Thousands on the streets in russian cities protesting against corruption, but many of the organisers have been arrested. And what was the impact of social media on the Election Campaign . Well examine the evidence. Coming up in Sportday On Bbc News pakistan will face england in the champions trophy semifinals after a thrilling three wicket win over sri lanka in cardiff. Good evening. The Prime Minister has told conservative mps that she will serve them as party leader for as long as they want her. Four days after the election which resulted in a Hung Parliament mrs may told her fellow conservatives that she was the person whod got them into this mess and she was the one whod get them out of it. Earlier in the day, Downing Street confirmed that the queens Speech Setting out the governments legislative plans could be delayed. Its meant to take place in a weeks time. Labour said it was further evidence that the government was in chaos, as our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. The
Harsha Kakar A news report of last week stated that ten families of Kashmiri Pundits from Choudhary Gund in Shopian, who had remained in the region even at the height of terrorism in the 1990’s, migrated to Jammu post the targeted killing of Puran Krishan Bhat, on 15th Oct. Farooq Abdullah stated, ‘This (attacks of minorities) will never stop until justice is served. Earlier they said such killings happened due to Article370, but it’s abrogated now, so why such killings […]
makes it harder for people to vote is that a lot of people can t register what s happening. if they don t feel like their right to vote is going to be curtailed or their ability to vote is not going to be hindered, it seems distant and abstract to them. but taken in the aggregate, this is very serious problemch how do you get people for whom this is not going to be a problem to understand their democracy is not perfect until this is fixed? i think one of the things you have to look at here in arizona, 80% of arizonians choose to vote by mail. and just ts last legislative session we had a bill that would literally remove 200,000 individuals. these are people who signed up for something called the permanent early voting list. they would remove 200,000 of these individuals from the list if they chose not to vote into elections. and it s designed primarily to make it more difficult for people to participate. coincidently, the more people we
work, and there are some pretty easy ways to do that. for starters help people register to vote, volunteer at polling places, attend your local school board meetings, and those are just first steps which lead to greater civic engagement including running for office. this is a deal in the democracy of the people. the people get involved in deate and change things hopefully for the better. but over the last cup of years many americans who take part in this critical work of grass roots democracy are being harassed or worse. our next guest erica cohen is the chair of the dary school board in new hampshire. here s one example of what she s dealt with. it s about covid mandates in schools. i just have to call it for what it is. you guys are cowards. you force the masks on these kids, and i just want to say if you do force a mandate, genocide jab, an experimental jab on these kids, you guys are nazis and i hope you hang. i hope you
democracy which is usually the province of the local school district bureaucracy and the unions who, of course, have intense interest in school policy. here you re seeing parents suddenly get involved. that sounds like grass roots democracy going ahead. it s kind of what we want, isn t it? well, i would definitely agree. i mean, i think that for the past few months you saw a lot of republican legislatures in various states passing laws prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms. and i think a lot of skeptics pointed out that, you know, these schools are very institutionally run. it s going to be very hard to alter the curricula of the schools or the teaching practices of specific teachers. but now we re seeing kind of a new phase which parents are taking it into their own hands, going to these school board meetings and raising case by case objections to certain things that their children being taught in the schools. and i think that is what has