bernard did not shoot and kill the victims in this case.ot the person who planned this robbery gone wrong. >> why didn't you speak up then? >> first of all, it would not have mattered. the federal government lead prosecutor in her district, y're not allowed to concede air. amy: even a former federal prison warden has said brandon bernard should -- his sentence should be commuted because of his good conduct during his 20 years on death row. that on tuesday, federal judge denied a request to halt bernard's execution. as his options narrow, he was -- his aunt rahsha williams at the federal prison in terre haute, indiana, where he is scheduled to be executed on thursday. over thert is broken thought of my nephew being executed. i went there ready to encourage .nd and be uplifting to him it was just the opposite. he uplifted us. .e is at peace he has accepted what has happened, but he is hopeful. amy: for more, we go to terre haute, indiana, where brandon -- were every prisoner on death row where they are executed is executed. it is there that b

bernard was convicted for the deadly carjacking of youth ministers todd and stacy bagley in 1999. two others involved who were under the age of 18 were tried as juveniles and have been released from prison but bernard who was 18 faced a different fate. >> it hurts, first of all, to know that they want to execute him. i don't believe that the punishment that they're giving him meets the crimes. >> reporter: bernard's defenders argue he was a low-level gang member just following orders and the case has stirred debate over punishing young offenders. several celebrities came to bernard's defense arguing for life in prison including kim kardashian west. but thursday the supreme court denied his last-minute appeal. kardashian responded on twitter writing, i'm so messed up right now. they killed brandon. he was such a reformed person. so hopeful and positive until the end. before his death bernard directed his final words to his victims' family telling them, i'm sorry. he made a similar apology in 2016. >> i have tried to be a better person since that day. i can't imagine how they feel a

brandon bernard's case had attracted the support of elaborate is like kim kardashian west.rm activist had called on her followers to tweet donald trump to save mr benign. and tomorrow, another federal execution is scheduled at the same penitentiary in indiana. these executions come just weeks before joe indiana. these executions come just weeks beforejoe biden ta kes just weeks beforejoe biden takes office and he has said that he will seek to enter the death penalty. the incumbent death penalty. the incumbent death penalty. the incumbent death penalty would usually defer to his successor and let the president—elect set the course. a donald trump's attorney general says he is just following the law. he says he owes it to the victims and theirfamilies to he owes it to the victims and their families to carry forward their families to carry forward the sentence. lebo diseko, bbc news, washington. let's get some of the day's other news. israel and morocco have agreed to establish diplomatic relations. the israeli prime minister, benjamin neta nyahu, described the deal as extraor

bernard did not shoot and kill the victims in this case.t the person who planned this robbery gone wrong. >> reporter: why didn't you speak up then? >> first of all, it wouldn't have mattered. the federal government when you're a prosecutor, you are not allowed to concede error. >> reporter: the u.s. attorney that runls the office where angela moore used to work told us she provided inaccurate information and if the law and or facts establish reversible error, they will concede the error. for the last 20 years, brandon bernard has sat on death row for being an accomplice in the murders of todd and stacy bagley. he has counselled at risk youth on the outside. they set up a website to make his case for clemency. >> i can't imagine how they feel about losing their family and i wish that we could all go back and change it. and i'm sorry for all of the pain i caused. >> reporter: make no mistakes about it, brandon bernard is not an innocent man, but the evidence shows he was not involved in the planning of the horrendous murders of the bagleys.

brandon bernard's the practice after a 17 year hiatus.rd's case has attracted the support of celebrities like kim kardashian west. the reality star and prison reform activist has called on her followers to treat donald trump to save mr bernard. tomorrow another federal execution is scheduled at the same penitentiary in indiana. these executions come just weeks before joe biden takes office. and he has said that he will seek to and the death penalty. the incumbent president would usually defer to his successor and that the president—elect set the course but donald trumpby the attorney general says he is just following the law. he said he owes it to be victims and theirfamilies to he said he owes it to be victims and their families to carry forward the sentence. we're joined now by former federal prosecutor mariam krinski — she is now the executive director of fair and just prosecution. thank you forjoining us. why is the trump administration made federal executions a parity? they are really just following the law as the attorney general cl

brandon bernard's case attracted the support of celebrities like kym kardashian west.vist had called at her followers to tweet donald trump to save brandon bernard. tomorrow another federal execution is scheduled at the same penitentiary in indiana. these executions come just weeks before joe executions come just weeks beforejoe biden executions come just weeks before joe biden takes executions come just weeks beforejoe biden takes office, and he has said he will seek to end the death penalty. the incumbent president would usually defer to his successor and let the president—elect the course, but donald trump's attorney general says he is just following the law. he says he owes it to the victims and theirfamilies to he owes it to the victims and their families to carry forward this sentence. let's get some of the day's other news the hong kong businessman jimmy lai has been charged under the territory's controversial national security law — on suspicion of having conspired with foreign forces to endanger national security. the media billionaire is the most high—profile

in 2000, a jury sentenced bernard to death.he shooter and bernard's co-defendant christopher vialva was executed in september. >> mr. bernard said, you know, i try every day to make up a little bit. i know it will never make up for what i did, but i'm trying to add some good to the world. >> reporter: bernard's lawyer telling cbs news last week he was a reformed man. he also says there were mitigating circumstances and that bernard was neither the shooter nor the ringleader of the attack. but experts were split on whether stasie bagley was killed from the gunshot or if she died from smoke inhalation. five jurors and a prosecutor on bernard's case pled for mercy before his death. our david begnaud spoke with one of them earlier this month. >> i have always struggled, i guess. especially at that time in my life. standing on my convictions. and i regret that now. the death penalty is far too harsh for the -- his level of involvement in this crime. >> reporter: on the day of bernard's scheduled execution, the supreme court denied h

bernard told the family of the victims that he was sorry before receiving a lethal injection. he was one of five gang members convicted in the killing of stacie and todd bagley in 1999. the gunman was executed in september while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences. bernard's case drew the attention of celebrities including kim kardashian west who lobbied president trump to commute his sentence. advocates urged bernard was only a teenager at the time of the crime. >>> to washington now, where president trump overnight unleashed a barrage of tweets backing his baseless claims of voter fraud. the move comes as four battleground states urged the supreme court to reject a texas lawsuit aimed at overturning joe biden's victory. weijia jiang reports from the white house. >> reporter: president trump did not comment on the record number of dead from the coronavirus. instead, he focused on voter fraud and what he called a corrupt election, with no evidence to prove it. even telling guests at a holiday party the legal fight is not over. >> we have tremendous cases now. >

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brandon bernard is 40 years old. he's been in prison since taking part in the 1999 murder of two youth ministers in texas. bernard's case has stirred debate over punishing young offenders because he was 18 at the time. kim kardashian west is now calling on president trump to commute bernard's sentence and she points out the prosecutor and five jurors in the case support clemency. >>> democrats in spokane, washington, say an alleged bombing attempt at their office was a politically motivated attack. a man entered the local democrat's office claiming he had a bomb. they say he held a hostage before being arrested. no explosives were found. >>> fire crews are at the scene of a house that exploded into a fireball in upstate new york. the explosion leveled the home and flames spread to other two properties there in the town of gates near rochester, and witnesses say the blast sounded like a sonic boom. no one was injured. no word yet on the cause. >>> time now for a look at your thursday weather. the radar shows the storm

this is ao—year—old brandon bernard, who was executed.ebrities saying this death does not need to take place, yet it has done, and a lot of questions over the time of this, the fa ct questions over the time of this, the fact the united states is in a transition period in terms of its administration, a lot of concern, even thejurors turning administration, a lot of concern, even the jurors turning against this. yeah, brandon bernard was a teenager when he was convicted of murder back in 1999 and he was executed today. it is very interesting timing for president trump because, as you say, it is very unusual for executions to be carried out during this presidential transition period, if you like, and particular because there are formal plans —— four more plan. if president trump has those carried out, he will have conducted the most executions under his residency than any president in over a century, which is very interesting, potentially very concerning and also, when you think that you have gotjoe biden coming in, who takes a very differen

the frenchman, general simon bernard, was a very intelligent engineer.e created many facets to this fort that made it one of the strongest strongholds here in the united states. one of the things he did is he had several angles on the fort. so, as the enemy approached the individual fort walls, there could be crossfire from different angles of the fort, on the enemy. it also has a moat. this moat was originally designed to allow them to move materials around the fort to help with its construction. after the fort was completed, the moat obviously becomes another level of defense for fort monroe. fort monroe, the largest stone fort in the united states, even today, started its construction in 1819. it would take them all the way until 1834 to finish the construction of the fort. the original intention of the fort was to house 32 pound artillery pieces to fire upon ships entering the chesapeake bay. it had water exposure and did not worry much about defense of the land behind it. fort monroe would remain the strong force of artillery might all the way up un

take brandon bernard. i got involved with this case. times now, i've been able to be on conference calls with him and with his lawyers, trying to save his life. he described -- this would be like three fridays ago. he has grown up. -- he has grown up on death row in terre haute. he has expressed remorse. can't even imagine, he is just a young kid when this crime happened of these people being killed. he did play some part in it, but anybody who knows brandon knows he would never have consented to killing people as what happened. at his trial, supposedly an expert on future dangerousness, which has widely been debunked as totally unpredictable. the jury was told he was a leader of a gang. he wasn't a leader, he was a low guy on the totem pole. they have an image of him as this mastermind, this leader who gave all the direction to these people being killed. let's get back to three or four fridays ago. a regular day in his life. along with everyone at the prison. amy: 30 seconds left. sister helen: guards come to his door, they don't say a

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many of them have gotten ill already. >> reporter: cornell bernard. abc7 news. >> and dr. patel is part of abc7 vaccine team. >> to the south bay where major outbreaks and nursing homes and a homeless shelter are threatening to put even more strain on the health care system. more than 750 new cases have been reported in the county in the last week. 67 people have been hospitalized. here's matt boone who spoke with public health officials this evening. >> reporter: the biggest outbreak is at the west wood post acute center. 151 people tested positive there during a recent outbreak. >> there is possibility. what can you do? >> reporter: he didn't want to show his face. he came by to see his dad for the first time since he came to the facility. albeit through the glass door. >> a little hard to communicate. i had to put him on my cell phone speaker phone. >> reporter: his dad has not been affected so far. he said he's been satisfied with the facility. >> good enough to communicate with us, like some other people tested positive. >> reporter: across town, the skyline health ca

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host: bernard, new york city, republican. caller: good morning. i am very fed up with so-called republicans like the rhino you have on now. pusillanimousst nonsense i've ever heard. this guy wants to get along. he doesn't care if they lie. showed on the screen again a decent conservative republican calling out two democrats who lied. they did lie. there is no doubt about that they lied. who calls them out, and this coward here that we have for a republican, and that's the problem with the republican party, he turns out and says, can't we all just get along? host: tom davis, chance to respond? guest: first of all, i've been called a rhino before by people, but i shared the house republican committee two cycles and have been a republican all my life, and anything but a rhino. --ave asked the president they are welcome and their leadership holds today, but i don't find being nasty to people has ever gotten us anywhere in terms of accomplishing goals of the american people. sure, i got along with democrats even when i was campaign chairman trying to b

will be on the other side about border shortly in paris with bernard smith but 1st let's stay in dover and get the latest from paul brown and paul what are you seeing right now in dover. but i'm still here at the gates of the pole to web police and security are letting some trucks through you can see this truck behind me but most are being turned away the ones that are going for the ones i'm told that have unaccompanied freight on them so the drivers will take those trailers in believe the trailers inside and they'll be taken onto a ship and transported away to be picked up by another drive on the other side it will be the same drive across the channel and on that way and that on that basis they get around the restrictions that the french have imposed that said that what we've seen this morning is a massive backlog 'd of trucks and lorries all around the kent area the government issued some statistics this morning talking about some 650 lorries popped up on the m on the m 20 motorway and about 870 at a holding area manston affeldt say that those statistics do not include lorries that i

many of them have gotten ill already. >> reporter: cornell bernard. abc7 news. >> and dr. patel is part of abc7 vaccine team. >> to the south bay where major outbreaks and nursing homes and a homeless shelter are threatening to put even more strain on the health care system. more than 750 new cases have been reported in the county in the last week. 67 people have been hospitalized. here's matt boone who spoke with public health officials this evening. >> reporter: the biggest outbreak is at the west wood post acute center. 151 people tested positive there during a recent outbreak. >> there is possibility. what can you do? >> reporter: he didn't want to show his face. he came by to see his dad for the first time since he came to the facility. albeit through the glass door. >> a little hard to communicate. i had to put him on my cell phone speaker phone. >> reporter: his dad has not been affected so far. he said he's been satisfied with the facility. >> good enough to communicate with us, like some other people tested positive. >> reporter: across town, the skyline health ca

live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> relief can't come soon enough. we appreciate that report. >>> san francisco's small business owners protested the city's new stay at home orders calling them detrimental to their livelihoods. they held a passionate rally in front of city hall today. protesters had a lot to say about the new orders which will force a number of nonessential businesses to close tonight. proprietors we spoke to said the orders are unfair. >> unemployment isn't enough to pay rent in san francisco so if you're going to force people to be out of work you need to make sure they can pay their rent and feed their families. deferring rent, deferring bills isn't enough. they'll never make the money up. >> she says it will be catastrophic for many across the bay area. >>> it starts at 10:00 tonight in san francisco, santa clara, and contra costa counties and then two hours later for alameda county. just after midnight. noon on tuesday for marin county. the restrictions will stay in effect until at least january 4th. napa, solano, san mateo coun

supreme court denied a stay of execution for brandon bernard.tion is expected to proceed any time now. he was scheduled to be executed more than two hours ago, at the 11th hour his defense team and, just as advocates were hoping for a reprieve from the supreme court, or president trump. right now, the 40-year-old inmate is reportedly at an indiana facility where the execution chamber is located. or not was 18 years old when he was convicted of robbing and abducting to youth ministers in texas in 1999. and accomplish up both victims of the head, while they were locked in the trunk of their car. bernard then set the vehicle on fire. >>> the annual gun buyback program is happening this weekend. the city will purchase the gun from anyone, no questions asked. members of george floyd's family joined maryland and paid for the announcement, to talk about how important it is to get those weapons off the street. >> i see a lot of my friends come you know, asked about them, they say oh, so-and-so passed away. it wasn't some disease. covid's not take them.

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which is scheduled for today bernard was 18 years old when he was arrested as an accomplice in the 1999rder of two youth ministers in texas. >>> facebook under fire. the social media giant is being sued by federal regulators and also 48 state attorneys general who accuse the rival of wiping out rivals one suit is asking that they be forced to sell off apps like instagram and whatsapp >> reporter: they're accused of -- >> they've used their dominance and power to crush out small arrivals and snuff out competition all at the expense of everyday users. >> reporter: lawsuits announced say the company used its vast resources to buy potential competitors like instagram and whatsapp. >> facebook used vast amounts of money to acquire smaller rivals and potential rivals before they could threattown company's dominance. >> the suits also mention the company suffocated other arrivals. >> you so broke the law. you identified a kuhn tender and aggressively moved to make sure they weren't a threat to you. >> reporter: the federal suit calls for whatsapp and instagram to be separated from facebook. >>

cornell bernard with the story you'll see only on abc 7 news. >> berkeley-based data science company is about to make headlines in the vaccine world. >> it's deep thought, and deep thinker. >> gary velasquez has been thinking for months about how to help those most at risk get the covid-19 vaccine first. his company is partnering with health care provider blueshield of california to locate those most vulnerable if they contract covid-19. >> vulnerability is defined to us of the probability of hospitalization, icu. >> using private and public health data, the algorithm can determine who is high risk right down to their zip code. >> we can tell you how many are vulnerable to hospitalization with the five-digit zip code. >> in the bay area the number of projected hospitalizations are high. data shows more than 50,000 in sonoma county, 43,000+ in san francisco and more than 111,000 in alameda county. a person's age and medical history are factored in and much more. >> it incorporates a number of factors like the place where you live, the presence or absence of pharmacies and food deserts

bernard smith. thank you very much indeed let's get the view from senegal nairobi can join nicholas who's in. nic this is clearly a much longer and more dangerous routes the welcome mat since we were hearing has not been so why are so many people making this dangerous journey. which used to be an industrial hardware migrants used to come and work in to the cotton mills it has turned into a transit point for migrants from across the region to come and then make their way to boats and then on to spain into the canary islands as bernard explained now these migrants some of them come from mali fleeing war and the crisis over there others come from guinea fleeing the political crisis in guinea but among those migrants are also certainly a lot of senegalese now we're inside a technical high school let me show you inside one of these classrooms these children here well most of their parents are farmers and they tell us that through the years the farming has become increasingly difficult you have parents wh

seen a coordinated response yet bernard by european nations but what more can you tell us about how they're dealing with the situation. well european nations not just when it comes to the outbreak in the united kingdom have dealt with their own borders individually are in the main different countries have a different rules on whether or not whether you can answer on how you can enter into what terms you can and there is a meeting going on at the moment to see if they can find a coordinated response to the specific issue of this mutating mutation of the virus from the united kingdom france while waiting for that meeting to reach conclusion or some sort of agreement is introduced this 48 hour ban on any transport back and forth from the united kingdom it said the trade minister said earlier on today that after this ban is lifted that the french people want to come back or people want to come back to france from the united kingdom they should expect to have a covert test before they come here macron said recently emanuel back on the president to set in the last of hour or so that might

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as abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has the story of the families who rallied in the bay area today, all with the same plea, reopen public schools. >> open schools now! open schools now! >> reporter: parents an kids marched to san francisco's city hall, a small group with a big message. >> we moat learning doesn't work at all. >> reporter: daniel katzen says his 5-year-old is falling behind. >> i'm a stay at home parent, and we have reliable wifi. it still doesn't work. my son doesn't know how to read since he's in kindergarten. >> reporter: these parents say they want to see the district open schools for in-person learning. here in berkeley, these parents echoing the same complaint, that distance learning has been a big failure. >> we're all very frustrated with our school districts. >> reporter: this rally at mlk park brought families together. eighth grader ella haynesworth talked about her struggles. >> it's hard for a lot of people, and my mental health hasn't been so great during zoom school. it's all been pretty chaotic. >> we really believe that guided by science, our school

france bernard banning all travel from the u.k. for 48 hours from midnight on sunday and other e.u. countries as well are putting their own bans in place what can you tell us. yeah france introduce this 48 hour as a stopgap measure there's an e.u. meeting going on at the moment virtually between e.u. ministers to try and make some have some sort of coordinated response to deal with this new a more virulent form of the corona virus has been detected in the u.k. so france has done this france put this 48 hour ban on wow to see if the european wide decision can be made france's european affairs secretary says that he hopes after the 48 hours to organize trips for people who are in the u.k. who want to come back to france for christmas he hopes that it's going to be possible mainly french citizens living in the u.k. who might want to come back for the christmas holidays but he's told them in the interim to get themselves of p.c.r. test the code test because that will almost certainly be a requirement of anybody coming from the u.k. to

they were only there for one day a mid january bernard my congress was invaded by desert locusts that ate everything from grains to beans and even an entire field of watermelons but that's not all. that. like i do know. normally by this time they're ready for harvest. have destroyed them all. the flowers even the leaves. of the will to seed. the locusts eat everything in their way in a day one square kilometer swarm of locusts can eat as much food as 35000 people. at this time of year my congress granted these are usually filled to the brim but now they're practically empty. memory now you get to go come on come on it's what i've harvested is very little i expected to get sounds of green grams 15 sacks of maize didn't and i didn't get any beans it's all of that they've all been destroyed. his neighbor is equally devastated and without the harvest he doesn't know what to do. there's nothing left to harvest there's nothing else i don't know how to do it's just this farm that's where i get through it we're afraid my family and friends everyone because that's what i do on my farm limited.

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bernard was one of five convicted of killing a couple back in 1999. he was just a teenager.ath in nearly 70 years. in his last words, bernard apologized saying quote i wish i could take it all back, but i can't. president trump faced pressure to commute the sentence, including from kim kardashian, but decided against it because of the violent nature of the crime. 13 executions in july, 4 more planned in the next few weeks. >>> utah senator mike lee is facing criticism after he blocked a bipartisan plan to create smithsonian museums dedicated to the history of women and latino americans. lee says that creating separate but equal museums based on identity would further divide an already divided nation. bills to establish both national museums passed overwhelmingly in the house earlier this year. >>> disney announcing the role of king t'challa will not be recast in black panther ii, after chadwick boazman starred in the role after his death in august. they will explore the world of wakonda and the characters introduced in the first one. a lot of people looking forward to that i

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bernard was 18 years old when he took part in a double murder in texas back in 1999., he was the youngest person, based on his age at the time that happened to be put to death by the federal government. the state is creating some case about whether the death penalty is enough for someone who is barely a legal adult at the time. i want to bring in pete williams. there are other federal executions, four of them, i believe, left in the president's lame duck term here. and experts say it is unusual the way that the trump administration is moving ahead with these executions. can you talk about the significance of bernard's case and put this into perspective for us? >> one thing that is unusual is the trump administration resumed federal executions which had been stopped in a debate about whether the death penalty was fair, it was racially prejudice, the questions about lethal injection. in his case, he's 40 now, but he was 18 when the crime was committed and the nation has been moving away from executing youthful offenders. and another somewhat controversial aspect of this

mr bernard's legal team has filed a emergency stay of execution with the supreme court.ashington. for the last 20 years, brendan benard has been on death row. on wednesday, his lawyers were u nsuccessful on wednesday, his lawyers were unsuccessful in a last ditch appeal to stop as execution. it means tonight, he could become the first of five gnederal prisoners to be executed during the presidential transition.“ they would be able to go back in time, i would definitely, a whole bunch of different scenarios. donald trump would have overseen the deaths of 13 federal inmates when he leaves office, more than any president in overa office, more than any president in over a century. the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1998 but executions were rare, just three have taken place since then and none since 2003. but injuly, since then and none since 2003. but in july, the since then and none since 2003. but injuly, the trump administration resumed the practice after a 17 year hiatus. brendan benard's case has attracted the support of celebrities like kim kardashian west, th

smith is in cd bluesy and swear to his ears revolution began and we can join him now bernard this is a landmark day engine is here how are people marking it. there was a ceremony to mark that moment when muhammad who is easy sets himself on fire but in reality the word but many people here to witness it partly that's covert partly that's because people have stayed away in protest of the fact that nothing has changed just in the last 10 years now to news is not been free to choose their leaders and they put come popularly criticize the state the state and i have been protests in the poor southern town in recent weeks again at the lack of opportunity at an employment of social services and many of the tunisians we've been speaking to these last few days look back at what happened in 2010 and regret the missed opportunities. when. they're looking for a way out of city whose eat this specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has

bernard's execution was also the first in a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years.heduled four more executions before joe biden's inauguration. three are black men, one is a woman. and it's just interesting, john, there was a 17-year hiatus on federal executions and then bill barr and president trump did away with that. and now there is a bit of an execution spree. >> definitely a rush to get it done before the end of the administration, which is unprecedented. >> and i would like to know more about the thinking there. and also, of course, the juxtaposition of this spree of pardoning his convicted friends and then a spree of executing convicted non-friends. and those happening simultaneously. i just want to know more about why they feel the need to do all of these executions in a lame-duck period. >> it is worth noting, well, because joe biden does not support the same thing. and i will note that executive orders are one thing, they can be reversed. executions can not. >> good point. >>> developing this morning, congressional negotiations over a critical economic re

the convicted killer brandon bernard has been executed in spite of a last minute appeal to the us supreme court. he becomes the ninth federal inmate to have been put to death sincejuly — and the first during a presidential transition, in more than a century. us president—electjoe biden and his vice president—elect kamala harris have been chosen as time magazine's 2020 person of the year. the pair were chosen ahead of the other finalists — frontline healthcare workers, anthony fauci, the racial justice movement — and president donald trump who biden defeated in november's election. now on bbc news — hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to the un agency dedicated to feeding the hungry and fending off mass starvation — the world food programme. this week, the award will be handed to my guest today, executive director of the wfp, david beasley, in recognition of the agency's worldwide effort to overcome the challenges of conflict and covid—19. 2020 has been a terrible year for those experiencing extreme hunger. is there a real dange

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spring is the only country that transitions into democracy but many say things only become worse bernard smith reports from city busied which in this year's revolution began . they're looking for a way out of city boozy this specially choreographed dance is being staged to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the tunisian revolution its performers hope that their skills will get them work outside tunisia the revolution has failed them the eldest here is $24.00 that's young to be disillusioned. they called trees going to the wall really going to the world nothing change it's like there was no revolution we only changed the precedent that it has there is too much freedom now but with it others there is no security like there was before you can be killed going to the stadium to watch a football match all these kind of things never happened before mohammed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against police in city booze eed who often demanded bribes so he could sell from his street car it was the spark for unprecedented protests the forced an autocratic president to flee. led to the

the new year of working from home they're trying to turn that into an opportunity as al-jazeera as bernard smith reports now from gran canaria the government wants people to swap their home office for one by the beach is this your view when working from home during winter lockdowns. more likely in the northern hemisphere at least this is what you'll be enduring it doesn't have to be like this. the canary islands is launched a campaign to attract 30000 remote workers it's not been a tough sell you know my companies over in america and some people left the city live in the mountains. and you know i think they've been supportive of people kind of doing looking after themselves in the right spot for them it's a really caring way that there are. empty hotels deserted pools and very quiet beaches european winter lockdowns means the canary islands is going to salvage very little from the season spanish bank says this region will be the hardest hit by the economic fallout from the coronavirus in spain the canaries once remote workers to stay months at a time here you can rent a bedroom and share s