The usa Gymnastics Team, larry nassar, has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing young female athletes. More than 150 women filed personal statements against him during the seven day hearing. Thejudge said he would die injail, and dismissed his apology to his victims as insincere. Our correspondent, rajini vaidynathan, has been following the Court Hearing in michigan. The tables have turned, larry. We are here, we have our voices and we are not going anywhere. The amount of physical, mental and Emotional Trauma this man has forced upon me is immeasurable. Over the last seven days, their voices and their stories have become hard to ignore. 156 women say they were sexually abused by this man, larry nassar. I am giving you 175 years, which has 2100 months. I have just signed your death warrant. During the hearing, thejudge invited other women who had been abused to come forward. What started as ten convictions turned into an outpouring of testimony. Today she did not
Consul will visit dhaka this weekend to further discuss matters of mutual concern and to find ways and means to move ahead with regard to the situation on our border we have also invited the minister of home affairs of bangladesh we will work on him at any time he is able to come to myanmar and hope to take forward our cooperation on Border Security matters our stated willingness to discuss the issue of repatriation gives the lie to the assertion that there is a policy of ethnic cleansing on our part mr president the new government in myanmar inherited a challenging situation ereka in state and and has had to deal with the consequences of actions by other activists the Current Crisis is due to the acts of terrorism perpetrated by sea. To address the situation the government launched a number of initiatives including the Rakhine Advisory Commission chaired by dr kofi annan the recommendations of the Kofi Annan Commission represents a viable roadmap forward we have embrace the recommenda
This is the news hour live from my Head Quarters in doha fully back to bill coming up in the next sixty minutes leaders claim a mandate low turnout for sundays secession referendum adds to the uncertainty about what comes next one familys struggle to reunite shows how long way to ricos road to recovery will be after Hurricane Maria also this hour in malaysia the trial has begun of two women accused of murdering the north Korean Leader is a strange half brother and were going to meet seventy five Million Dollars just. In the next five to six much after visiting a role in giraffe you g. s in bangladesh the head of the World Food Program outlines a scale up to help need it. Thank you for joining us initial figures released by the catalan Regional Government show a decisive vote in favor of secession after sundays referendum but they also indicate an unexpectedly low turnout meanwhile the divide between the Regional Government in boston and Central Government in madrid appears to have deep
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