Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
I think thats why were here. [applause] mayor lyles but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists do. So i want to recognize dammit wesley. Is dammit around . Okay. Gianna mccantz. Wheres gianna . Gianna . Marcus,w as, garrison, frank, and john harrison. They have done a mural that says camp north in charlotte, north , carolina build back better. And we all know whose plan that is. So thank you very much for being here this morning. I am going to say that i would like to int
of incarceration of uyghurs and other minorities it includes evidence of a shoot to kill policy. the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan last year was a disaster, says an inquiry by mps, which will damage the nation s interests for years. the murder of three year old kemarni watson darby his mother s boyfriend is jailed for at least 2a years, after subjecting the toddler to weeks of beatings. good morning everyone and welcome to the brand new elizabeth line service. and the train pulling in is three years late and £4 billion over budget crossrail opens for business, as the first passengers catch the elizabeth line. it was a long wait but, you know, it s here now, and we are on it. the journey time between canary wharf and whitechapel blew my mind. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: gareth southgate is set to announce his squad for next month s nations league games, when england will take on hungary, italy and germany. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc new