throughment rich edson is joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. good afternoon, griff. when president biden returns to washington the white house says he ll be negotiating with republicans and democrats and a compromise on infrastructure. they re discussing a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal however there are stick being points, how to pay for this. democrats want tax increases and republicans want to use unspent covid relief funds. his own proposal, as you know, is a huge package, 2.65 trillion dollars with a $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. now, griff, as you mentioned, democrats are working on two tracks here, there s that bipartisan trillion dollar track, but also looking for a larger bill, something in the order of $6 trillion, potentially up to that much. this is something that the democrats would have to pass with al
plus the great kings and queens of egypt have made it to their final resting place. i ll speak with the egyptian minister. good to have you with us. for a second year in a row people around the world are waking up to an easter sunday impacted by the coronavirus. now lock downs and health guidelines mean scaled back celebrations for oh, so many, and that includes pope francis. the pontif has been leading services with safety in mind all weekend. we want to go straight to the vatican and our vatican correspondent. she s in front of st. peters square. delia, can you believe it? this is the second easter in lock down for the pope. and if you think of europe, this spring, easter, supposed to be a time of renewal and yet that seems to be such a long way off. what is the pope s message at this point in time when this is the second easter we ve been going through this? well, you know, it s interesting, paula, because just last night at the easter vigil that was his message, tha
shootings? access to weapons? your kids start getting killed. white people s kids start getting killed. smoking that which is legal in your state. the cop kills him. why did you run? he had a baseball game. a white kid. that big house over there. those start piling up. what is going on with these police? oh! maybe we should not have police? that kind of mania, that kind of madness, that will be you. that will be the majority because it s your people. greg: he does an amazing white person voice. [laughing]. greg: it sounded like he was not the privileged wealthy brother of a governor. he cares more about his black victims than his lily-white audience. he mox them. mocks them. his solution to police brutality, more police brutality. he suggest white kids need to be killed by cops maybe he will cover it. right now he would ignore that because it doesn t fit the narrative that police brutality is racist. just a few short months ago i am so tired of playing this clip but w
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. for more than 30 years, the human rights organisation memorial has been chronicling the abuses of the soviet era to ensure the crimes and victims are unearthed and are not forgotten. but now the supreme court has banned russia s oldest human rights organisation liquidated it, to use their language accusing it of violating a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. it comes at the end of a year in which the kremlin has cracked down vigorously on its critics. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has described it as an affront to human rights. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. more and more, it feels as if russia is turning the clock back. liquidate, the judge says, as she orders one of russia s oldest civil rights groups, international memorial, to shut down. the n60 was found to have broken russia s draconian foreign agents law. disgraceful decision, the reaction from the
on theater row in manhattan. - and once upon a time, it was like that, but can broadway survive the closures this festive season as covid wrecks the shows? hello and welcome. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. for more than 30 years, the human rights organisation memorial has been chronicling the abuses of the soviet era to ensure the crimes and victims are unearthed and are not forgotten. but now, the supreme court has banned russia s oldest human rights organisation liquidated it to use their language accusing it of violating a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. it comes at the end of a year in which the kremlin has cracked down vigorously on its critics. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has described it as an affront to human rights. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. more and more, it feels as if russia is turning the clock back. liquidate, the judge says, as she orders one of russia s oldest civil rights groups,