the release includes infamous former defence contractor leonard glenn francis known as fat leonard. he s at the center of one of the us navy s largest corruption cases. in exchange the us has freed alex saab, an aide and top ally to venezuela s president nicolas maduro, accused of laundering money on behalf of the maduro government, which he denies. mr maduro is also releasing 20 venezuelan political prisoners. it s all part of the biden administration s efforts to improve relations with venezuela, and push mr maduro to hold fair elections next year. earlier, i spoke with our reporter mimi swaby about the deal. president byers was emphasising that this was all about encouraging venezuela to hold free and fair elections. how much leveraged you think the biden administration has in that regard? this is yet another sign of significant flowing between relations between the us and venezuela after months of really high level negotiations. this comes as biden is grappling with a
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor
ukraine s president calls the move historic . tonight with the context, former senior advisor to george w bush, ron christie. and former advisor to hillary clinton, amanda renteria. the us supreme court has upheld the right of americans to carry guns in public, striking down a century old restrictions in new york that limited the ability of people to carry weapons. the legislation required residents to prove they had proper cause to have a concealed handgun. the judges ruled that it violated the constitutional right to bear arms. the governor of new york state kathy hochul described the ruling as outrageous. this decision isn tjust reckless, it s reprehensible. it s not what new yorkers want. and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state. the federal government will not have sweeping laws to protect us, then our states and our governors have a moral responsibility to do what we can, and have laws to protect our ci
nra, and two gun owners in upstate new york challenging this new york law because they weren t able to get that special permit that was necessary to carry and public a concealed handgun. what we have here is the conservative court saying that the second amendment, along with the 1ath amendment, does protect citizens s rights to bear arm in public. fearing the outcome would not be in their favour, arm in public. fearing the outcome would not be in theirfavour, and so the immediate concern now is that this will lead to more guns in the street of new york as we see a spike in guns and ownership. so a real concern for officials who are now really going with a sense of purpose to figure out what other laws they can put in place. to figure out what other laws they can put in place- to figure out what other laws they can put in place. lysychansk, thank ou so can put in place. lysychansk, thank you so much- can put in place. lysychansk, thank you so much. we can put in place. lysychansk,
2008, and that the second amendment is about individuals and not government authority doesn t make any sense. every time that people acted on their own, like the michigan militia, george washington orjohn adams sent in the real militia to crush them. so i think what your guest is reflecting is a set of myths, that cloud our understanding of the history of the second amendment. unfortunately, the justices on the supreme court, none of whom have any serious training in history, simply are ignorant about the basic facts of american history. it s very clear that the law in new york was based on a law enacted in the era of the 1ath amendment, which makes it absolutely in the scope of the second amendment, and in fact millions of americans lived under laws very similar to the law in new york during the era of the 1ath