remembering all the dutch is the holocaust at a memorial in amsterdam. dutch dims. dutch victims. and a night to remember for netflix as the crown scoops big accolades at the emmy awards in la. hello and welcome. the ruling party in russia that supports president putin has claimed victory in the controversial parliamentary elections just hours after the polls closed. a state television broadcast showed a senior official of the united russia party, andrei turchak, congratulating a crowd of supporters in moscow on what he described as a clean and honest victory. translation: dearfriends, let me congratulate you all on a clean and honest victory. i just spoke with the chairman of the party who could not be with us today as he fell ill. he thinks you all for this result. let s get more on this from our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg. there s something different about a russian election. polling stations turn into music halls. buses turn into polling stations. we f
in russia. students jumped from the building to escape the gunman who posted on social media that he was consumed by hatred and wanted to harm others. 5,000 people have been evacuated because of a volcanic eruption in spain s canary islands officials fear imminent explosions and clouds of toxic gases from the lava. we ll speak to a volcanologist. and canadians are voting in a snap election prime ministerjustin trudeau called. it isa it is a political gamble. the prime ministers neck and neck with his main rival. is is neck and neck. every canadian has met a justin trudeau in their lives privileged, entitled and always looking out for number one. the united states has announced it will relax its travel ban for travellers from the uk and the eu, who are fully vaccined against coronavirus. providing travellers from those countries are fully vaccinated against covid. the change comes into effect in november, 20 once after the restrictions were brought in. here is th
border. some 12,000 migrants camped under a bridge in texas, en enduring heat and squalor conditions . with a growing sense of what afghanistan will be like under the taliban, some women are not backing down. a group of activists there protesting outside what used to be the women s ministry on sunday. the taliban closed that ministry and replaced it with their ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. now, the protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as not allowing them to not go to school. meanwhile, an official says a fourth chartered flight left afghanistan on sunday, carrying 230 passengers, including afghans, europeans and americans. for those who remain in afghanistan, the future, of course, is very uncertain. in camps for the displaced around kabul, conditions are crowded and they
polls for snap elections. a tight race with justin trudeau hoping his handling of the pandemic will keep him in power. although the taliban are showing increasing signs of repressive government, some women are not backing down. a group of brave activists protesting outside what used to be the ministry on sunday. the taliban closed it and replaced it with their feared ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests come after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. now, a private preschool opened on sunday in kabul with both boys and girls attending. that s a rare sight. the taliban insist that public secondary school for girls will be allowed, but they say they have to set up what they call safe transportation
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. thanks for joining me this hour. so, we know that afghan women are defiant, despite growing signs that the taliban government is sidelining them. a group of activists protested outside what used to be the women s ministry on sunday of the the taliban closed that ministry, and replaced it with their ministry which is called the ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests came after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them, as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. well, the taliban have claimed they will not rule as they did during the 90s but they have done little else to calm fears that women will be denied basic freedoms or be shut out of jobs and schools. on sunday, afghanistan s mi