How the story has moved on since i can 979 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 178. 00 however the p. D. P. Radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahideen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against russian backed government forces. It was the beginning of 4 decades of violence and unrest for that troubled country back in 2009 aljazeera sports presenter Andy Richardson discovered that the turbulence of those early years had had a surprising side effect here is proud to be an afghan. Co white isnt the most obvious of places for any cricketing story t
Sustainability inequality and Climate Change what will it take to redesign todays business todays economic models in order to provide for that sort of long term value and ultimately a more sustainable and a more Inclusive Society to discuss we have a very distinguished panel the c. E. O. And chairman of the Management Board and royal d. S. M. Is joining us if i can see this my Senior Advisor to the World Economic forum and also the interim merican Development Bank caroline n. C. And we have the cofounder of byebye plastic bags and also one of the cochairs at this years summit lotty wise and we have the Prime Minister of stand up joining us from there alan tatham thank you so much to all of you for being here today and please lets give our panel a very warm welcome thank you and mike id like to begin with you because you have a company youre helping to run a company that wasnt always sustainable youve been around for more than a century you started lining to chemicals now you are a lead
The actions of the donald Trump Presidency revealed dishonorable fa cts presidency revealed dishonorable facts of the present ands betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of oui of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security. With these guys are doing, democrats, are doing to this country isa democrats, are doing to this country is a disgrace and it should not be allowed. There should be a way of stopping it. Former president of france, Jacques Chirac dies at the age of 86. Emmanuel macron calls him great frenchman who embodied france minimum pricing in scotland leads to a fall in the amount in tribute to the former mayor of paris. The Sir David Attenborough is officially named at a ceremony in birkenhead the uks newest Polar Research ship otherwise known as Boaty Mcboatface. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The Prime Minister says tempers need to calm down in parliament after the torrid scenes in the commons last night. Borisjohnson says he totally deplores
Of a cover up, over damning details of phone calls with the president of ukraine. Theres been another drop in the number of parents taking up routine vaccinations for under fives, in england. Gunfire. Libyas capital is under fire. The embattled government is facing a rebel offensive which threatens to destablize the region even further. And at 11 30, well be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers Anna Mikhailova from the telegraph and Polly Mackenzie from the think tank demos. Good evening. Borisjohnson says tempers need to calm down in parliament, after torrid scenes in the commons last night. Several mps say theyve received Death Threats, and partially blame mrjohnsons words on brexit, for fuelling extremist behaviour. The Prime Minister says he totally deplores any threats to anybody, particularly female mps, but has refused to apologise for his use of language. The speaker of the commons, john bercow, described the culture within the chamber as toxic, and said it was
Sustainability inequality and Climate Change what will it take to redesign todays business todays economic models in order to provide for that sort of long term value and ultimately a more sustainable and a more Inclusive Society to discuss we have a very distinguished panel the c. E. O. And chairman of the Management Board of royal d. S. M. Is joining us fica cbus mom Senior Advisor to the World Economic forum and also the interim merican Development Bank caroline n. C. And we have the cofounder of byebye plastic bags and also one of the cochairs at this years summit mati whys that. And we have the Prime Minister of sand lucia joining us from there alan tasm thank you so much to all of you for being here today and please lets give our panel a very warm welcome thank you and 5 id like to begin with you because you have a company you are helping to run a company that was not always sustainable youve been around for more than a century you started lining that went to chemicals now you ar