raney was not the first topic in american in congress.ician went to hiram revels of mississippi who was left by the state legislature, -- that distinction. and he came into congress in early 1870. the high point in terms of the number of african-americans as the 43rd congress, mid-1870's. there is only six or seven african-americans in congress at that point. so they are really too small of a group to drive any kind of legislative agenda. so they tend to give very eloquent speeches about some of the major bills, like the 1875 again,ights act, which, is a piece of legislation not many people think about today when you think civil rights act. it is the civil rights act of 1964. and what that bill it 1875 would have done, is essentially the same as the 1964 fell dead. -- bill did. it would have granted equality in accommodations, in public travel, and also in schools. a lot of these african-americans from the south, from south carolina, mississippi, alabama, got up and spoke on behalf of this bill, and particularly the education provision, w

power could be out for days or weeks for many.se or producer adam raney is on the ground in louisiana with this report. >> reporter: the noisy din of generators and chainsaws filled the air across southern louisiana, where the destruction fromurricane laura was all around. from the toppled old southern trees to flattened homes,s resideo didn't evacuate started the business of cleaning up. hundreds of thousands of people who were in the storm's path along the gulf coast are still without power. and one of the worst hit places ke charles, louisiana, a city of 78,000 just off the gulf coast. >> i've never run fr hurricane. this is probably the worst one i've ever been through. >> reporter: 82-year-old cecil morgan has lived here in lake charles his entire life. his house survived; the barn he ilt himself did not. >> all i know is, it's going to be a job cleaning it up. i've got to go through it because there's probably a lot of stuff i want to save. >> reporter: not far away, michael dewayne elm was trying to save what he could from his store, "drips and kicks." the front and back of itb

protests over the prime minister began in january when the was appointed by hezbollah on suggestion raney and suggestions therefore while the yob is a sunni muslim in lebanon's. sectarian political system you have a sunni prime minister a christian president and shia speaker of the house well because. the sunni prime minister but. elected or appointed by hezbollah he's seen as a hezbollah candidate so he did not even enjoy backing from the sudanese or backing from those who supported the previous prime minister. so there was already an imbalance in the system and a lot of anger directed toward hezbollah and i think even from the early reports of the explosion a lot of people were suggesting that hezbollah had something to do with it whether directly or indirectly for a reason i think. hezbollah. literally under fire in the next few weeks or months so it's the explosion was in some ways from a certain political perspective serendipitous. to be cynical but it just offers a considerable leverage against hezbollah right now so if you get down to what the protesters want to be on the streets w

it and laugh at it just another aspect briefly to talk on a couple of months ago google claimed to raney and hackers were targeting the trump campaign on chinese hackers were targeting joe biden so whoever wins the next election are we likely to see just more allegations like this. this is just reinforcing the narrative everyone is out out to get america everyone is out to destroy our elections when the fact is the opposite the us is the biggest meddling come country in the world look at bella ruse today go to the national government for democracy website and you will see hundreds and thousands of dollars spent just over the last year to directly influence the elections in belarus to directly finance opposition parties they don't even try to hide doesn't even try to hide it weekend oh my gosh there's gambling going on here as as they say in casablanca it really is quite laughable we appreciate your thoughts as always done you mccallum's executive director of the rumpole institute live in the program. state of emergency in the lebanese capital has been extended for another month beirut is

sillies raney comment sound you cheap hi there he is in the us who don't have ono who else to call for mental illness in the way police officer trained in general needs and of the home which got clients mattson movement has tate do you feel that the times of changing no changed a sunday in the last few months bill is the question on the realized. i would city yes there is no i do know the big thing obviously is what have you not may 25th which was sure it's murder in that you know start of the conversation obviously it's a very important conversation to have started a conversation 'd that should have started a long before you know the event so that the evening happened but now here we are having this conversation but it's all for this all to us now to keep that momentum going you know there's a lot of lot of the world things are happening fast and it's easy to forget what have been don't even 2 or 3 months ago that you know something that we should be continuing to talk about of but i think one of the. oh. or you know one of the results of. murder you know things that happened thereaft

raney and yellowcake extraction plant with the help of china that's according to sources being quoted by the wall street journal the facility is said to be close to the town of houla now yellowcake is a milled form of uranium ore that's fine naturally there but would take additional steps and technology to enrich it enough for a nuclear power plant saudi arabia denies building a uranium ore facility near but says mineral extraction is a part of its economic diversification let's talk now to thomas countryman he's a former u.s. assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation he's now chairman of the arms control association joining us from washington thomas countryman welcome back to al-jazeera does saudi arabia need nuclear power if not now perhaps in 5 or 10 years time. if i could i 1st want to express solidarity for the suffering people of lebanon beirut is in the hearts of many americans this evening in saudi arabia the saudis have far 'd better options for energy than nuclear energy and they are ideally located to benefit from renewable forms such as solar and wind energy in par

we stand ready to raney and then 2020 is definitely a breaking point and it is a question what comes afterwards. i would say that the present outlook is definitely less promising than it was a couple of years ago and previous expectations we had regard to gas projects in the region might easily fall short that's because as well one well in lebanon's patches come up dry this is a huge risk for countries in the region is not yes well we have to see that in the past decade hundreds of 1000000000 cubic meters of natural gas reserves have been discovered in the waters of cyprus egypt and israel these are very significant holdings that will be available for a long time. it is a question if i do a really thorough states can join them on the way to become more relevant gas producers so after lengthy delays and full of hopes. around february march this year. it was finally broadcasted definition and started these offshore drilling for oil and gas but within a relatively short period of time they got to very disappointing results for many years turkey has also been seeking for offshore gas res

how are you raney ends coping with all of this. after every customer disinfect his car inside and out he tells us that no one would get into his taxi otherwise despite this most people are still avoiding taxes for fear of getting infected business is bad today hammett will drive us around tehran all day finally a good assignment for him. i have a few customers who still haven't gone out because of the coronavirus grocer i go to the bank for them or shopping in the supermarket but i still only earn half as much as before the coronavirus crisis. first stop is tehran's grand bazaar here you'll understand why the numbers are going up again he says how many it stops at the entrance gate saying he'll go no further than here. i don't go in there it's very. very narrow and it's covered it's way too crowded the risk of getting infected is too high you can see for yourself i don't need to see anymore. most people in tehran are wearing masks but hardly anyone observes social distancing. we have an appointment with dr immunologist and adviser

easing back into time and to play at the western and southern open djokovic struggled against youth raney and. the rankest in the round of 32 he received treatment for his stiff neck between sets djokovic who's the favorite to win the u.s. open which starts next week eventually managed to win the match in straight sets 676 it's unfortunate you know of the 6 months it's a little bit strange you know no competition 6 months and you would think you know everyone is ready and coming back and all sudden you have like i mean injury obviously it's not it's not injuries not so bad that i have to pull out but from singles but you know it's bothering me it's bothering is definitely with the serve but at the same time you know it's much better than it has been yesterday or 2 days ago so or hopefully it's going in the right direction or to some west and southern open when andy murray secured a 1st top 10 victory in over 3 years 3 time grand slam champion produced his biggest win this is undergoing a 2nd hip surgery he battled past fishies alexander spit have in 3 sets to reach the ground. in the n.h.