In saddams capital with the threat of war as a nile river reaches precedented levels. Protesters have ignored warnings by turning out in force again to demand the resignation of bella who says president at least 125 people have been detained by police in the capital minsk president Alexander Lukashenko is accused of rigging his reelection earlier this month to continue 26 years of authoritarian rule as protests centered a 3rd week the interior ministry warned they are an authorized it says there was a risk of violence lets bring in berners smith who is following developments from lithuania he joins us live from the only is so big crowds again today in mens tell us 1st about what youre hearing about the situation right now and what sort of challenges are the protesters confronted with today. Terms of thousands of russian seems to have those warnings from the interior ministry in the pictures were seeing showing very busy part streets not all not far from the residence of alexander or ex
And london with the top stories from europe including. Chaotic scenes in montenegro as parliament as subs protest a new law which could affect the Property Rights of that orthodox chad. Also a plane crashes after takeoff killing 12 people but many on board have walked away. With other sports news russia is to appeal its 4 year ban saying its entirely disputes findings by the world anti doping agency. The United Nations is going warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syrias last rebel whole province it leave you the 250000 people who fled the area in the past 2 weeks parts of it live being on the daily aerial bombardment part. Russian backed Syrian Government forces president bashar assad has repeatedly vowed to take back the province and his offensive has intensified despite a ceasefire announced in august that he syrians are on the move north towards the Turkish Border but turkeys president has warned his country cannot cope with another influx of refugees progovernment
Strengthened. Welcome to the program nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people have fled their homes in syrias last rebel stronghold in the past 2 weeks escaping a relentless berridge of balls and ass trikes Syrian Government forces in that russian allies have sworn to retake adlib and the United Nations is warning of devastating humanitarian consequences parts of the province of been under a daily aerial bombardment of thousands of families are reportedly too frightened to move. Meanwhile. Authorities in taki have closed the border to syria and see off flame the violence 100000 attack. And says many refugees on now heavily dependent on charities. Most of those people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids burn the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them im from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting most of the hogs the area around. And the strategic city that sits on t
House of representatives. The 116th congress is the most diverse class of lawmakers in the history of our country. Today, both the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus swore in their largest numbers ever. The progressive caucus, members of congress who proudly identify them seflds as liberals or progressives, the progressive caucus is now on track to include about half the entire Democratic Caucus in the house. A record 102 women were sworn in today to serve in this congress. 35 of those 102 women will be serving in congress for the very first time. Today the youngest africanamerican woman ever to serve in Congress Took her seat. So did the first muslim women, plural, as did the first native american women, plural. There were a lot of firsts as the 116th Congress Took their seats today. But i want to start with something that happened today that has happened once before. Today nancy pelosi took back the gavel to become speaker of the house. That puts her thi
In Mali, one million children under five are at risk of malnutrition amid polio and measles outbreaks, increased armed violence and displacement, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.