Months plus. Feet. Still breaking barriers the u. S. Congress on as Ruth Bader Ginsburg the 1st woman to lie in state at the capitol. Were going to start with developments from egypt where protesters are defying a crackdown on dissent to demand the resignation of president of the fatah elsisi the deteriorating economy one corruption angers many People Security forces made dozens of arrests when they raided homes on friday morning security remains tight in major cities some protests are being staged in rural areas farmy is assistant professor of Political Science at Long Island University and a member of the egyptian rule of Law Association she explains why this movement has come as a surprise to egypts leadership and to observers. Well this is it really interesting moment in egypts modern history if you recall just around this time last year this. Figure in exile mohammed ali had emerged and was starting to narron to gyptian people what was really happening inside of egypts political e
We are scared as black people in america. Odonnell 2020 america decides. Tonights Republican National convention will feature First Lady Melania Trump from the rose garden, and secretary of state mike pompeo shatters Lady Melania Trump from the rose gard tradition with a political speech from jerusalem. Only on cbs the f. D. A. Commissioner backtracks. Why dr. Stephen hahn now says data he shared was misleading. And, some experts are experts are concerned the Administration May politicize a vaccine. Nationwide laptop shortage. As kids go back to school remotely, why schools are having trouble buying computers. Jerry falwell, jr. Embroiled in scandal. The man who helped deliver trump the evangelical vote in 2016, tonight speaks to cbs news. What he says about the pool s about the poolleges a seven yearlong affair with falwell and his wife. And finally, meet a man who went from Security Guard to medical student, at the very same hospital. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell,
Mediterranean turkey plans a military exercise a day after claiming to chase down a great fighter jets. And anger in parts of europe over coronavirus restrictions raising fears of a new wave of infections. Thousands of women have marched in bella ruse to denounce state violence against protesters since the president ial vote on or was the 9th authorities have arrested thousands of people now theyve started withdrawing accreditation from journalists with some expelled on saturday reports. Defying what looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we wont forget we wont forgive part of what they call a peacekeeping force designed to stop Peaceful Protesters being intimidated thousands marched in the capital minsk. Since Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president earlier this month officially winning 80 percent of the vote there have been daily demonstrations several people have been killed and hundreds more injured and now the authorities have started withdrawing
In a renewed drive against Police Brutality and a demand for Racial Justice and flash flooding triggers landslides in afghanistan at least 150 People Killed its one parts of corruption in neighboring pakistan so. The white scene game goes on for basketballs biggest stars after 2 days of protest against social injustice its still to be confirmed if the playoffs will resume this friday. However in the European Union is edging closer to imposing sanctions on bell russian officials it has linked to electoral fraud as well as the violent crackdown on protesters the blocs Foreign Ministers have all but agreed on a list of almost 20 high ranking people but they havent said exactly who some e. U. States want president Alexander Lukashenko to be included on that list of course hes faced mass demonstrations since winning elections that critics say were raked. There was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible for their fraudulent elections in their rule
Out of the meticulous factchecking that went into covering the first night of a Republican Convention. And say what you will about Republican Conventions of the past, and i was a part of a lot of them, they sought to hugh to the facts and make their case from there. This was a totally different undertaking. Thats right. There may be some exaggeration that comes with every Political Convention but what we saw last night was a real list of misleading statements. Everything from the fact that joe biden wants to abolish the police to the fact that president obama wants to abolish the suburbs to the fact that President Trump was quickly responding to the coronavirus and did all that he could in the very beginning to try to thwart the virus. We know the president downplayed the virus. He talked about the fact it was going to disappear miraculously. The president in his first speech at the Republican National convention said he was dealing with the virus and it was going away that it is happe