Aljazeera. And ancient land at the crossroads of europe and central asia. Some say the garden of eden was here. It is a land rich in history and blessed with abundant natural resources. And this is azerbaijan. A land which after decades of communist rule is today witnessing a resurgence of faith in islam. As a by john embraced islam. Arab invaders brought the religion to the region in the 7th century. Face and islam took firm roots here until the region came under the control of the soviet union in the 1920 s. This marked the start of an era in which atheism became states policy. Many Muslim Leaders were exiled or killed. Mosques were closed or destroyed. Despite years of state oppression towards religion many people here in azerbaijan held on to their faith. Since regaining independence in 1991 many azerbaijanis have once again turned to islam seeking to reassert their identity and fill the ideological fuck you left behind by the collapse of the soviet union. This is some us element o
Hello im adrian for again this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes calls for a day of rage around the world after Donald Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. You never know made for good food. The e. U. And the u. K. Reach a deal on the terms of their upcoming divorce. Brief the smoke the latest warning in Southern California where some wildfires could burn for another two weeks. Top stories for today because Santa Rinaldo given the award as the worlds best footballer furthest time. Palestinians according. For a day of rage against u. S. President Donald Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital the departure from seventy years of u. S. Policy on the contested city has been widely criticized in this prompted protests across the arab and muslim worlds demonstrators gathered outside the u. S. Embassies in the capitals of malaysia and indonesia on friday to muslim majority countries in asia and more protests are expected in th
Next, representatives of the National Basketball Association Talk about sports and cultural diplomacy. After that, the executive director of the American Legion talks about the backlog of American Veterans claims. In the weekly addresses with Vice President biden and indiana representative Jackie Miller ski. On the next washington journal Atlanta Council president reviews president obamas trip abroad last week. In the discussion of the deadline to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care act. And the chief artie the Tea Party Founder talks about the future of the party. An examination of the u n roll with russia and the situation with ukraine. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation via facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Two weeks after the burglary, i received a large manila envelope at the Washington Post , and it had a return address of liberty publication, media, pennsylvania, which did not really mean anything to me
Washington bridge. That is the story we are going to start off with. We take you to christies comments yesterday and reports on the bridge gate scandal that has taken a toll on his president ial prospects, we are asking whether he can turn the moveon that incident and on. Our phone lines are open. Can call republicans democrats can call republicans a special lineup for new jersey residents. That number is you can also catch up with us on our favorites on your favorite social media pages to get up media pages. Morning tod saturday you. We wanted to start off by showing you some headlines. I will show you some papers from new jersey. Heres the front page of the starledger today. Below that other new jersey papers, the record close quote reports record reports we will take you to the front page of the New York Times this morning. And then some of the papers here in washington. The capitol hill newspaper is also doing a story. And from the hill here on capitol hill out talking about Chris
This. It will be broadcast again on wndb and we will let you know when our partners that shes been will be carrying this, most likely in the next month. We have an event coming up on the 18th. It will be a live town hall and you are all invited to come after questions of congressman desantis in a live broadcast. That will be the 18th right here in the auditorium. Dr. Matusis will be selling his dvds in just a moment. You can line up and say hello and pick up a copy. We will be making those sales right here. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, dr. Jonathan matusis. [applause] thank you for being with us tonight. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next representatives of the National Basketball association about sports and cultural diplomacy. After that, the american director the director of the American Legion. Then, weekly addresses with Vice President i and Vice President biden. On the next washington journal,