These children are dying because society has yet to decide that their lives are worth saving. Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede, and what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Fidelity wealth management. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff covid19 set all kinds of records in the u. S. This week, and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. R
Racism that is spewed out of washington, we have a significant increase in hate crimes over the last several years and its been a priority for me and for my office to be constantly proactive around Public Service announcements, community engagement, with other city agencies and Partnership Around prevention, and prosecution of hate crimes. Weve also taken steps to eliminate the gang unit that previously existed within the office to presumptively stop using gang enhancement and stop using sentencing enhancements. These are policies that will have a dramatic and significant effect on reducing Racial Disparities in sentencing, policing and in prosecution. And one of the first things i did after taking office was to implement a policy prohibiting my staff from seeking money bail and we are the first jurisdiction in the country to prohibit District Attorneys from ever asking the court to impose bail as a way to detain someone in custody. As youre well aware, i grew up visiting my own parent
25th anniversary of the strip let me. Just say you know. Millions could face starvation as coronavirus takes its toll wild wide that warnings from oxfam and says hunger caused by the pandemic will kill more people than the virus itself so we should step in to stop this design stuff this is inside story. And over and welcome to the program im Laura Carlisle more people will die this year from hunger caused by the pandemic than from coated 19 thats according to the Charity Oxfam which says 121000000 more people could face starvation because of reduced aid mass unemployment and destruction to Food Production and supplies it also describes that middle Income Countries such as india brazil and south africa as a merging epicenters of hunger with millions of people facing being tipped over the edge on the social and economic effects of the crisis. Well lets take a closer look at some of the figures in that report oxfam says some of the worlds poorest countries could see 12000. 00 extra deaths
Prison for corruption. A sudden rise in corona virus infections in sri lanka leads to Health Care Workers rushing to contain any further outbreaks. And an aljazeera investigation delves into facebooks handling of racist hate speech on mali. And its for a 2nd seems pulled out of Major League Soccers comeback torments nashville withdraw after a high number of bad players test positive for corona virus. Aljazeera Programme Makers are being questioned by police in malaysia about the documentary on Migrant Workers being locked up during the covert 19 locked out police say theyre investigating the programme for sedition defamation violation of the communications and multimedia act there has responded with a statement calling on the malaysian authorities to respect Media Freedom and desist from treating its journalists as criminals says it has serious concerns. Developments that have occurred in malaysia since the broadcast of its one o one east investigative documentary locked up in malaysia
Small judgment but traction line with the russian. Constitution does not apply and if theres russian back home of the governments expense again its the role of moral judgments. Just said 9 am here in moscow the 29th of june a very good morning for me kevin how in the World News Center with this update for you 1st the New York Times is facing widespread criticism this morning after publishing an article claiming russia offered bounties to taliban militants in afghanistan to kill u. S. Troops it also claimed donald trump was briefed on the matter however the director of National Intelligence denies that either the president or the Vice President were ever briefed on that and trump himself labeled a piece fake news. The free news New York Times must reveal its anonymous source but they can do it this person probably does not even exist the articles been slammed by the Russian Foreign ministry then which called the peace deliberate decision from ation south they also saw the taliban denyin