Plus, defiance after a deadly crackdown. Gunshots as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew after a peaceful protest was broken by shooting, allegedly by nigern police forces. And paying tribute to the history teacher who was killed outside his school last week. Im brent goff. Two viewers on pbs in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. It is a major shift in the Catholic Church. Pope francis says he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of samesex couples. He made the comment in a new documentary about the pontiff which premiered today. The statement marks a decided shift for the Roman Catholic church. The film also tackles controversial issues such as racism, climate change, sexual abuse, and relations between christians, muslims, and jews. Earlier, i asked our religious Affairs Analyst what exactly did the pope say. That it was the responsibility of societies to pass legislation to protect the rights of people in samesex unions. This
When entering. The room. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is the United Nation still the go to place for the world to solve its problems lets get to the bottom line. The biggest Intergovernmental Organization in the world just turned 75 years old this year it was created by the big powers to prevent another world war in that mission its generally succeeded but hows it doing on the other missions like securing peace and delivering health and humanitarian relief with regional war is raging with refugees and migration at an all time high and a Global Pandemic on top what a mess my guest today is mark lowe caught the point man for humanitarian relief at the United Nations and u. N. Speak he is the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and head of the office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Emergency relief coordinator and the coordinator of its covert 19 global humanitarian Response Plan mark those are a lot of titles im so glad to have you here today let me
And there are many stories. To. Make up your own mind. W. Made for minds. This week on world stories. Reintegrating x. Militants in nigeria. Election campaigns on reservations in the u. S. But we begin in belarus despite the risk of being jailed the. Opposition continues to demonstrate against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko prominent among the protesters are one of. The moments march had barely begun when the police started making their 1st arrests over the past weeks bellerose has ramped up its crackdown on protesters but despite it all these women come back each saturday to make sure their voices heard. Everything was quiet then suddenly those henchmen showed up and dragged these young women into their process what did they ever do to them were not scared for our own safety were worried about our children and grandchildren we want them to live in a normal country without this kind of. Im. Fine you said the little girl. Alone sophia are outraged and try reasoning with the p
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