Anatomy how broken European Union leaders have agreed to impose sanctions on bellaver soft awakes of deadlock following the countrys contested election the breakthrough came early friday at a Foreign Policy summit in brussels. Its veto against the measure after securing e. U. Support in its dispute with turkey the sanctions on belarus will target dozens of senior officials accused of falsifying president ial Election Results and leading a crackdown on Peaceful Protesters president Alexander Lukashenko himself is not on the list. Your paint Council President Charles Michel said the sanctions sent an important signal very important is a clear signal that we are critical its very important to do what 3. Decided a few a few weeks or do that we will implement dissensions. You know that whats on the table is a list was about 4040 names and we repeat it we would like to to to consider that the people of the have the right to do to mean what own future its also our intention to continue to dev
The. Research that general secretary gorbachev has on equivocally given me his word that the soviet union will respect the wishes of the germans to live as one nation with. But the soviet union also had conditions foreign minister shared not to stipulated before the International Press that a unified germany would have to maintain political and military neutrality upon his return call brushed over this very clear message from the kremlin he didnt want to taint the good news. That the soviet union imagine a unified germany in late head of state yes of course all this was said yesterday. Cole strategy was successful and his popularity grew hed made further offers of Financial Aid to gorbachev to discourage the kremlin from doing anything to block the way forward. It doesnt and theres this you none of this would have happened if the soviet union hadnt been in such a dire economic position at the time. That we didnt know it was struggling to keep its head above water and the west knew that
U. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Schools in injury time penalty to down rights and. When. The man chosen to be lebanons next Prime Minister has resigned without ever forming a government most of all says he simply hasnt been able to get a cabinet of technocrats approved in a country where power is shared between different sects it sends the country back to square one and its search for stable governance in a quarter reports from beirut. Its been almost a month since most of a db was designated Prime Minister his job was to form a government independent of Party Loyalists after the previous cabinet resigned following the devastating explosion at the port of beirut last month its not easy in lebanon where the same political elite accused of pushing the country to near bankruptcy have been in power for decades i realise that the agreement on the basis i accepted this National Mission during this difficult time of lebanons h
Know the situation along the front line has been calmer today but these strikes on civilian population points of course are radicalizing populations across the divide and making it increasingly more difficult for the leader of to step back and fill out the terms of a humanitarian truce so i think a cease fire is in a very dangerous place and i think we could see a lot more violence in the coming days how much of a role are outside parties playing a mainly russia and turkey what are they stoking this conflict. Well this is actually never been a proxy conflict as such its driven by local concerns local identities but outside powers have paid a very Important Role in sustaining the conflict so for the last 20 odd years russia has preserved a kind of an equilibrium between the parties its formally allied with armenia but arms both armenia and azerbaijan but russia doesnt want to have a major conflict involving an external power such as turkey in the south caucasus a quite sensitive region
Reunification is it time for the next generation. That. Thanks very much indeed for joining us here on through the points are my guests here in the studio my 2 boys who is an art student focusing on migration and she argues that we in west germany are rediscovering the eastern german identity and we must learn from it. Also with us is melanie each time journalist and psychologist who says reunification shape tell us no we need a shaking society and a very warm welcome to see journalist and radio presenter vladimir. Believes that todays united germany is more diverse than ever and we should embrace that. Thank you. Being here folks thank you for those 3 interesting statements id like to begin with you my 2 i called german reunification in my introduction and the fall of the berlin wall a miracle because thats how it felt to me i was there at the time and i was amazed by what i saw what does it mean for you today. In the 1st place it meant something from the parents after their your vers