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we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., ....
germany, angela merkel prepares to step down. we have a special report on how she has influenced gender equality. and tributes are paid to sir clive sinclair, the home computing pioneer who s died at the age of 81. hello, and welcome. the uk government is expected to announce changes today to the rules for international travel. among them could be a simpler traffic light system for green, amber and red list countries and fewer tests. our transport correspondent caroline davis reports. sunshine, but no one sunbathing. 80% of the guests at this hotel in turkey would have been british in a normal year. turkey went on the red list in may, meaning anybody travelling from there to the uk has to quarantine in a hotel. since then it has been a difficult summer, but they are holding out hope it can change. we have just about survived but it has been very, very challenging. at the moment we are very, very quiet. so to get the british market for a sort of go ahead at this stage, i ....
after a stunning series of attacks today against targets in new york and in washington d.c.. the world trade center and the pentagon. the terrorist used hijacks a billion airliners and their passengers as guided missiles in their attacks. the most serious attack on this country since pearl harbor. tonight, the dead still are being counted, an unknown number still of missing. at this hour, in this war, another development, there are reports out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan, of explosions, with the pentagon and the cia are flatly denying that the united states had anything to do with those explosions. this has been one of the darkest days in america, and it is not yet over. here at home now a quick look at the locations where the airliners hit, the twin towers of the world trade center, 20 minutes apart. then, within an hour this morning, the pentagon. and then, the final crash just minutes later about 80 miles southeast of pittsburgh, 266 people on the four airpl ....
it is good to see you. thank you for being with us. i m geoff bennett for another hour of msnbc reports. how a texas restrictive abortion law is driving patients to neighboring states and how residents are stepping up to protest the law. and now, how the death toll of hurricane ida is continuing to climb. up to 70 in multiple states. the president is going to new jersey to tour the devastation after he visited louisiana where hundreds of thousands are without power after a week after the storm. also, this hour, the latest on the covid pandemic, and the u.s. is hitting 40 million cases over the weekend, and the number of people dying daily is rising amid another surge from this holiday weekend. but we start with the staggering damage and devastation from ida. joining us now from louisiana is nbc s vaughan hillyard in lafayette, and we have john in st. jhn parish and anne is our msnbc correspondent reporting on the devastation. so, we go to you, vaughan, what have you ....
of race can be called into question. this is all the result of decades of work, even longer. even the united daughters of the confederacy bullied school boards to teach white supremacist propaganda as u.s. history. the latest strategy according to the propublica pieces to seize control of the gop from the bottom up. galvanized by none other than steve bannon. you know that saying, good artist copy, and great artist steel, bannon is activating his army of trump worship-ing conspiracy theorist to swarmed the precincts. let s be clear, the precinct strategy is in bannon s brain child, this is simply as propublica notes something that he plucked out of obscurity. wait a minute, this strategy, maybe not so obscure, republicans have been flooding the election boards, school boards and local city county ranks for a long time. let s not forget there pinch off for purging the courts. it s just out in the open now. its use of intimidation has been truly unleashed. at this point, ....