Eighteen people die before they can be moved. I know im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up we hear about the alleged rights abuses in yemen by a political prisoner who says he was kidnapped and tortured. Families of murder victims in mexico demond on says as the country suffers its bloodiest year on record. In the auto exhibition that gives public a reg lives into life a kuantan a mo back a perspective although its inmates. Know our top story aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from east and in syrias capital damascus at least eighteen people though have died while waiting east and is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds its been under a tight government siege since two thousand and thirteen and the target of hundreds of as strikes and artillery attacks thats course of a a food and medical shortages for about four hundred thousand syrians trapped there last month the u. N. Called for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medi
Now on booktv, nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi adichie delivers the 2015 pen world voices freedom to write lecture. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im suzanne the executive director of Pen American Center and on behalf of our 4,000 members, its a great honor to welcome you to the tenth annual Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi adichie. [applause] just a word on the first Arthur Miller lecture delivered here in this room in 2006 by his knew appearances observations read as if they could have been written this week. He said respect for the rights of religious and ethnic minorities should never be an excuse to violate freedom of speech. We writers should never hesitate on this matter no matter how provocative the pretext. Our natural deattachments and desire to understand those unlike us should never stand in the way of our respect for human rights but thomas doesnt leave it at that. He goes right on to say he is always had difficulty expressing my polit
Denies reports he wanted to resign over tensions with the president. Hello im Maryam Namazie and london youre watching aljazeera also coming up aid agencies appeal for four hundred thirty four Million Dollars to save the lives of or hinge a muslims playing massacres in myanmar. Spains stock market takes a hit as catalonia moves ahead with plans to declare independence. And we speak to the cambodian opposition politician just a day after she escaped a country exile in thailand. U. S. President donald trump has arrived in las vegas in the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern American History. Of sundays attack which left at least fifty nine people dead and more than five hundred injured as investigators are learning a lot more about the gunman Stephen Paddick sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in on his hotel room and his partner is now being questioned by the f. B. I. After returning from the philippines lets go live now to Heidi Joe Castro in last vegas first o
Iraqi military say some fighting is still going on to the north and east of the town where i solicit rounded troops were greeted by jubilant villages in six kilometers northwest of the town and the capture of how we judge the only area that now remains under eisel control in iraq is a stretch alongside the west and border with syria but the military operation has come at a cost as Charles Stratford reports from by checkpoint it in Northern Iraq. Exhausted in scale it took this family five days to reach the peshmerga defensive position. They walked across these polished hills from their village in eisel controlled territory sometimes struggling to find shelter from Coalition Airstrikes and iraqi shelling but the situation is tense there are airstrikes artillery shelling i have escaped with my family as soon as we could i saw were relocating from one place to another and many of them were pushed. And squeezed further into how egypt there is no food or water available in i want a village.
Hello im maria minimize he and london youre watching out there also coming up deepening on certainty in lebanon after the Prime Minister resigns during a trip to saudi arabia criticizing iran and saying he fears for his life. Russian air strikes and driving eisel from its last strip of land in syria killed six members of the same family. Council colleagues bootable ill be reporting on why Political Leadership there in mourning. Now we saw this program with news that weve been covering from saudi arabia with the countrys add a friend saying that it intercepted a missile at the King Khalid International airport near the capital riyadh the rebels of at the same time claim to a fide long range Ballistic Missile that traveled five hundred kilometers over the border with saudi arabia a spokesman for the rebels told al jazeera that they launched a missile towards riyadh late on saturday but also in other developments a major shake up of saudi arabias cabinet with the economy minister. Having