A round table on President Donald Trump Meat Industry executives Health Advocates push for a ban on flavored cigarettes. So were looking at south america in this news hour with protests in several countries that have crippled major cities and brought many of them to a standstill 1st of all chilly the protests which began last month when students in santiago started demonstrating against a subway fare increase since then though its widened out its grown with demands for political and Economic Reforms then there is colombia a proposal to change the minimum wage and to introduce possible pension and tax reforms as led to a strike and a huge rally or number of rallies in bogota and in bolivia as well protests was sparked by a disputed president ial election former president evo morales denied any electoral fraud but he eventually resigned under pressure from the military and fled to mexico but his supporters kept protesting and calling for his return so lets start with the protests which r
Another stinging blow to chancellor machall in Regional Elections this weekend. Plus a last minute scramble to climb australias most famous rock tourists coming out in force hoping to scale blue in the final hours before a permanent ban goes into effect that rock is now closed off the fires out of respect for Indigenous Peoples. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the United States will be moving troops into Eastern Syria to help defend the regions oil fields there from Islamic State now thats according to u. S. Defense officials this announcement comes after the decision by President Trump earlier this month to pull american troops out of syria that paved the way for turkeys assault on Kurdish Forces there had been a close ally. Now a ceasefire deal brokered by the us has allowed turkey to create a socalled safe zone along the border which is now being patrolled with russian help. So is russias influence in syria set to increase further and how should the west respond to russias
Attacks on protesters and the media urging Security Forces to preserve the rights of all iraqis. Also nearly 100 people are killed and thousands displaced thats Ethnic Violence in eastern democratic republic of congo intensifies. And the significant moment in time new zealand marks 250 years since a british ship sailed in but not everyone so welcoming. Since the landing of. These its been nothing but distress. Im joining us roscoe with the sport as iran prepares to allow female fans into the pool stadiums will sit down exclusively one of the women helping drive change the country. Welcome to the news hour turkey says its forces are ready for military action in Northern Syria its Defense Ministry says preparations are complete but there is continuing criticism of the operation irans foreign Ministry Says the mission will lot and turkey security concerns the u. S. President is facing widespread criticism domestically for pulling troops out of Northern Syria kurdish fighters in the region
We appreciate your spending your time with us. My name is dan hamilton, im a professor here at Johns Hopkins, Foreign Policy institute fellow. We have a post doctoral fellows. We are delighted today help publicize it in the first public release of the book. So shes here as a post doc fellow has this new book. Pretty timely. And shes been working on it with her colleagues in europe on those questions. We thought the context of the book would be good to talk about very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit. What does it mean, not only for the uk and the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues, which will start to affect, of course, the u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. Youve had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds. But just to keep it brief, ive got cornelia to tell us briefly about the book. Then were going to go to two colleagues, the assistant professor here who does work
A continues its military build up for an operation against kurdish fighters amid warnings a cold trigger a new humanitarian crisis and. I would work. On a risk running out of cash the United Nations says its a worldwide operations are in peril. Ecuadors government says its open to International Mediation is the country grapples with the 6th day of anti austerity demonstrations for testers angry alan scrapped 40 year old fuel subsidies as part of Economic Reforms linked to an i. M. F. Loan well protesters in the capital of briefly stormed the heavily guarded parliament and clashed with Security Forces and other government buildings in quito were also attacked and damaged it comes hours after president lennon mourinho announced that he had temporarily moved Government Operations from the capital which has been the center off the protests to the port city of. No with the belief that its a democratic system cannot be violated the constitution cannot be violated you cannot damage the assets