For. No deaths have been reported. Translator many people live here. I believe lots of them are still buried under the mud. Shenzhen is home to one of chinas largest industrial complexes. Authorities believe the growing amount of dirt and construction debris became unstable, triggering the disaster. A satellite photo from 2002 shows a deep quarry that used to be the site of a mountain, but the scene has totally transformed in this image from last year. The picture show s that deep quarry now filled. Locals say the pile of waste grew to 100 meters in height in two years. It became unstable. Other residents told nhk they had lodged a complaint with government officials about the dangers posed by the mound, but nothing was done. The staterun Xinhua News Agency says methods for managing waste from construction sites are subject to inspection and approval. Authorities are now trying to determine whether proper procedures were followed for the waste being dumped at the site. Reporter Many Po
Without a fight. Also coming up, Afghan Forces struggling to hold a province against the taliban. They worry the province could fall to the insurgants insurgents. Rethinking the equation of power. Sundays election gave no party the mandate to govern. No a crash course in sharing has begun now a crash course in sharing has begun. I am brent, it is good to have you with us. At first he sounds like the terminator. Once you have blinked in disbelief you realize this is a man whose career has just been terminated. Sepp blatter, the mightiest man in world soccer, was ordered by his own Organization Today to get out. He had Michel Platini he and Michel Platini have been banned from soccer for each years, for receiving payments that the court stopped just short of calling bribery. Here is more. The decision was just an hour old when sepp blatter went on the defensive. A short time later Michel Platini released a statement saying the ruling was a complete farce. Sepp blatter had a different cho
Spain. From the strained relationship with russia, to the bitter divide between israel and the palestinians s, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry has a lot on his agenda. He met today with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, raising concerns about the prospects of u. S. Sanctions. We have a number of issues to talk about. Im appreciative of Prime Minister Sergey Lavrov, travelling here on short notice, changing his schedule. I look forward to our conversations. We have more on the meeting. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry, and russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov met in rome on sunday. At a time when u. S. And russian relations reached a low, particularly after last thursday, the u. S. Senate passed a ukraine freedom account bill in which it proposed to impose new sanctions across mosul, and relieved 300 million in hardware to help fight back in the Southern Region of the crimea. The russians didnt appreciate, obviously, that bill, and put out strong words on the Russian Foreign mini
You live as it happens from Cape Canaveral. A defiant state of the Union Address from president putin. He accuses the west of trying to bring down russia. Translator even if the events in ukraine didnt happen, they would have come up with a different motive to restrain the growing tension in russia. Also on the program, aaron is here. President putin pretty defieant about the economy. Absolutely. It is an economy speeding towards recession. The ruble has fallen off a cliff, and those Lower Oil Prices means russia is losing billions of dollars every single day. But the president says those western sanctions, theyre a stimulus for the economy, and in fact, will make russia much more selfsufficient. Its midday here in london, 7 00 a. M. In washington, and also in new york, where there have been overnight protests after another Police Officer has been spared prosecution for killing an unarmed black man. Thousands of people disrupted new york city traffic following a grand jury decision not
The same as gorbachev has been a real throwback for me. I can those days after one dictator after another emerged, they all had very human aspects. They liked jazz. Music, anddixieland so there is a kind of Human Element to him. Rouhani is a man of the system. Ease up your product of the system he is a pure product of the system. And lived age in it in at all his life. And now here he is at the top. People dont talk much about what he is really all about and what he really wants. Why does he take all of these different positions . Because the main game that is being played inside iran right among the various factions is who is going to succeed khomeini. Khomeini is believed to be sick. I mean, its true. He should have died long ago if he is a six at if he is as sick as some would say he is. But no one would be surprised if he dropped dead tomorrow. Characters,f these the rouhanis, the ahmadinejads, the rafsanjanis, etc. , they are all maneuvering for succession. Theyre all trying to ma