Hello. The united states has condemned the forced diversion of a Passenger Plane carrying a dissident belarusian journalist. It follows a chorus of condemnation across europe after the Ryanair Plane flying from greece To Lithuania was forced to land in the belarus capital minsk. State media there said the Intervention was due to a bomb scare. The uk Foreign Secretary said the outlandish actions would have serious implications. The bbc s diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports. This is not where Flight Fr4978 was supposed to be this afternoon, on the ground at minsk airport. The Ryanair Flight with about 170 people On Board left athens this morning bound for vilnius. Butjust before the aircraft entered lithuanian airspace, it suddenly headed east. According to ryanair, the crew were warned of a potential Security Threat and ordered to land at minsk. For good measure, a belarusian warplane armed to the teeth was dispatched to the aircraft in. But no bombs were found On Board. In
Republican Congresswoman Ma Marjorie Taylor Greene complaining about how House Speaker Nancy pelosi is keeping a Mask Mandate in place for the house floor. We can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to Gas Chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about. Greenes comments have been met with harsh criticism, republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney calling them evil lunacy, and democratic congressman Jim Mcgovern says greene should resign. But last night when greene was asked about the comments, she doubled down. So i stand by all of my statements, i said nothing wrong and i think any rational jewish person didnt like what happened in Nazi Germany, and any rational jewish person doesnt like whats happening with overbearing Mask Mandates, and overbearing vaccine policies. Do you understand, thoug
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