Except. Mali and soldiers speak of getting things back to normal after a coup that isolates the country from its neighbors. Flooding in southwestern china forces hundreds of thousands from their homes some laps at the base of a unesco World Heritage site. And in sports and byron munich are taking on the all for a place in the Champions League final the winners will play p. S. G. For the biggest title in European Club football. Ok lets get going the European Union says it rejects the results of the disputed elections in belarus that have kept the president Alexander Lukashenko in power and after an emergency Virtual Summit today the e. U. Also announced targeted sanctions against those it deems responsible for brutally suppressing protests against a landslide victory. Today here we gave them 3 clear messages. Firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. Secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of t
People from their homes and threatening an ancient statue of the buddha. And love in the time of corona virus how the pandemic is forcing pakistanis to scale down their flamboyant fairy tale wedding its. A protest as in about a ruse of defied the president s warnings of a tough crackdown on dissent Alexander Lukashenko has told Law Enforcement agencies to restore order on the streets but protests because protesters in the capital minsk a piling on the precious accusing the president of rigging his overwhelming election victory earlier this month and demanding he step down soften a state on chemical problems of walked off the job joining other factory workers who have been supporters of looking shanker until now calling for a nationwide general strike the protesters have also found some support with the European Union which has announced a new round of sanctions and says it will not recognize the election result aljazeera step vasan was at one of the largest protests today at Independen
A renewed crackdown in better routes to rally against the rule of the president s. Also a coup leaders in mali pledged political transition and new elections but the Security Council is urging soldiers to go back to the barracks. Backing by the running mate come the house and former president barack obama will head up the 3rd night of the Democratic National convention. So u. S. President donald trump is to demand that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against iran it follows americas defeat over plans to extend an arms embargo against tehran trump says the secretaries that might on paper will travel to the u. N. In the coming days to start the process of restoring sanctions mike hanna following this one from washington d. C. For us. I mean donald trump can say these things and demand these things but in reality how will it play out how can it play out. Well its a very good question indeed its very unclear to see how such a thing could play out given that president withdrew the
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In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i