Many of us gave him that opportunity. Many of our activists who are part of the leader of the coalition now they actually formed a forum. They were willing to take bashar on his promises to reform the country introduce it into the modern world and so on and so forth. Unfortunately theres a crack down in the damascus spring and then there was another moment after the assassination of hariri but the damascus situation and early on in the first 40 years i remember very well and i follows minute by minute. We were accepting the argument that they were an old guard and the regime etc. Etc. But after 50 years in power he became fully in charge. The system is highly centralized highly personalized and he immediately reverted to his fathers way of first saying you have external challenges that take precedence over domestic reform and second you were not going to introduce political reforms but introduce economic and he talked about the chinese model but nothing was meaningfully introduced to g
And the moment a music teacher with dementia hears his composition played by an orchestra for the first time. Good morning from Arundel Castle in west sussex, where it is a chilly start to the day. We will be talking to dupont through the course of this morning. The focus for this week will be windy at times, wet at times, but by the end of the week it will also be quite mild. More details in about ten minutes. Its monday the 26th of october. Our top story. A Navy Special Forces unit has stormed an oil tanker off the isle of wight after a suspected hijacking. Seven stowaways thought to be nigerian nationals have been detained after they were reported to have threatened the crew. Andy moore has the latest. Late last night, and the tanker andromeda was back under the control of its crew after what the ministry of defence called a suspected hijacking. 16 members of the special boat squadron, based at nearby poole, were landed on the ship as night fell. Defence secretary ben wallace said.
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk government urges members of the public to continue following lockdown rules. Its because one of its top scientific advisers has resigned after admitting breaking the guidelines on social distancing. Professor ferguson has obviously set out that he should have abided by the rules, it was a lapse, an error of judgment. And those rules on social distancing are very firmly still required. The german chancellor, Angela Merkel, is expected to announce the further relaxation of restrictions today including the return of bundesliga football. President trump is to scrap the Task Force Co ordinating americas response to coronavirus, despite a steady increase in infections and more than 70,000 deaths. You have people that are not going to stand for this,
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Withdrawing from contract negotiations with the police union. What our city needs now more than ever as a pathway and a plan that provides hope, reassurance, and actionable measures of reform. Because i work for, and serve the people, this worker must be transformational, but i must write dana lets begin with mike tobin, he is live in minneapolis with an update for us. There were two, big developments that came out of the press conference with you Minneapolis Police chief, the first you just mentioned. He is pulling police force out of negotiations with the federation of minneapolis. The Second Development is an overhaul of the disciplinary process that will use what he called the Realtime Data to intervene with officers. He does this with the support of mayor jacob frey. We dont just need a new contract with the police we need a new compact with the police one that centers around compassion and accountability. He also supplied the retreat from the third precinct building on thursday t
Notice. Pakistan has also sheltered the same organizations that try every single day to kill our people. The president s next stop, arizona, where he may decide to pardon the most controversial sheriff in america. Doing this campaignstyle rally openly teasing that he might be pardoning the criminally convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Joe arpaio. Lets be ginn with new reaction this morning to President Trumps primetime address, announcing his new strategy forward in afghanistan after 16 years of battle. The United States longest war. The strategy, fight to win. Just one thing he was scarce on details and acknowledged he was doing a big aboutface from the campaign and his promises to followers that he would get out of the war. Stay right here because we of got a stellar team of reporters and guests ready to weigh in. We start at the white house with nbcs peter alexander. I guess if theres recurring theme that we saw in the newspapers today, were hearing from his krit you cans, that the speec