Brink of ruin including the iconic st marks basilica officials have declared a state of emergency residents and tourists are shocked at the scale of the damage. The 1200 year old city has reached its breaking point and to make matters worse disaster in italy could have been prevented a decades old project to build a flood barrier has failed to materialize its over budget overdue and plagued by allegations of corruption residents have long complained that exploited for profit tourism has left a mark on the fragile city with 30000000 tourists coming every year well the mayor has blamed the flooding on Climate Change but architect cristiana says the disaster is manmade he fears that it may soon be too late to stop venice from going under. 83 year old venetian Christiana Gaspar eto has experienced numerous floods in his lifetime. But the kind of prolonged flood his hometown is currently enduring is a whole different league. Together with other locals christiana has started protesting on a
A spy and then he said something that sounded menacing. According to the whistleblower several senior u. S. Officials were concerned by the president s call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren aljazeera washington still ahead on aljazeera a large detention sent to take shape in eastern india well tell you who its meant for. And why many afghans say theyve lost faith even before saturdays president ial election. The sun is out on the south coast of turkey now all the action in the last 24 hours has been this curler clad in remaining stock 5304050 millimeters of rain typically but the big swirl out west is more typical of what were going to say now a regular basis for the next few months is autumn proper wind and rain the green being rain and temperatures hovering around the 20 and of course of study drop away now in spain and portugal were near the 30 rock and with that in the high twentys and its really eastwards in this swathe of c
Conduct even if you were not concerned and i cant imagine what elected leader would not be concerned about a sitting president using his office to gain political advantage for the next election you surely would be concerned about the potential that the white house intervened to stop the whistleblower complaint going its lawfully identified path the path that the whistleblower statute is very clear is required whenever there are a whistleblower complaints which is that it goes to the Inspector General for intelligence and once the Inspector General general says that the complaint is both credible and urgent that from there it must go to congress and the law is one of the clearer laws that we have in the us its a rather clear example of obstruction of justice and abuse of president ial power its hard to overlook it great talking to you thank you so much for your time do appreciate it. 2 other news in the u. S. Secretary of defense has announced america will be sending a battery of Patrio
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