soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." long before covid-19 swept the globe immigrants and refugees living in the u.s. were a major lifeline for their families and the economies they left behind. in underdeveloped, war-torn countries where poverty and starvation are commonplace. as a group they send about $500 billion back home and the pandemic still threatens that pipeline. our correspondent jessica gomez traveled to lincoln, nebraska, which has a large population of resettled refugees. many who are struggling to help their families here and on the other side of the globe. >> business was really great until covid-19. jessica: insurance adjuster seif balul these days taking work when you can get it. seif: people start to work from home, so they are not traveling a lot. jessica: but balul is not complaining. the refugee who fled civil war in eastern sudan at 19 has seen much tougher times. seif: for me i had to go to the well two miles to get water every day. i was little, no running water, no electricity, didn't have my ow

i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." evanston, illinois, plans to pay some black residents for the harm it caused by discriminatory housing policies. this form of reparations is believed to be the first of its kind in the u.s. and could be a model for the nation. of course, it has critics. some who say it's unnecessary, others who say it's not enough. the program offers up to $25,000 for a down payment on a home or to make home repairs. study after study has shown five numbers -- your zip code can determine your destiny. a question as simple as "where are you from?" can let you know if someone's america. correspondent joie chen reports from her childhood home in evanston. joie: we all know, don't we? what it means to be from the right side of the tracks. even when it's just the very edge of privilege. that's my story and my house. the house i grew up in. the last house before the tracks. in the late 1960's, we were the only asian family in the neighborhood. i thought, the outliers. but the wh

soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." dr. martin luther king, jr., is often quoted as saying, "the arc of the moral universe is long -- but it bends toward justice." if history is our teacher, that long arc is often marked by tragedy. as america watched the trial and conviction of derek chauvin for the murder of george floyd over the last three weeks, at least 64 people died at the hands of police according to a "new york times" analysis. of those killed, more than half were black or latino. each event re-traumatizing anyone who can identify with the history of racial exclusion and police violence. dr. steven kniffley is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at spaulding university in louisville, kentucky. he leads the collective care center, specializing in treating race-based trauma. dr. steve kniffley, what a pleasure to have a chance to talk to you. can you start with a definition of traumatized communities? how do you transmit trauma over the generations? dr. kniffley: there are both psychological and physical and r

former national security adviser, robert o'brien. thanks for coming on. >> great to be with you. >> martha: thank you. moments ago a suspect was named in the shooting at the fed ex facility last night in indianapolis that left eight people dead. we'll speak to the homicide branch commander of the indianapolis police department. we'll get the very latest on what we now know about this suspect next. did you know you can go to libertymutual.com to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ good boy! [laughs] ♪ hold my pouch. ♪ trust us, us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch. (vo) jamaica. (woman) best decision ever. don't think so? (vo) feel the sand between your toes, and the gentle waves of the sea on your skin. feel the warm jamaican breeze lift your spirits and nourish your soul. escape to exactly what makes your heart beat. you will love every moment

there's nothing that will get in the way of him continuing to do this. >> tim o'brien gets tonight'she 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> good evening. i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. day 76 of the biden administration, and tonight we are following several important developments on the pandemic and the president's infrastructure plan. but first, more critical testimony today in the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. jurors heard from the emergency doctor who tried to save floyd's life and from police chief arradondo. the prosecution asked him at what point should the restraint against floyd have ended. >> once mr. floyd had stopped resisting, and certainly once he was in distress and trying to . there is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get him under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when mr. floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back. that in no way, shape or

bunch of the queen because i want to see a gemini with a name the last few years have been quite o'brien in philly and the. other a little higher but when it comes to gemma big as and of course i always look right in the eyes virgin perhaps the biggest guns a new hobby of mine i'm going on the record i love to be in the news there are pros in their account but when you think them all together they realize it's called just another way of leverage are you ready to meet the dr and then heard me right through it. hello guys this is the subject the 7 percent about full blown off the streets you think issues and sharing . you know where the shutdown we're not afraid to touch on the delicate topic of africa's population is growing. and young people clearly have the solutions to their job. 77 percent know everyone on d w. this is d w news and these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden has pledged to cut u.s. carbon emissions by hauff by 23 it's the most ambitious climate protection targets ever set in u.s. history around 40 countries are taking part in the 2 day but will climate summit.

jane o'brien in washington.dicine physician at brigham and women's hospital, boston. doctor faust, thank you very much forjoining us. i understand that hospitalisations in the united states are rising among those people under 60. why the change in this demographic?— under 60. why the change in this demon-rahic? . �*, . a demographic? that's correct. as case numbers have — demographic? that's correct. as case numbers have come _ demographic? that's correct. as case numbers have come down _ demographic? that's correct. as case numbers have come down and - numbers have come down and hospitalisations among the most vulnerable segment of the population which is the older senior population, those have all come down, and in a replacement, we see a higherfraction of down, and in a replacement, we see a higher fraction of people 18—6a who are making up those hospitalisations. so these are the nine geriatric, non—senior citizen adults making up a larger percentage of the larger hospitalisations of now than at any time dur

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i am miles o'brien in skokie, illinois. novas documentary "the great electric airplane race" premieres may 26 at 8:00 p.m. central on pbs. former vice president walter mondale passed away last night at his home in minneapolis. he transformed the role of vice president and championed civil-rights under president jimmy carter before losing his own run for the presidency. william brangham has this look at mondale's life and legacy. >> thank you very much. william: he stood as the standardbearer for which -- liberal values against a conservative icon. >> we didn't win, but we made history. that fight has just begun. miles: mondale lost the election. he rose to the top of the democratic party at the high tide of liberalism only to watch that tide go out. a mondale reflected on his life in politics on "the newshour." >> we had our chance. politics is cyclical. people wanted to slow down a little bit and review and consolidate. that was the reagan era, and i think they were having their high tide then. william: walter mondale was

for the pbs newshour i'm miles o'brien in babcock ranch, florida.uring her more than 50 year marriage, nancy reagan was also the most trusted adviser to her husband, president ronald reagan. washington post columnist karen tumulty is out with a new book about her and her influence, titled, "the triumph of nancy reagan." i spoke with karen yesterday. welcome to the newshour. you paint such a vivid portrait of nancy reagan. the reader almost feels as if we are living alongside her. give us a view of the research that goes on in this book. >> i started out thinking i would be writing about a first lady, about a marriage, obviously a love story. the deeper i got into the research, the more i realized that nancy reagan is a different window into the entire reagan presidency and actually, an entire entry point in history. judy: you spend a lot of time talking about her family, her mother, her relationship with her stepfather. how did all of that shape who she became? >> nancy reagan was born nancy robbins company product of an unsuccessful marriage. her p

tim o'brien is senior columnist for bloomberg opinion, author of "trump nation," don't even try to lookor years. but $120 million at issue, lot of it refunded already. donald trump apparently one of the single biggest people complained about as fraudulent online fundraising presence last year. >> yeah, we could not see any of this coming before the became president. a casino that purported to cater to high rollers when it was extracting nickels and dimes from pensioners and old ladies. ran a tv show but in the real world a serial con artist. gets into the presidency, doesn't separate from his business interests. end of the presidency runs a scammy legal defense fund, and lo and behold engineers a fundraising scheme of the people he's claiming to defend in the real world in which they're duped into making weekly payments and monstrously grotesque grifter moment they're doubled and get thousands taken out of their pockets. gop has been bragging about the fact that they don't need corporate america, which has a growing distaste for the way gop rolls because they can build a new future on s

for the pbs newshour, i miles o'brien.resident biden is trying to build bridges, meeting today with a bipartisan group -- group of lawmakers to sell his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. lisa desjardins explores the political cost. lisa: stakes are high for biden and congressional republicans. joining us, our regular politics monday duo. amy walter of the cook political report and camera key of mpr -- and tamra of npr. let's start with the climate plan. this big biden plan. he had the meeting today with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. what is the president trying to do and is it working? >> i think what is notable about the bipartisan group that came by the white house today is it is similar to what the biden administration did to try to build bipartisan support or a bipartisan coalition for the big covid-19 relief l. they reached outside washington to mayors and governors to say, especially for mayors, we have bipartisan support. there is a joke that mayors tell about themselves, that there is no democratic or republica

them because they use this as a political bludgeoning tool and for kayleigh and morgan and robert o'brien and all the people that were there looking at the actual intelligence, i'm sure the apologies and the corrections will just come flowing in today. >> emily: this was part of a campaign tactic and a narrative pushed by for example then having candidate biden about trump's failure to admonish russia, his failure to be brief, they ran with this really far during the campaign. >> jason: they did and it was a narrative that they started even before donald trump became president, they ran with it for four years and it's absolutely not true. all the fiction and the hoax about donald trump and russia, they never came up with anything and they continue to use it and now we get to the four years of donald trump and there isn't a single bit of evidence. donald trump was tougher on russia than we are seeing president biden is and certainly president obama so you want to see who is being soft on russia right now, it's joe biden. russia is amassing troops on the ukrainian border and you barely hear

tim o'brien, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up.cans, suddenly, stopped trying to pass a voter suppression bill in the arizona house of representatives today. because they might not have all the republican votes they need to pass it. arizona secretary of state katie hobbs joins us next. next. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ joint pain, swelling, tenderness. my psoriasis. cosentyx works on all of this. cosentyx can help you look and feel better by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflam

miles o'brien has our report. >> reporter: when the data and early images came down proving history was team erupted with joy. project manager mimi aung ripped up the contingency speech she wrote in case things did not go as well as they did. ingenuity took off, hovered and landed on mars; the first powered controlled flight on another planet. >> we can say that human beings have now flown a rotorcraft on another planet. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: mars changes the equation for flight with wings or rotors. the gravity is about one third of earth's, and the carbon dioxide atmosphere is much thinner. >> it's about one percent compared to here right on earth. even though you're able to lift, right? you have to spin very fast to lift because the atmosphere is so thin you can't lift as much mass. >> reporter: here on earth, helicopter blades typically spin about three or 400 revolutions per minute. ingenuity's blades spin at about eight times faster. ingenuity is a technology demonstrator, so its goals are modest. they didn't have to look much farther than their own smartphone. >> t

lexi o'brien, al jazeera. >> the country's president is holding talks to decide whether or not to ask benjamin netanyahu. a fifth vote could be in the cards. his corruption trial resumed. prosecutors accused him of bribery and reach of office while in office. charges he has denied. netanyahu said the prosecutors are only interested in trying to oust him. >> one thing cannot be hidden, that is what an improper use of governmental power looks like. that is how they are trying to topple a strong prime minister from the right. this is only one month before the first elections. un

they didn't help themselves when some slack defending gifted the ball to lewis o'brien, who fired theerjust after the break when mads sorensen eventually prodded the ball home. the point leaves them nine behind second placed watford with a game in hand. brora rangers of the highland league stunned hearts in the second round of the scottish cup but their run is now over. they took the lead against league two side stranraer in round three today but succumbed in extra time 3—1. fraserburgh and formartine were also beaten — ending non league interest in the competition. aberdeen and st mirren were amongst the premiership teams into round 4. holders celtic play falkirk at 7:30. all of the scores can be found on the bbc sport website. in the women's super league, west ham climbed off the bottom with a 5—0 thrashing of reading. martha thomas did most of the damage with a hattrick. all of the goals came in the first 37 minutes. it's their first league win since before christmas. two games in superleague this afternoon. hull have two wins from two after a 35—4 triumph over salford. australian

let's turn to our tech editor, peter o'brien. some scientists are saying that if you want to think about what alien intelligence should look like, you should look to the octopus. why is his brain so different and so dazzling? >> it has 500 million neurons, not just in his head but a crossed a total body. it has it in its tentacles as well. that is an insane number of neurons that the dog has. there is something called the neural ring. this allows them to essentially act independently and think independently of his head. if it cuts off one of the tentacles, it would continue foraging for food, independent of the head. sometimes the whole octopus needs to work together as a unit to feed or mate and in that case, the head is more than happy to work alongside the tentacles. >> another sad fact is that it dies after mating. to learn more about how this animal behaves, let's welcome the researcher here. hello and welcome. >> you say you are focusing on finding out whether the octopus has some kind of consciousness. what is leading scie

tim o'brien, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up.enly, stopped trying to pass a voter-suppression bill in the arizona house of representatives today. because they might not have all the republican votes they need to pass it. arizona secretary of state, katy hobbs, joins us next. hobbs, joit tide pods ultra oxi one ups the cleaning power of liquid. can it one up whateverhe seriously? one up the power of liquid, one up the toughest stains. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi. i have the power to lower my a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it. once-weekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. most people taking it reached an a1c under 7%. trulicity may also help you lose up to 10 pounds and lower your risk of cardiovascular events, whether you know you're at risk or not. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. it's not approved for use in children. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyro

well, chloe o'brien sold the shows.nd just taken a photo with everybody and let them go back home to their tvs to watch more episodes of "24." they weren't ready for my take on modern woman, motherhood and what it's really like to be an international superstar. oh, we'll get into it. they were like deer in the headlights like i really took them to places they weren't expecting. so - >> seth: you do talk about your family a fair amount you talk about being a mother. does your son think you're funny? >> we do not share the same sense of humor, although, you know, i'll be disciplining him, and he's like "i pooped in my pants. and i'm like -- i'm saying can you take a screen break. and he's like, i pooped my pants, mom, it's funny, you don't get it you're a comedian. and i'm like no, man it's not bussing okay, no cap and so he doesn't laugh at me, and i don't laugh at him it's just a missed -- it's a missed - i don't get his tiktoks. he doesn't get my tiktoks. >> seth: how old is he >> he's 12 >> seth: he's 12, yeah well, h

there was robert o'brien, national security, a couple of other people.h the president? >> no, absolutely not. >> jimmy: you were there for what reasons? >> to bring in the evidence about the machines and the attack on our country. >> jimmy: what did his people do with this evidence? it seems like that's something he'd be very interested in. >> they took me -- i said, here, these are from a couple lawyers. and he -- but i showed him this, i said, these are things that -- cyber attacks, longitude, latitude, machines, attack by china. >> jimmy: do you really understand this stuff? >> yes. absolutely. >> jimmy: like what does the -- do you know what an ip address is? >> yeah, ip, then we have the i.d.s -- now we -- >> jimmy: what does ip stand for? >> i don't know what it stand for. >> jimmy: see, i think that you should know what ip stands for if you have evidence -- >> it's where the computers are at. wherever the ip address is. of the computers. i mean, i -- >> jimmy: you're not an expert when it comes to this stuff? >> i don't have to be. i don't have to

miles o'brien looks at efforts to reduce those emissions and to help airlines fly greener skies. it's part of our ongoing coverage on the consequences of climate change and our reporting done in tandem with the international journalism project called, "covering climate now." it's also a co-production with pbs nova. >> reporter: in the world of aviation a new era is taking shape. what began with kittyhawk, then moved into the jet age, is now going electric. >> in less than 12 months, we have went from zero to flying not one but two actual practical aircraft. >> reporter: roei ganzarski is c.e.o. of magnix, which makes high powered lightweight electric motors, ideally suited for flight. >> our goal as a company is to build a generational business that 40 years from now, people will be flying an electric aircraft propelled by magnix motors. >> reporter: in may of 2020, they flew this cessna caravan retrofitted with one of their motors. it's a milestone but also a baby step. a caravan with a turbine engine can carry nine people 900 miles. the batteries on this plane limit the payload

began to suffer engine trouble after a few didn't have enough engine power to stay in the air and o'brienlight instructor decided the best course of action was try to put the plane down in the treetops. there it is. after a few heart-stopping moments, the plane came down, nose down on the force for. but both men still in one piece. >> sugar looks me and he goes, you're okay. and i look at treatment ago, you okay. and turns out. miraculously we're okay. >> to the incredible skill of my. in structure, a trend in co owner of the plane. >> search and rescue crews were able to quickly locate the downed plane and the 2 men, both of them suffered cuts and bruises. but other than that, they're just fine. >> here at home. cal fire is already bracing for this year's wildfire season. this as officials do expect another hot dry summer. melanie townsend shows us the updated aircraft. cal fire's using. >> it is 11 and a half years with cal fire in nearly 40 years with the u.s. forest service. cal fire's, senior chief of aviation dennis brown knows when the conditions are right for another hectic fire s

miles o'brien profiles a community trying to take advantage of all tt sunshine, billed as the country'sst solar-powered town. it's the latest report in our ongoing coverage about climate change and its consequences. and part of a major journalism collaborative called "covering climate now." >> reporter: it's first light, and one of the largest solar arrays in the sunshine state is starting another 150 megawatt day. >> we spent eight years working to make this happen. >> reporter: developer syd kitson showed me the crown jewel of his sustainable town that could signal the dawn of a new era in the fight against the climate change crisis. >> it's 700,000 panels on about 800 acres of land. so it is a very large solar field. that's more than enough to power our city at full build out. >> reporter: it's called babcock ranch, the first solar powered town in the country. so, you know, when you look out here, is this our future? >> it is the future. it's a piece of the puzzle and it's a good piece of the puzzle. >> reporter: the puzzle pieces are falling into place 25 miles north of fort myers a

o'brien says one of the biggest struggles with her post covid journey has been inconsistencies in hery, well, my neurologist told me to do this, but my cardiologists told me to do this, and they're two completely different things and so that can get a little confusing. the clinic will allow specialist to connect and communicate with each other on what treatment plan will be best for a specific set of symptoms or needs. it allows us to share experiences and say, hey, this worked for this piece. and she had this is a possibility that we could try. the clinic will also provide doctors and researchers the opportunity to learn more about post viral disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome and its effects on the body patients have been affected a probe in many of them are very altruistic and are very interested in research not only just to help them but to help other folks who have suffered with covid. this'll is ktvu, fox two news at six second degree manslaughter. that is, the charge announced today against former brooklyn center police officer kim party potter for the deadly shooting of 2

. >> france 24 presented by julius caesar and peter o'brien on france 24 and france 24.com. >> 10:00 p.m. in the france capital and we are live from paris. these are the headlines. a u.s police officer is killed after a vehicle rammed through security and crashes into a barrier at the u.s. capitol. officials say the attack on the officer is not believed to be related to terrorism. kneeling on george floyd neck was totally unnecessary, that is the latest testimony from a senior minneapolis police officer in day five of the trial of derek chauvin. the first step on the right path. the words of president joe biden as the u.s. and iran prepared to direct talks aimed at reviving the nuclear deal. ♪ >> but first, a police officer has been killed after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the u.s. capitol. he emerged wielding a knife. this footage shows the suspect in the car emerging with the weapon in his hand and starting to run at the pair of officers. he stabbed one of them before being shot by authorities. the suspect later dying in hospital. officials say the a

. >> france 24 presented by julius caesar and peter o'brien on france 24 and france 24.com. >> 10:00in the france capital and we are live from paris. these are the headlines. a u.s police officer is killed after a vehicle rammed through security and crashes into a barrier at the u.s. capitol. officials say the attack on the officer is not believed to be related to terrorism. kneeling on george floyd

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would be taking a firmer line with moscow than his predecessor who discussed the issue with danielle o'brien who signed the statement. you know the old old game driven by the military industrial complex which is about making profit for more and the heads of those company weapon making companies and you know weapons of war making companies have control 'd of a lot of the people in our our congress in both parties and they have enormous power i think people need to talk about peace and they need to talk about. the end of war no matter who is against we live in peace in this world because we have a lot of things we have to do to address other issues that you know are more more. important than war and you know and threatening people and not not being good neighbors. or masks and single he says gloves have arguably been saving lives during the pandemic environmentalist are worried that they may be doing irrevocable harm to animals around the world after being discarded a study in the journal biology cites examples of fish trapped in latex gloves birds entangled in masks and a whole host of animal

joining our conversation now is soledad o'brien, president and ceo of soledad o'brien productions and perry bacon jr., senior political writer for fivethirtyeight.com. perry, you had this great piece in fivethirtyeight about the state of the republican party. chairman steele was just talking about how speaker boehner's book is sending up a flare about what's coming for the party. to my mind it seems like the party is foregone. it's done. >> you said mitch mcconnell is not really part of the party of trump. i disagree with that. i think the last four years show most of the quote/unquote establishment republicans who are actually in office, are fully in line with trump and trumpism. maybe they wouldn't use the language they -- trump uses. they wouldn't say go back to your country. they wouldn't use that rhetoric, but in terms of the actual policies, mitch mcconnell is fully on board. all the republicans are defending this georgia law, for example, from all wings of the party essentially. the republican party is pretty organized and actually has some policies which are basically, how do

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difficulty here on our and we're going to trying to clear up the or your signal please stand by mr o'brienwe're going to come back to you in just a moment thank you for your patience to apologize for that and thank you for your patience as well. we are now continuing the story here on international this is this the latest of well mr novell the this is the story as i was saying earlier you can find it a calm as well russian opposition figure alexy he has announced he's going on hunger strike now he claims to have been denied medical treatment in prison. he's been by behind bars now since february after breaking his parole he has to report now with roman closer breath. they arose a letter to prison authorities dated the 31st of march of this year in other words now and in that letter he said that he's on a hunger strike because he's been refused medical help but he said that say he will not say can either bite he will not eat until he is visited by a physician or a doctor off his own choice now in a letter that somehow ended up on instagram the same day that alex had the violin they wrote it

and iran back into the 2015 nuclear accord lexie o'brien reports. a standoff in the gulf these pictures from the u.s. navy has said to show an american warship firing warning shots and iranian vessels came too close the u.s. says monday's encounter was the 2nd this month and that an iranian warships aggressively approached american vessels in the same area on april 2nd it says it had to move abruptly to avoid a collision when the iranian ship cost in front we've also seen a pattern in which this tends to take place as the 2 sides are getting closer towards some form of an agreement and though progress has been slow it does appear as if returns today at least u.p.a. is within reach within the next couple of weeks as a result of the discussions taking place in vienna. the way is the 2015 nuclear deal which saw iran rein in its nuclear program in return for relief from crippling sanctions to the u.s. and other world powers are in vienna trying to salvage the agreement we have a very very important that we can be we do see some important the progress re

morgan o'brien is an american travel video blogger living in germany. >> on board the ship we're required to wear a surgical mask at any time we're moving around the ship. >> reporter: in videos like these he's pushing the cdc to establish protocols cruise ships outside the u.s. are already using. >> people are getting temperature checks every day. we have to be tested 72 hours before the cruise leaves and of course it has to be a negative pcr test. >> reporter: royal caribbean has tested those systems abroad, and fain says with encouraging results. >> the royal caribbean group alone has carried over 100,000 guests and of that we've only had 10 cases. we would like to be treated in a very similar way to the airlines and other forms of transportation. >> reporter: last week the cdc unveiled technical steps for cruise operators including trial voyages with volunteers and updating the definition of covid-like illness for reporting. but they have not set a specific return date. cruise lines are also choosing to install better filtration systems to clean the air. here in the next few months sh

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spreading across the region and authorities warn the eruptions could last for several weeks alexey o'brien reports. the lush caribbean island and then sent transformed into a gray gloomy moonscape. streets and buildings blanketed by spewed from a nearby volcano. ended decades of inactivity on friday when it erupted in spectacular fashion there were several earthquakes and a column of air was pumped up to 15 kilometers into the air we want to work. from home and it's hampering the escape of thousands of people who are now in shelters across the island i am. everything in. sight. means sulfur outlet it's the only potentially active volcano on sentence sent which is home to about 100000 people from the eruptions rained down on several neighboring islands including barbados nearly 200 kilometers away countries including venezuela cuba ghana and the united states a sending aid to the island nation. crew ships have been same turn to help those fleeing mir option but because of the pandemic anyone going on board will have to be vaccinated and everyone in a shelter will be tested for covert 19 thi

announced at least 27 bodies have been recovered so far several more are believed to be missing alexy o'brien has the latest. on the banks of the sheet alexia river desperate families waited for news. that is the hour was passed their anger grew like. the ferry capsized last night but it's yet to be retrieved was there such a delay. the small ferry had been carrying about 50 people when it collided with a cargo vessel on sunday night it was finally pulled from the water on monday rescuers say they were delayed by bad weather. and i appeal to the prime minister with please let us get the bodies of my father and mother the vessel was said to be packed with people rushing to their hometowns. the government had announced a weeklong lockdown to counter a spike in corona virus cases there were more than $7000.00 new infections reported on sunday the highest in a single day under the restrictions which are now in force all domestic travel services are suspended that seen a rush on buses ferries trains and flights hundreds die in ferry accidents every year in bangladesh blamed on badly maintained ves

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ship at least 27 bodies have been recovered so far several more are believed to be missing alexy o'brien reports. on the banks of the river desperate families waited for news. that is the hour was passed the anger. you know like there was on the. ferry capsized last night but it's yet to be retrieved was there such a delay. the small ferry had been carrying about 50 people when it collided with a cargo vessel on sunday night police say it was dragged almost kilometers before it sank and the cargo vessel fled the scene the ferry was finally pulled from the water on monday 18 hours later rescuers say they were delayed by bad weather as an effort that was imo my appeal to the prime minister is please let us get the bodies of my father and mother. in the hours that followed body after body was brought ashore including children. maining were found still inside the ferry said to be packed with people rushing to get back to their hometowns. the government had announced a week long lockdown to counter a spike in corona virus cases there were more than 7000 new infections reported on sunday the h

region and up but can with a dispute over water supplies fueling fears of a wider conflict alexy o'brien now reports. this is what a cease fire sounds like on the border between tajikistan and. the video was shared by local media on friday morning hours after both sides had agreed to stop fighting i was. 6 the violence broke out at a water reservoir at both countries claim as their own each side accusing the other of firing 1st. their skirmishes here every few months as communities are the access to land and more casual resources. but majoring gage lutes by government troops are rare this is the worst fighting in is this is one of the last undefined frontiers in the region in central asia when you look at this part of the map this is the very gonna valley where back to stand if you can stand in kyrgyzstan all sort of tangle around one another it's a very complicated ethnic groups of course you know you can't place blame on the fact that there are no clear geographic markers between the borders between the the curate is in the tajik side so that that's just sort of geographic confusion yo