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and the landlords offering accommodation in exchange for sex. coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news. he s looking good for another premier league title. and chelsea s n golo kante is also favourite for the pfa player of the year award. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. president trump has said relations between the us and russia may be at all time low, after moscow refused to withdraw support for syria s president assad after last week s chemical weapons attack. the us blamed the syrian government for the attack, and fired 59 cruise missiles at a government airbase in response. russia has now vetoed a united nations resolution demanding that syria cooperate with investigators. keith doyle reports. what appear to be barrel bombs being dropped by syrian army helicopters. 0ther unverified pictures are said to show rebel missiles hitting damascus. the syrian civil war is no less vicious and indiscriminate this week than last. us and russia ....
oklahoma. the chaplain: let s pray. father, i thank you for the heroic leadership that this house of representatives has exemplified in the past week during this present crisis. i thank you for the late nights, i thank you for their heroic efforts to seek compromise. but i thank you for the creative solutions they ve proposed. lord, at present there is no solution. and so today, father, we confess our desperate need for you. we joyfully conquer that you are the source concur that you are the source of wisdom and all strength resides with you. you are the author of unity, even when parties are in conflict. we ask you that you would grant supernatural breakthrough. where there is no way forward, we pray that you would forge a way. when negotiations break down, please grant fresh ideas for debate. we ask this, lord, for your glory and for the good of the american people. we pray this in jesus name, men. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s p ....
other parts of it. but on top of ukraine, between ukraine and the baltic states, is the large and still quite soviet country of belarus. belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. they established a new form of government. they constituted themselves as the republic of belarus. they held an election for president of that republic for the first time in 1994. in that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. again, they picked him in 1994. he is still there today. i say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europe s last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. but belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally it s a republic. it is a place that holds elections. and those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. but in practice, those two things often come together. i mean i ....
in that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. again, they picked him in 1994. he is still there today. i say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europe s last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. but belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally it s a republic. it is a place that holds elections. and those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. but in practice, those two things often come together. i mean if you think about it, right, basically by definition, if you are an authoritarian leader, if you re a dictator, you don t believe in like checks and balances in government, right? you don t believe in anybody else in government, anybody else in any position in your country being able to interfere with you just dictating what you want to happen and getting it. by definition, right? authoritarian le ....
that you just mentioned the statistics, andrea, they re disturbing. when you downplay something that s really a threat that s not a good thing. joining us now is phillip rucker, white house bureau chief. and yamiche alcindor. phil, let me begin with you. let s start with announcement coming out of the white house about bahrain and israel, they ll normalize relations. tell us about why today, what have you learned? why on september 11th did the president want to make this announcement? you know, ayman, i m not entirely sure why the president wanted to go ahead and make this announcement today it sounds like the officials from bahrain are prepared to reveal more about this announcement next week, it s an important date in the united states, september 11th, i was traveling with president trump this morning with shanksville, pennsylvania where he paid tribute to the 40 people who died aboard flight 93 that crashed in an open field in pennsylvania. spoke about the americ ....