Conference. Have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Lowder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through a nationwide network of offices, and with more than 1. 3 million members and supporters, npca speaks up for our parks, all on capitole, hill. Our advocacy work cannot be done without partners. Forave partnered together decades to make sure the National Park system tells the story of all americans, from preserving a critical chapter in the Civil Rights Movement with the designation of
Life and i very naively, im american, we dont have that they are. Two big legal changes in Northern Ireland are looming with abortion and same sex marriage becoming legal at midnight. It has prompted stormont to assemble for the first time in three years. Coming up one afternoon live, lizzie with all the sport. Hello, simon. We have squad news for the Rugby World Cup semifinals this weekend, there is good news for england but bad news for wales. 0k, back to you later. And we have the whether with matt taylor. Thanks, simon, half term week for some of you and some of you would appreciate something drier but rain will never be too far away from the forecast and i will tell you where that will be in around half an hours time. Good afternoon from westminster, where borisjohnson will this afternoon try again to get the backing of mps for his brexit deal with the European Union, after he abandoned his bid to secure parliamentary approval during a special sitting on saturday. The government i
Cristina kirchner comes back argentina will follow the steps of venezuela with a populist government that he says could become increasingly authoritarian were going to go from there and im here to support argentina because this is a wonderful country and i dont want it to end up like us argentina is in the middle of a new economic crisis and thats the main reason i would lose next week but on saturday there were millions who believed his still has a chance. Jordan has one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world a warming planet and growing population only making the problem worse is under schip our reports from a man people taking matters into their own hands. After fleeing from syria not long after the war began i found herself learning a new trade by accident shes always been good with her hands and decided to sign up for a jewelry making class in the arab it her new home but then something funny happened because one of the arabic phrases for jewelry making is the same a
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And. Lets start in the United Kingdom where a christian doctor who was sacked after refusing to use female pronouns when discussing a transgender woman has lost his legal fight against his former employers he says that they discriminated against his religious beliefs but an employment tribunal has ruled that his stance was quote incompatible with Human Dignity with more details. Well youre probably familiar with pronouns such as he she and them and respecting them is especially important for the Transgender Community gender nonconforming and binary people however failing to get it right could now cost you your job at least thats the case for one dr he himself was sacked he faced dismissal because he failed to use these pronouns due to his own personal religious beliefs and in a Controversial Court statement it read his christian values were in direct contradiction with the fundamental rights of others and lack of belief in transgenderism and Conscientious Objection to transgenderism in