A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Under pressure to step down malise president is accused of failing to improve the economy and deal with threats from groups hes dissolved the Constitutional Court but controversially overturned Election Results in march but is that enough of what if turmoil spirals out of control this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Adrian Finnegan its been described as the worst civil unrest in mali has seen in decades violent antigovernment protests this week left several people dead president abraham. Has promised to form a National Unity government the country has been without one since elections earlier this year hes dissolved the constitutional course thats faced controversy since it overturned provisional results from parliamentary elections in march but will not be enough to restore peace protesters say that the government
Under pressure to step down mollys president is accused of failing to improve the economy and deal with threats from groups hes dissolved the Constitutional Court but controversially overturned Election Results in march but is that enough of what if turmoil spirals out of control this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program Adrian Finnegan its been described as the worst civil unrest in mali has seen in decades violent antigovernment protests this week left several people dead president abraham. Has promised to form a National Unity government the country has been without one since elections earlier this year he has dissolved the constitutional course and that the economy is failing and they want president catered to resign now to 0 as shown at betis reports. In bamako a solemn feel well for protest as they can see say the 30 year old was killed on friday his family says he was shot in front of mollys National Assembly. His mother was sick already when we broke the news to her sh
I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of it. Thefundamental ideas about political system had been part of the dna of this organization from the beginning, as my colleague reminded me that ranked voting was in the book that the founders wrote called the radical center. It was one of the ideas that they promoted. That book is not viable for what we do, but it is part of it. Informn i came back to the Political Reform Program in 2014, and our founding idea is that we introduce fresh and getting into the conversation about reforming american democracy and getting bey
[applause] thank you very much. Thank you. My name is joe biden. I am jills husband. [laughter] jill and i want to thank you for the wonderful welcome. We are both here for a simple reason, and i mean this sincerely, to say thank you. So many of you in this audience have been my friends for such a long time. I was a 29yearold kid. The first speech i ever made on the senate floor, i stood between tom mcintyres desk and another desk its a long story, but anyway, i go back a long time and its great pleasure to get to know so many people. We know, finally youve earned the title granite state. You have four women running the show. [applause] thank god for small favors. All right. The amazing thing is i campaigned for all of them and they won in spite of it. I would also like to echo what joe said. Its so nice to be back here again among old friends that weve known for such a long time. I want to thank everybody for supporting us through our administration, through our tough time with bo, an
The nbcc. Weve been honored to host this awards ceremony right here in this auditorium. The series of interviews that i have posted. They are posted on our blog and on the nbcc website. Thirty interviews over a threeweek time is a huge job and one that could not be done without that many editors who gave their help. Thank you to the Board Members. A few more thanks. In the huge thank you. I wonder if we can give up round of applause for the board. They make mention this also. With the enterprise. I think today they have it preaching to the choir. I think they will need that. [applause]. We can also mention that. I dont want that. Mention other things the arts and great organizations. To support them. Now its my pleasure to turn the evening over. The books editor. Its nice to see sony people here tonight. I am the president of the National Book critics circle. For the publishing year 2016. We are delighted to have you join us. With six categories fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiog