Mccain institute. I would like to welcome this distinguished panel today. We hope this will be an action oriented conversation about how we can create a shared, global commitment for addressing and hopefully preventing Modern Slavery in global Supply Chains. I would like to welcome on the senator Rob Portman from ohio, one of the most committed congressional leaders in the fight against human trafficking. Senator portman has offered many pieces of legislation to pursue perpetrators, and protect victims of human trafficking in the u. S. And around the world. Thank you senator, for being here. Senator portman good to be here. Mrs. Abrams i would also like to welcome theresa may. She has champion the rights of victims around the world and as her role as secretary and as prime minister. Thank you for the work you do bringing together global leaders, the ngo and civil Society Sectors to work together , so thank you for your steadfast leadership. Thank you. It is good to be with you. Mrs. Ab
toward asian americans throughout our history and fueled by the pandemic and the racist hate that has been spewed about it. there s a lot to learn about the motivation behind the attack that the alleged killer has blamed on some sort of sexual addiction. what we know according to the study of hate, there s a larger issue of race in in america and the white supremacist propaganda fueling it in an all time high. there s a fear in the communities of color of being vi victimized or falsely aaccused and so many have stories to tell about what they face daily. we will look at the stories and see what it will take to change the climate of feel, to stop this and stand together against hate. we begin tonight with my c co-anchors for the hour with stories of their own. you have covered the emotional moments on air in the occurs of reporting the story. what has it been like for you as an asian america, seeing it play out and reporting on it. anderson, it s been painful and it s been
of girls, quite a number of transactions, meaning girls getting in cars. what we re watching is something that happens in big and small cities across america. and for most of this country s history it s been illegal. oh, that must be the pimp. crackdowns and criminalization have been rampant. all night, all day, all night. but there was actually a time in this country when the federal government tried something different in one american city. when commercial sex was legalized. if you look at what nevada does today, it s the same thing that they were doing in nashville in the 1860s. the women registered. you paid $5. and we re going to give you a license. i mean, could a sex worker live fairly independently? absolutely. 150 years later there s a new movement to change how sex work is viewed. and this time we re talking about something that could happen nationwide. should prostitution be decriminalized? people have dominion over their own bodies. under the
latino population as well. a 30% increase of major crimes in new york and a 16% spike in shootings and tack on a low subway ridership and attacks on asian-americans on subways feeling the anxiety new york is returning to its crime ridden bad old days and happening while in the midst of a supreme court case that challenges require the that a person show proper cause to secure an unrestricted license to publicly carry a concealed handgun meaning if the court strikes down the law, it could be more guns and more violence on the subways. let s bring in jessie. i ll warn you we re waiting for the press conference so i hope i don t have to rudely interrupt you but what are you looking at right now? reporter: all good, joy. we re monitoring several developments ourself looking at the news conference and got word from the team at headquarters the governor of new york s chief of staff, her team tweeting out a photo of the governor of the subway tonight so officials here in new york a
7a people, including 12 children, killed in a fire that swept through an abandoned five storey building injohannesburg. these are images of the blaze. there are reports that some of the dead, who lived in a maze of shacks and other makeshift structures, threw themselves out of the windows to escape the fire. emergency services says a further 52 people were injured. that search and recovery operation is being carried out floor by floor, with fears the death toll could rise further. a resident of the building, who managed to escape, gave us this account of what happened. i don t know how it start, but when we wake up, the whole building, it was fire. we don t know how it start. how did you get out? we jumped out of the window. yeah. i jumped out of the window, and my wife throw me the baby. i catch the baby, and hejump, i catch him. yeah, and we were out, but all our things burned. president cyril ramaphosa is heading to the scene to be briefed by the emergency services. a few