What is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. They were could do would have barely spoken of a quote but the most of the most go full of the below. As long ago as 1804 sevastopol the naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. During the 2nd world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. Therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the Russian Black Sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. Those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a Nuclear Confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the United States. Just so if the United States considers cuba to be in its backyard. Then crimea lays at russias doorstep. The cons
Welcome to. Its good to have you with us 7075 of the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima what affected by an unfolding tragedy of times the. Skin to back events meant fewer people in attendance with many survivors watching from home to reflect on a watershed moment in history that came at the cost of some 140000 lives. Or. Think about all that 61945. 00 a single atomic bomb destroyed iraq. The whole. Coronavirus will not stop me from campaigning for a world free from Nuclear Weapons nothing of the earth. Like when you think about that time its tragic and cruel and should never happen again. But to no darn near you remember how i did that nothing that great here for 7500 years fucking will hire you i must stop. Because it was not and yet hiroshima recovered becoming a single pace with people from all around the world is it in your city that they must. And future generations of japanese continue to pay the price for the bombing of hiroshima but the story. Particularly has come to de
Alone welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us times are already tough in lebanon food prices were rising Power Outages becoming more frequent and coronavirus case numbers climbing now the need to rebuild the countrys largest port following explosion on tuesday threatens to expose just how threadbare the countrys economy really is. A city in ruins. Its gateway to the Global Economy destroyed. Lebanon is scrambling to pick up the pieces of this weeks explosion. But long before the blast levanon to qana mewe was then a death spiral. Rampant inflation in an increasingly worthless currency plunging many lebanese into poverty hunger and despair. All now are sure to get worse. More than 250000 people have lost their homes in beirut. And countless businesses have been destroyed. And we compensate. We lost our houses all shops and a house of my grandfather. Lost my uncles wife and we took out from under the rubble is there anything bigger than this except
Welcome to news africa its good to have your Company Popular and that is growing in zimbabwe over the failings off the government inflation is currently above 700 percent hospital workers all striking and as a shoot shortage of food and medicines in the country the human rights situation is also deteriorating Amnesty International ses the brutal assault on political activists and human rights defenders who have had the courage to call out alleged corruption and demand accountability from their government is intensify. Now in a moment ill be talking to a member of the opposition but 1st this report on some recent developments in the country was this is what it has come to despite Health Workers pleading with the police in early july these nurses took to the streets they are overworked havent been paid and dont have protective equipment against covert 19 and. They were all arrested. Their plight is indicative of the di a situation symbolic of finds itself in is a society marked by corrup
Under welcome to news africa its good to have your Company Popular and go is growing in zimbabwe over the failings off the government inflation is currently above 700 percent hospital workers all striking and theres a shoot shortage of food and medicines in the country the human rights situation is also deteriorating Amnesty International ses the brutal assault on political activists and human rights defenders who have had the courage to call out alleged corruption and demand accountability from their government is intensify. Now in a moment ill be talking to a member of the opposition but 1st this report on some recent developments in the country. This is what it has come to Desperate Health workers pleading with the police in early july these nurses took to the streets they are overworked havent been paid and dont have protective equipment against coke 19 and. They were all arrested. Their plight is indicative of the die a situation symbolically finds itself in is a society marked by