on her home continent. we have to start looking at other ways to get enough vaccines to the market and also into people s arms. on her home continent. hello and welcome. senators in brazil have recommended criminal charges to be laid against president bolsonaro over his handling of the covid pandemic. he s been facing accusations varying from misuse of public funds to crimes against humanity. a senate committee voted by a majority to hold him responsible for many of brazil s covid deaths, which have now passed 600,000. katy watson reports from brasilia. he speaks portuguese.
corn. what you see in green, those are cocoas. very much in line and tune with pope francis s recent encyclical about going green. now, about the people who are here, vatican radio is reporting this morning of a type of exodus from argentina. and that s why this could be the largest mass we ve seen since pope francis landed in his home continent. they re reporting this is immigration officials from both countries that 1.5 million ar generdr argentina ians could be here. he s expecting to be back next year, hopefully. and we know that he s anticipating that. just to give you a sense of the
good morning. i m reena ninan. i m ryan smith. here are some of the top headlines we re following this morning on world news now. the heat wave in the west is fueling dozens of wildfires. some homes destroyed and hundreds of people evacuated. the air quality is considered unhealthy because of the smoke. more details in a moment. european finance ministers meet today hoping to resolve the greek debt crisis. germany holding firm but other countries may be willing to make concessions after greek voters rejected new austerity measures. a million people greeted pope francis in his stop in ecuador. the first stop for the native son. the first latin american pope on his first papal visit to his home continent. starting today, your morning brew at starbucks going to cost you a bit more. while coffee prices are down, the cost of labor and rent is
here in ecuador s largest city, the crowd stretched back as far as the eye could see. this open air mass is the first big public event of the pope s trip. as you can see, a huge turnout, more than a million people turning out despite sweltering heat. the first latin american pope is on his first papal visit to spanish speaking peoples on his home continent. the mood here electric. during the mass pope francis told a story from his childhood. when he asked his mom which of her five kids she really loved. she held up five fingers. losing any one of them would hurt her just the same. the message, we re all equal in god s eyes. the people here embracing pope francis. as one of their own. david wright, abc news, ecuador. thank you, david. there s an emergency summit today of european economic officials because of the
quito. he s going to be visiting with the president and going into the cathedral that you see behind me, meeting with clergy. he s going to cross the plaza behind me and mingle with the crowd. so you have seen him do that a lot and, of course he s going to do that in his home continent. he just broke bread with hundreds of thousands of faithfuls in guayaquil. it was a packed house. he spoke about the importance of the family and the mother in the family and the importance of the family unit and unity and how the family is the first hospital for all of its members. he also talked brooke about service and how service is true love and that service is not about charity. it s about having a social responsibility. now, it s no mistake that he chose three countries that are some of the poorest countries in south america for this visit.