Vaccinated. Crime tape across america. Another deadly weekend with at least nine more Mass Shootings. And we are live in ethiopia, a country mired in Crisis And Conflict but going to the polls at this hour for what the government calls its first free election. Good to have you with us. The biden administration is pushing the president s goal of at least partially vaccinating 70 the adult population by july 4th. But so far, only 16 states and the District Of Columbia have met that objective. While the u. S. Will likely miss that goal, former Fda Commissioner Dr. Scott gottlieb says they wont have a major impact. Instead, the u. S. Should start thinking about the next phase of the vaccination evident. N effort. Now we need to think about pushing to the vaccine where people could get it through a trusted intermediary, doctorss offices, schools, places of employment to get the people who are reluctant or face challenges getting to the access sites. As people start to plan to go back to wor
and abba is back with their first album in forty years. we ll have all the details. welcome to world news america on pbs, in the uk and around the globe. the trial of three men accused of murdering a black man while he was outjogging has begun today in the us state of georgia. the death in february last year of 25 year old ahmaud arbery sparked protests across the us. further controversy has followed after a nearly all white jury was selected for the trial in which the defendants have pleaded not guilty. our north america correspondent aleem maqbool is in brunswick, georgia for us tonight, and sent this report. as the trial opened, video of ahmaud arbery s final moments were played. all too much for his mother who let out a cry. sitting in front of her in the foreground here, the man who pulled the trigger. this was the video they were watching, three armed white men had pursued ahmaud saying he resembled a burglary suspect. they cornered him and shot and killed him. ahma
hello. thank you forjoining me for unspun world, where the bbc s experts give us their in depth thoughts about what s really going on in world affairs. vladimir putin holds his referendums that s what he calls them aboutjoining russia in four areas of ukraine. but how great is the danger that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself
that this will bring us closer to nuclear war? in the event that those territories are attacked by ukraine, we ve been warned that the nuclear doctrine applies. russia s way of fighting its war with ukraine has been pretty chaotic so far. but does that mean that vladimir putin might actually be pushed aside at some point? the youngsters, they are going to start questioning this policy and this worldview pretty soon, especially when we see the failures on the front line and more body bags arriving into the country. and kenya has a new president, a village lad who has made it to the very top. but how worried should we be about all the allegations of corruption against him? he called himself, styled himself as the hustler who rose from nothing. but that puts a lot of pressure mr ruto, because he has to deliver. so, russia s referendums in the four areas of ukraine that it s taken over have resulted in votes to join russia which are estimated at up to 99.2%. i suppose if you have
What exactly he will do. four years ago, a wonderful thing happened in ethiopia a country which has suffered so much over the decades. its president, abiy ahmed, was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2019 for his work in ending the stalemate between ethiopia and eritrea. but, only a year after winning the prize, he launched what became a civil war in the north of the country. the situation s gone from bad to worse and there s been no aid coming into ethiopia for over a month now. what s gone so badly wrong there? kalkidan yibeltal of the bbc s african service in addis ababa. it s a dramatic turn of events, from hope and optimism back in 2018 and 2019. and now we are in this protracted civil war