Most urgent issue we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless and unprecedented seriesta of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system, free and Fair Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated to the president has made repeated threat to separate the election, some with support from the attorney general, suggesting he will military to the polls which is illegal, Voter Suppression of perhaps most chillingly refusing to commit to abide by theab election results. Some are worried that the rule of law has been so eroded in this country that it may be possible to literally steal the election, and we think there are strong legal and institutional safeguards against that, but the dramatic erosion of the rule of law in recent years is unmistakable. We you see Law Enforcement weaponized arew partisan and political gain come from threats of politically motivated prosecutions against political adversaries to the actual interference in prosec
A government thats mistreating its most Vulnerable People in violation of its human rights of the geisha and why has it done so little to crack down on organized crime and the politicians who benefit from it. Its a start of a welcome to complex own weve seen more than 2 months of government protest sometimes violent when is the government going to get the message and resign were getting a lot of different messages from the protests but were also getting messages from those that are not on the. Actually the protests started 2 months ago but they combine different messages some of the messages those messages that are for better judicial system or more justice and for fight against corruption these are messages that we hear and we dont want the truth are still in our politics whether from the opinion polls this is pretty clear 70 percent to distrust the government and the personal confidence rating of the Prime Minister has dropped to just 20 percent the lowest rate in years so the crowds
Prime minister just into our looks on track probes doric a victory in the countrys general election. Im rebecca has welcome to the program a truce between as a vision and a mania is threatening to fall apart after renewed clashes overnight as a big fan says mania and shelling of its 2nd city gunja has killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more meanwhile our mania has accused as a vision of continuing to shell Populated Areas within the disputed new goal of cutting back region hundreds have been killed since fighting broke out over the region in september. Im now joined by richard gere a goes in hes the head of the Regional Studies Center of Foreign Policy think tank in yerevan mania richard thanks for joining us what can you tell us about the overnight missile striking civilian targets in as a visions 2nd city was that a deliberate attack. Im not quite sure but what i can say rebecca is that its yet another powder of horrible loss of civilian life on both sides since october joh
A big early leaders votes are counted in new zealands general election for their life to Christ Church as results come in. Class riot police in thailand crackdown on protesters defying a ban on demonstrations and the Prime Minister shrugs off the mound for him to quit well look at whats next for the democracy movement. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program a truce between as a big john and mania is threatening to fall apart after renewed clashes overnight as a vision says many and shelling of its 2nd stage biggest city has killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more men while a mania has accused as a vision of continuing to shell Populated Areas with the in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh. Hundreds have been killed since fighting broke out there over the region in september. But joining me now is 3 chafee and hes a Foreign Policy analyst and chairman of the center of analysts and International Relations in back as a big john thanks very much for joining us what can you
Question of the American Dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. This is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss unfair montecito going to washington coming up the u. S. Is expanding sanctions to ramp up the pressure against the north trying to pipeline between germany and russia we have an expert panel. On the d. O. J. Is filing suit against internet giant google will discuss whether or not to be the 1st of many antichrists lawsuit to break up the Worlds Largest tech company we have a lot to get to so lets get. The north stream to saga continues as the United States is stepping up its efforts to block the north stream to pipeline which would provide natural gas from russia to germany u. S. Secretary of state my palm peo says the u. S. Is creating a coalition of nations to help prevent the pipeline from being completed the pipeline is supposed to provide a major cost benefit to the German Energy market with natural gas being delivered directly without a