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She will no longer guide. Live from moscow thanks so much for joining us tonight r. T. International here with you throughout the evening welcome to the program despite calls for calm the unrest in but continues as the country enters a 4th day of protests police have already started dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators in the capital minsk. And he puts the bushies to. Full time think its meant to be some people who see getting. Worse on a small team but there is a. Correspondent robot causative has been following developments. Well lets start off with the with whats happening here in moscow were standing outside of the villa Russian Embassy right in the center of the russian capital where solidarity rallies are taking place. Of course of the protesters in the belarus said the moment there are very few people here but little bit earlier there were hundreds of people and the police even had to disperse the crowd asking the people not to appear with the pedestrians and according
Greetings and salutations women are more than a sum of our reproductive parts women are force a powerful and Strategic Group a group that the route history was seen as such a threat to the massage mystic male dominated environment that womens rights were stripped we were treated like 2nd class citizens and public and even in our own homes but the year 2020 with all of its ups and downs gives time to pay homage to and celebrate one of the greatest victories american women have achieved gaining the right to vote 100 years ago on august 18th 1020 the 19th amendment to the Us Constitution was ratified and the largest expansion of democracy in American History came as a result of the 19th amendment this is a story here of its internal celebration also brings to light other factors related to voter rights. The battle for the white house is set with president Donald Trumps Reelection Campaign explicitly working to not only limit diverse voter turnout but to deconstruct voter platforms from lo