Journalist eve on. Drug charges against him have been dropped calling huge public outcry and the deadly heat wave scorching india temperatures soaring up to 50 degrees celsius as residents hope for relief from the heat. Im bring to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome it is a major win for gays and lesbians on the continent where they rarely have reason to celebrate botswanas High Court Today overturned a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex it is a landmark case for africa accord said that the law should not regulate private acts between consenting adults. And that penalizing people for who they are is disrespectful the Court Unanimously rejected walls which had previously carried a sentence of up to 7 years in prison and this makes the country a pioneer in Subsaharan Africa where most countries still in force laws against homosexuality and it comes less than a month after Kenyas High Court up held a law making homosexuality across the well t
The Labour Run Council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The pressure on the citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes biggest Local Authority is now in biggest Local Authority is now in big trouble. Its problems began more than a decade ago, when a Landmark Case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. But with the authoritys revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. And that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. The City Council Leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a long standing
These pictures show the moment the quake struck the city of marrakesh late on friday, prompting people to sprint for the streets. The city is reporting a lower death toll than other areas, but considerable damage to buildings. Thousands of moroccans have spent a second Night Sleeping outside on the streets, fearing aftershocks. Some have been describing their fears and sense of loss. Translation i returned to my house and noticed many cracks in the walls. I cannot sleep there. Im asking the authorities to help me and bring in an expert to assess whether its possible for me to return to the house or not. Look where all these people are sleeping. Theres no help for us. 0ur houses have been cracked, others destroyed, like my daughters house, which has collapsed. We are in a chaotic state. Its painful to enter the ancient city and witness the collapsed homes and see people in great suffering. Its a painful experience when this happens to your brother or sister. I its really painful. Live n
Speak about this event in a Community Setting i can see healing occur in families coming out to talk about it and it gives us a sense of where youre getting this software chess because there were many families, many loved ones still around today who lost loved ones at the time who never spoke about it and now they have an avenue to talk about it. Next, tom brokaw talks about being diagnosed with blood cancer in the diary he kept during his year of treatment. Youll have a chance to talk to mr. Brokaw from our coverage of the book festival in cm december 5th. [inaudible conversations] hardback good evening. Great to have you here. I am patricia lynch. An executive producer of writers on the new england stage in the executive director of the music hall. We are just delighted you are with us for another great author event here at the music hall. Our guest is agassi celebrated journalists, trained to commit visiting with his new book [cheers and applause] hot off the press, a lucky life int
Attacked you. So there is that aspect of it. There is concern about catalytic for silly of a crisis between two countries and also all of a sudden one is being hit hard by cyber attack and this assumes is the other country, its rival it could be a third party. You have that kind of issue, another issue of the ability to get Nuclear Weapons and overtime they build up an arsenal at the North Koreans are doing missile flight times between israel and iran are five or six minutes. Early warning is the problem is what happens if a few of the israelis iranians confidence the Early Warning system is a corrupted that your system is an saying the israelis are attacking you have to launch a counterattack when in fact it is just a cyber war. So you know, how do you begin to supplement this problem . And it is a challenge. We will be interesting. Marshall has retired. Not scheduled to pick a new director for the office sometime soon. Its going to be done well. We can help the secretary of defense t