john yang explor what is behind the latest trends. >> yang: khalilah corey's 19 year old son wanya dreamedof coming a journalist. in his free time, he loved playing basketball in theirea milis neighborhood. >> all the time, every weekend, neighborhood coming over and neighborhood got to know us. i was the mother, the single mother of five and the boys outside playing basketball. >> yang: on october 11th, corey got a text from wanyng he was heading home after playing at a nearby court.id >> it was mye child's birthday. he was turning 12. and he was at his aunt's house and then later on at day we were going tcelebrate at home like we do with cake and ice cream. so when we got home, we weg waitr wayna to come. and, when he didn't come back, it was devastating. >> yang: wanya had been killed in a drive-by shoong. minneapolis, still reeling from this summer's police killing of george floyd, has had 80 murders so far this year, a level not seen since the 1990s. despite the uptick, the minneapolis city council voted unanimously earlier this month to shift nearly eight million dollars from next ye

u nailed it. >> yang: playing fair, thinking three moves ahead, and playing to win. pbs newshour, n yang. >> woodruff: night we take a look at the challenges many formerly incarceted men and women are facing as they reenter society. the coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of all americans, but it's been esly hard on individuals known as returning citizens. of one man in washington, d.c. who is trying to beat the odds. >> brangham: after 23 years behind bars, this was the moment when michael plummer became a free man. >> i got released on february 10th of this year, and it was amazing. you know, it's like stepping into a different world. you step into a different world. >> brangham: plummer is now 40, he was locked up in 1997 for a murder he committed when he wa 16. growing up in a violent ighborhood in washinon d.c., plummer says his story was say, pretty common. >> a lot of my friends and family members was killed. ad nd in those who nt to jail, you know, they did 10 year they did 15, 20 years. and some of them still serving life sentences. my mother, she fel

john yang reporthis hidden crisis during the pandemic. >> yang: lraine ensor spent her career as a librarian in springfield, massachusetts, watchingenerations of readers grow up. >> little kids come ingrew up, got married, had kids of their own. it's been an interesting life. >> yang: a few years ago, at age 82, she finally retired. late last year, she noticed a problem with her right eye. >> i turned on the tv to listen to the weather and there was a black spot. it was like a small brick. and i thought that was strange. >> yang: her doctor, retina surgeon and ophthalmologist andrew lam, diagnosed her with macular degenerationthe leading cause of blindness in patients over 65. he explains there are two versions of the disease: the slower-moving "dry" kind, and the faster-moving "wet" kind -- ich is what lorraine has. >> it's very serious when people have the wet macular degeneration. luckily, we have medicines that den halt the progression of wet maculaneration and often improve vision. but the medicines wear off. so they're often repeated every fourx or eight weeks, depending each individua

yang's tea m but now it is nothing.ng on the mountainside, an issue that is u nfortu nately mountainside, an issue that is unfortunately common at chinese beauty spots. but yang has noticed that visitor habitat started to improve. tourists are better behaved in our. when i started there was so much letter could pick ten or even 20 bags. now there is a lot less. it seems like yang and his team's perilous work is paying off. gosh, they are very brave, aren't they? you can reach me on twitter, i'm @aaronsafir. there is plenty more on the bbc news website which you can get online or on your smart phone. hello there. low pressure will continue to bring more unsettled weather to our shores for the rest of this week and very slowly, those temperatures will be creeping up as we reach the end of the week and into the weekend. now for wednesday, we'll have some showers across eastern areas. some sunshine will develop, though, behind it is this ridge of high pressure that builds in and then there will be rain pushing to western ar

. >> reporter: the yangs have been free to move after a mandatory two-week president. taiwan has been praised worldwide fors it covid success. from january 3rd, screening air passengers from wuhan. border defense starts on arrival. passengers, queue up for health interviews, scanning qr codes to register names and phone numbers. people getting sprayed with disinfectant along with their bags driven in a designated quarantine taxi to their hotel. a mandatory two weeks. meals are left outside the room three times a day. people that break quarantine can be fined more than $33,000. the authorities know based on the signals, not gps to avoid major privacy issues. seven more days of temperature checks from home. the health department calls each day and then you are cleared. new flare ups were contact traced. taiwan conquered covid with transparency and science. >> it is good for us for people, for our kids. >> at their new home, the yangs are happy to be in one of the safest places in the world. >> we just really learned to just appreciate every day and be grateful for every

john yang reports for our series, "searching for justice." >> yang: judy, across the country random drug testing is required for many people charged or convicted of crimes involving drugs or alcohol. but a newshour and al.com investigation found that one cstate'system, alabama' trap people with high fees, difficult scheduling and unreliable tests. al.com investigative reporter ashley remkus and independent journalist and former newshour e produczabeth flock reported the story and join us now. you both. and ashley, welcomto ashley, i'd like to start with you. how does this system work? it's called the color code. why does it have that name and >> that's correct. and color code, essentially the uiy it works is that someone who is rd to do this court ordered drug testing would begn as a color. now, that color could be teal, it could be watermelon, it could be brown or orange. there's a variety of different colors are assigned based on how often someone will be tested now when their colorhes called. soit's chosen on those days, they havto report for a mandatory drug test. >> yang: and where

as john yang reports, major league baseball today announced what it calls a "a long overdue" rewrite record books-- for the die hards and for regular fans too. >> yang: judy, from 1920 to 1948, black players, banned from the major leagues, were relegated to what were called the negro leagues. as a result, accomplishments l wegely forgotten, while but today commissioner rob manfred said m.l.b. was elevating the seven ne leagues to major league status, adding the 3400 players' names and their stats to the bfficial recoks. howard bryant is a sriter and commentator for espn. ac's written about sports, and baseball. his most recent is "full dissidence: notes from an uneven playing field." mr. bryant, thanks for joining us. from your perspective, what's th commission manfred announced today? >> well, i think the attempt at redress, especially we've had in the country.that i think that the significance also is the legtimacy of the league, at least in the eyes of major league baseball. i'm very troued by it, if i'm being completely candid. don't think it's the right move for major league bas

john yang has our remembrance. >> a man has flown an airplane faster than the speed of sound! >> yang: chuck yeager soared into aviation history in 1947, the first person to break the sound barrier. the achievement in the "glamorous glennis"-- named for his wife-waa long-sought breakthrough. he recalled it in a 2012 interview.>> up until that timed never been able to get above the speed of sound, had problems with controls and stuff like. th finally, on october the 14th of '47 we succeeded in pushing through the mach one, and opened up space to us. >> yang: born and ran west virginia, chuck yeagered enlin the army air corps in september 1941, when he wasor 18, just bthe pearl harbor attack plunged the united states into world war ii. he became a p-51 fighter pilot and distinguished himself in aerial combat over frae and germany. at one point, he was shot down, but escaped capture and retued to the skies. after the war, yeager a military test pilot, trying out new prototypes. in 2006, he descrid for west virginia public broadcasting how he ended up in experimental roet-powered

>>election officials say former democratic presidential candidate andrew yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of new york city has not formally declared his candidacy but apparently in the works because of term limits. the current mayor bill de blasio is nearing the end of his second and final term newly retired former san jose police chief eddie garcia has been hired as the chief of police for the city of dallas are sealed become dallas's 30th chief of police and the first latino to hold that position. garcia accepts this position after almost 30 years with the san jose police department and he's been credited with rebuilding the department after pension reform and an exodus of

andrew yang.t's not doctor, but i just thought i would say that. good to have all of you on this evening. thank you so much. i hope you ate too much and had a great time. so anthony, i want to start with you. wisconsin and arizona both certified biden's wins today. two white house advisers telling cnn that despite what trump is treating, he understands that he has no chance of winning. so what is he trying to accomplish by continuing with this farce? >> he's trying so it will be 25 to 70 million people. he knows by linking all of them to this conspiracy theory and sticking with that narrative and that lie about a fraudulent election, they'll have a grievance that they'll share with him. many people will believe that, and he'll go on to make money off of them, don. that's the ultimate goal. >> john avlon, i want you to take a listen to what senator lindsey graham said today. >> the challenges he has. you know, deal with mail-in voting, and i'm very worried about it. >> do you think he should go to

yang dropped out of the presidential race in february after poor showings in iowa and new hampshire. wins, he'd be new york's first asian-american mayor. >> pardons were issued in a balloon hoax and an explosion in baltimore. >> the baltimore sun reports 21 construction workers were injured in a downtown gas and electric building. construction work was being done on the air handling and boiler system that likely caused the explosion. two window washers had to be rescued after they were hanging stories from the ground. >> i have no idea where it is coming from. it could be my building, the building next door. all i could think was i got to get out. >> the building was largely empty because of the holidays and the coronavirus pandemic. >>> the rockets' season opener was postponed due to coronavirus issues. scheduled to play the oklahoma city thunder last night in houston. star guard james harden was barred after being fined $50,000 for violating nba health and safety protocol. seven other players also unavailable for virus related reasons. that left the rockets without the mandated eig

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andrew yang? >> yeah, apparently i was here the whole time. >> you were. i was telling you i could hear. what do you think of the proposal? the proposal to give $1500 to people who take the vaccine? >> i think we should be getting money into people's hands right now but certainly it would increase adoption of the vaccine and we're going to need to do something to stimulate trust and widespread adoption if we are going to be able to resume any kind of public gatherings, indoor dining, or really any form of normalcy. i love it. i think john is on to something very important. it's common sense. if you're going to revive a $22 trillion economy, spending a few hundred million on getting adoption of the vaccine up makes perfect sense. >> since the quarantine, everybody is used to these technical problems. they expect them now. i think it is sometimes the only time people actually look up at the tv at our ugly faces is when we go oh, we lost -- they're listening but not necessarily watching. that is when they look up and go what's going on there? it all depends o

as john yang reports, todaarthey a case about a collection of art dating back to the th century. part of our canvas. arts and culture sies, ♪ john: for musician jed leib, it's a family story that cters around a game of strategy. >> for me, the metaphor for my grandfather's story and mine is chess. john: as a young boy, he learned the game from his german-borner jewi grandfaart dealer saemy rosenberg. >> the lesson was to always play to win, but to play fair and to think three moves ahead. john: rosenberg, who died in 1971, was a decorated world war i german army officer. the journey, i was told, began with my grandfather playing chess against an officer who eventually became a member t nazi party. the officer one day told my grandfather to take a vacaon and my grandfather knew exactly what that meant. he lefhis home and his gallery and his art and he took my mother and grandmother and fled to holland. john: rosenberg and two other jewish art dealers owned the guelph treasure, 82 piecesf medieval religious art that date back to the 11th century. 1935, 42 of the pieces were sold to

. >> andrew yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of new york city in 2021.w his name in the ring days after a poll showed him with a slight lead in the race. he was known for his call of a basic income of $1,000 a month for every american over the age of 18. >>> it's a travel destination. >> a piano bar at risk of going quiet. the effort to save the alley. >>> get ready for a chilly and rainy forecast. ♪ no, no no. let's show 'em how it's done, becky g. ♪ it's the brand new chicken dance song uh ♪ ♪ get down heat it up like a sauna ♪ ♪ spin around one time if you wanna ♪ ♪ wings up stretch em out put it on 'em ♪ ♪ get up now ♪ get down uh ♪ cluck cluck when you hear the sound uh ♪ new chicken dance new chicken sandwich my juicy, thickest fillet yet. my cluck sandwich combos. only at jack in the box. people are saving hundreds on the most reliable in a land not so far away, network with xfinity mobile. they can choose from the latest phones or bring their own. and choose the data option that's right for them. they even get nationwide 5g at no extra cost. and

former presidential candidate andrew yang officially filed paperwork to run for new york city mayor yang has not formally declared his candidacy but the paperwork is in. and this now allows him to begin raising money for a possible run. yang made waves in the democratic presidential primary with his universal basic income proposal, current mayor bill de blasio is nearing the end of his second and final term in office he will be term limited out. we'll take quick break and be right back. did you know that 70% of the soils on your clothes are invisible? under u.v. light, you see the invisible dirt trapped deep down. try new tide pods hygienic clean heavy duty. for a deep clean, just toss in a pac. formulated with 10 concentrated cleaning actives, that clean deep down into the fabric to remove invisible dirt. see the difference, after being washed with tide hygienic clean. for a deep clean, try tide hygienic clean! with a 100% money back guarantee! if it's got to be clean, it's got to be tide. >>5.42 is the time officials up in tahoe are taking extra steps now to ensure that lodging restric

there was very little for the children do on a long sea voi yang. the time life aboard the ship was sad and dreary. but mo for more than two months families lived in the dark and crowded ship's hold. many became ill with scurvy. still they never lost hope. the william bradford wrote -- >> with the help of god they might overcome. they knew they were pilgrims, >> after a long meeting at sea, they fell to a land which is called cape cod. they arrived in the good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the god and heaven that brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the miseries and perils thereof. but they had now no friends to welcome them, or homes or friends to go to. besides what could they see but a wilderness. >> and the wilderness was not virginia where they had permission to settle, but new england, where the winter storms had driven them. arguments broke out among the pilgrims and among the strangers. some felt that because the land would not be under the laws of virginia they co

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the supreme cou thank you for reporting on this, yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, john yang.anie: i am stephanie sy with "newshour" west. we will return to judy woodruff afr these headli os. the u.s. i the verge of rolling out a covid-19 vacne as the number of daily infections shattered records. as the food and drug admistration prepares to approve pfizer's inoculation, there e reports the white house ordered the agency's head toor authorize it todaesign. fda commissioner stephen hahn played that down, calling it an untrue representation of a call he had with chief of staff mark meadows. in other developments, new york governor andrew cuomo suspended indoor dining in new york city beginning monday. 0 in new york city, you put the cdc caution on indoor dining together with the rate ofsi transm, that is a bad situation. theti hospitalis have continued to increase in new york city. we said we would watch it if the hospal rate did not stabize. we would close indoor dining. stepnie: we will have more on the program.ort later in the u.s. senate approve a sweeping defense funding bi

michelle golland yang and is u.k. counterpart agreed to colleagues negotiations and oppose breaks of trade deal that's after a week of intense talks ended in stalemate the negotiators will now step back while politicians decide if several major differences can be overcome time is running out to reach an agreement the break the transition period ends on december 31st. at least 14 people have been killed in a bus crash in the brazilian state of mena good nights where than 2 dozen others were injured of course but the bus was traveling east of the state capital of belo horizonte when it fell more than 15 meters from a highway overpass. cubes and now some news from space japan's high on both the 2 spacecraft has successfully released a capsule that's expected to land at a remote base in australia early on sunday japanese space agency officials cheered as the council carrying a rare samples from an asteroid detached from the spacecraft the capsule contains rock and soil fragments that scientists hope will provide clues on

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the announcement would not come until after the senate runoff in georgia which yang is focused on.uld be the second asian american candidate to run for mayor and appear on the ballot. >>> coming up, despite covid, a north bay business is planning a huge new year's eve party. why it appears the county can't do much about it. >>> and the writer and director of wonder woman 1984 is talking about her new movie that will be released tomorrow. >>> first we want to check in with jobina and something that is really going on on the roadways right now. >> yes.julian, that sigalert i was following in napa has been upgraded by the chp. they called out a coroner because this has turned into a deadly situation. so as we bring in the maps here, want to point out the area. there's just a minor slowdown there. this is on southbound 29. it's also past soscol creek road. that's the specific area, where you see that yellow line sigalert in effect. emergency crews are on the scene. a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle. that's what led to this this morning. also we do have a fog advisory issued by the chp

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for the "pbs newshour," i'm john yang. judy: with analysis of the politics behind the covid reli bill, the preside's continued tacks on the election results and more, we turn to our politics monday team. that's amy walter of the cook political repobl and host of radio's "politics with amy walter." and tamara keith of npr. she al co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." hello to both of you. we heard lisa desjardins lay out a part of the 5500 page dealgr that cs is apparently coming around to passing. here were, another deadline, and i hate to be so crass as b o ask you l it down to winners and losers, but who do yous see as winnd losers here? losers are in the same camp. that's the american puic and small businesses. many of them are winters in that they are finally seeing aid that has been in the works here since earlier in the summer. they are also losers though because many of them, especiall businesses, did n survive the summer and fall when these negotiations were deadlocked. there are a couple of other political issues h

yang the pendant predicts who will use the new year's day bowl game.anthony fauci has his public health from day-to-day. watch as they open the georgia bulldog box inside the cincinnati bearcat box. as such be good omen for the old dogs that are there about to get complete ripped to shreds. also run for fun extra point, later the same day gaining went for a number two-point conversion. beckett also means someone will score safety, after all it did come from his own end zone. and we are children. action after seeing this video, gang gang was immediately drafted by the jets. they bigger take a break dear cardboard he's probably better than their entire defensive line. and now they're just playing themselves right out of the draft pick. topic number three. a pair of vermont residents arrested after paying a local teenager in weed to shovel their snow. even worse they really try to pay him and snow to pick up their weed, but the boy cleverly declined. the rash entering grass instead of cash scheme was discovery 14 year old boy needed medical attention to i

>>former presidential candidate andrew yang he has officially filed paperwork. this was today to run for new york city mayor he has not formally declared the candidates say, but this allows him to begin raising money for a possible run. yang made waves in the democratic presidential primary in part because of his universal basic income proposal. the current new york mayor bill de blasio is nearing the end of his second and final term in office because of term limits in national news tonight at least 9 people are in critical condition after a building explosion in downtown baltimore. >>happened this morning at a high rise building that houses the offices of a local utility company. almost 2 dozen people had to be rescued, including 2 workers who are trapped as you can see well as you could have seen by that scaffolding fire department says there is no evidence or rather there was evidence of the explosion starting on the 16th floor of the building. it was work being done on the building at the time, but an official cause has not yet been determined. >>an investig

very important st yang on this and, now, lisa, i want to turn to you.just heard john say members of the house oflican representatives have signed on, they are supporting this lawsuit. what does that say that they are doing this and how are they justifying it? >> that is 126 house republicans signing on to that lawsuit and there are two main arguments you hear from them. one is on substance, what john talked about. i spoke to some of them saying they believe the election officials in these states overrode the will of the state legislature, which they say election process.ge of the the other argument is not asnt subse, it's more about clarity. these republicans say they want the supremcourt to rule, to clarify the results of the 2020 election, mo for all, sort of a final look to make sure that there isn't something that's msing in the process. but, of course, as john has pointed out, those w signed on to this lawsuit signed on specifically in support of what the plaintiffs, the states are arguing which is overriding the vote of the people. >> woodruff: me

john yang looks at what his picks bring to the table. >> yang: judy, mr. biden's team appears to be a mix of familiar faces and some not-so familiar. the president-elect's other choices: michael regan, the head of north carolina's department of environmental quality, to head the environmental protection agency. former e.p.a. administrator gina mccarthy to be his senior climate change advisor. and former michigan governor jennifer granholm to be energy secretary. earlier, mr. biden named former secretary of state john kerry as his global climate change envoy. amy harder covers energy and the climate for axios. amy p thanks so much for joining us. let me start with interior, what is the significants, representative haaland would be if con firnled the first native american to run the interior department which oversees a huge amount of land in the united states, including tribal land. >> definitely, it s significant because she will be the first, if con furmd, she will be the first native american to lead this agency. in its 171 year history. and so that's imp

miss yang? >> chairman cornyn, ranking member dur win and members of the subcommittee. i want to thank the subcommittee for holding this meeting at this moment in history when there are an estimated 80 million people that have been forced from their homes a record number since world war ii. i want to recognize my co-panelists for testifying here today. your commitments for hong kong and people everywhere continues to inspire millions around the world. each of you demonstrates that the refugee crisis is not just about the millions. it's ultimately about the one individual in his or her story that puts a face and a name to those who are displaced. i am speaking today on behalf of the humanitarian arm of the national association of evangelicals that was founded over 70 years ago in response to individuals that were displaced by conflict. we currently work in 14 countries around the world and in 17 communities across the united states to serve immigrants including in north texas and in four communities across illinois. i am here on behalf of refugee council usa, organizatio

>> yeah, the only question i had was the yang sing, the yang sing, i'm assuming it's still in the busineilding. are they still in the building? >> yeah. they have a long-term lease, and we will continue to operate with them in the building. >> excellent. no other questions. >> thank you, vice chair rosales. well, i'm glad that yang sing is staying because i love their chow mein and egg rolls. i actually had the opportunity to work in that building many, many years ago, and you are correct. there were a number of spots that were always empty, but i also appreciate commissioner brackett's desire to want to make sure that those who want to stay can stay, and if they're pivoting, as well, so they can get more foot traffic, then more power to them because small businesses are the life blood, i think, of any major city. the question i had was really about the murals in the -- throughout the building, so you have some in the row continutu and out in the lobby area. those are still staying because of the historical significance? >> yes. the businesses in the lobby will be untouched by this, and so i t

look like much but they're just now the world's most powerful computer. 20 years in the making jews yang is the brainchild of china's top scientists who are now asserting their dominance in the race for quantum supremacy so the tools are hot dogs john has sure an outstanding quantum computational capability. for 4 months and we are planning to use it for quantum chemistry research and graph common a toric research pool and even a year for her solution of harmony she enjoyed. it comes little more than a year after google unveiled sycamore their own quantum computer. achieved an incredible breakthrough in quantum computing their machine needed seconds to perform tasks which conventional systems would require thousands of years to do the chinese team say their light based technique is 10000000000 times faster than google's. remarkable achievement it's a milestone. for a lot of mental. intermediates scale quantum computers it is still early days but scientists hope their achievement will lead to the technology unlocking rapid advancement in encryption and pharmaceutical analysis we have deme

somehow yang has gotten used to working on the edge of a cliff. i have no fear i've got used to it or i was a little afraid before when i just started doing it but now it's nothing. to young and his colleagues have collected 2 tons of trash this year alone that's less than half their annual haul earlier but still a sad testimony on tourism today. even in a place like this were. for. ok let's get a reminder now of our top story on you in an address to parliament german chancellor angela merkel has demanded tougher holiday measures asked coronavirus cases sale to drop germany's death toll from cope with 19 and set a record daily high of 590 state leaders are considering a strict lockdown through the festive season. coming up next our show made in germany looks at the business of drugs stay tuned for that. so let's talk about drugs. is a huge business worldwide. we need one of the 1st illegal cannabis farmers in china . and pioneers in growing medical marijuana in denmark plus we want to find out is the east cigarette hype a lot of hot air. made in g

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a bid to stop the rising number of cases garza closed all stores except pharmacies at the weekend yang is one of the most densely populated territories in the world making it hard to enforce social distancing local a local code survivor highlighted the severity of the problem. at the i.c.c. lack of discipline from the patients they don't wear masks don't keep social distancing sometimes even doctors don't follow this rule they also keep touching their faces and eyes after treating the patients spread them really cautious i did in fact because it down to scallops people i hope people do realize that this virus truly exists in here and it kills pts. up to date that's how the news is looking safe asa day here not in time to get there you can also keep yourself updated on our social media pages and you chance to. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. and in 1996 something happened different a company called purdue pharmaceuticals came out with a drug called oxycontin and they

yellen has your experience as chair of the federal reserve during the 2008 financial crisis to draw on yang is a well known figure in washington d.c. and that s early help she's also i think established a reputation as. relatively centrist moderately and will. it will it's only one who can work and both share the skills that will be needed in a divided congress at odds over a 2nd relief package joe biden called on congress to immediately authorize funding to address the most urgent needs of the american people but predicted what if anything lawmakers agreed upon wouldn't be enough and promised to move quickly once in office kristen salumi al-jazeera wilmington delaware peru's former president is refusing to testify before the parliamentary commission that removed him from office last month mouth of his car attended a closed door session on tuesday but told reporters he made use of his legal right to remain silent he remains under investigation for corruption which he denies his car is a removal in november led to a political crisis that so 3 presidents in 9 days and violent protests across

yellen has your experience as chair of the federal reserve during the 2008 financial crisis to draw on yang is a well known figure in washington d.c. and that s early help she's also i think established a reputation as. relatively centrist moderately and will. it will it's only one who can work and both. skills that will be needed in a divided congress at odds over a 2nd relief package joe biden called on congress to immediately authorize funding to address the most urgent needs of the american people but predicted what if anything lawmakers agreed upon wouldn't be enough and promised to move quickly once in office kristen salumi al-jazeera wilmington delaware cuba is pushing ahead with economic reforms as it tackles a combination of u.s. sanctions and the pandemic it means the cuban peso will be devalued for the 1st time in more than 60 years actually cuba has 2 versions of the peso since $94.00 but only one of which is changeable or interchangeable in cuba this is all part of efforts to loosen state controls over the economy. and the business business software giant sales force is buying

printed joe yang in china she just questioned actually us extend we're in icing debts the issue isn't the task of a journalist to document just the reality and so this is why actually is a year of corona showed us so important so so much how important press freedom is. questionnaire director of reporters without borders in germany thanks for your time thank you legendary fashion french fashion designer pierre cardon has died at the age of 98 he took the fashion world by storm in the 1950 s. revolutionizing the industry with his futuristic looks he was also a commercial innovator producing ready to wear collections and licensing his name worldwide long before it was in vogue to do so. don presented his extravagant creations on international catwalks for over 6 decades the paris designer was one of the most innovative and productive fashion designers in the world. government i mean working professionally for 60 years and i've created over 4000 dresses and i never saw the originals. born in italy and 922 pietro cut dini emigrated with his family to france by the 1940 s. he changed his na

boomer generation which most of the gold bugs are from a lot of them were indefinite optimists and the yang of that be the boomers also had definite passing those in their cohort and those people are the gold bugs they are alternately super pessimistic they do not believe in you know the jetsons future that we all want to say and big when ours are just whole cloth the opposite we are definite optimus we are much more like the greatest generation who you know we're like what are we going to do we're going to go kick hitler. and islands where we're going to go take it leave we're going to go to the moon we're going to come we're going to have a bunch of kids we're going to bend the backyard barbecue is going to be the boom times good right and i think we're much more like that which is like we have a plan and we want to see humanity prosper and equate is a bet on a positive future and not a negative doom and gloom future where you slide back into the dark ages and honestly if you want to bet on that by guns and ammo and whiskey and prescription pills there's going to be a lot better investmen

isn't it — there was a counter letter after yours, signed by a whole bunch of other writers — jeff yangprivilege by people have absolutely no problem expressing their views." he's got a point, hasn't he? i don't think so, actually. first of all, my inbox is flooded with messages from people who would not be considered elites, who might be assistant book editors or associate professors without tenure at colleges, who said that the letter really was a shot in the arm or maybe even allowed them to feel that they might possibly be able to express themselves. people have written us to tell us that they have never once said what they actually think in the context of a work environment because they don't believe that they could survive that. so i think that this letter was on behalf of them and that's not a very elite project. some of the people in the letter are extraordinarily elite — there's no denying that — but what i see them having done is a kind act of generosity. they — malcolm gladwell doesn't need to sign a letter or do anything else. he doesn't have to work anymore. so him speaking

face masks and socially distancing is still as important as ever we've been speaking with lawrence yang professor at warrick medical school thank you for your time and your comments. thank you. russia is the latest country to join a growing list of states closing their borders to the u.k. because of the new coronavirus strain u.k. prime minister boris johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on monday a new coronavirus variant is believed to be around 70 percent more transmissible than current strains are shoddy at woodstock's reports from london. well 2 days after boris johnson the prime minister announced his latest set of restrictions it's almost as though the united kingdom is plummeting into chaos countries that neighbor the united kingdom have not quite gone to the extent of shutting the borders down entirely they're doing all they can very extreme measures to try and contain this new strand of covert 1000 in the united kingdom and not to bring it to their shores now france's freezed transport links with the united kingdom for at least a 48 hours germany is not quite follo