Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
Busiest week of earnings thus far. Trillionlmost 16 worth of corporates reporting. We need to figure out exactly what the set up looks like. Lets do that with scarlet fu. Scarlet what we have learned so far as we are deepening in an earnings recession with more than a quarter of the s p 500 having reported. Third quarter etf down 18 . Third quarter revenue down last, but still up 4 versus last year. We have definitely turned the corner because declines in the top line and bottom line are less bad than it was in the second quarter. It may even turn positive by the second half of 2021 when the conversations become easier. The market had priced in all of these Third Quarter declines. So far, so good. 500 are topping estimates overall. Sales are beating estimates by 3 . That is the most in two years. Eps is surprising to the upside by 18 , slipping from a 23 margin in the second quarter. Gina martin adams says Growth Companies are beating estimates more widely than value companies. When ea
Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
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