Municipality . One of my biggest dilemmas was administered being forced to pass students. I experienced that. I received a passing grade in the minister said we need to pastor, i dont know if those the pressure. Also as far as elected officials, giving them instead of treating the kennedy as victims, addressing the community and the same these students, two parent family, these are the statistics of people whether they have a religious background or whatever. Is there any way they think changing that mentality, the administers in the Education System or the elected officials . One thing i have to say, i told them before, dr. Williams is probably my biggest inspiration im going back and getting my degree in high school. Thank you very much. I think one of the problems is that we cant get rid of students whose minds are alien and hostile to the education process. That is, we have to have a mechanism where we can stop the students from anything with the education of others. There have bee
The democratic republic of congos symphony orchestra. Another decisive day. Lechester draw closer to the title. Turkeys decision to seize control of the countrys largest newspaper and reopen it under state control as been met with criticism from within and throughout the country. Police used tear gas and plastic bullets to Disperse Protesters gathered in support of the paper aligned to a u. S. Based cleric accuse offed of treason. Extremely worried about the incident, sayingtie niece to respect press freedom. Its not the first instance of the government using a heavy hand with the media. The committee to protect journalists is accusing turkey of being one of the worst for journalism worldwide. Since the early 1990s, the cpj says at least 23 have been killed. Representatives from turkeks ruling party say many of those in prison arent there for reporting but because they are accused of what they call terrorism charges. Caroline malone now reports. Police used tear gas and plastic bullets
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That topic. Im pivot to some questions from the audience. Late tors rai that topic. Im pivot to some questions from the audience. They touch on some of the things that i wanted to talk about with respect to access and some of the state level changes in the last legislative session, not the most recently ended. And two of the questions go to the question of the registration process and asks why dont we look at the process of registration which is where the problem begins which is again one of the post2011 efforts that the state enacted with respect to attempting to clean up the Voter Registration process or at least third party which was subsequently halted. Id like to touch on that in just a second. And then another which raises the question about low voter turnout. This kngoes back to long waits lines or at least in some accepts implicated by long waits with respect to how easy ordinary citizens take citizens. So lets talk about the vote registration reforms enacted in 2011 and again