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My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without s ....
Claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. It is alleged there was widespread self harm and attempted suicide at the centre, which houses migrants who are about to be expelled. Alison holt has more. Brook house Immigration Removal Centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at gatwick airport. It is run by the Global Security firm gas. Here, Foreign National prisoners facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants, and those who have overstayed their visas. Covert filming by the bbcs Panorama Programme shows a chaotic place awash with drugs, with self harm commonplace amongst the men held there. There are officers doing their best, but the undercover investigation alleges some ....
Of myanmars Rohinga Muslim minority are continuing to flee across the border into neighbouring bangladesh. Nearly 60,000 rohingyas have fled since myanmars army began a campaign against suspected militants in Rakhine State just over a week ago. Sanjoy majumder has been to a refugee camp on the bangladesh Myanmar Border and sent us this report. Exhausted and traumatised after escaping death, many of these rohingyas have walked for hours, across hills and through paddy fields, to avoid being shot before making it here. These are fresh arrivals, rohingyas who have just arrived after crossing the border. And, with every passing hour, there are more and more of them coming. There is absolutely no space left anymore, so they are just living on any piece of open ground that they can find, and many of them have the most disturbin ....