Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Us National Government has officially shut down after senators failed to agree a stop gap budget. It follows a bitter row between President Trumps republicans and the opposition democrats over immigration and border security. Senators are tonight trying to broker a deal to get the Us Government working again. It comes as thousands of women joined protest marches across the country on the First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration. David willis reports from washington. Marking the First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration, protesters took to the streets here in washington and across the country, as the government of the largest economy in the world went into shutdown. The yays are 50, and the nays are 49. Last night, a stopgap funding measure came up ten votes short. That after the democrat leader in the senate, chuck schumer, met with President Trump at the white house. Progress was made, he said, before the dealmaker in chief
Coming up, fred de sam lazaro reports on the fears of the alawites, an offshoot of shia islam and the religion of syrias president assad. If he is overthrown, will all alawites become targets . And bob faw on what some Catholic School systems are doing to try to survive . Our educational system was imploding. Enrollmentwise, finance wise, something radical, radical surgery had to be done. Announcer major funding for religion ethics news weekly is dedicated to i founders interest in religion, Community Development and education. Additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual group and retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. The january henson foundation, and the corporation for public broadcasting. Welcome, im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. Arguments continue over the socalled fiscal cliff deal approved this week in the fina minutes of the 112th congress. And religious groups are among those weighing in. The Fami
Lenders owned by autocratic Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's family have increased their share of the banking sector's assets nearly threefold to 43 percent since 2015, when the government carried out crippling devaluations of the national currency, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
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