whether athletes from russia and belarus should participate in next year s olympic games. and could the party be over for visitors to amsterdam? we ll explain why the city is clamping down on its reputation for sex, drink and drugs. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. fears are growing for the hundreds of thousands of people in turkey and syria in need after monday s devastating earthquakes. living in makeshift shelters and cars in freezing conditions, there are warnings that aid is not reaching areas fast enough. more than 23,000 people are now known to have died. syrian state media says the government has approved international aid delivery to rebel held areas in cooperation with the help of the un, syrian red crescent and international red cross. 0ur correspondent quentin somerville has been to antakya, a city which has seen some of the worst devastation in all of the country. he s been with rescue teams who ve been working round the clock, but
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The Atlantic Council. 2024 marks arguably the most important year for democracy in the in our lifetimes there will be elections where 50 of humanity will be voting representing more than 60 of global gdp. And and some 70 countries at a time when we them and Freedom House are tracking the upward tragic story of authoritarianism and the downward trajectory of democracy and democratic rights rights, how we navigate this period and how we navigate this election in the United States has. Generational consequences. In that spirit, i want to commend matt kroenig and dan negrea for significant contribution to the debate over future of americas role in the world, which ultimately will grow of the strength of our democracy and the strength of our and how we define ourselves so read it. If you dont read it, buy. And give copies to your friends. Its a its its ive, i cant say ive read it all. Ive skimmed through it, ive read quite a bit of it already and its a very intelligent, lee argued, argued t
The Atlantic Council. 2024 marks arguably the most important year for democracy in the in our lifetimes there will be elections where 50 of humanity will be voting representing more than 60 of global gdp. And and some 70 countries at a time when we them and Freedom House are tracking the upward tragic story of authoritarianism and the downward trajectory of democracy and democratic rights rights, how we navigate this period and how we navigate this election in the United States has. Generational consequences. In that spirit, i want to commend matt kroenig and dan negrea for significant contribution to the debate over future of americas role in the world, which ultimately will grow of the strength of our democracy and the strength of our and how we define ourselves so read it. If you dont read it, buy. And give copies to your friends. Its a its its ive, i cant say ive read it all. Ive skimmed through it, ive read quite a bit of it already and its a very intelligent, lee argued, argued t