Supported by the u. S. Government and resulted in the capture or death of more than 1000 men. This was recorded in florida in 2011. It is about one hour. This evening, books and books is pleased to welcome mr. Jim ratzenberger and his new book brilliant disaster jfk, castro, and americas doomed invasion of cubas bay of pigs. He has written for the New York Times, vanity fair, smithsonian, and the wilson quarterly, among others. His most recent book was american 1908, and he is also the author of high steel. He examines the u. S. Backed military invasion of cuba in 1961 in this book, one of the most ill fated blunders in american history. He draws on long hidden cia documents, and delivers, as never before, the truth and consequences of those five pivotal days in april of 1961. Here to tell us more, give a warm welcome to mr. Jim ratzenberger. [applause] jim perfect. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to books and books for having me. This is a wonderful bookstore. I
A lot to Sudanese Government because the country has been cut off from Foreign Investment largely because of being on the list of states sponsoring terrorism and this has resulted in a shortage of hard currency which makes it very hard for the country to import basic commodities such as fuel and we and that has resulted in shortages in petrol stations and bakeries its also lead to inflation of more than 200 percent making many from families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day now sudan says that this also means that the u. S. Administration has. D. Link the issue of being delisted to normalizing ties with israel that is something that the u. S. Has been pushing sudan to do since u. S. Secretary of state my point was that if the country in august in the previous august now sudan says that it is not in the position to actually normalize ties with israel because it is not a mandated government or an elected government lets not forget that this govern
Pandemic earlier this year now the government there is introducing new measures for restaurants and bars at restaurants they have to shut at midnight a maximum of 6 per table bars have to close at 6 pm and not just there last year for example are worried about the fact that over the weekend they saw record daily new cases which was the best part of 2000 on saturday theyre now limiting gatherings to 12 people thailands Prime Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying rallies which were banned are now permitted as long as there are peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day to demand private resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it. Well the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the duty of all time people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to
Into effect the Security Forces started moving. I believe he told gate in lagos several different witnesses recorded footage of what appeared to be security personnel shooting at protesters who were blocking a major highway a number of people want reported killed. It began as peaceful protest to demand an end to Police Brutality. And for 2 weeks the government struggled but still to come protesters. Their demands among others include far reaching reforms of the police and the prosecution of officers accused of extrajudicial killings torture and disappearances no cure is going through it says we have been protest in we have not had any reasonable results which is what we want. But you know. What i know im really listening to. Was running. Every day so yeah yeah i dont buy that very much and i said well you know i believe these well im going to do. And see the lawmakers are lining up behind some of the protesters demands i will not sign off on the 2021 budget that does does not include f
This Divisive Campaign where we saw candidates really trying to pit guineans against each other along ethnic lines there was a big turnout during the vote was there are some that werent able to vote either in neighboring countries like here in senegal where theres more than 3000000 guineans migrants living here who are prevented from voting or either because some didnt have the voter cards despite all of that many people came out to vote most of them are 1st time voters so big turnout and a peaceful so far election now its during the counting thats happening now that perhaps trouble lies ahead we know already that the opposition says that if a is. Seen as the front runner the winner then they wont even accept results theres also the the f. N. D. C. The front for the for the for the National Defense of the constitution ive been protesting over the course of the years these are members of Civil Society as well as the opposition they wanted to protest on friday well theyve announced today