Economy this. But in zimbabwe, where theyre straining to cope with the pandemic, there are people helping each other out and its for Lewis Hamilton is formula one world champion, again, only turkish gone free to secure the title for a record equalling sentenced a little after 4 pm in ethiopia. Right now, and there is breaking news gunmen have killed at least 34. 00 people in an attack on a passenger bus. This was in the west of the country, the likely the number of dead likely to rise and no indication yet of who carried out the attack or if it is linked to the escalating crisis in the north. That in itself is threatening to destabilize the entire region. The leader of that region has confirmed his forces, launched rockets into eritrea, bringing a 3rd country and is threatening to carry out more attacks. This is a home where those who attacked you great will not just attack and return home. We will retaliate while they are here and strike the airports from which they launched attacks.
Democratic national convention. Here are lester holt and savannah guthrie. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to nbc news live coverage of the 2020 Democratic National convention. Good evening, everybody. The pandemic has forced both parties to change their convention plans in a big way. The democrats are up first and they are going all virtual tonight. And already tonight weve seen speakers share remarks from remote locations across the country, many of them in their own homes. Many of the speeches are coming in from feeds provided by the dnc either live or on tape. Right now youre seeing some of that feed. Weve seen music, weve seen stirring tributes. The sort of things we would typically see in a regular convention. Whats a convention without big speeches and well have them tonight. Senator Bernie Sanders will take the mic in just a few moments from now and the headliner of the evening, former first Lady Michelle obama, she taped her remarks before tonights event. Were also going to di
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Tweet, excellent guests and enjoy the event, we look forward to a timely great conversation where our guests and we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet using the aciraq and this is to the middle east center here ac middle east, here is the format. Brief remarks after i finish here and then i will ask him some questions, then we open to audience for questions. So thats what we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest, member of the iraqi consul of representatives, hes a member of the future parliamentary group, chairman of the Civil Society committee, very Important Committee in Iraqi Parliament and he is a member of the iraqUnited States friendship committee. Hene was a cofounder of the new Generation Movement and he previously worked in washington as bureau chief for nrt and u. S. Tv and also worked for u. S. Embassy in baghdad as political cultural adviser, holds master degree in Public Policy from