Undation. An by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutio americas neglected needs. And by contrns to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. In this is bbc world news america. My son matters. Those are the words of the father of jacob lake, a man shot in the back several times in wisconsin, leading to widespread protest. Night two of the Republican Nation Convention featured three people call trump. It is the psidents party. Anger and unrest in belarus as thousando take t the streets. Who are criticizing thepeople countrys leadership. In spain cal out the military to tackle covid as the country sees its biggest surge in months. Katty elcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. The father of jacoblake, the ma who was shot in the back by police in wisconsin, says his son is paralyzed from the waist down. Details of exactly whatne hap are still rather thin, but the anger over the incident is very real. This afternoon in kenosha, the family spoke to
Gentlemen standing back there dont have to go home and tell their wives, or their kids or their husbands when the next job is going to come. Ryan by the end of this afternoon, more than 200 people spoke out for and against this controversial pipeline project. It is now in the hands of the threemember iowa utilities board. Kevin a total of 280 people signed up to speak at todays open hearing on the bakken oil pipeline. 134 were listed in favor of the project. 80 of them list an out of state address. 143 were opposed to the pipeline. Only 3 say theyre from outside iowa. 3 of the speakers saying they were neutral. The Public Comment portion of the pipeline hearing is over. But the evidentiary hearings continue until early next month. With the last hearing scheduled for thursday, december 3. With the boards final decision expected sometime in late december or early january. Kevin we asked our kcci. Com users if the pipeline should be built in iowa. So far, the vote in our unscientific poll
Eliminate obamacare or delay it so they can eliminate it later gets to the other part of the matter which is how much longer do you ask americans with pre existing conditions to go without Health Insurance . How much longer do you ask a in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month to go without how long do you ask her to go without Health Insurance, to go without coverage . From octoberle now 1. Americans have been able to sharp have been able to shop for and enroll in affordable Health Insurance plans. Portal through which they can do that has been inadequate and has functioned poorly. We are fixing that every day. A look at the cms center website. Getting your thoughts on healthcare. Gov, how it is working or not working. John says it has been a bad experience. Hi, john. Ill lays try to get on, four or five times over the last two weeks and have never gotten past. Host what slows you down . Face. the happy put on all the information they ask for and what worries me is the information th
The World Health Organization declares a polio emergency. The director general has declared the spread of wild polio virus today 2014 a Public Health emergency of international concern. 74 cases of polio due to wild polio virus so far this year. 59 of those cases have been reported from pakistan. We will look at the link between the outbreak of polio in the cia. Polio has been on the rise in pakistan ever since the cia ran a fake vaccination scheme to track down Osama Bin Laden. We will get the latest on the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in nigeria. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The boko haram has released a video showing the first images of the kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls since their abduction nearly one month ago. Close to half the nearly 300 girls are seen on the tape, chanting what appears to be a verse from the koran. Leader is also shown and appears to offer the girls freedom in exchange for th
The very latest from europe. Where anger and violence follows the death of three protesters in the ukrainian capitol in kiev. And wanted the woman who is said to be plotting the Winter Olympics. And we take a look at the duel tax system in parts of afghanistan. After three years of fighting, and more than 100,000 deaths, the Syrian Government and the opposition are finally sitting at the same table. Buddies agreed over the future of president Bashar Alassad is threatening negotiations even before they begin. We have correspondent covering all sides of the story for us. But first lets get this report on the days event from james bayes. Reporter it took almost eight months to get both sides to this peace conference, both the Syrian Government and representatives of the Syrian Opposition in the same room, along with representatives from 40 nations. Ban kimoon laid out the aim of the process. The geneva communique sets out a number of key steps, starting with the establishment of a transit