And thisgood friday sunday, millions of christians celebrate easter and the resurrection of jesus christ. Thatis holy time, we pray god will heal the sick and comfort the heartbroken and bless our heroes. As American Families look forward to easter, we are reminded that our story ends not in despair, but in triumph and renewal. It . Appropriate, isnt i would like to provide americans an update on our ongoing efforts in the war against the invisible enemy. Before i do that, i have a couple of notes. The United States in discussions last night with mexico, saudi arabia, russia and dealing with opec nations, we are trying to get mexico, as the expression goes, over the barrel. Doingico is committing to 100,000 fewer barrels and the president and i spoke last night. We have a great relationship and great friendship, they are helping is very much at the border. They have 27,000 mexican soldiers on our borders right now, stopping people from coming into our country as the wall goes up. We ar
A former u. S. Special envoy for libya and joins us live now from washington and the have long been theres long been a steady stream of reports about weapons transfers going to libya and we know that that u. N. Arms embargo has been consistently violated bought has that been a recent shift in terms of these types of advanced weapons being supplied to groups in the country over if we dont know that its been continuously violated we know its been violated at various times and those are Different Things but there was a curious of the world before in 2014 which president obama intervened in met with the goal states at camp david and their leaders and said cut it out stop supplying weapons. Using different libyans as clients in terms of providing weapons the United States did not want anyone violating the arms embargo to libya because we saw that as a potential recipe for promoting civil war which is exactly whats happening in the country yes so the 1st thing that has to happen is the origi
Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe
Rate in 2022 was 1. 49 the lowest since records began. For a countrys population to hold steady, there must be 2. 1 births per woman. And falling birth rates are causing alarm for politicians, facing a future of ageing populations and shrinking workforces. Lets get more on this with our Correspondent. Lets get more on this with our Correspondent. South korea has broken its Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest birth Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest birth rate Correspondent. South korea has l broken its lowest Birth Rate Record once again according to new numbers released on wednesday by statistics korea, mother countrys Birth Rate Recorded 0. 72, an 8 decrease from the previous year. The Capital City Seoul recorded 0. 55 which is the lowest among all the districts across the country. Although the low birth trend is spreading all across the world, especially among developed countries, south korea is. After reach