Violent arrests. Immersed in devastation sudan grapples with the aftermath of record floods plus. I wont be putting forth anomaly next week it will be the. Battle to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg intensifies in the u. S. We begin this hour with iran threatening the United States with a crushing response to their efforts to reimpose sanctions the u. S. Has triggered a socalled snap back of the sanctions which were lifted in the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal but every other permanent member of the United Nations Security Council rejects the u. S. Sanctions plan around president Hassan Rouhani is urging the u. S. To respect International Law he also praised world powers to standing up to american pressure. Because here. We could see the u. S. Lost 3 times in the span of a month but the un Security Council the americans always thought that they had the upper hand at the Security Council for many reasons including enjoying the veto power and having traditional friends they neve
A president s judicial nominee but it created a new rule of the mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in Election Year period no coffee 7 outs and Many Republican senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who at the time said quote verbatim heres what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2060. And a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right and of quote. Well in our other top stories irans president has warned of a crushing response to the u. S. After it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions has an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure to iran has left it isolated from need to
Now the worlds 2nd worst affected country. After months at sea in a wooden boats nearly 300. 00 rohingya make it to indonesias problems. Tropical storm hi sam moves towards north korea lashing south korea with strong winds heavy rain. And im only a harding with your sports news world number one Novak Djokovic is disqualified from the u. S. Open after hitting a ball into the throat of a line judge. Let me begin with a developing story out of bella russa prominence protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk in the last few hours. The cobra who spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a. By unidentified people shes been accounting manager for opposition politicians and of vocal supporter. Taken of scalia who is now in exile in lithuania or bonn in smiths monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania boehner just talk us through what we know about this latest incident. Or were hearing from activists connected with maria colonists that she was
Lives and that. Was your headline so for more of those stories you can head to our team dot com stay with us this is r. T. International. Hello and welcome to redact of the knight v. I. P. League camp today i talk with the associate director of the Organization Amazon watch paul pozzi mean you know well talk about the fires raging through the amazon the risks the indigenous are facing and a massive successful lawsuit against chevron for causing immense just drugs in the amazon but they have sworn they will never pay what they owe also coming up well go to naomi cara vonnie with some other redacted. Stories and anders link for mind blowing old news about our National Anthem but 1st heres my interview with paul pozzi mean yo the associate director of amazon watch paul thanks for joining me thank you so i have a lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the indigenous in ecuador want to big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land fil
Lebanese capitol. Emmanuel macron inin beirut two days after a blast rips through the city killing 135 people and woundiding 5000. His visit comes one dayy after france responded to calls for help by sending a and medical personnenel to the country. Afafter his meeting with the president , he said the country will continue to sink if reforms are not made. To aidy the priority is and supppport the population unconditionally. France has been pushing for months even years now for necessary reforms in certain sectors, energy, governmentrun tracks, the fight agagainst corruption, if these r reforms e not carried outut, lebanon will cocontinue s sking your sinking. Why is s Emmanuel Macron in lebanon two days after this blast . He is there to reassure lebanese people. He wants to show that france is friends with lebanon. It is true a lot of lebanese christians are francophones. France is the big sister country. The core of this message is clear in the latest statement made by Emmanuel Macron