make community college free for students. how much it will cost taxpayers. and one man answer s trash. the pay and perks of a new york sanitation worker. why it s so lard to become one. in time we will learn much more about the attacks that unfolded in france. but for now the violence that engulfed that country and shocked the world appear to be over. the end came in a hail of gun fire. two separate standoffs leaving three people dead. the first at a french satirical newspaper and the second at a kosher grocery store. and the brother in the newspaper attack claimed to have ties to yemen, al qaeda. made by chiive kouachi. cherif kouachi. paul beban has the story. paul. he said they were backed by anwar alaki we translated this conversation, let s take a listen. we are telling you we were the prophet s yes yes. okay do you plan to kill again in the name of allah? kill who did we kill civilians in the two days that you looked for us? you killed journalists. but did we
took knowledge this. looks with the woodrow lévesque said to open, russia is facing a storm of controversy over its icon on activists from environmental activist to gay rights. have called for a boycott of the games. we will look at a site of the olympic aims you won t see in the wall-to-wall coverage from sochi. i will give you examples of a couple of key points you see throughout the olympic games. one of them is a crackdown on ordinary people. the other is the tearing down of public housing. one of the biggest ones, which is one of the things i think is the most are the biggest concern is ramping up up police powers. we will speak with a number of guest, samantha retrosi competed in the luege in the 2006 games, jules boykoff is a former member of the u.s. olympic soccer team, he wrote the real cost of the olympics. we will also speak with dave zirin and canadian professor helen lenskyj, author of, sexual diversity and the sochi 2014 olympics: no more rainbows. all
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