Mr. Chairman, my fellow americans my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. applause this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cannot help but well reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted lid regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. And for the personal injuries which have occurred. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 democratic nomination for president. A chicagos comrade hilton hotel. The democrats had gathered for the convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey longtime minnesota senator and unsuccessful candidate for president in 1968 is the focus of this weeks contenders program. We are live from Minnesota History center. Mick caouette is the documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life. Just finished documentary last year. We are standing in the middle of an exhibit about the tumultuous year of 19
A hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours is pain is not. Hers to breathe for her sleep to move from side to side has to eat. Blake was shot in the back by a konoha wisconsin policeman in august hes had numerous surgeries and is paralyzed the States Department of justice is investigating the shooting i just want to save my daughter yeah ok then even older than me its a lot more life to live. In rochester new york protesters clashed with heavily armed police. Police used chemical irritants against protesters who had launched fireworks out there. Was some protesters formed a human chain and there were several arrests the demonstrators were demanding justice for daniel prude who died in march after police restrained him held him on the pavement and put a mash hood over his head prudes death was ruled a homicide. The new York Attorney general announced she would empanel a grand jury as part of what she termed an exhaustive investigation into prudes dea
Government with varying degrees of Logistical Support for that could mean supplying weapons or shelter or helping for example with communications 11 of those will be present in the court will be tried in absentia including the woman who was the wife of. Just a few days before the attacks with syria it is reported that she may still be alive but her whereabouts are unknown. Is a newspaper in france is very famously known courted control for say it satirizes political and religious leaders famous people the attack is targeted because the newspaper had repeatedly published cartoons images of the prophet mohammed deemed to be offensive by many people however Charlie Hebdo has defended its decision to republic these cartoons for to mark in a way the 1st day of this trial the Editorial Staff are saying that for them this is an opportunity to show that there is freedom of speech and expression in france that was repeated by the french president. Only eve of the trial he was on a trip to leban
A disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air earlier china made the accusations and said that troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was Chinese Forces that fired shots from the base side usually avoid using firearms in the area tensions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead katrina you has more from beijing. Both sides india and china have had decades of this kind of tension because they fail to agree to agree over the line of actual control the delineation of the territory between both sides and over the past few months starting about from last year weve seen a build up of troops both on the chinese side and the indian side and according to some analysts we see a situation of quite literally troops from either side staring out staring down each other eyeball to eyeball and there have been some skirmishes although up until recently up until these last few months in june there were no actual
Rains are forecast until the end of september given morgan has this update from khartoum. The river that you see behind me is the nile river which a Sudanese Government Officials Say is unprecedented in terms of the level of waters it is carrying right now at 17. 621 meters meteorologists say its the high is that have been recorded in nearly a century and that has resulted in massive flooding in various parts of the country now one of those areas is right here in this island of tutti which lies between the blue nile and the white nile the flooding from the nile waters has resulted in massive destructions of Properties Many people have been forced to leave their homes to look for refuge and shelter and for drier lands. And. Most of the destruction isnt just because the river flooded we have an annual phenomenon where the water in the river increases during the rainy season the river manages to break the makeshift dams that we build this is will cause the most destruction but this year i