And the continent of africa on the move the stories about to move a vision of change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series from africa. D. W. M. Dot com africa. The opinion is on the brink n. T. E. U. Populists are making gains across the continent and britain could leave without a brecks it deal this week Conflict Zone as in proc well i have caught up with alex the fool my finnish Prime Minister has launched a campaign to become the next president of the European Commission can he fix your op. Ex understood well come to a Conflict Zone thank you you have launched an unprecedented compared to replays on clothes at the president of the u. P. A. And commission you can paint program talks a lot about values vote if i were to say in one word why im running for Commission President it is values do you peon bell use and when you leave the European Space no i think actually European Values are global for me theyre universal so they have to do with human r
Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
After tough negotiations the u. S. And canada finally closed a free trade deal last sunday donald trump is claiming it as a personal triumph talks had lasted thirteen months an agreement was reached only at the last minute. Which smy great honor to announce that we have successfully completed negotiations on a brand new deal to terminate and replace nafta and the nafta trade agreements with an incredible new us mexico Canada Agreement called us m. C. A. D. Upon closer inspection there are few changes between the new trade deal and the old one. Canada gave in to u. S. Demands to open up its highly protected dairy market and both sides made compromises over tariff free auto imports the only completely new aspect is the name nafta is now the United States mexico Canada Agreement canadian Prime Minister
justin trudeau also promoted the deal as a big success its an agreement that when enacted will be good for Canadian Workers good for Canadian Business and good for canadian families its an
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a vision of president s who go cross the line to eat washington to st. I am. I am obliged i have a home free glad you could join me well we can cross straight over to strasbourg now as we await the address from the incoming e. U. Commission president on the line and at the parliament that is all Brussels Bureau chief max hoffmann good to see you max now does fund the line have the numbers for how commission. She has the backing of course of her own party the conservatives European Peoples Party although there were some hiccups in the past this time it looks like there is unanimity at least thats what their lea
interest in the history of the negro-leagues can reduce the trend? reverend al, i can tell you what i know. in 1982 when i worked for san francisco examiner, i did something that had never been done before or since. i did a detailed study on this. 1982, there were 18% african americans in baseball. the all-time high was the mid- 70s at 27%. from talking to black players, white players, executives, all on the record, there were people who told me, again on the record, that there was a quota system in major- league baseball that was purposely phasing out african americans. that s how i became close with hank aaron in 1982. the consensus was by the turn- of-the-century, the 21st century that the numbers would be below 10%, which they are right now. matter of fact, the smoking gun reverend al, at a white scout gave me a computerized report for major-league baseball in 1982 with a flat race.