Department to protect voting rights. Currently under his trouble from republican state lawmakers, and to that and, he will be doubling the size of the doj s voting rights division in the next month. More eyes to monitor the growing number of false election audits. Sparred by the big lie and more hands on deck to push back against the mountain of state level voter suppression that has originated since donald trump s defeat. Those hope for democrats signature voting protection bills shrink by the day. Not entirely because of expected sabotaged by senate republicans, but also the inflexibility and cowardice of some senate democrats. Meanwhile, president biden in england currently for this weekend s g summit conference of nations. It s a growing call to ditch negotiations over his infrastructure plans, as the gop makes it clear the only thing they want fixed our elections they are losing. We start the show today with congresswoman jayapal, democrat of august washington state. Congresswoman
Rights. Currently under historic peril from republican state lawmakers and, to that end, garland will be doubling the size of the doj s voting rights division in the next month. More eyes to monitor the growing number of false election audits spawned by the big lie, and more hands on deck to push back against the mountain of statelevel voter suppression that has originated since donald trump s defeat. This as hope for democrats signature voter protection bills shrink by the day, and not entirely because of expected sabotage by republicans, but also the inflexibility and cowardace of senate democrats. Also the conference of nations is facing a growing call them to to ditch negotiations over his infrastructure plans as the gop makes it clear the only thing they want fixed are elections they lose in. We start the show today with congresswoman pramila jayapal, democrat of washington state. Congresswoman jayapal, i have to get your response to attorney general garland s dramatic announcem
and 40 other states. what is this all about? imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote? can t do that? come on. or you re going to close a polling place at 5:00 when working people just get off? this is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks that i grew up with from being able to vote. major league baseball commissioner rob manford said in part in 2020 mlb became the first professional sports league to join the nonpartisan civic alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the united states. we proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout the country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. fair access to voting continues to have our game s unwavering support. republican governor brian kemp of georgia, a ringleader of the latest gop voter suppression efforts responded with a statement that reads in part, geor
where any new variant is discovered. signs of progress are leading to ease red d restrictions followea surge. still, cases higher than they were during any of the summer surges even as numbers decline. the u.s. is still reporting nearly 65,000 new cases and more than a thousand deaths per day. more than 67,000 americans are currently in the hospital fighting this virus. but, again, these case numbers are much lower than what we saw last month. going by the 7-day average, new cases dropped 58.5%, hospitalizations dropped 44%. moments ago the world health organization talking about it like this. so far this year, the number of weekly reported cases has fallen by almost half, from more than 5 million cases in the week of january 4 to 2.6 million cases in the week starting february 8. just five weeks. this shows that simple public health measures work, even in the presence of variants. what matters now is how we respond to this trend. the fire is not out, but we have reduced it
the negotiating groups and have been told by the negotiating groups and have been told by groups and individual parties told by groups and individual parties that they want to see ambition parties that they want to see ambition for the outcome of cop26. also in ambition for the outcome of cop26. also in the ambition for the outcome of cop26. also in the programme. we are turning to south africa. fw deklerk, the last president to rule south africa under white minority rule has died aged 85. he left this message for south africa hours before his death i. i, without qualification, apologise for it that pain and the hurt, and the indignity, and the damage that apartheid has done. the eu threatens to sanction airlines trafficking migrants to belarus. we ll have the latest from misnk. people waiting for taxis to travel to the border with poland. in our weekly in depth look in one of the main stories in the news, we have taken on the case of mrs radcliffe and herfight forfr