As always. Multiple sides to this one. Yeah. Yeah. Chat it through in the next half hour in the battle to win hearts and minds, the state department is turning to art, music and other cultural activities to build bridges around the world. Proponents say it is critical. But some critics say the results are hard to measure and our cultural diplomacy cant make up for use of things like drones. Were joined by our panel. And for all of us who it is your first time watching tonight, were all about access. We use a variety of technologies. Including skype, which allows us to reach all sorts of people. Cynthia, we want to start with you. In many ways this sounds like a fancy name for goodwill gestures. How do you really define cultural diplomacy . Thats hard to do. Let me start with sample definition and then tell you what i think it isnt anymore. Cultural diplomacy is people to people diplomacy for the 21st centry. Diplomacy is no longer government to government or men sitting around trees si
Efforts to extend ukraines fragil fragile ceasefire as russia said it wont be going in. And the controversial biting in world soccer. Lets start the program in abuja where a Shopping Center has been targeted with a car bomb attack. At this stage no one has claimed responsibility. Abuja has repeatedly been attacked by the rebel group boko haram. Were joined live from abuja. Yvonne, what more do we know about the explosion . Do we know anything about the number of casualties. We know that the explosion was incredibly powerful. Now what we can see here is 70 or 60 burned out vehicles that have been completely destroyed. And there is a lot of building debris as Emergency Services, unfortunately, are still picking body parts up off the floor. And it is simply a very terrible scene. Thousands have shown up here to see what is going on. The military has been trying to hold back the crowd, who are just shocked and concerned about what has gone on here. And what we understand to be the Emergenc
Also coming up to night. Another attack on europes Biggest Nuclear power plant, moscow key or kiss each other of shelling these f arethia Nuclear Power facility. As the un warns of a potential nuclear disaster, and a year after the taliban take over, we will meet some of the millions of afghans who remain displaced inside their own country. Desperate to leap. Ah, im burned golf, its good to have you with us on this friday and we start with some breaking news. The Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in western and new york state. Now local police say that he appears to have been stabbed in the neck. His attacker has been taken into custody. Rustys book, the satanic verses has been banned in iran since 1988 and is considered blasphemous by many muslims. A year after that book was published, irans li leader, the ayatollah khomeini, issued a fuckwit calling for rush. These were hundreds of people were in the audience when Salman Rushdie was at
Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. We begin this monday with breaking news, anger in arizona tonight. Protesters massing outside the state capitol. Will businesses be allowed to deny service to gays in the name of god . Youre looking at a live picture of protesters claiming the bill now sitting on the governors desk, jan brewer, waiting for her signature, they say a statesponsored discrimination. The anger is swinging lawmakers. Tonight three state senators who voted for the bill are urging brewer to veto it. So far brewer has refused to comment on the bills fate. We are following this story there in arizona, what is it like there tonight, miguel . Reporter well, at this point its a little less than last week, but there are rabbis and priests here, there are people from the Straight Community here to support this. But on both sides of this issue, there are very, very seriously held beliefs. Mya artisan runs christian networking. Basically we serve christian business openers. Repo
Will businesses be allowed to deny service to gays in the name of god . Youre looking at a live picture of protesters claiming the bill now sitting on the governors desk, jan brewer, waiting for her signature, they say a statesponsored discrimination. The anger is swinging lawmakers. Tonight three state senators who voted for the bill are urging brewer to veto it. So far brewer has refused to comment on the bills fate. We are following this story there in arizona, what is it like there tonight, miguel . Reporter well, at this point its a little less than last week, but there are rabbis and priests here, there are people from the Street Community here to support this. But on both sides of this issue, there are very, very seriously held beliefs. Mya artisan runs christian networking. Basically we serve christian business openers. Reporter she says the bill is necessary to protect all religions. I want for everyones values to be able to be respected, whether they are christian, muslim, je