A couple of hours ago that if they want to keep pressure on the government and they have to keep out in the streets and people seem to basically be taking the advice the organization of american states is all so weighed in saying that there should be a 2nd round to give some certainty about whats happened here so far president reillys is resisting that he said that its only a matter of time before the electoral tribe you know who says an outright win thing him without any need of a 2nd round. Well still had hail now because there are a move by promises of economic reform that builds protesters continue that fight for political change. Will tell you why angry crowds surrounding the home often a few people trying to put stuff through standoff with police. We got some rather wet weather gradually making its way into western parts of china over the next couple days further east its looking well chief on a dry spell with decent amounts of sunshine to come through here that will if temperatu
Pressure on the venezuelan government for the neighboring countries to put pressure on it and for the Intelligence Community to continue to scrutinize and investigate the situation if today even as well i thought that there were back you know as a normal country within the u. N. Family i think there are in for a very disappointing you know a wake up call for the people of people thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you. Now teachers in Chicago Strike outside many of the citys 500 Public Schools as you need as and officials push ahead with negotiations over a new contract the demonstrations of forced authorities to cancel classes for more than 300000 students john hendren reports from chicago. In the United States 3rd Largest School district teachers put down their pencils in took up the picket signs walking out of schools and into the street. 25000 chicago teachers and 7000 support staffers walked out on thursday leaving the parents of 300000 students canceling work or scram
Confliction zones and a safe areas in syria particularly in the last 34 years as dismal none of them have worked and the reason is the Bigger Picture which were seeing right now which is an extraordinary affirmation of the role of imperial powers using local actors in the middle east particularly in syria and iraq and particularly the kurds the russians the americans the british the french now the turks as a Regional Power this is been going on for 100 years so theres nothing new here this is a all the says is a sad reaffirmation of the continuation of imperial manipulation of weak dependent local actors and betraying them time after time after time for the interests of the bigger power and this is i think the sad situation youre in and do you think any of. Those powers that you just mentioned have thought about the hundreds of thousands of not the millions of civilians that are in this area that tookie has said that it wants to create a safe zone in return millions of Syrian Refugees
Offer students breakfast lunch and to take home dinner until we Reach Agreement we will all do our part and we will ensure that the safety and well being of every child is foremost in our minds in everything that we do every day its a dispute over money and benefits the teachers rejected a pay raise of 16000. 00 over 5 years they want 15000. 00 over 3 years under the citys offer the average teacher would over 100000. 00 a year well over the 60000. 00 u. S. Average say it is more importantly over a class size and support staff many schools lack librarians counselors nurses and social workers a lot of students who are neglected a lot of students who dont have what they basically youths to help them let alone start learning and. Are just study if youve got those problems very hard to study while schools remain technically open to warehouse children with nowhere else to go until the 2 sides come to terms books and classes in the windy city will remain closed john hendren aljazeera chicago.
Todays program will be broadcast live on cspans booktv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with authors, we use the microphone, located at the center of the room so that the home viewing audience can hear your question. Before we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off cameras. I am here to introduce our guest, Maudlyne Ihejirika, a journalist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of journalists and president of chicago journalist association. Please welcome Maudlyne Ihejirika of the chicago suntimes. [applause] good morning, thank you for being here and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as president of the National Association of black journalists chicago chapter ill my career to Dorothy Butler gilliam, author of trailblazer a pioneering journalists fight to make the media look more like america. I owe m