Hello i Maryam Namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up tense times in zimbabwe zanu p. F. Accuses the army chief of treason after he friends to intervene over the president s policy purge. Tens of thousands of survivors of the iran iraq of quake face a desperate future as the government scrambles to provide aid. Frankly i had no real recollection of this meeting. The u. S. Attorney general changes his story but insists he did not lie to congress about contacts between russians and Trumps Campaign team. And the speed schools taking children off the streets and into education in liberia. And how much with all the sport including its football fans are coming to terms with the idea of a world cup without their team three deeding players have quit the National Side after their playoff defeat to sweden. Zimbabwes ruling party says it will never succumb to pressure from the army and as one the military chief against meddling in politics on monday general consent said the army
A national day of mourning in iran for the hundreds of People Killed in sundays earthquake an estimated seventy thousand People Living close to the iran iraq border of been made homeless and the government is struggling to get aid to those in need iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world leave barco reports. Terms like the main road into the city of kermanshah hardest hit in sundays earthquake more than one hundred aftershocks followed by the survivors now feel safer living in the open with belongings salvaged from their ruined homes. All of a sudden we started to feel shaking we tried to take shelter next to the will but then left our building immediately one of our neighbors died and my brother was injured. When we felt the quake hit my wife and i took cover we managed to rescue our son but my wife fractured her back the seven point three magnitude quake lasted only four minutes but struck with immense force when it was over hundreds were dead thousands injur
Will eu countries be added to the us flight laptop ban . Top officials are due to meet in brussels. Will robots ever replace humans . We show you the latest creations that are grabbing the attention of company bosses. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme its risk off for the worlds financial markets, thanks to the latest trump turmoil. But first today eu and us officials are meeting to discuss a potential extension of the laptop ban on aircrafts. In march, the Trump Administration imposed new restrictions which prevent us bound travellers from carrying Electronic Devices larger than a mobile phone into the cabin. The original set of restrictions affected flights from eight mostly muslim countries including turkey, egypt, the United Arab Emirates and saudi arabia. This affected many of the gulf carriers including emirates, etihad and qatar airways, but now there are reports suggesting that the ban could be extended to include some countries within th
Then as a humble humanitarian appeal in particular to five countries, russia and iran, the united states, saudi arabia and turkey to do all they can and not lose a single hour from this weekend on wards as we do we can as humanitarians reach the besieged areas all of them within days of the agreement, all of the millions are out of reach within weeks. We can do it. So finally if they lose this momentum i think they will live to regret it, the parties and their international sponsors will live to regret it for decades because its not a neutral bad scenarios if we lose momentum now it will get much worse and can get even worse. And people will then leave this place without hope, they will come here to europe, many more or other places so we cannot fail in geneva in the next days and weeks. Thank you very much and thank you all, what a distinguished panel for bringing the dramatic situation in syria to us vividly and so grateful you are all here. As you heard its about the human cost and
Shut down. Not completely, but in many significant and sensitive functions. Republicans refuse to concede. They want a oneyear delay in the obama care quote, unquote, individual mandate to buy health insurance. Democrats refuse to concede. They want obama care to be unconditionally funded. The result, 800,000 federal workers are idled and services are suspended. Both sides are bracing for a backlash and the blame game is on, so, why no compromise . Because of what is at stake. Namely, a shift in the balance of political power in 2014 after next years midterm election. We now have a democratic president , a democratic senate, and a republican house. President obama, a democrat, is refusing to negotiate with House Speaker boehner, a republican. Because mr. Obama thinks voter antishutdown backlash will boost the current democratic majority in the senate next year. And possibly result in the democratic taking over of the house of representatives. Republicans think a oneyear delay in the in