Bloodiest days of violence since the antigovernment protests erupted in early october it was just over a year ago that abdul mahdi was appointed Prime Minister as a consensus candidate between iraq political blogs. Throughout the streets on friday cheering singing even dancing optimism on full display oh shut up to dave iraqi people are happy but we only consider this as a 1st step we demand the resignation of all lawmakers and we call on the judiciary to put them on trial immediately. The protesters making it clear that cosmetic changes will not suffice they are after a complete overhaul of the political system in iraq the mood here a dire square has turned celebrates worry but all around us there are stronger reminders of those who have lost their lives during these protests here you see people who are praying for the memories of antigovernment demonstrators who were killed by Security Forces most College Students told me he and his fellow protesters are more encouraged than ever to
With support from Cable Partners this weekend, we traveled to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour we speak with local authors about the citys history starting with the link to booker t. Washington. In 20 minutes the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and in 50 minutes the teacher strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington, the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america, at the time, had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen in West Virginia. What he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. And those nine years he was a slave boy, he didnt have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasnt able to do that. He left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there w
Beginning to understand less is more when it comes to fossil fuels but is the World Economy ready for the dramatic change that is underway well find out in this edition of made farewell fossil fuels when you consider germanys biggest Infrastructure Project at the moment is a gas pipeline youd be justified in thinking not much has changed in terms of Energy Politics not spring to transports natural gas from russia directly to germany via the baltic sea all green policies notwithstanding germany is still dependent on fossil fuels. Which include me on the northern german coast this is where the norths train to pipeline reaches western europe after passing 1200 kilometers through the baltic sea. The north stream project bypasses the previous transport route through ukraine. Gas market analyst heiko norman says that was clearly the aim of nordstroms main shareholder russian state owned. It was or. Not since the russian side claims that neither north stream to nor north stream one were built
A predator a year on with a sluggish economy in mind he softening his tone as the president welcomes his chinese counterpart xi jinping the billboards however arent as welcoming for hong kong china. And china brazil it would seem chinas growing influence on the continent isnt the easiest to sell to the public. And were joined by Carlos Dsouza hes the lead emerging market economist at Oxford Economics he focuses on latin america while carlos now give us a sense of the stakes here how important is china for latin america. Trucks are missing in growing more than for latin america but i think we need to understand the kind of relationship is that a lot of america and china have is very different from the kind of relationship in china with stan economies are in very different as well from relationships of china has advanced economies like you are in the United States so what were looking at is that most of the american economies are very export are. Going to the exporters so theyre dependen
1. 00 and there south africa at just under half a trillion now in host country brazil the leader once described china as a predator a year on with a sluggish economy in mind he softening his tone as the president welcomes his chinese counterpart xi jinping the billboards however arent as welcoming freedom for hong kong china. And china brazil it would seem chinas growing influence on the continent isnt the easiest to sell to the public. And were joined by Carlos Dsouza hes the lead emerging market economist at Oxford Economics he focuses on latin america while carlos now give us a sense of the stakes here how important is china for latin america. So simon singh is growing more than for latin america but i think we need to understand the kind of relationship is very good and china have is very different from the kind of relationship in china with stan economies are in very different from relationships of china has advanced economies like here in the United States so what were looking at