Decades of mistreatment, a century is finally found. The worlds loneliest elephant ethiopias Prime Minister abu ahmed is addressing members of parliament about the 3 week long conflict in the to agree region to ground forces, say theyre still facing the federal army near the regional capital. The army said that theyve taken full control of mcalary on saturday. The t p. L. F. Has now told the which is news agency that theyve captured eritrean soldiers who are fighting alongside federal forces. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands forced to flee to neighboring sudan. Lets go live to what nairobi other serious web is following developments in ethiopia from whats the Prime Minister been saying . We havent been talking about the government and the army as he took it over when he came to power 2 years ago about some of the reforms that he has introduced since the p. L. F. Dominated ethiopias politics for nearly 30 years into a minister took over 2 years ago hes been saying that
That letter for me was my putting my hat in the ring and saying no matter what happens with the future i want to stand for freedom of speech and civilized behavior between people who could otherwise be a candidates thats the letter was for me you know one of the weaknesses of the letter was that it meant a lot of things to a lot of different people i didnt even know who the other people signing the letter were until after i signed it because i think highly of the people who penned it the leading being Roger Berkowitz of the head of our foundation so ive learned a lot since signing the letter but so far i i can live with that so. I want to hear your pain and what is happening with justice and freedom being presented as opposites why is there even a question of choosing between why are there other oh i dont know if im the person to ask that. They be justice and freedom. I believe that there are theres a great deal of. Justifiable anger at the system that we call the us. Democratic system
I am for me ok welcome to the stream under United Nations General Assembly this week in a limited Edition Serious istream is teaming up with the un to bring you some of the most important global issues around the world now of course we cannot do that without isa we are going to be on t. V. Or on instagram or on you tube we want you to jump into the comments section and you too can be part of the very important conversations or the way through the week we start with an unscientific survey of Global Citizens looking at the United Nations on its 75th anniversary this is what they tell us. I think the principles that guided him established the un as an organization are certainly ones that we need and todays landscape however i do feel that the execution is a bit lacking i think issues such as the syrians really conflict the war in syria poverty corruption on a worldwide stage do need to be addressed in a more pressing matter my favorite s. T. G. Is the 17 partnerships for their goals becau
Despite missing the bill would breach international. Those are your headlines but you can find the details on much more what ill call but why yes they have with us will be a part of it but its all documented about them on this and so the question. Will come to sophie visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in a divided world a Unifying Force is desperately needed is our powerful enough to play this role well to talk about this im joined by stars choreographer and human rights advocate bill teacher. Bill t. Jones star cora refer receiver of the National Medal of arts and macarthur genius award human rights activists its really great to have you with us today hi bill. Hello hello so great thank you very much for inviting me were really glad to have you herrick as youre one of the rarest people that actually wanted to talk about war and talk about today and i want to ask you about just for a moment you introduce me as a human rights advocate and i take that to be the highest compliment and i d
Just to clarify sure. I want to start of with a letter unjust is an open debate which you signed and implies that people today are presented with a false choice between justice and freedom now i understand here a strong supporter of what young people in america are standing for today on the streets what did you feel why did you feel compelled to lend your voice to a letter that hot or had might seem as an anti protest it meant. Yes well i thought that if that was the chase people might read the letters certain way it might be an opportunity for dialogue. And lets face it im reading a great deal right now the great to lala just the last of the historian hannah arent and hanna arent speaks about thinking with no bannisters she thinks she talks about plurality plurality is what we call. Actually democracy how does how do many different people with many different points of view exist together. Without picking up a gun and blowing each others heads off how can they really be honest in debat