Head of the u. S. Postal service is questioned over mail in voting all of that plus. Im Robert Bright in jeju south korea suffering from the effects of devastating summer rains nearly 2000 kilometers away in Central China. With russia this hour where the critically ill opposition figure Alexei Navalny has left all civil and is being flown to germany for urgent treatment these pictures literally from 30 seconds before we came on air is that plane thats been waiting there the german plane finally took off he had been taken from intensive care in a place called sc in siberia taken to the airport took a while ambulance was on the tarmac for a long time but eventually apologies for the quality of his pictures here eventually transferred to that airplane the fierce critic of the government fell into a coma after drinking what his supporters say was poisoned to be theyve been trying to negotiate his transfer for the last few days well doctors in russia had initially said. Was too sick to fly
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Researches race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine we ask if safety could be a casualty. The us has failed to persuade the Un Security Council to extend an arms embargo on iran it means terror on will soon be able to trade weapons without un approval the bid was the latest attempt from the u. S. To clamp down on iranian arms sales accusing terror of sponsoring state terrorism well the arms embargo is set to end on october 18th 5 years after the signing of Irans Nuclear deal with world powers but the u. S. Wants it extended indefinitely thats been opposed by russia china and other members of the Security Council washington insists it wont let the embargo end sectors take mike pump a 0 says the u. S. May now trigger a socalled smell bad. Was that restores all u. N. Sanctions on iran well well have the reaction from us and begun terror on the moment but 1st lets speak to kristen salumi at u. N. Headquarters in new york kristin so this u. S. Sponsored vote has failed was this expected and talk
A damaged child cancer treatments. The u. S. Has failed to persuade the Un Security Council to extend an arms embargo on iran it means that terror will soon be able to trade weapons without un approval the bid was the latest attempt from the u. S. To clamp down on the rein in arms sales accusing terror on of sponsoring state terrorism well the arms embargo is set to end on october 18th 5 years after the signing of Irans Nuclear agreement with world powers but the u. S. Wants it extended indefinitely thats been opposed by russia china and some other members of the Security Council washington insists it wont let the embargo and sect of state might pump aoe says the u. S. May now trigger a so course not but clause that restores all u. N. Sanctions on iraq will christensen image on us live now from u. N. Headquarters in new york kristen so this u. S. Sponsored voters failed was this expected and talk us through what exactly happened. Well we know that the chinese and the russians were expe