Yulia pertsova is with you now, hello. Strengthening districts and creating centers of resistance, president of belarus Alexander Lukashenko is today on a work trip to the brest region, where he inspects military defense methods. The head of state is at one of the Training Facilities of the relevant ministry, the commanderinchief was shown options for the Engineering Equipment of the kobrin region resistance center. They demonstrated how classes are organized for one of the army units, the place accommodation of personnel, command and observation post of the company commander. The economic bloc, as reported to the president , the leadership of the western operational command, the situation around belarus remains tense. Alexander lukashenko also inspected equipment for conducting counterbattery warfare, as well as communications equipment. No show, guys, everything should be as real, even if you are convinced that we dont need to fight, you still need to prepare properly, exactly, for s
Political prop is. So i think the Faith Based Community is finding its voice. We have also three usaid given a 6 million grant to the south Sudan Council of churches to work on communitybased reconciliation offers. So we are engaging the Faith Based Community. I think of the many meetings that ive had with religious leaders in south sudan after the outbreak of fighting in december 2013th, they showed a lot of frustration and have turned a ear to them. I think they are beginning now to find their voice in unison and it may become harder going forward. The opposition people refused to get out of the vehicles and they sped off and the soldiers fired at those vehicles. The opposition Security Officials in the vehicles fired back and killed i believe five government soldiers right in that very vinty. So it was a very intense environment. There were a lot more soldiers out on the street after that incident. And our cars came along, and they were, it wasnt a formal check point. It was a lot o
So if we can come to order. Thank you for being here. On april 27 of this year our subcommittee held a hearing on south sudans prospects for peace. An accord that finally ended the civil war that broke out in december of 2013 was reluctantly signed by both the government of south sudan and the Peoples Liberation movement in opposition in august of 2015. We were cautioned by ambassador booth at the time. And i remember your testimony on april 27th, mr. Ambassador, when you said these are the most significant advancements yet in implementing the Peace Agreement, but you also cautioned and said it is only a First Step Towards lasting peace, the most difficult work still lies ahead. Those words were prophetic and certainly very, very true, especially given what happened in july. Peace was never fully established in south sudan as a result of the august agreement. In fact, as we all know, fighting spread to areas that had not previously seen armed conflict. An estimated 50,000 south sudanes
Your smartphone may be leaking private data about you to the nsa. Are. Four days into talks, aimed and ending syrias long and bloody siferl war, there appears to be no dps civility war, there appears to be no movement. U. N. Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says both sides are talking about how women and children can leave the besieged city of homs. In brahimi says the talks will go forward. There is apparently the will to continue this discussions. You know, once again, i l tell you, we never expected any miracle. There are no miracles here. But we will continue and see if progress can be played, and when. Nick shifrin is in geneva. Nick, the two sides dont like one another. They have been battling with one another coming up on three years now. We get to this place where both sides are in a room looking at a communique from geneva 1 and both sides are saying that this is going nowhere. And now we are talking about beach steps and confidenceboosting moves. Dont you do those kinds of things bef
These disruptions . Reporter we had been expecting today to be more violent, better attended by yellow vests simply because they had made this a massive call for what they were hoping to be a black saturday. As you can see just behind me, thats what theyve achieved. Weve seen pretty big numbers coming out. We dont yet have the official interior numbers but from what weve seen there are a lot of them out here. Theyve been blocked off from the main arteries by the police in a pincher movement to try and separate them. Not only are there a lost them, but they are very determined. There is a lot of tear gas being thrown by the police to try and push them back. Regularly the police front line the riot Police Charge them. It seems to be happening once again. The rioters then push back to get as close as possible. Whats added to that frederica, beyond the call of the yellow vest in greater numbers for this easter weekend is what happened on monday, far from dampening these protests down, far