Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
To resist. Nigerian Rights Groups say the number of protesters killed in a Police Crackdown on cheese day is higher than previously reported. In some of the clearest language yet the Catholic Pope says same sex relationships should be protected by law plus pollution is being blamed for killing fashions of fish in iraq leaving fishermen in fear for their livelihoods. Top u. S. Intelligence agencies are warning of raw interference by russia and iran in the upcoming president ial elections in a horribly cold press conference the director of National Intelligence and the head of the f. B. I. Said 2 nations have obtained Voter Registration data and want to cause confusion and social unrest mike hanna reports now from washington. D. C. These are members of a far right wing Group Calling itself the proud boys according to the f. B. I. Iranian agents are planting emails to Democratic Party voters supporting to come from the proud boys with the intention of creating social unrest to that end we
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A bolivian t. V. Channel suggest louise arcee has won hes the candidate from the socialist party of former president evel morales who was forced out of office after a disputed vote last year the wall street journal says china has threatened to detain american citizens if chinese academics are prosecuted in the u. S. Yes police recently arrested several chinese with the schools ties to the military theyre accused of lying on their visa applications to allow them to carry out industrial espionage katrina you has more from beijing. As weve heard earlier from jolly gen its what theyre calling political persecution saying that the u. S. Is crying victim for what they think has been a sort of fight started by the u. S. Itself now what is interesting about what Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson said today is he did not flat out deny that there would be a response or some Richard Boucher or impact on u. S. Nationals here in china he didnt flat out deny that although he did say that foreign