Top prize for human rights on early efforts against the president ial election while usually regarded as rigged. And the pollution blamed for poisoning iraqi waterways leaving fishermen broke and hungry. And im fond of hummus and i have all the sports european champions by munich kick off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fashion the democrat press next for nil at home. But we begin in nigeria where the president is holding an Emergency Security meeting as parts of lagos burned smoke billowing from a prison after earlier reports of gunshots that have been almost 2 weeks of protests which initially began against Police Brutality Amnesty International says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night when i go live to ahmed idris whos covering this from for us ahmed lets talk about that meeting 1st of all that the president is holding do we know any more about what theyre going to be discussing. I think its more like a reviewing this situation nationwide pr
Will putin react. Or thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point and my guest in the studio are belarus spawn all eager to rid over from the Research Center for Eastern European studies at the university of brim and she says active support for the wounded bellicose leader would only damage russia the mood of the pro russian nor pro european also with this is because in a dorm flute experts on russia and Eastern Europe and a former moscow correspondent she says its almost inconceivable that russia would simply tolerate a democratic turn around. And a woman looking to to dont have ellos own. Who is from the russian desk he argues the. So far nothing has happened in belarus that putin really needs to react to. An interesting comment were come to that shortly 1st of all the girls will go there and over dramatic events in your home country are we seeing the final days of Alexander Lukashenko. Where i think we have to make a difference of people seeing you know these brutus d
And tiffany mcgee. A were glad to have you on the Halftime Report once again as you can see, on that little bugs the bottom right of the screen look at that the bigger screen for you. The nasdaq s p and look at the nasdaq, up another 1. 2 . The s p, by the way, is on pace trying for its fifth straight positive day you might have heard this. Big tech nom has been leading the way. Hard to believe but true by the way, that sector hitting alltime highs yet again today raids also in focus, by the way, investors awaiting fed chair jay powells big speech tomorrow at the virtual jackson hole event so, joe, theres a lot to get to there anything that you see, before we get micro, on a macro basis, that leads you believe this market is getting too hot, and has to come down at some point, or can we literally go up every single day the answer to that is the market has been too hot for the better part of the last 8 to 12 weeks. The expectation for the month of august is we were coming into a calenda
Reagan socoming into office represented what i think Time Magazine is say iing here. A fresh start for so many people. Reagans hero was franklin roosevelt. Reagan was of a different party, but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio and saw in him a figure that would help restore hope to americans, the faith that better days ahead. Someone who retore stored a sense of can do spirit in americans and thats what reagan was all about. He came of age, not just in the shadow of the Great Depression and cold war, but in the shadow of the vietnam war, the disruptions of the 1970s and 1960s and for reagan, there had to be a better way. A more positive perspective. It was not enough to accept things as they were. There had to be a better way. He brought a muhao infusion of idealism that Many Americans were looking for after a decade, decade and a half following the vietnam war, the 1960s, when people were escaping rather than really seeking major fundamental chang
Teaches a class about the president Ronald Reagan and the end of the cold war. This class was taught online due to the coronavirus pandemic at the university of austin in texas provided the video. Okay lets go to our first slide if we could. Here we have Ronald Reagan. We talked in our last lecture about the disruptions of the 1960s, the changes in the 1970s. The social changes in the 1970s towards suburb besides a shun following the 1960s we talked about nixon and carter and the desire so Many Americans had for quiet, for silence, to escape, to escape the disruptions. To discuss escape the conflict, ronald raking coming into office in the 19 eighties, elected 1980 represented what Time Magazine is saying here. A fresh set for so many people. A sunny positive disposition. Ronald reagans hero was Franklin Roosevelt. Ronald reagan was of a Different Party but his hero was roosevelt because he grew up listening to him on the radio. I will talk more about that in a couple minutes. So in ro