A preview of the week russian opposition figurehead alexina vali says he is making progress in his recovery as moscow in berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our International Im sean thomas glad to have you with us as we recap our weeks top stories with our weekly program. Now belarus has seen another day of mass unrest 6 weeks on from the contested election thousands gathered in minsk on sunday. Calling on president lukashenko to resign archies earlier describe the tactics used by the protesters. What they do is they gather in little groups all over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into a into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000. 00 people behind me a whole maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer people than th
I was part of the procuring team. Myself and some of our team members will outofstate to retrieve and harvest a heart and bring it back to a patient. It was a long night. Go . Ow far did you have to midwest. You live here in town. Yes or. What was the condition of the person you apart from . Obviously dead. Unfortunately, it is always a tragic story. Typically a young person because those are the most ideal candidates for organ transplants. Motor vehicle accident in this case. That is typically what it is. Some common denominator among all of the donors is that they have a brain death. That is what they succumb to and that is when they become candidates for organ donation. In this case, it was a Motor Vehicle accident, traumatic brain injury and the demise was brain death. Secrecy means you cant go too far with this. Absolutely. We have to protect the privacy not only of the donor and their family, but the recipient as well. It is something that we regard as a very precious gift that t
Said, hassan, we have a transplant going this evening. Are you able to pick your . I was technically oncall. He said, i think the timing will be such that you can get back in time. Certainly it was. What airport did you fly out of . Dulles. Usually we fly chartered aircraft because commercial you have to coordinate all the timing. The issue with hearts and lungs is that they have sort of a short shelflife. We have about four hours, six hours at the max to transplant the organ once we retrieve it. What time do you took off out of Dulles Airport . Roughly about 10 00 p. M. What time did you get the heart . Around 11 00, 11 30. We started a little after midnight. We were up till about 3 00 a. M. When did you leave to get the heart . I left at about we took off at about 10 00. And what time did you get back here . Just about 4 00, 5 00 a. M. When was the operation . When we bring the organ back, the other team puts it into the recipient. One hospital here . I cant tell you that. Fairfax. F
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Just the beginning. The Washington Post reports cohen reached out to multiple companies bragging about what he could offer, quote, he showed photos of himself with trump and mentioned how frequently they spoke, even asking people to share news articles describing him as the president s fixer. Im crushing it, he said. Cohens defense it wasnt me well, at least it wasnt all me. His Attorney Says some of the transactions listed in the original financial document posted online by Stormy Daniels attorney were wrongfully attributed to Michael Cohen, the president s fixer. Some of them were to other Michael Cohens. One is in israel, another is from canada. So cohen is off the hook, right . Not quite. The moneys that went to the other Michael Cohens amounted to about 20,000. The total monies listed were more than 4 million. Cohens attorney isnt disputing two of the biggest payments, the 1. 2 million from novartis and 600,000 from at t. Those two companies confirmed they had given information to