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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Outside Source 20240709

also in the programme: we report from yemen as the war reaches a turning point. houthi rebels are gaining ground in the seven year conflict a war that s caused shocking levels of suffering and forced many into makeshift desert camps. the people here are suffering because of the fault lines that run right through the middle east. and barbados has spent its first day as a republic with a president not the queen as its head of state. we ll be live from the capital. there s evidence the omicron variant of covid was present in europe days before international travel restrictions were introduced and before it was first reported by south africa. a lot to show you on the pandemic. let s start with bbc health correspondent laura foster. we had thought that the first cases came to the netherlands over the weekend, but it now transpires that there were two test samples between the 19th and the 23rd. why am i telling you those dates? that s because south africa reported its finding

Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240709

on the eastern most island in the caribbean, this older woman, who you might recognize, will no longer be the head of state. as of the stroke of midnight tonight, queen elizabeth will no longer be, among her other titles, the queen of barbados, as of tonight at midnight, there will no longer be a head of barbados. there will be a president. she s on the right side of your screen. her name is dame sandra mason. she s currently the governor general. that means she s been the top representative of the queen there, but tonight that job goes away. barbados will cease of a king or queen for that matter. it will become tonight a republic, an independent republic with a president and a prime minster. it will no longer be a monarchy. and i should mention, this is a friendly transition. prince charles, who is next in line for the british throne when his mother s reign is over, prince charles is there tonight in barbados for the ceremony that will mark the transition. barbados will keep

Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240709

no longer be, among her other titles, the queen of barbados. as of tonight, midnight, there will no longer be a queen of barbados. we will have a new head of state in that country. she will be the first ever president of barbados. she is here on the right side of your queen. her name is sandra mason. sandra mason is currently the governor general of barbados, that technically means she s been the top representative of the queen. but tonight, that job goes away, barbados will cease to have a queen, or a king for that matter, it will become as of tonight, a republican independent with the president and a prime minister, it will no longer be a monarchy. and, i should message, this is a friendly transition. prince charles, who is next in line for the british throne, when his mother s rain is, over he will be in there in barbados. for the ceremony that will mark the transition. barbados will keep its name, its flag and its dollar and its national anthem. there will be some changes

Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240709

independent republic with a president and a prime minister. it will no longer be a monarchy. and i should mention this is a friendly transition. prince charles who is next in line for the british throne when his mother s reign is over, prince charles is there? barbados for the ceremony that will mark the tradition. barbados will keep its name and its flag and its dollar and its national anthem. there will be some changes right away. right now there are police forces called the royal barbados police force. that will change. they will be the barbados police service. they became a colony of the british empire 394 years ago, in 1627. barbados is where they solidified the sugar plantation model where slaves worked to death at an inhumanly unfathomable pace. the life expectancy of people enslaved to work on those plantations was 18 years. 18 jeers not the length of time they spent working on the plantations. was the average length of their life, period, under that form of slavery

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