For sex abusers. Pope francis has removed the cover of papal secrecy, meaning victims of sexual abuse will be able to go to the police to report a crime without fear of exmmunicatation from the church. And tea gas onn the s streets of france as unions take their protest against Pension Reforms into a 13th day, but president macron seems determined to press ahead with the plan. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and all around the world, welcome. We start with problems in the pipeline between germany and the United States. The u. S. Senate has backed sanctions on the nordstrom to gas pipeline by a huge majority, meaning the bill has passed both houses of conongress, a and president tru s says he will sign it into law. The sanctions targeted pipeline is being built under the baltic sea to transport russian natural gas to germany. It is supposed to start operating as early as next month. The u. S. Opposes the project, saying it will increase russias political influe
Will be able to go to the police to report the crime without fear of excommunication from the church and tear gas on the streets of france as unions take their strikes in protest against Pension Reforms into a 13th day the president seems determined to press ahead with the plan and pakistans former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is a sentence to death after a court finds him guilty of treason will exile save him from the ultimate punishment. I bring off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we start with problems in the pipeline between germany and the United States the u. S. Senate today has backed sanction. On the nord stream 2 gas pipeline by a huge majority meaning that the bill has now passed both houses of congress and u. S. President trump says he will sign it into wall st johns target a pipeline that is being built under the baltic sea to transport russian natural gas to germany its supposed to start operating as early as next month t
His plans and pakistans former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is sentenced to death after a court finds him guilty of treason will save him from the ultimate punishment. Im bring up its good to have you with us we start tonight with problems in the pipeline between germany and the United States the u. S. Senate has backed sanctions on the nord stream 2 gas pipeline meaning that the measures now have passed both houses of the u. S. Congress the u. S. Wants to stop construction of the pipeline under the baltic sea which will transport russian natural gas directly to germany its supposed to start operating in the coming months the u. S. Says that the project will increase rushed. As political influence here in europe u. S. Sanctions could be met by retaliatory measures from the European Countries invested in the pipeline and that includes german. Art for more lets go to our correspondent in washington public hes on the story for us tonight good evening to you pablo so weve got a construc
We start in china where as youve been hearing telecoms giant huawei has launched a new legal challenge against the us. Its appealing a decision last month to stop us mobile phone companies from using government grants to buy its equipment. It follows a similar legal challenge in may against a ban on Us Government agencies from buying its kit. Lets get more on this story from our correspondent in shanghai, robin brant. What does huawei hope the practical effect of this will be . What do they hope to achieve with this challenge . They want to overturn a ban and we will have to wait and see what the us court of appeals thinks about that. But what it is also trying to do is demonstrate that it has the resources and the desire to push back and there is also a Public Relations exercise ongoing here, one in which huawei is spending a vast amount of money as it continues, frankly, in its fight with the Us Government. This is a fairly technical moved today, the second attempt in a year by huawe
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