Before the curfew in lagos we also heard from the military saying that they are going to conduct a military exercise although they insisted it has nothing to do with the ongoing protests the military has issued a statement that its forces one of the involved in yesterdays operations but protest it said that they were Security Forces involved police and military or Paramilitary Organization at least 12 women have been killed in afghanistan in a stampede they gathered with thousands of other people in a stadium in jalalabad to apply for visas to pakistan the pakistani consulate started to reissue visas that can last week after a 7 month pause because of the coronavirus. United nations sponsored peace talks for libya a progressing in geneva acting u. N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams says that shes confident theyll get a lasting cease fire. Once we have a unified executive where you have you know one ministry of defense one ministry of interior it will be important to continue to sustain
Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
A book by his former National Security advisor john bolton. New president takes power 2 months after the sudden death of his longtime ruling. And in libya the countrys 1st helps them develop you to use it under construction after 9 years of war. Welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court after it ruled against him for the 2nd time this week the judges blocked trumps bid to end a program that stops hundreds of thousands of immigrants from being deported on monday they rejected the trumpet ministrations argument that gay and transgender workers should be protected under federal law mike hanna reports from washington d. C. Jubilant crowds gathered outside the u. S. Supreme court many here are socalled dreamers the. Children of undocumented immigrants who are now assured of the right to residence for the foreseeable future between 7 and 800000 people are affected by the Supreme Court decision ive had dark eyes since i was 1516 years old and its
Reprieve for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in the u. S. The Supreme Court rejects President Trumps plan to end the program that protects them and we hear from coronavirus survivors in the democratic republic of congo who say theyre being ostracized. Thank you for joining us 2 canadians detained in china have been formally charged with espionage former diplomat michael called drake and businessman Michael Spada or have been hell since 2018 their arrest has been seen as a tit for tat response by beijing after a candid arrested while executive. She is facing proceedings that could see her extradited to the United States on fraud charges as bring in katrina you in beijing for us secretary to tell us 1st about these charges and what happens next in the case of these 2 canadians. So as we understand it fully the cases of michael covert and michael spade will have now been handed over to chinese prosecutors is in beijing and the Northeastern State Northeastern Province of leon ng
There is also a flip side to this Winter Wonderland on the snow covered peaks ski resorts leave a large Carbon Footprint during high season the industry operates at full speed lifts run for hours as crowds queue to hit the slopes snow machines are needed to combat the effects of Global Warming and there is more of the same to come in australias style valley a project is underway to extend the ski area to neighboring pits to create europes largest glacier ski resort but the number of critics against the development is growing. Its tough going up here on pitstop glacier but the air increasingly thin. Right of fluid and his friends are trekking up to a Mountain Ridge to protest against plans to turn parts of one of the last pristine glaciers in austria into ski slopes. Rising could be the thing to skiing regions will be linked to a new one. For the new area alone will be about half the size of the spit skiing region these are huge i mentioned the bit by bit we are destroying our natural l