when he was watching. u.s. president elect joe biden pledges action to hold those behind the massive cyber attack accountable. and 5 prison doctors and health workers are killed on their way to work in the latest bomb attack in afghanistan. with the sports news as the cost of delaying the take care lympics is reveals the postponement because of coronaviruses added $2800000000.00 to what s already the most expensive summer games in history. we begin this hour in israel where the parliament has less than an hour to pass a budget if it fails the country will be forced into its 4th general election in just 2 years from minister benjamin netanyahu government has been moving towards collapse as rifts opened up with his governing party and rival benny gantz if the budget dispute isn t resolved by midnight local time the knesset is automatically dissolved means fresh elections will be held in march but could be risky for netanyahu who has faced 6 months of protests because of alleged
coronavirus up. and the changing color of antarctica how close a warming is giving it. a powerful so i cloud has slammed ashore in eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter so when a barrel towards land is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the region well that has since been downgraded elizabeth purnell reports now from new delhi. sounding the alarm india s national disaster response force one people in the state of west bank all ahead of cycling on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are pushing trees. more than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and another 150000 to the state of disarray bond with their issues of actuating around 2000000 people and that. many people have come to the shelters since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses aren t made of concrete and bricks people here live in basic structures as of mud. the de
should be the ones making the decision and they re making noises on coronavirus on climate change we meet the young dutch with a passion for politics. 2 of the most powerful politicians in the u.s. have just started their 1st foray into kenya asian nations and already there s a wary eye being kept on north korea secretary of state anthony blinken than secretary of defense lloyd austin started the trip with high level meetings in japan well ahead of their arrival the sister of north korea s leader kim jong warned the new job the ministration to quote not do anything unseemly well we ll get more on that shortly from rob mcbride in south korea but 1st thought is solemn a is in tokyo thought he said this trip by anthony blinken and lloyd austin may be about strengthening allies and countering china but what will japan be hoping to get out of this. this is a very important visit for japan 1st of all this is complete the change from the so-called the america 1st policy of former us
in the years since we last met, here in chicago indeed, just in the last few days, we have seen examples of something that is quite extraordinary. cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing when necessary national governments to look to each other for solutions to global problems. in the last week alone, mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had originally been an agreement among nations, the paris climate accord. yet climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. quite the opposite. it is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. governance and human rights, and indeed so many other critical issues that face our world today. in fact extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. direct city to city coordination is emerging and maturing, becoming wonderfully ordinary. why? why is this happening? the answer is that urbanization is the most consequential force s
suspend venezuela while ignoring the recent ouster of dilma rousseff in brazil? the international right wing carried out a coup in brazil and the organization of american states went violent. right now they re threatening to intervene in our country. amy: we will get response from venezuela s ambassador to oas. and then, could the upcoming rio olympics help cement the coup in brazil? we will speak to sportswriters dave zirin and jules boycoff, both just back from brazil. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. presumptive republican presidential nominee donald trump has attacked the news media for pushing him to explain what he did with millions of dollars he claimed to have raised for veterans. at a fundraiser in january, trump said he raised over $6 million for veterans groups. last week, after the washington post said they could trace only about half of that, $3.1 million going to vet groups