and thousands of workers across the uk switch to doing fewer hours for exactly the same pay, after the world s biggest trial of a four day work week. president putin is to set out his latest thinking about the war in ukraine shortly, as the anniversary of the invasion of ukraine approaches. these are the live pictures from moscow where he ll be addressing both houses of the russian parliament and senior military figures. it comes a day after president biden s surprise visit to kyiv where, in a joint statement with president zelensky, he said that putin s war of conquest is failing. president putin s speech was meant to take place in december but was postponed after a series of setbacks on the battlefield. his last state of the nation address was nearly two years ago in april 2021. the fighting has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides and hundreds of thousands of russians have been drafted into the army. we are expecting president putin to portray this almost year
vacant at the moment. tuesday s election may offer some clarity as to where the american people are, how they are thinking ahead of the 2024 general election. this week, we are also finding out more about whether donald trump plans to run for president again. according to sources familiar with trump s thinking, the fifth former president will likely announce another bid for the white house this month. this is a move he ll but confirmed on thursday. the election was rigged and stolen. our country is being destroyed. iran twice, i won twice. i did much better the second time and i did the first. now, in order to make our country successful, and make it safe and glorious, i will very, very, very, probably do it again. i went twice, i won twice. as trump teases another bid, we know there is one republican who will try to thwart his return to the white house. that is only interest of saving democracy in the future of her own party. since the insurrection, wyoming congressman l
A result they have come to question the integrity of many written accounts from antiquity. The Apostle Peter is martyrdom on the vatican hill is one of them. It marks the dramatic climax of a religious legend but as one of the most powerful stories in church tradition. Some one and a half centuries later a Magnificent Basilica was erected on the vatican you know of the sign believed to be the very spot where peter was buried. Peters basilica is a monument to the apostle and one of the holiest catholic shrines. In the catacombs deep below the church is an Ancient Roman graves a veritable City Of The Dead in which according to legend jesus is first Apostle Simon peter was buried. Peanuts
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Aims and sluicing the twenty sixteen election. And the dozen friends sound like iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour see that. Letter we were. When we were. Eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen up. Double. Binds. Nero murderer and despot a madman on the imperial throne. Whose name is inextricably linked with one of the biggest disasters of the ancient world The Great Fire over a. Hero set rome a light to make room for his own building plans in takes the blame for the fire on the christians ordering the torture and execution of thousands. But scholars today question the legend of nero as the arsonist of rome and down to the initiator of policy of persecution against the christians. To date there is no archaeological evidence to support the theory that the Apostle Peter was ever in rome but there are mounting indications tha
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days thousands will die when the smoke clears three quarters of the city will lay in ruins. According to legend the Apostle Peter was in rome at the same time to supervise the citys fledgling Christian Community. Later he would go down in the annals of the Catholic Church is the first Bishop Of Rome. With. Another natori as legend emperor nero himself started the fire as an excuse to rebuild rome to his own liking and to rename the city mirabilis and thats not all. The Mad Megalomaniac watched the conflagration from his palace on the palatine you know merrily singing and playing his life. In need of a scapegoat he blamed the fire on the christians so many indiscriminately and
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