Out protesters who have paralyzed the capital for weeks. Now im fully back watching al jazeera live from a headquarters in doha also ahead another step in the pounds long path to democracy where voters are having their fate in the first Regional Elections plus well meet one of the thousands of palestinian couples fighting to Stay Together in the face of an israeli residency and why our fight over language is topping talks to solve a political deadlock in Northern Ireland. Protesters have returned to the streets on the outskirts of pakistans capital islamabad an even larger numbers despite a Police Crackdown on saturday at least six people were killed and one hundred fifty injured when officers moved into dispersed a protest camp with tear gas and water cannon thousands of others have rallied inside iraq in roads in several cities Mariana Honda has the details. They have answered a call to shut down pakistan issued by a cleric and Political Party leader who stands in opposition to the g
Investigative journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region come at a moderator carla thorson, Senior Vice President of programs and World Affairs. We are recording tonight program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im a Program Officer at World Affairs. If you enjoy two nights discussion and your interest in learning more about the organization i will be around after the program so please introduce yourselves. I would now like to turn over to our moderator, carla thorson. So good evening everyone and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce our guest this evening, jere van dyk, a journalist, author, and cbs news consultant who covers afghanistan and pakistan. He has authored a book called captive, my time as a prisoner of the taliban, and another work in afghanistan. Hes also written for such publications as the New York Times, newsweek and national geographic. And in 1981 1981 while workinga correspondent for the New York Times, he l
Hello im sam is a than this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Risk is the education of half a million children one point seven million million food insecure people may not get food and cash the u. N. Condemns washingtons decision to slash aid for palestinians. Catalonia a new parliament is said to be sworn in facing the threat of renewed direct rule from madrid. Our nations most remain united on sustaining pressure until north korea takes concrete steps calls for tougher sanctions a twenty nation meeting to discuss north Koreas Nuclear program. And im sorry a small top seed rafa nadal is three into the third round of the Australian Open while number to see caroline firstly actually survived a major scare to advance in melbourne i. Now for the first time in its history the u. N. Agency which provides funds for vulnerable Palestinian Refugees says faces a challenge in meeting its mandate to Trump Administration is confirmed its withholding half of the o
Winter games Opening Ceremony in. A big step forward for korean relations right now we will have the latest live from seoul. The greater threat becomes. Appreciation or respect for the given to the palestinians its been. Going to look at how much of an effect it will have on the u. N. Agency which is looked after the spice palestinians for decades and after russia and then. There is a. Twenty twenty six but the first if competition from a joint offering mexico canada and the United States. This. Show you still has tagged aging expects. You with a news great to live on air in streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and around zero dot com and in the past ninety minutes theres been a Big Development on the Korean Peninsula south Koreas Unification Ministry has announced that north and south korea will march together at the Opening Ceremony of the olympic winter games in chiang next month this is a pretty big step forward and not just symbolically theres also going to be a joint w
Good evening. Im the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of the entire staff, welcome and thank you for coming. Its quite a treat to have speed with us to talk about his new book. This is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do standup talking about the book. Steve of course is a legend in journalism. To proceed the big picture and his skill at presenting the narrative of something he spent 20 years at the Washington Post including a stint as a financial reporter as the correspondent ahead of the sunday magazine after six years he was the managing editor of vapor. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as the president of the new America Foundation that took over as the dean of Columbia University journalism school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the new yorker magazine and along the way hes written revealing books about some important subjects of the involvement in afghanistan and the bin laden family and exxon mobil. He is one of two