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We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move that could be the start of a truly Seismic Shift in federal drug policy. In...

Antigay raws in russia is justifiably growing. How much is at stake coming. We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move...

Prince harry has expressed Great Sadness at his decision to step back from his royal duties but said he felt there was no other option. In his first Public Comments on the matter the duke said the move followed months of talks and years of challenges. Violent demonstrations in the lebanese capital beirut have ended after Security Forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against stone throwing Anti Government protesters. Unusually heavy rain also helped drive people off the streets near the parlia...

There have been heavy downpours in queensland, victoria and new south wales. Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week in difficult days, and with more to come, irans Supreme Leader invokes gods help. But how much will that help . It was a perfect phone call, protested the us president in an all caps tweet as his trial began. But his more significant move to drown out the impeachment story was to sign a trade deal with china. We assess b...

To drown out the impeachment story was to sign a trade deal with china. We assess both the trial and the trade deal. And its now life or death for the planet says a famous natural historian but will his Climate Change warning shift the political dial where others have failed . My guests this week greg katz of Us News Agency associated press, italian film maker annalisa piras, iranian writer amirtaheri, and ned temko of the observer. Welcome to all of you. So, with god on our side we slap the fac...

World leaders meet in berlin to try to bring to an end nearly nine years of fighting in libya. Back with you at 5pm. Now on bbc news its time for dateline london with carrie gracie. Hello, welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week in difficult days, and with more to come, irans Supreme Leader invokes gods help. But how much will that help . It was a perfect phone call, protested the us president in an all caps tweet as his trial began. But his more significant move to drown out the...

And i will have further such meetings later today. And the information, the guidance we have been given i would like to associate myself today im sure will be contradictory with the thanks from the prime to what we were given yesterday, minister to all of those helping in so i had to make a decision the aftermath of the storms. It has and i put the welfare and the health brought record high water levels in of our children first. Nearly 200,000 patients in england the river severn on the river tr...

Framing his Campaign Around climate issue. He says this is the 11th hour to solve the problem and if elected hell make Climate Change the number one priority of the United States. Tonight governor inslee will take questions from democrats and independents who say they plan to participate in the democratic primaries and caucuses. Please welcome governor jay inslee. Thank you, i appreciate it, thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, thank you. Please be seated. Govern governor inslee weve got ...

Yesterday it turned out they had even made spelling error on the tombstone of the general. So they have to change the arabic they wrote, iranians dont speak arabic. So they have to change that, too. And during fridays prayers, we saw, you can still see it on the internet, the president leaving the assembly before the ayatollah even gets up from his prayers, talking to god and so on. Suddenly you see the president getting up and walking away. Was it in protest . Did he get bored like the other ir...

What it has already done is devastating. The bahamas this morning as the sun comes up there, only now are they beginning to truly understand how much damage was done. Only over the last 12 to 20 hours have they been able to get out and see some of the places, towns wiped off those islands nearly completely. There is so much need and there is so much hope that today will be the day finally that more Government Resources can be brought to bear and get to the people who are in need. Friends have be...