Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am dorothy ridings, president the legal woman voters. Sponsor of the Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat gerald dean perot. Our panelists tonight are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News and world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, Norma Quarles, a correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for night bitter newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior corps responded for abc news is our moderator. Thank you dorothy. A few thing about the order of the format tonight. At the order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro one, she wants to speak last. Vice president bush will get the first question. The debate will be built on a series of questions from the reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate question. A followup question. And then the same to the other candidate. Each candidate will get
3 years ago this week you and i met tom hartman pass me the baton and i became your big picture host and on that very 1st show we asked are we really that angry our guests were Steve Malzberg now your outspoken in the press host here on r t america and Michael Harrison publisher of talkers magazine the trade publication of talk radio and podcasters and bloggers and michael himself is a talker he hosts the Michael Harrison rap f. M. In washington d. C. And other stations across the usa and as we conduct. This conversation i want to define terms in this context when we say talk radio were talking about the format caricature were not talking about public radio were not talking about sports talk were not talking about our pal dave grave line who comes on once in a while who talks tech on radio the ask the expert show were talking about political talk radio and michael that said is talk radio 1st and foremost entertainment. What a question it depends on the mood of the host and it depends o
Nominee. applause for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for he killer . No, i dont, bernard. And i think you know that ive opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. Weve done so in my own state. And its one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in america; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in america. But we have work to
Johnson is accused of embarrassing the nation over break that by 2 former Prime Ministers. Well were starting in greece where authorities have started moving refugees to a new site on the island of after their camp burned down earlier this week thousands of refugees have been sleeping rough since the morea camp europes largest was reduced to ash the refugees are demanding humanitarian assistance and are resisting the attempts to relocate them greek police fired tear gas at protesters on saturday stephanie is now been speaking to some of the refugees earlier we heard stephanie some of their extraordinary stories tell us more. Thats right and i think you know when we talk about. Number is around 12000. 00 refugees on this island now homeless. Story. Something thats so important like for example theres an afghan family here theyve been. One of the little ones are drawn to them so you know they are people who had hopes of had dreams and as you heard earlier when you were talking about talk
Your animal but we are not there i mean there is no i dont want to stay here anymore with my family i want to go to another country i want to have a normal life i want to have better i want to go to school can you believe that i had never been to school for a year and how did you learn english and english is incredible i learned it from internet just by phone from some guys is that they are thinking that oh my god they are hungry the doesnt have any votes. They need they need another thing. So please you tell me whats the most emotional whats the vote out of brain. Police have detained dozens of people as hundreds gathered for another protest in the bell the russian capital minsk. Theyve been demanding president Alexander Lukashenko his resignation ever since he was declared the winner of last months disputed election critics say the food was wreaked more than 10000 women to from a to government to rally on saturday millions of russians are poaching in local elections theyre widely see