on her efforts. The night was it was necessary to continue this awareness because we need the powers that be to understand that were not