President ignites controversy as high winds threaten to fan the flames of devastating west coast wildfires and a new depth of discovery a lost world in mexico where humans havent ventured more than 10000 years. As president is seeking support from a powerful neighbor pressure mounts on his leadership Alexander Lukashenko heads for a meeting with russias president on monday after a 5th weekend of protests Police Arrested more than 400 people at the latest demonstrations in the capital but it didnt deter hundreds of thousands demanding as resignation stepped past and reports from minutes. This is how look a strategy to stop the protests plays out under streets of minsk people heading to a peaceful rally are randomly snatched by moscow policeman driving around at high speed those. Daken are aggressively thrown into a van or al jazeera cameraman was also grabbed by police shortly after filming an interview luckily they decided to let him go let him go. To. The protest or we interviewed had
Starting with japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed shinzo. A long time ally of the outgoing Prime Minister this liberal Democratic Party leadership vote paves the way for him to be placed in a parliamentary vote later this week is japans longest serving Prime Minister resigned last month for Health Reasons robert broads following this one from seoul today hi rob this looks like almost a succession in the end rather than election will be more of the same from a longtime ally of the Prime Minister. Indeed this is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or he goes super getting nearly 3 quarters of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in a way to as shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these socalled conservative economics that were
Junior, three writings and kenneth wallick. This marks their first joint on camera appearance ahead of the 20 general election. Studied thens have legendary douglas debates which were not president ial debates, but for eight u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times that year, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas. Stage for set the abraham lincolns campaign for the presidency two years ago in 1860. 102 years after those debates on september 26 1960, at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate. A televised affair that changed the nature of politics. Strick kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960 and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back at the Campaign Years later, mr. Nixon said i should have remembered that a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates were sponsored by the three Major
A mockery of justice saudi arabias priscillas for reducing the sentences of those convicted of murdering to the case is now closed so will we ever find out the truth about the journalist this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program on iran come on saudi arabia is facing International Criticism off the closing the trial of those who murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi a court overturned 5 death sentences reducing them to 28 prison terms instead of 3 others were jailed for between 7 and 10 years now the courts didnt name the people it convicted but those behind the socalled hit squad escaped punishment as did crown Prince Mohammed bin so man who is widely believed to have ordered the killing. Fields the United Nations and Rights Groups have condemned the secret trial which began last december will bring in i guess in a moment but 1st this report by alexey obrien. The saudi hit squad accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was caught on camera landing in turkey and enterin
The great debate, the fractured republic and a time to build. This is two hours. Host author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the United States . Guest thanks for having me here. That is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. They are living in a moment of crisis. It is hard to deny. We have been through a spring dominated by a Public Health crisis. We are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that weve had trouble with in recent yea years. In th a time of crisis, you kno, its because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what americas strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. Host how did we get here . This is that an era marked by crises from 9 11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics