Johnson is accused of embarrassing the nation over break that by 2 former Prime Ministers. Well were starting in greece where authorities have started moving refugees to a new site on the island of after their camp burned down earlier this week thousands of refugees have been sleeping rough since the morea camp europes largest was reduced to ash the refugees are demanding humanitarian assistance and are resisting the attempts to relocate them greek police fired tear gas at protesters on saturday stephanie is now been speaking to some of the refugees earlier we heard stephanie some of their extraordinary stories tell us more. Thats right and i think you know when we talk about. Number is around 12000. 00 refugees on this island now homeless. Story. Something thats so important like for example theres an afghan family here theyve been. One of the little ones are drawn to them so you know they are people who had hopes of had dreams and as you heard earlier when you were talking about talk
This chapter is one of reconciliation progress not another chronicle of tears and bloodshed. Hailed as a historic opportunity that cannot be wasted afghanistans government meets the taliban for the 1st time to negotiate and and to 19 years of war they overcome persistent violence and contesting ideologies to offer any hope of peace. Welcome to the program. In doha what a diplomatic effort and decades of war in afghanistan is underway for the 1st time the Afghan Government and the taliban have met in the same rule its an achievement that follows dozens of rounds of talks prisoner exchanges and a cease fire against u. S. Forces negotiators from the highest level with sit face to face in doha to find a way to and nearly 20 years of conflict among the main challenges the establishment of a mutual and long lasting cease fire and the integration of the taliban into the government of afghanistan. For those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more th
Host the tv coverage of the National Book festival continues with novelist Salman Rushdie with novelist salman rue hello i am Salman Rushdie the author most recently of a book that i am here to talk about as the title suggest a novel inspired and i guess it is a version of that story will and his sidekick making his way across america on the absurd quest for love. Because i found as i was thinking about the book the characters became their own creatures rather than his. I started off with the idea to writing a novel more or less entirely set in new york city even with the previous novel i said next time you have to get out of town so i have this idea of a novel that would somehow range widely across the country. And try to do two things and to take america at this particular moment. And the other aspect with teachers you not to do thats a dangerous thing because then the novel begins to read like yesterdays papers if you do it right thats available for. And then the easiest way to desc
Announcer tonight, on late night with seth myers Stacey Abrams. Creator of david byrnes america utopia, david byrne and all new closer look. And all new closer look. Featuring the 8g band with sonny emory. Now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth myers and this is late night. I hope everyone is doing well tonight. And lets get to the news. Well just this week we learned that women received unnecessary hysterectomies at an i. C. E. Detention facility the attorney general called for demonstrators to be charged with sedition and the white house wanted to use a heat ray on Peaceful Protesters to clear the way for a photoop i think at this point even queue is an undecided voter. Thats right federals officials reportedly considered deploying a socalled heat ray that makes targets skin feel like its burning, in preparation for clearing a peaceful protest across from the white house in june. Apparently, they decided the ray was too much after testing it on steve bannon looks like the heat r
Also this morning a potential breakthrough in the middle east. Israel, the uae and bahrain set for a historic signing ceremony at the white house. Jared kushner who helped broker the deal joins us live. Under investigation. The breakout star of the netflix hit cheer, 21yearold jerry harris whose popularity skyrocketed this year, now reportedly being investigated by the fbi for allegedly soliciting minors. What he is saying this morning. Mask up. The eyeopening demonstration and why that important metal nose strip is crucial. Plus how superstar paul rudd is teaming up with governor cuomo. Want a challenge . How about a stop the pandemic challenge. What about that . For a masked message for millennials this morning. Oh, wanna dance with somebody and that blockbuster return to the ballroom. Welcome to dancing with the stars. Tyras big debut, derek dancing over to the judges table. Fans flipping out for nelly and all eyes on the tiger queen. Good morning, america. Its great to be with you,