Overshadowing the 4th of july will america be able to strike a balance between safety and celebration. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news french president excuse me french Prime Minister and where felipe has hands it in his governments resignation to president Emmanuel Mccraw felipes decision to stand down paves the way for a reshuffle which was widely expected the ellies a palace said that a new Prime Minister will be announced in the next few hours have previously vowed to chart a new course for the last 2 years of his term which will focus on efforts to relaunch the french economy. A spring and correspondent lisa lewis who is joining us for more on this lisa resignation of Prime Minister as well felipe was widely expected explain to us why the entire government is now resigning. Well thats not completely extraordinary youd also happened under one of my course predecessor the socialist president for longer but it indicates that the government the presid
On the program. In attempt to goose the more our indian Prime Minister pays a surprise visit to troops in the region that recently you saw a deadly confrontation with china. And the mysterious fate of elephants an investigation is underway into whats killing hundreds of. Us welcome to the program a german human rights activist has been cleared of allegations that he supports a terrorist Organization Better start now it was detained in july 27th teen and istanbul along with 10 other human rights workers in the arrests triggered a crisis in relations between germany and turkey jordan was not present of course he had been charged with membership of a terrorist group in a case that critics say was politically motivated. Lets go straight. In front of the court. How much of a surprise is that. Well this definitely comes as a very negative surprise for the defendants and their supporters who have been waiting here inside and outside court all day for 36 to emerge they had certainly hoped for
A question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at irans main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the countrys Nuclear Program is easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seem to suggest on sunday the spokesman of the Atomic Energy organization of iran confirmed the seriousness of the matter speaking to state news he said enrichment activities continue but the damage was significant enough to slow some work at the facility this incident may create delays in the Medium Term Plan for the development and production of advanced machines god willing we will compensate in such a way that the capacities at the site will be greater than before. The Natanz Nuclear plant has been the target of Cyber Attacks in the past at the time iran blamed various
A surprise visit to troops in the region that recently saw a deadly confrontation with china. Im rebecca races welcome to the program and Istanbul Court has sentenced a formal later of the Rights Group Amnesty International tannic kits to 6 Years Imprisonment on terrorism related charges the harsh verdict ended what critics say was a politically motivated trial targeting opposition activists in turkey the country the court rather also sentenced 3 other turkish activists to prison 7 defendants were acquitted the german activist peter was among those acquitted of terrorism charges his arrest in istanbul 3 years ago had triggered a crisis in relations between germany and turkey. More on this im now joined by marcus because the 2nd secretary general of Amnesty International germany marcus how much of a surprise was todays verdict in istanbul for you. Now for anyone who has been following the situation in turkey. It was difficult i mean everyone hoped that it was difficult to expect that we
Was back into action before revving up their engines drive has taken me to protests against racism. Thank you very much for joining us Irans Atomic Energy Organization has acknowledged that a fire at the Natanz Nuclear facility has caused significant damage it said the blaze could slow down development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but that iran would replace a facility with more advanced equipment. What exactly happened at the Natanz Nuclear facility last week its a question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at irans main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the countrys Nuclear Program is easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seemed to suggest on sunday the spokesman of the Atomic Energy organization of iran confirmed the ser