A dumping ground but electronic waste. Very good afternoon to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. A russian shock artist welcomed as a hero granted asylum in france is now at the center of a political scandal the french lawmakers are demanding the public be sent back to russia after he was arrested for posting footage that brought down president candide it for mary of paris explains. Problem is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out hes a political refugee he behaves like the 1st thing to do would be to put him on a plane streets of russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pav lengthy this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin a key ally of the president back on his former spokesp
Bills in. Your chart International Live from moscow studio with Mina David Tudor welcome to the program as the dust starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming painfully clear mark went to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. Winning isnt always pretty. Is testament to that its being that almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness better these than isis but no one mentioned the smell five months on mosul still stinks of death the stench of decaying and decayed bodies everywhere permeates the old city its nowhere near as strong as it was back during the summer for obvious reasons but there are still countless bodies buried under all this rubble and no one knows how long it will take to get to all of them. They are everywhere the corpses of isis fighters buried under the wreckage together with civilians woman children and exploded bombs shells rockets. There
Differently than the preceding ones. President , the pressure and tension on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make a restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination, even it was desirable, a practical impossibility. That we face my immediate question, can our Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process so rectified discord and bitterness be repaired and it president ial Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us that this is extremely unlikely. Bitter our nations most and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A confirmation fight over roger tommys tawnys confirmation in 1836, the senate refusal to confirm for nominations for president tyler in 1844, the single vote projections of rejection nominees badger and black by lameduck president s fillmore in the canon in the mid19th century. Approval ofow justices lamarr and fuller in 1888. These are just some examples of these fights in the 19th centur
Central africa and this includes the outbreaks that have been reported worldwide and have been garnered. It is actually relatively recently that this has emerged in west. And in fact this actually started around the area and this includes where siberia and liberia intersect. In an embossed the case of a 2yearold boy and this includes moving into sierra leone and liberia. And so nice chain of events, if you will, with transmission moving from very remote areas into urban areas. And that is one of the most notable features of this particular outbreak. And they are found to be over 8000 suspect cases and half are little but more than confirmed. The country that has been most affected by this has been liberia and also significant cases in sierra leone and guinea as you all know. What is most important is that most of these cases have occurred in last three to four weeks and the burden of this particular outbreak is increasing. So in the democratic republic of congo, the outbreak is actuall
Good morning. Im honored to be participating in this prestigious symposium. I will say at the outset that is the director the Research Facility we are in the business of developing countermeasures for those organisms which require high levels of biocontainment and what keeps me up at night is what happens if one of my lab workers catches this experiment. We do have medical Treatment Facilities and special containment studies unit in bethesda. We will handle cases of occupational exposure from the four teacher campus. Cdc has memory and two years ago i convened a symposium with two colleagues rick davey and lisa hensley bringing the medical directors of those various facilities together to review medical countermeasures that could be possibly prepositioned in those facilities so they would be available on short notice. It was somewhat disturbing at that time that there were no countermeasures. The best we could do was to review the literature and see where things were in the pipeline an