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. The 300 years the most powerful nations honest group rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children will be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Among the brick kiln factories a real strong one of the oldest and most brutal things of slavery continues virtually unnoticed by the outside world. It that he did lay him. Down have been little book at that get a call of that. For those traps here this seems no escape. Lomas him to do a sequel a movie how to do that you know a shepherd is not even the common cause. And this slavery traps entire families somet
Years on the turkish president says it remains open for all. And in the skies over syria passengers injured on a new rainy in plane as its tailed by a u. S. Fighter jet. 60 fears over the worlds top selling passenger plane thats concerned about engine failure on boeing 737 surrounded by the coronavirus former and his former Major League Baseball is back in north america after a 4 month delay caused by coronavirus the leak starts with no fans in attendance. Welcome to the news our relations between 2 of the worlds superpowers are deteriorating even further chinese staff and are moving out of their consulate in the u. S. City of houston after washington told beijing to shut the office the u. S. Says its to protect American Intellectual property well Chinas Foreign Ministry called it an unjustified act and in retaliation beijing has ordered the american consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu to close the book with you for. Chinas measures a legitimate and necessary response to unju
And welcome to rewind on the radio over the last 10 or so years here at aljazeera english weve built up an Incredible Library of Award Winning documentaries and on rewind were taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing whats happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week were going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africas oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovias disadvantaged poor from the witness series in 2012 here is free press. Hello. Hello. You know what were doing is like this our responsibility its a mess over got the budget on you so youll recall we add them to informati
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A 5 day lockdown just ahead of the ied holiday as corona virus infections that. Targeting a replica of a u. S. Aircraft carrier iran simulates wargames as tensions with washington rise. It is the trial thats put one nations resolve to stamp out corruption to the ultimate test now a court in malaysia has convicted former Prime Minister najib razak on china on a string of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in prison but he wont go straight to jail and says that hell appeal the trial was one of 5 that not he was facing linked to a scandal surrounding a state Investment Fund and 0 Florence Louis reports from kuala lumpur. Was guilty on all 7 counts and sentenced to prison for a maximum of 12 years and a fine of 50000000. 00 but the judge has allowed a delay in carrying out the sentence. Former Prime Minister of malaysia has been convicted of Money Laundering criminal breach of trust and abuse of power thats for illegally receiving nearly 10000000. 00 from s. R. C international a form a