A fucking economy will get more from our correspondent in monrovia. Also on the program italy switches to Campaign Mode after president dissolves parliament with elections set for march of next year analysts are predicting a Hung Parliament and more instability. For analysis. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a good to have you with us liberia is poised for its first peaceful transition of power in decades thats off the former soccer star george weah won a landslide victory in the west african countries president ial runoff liberia is africas oldest republic but its last transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another came back in one thousand nine hundred forty four the country was devastated by a fourteen year civil war that ended in two thousand and three. Was to the cheers of jubilant supporters liberias new president weeps tears of joy. George weah has waited a long time for this moment after past election defeats this time hes won a landslide vic
With. The old new york. City give. Thanks for joining us liberia is poised for its first peaceful transition of power decades. Victory in the west african countries president ial runoff liberia is africas oldest modern republic but its last transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another came back in one thousand nine hundred forty four the country was devastated by a fourteen year civil war that ended in two thousand and three. To the cheers of jubilant supporters liberias new president weeps tears of joy. George weah has waited a long time for this moment after past election defeats this time hes won a landslide victory. Supporters on the streets celebrate the triumph of the rags to riches candidate at. The equator certainly the korean is not a kitten. But it is the mandate to open such a chance to reality present the era. Has long been a familiar face to liberians born in a slum he shot to soccer stardom in the one nine hundred ninety s. Playing for europes top c
After the powerful tremor hit near the iraqi town of hello john also coming up. U. S. President donald trump needs his philippians counterpart as we go on terror today but outside the summit of asian leaders in manila hundreds of protesters demonstrate against their policies. And france marks two years since the islamist attack on the bought a clause and not the citys night we meet a survivor of the shooting that killed ninety people inside the paris concert but. Im brian thomas welcome to the show rescuers are scrambling at this hour to help the earthquake victims on the around iraq border now that after a seven point three magnitude quake struck about thirty kilometers from the iraqi town of a log in late sunday arabian Officials Say the tremor killed at least two hundred people in iran alone baghdad has yet to report an official death toll but hundreds of iraqis are known to have been injured. When d. S. Began to shake the shoppers began to run. The state. This reporter escaped inju
29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics lets get out of the classroom and go over to the synagogue for todays lesson because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. What happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 ducets in the plate. Maybe two rows back, an even fancier guy puts 2000 ducets in the plate. Finally, a gets back to the public row, where the poor people
29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics lets get out of the classroom and go over to the synagogue for todays lesson because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. What happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 ducets in the plate. Maybe two rows back, an even fancier guy puts 2000 ducets in the plate. Finally, a gets back to the public row, where the poor people