the state s new election law is dividing those who believe it s a way to stop the black vote and those who believe it protects everyone s vote. georgia is the flash point for the nationwide battle over voting rights. natasha chen in atlanta with the growing anger over the new law president biden calls jim crow in the 21st century. natasha? reporter: about 150 people gathered outside atlanta city hall to oppose this georgia voter bill and also to stand with georgia representative park cannon, who was arrested for knocking on the door of the governor s office to try to witness him signing this bill. a lot of the signs we re seeing say i stand with park, stop suppressing our votes. a lot of strong, passionate opinions here about protecting people s access to vote. i spoke with one person who was actually there witnessing park cannon arrested that day. she was knocking on the door. it happened right in front of me and for it to end with her being taken away, it was horrif
ships in the world is still blocking the suez canal. welcome, everyone. the world is looking on myanmar, with horror, the day after security forces reportedly killed 114-unarmed civilians. it is, by far, the bloodiest day of military violence, since the coup last month. aid groups fear, the real-death toll is, probably, much higher. this all happened, on the day that myanmar s top general promised to, quote, protect civilians, and uphold democracy. but instead, according to local-news reports, security forces killed people, in 44 towns across the country. and they didn t just target protestors. several children are among the dead. one victim, a 13-year-old girl, reportedly, gunned down in her own home. now, myanmar s u.n. envoy calls it a massacre, and is begging for real-international action. the defense chiefs of the u.s., uk, canada, and several other nations, releasing a rare-joint statement, condemning myanmar s military. here s one example of how brutal the violence i
rights groups are calling georgia s new law jim crow for the 21th century. president biden says the justice department is looking at the voting law, while blasting the people who passed it. it s an atrocity. the idea, if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they passed a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote. republicans like governor kemp argue this voting law is designed to secure election integrity. it wasn t a voting rights bill, it was a security bill that will allow georgia to have secure, accessible, fair elections. outrage is growing following the arrest of georgia state representative cannon. she was handcuffed after she knocked on the door of the governor s office where the law signing was taking place. cannon has been released on bond and said on twitter, we will not live in fear and we will not be controlled. we have a right to our future and a ri
it is a law that voting rights advocates say overtly targets minority residents in georgia, making it harder for them to vote. remember, voters in georgia not only flipped their state from red to blue in november s presidential election, they also voted out their two gop senators and replaced them with democrats in a january runoff election. critics of georgia s governor accuse him of creating this law to restrict voting. president biden does not disagree. it s an atrocity. the idea if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness or decency, they pass a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote? you don t need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. you can t provide water for people about to vote. give me a break. president biden is referring to one part of this new voter access law that makes it a crime to provide food or water to people waiting
having with one entity or another. what i get to is that the president did have an opportunity to talk with chancellor merkel today, and their conversation was focused on the situation inside of syria and they shared a deep concern about the increase in violence there. they also had an opportunity to discuss the situation in ukraine as well. and continued violation of ukraine s territorial integrity by the russians. but i don t have more detailed readout of the conversation to share beyond. josh, thanks. [inaudible] the president is aware of the crash in hoboken. just received a detailed briefing at this point, fsk is still in its early stage of that investigation is being led by the national transportation safety board. i know that the federal railroad administration is involved as well, and has personnel on site. they are collecting as much information about what happened as they can. the president will be updated on that situation as they learn more. i m not aware of a