Organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news some. Nice and peaceful its important to push my bullet yet im in Square Hong Kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u. S. Led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they cant do that this time iraqi protesters are demanding an overhaul of the political system a system known as. Which has played on sectarian divides to carve up the spoils of war torn but Oil Rich Iraq so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis thats what these dem
Forcing the meeting to be suspended and as she left the chamber some even threw objects after some politicians say its time for them to step down. In a post poll bungs home home people have had a very difficult time very very tell time how ravel our chief executive mrs kerry re feels to respond all to resolve the problem. All 53 months of very clear not one less and i really urge if she cant call them on call and she has no determination to govern all and she has no ability and even capable in a ministration hong kong please that down scott has the latest from hong kong. The big security presence here outside the Legislative Council was to prevent any protesters from interrupting this policy address by carrie lamb but what they didnt expect is there to be interruptions in side the Chamber Twice she tried to deliver the speech twice she was shouted out chants from prodemocracy members of the Legislative Council after that after the 2nd attempt the session was called off and everyone exi
A defense spending bill to provide 659 billion to the pentagon for the current fiscal year, 2018. Votes later this afternoon. Now live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. As you make available to your people the grace and knowledge to meet the needs of the day, we pray that your spirit will be upon the members of this peoples house, giving them the richness of your wisdom. Bless the members of the Majority Party as they prepare and gather these next days. May they, with those who accompany them, travel safely and meet in peace. Bless also the Minority Party as they prepare for their own gathering. May these days b
San jose, despite their psa and repeated attempts to raise awareness about fatal crashes. The numbers continue to rise. From thursday to friday morning, numerous 911, calls came into the san jose dispatch. According to officer steve aponte. A that was for traffic collisions that occurred involving pedestrians and bicyclists within the past. 24 hours, one of those being fatal. Police say an elderly woman was struck and killed thursday night while walking across lanes of traffic on lundi ave outside of any mark cross walks. Officer aponte says the city needs to see a change with pedestrians, not using crosswalks and drivers not following the rules of the road were not kind of victim blaming. But if you receive a ticket on the roadway for violating the rules of the road, its to make you change that driving behavior specifically to make sure that we prevent types of incidents that occurred. Like last night, as far back as officer upon taken recall, the highest number of fatal accidents in
Russias leader Vladimir Putin. Ah, hello there. Im really mohammed, china is stepping up its military activity around taiwan as tensions rise following the u. S. How Speaker Nancy Pelosi visit to the island. Beijing is preparing its biggest show of force around taiwan. In decades. The government in taipei says it scrambled jets to warn off chinese air craft which entered its de penson. Now a number of ministry websites have also come under cyber attack. Pelosi left taiwan pledging washingtons iron clad commitment to defending democracy. A trip that has set the region on edge the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi arrives in taiwan, making her the highest level american official to visit the island in 25 years. Pelosi stopover was kept deliberately ambiguous, amid stock warnings from china, and the threat of a military response. Despite reservations in the biden administration, the white house insisted that pelosi had a right to choose whether to visit and choose.