This is all just here these are the top stories celebrations have begun in chile where it looks like a referendum to change the constitution will pass with an overwhelming majority polls closed more than an hour ago the government agreed to the vote following protests against social and economic inequalities in america and is on the scene human is in santiago. If this were a boxing match. Versus the reject has won by a not proud bunch were hearing everything from 70 to 80 something percent. 15 to 20. Really really white matter its not quite clear yet whether a Constitutional Assembly will also have to be approved that means when the delegates to rewrite the constitution will be. Popular vote or whatever after the. Current congress and senate but thats still to come meanwhile people are waiting for the final official vote to come out theyre coming here in waves by the thousands Security Forces in iraq are fired tear gas at protesters trying to get into baghdads fortified green zone the
A bit skeptical about this 3rd real fear mation of a ceasefire there as you said there have been accusations from both sides that the ceasefire had already been violated but by and large if i compare those early hours. Early hours of a job or 17th was when that 2nd ceasefire was supposed to come in place it is much calmer thousands are celebrating in chile where merced where with most of the votes counted a referendum to change the constitution is on course to pass with an overwhelming majority the government agreed to that referendum following demonstrations that. One of the main leaders of colombias left Wing National Liberation Army has been killed in a military operation the government says the rebel leader was responsible for medicine kidnappings peace talks with the government was suspended after an attack on a military Police Academy that last year. Soldiers and Police Officers in mexico have seized what theyre describing as an industrial sized drug lab the facility had been use
Government on Health Matters he says that in fact it could be as many as a 100000 new infections each day in reality because he says you have to count the people who are asymptomatic and people who are not getting tested now he says that the situation is extremely urgent that the next few weeks and france will be very very tense indeed Libyas National Oil Corporation says its reopened its last oil field that had been closed that means nearly all of libyas ports and facilities can potentially resume production soon most of the countrys oil exports were halted back in january by worldly for have to us forces based in east. A humanitarian cease fire has come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia to try to stop the conflict but as your previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accused the other of violating the agreement the president of azerbaijan has warned that a military solution is still on the table a large crowds of protesters are currently marching towards the G
There was a group of protesters who tried to cross the concrete barricades there are several levels of concrete barrier through a free i believe so they crossed the 1st barricades at which point the Security Forces deployed tear gas to push them back in the protesters subsequently weave through were were not hearing at this point of any. Any any lifo violence that is actually claimed the lives of the protesters so far only fear of gas well those who have been used to repel protesters who have tried to penetrate the fortified green zone. Protesters in belo rules say time is up for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign police have fired tear gas and arrested dozens of people in the western town of the leader Opposition Leader said lana to an os chaos says look i must step down by midnight will face a crippling general strike in chile a polling stations are open for a referendum on whether to change the constitution mass protests that sounded last year led to the vote demonstrators say
Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat