Trump fans stranded again after Georgia rally

Hundreds of fans were left waiting in 46-degree temperatures for hours

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Supporters of Donald Trump were left out in the cold for the third time in a week after reported transport problems at president's rally in Georgia

Hundreds of fans were left waiting in 46-degree temperatures for hours as the president left Rome for his next rally in Florida, according to NBC News.

The traffic delays were in part due to a single, narrow road in and out of the venue shared by pedestrians, cars, busses and emergency vehicles.

NBC News reporter Julie Tsirkin captured scenes from the rally aftermath showing hundreds laying on the ground while others tried to hitch a ride out amid the high wind area of the rally.


It was a similar scene found in Pennsylvania and Nebraska, where some supporters were rushed to hospital after being stranded in freezing temperatures.

Mr Trump's rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday saw "thousands" of supporters wandering into the 41-degree night with no access to shuttles they expected to bus them between the rally and parking.

CNN political reporter DJ Judd tweeted images from the scene showing people blocking the street from ambulances and police, while reporter Ryan Nobles said many supporters were out in the cold for four to five hours waiting to hear Mr Trump speak.

“It became so frustrating for many of these Trump supporters, they ended up just walking,” Mr Nobles told CNN's Anderson Cooper. “That is the decision that our crew made, my producer and I walked about a mile to get to our parking lot.”

Three days earlier, seven people were taken to hospital and 30 were contacted for medical reasons after a rally at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska left supporters stranded in freezing temperatures for hours.

Joe Biden said following the rally that the president's failure to plan responsibly was a snapshot of the president’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Hours after the President departed for Florida, this was the scene in Georgia as people were left for hours waiting for buses to take them to their cars:

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Lindsey Graham say women can accomplish anything if they are pro-Life and are like Justice Barrett

Lindsey Graham says women ‘have a place in America’ and ‘can go anywhere’ if they are against abortion

Senator’s comments echo statement he made about young Black people and immigrants in early October

Oliver O'Connell
New York
NOV 2,2020

Lindsey Graham has said young women in America can accomplish anything they want if they are pro-life, embrace religion, and follow a traditional family structure.

The Republican Senator for South Carolina cited Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a role model when speaking at a campaign event in Conway, South Carolina.

“You know what I like about Judge Barrett? She's got everything,” the senator said. “She's not just wicked smart, she's incredibly good. She embraces her faith.

“I want every young woman to know there's a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion, and you follow traditional family structure. That you can go anywhere, young lady,” he added.

Mr Graham is campaigning in a highly competitive election race against Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison, the first Black chair of the party in the state.

During a debate against Mr Harrison, the senator was furiously criticised for saying that young black people and immigrants can “go anywhere” in South Carolina, adding “you just need to be conservative, not liberal”.

There was similar anger online this weekend, with Twitter users reminding the senator that it was not the 1950s r the nineteenth century.

Others pointed out the hypocrisy of a 65-year-old man, who has never married nor had children, lecturing women about adhering to a “traditional family structure”.

While South Carolina is a Republican stronghold — Senator Graham won in 2014 by 15.6 percentage points — this year’s election has surprised many by how competitive it has become.

Polling has Mr Graham ahead by single digits, though potentially within the margin of error.

Many voters seem spurred on by the senator’s flip over the nomination and confirmation of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court — he had previously said on the record that new justices should not be appointed in election years.

Donald Trump is all but guaranteed to win the state and its nine electoral college votes.


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Impunity for crimes against journalists prevails, report shows

The U.N. agency, UNESCO, tasked with defending press freedom, reported Tuesday that 87% of inquiries into killings of journalists worldwide since 2006 remain unresolved. Photo by Sylvain Liechti/United Nations

Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A report published on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists shows such crimes prevail despite a "slight decrease" in 2020.

Over the past 14 years, 1,167 journalists have been killed, and about nine out of 10 cases have gone unpunished, according to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization figures. Those figures do not include journalists who suffer from non-fatal attacks, torture, arbitrary detention, intimidation, harassment and the risks faced by female journalists, including sexual attacks.

In 2020, the percentage of resolved cases worldwide was 13%, a "slight decrease" in the rate of impunity compared with 12% in 2019 and 11% in 2018, the UNESCO Director-General's Report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity said.

Still, impunity prevails with 87 percent of inquiries into 1,167 cases of journalists being killed since 2006 unresolved, according to the report.

"If we do not protect journalists, our ability to remain informed and make evidence-based decisions is severely hampered," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. "When journalists cannot do their jobs in safety, we lose an important defense against the pandemic of misinformation and disinformation that has spread online."

In 2018 and 2019, television journalists made up the largest group of journalists killed and most of them were covering local stories as has also been the case in previous years, according to the report.

Among other key findings of the report, in the past decade, a journalist has been killed on average every four days. Last year was the lowest death toll recorded by UNESCO at 57 deaths. In 2019, the highest number of fatal attacks occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean region, representing 40% of total killings worldwide, followed by the Asia and Pacific region with 26% of killings.

Most journalists were killed in countries with no armed conflict, according to the UNESCO data.

"Journalism remains a dangerous profession: the threats faced by journalists are many and wide-ranging," UNESCO said in a brochure for the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists including report highlights. "While casualties related to countries experiencing armed conflict have declined, fatal attacks against journalists covering stories related to corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes, trafficking, and political wrongdoing have risen in other countries."

First published in 2008, the report, published every two years since then, responds to a call from the 39 Member States in UNESCO's International Program for the Development of Communication.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2013 to proclaim Nov. 2 as the "International Day to End Impunity Crimes against Journalists." The resolution urged Member States to implement concrete measures to counter the present culture of impunity. The date was chosen in honor of two French journalists in Mali who were assassinated on Nov. 2, 2013.

"Journalists are essential in preserving the fundamental right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,' UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. "When journalists are attacked with impunity, there is a breakdown in security and judicial systems for all."

Record number of fires blaze in Brazil's Amazon and Pantanal wetlands in October

Firefighters, troops and volunteers try to put out a forest fire in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, a border state with Bolivia that covers a large part of the Pantanal but over which the Amazon also extends. File Photo by Rogerio Florentino/EPA-EFE

Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A record number of fires blazed in Brazil's Amazon and Pantanal wetlands in October, new satellite data indicates.

Brazil's National Institute of Space Research reported 17,326 fires in the Amazon in October, which is more than double the 7,855 during the same month in 2019, BBC reported.

Satellite data released Sunday also indicated a record 2,856 fires in the Pantanal wetlands region last month, the highest monthly figure in over 30 years.

Campaigners claim the government hasn't done enough to curb the surge in fires, but the government denies the blame.

The government imposed a 120-day ban on setting fires in July, but the Institute of Space Research data indicate that the measures have not stopped the rise.

President Jair Bolsonaro had no comment on the latest figures, but last year contested the veracity of data from the National Space Research Institute showing increasing deforestation of the Amazon.

The INPE data also showed that 93,485 fires have been recorded in the Amazon this year, which is 25% higher than the same period last year.

Wildfires were already on the rise last year, with the INPE reporting an 82% increase in wildfires from January to August compared to the the same time frame in 2018.