A human rights law and renew their call for change plus we want to be accessible to. The next. Thought wrong to ask well tell you about the race to create a more attractive veggieburger. Top story the Iraqi Parliament is set to meet today in the coming few hours after the Prime Minister marked his resignation is expected to top the agenda to know hes formally submitted that resignation the papers to go with his resignation but thats done little to calm the protesters there demanding a complete overhaul of the political system demonstrators have once again fought with the police in baghdad and medical Officials Say 3 protesters were shot dead similar fulton is in the capital. The day Prime Minister of the mahdi submitted his resignation. Crowds in Tahrir Square showed no intention of packing up and going home banners were still held high doctors remained on standby to treat the wounded and new street art sprung to life depicting the aspirations of the protest movement for many the Prime
Minister bobbish to step down but hes standing firm. And tears protests and anger on the pitch at the womens world cup cameroons footballers crashed out against england after a series of controversial calls by the video assistant referee. Im carl last month thanks for joining us in turkey opposition candidate. As one the rerun of stumbles may or alexion the one over 54 percent of the ballot with now more than 99 percent of votes counted he says he is ready to work with president ial recha thai air to one to solve his temples problems is rival the now the younger daughter im from present everyones ruling party as conceded. Jake if he calls for the rerun after suffering a narrow defeat in the 1st election in march. As in istanbul for us shes been following these elections there you are yulia opposition candidate winning now for a 2nd time how surprised are you by that outcome. Knowing his victory clearly doesnt come as a surprise at all to his supporters as you can see all around me peop
Joining me now live isjean lee. Shes the former Ap Pyongyang Bureau chief and current co host of the bbc podcast the lazarus heist. Thank you for being back on the programme. Whats the significance of this potential deal between two countries that are becoming even more isolated on the world stage . I think you laid it out. If the two leaders do meet and arrange a deal of some sort, this is a deal that is possibly going to help the russian resident extend that war ukraine by supplying him with munitions and in exchange possibly food that north korea needs, but beyond that, quite possibly technology that north korea needs to take its Weapons Programme to the next level and that certainly has implications that certainly has implications that have a far greater reach because it is about Nuclear Proliferation and so it may be that the leaders meet, they hold a high level summit, lots of pomp and propaganda, but it will be interesting to see what they say about the deals that come up but i
Hello, there is news on air in the studio of ekaterina berezovskaya. And at the beginning of the orenburg region, the head of the ministry of emergency situations, alexander kurenkov, arrived there today to determine a further action plan to eliminate the consequences of the flood. In orenburg , more than 2 thousand household plots and over one and a half thousand households were flooded, and these figures are inconclusive. The water level in the ural river increased by 25 cm in just one day, peak expected on wednesday. Meanwhile, in kurgan, which is also in the risk zone, they started. Theres the situation on your side, youre closer to the urals, almost right on the shore, yes, 100 m, 100 m, lets look at the water there then, well look at the water from our side, okay, its risen, now theres still a mark ill put it, and put a mark, if anything happens, then keep the motor vodka on this on. Big water came to orenburg, if yesterday the level did not change, then today it went up sharply,
Hurricane harvey tops 63, we will look at the fallout from the historic storm in a spspecil report from houston, texas, the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry in the united ststates. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor commmmunities s of cocol. Plus, wewe attend a a fundraiseo pay for the e funerals of four rescue volunteerers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report