The highest daily rate reported worldwide. Police fired pepper balls of protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was due to be held. And the army and news year is accused of executions on the force disappearances of civilians relating to an attack in december. For the 1st time since he was shot in the back by the police 7 times and left paralyzed from the waist and weve heard a message directly from jacob blake in his hospital bed shooting in the state of wisconsin has added to the anger right across the United States of racial inequality and Police Brutality protests which is still going on well have more on that in a moment but 1st world reynolds reports now on blakes statement. Stabled i stand back state was speaking from a hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours as pain is not. Hers to breathe slowly. Move from side to side her. Blake was shot in the back by a konoha wisconsin policeman in august hes had numerous surgeries and is par
Ball protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was supposed to take place and how a rebel army is making sure children are still going to school in 1000000 man despite a bad because of coronavirus. Well thousands of better russians are staging another huge march in the capital minsk this sunday as they try to keep up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko he is responding with increasing force and is still refusing to quit weeks after the disputed elections hes also turning to russia for help to stay in power but its members over the border in lithuania monitoring events that the how big are these protests today given we are now into well 4 weeks of them. From the pictures were seeing tens of thousands of people easily on the streets of protests in russia. These 2 and there is clearly still safety in numbers for those protesters who have descended on to the streets of mens despite warnings from the or far it is that what theyre doing is illegal the government has cut
After being shot in the back 7 times by police while the protests continue across the u. S. Against racism in Police Brutality. Also in the news new me is accused of executing dozens of civilians during counter attacks against armed groups and with crunch briggs it talks resuming this week after little progress so far the u. K. Warns the e. U. We want to blink 1st. And only a hard time with all of your sports news server ina williams battles past Sloane Stephens at the u. S. Open shes still on course to equal the record 24 grand slam singles titles. Sunday afternoon in belarus with thousands of people are staging another huge march in the capital minsk trying to keep up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko whos choosing to respond with increasing force hes still refer. Using to quit weeks after disputed elections and is turning to russia for help to stay in power Bernard Smith with us to start things off he is in neighboring lithuania of course reporting restrictions keeping
The Atlantic Council in washington, d. C. Posted this discussion. Hello, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. I am the resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the director of the Iraqi Initiative. This is an Iraqi Initiative event. It is on record. Feel free to tweet, quote our excellent guest, and enjoy the event. We look forward to a timely, great conversation with our guest. And we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet ashtag aciraq. This is to the ac middle east center here, acmideast. Here is the format. We will get brief remarks after i finish and then i will ask some questions, then we open it to the audience for some questions. That is how we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest is a member of the Iraqi Council of representatives. He is a member of the future parliamentary group, deputy chairman of the Civil Society committee, a very Important Committee in the iraqi theiament, an
Tweet, excellent guests and enjoy the event, we look forward to a timely great conversation where our guests and we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet using the aciraq and this is to the middle east center here ac middle east, here is the format. Brief remarks after i finish here and then i will ask him some questions, then we open to audience for questions. So thats what we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest, member of the iraqi consul of representatives, hes a member of the future parliamentary group, chairman of the Civil Society committee, very Important Committee in Iraqi Parliament and he is a member of the iraqUnited States friendship committee. Hene was a cofounder of the new Generation Movement and he previously worked in washington as bureau chief for nrt and u. S. Tv and also worked for u. S. Embassy in baghdad as political cultural adviser, holds master degree in Public Policy from