John lennon . John lennon. John lennon was shot and killed tonight in new york city. An unspeakable tragedy. I said, do you realize what you have done here . And he said, i killed myself. He said, im john lennon. People came out here, singing beatles ballads. They just want to try to feel close to a man whom they say touched their lives. Thats how much love people had for john lennon. His music made our good times better. His music made our bad times at least livable. If he hadnt dreamed so beautifully, it wouldnt hurt so much. Here we are, 40 years later, talking about this man and this mans music. My role in society or any artist or poets role so to rye to express what we all feel, not as a preacher, as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John, he was always a person that was ahead of the curve. His lyrics were always about the truth. I asked him at one point what his secret was for writing great songs. He said, you write the truth and you make it rhyme. It sort of dawned on me
And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
Monday a night its still unclear. But its for sure that he had an open. During the night and also nights in the week. Also here where a lot of remains. Rubber bullets we have found in the last 6 hours people have been streaming in to. Put the. Car mechanic but also as a sign of protest and defiance thousands of people also carrying children. Around. Very euphoric atmosphere i have to say earlier in the day when there was a one minute silence for the victim there were a lot of people crying holding. Making a peace sign so very remarkable scenes here today again in minsk where protests are not stopping and only growing bigger the protesters are just. Waiting theres no police there are no Security Forces around for the last 48 hours i have to say yesterday friday when the people were marching towards independence square. In front of the government house. With a remarkable scene with women and there was some riot police also standing by and there were also reports about trucks military tru
They detained everyone everyone girls guys children who are 151413 years old there was a grandpa who was around 70 with us everyone got detained even if you just came out of a shop to see whats going on you got detained the cell is designed for 5 people initially there were 25. 00 of us there after that they started adding and taking away groups around 5 people like a factory line the whole night you could hear people being beaten outside. I was pushed into a police truck and they told me either you go with us for 15 days or we beat your legs and let you go the fact that im here now its clear what i chose well earlier i spoke to stop bus not correspondent on the phone from minsk. I have to look at the timing of release today theres going to be important the European Union meeting as talking about sanctions the European Union also yesterday has released a statement asking bellows to release prisoners and thats exactly what the government now has been doing of course the protest increase
And welcome to rewind on the radio over the last 10 or so years here at aljazeera english weve built up an Incredible Library of Award Winning documentaries and on rewind were taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing whats happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week were going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africas oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovias disadvantaged poor from the witness series in 2012 here is free press. Hello. Hello. You know what were doing is like this our responsibility its a mess over got the budget on you so youll recall we add them to informati