Stones and you envy gods they re furious that yet again rebels from the ally of the democratic forces or a.d.f. Have carried out an attack killing civilians with machetes there have been several similar attacks over the last week in the Binnie region the a.d.f. Targets civilians in order to punish people who they say are cooperating with the army because army has recently started deploying in its own Ses It has killed dozens of a.d.f. Revotes Russia has condemned a series of Israeli air strikes on dozens of targets in Syria belonging to the Syrian government and its Iranian allies Russia s deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said such attacks are completely against international law Israel said the airstrikes were a response to rocket fire from an Iranian unit in Syria on Tuesday Israelis frequently attack targets linked to Iran and Syrian territory the Russians have the capacity to control Syrian airspace world news from the b.b.c. The electoral commission in Britain has told po
Way always but to feel this way even just once or twice in a life time is a form of bliss today s poem is Arrow s the contagion by any Kim It teaches me to see the potential for passionate attachment to things like the evening sky and ant frozen and a jar of honey or the sight of another person in thrall to a beautiful idea it makes me want to take better stock of the world around me it makes me want to send more love and more joy into the world for others to sense it fills me with a mischievous excitement to think that love is something we can contract from others something we can choose not to inoculate ourselves against arrows the contagion by any can soft as a clawed painting the yellow sky tonight trees in the parking lot still thick though the air yes has an edge the honey was solid in the jar when I opened it this morning found a single ant frozen in the dunes stunned by sweetness. Can you really die of sweetness hard to say yes though I want to looking up at these clouds that
Vokes fear among minorities particularly governors they accuse him of being linked to serious human rights violations committed against them a new u.n. Report says more than 7000000 children worldwide are being held in detention in institutions immigration centers police custody in prisons is imagine folks children deprived of their liberty are the un says among the world s most vulnerable discriminated and excluded groups children with mental health issues or disabilities are disproportionately affected the report says governments must look for non-custodial solutions for them at the same time the number of children detained in migration centers and in camps in war zones is increasing here the report says children are at risk of abuse and sexual exploitation b.b.c. News North Korea says it s not interested in holding what it describes as another fruitless summit with the United States Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that the North Korean leader should act quickly to negotiate a nuclea
A handful of songs written about an event that happened more than a 100 years ago and we ll be hearing about it for quite some time and for some reason Christmas and war just seems to be floating about as well things Ukrainian this is when the soldiers sang here Paul Griffith here on a patchwork quilt. On told with. From the. Wrong like. Oh God. Who. Planned the soldier. Being drawn. On the bomb BLITH. Did you know. You. Would stay. I live in pain. She had. Gone. Through Speedo. I would still be on my. Own was gone. Well. They still. Guitarist is Tom Long and he definitely is doing the Richard Thompson arrangement of banish misfortune from a collection of Celtic music for guitar cold ramble to Cashel Tom Long the guitarist Yeah I wish it would rain if it s got to be cloudy and foggy and cool like this it better rain come on come on climate change do your don t do your job. Wish it would rain from the temptations from from the old Motown label we also heard some music from back in
Oh like. Oh. To. Me. Soviet here old and one of her many musical projects you phony on the album called lovely Nancy side one cut one that that version of the American Folk Song for an area. Song that sort of entered my my my brain again for after after being absent for a few years the banks of the Nile performed by fathering gate that was Sandy Denny singing She was accompanied by Jerry Donohue and Trevor Lucas guitar Pat Donaldson bass Jerry Conway drums on that classic album called fathering cave in 1970 the song the banks of the Nile I was driving around Santa Cruz land and we on some family business and. There was a great celtic music show on the noncommercial band and definitely that was part of the repertoire we also heard from Sarah McQuade she gave a great performance last week on the on air folk festival. From her from me one of her early albums called when 2 lovers meet a compilation of mostly Irish tunes we heard a version of When a man s in love some lovely heart music