A day after dozens of civilians were killed in the north. Also hit by Corruption Cases and to repeat elections alias israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. And im were hard in with sports it was a basketball battle in l. A. With le brons lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this is our. Welcome to the news iraqs president says that he would rather quit the name a new Prime Minister rejected by protesters but is refusing to designate the nominee of an iranian backed Parliamentary Group now there have been protests across the country for the past 3 months demonstrators have been calling for an overhaul of iraqs political system well joining me is our correspondent dorsetshire bari from the iraqi capital also this opens a new that iraq has never really walked before potentially no Prime Minister and potentially no president. Certainly that could be a possibility but from what we
Tropical forest under sea and yelling in my town but also where members of an Indigenous Group believe they also have the right to get into the. Business. Welcome to the program iraqs president says he would rather quit the name a new Prime Minister rejected by protesters but is refusing to designate the nominee of an iranian backed parliamentary bloc now there have been mass protests across the country for the past 3 months demonstrators have been calling for an overhaul of iraqs political system well in a letter to parliament back home seller said out of my keenness to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name. Danny as a candidate for the next Prime Minister lets get more on this from live in baghdad also a very short statement but it says so much about the state of Political Affairs in iraq right now. It certainly does it shows that this president has taken a step to really put himself in a powerful position meaning that the parliament will not likely accept this resi
A new citizenship law in india that excludes muslims and now there are theories about a population register that critics say discriminates. Below it means i might be able to watch television use a computer case with homelessness on the rise in england we visit the center providing a lifeline for rough sleepers at christmas. Welcome to the program we begin in syria where at least 8 people including 5 children have been killed in a government airstrike targeting a school it happened in the town of job us thats an idiot province the last rebel held on clay the hundreds of displaced syrians have been sheltering in the school and it was it Syrian Government forces backed by their russian allies have made steady gains since launching an offensive to retake it live last week more than 40 villages are now under the. Control well a surge in fighting prompted a turkish delegation to travel to moscow to push for a cease fire that has a wave of Syrian Refugees are fleeing the fighting moving towar
Speaks to a very live and significant controversy politics the subject has been in areas, subject of an enormous amount of thought and argument in the last few years and the question nationalism of the nation in place in our politics and its connection to some of the forces and threats as been drawing the politics of the west. In recent years. And well hear from rich a little bit about the book and he and i will then discuss it for your a few minutes and then we will open it up to questions from you. Who please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause]. Rich thank you. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank who much for your making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book to works of art. I say he came in on the second day. As an npr interview. And we are his practice, i like to say of this professor in. Who they do, as they hope you as a conservative. If you on history or policy and then theyll have a professor on like in the middle of your presentation or r
Carotenuto is a professor at ste university with which we frankly Work Together on african issues which also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi that just celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni alone on the trigger and then finally joining the panel is jon temin from freedom house, works on their Africa Program and previous work in the Obama Administrations policy plans to use institute of peace. I want to thank jon for outstanding article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the new promising Democratic Movement in some of africas biggest countries which was largely aspiration for this event although we modified a little bit but we had kenya and tanzania to the list along with south africa, democratic republic of congo or as a peace corps volunteer 100 jews ago when it was still practically before Belgian Congo days, and also nigeria and ethiopia. So between the six countries with roughly half of africas popu