We need to stop the violence on the streets of belorussian cities i call on the government to stop this and to come to the negotiation table i ask all town mayors to act as organizers of peaceful mass invest in each town on the 15th and 16th of august meanwhile president Alexander Lukashenko is one of those on strike to get back to work this is the use of the personal bit of what people must be told that they have the only chance to save the enterprise that feeds them only saving their factory will feed their families they can take to the streets there are thousands of them walking but there is no money or they will be paid for just 2 days. So vasant is in the capital minsk with this update. Peaceful protest thats exactly exactly whats happening here right at the Independence Square in minsk and the crowds are swelling here by the minute this all started to because workers from a truck to a factory in the outskirts of minsk left their factory when they were on strike marched through th
Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
The titanic is making news once again an Expedition Team wants to retrieve the telegraph radio used right before the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean well tell you all about that all right its time to move through news i q. Fed chairman Jerome Powell is testifying before Congress Today on the health of the u. S. Economy in a current and post pandemic america hell be cruising in on the good morning news from the retail sales sector posting the best data they have seen in a while so for more analysis and discussion lets go to ben swan hes an investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust and host of news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez gentlemen good to see you both ben i want to go to you 1st have we finally turned a corner since the pandemic hit and also. Whats driving the market. Well we got some very good numbers as you said in terms of the numbers for may end retail kind of coming back about a 17 percent increase in retail sales that was not expected and it shows that obviously
Special envoy for the middle east says israel must abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank. And measure beat looks to its neighbors for help in the fight against armed group thats responsible for the deaths of more than a 1000 people. You know one of the most powerful storms in decades has slammed into eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter at least 10 people have been killed in the indian state of west bengal a 2nd on pan barrels through the area the states leader says the disaster is worse than the coronavirus pandemic in bangladesh at least 3 people have died and hundreds of ring of muslim refugees have been moved to Higher Ground as of parana reports from new delhi. Im wondering. What sounding the alarm Indias National Disaster Response force warn people in the state of west bengal ahead of cyclon on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are proven trees more than half a 1000000 people have been evacu
A way of lets go straight to venezuelas capital caracas to speak to the worlds most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the United States threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u. S. Government is threatening tankers from iran sailing to venezuela with sanctions what illegal threats have you received arguably illegal for importing one and a half 1000000 barrels of gasoline from iran and other supplies during coronavirus we already use the threats and the sanctions and maximum pressure from the usa because they wont allow a country a people to have their own democracy their own modern their own system and specially with too much oil and too much and Natural Resources which they need in the United States under a capitalist system so iran is also sanctioned because they want to have their own independent. And we hav