Last week. Live from moscow watching our team from here with you tonight thanks for joining us this hour i was and yes there were 2 protests continue to rage in ecuador the governments been forced to relocate to the countrys 2nd city and suspend Parliament Furious at your thought to end fuel subsidies demonstrators have launched a campaign that seemed transport networks crippled across the country Nicholas Odonovan reports now from. The im was i. Am i i. Was ecuador remains under state of emergency off to days of protests following president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups finally clashed with Police Forces afterwards thousands of them did in the city who came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the president ial palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the atman to minister to capital from here from quito to why a kill those 2nd
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Us this hour a north korea is set to hold official talks with its southern neighbor for the first time in two years as tensions run high on the peninsula there are signs the spot is easing now with some progress already made at the start of the year has already seen the reopening of a cross border phone line the next day trump the laid on your military drills with salt until after south korea holds the Winter Olympics next month face to face negotiations with the north set for tuesday and we. Have more to shed some more light on this caleb youve been across the story people optimistic about these talks what can we really expect. Well its hard to tell exactly whats going to be discussed one thing that certainly will be on the agenda is the upcoming Olympic Games but folks are rather optimistic the simple fact that these talks are happening is rather exciting and surprising at this point weve heard from the unification minister in south korea and he has called for the talks to be kind of
One Daniel Wilkins thanks for joining us this hour. And north korea is set to hold official talks with the south for the first time in two years there are already some early signs of progress the start of the year saw the reopening of a cross border phone line the next day trying to lay down your military drills with seoul until after south korea holds the Winter Olympics next month face to face to go with the north are set for tuesday arties caleb morgan takes a closer look. Well its hard to tell exactly everything that will be discussed now we know that one thing that is probably going to definitely be on the agenda will be the upcoming Olympic Games now weve heard from south koreas unification minister and he has said that he hopes that the talks become a place to ease the tensions now if youve been paying attention to everything thats been going on on the Korean Peninsula over the last few months you can tell theres quite a bit of tension there and you almost cant really imagine it
Agree that its the unofficial history of National Review as it includes some Memorable Events in the magazines history that wont necessarily get mentioned in the official histories. Priscillas brother william f. Buckley writes in the forward to her book that after he founded National Review he reached out for an experienced editorial hand dragging priscilla from an exotic life as a reporter and editor ipparis into the indiggant billet of a struggling to be born venture in opinion journalism. Priscilla returned from paris in 1956 to work on brother bills brand new weekly magazine National Review. But first priscilla took a month off to do what she loved best, quail hunting in the morning golfing in the afternoon, and partying with good friends at night. Priscilla buckley graduated from Smith College in 1953 and worked for a year as a copy girl and Sports Writer for united pres. She spent four years as a radio rewrite staffer next she lived in paris france where she was a United Press Co