For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
a military base. another escalation was in yemen s who these and saudi arabia energy facilities in the kingdom are targeted then said arabia launches air strikes against samar. and fears of deportation more than a $150.00 reindeer refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar. as begin in senegal where the sorrow position leader was once on go is jus to appear in courts the last week has seen protests sometimes violence over his detention opposition party and civil society groups of called for 3 days of mass demonstrations against his arrest he s been charged with rape which supporters say are politically motivated storage they say some cause custody has been lifted but he remains in a police station over night live both suit nicholas harker who is in dakar for. as nic has my son who said said here in coeur it s what are we expecting. well just just to set you the scene we re just outside the tribunal that just here right behind you and you can
yemenis who fees in saudi arabia energy facilities in the kingdom are targeted then saudi arabia launches as strikes against somehow also this hour fears of deportation more than $150.00 rohingya refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar. and on international women s day we ll look at where women in asia are making gains all falling behind. thank you very much for joining as the president of equitorial guinea says negligence is to blame for several major explosions at a military base at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured the blasts happened in the city of botany not far from the western coast but as smith begins our coverage with this report. the force of explosions appears to flatten most of the buildings in the city of a quarter of a 1000000 people a total guinea s mainland coast. losing a little look at a little bit we don t know what happened everything is destroyed these people say. the wreckage and ha
setting off a nervous wait for parents and health officials. also after a year of pandemic hardships women mark their international date with protests celebrations to. a judge in senegal has ordered the release of opposition leader after formally charging him with rape sokol supported surrounded supporters rather surrounded the courthouse in dakar as the hearing took place cheering but also promising more demonstrations some call says the allegation is politically motivated to stop him from challenging longtime president marquees sell his arrest sparks days of violence in the capital as well as in other cities let s go straight to nicholas park who is in dakar nicolas you re at a rally now of so-called supporters what s happening there. what were called the nation square where supporters of response were told that he would come here and address the crowd and show his face after spending a week in detention but since there are still thousands of people have gathered if you loo
a few years of deportation more than 150 refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar and on international women s day we look at where women are making gains or are still being unfairly treated. and in school we speak to tennis star novak djokovic has broken the record for most weeks as man s world number one so i don t think it s silly aware of. the magnitude of the smiles stormed the serbian star has held the rankings for 311 weeks throughout his korea. thank you very much for joining as we begin this news hour in senegal where a judge has ordered the release of opposition politician song coal hundreds of people are protesting outside the court where some call was charged with rape opposition party and civil society groups have called for 3 days of mass demonstrations some supporters say the rape charge against him is politically motivated his arrest her sponsor days of violent protests in the capital de kock as well as other cities that s