Way for peace talks in afghanistan the president agrees to set free 400 taliban prisoners. Protests have erupted in cities across bella russas president aleksander local shankar claims another win to lengthen his quarter century in power but testers have set up barricades in the capital minsk while riot police have responded with stun grenades a police van drove a crowd of protesters and ambulances have been called in for the injured protesters as an internet blackout of belarus is so step vast and is joining us on the phone step i know you were out on the streets when the protests began just talk us through what youve seen. Yes well that its now well 2 oclock in the morning here in minsk and still the city is filled with with anger and frustration just only 2 hours after the polls closed the sense of people took to the streets going to a Central Square where they were gathering to protest against what they call again fraudulent elections when they tried to write their police was alrea
Punishments are handed out to violators of venezuelas coronavirus rules but many say they have to take the risk. The u. S. State department has spoken out in support of a former top saudi intelligence agent who was allegedly targeted for all the sasa nation attempts it describes as a valued partner of jumper a filed a lawsuit in washington d. C. On thursday accusing the Saudi Crown Prince of sending a hit squad to calendar to kill him michaela has more. Patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month in the letter the senators expressed their concern about what they call the abduction in saudi arabia of saddle jobbery son and daughter. In his court filing our job research his children now aged 20 and 21 were being held as what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senators concerns in a letter to senator leahy it describes jobbery as a valued partner to the u. S. Government working closely with t
A grim coronavirus milestone as the number of covert 19 deaths exceeds 100000. Outrage over tuesdays explosion in lebanons capital has spilled on to the streets of beirut thousands of people have rallied furious at the government the protests descended into hours the street battles between demonstrators and Security Forces one policeman is dead dozens of people have been injured hes in a hot reports from beirut. They stood their ground in the face of power. Relentless tear gas by Security Forces at times live ammunition. But protesters didnt leave too angry at a Political Class they blame for tuesdays blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived explosion but part of. I am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all the people. I know so what can we do what they did was r
A. Current affairs. Countersteering. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question about americas elections what would lincoln do lets get to the bottom line. U. S. President donald trump set off alarm bells in america last week when he talked about delaying the upcoming election after the corona virus Pandemic Public Health officials recommended that people avoid long lines at polling stations and mail their ballots and instead the trumpeters juggernaut media machine have been relentless in discounting the credibility of mail than ballots climaxing in a tweet last week where he floated the idea of actually delaying elections day which is set for november 3rd that idea was quickly killed by the white house but the fears remain especially after he said that hell wait and see if he accepts the Election Results today were joined by someone whos been involved in american politics for decades Sidney Blumenthal is a veteran journalist whos worked with leading publications like the New York Time
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