Tuesday. Special coverage night on al jazeera. Hi emily could be and youre in the stream today were talking about the kalashnikov Assault Rifle or a k 47 just what makes it the worlds most popular don well discuss its history and legacy and we want to hear your questions and comments about it share your thoughts via twitter or and our live chat. Hello im dr Charmaine Nelson professor of art history at Mcgill University in montreal and you are in the street. Russia is commemorating 100 years since the birth of famed soviet weapon inventor kalashnikov for the Russian Ministry of education it is an opportunity to teach School Aged Children about kalashnikov who was hailed a National Hero and died in 2013 at the age of 94. Unlined russians are using the hash tag kalashnikov 100 to share their thoughts on his life and legacy lewis offers this insight the machine gun invented by him became a symbol of russia as well as the most widespread small arms in history radio studio but its important
Welcome to the journal here on dw. A syrian delegation in moscow for talks as the un on boy calls for a government of national unity. Barack obama breaks off his Christmas Holiday to resume talks on the u. S. Budget crisis. The annual Chaos Computer Club conference gets under way in hamburg with organizers warning that government internet surveillance is a growing threat. The international convoy for syria made a proposal in damascus where he is delivering talks. He will also be Holding Discussions in moscow as russia steps up its role in helping to find a political resolution to the conflict. The Russian Parliament says time is running out for damascus. It was a highlevel meeting between syrian diplomats and the Russian Foreign minister. He made moscows line clear the crisis has to be solved through political dialogue between the warring parties, but there was no mention of any new proposals to bring about that objective. The Foreign Ministry denied reports of a new peace plan from ru
In seven days. That is what Oakland Police officers are dealing with. Right now. The most recent homicide happened just after six tonight in oaklands concordia park. Seven other people have died across the city in just the last week. Ktvu Elissa Harrington joins us live in oakland, where some city leaders and Community Leaders are calling for action. Well christina. Some of these latest shootings happened in broad daylight, and the police chief has said that gun violence is plaguing the city and now at least one City Council Member is calling for the federal government to provide some support. Cell phone video shows the aftermath of fridays attempted robbery of a brinks Armored Vehicle along east Oaklands International boulevard brings employees seen on the ground, helped by bystanders after getting shot in the leg, sources say the brinks guard shot and killed a would be robber who was part of a group trying to rob the armored truck. City Council Member noel gayo sent us this video, he
Victims being held captive. Ah. By british french you welcome to the doctor, news asia. Glad you could join us. And International Court has apparently the genocide conviction of the last surviving Senior Member of cambodia as brutal command rouge regime, q. Some pun whos 90. 1 years old now served as head of state in the communist square rouge between 975 and 79. He will continue to serve the remainder of his life in prison after the un backed tribunal rejected his appeal against his 2018 conviction. His is only the 3rd conviction the court could manage in 16 years. And after having spent 331000000. 00 officially called extraordinary chambers in the court of cambodia, it was tossed with trying the crimes of the committee rouge. And now its work is done. Well discuss how effective it truly was. But 1st, this report here to bear witness. As a chapter closes on cambodia, violent past survivors of the come, a rouge were among those who attended the final verdict for the last living leader
Law degree and thank you so much for your work. And i want to thank the City Attorney thank you for your great work. I want to thank all the legislative aids especially in supervisor kims office ivy chang in particular and other folks from norman yees office. The finance committee and for bringing this issue before us. A lot of organizations have a part of them calling names many of our labor partners and local 2 and ive heard from the Labor Council and Communities United against violence and the Domestic Violence consortium and the asian law caucus i dont know your full name and there are many, many other organizations that are part of this effort thank you for standing together. Across our deprives immigrant community its a testament to how power our community is to get that kind of unit thank you. Its truly been an honor to work on that legislation thank you supervisor avalos. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. As an early supporter of this ordinance i want to recognize