Rootsweb the president is still resisting calls to resign and a nationwide strike is planned for monday u. S. Vice president mike pence continues campaigning off to report suggest at least 5 senior Staff Members have tested positive for corona virus. And a ban on Nuclear Weapons will soon become a reality but is it worth the paper its written on. The program our top story months after the pandemic brought them to a standstill iraq has again been thrown into turmoil by massive antigovernment protests Security Forces fired tear gas and mortar cabinet demonstrators tried to enter baghdads heavily fortified green zone thousands of people returned to the streets of the capital to mark a year since the movement against unemployment and corruption 1st started the rallies led to the resignation of the former Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah matty hundreds of protesters were killed in months of unrest across the country well al jazeera is Simona Fulton was that when protesters try to enter the
Resign. U. S. Vice president might bans continues campaigning off the reports suggest at least 5 senior Staff Members have tested positive for corona virus. And a ban on Nuclear Weapons will soon become a reality but is it worth the paper its written on. The program we begin this news hour in chile where voters i have just a few hours left to cost their ballot in a historic referendum on whether to change the countrys constitution a vote is a result of fierce antigovernment protests which of consume the country since last year at the heart of the unrest lingering inequality enshrined in the current constitution which was enacted decades ago during the pinochet dictatorship more than 14000000. 00 people are eligible to vote including president Sebastian Pinera who cost his votes in the capital santiago they have been long queues of people outside polling stations and soldiers a controlling entry with strict sanitary measures obviously because of the pandemic our latin america editor you
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,
Coronavirus death toll after the u. S. And cases are on the rise across all of south america despite this some countries are easing restrictions will get the latest from Rio De Janeiro. And in sports are making a late rush hoping to stay in the bonus league for another season after a 5 star performance against powerball. Im way im good thanks for joining another young black man is dead in the u. S. At the hands of police now Atlanta Georgia police chief has resigned as a result and the mayor has called for the officer involved to be fired area residents have converged on the scene of the incident to protest the friday night shooting death of 27 year old ray shard brooks Atlanta Police say. He was asleep in his car blocking a fast food drive through lane he said to have resisted arrest after failing a sobriety test now security footage then shows brooks running away with the officers stun gun and possibly pointing it back at them when police opened fire and killed him with an estimated
A late rush hoping to stay in the bundesliga for another season after a 5 star performance against public. Im rebecca it is welcome to the program and now the young black man is dead in the u. S. At the hands of police the police chief in Atlanta Georgia has resigned and the Department Spokes person has told the us media the officer in question has also been fired the victim brooks is said to have resisted arrest after failing a sobriety test security video shows he was shot while running from police and holding one of the officers stun guns. Once again Footage Showing Police in the us killing a black man this time at a wendys fast food drive through and. Ga. The death of 27 year old Richard Brooks sparked a new wave of unrest in the city with protesters setting fire to the wendys restaurant where he was killed and blocking a highway. The citys police chief resigned and atlantas mayor called for a change. I firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and wh