Keeping things dry means there are still fire fighting to be done Tom Goldman n.p.r. News Santa Rosa Meanwhile the so-called easy fire near the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley has burned more than 600 acres the library is safe there are mandatory evacuations the organization Human Rights Watch is accusing Afghan forces backed by the CIA of committing serious abuses even war crimes N.P.R. s Dina deed reports from Islamabad the u.s. Military mission in Afghanistan is blaming the suffering of civilians on the Taliban the CIA paramilitary forces a lodge we focused on attacking the Taliban ISIS and al Qaeda fighters but Human Rights Watch says civilians are being swept up in their rights in one incident in August the group reported a paramilitary unit killed 8 men who are visiting their families during a religious holiday they said the killed included a 6 year old man who was shot in the eye Human Rights Watch is calling on these forces to be disbanded and investigated N.P.R. s
Tallaght is caused by entire canisters embedded in the skulls of protesters the canisters have been identified the city says as modeled on military grenades and the up to 10 times heavier than standard protesters have also said that the smoke committed is different and more toxic than normal tear gas the Syrian president Bashar al Assad has said that state control will return gradually to the north northeast of the country where an agreement between Russian Taki has allowed government forces to move into areas previously held by Kurdish fighters he said that he would not demand that armed groups in the region should hand over their weapons immediately world news from the b.b.c. a Course in Barcelona has acquitted 5 men accused of gang raping a 14 year old girl of the charge of sexual assault in a case that has renewed attention on the definition of rape in Spanish law the men were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse but the court said their actions were not rape because the
Boeing returns to Capitol Hill today N.P.R. s Winsor Johnston reports he is being grilled about 2 deadly crashes of Boeing s grounded 737 Max Jets Dennis Mullen Burge faces another day of extensive questioning about a new flight control system that investigators say forced the planes into uncontrollable nosedives House Transportation Committee chairman Peter De Fazio tells n.p.r. That Boeing failed to disclose the radical nature of the system to regulators anything that s new or novel is supposed to have an extraordinary level of scrutiny by the f.a.a. And it s supposed to be disclosed by the manufacturer they did not categorize this as a system that was catastrophic if it failed told a Senate panel on Tuesday that Boeing is strengthening its oversight processes and its communication between technical teams Windsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington you re listening to n.p.r. News from Washington. President Trump is set to present the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony later today
Not be able to form a majority government and which case it seems to me all sorts of possibilities are opening clue to another referendum possibly very low voter Ramon a very different kind of Bracks that s the kind that Mr Johnson had a visaged of. The upper house of parliament the House of Lords will debate the election bill today it s expected to pass Syrian politicians and civil society delegates are gathering in Geneva for United Nations brokered talks on drafting a new constitution the u.n. Says it hopes the meeting will pave the way for political reform a new elections it suggests that the gathering could begin a political process that may need to proper peace talks the messaging service whatsapp is suing an Israeli surveillance firm n s o group whatsapp says the company helped the government spies break into hundreds of phones the firm says it disputes c.l. Occasions in the strongest possible terms Tom hurrican reports in May this year whatsapp revealed that hackers had exploi
Form to help software teams go from idea to product at scale. Dot com And by the Financial Times you can make sense of a fragmented world with the f.t. And lead the way in business and f.t. Dot com slash new weekend. In Los Angeles. Wednesday today the 30th of October good as always to be along everybody zombies sadly are going to have to wait because the macro economic headline of this Wednesday is the j. Paul and the Federal Open Market Committee wrapped up a 2 day meeting on interest rates today they lowered as everybody had been saying they would. Everybody except me on this program on Monday joy other things to have on your radars this week number one the Federal Reserve meets on interest rates I kind of think it s a coin toss whether they cut or not but I should tell you I m an outlier what the Fed does about interest rates fundamentally how much money costs in this economy is a big deal and it tells you a lot about where people with some of the best economic information out the