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African homes are plunged into darkness for hours on end every day as the countries electricity crisis lessons. But why is the power great crumbling in this african power house . Plus, after 7 months at home, students in nigeria demand the reopening of their universities. But the lecturers and the government remain at odds. And we visit a doctor and uganda who even after losing his sight to an eye infection has never given up the blind g. B, still driven by the passion for his profession. Ah, im...

Iran poses no threat to the world. Thats one of the points the countrys new president made during his speech. His appearance before the un General Assembly, Hassan Rouhani also responded to president obamas willingness to reach out to iran. I listened carefully to the statement made by president obama today at the General Assembly. Commensurate with the political will of the leadership in the United States, and hoping that they will refrain from following the shortsided interests of warmongering...

End debate after his overnight speaking marathon. Here are the senators concluding thoughts from the senate floor reedit voting to give the power to majority leader i would suggest is not consistent with what i believe the heartfelt commitment of all 46 members of this conference to oppose obamacare. The only path is to stand together and i would ask my friends to listen. Lou well, they did. We will be talking about what House Republicans are likely to do next. U. S. Investigators sifting throug...

End debate after his overnight speaking marathon. Here are the senators concluding thoughts from the senate floor reedit voting to give the power to majority leader i would suggest is not consistent with what i believe the heartfelt commitment of all 46 members of this conference to oppose obamacare. The only path is to stand together and i would ask my friends to listen. Lou well, they did. We will be talking about what House Republicans are likely to do next. U. S. Investigators sifting throug...

Japanese officials are shoring up their computer defenses as hackers go after top secrets. People who hoped to see the president s of the u. S. And iran meet at the u. N. General assembly this week have been disappointed. The muchtalked about encounter between president obama and rouhani failed to materialize. However, the two countries are maintaining their momentum. Their Foreign Ministers are due to meet on thursday for the first time in six years. A highranking u. S. Official has revealed th...

Holding a vigil to remember one of the students killed in the deadly rampage near santa barbara. The 20yearold who went by the name of david was one of three room mates stabbed to death by elliot rodger. Tonights vigil starts at 5 00 in free mont. Plus, a stanford professor was arrested earlier this week after tsa agents found a grenade on his carryon luggage. He was gathering family mementos and heirlooms and didnt realize he left the grenade in his luggage. The lapd bomb squad removed the gren...

Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week for many countries, the emergency phase of the covid pandemic is coming to a close. So is this a moment for governments which failed the test of that first phase to redeem themselves . Who has a smart plan for the long hard recovery that begins now . My guests on socially distanced screens Stephanie Baker of Bloomberg News and iain martin of the times. Welcome to both of you. And here in the studio, observing the two metre rule, j...

[ gunshots ] this is just a little bit of this. Were still receiving, its streaming in to us now. You can hear the gunfire, and we cant tell you exactly when this was taken. Because remember, this started more than 24 hours ago. This might have been closer to the beginning of the of the whole thing playing out. People werent quite sure, as you could see from that video, that one woman yelling george, not quite sure whats happening. Well certainly now, they know. As many as 69 people are dead. Am...

Place in the modern world. Its up to the world to enforce that truth. Our Global Affairs correspondent is in cairo for us right now. Is that enough that the arab leaders agree fundamentally with u. S. Plans to dry isis, or is john kerry asking for action for troops, bases, military resources . Reporter well, hes going to be asking for all that, randy. I think the western nations, maybe some of europe and elsewhere will be doing the bulk of the military action. I think its true that the arab nati...

Im Becky Anderson in abu dha dhabi. Well take a look at what else is being done and said around this region. And we begin this hour with the latest round of air strikes on isis in syria. This time taking aim at the militants Lucrative Oil operation. It was joined by saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates in hitting a dozen key targets in Eastern Syria. Saudi and uae forces taking most of the work and conducting most of those air strikes, damage assessments still under way at this hour but the...