A guilty verdict for the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein one of course sexual predators who used the power to threaten. Assault trip humiliate and Solutions Victims and hes now facing up to 25 years in prison after a jury convicts him of rape and Sexual Assault. Also on the show exploring the culture of communication persian lessons opens at the belly all over the german star lars for training an s. S. Officer tricked into learning a fantasy language. Good to have you with us for the program today im brian thomas. We begin here in germany where police are investigating an incident in which a 29 year old man drove a car intentionally into a crowd at a carnival parade this happened in the town of full mars and its in the Western State of Hessen Police say 52 people were injured 18 of them children some of the injured remain in serious condition. Driver was arrested at the scene in this now facing multiple charges including attempted Homicide Police believe he did act intentionally
Coronavirus case south of rome it comes as the country battles to stop europes biggest outbreak spreading beyond its borders regions that are already on lockdown our correspondent reports from milan on the measures being taken and german prosecutors heard to be think of carnival security measures after a car plows into a trade injuring dozens many of them children. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program former egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91 mubarak came to power in the early 1980 s. And ruled egypt for 3 decades during that time he forged stronger ties with the United States and israel while crushing opposition at home and that was until 2011 when he was ousted from power touring the arab spring after more than 1000000 egyptians angry about poverty and repression called for him to go to ceded control of the military to serve time in prison but his conviction was later overturned. And with us from cairo is correspondent michael since it was how are people reac
A comprehensive trade deal with a new Prime Minister Narendra Modi describes the relationship between the 2 countries as the most Important Partnership of the 21st century. Its in the report its 1st coronavirus case south of rome as the country battles to stop europes biggest outbreak spreading beyond northern regions already im locked up. In the seventys Berlin Film Festival the focus is on women on the politics of power today im in a safe and scott drugs for a down on the bad cop. Hillary clinton name synonymous with politics and power the former u. S. Secretary of state was here today to promote a documentary series about her life and in the category the personal is political we have 2 films in competition about women without power in a world controlled by men will have the details for you soon. Im phil gal welcome to the program egypts former president Hosni Mubarak has died aged 91 he came to power in the early 1980 s. And will for 30 years during which time he forged stronger tie
Congress will still have to approve it. Additional funding. Speaking of congress, donald trump said he is ready temporarily become speaker of the us house of representatives until republicans find another candidate. According to the politician, Party Members approached him with such a request, and he will gladly accept the offer if necessary. Let me remind you that the previous speaker, republican kevin mccarthy, was dismissed for colluding with the democrats. 216 members of the house of representatives voted for his removal. Ireland is no longer able to accept refugees, the head of government made this statement. According to the politician, dublin is ready to pay money to others eu countries to help them cope with asylum seekers, instead of voluntarily hosting more people. Over the past 2 years we have accepted more than 100,000 people from ukraine and from other countries, and i do not think that we are able to continue to voluntarily accept refugees until the issue of accommodation
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