Angry scenes irans foreign minister zarif is heckled by politicians in parliament. And croatia goes to the polls to choose a new government amid a recession and the coronavirus pandemic. And im Peter Simmons with the sport is formula one makes a thrilling. The action coming up later as well as an anti racism protest on the grid. And we begin with the increasing number of covert 1000 cases worldwide saturday so the biggest single day rise since the pandemic began with more than 212000 new infections globally now the majority of those were in latin america which now has more cases than europe mexico has been reporting record new infections its now got the 5th highest death toll in the world in israel officials have ordered thousands of people back into quarantine as they deal with the worst surge in you cases since the outbreak began the governments also resumed its controversial phone Surveillance Program to track cases. And theres a Record Number of new cases in the philippines its gov
Good afternoon and welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of books this festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the National Endowment of the humanities. Public Financial Support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities. Org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. You should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. That will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. Ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. Now about her guest. Actress Connie Britton is the boston native. She was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. Her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. A great film. She
Good afternoon and welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of books this festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the National Endowment of the humanities. Public Financial Support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities. Org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. You should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. That will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. Ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. Now about her guest. Actress Connie Britton is the boston native. She was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. Her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. A great film. She
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