That was stormed by militants. Several gunmen burst into the Intercontinental Hotel on saturday evening, shooting at guests and staff and detonating grenades. The Afghan Interior Ministry said two of the attackers had been killed. Andrew plant reports. Armed security patrolling the roads around kabuls Intercontinental Hotel. These pictures taken at midnight, three hours after the shooting began. Officials said four gunmen began firing on saturday evening, shooting at staff and guests. Translation at first i heard some gunfire and after 15 minutes, a worker from the hotel approached and said suicide attackers entered the hotel. Local media reports say several people have been killed. Its unclear how many, yet it is believed the security guards at the entrance to the hotel may be among those injured. The Intercontinental Hotel in kabul is popular with foreign guests, situated on a hilltop outside the city and has been the target of an attack before in 2011 when 21 people died. Security f
Mounts a new fight to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagging. I shut my hog operation down. I got out of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as International Workers day. This year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant work
We will hear voices from the streets of new york and speak to an immigrant rights organizer here in raleigh. In the aclu melds a new fight mounts a new fight t to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagginin i shut my hog operation down. I got ouout of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome e to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also
Theyre sending great looking people, strong in shape. All of the best equipment and told to stand back, just let everybody come right through the border. And they endorse me. Donald trump criticized his rival ted cruz as picking Carly Fiorina as his running mate. He picked someone who had no i votes when she dropped out of the race and he looked forward to beating hillary clinton. A professor of politics at the university of san francisco, weve seen how donald trump can be a folsom raising figure, is that poll rising figure, is that helping or hurting here in california . I think donald trump is help the Republican Party even though hes an other wising poll rising figure. At the very time that the National Tea Party movement ushered in a backlash of the barack obama presidency. California republicans lost almost every contested district. In fact, they lost every contested district in 2010 and the democrats have dominated the state legislature so the republicans can use someone like don
We are happy to be here in order to engage especially with the American Private sector and talk about the perspective of a very promising continent that is africa today. Thank you. [applause] just like my colleagues here on the panel, i want to start by thanking president obama and the administration of the United States for providing the opportunity for this summit which brings together the United States and africa to forge the kind of partnership that is very essential and crucial to development, especially in africa, but also globally. Let me refer to some of the points made by some people, panels. People are talking about partnering globally and locally, global and local together, as the best way of creating a partnership. I want to add that people are also talking about the growth rates that have been realized by the continent of africa. Even when there are known problems that we have talked about, for example, a lack of electricity, power, and someone was saying, imagine what wou