It will be sent to the Children s Reporter the defacto leader of Myanmar Aung Sang Suu She has defended her country s military from accusations that they committed genocide against the Muslim minority she s address the International Court of Justice in The Hague and Holligan reports on the censored she said she understood the definition of genocide but blamed the violence in me and Maher on an entire armed conflict she said the military responded with a clearance operation when range of militants launched attacks on army posts in 2016 she made no reference to the un zest amidst that 10000 wrenches were killed and failed to acknowledge the courtroom accounts of rain just survivors of military firing squads gang rapes and babies thrown into burning buildings the Swedish teenager Gretta through timber cars been named a person of the Year by Time magazine for her campaigning on Climate Change 16 years old she is the youngest ever winner of the honor earlier today she spoke at a un climate
Raffia Lemkin who was a lawyer calling the work and started to try to devise a legal definition to him it was passed as he lost every member of his family except his brother to a Nazi program thanks to Dr lambkins efforts the un established a convention on genocide in 1948 defining it a certain acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national ethnic racial or religious group has been tested regularly ever since most likely this week in The Hague. Starting yesterday Myanmar s leader all sounds Suchi the civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been appearing at the un International Court of Justice to defend her country against accusations that the Burmese military committed genocide against nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 Russians or people who were forced to flee into exile in Bangladesh the case here is against the country of Myanmar rather than anybody in particular and Myanmar stands accused of committing atrocities against the Muslim right and minority while Su
Gartin the u.s. House of Representatives are expected to bring the articles of impeachment to a vote of the full House as early as next week if those does impeach the president and Mr Trump will face a Senate trial in the new year unlike the impeachment of President Nixon these articles go to a house and senate that couldn t be more divided on the issue even a more moderate Republican New York Representative Peter King Tom the process a shameless baseless abuse of congressional power by the Democrats to those in his own ranks who asked why the articles couldn t have waited on testimony from the people closest to President Trump the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff said Congress was compelled to act. We stand here today because the president s continuing abuse of his power has left us no choice to do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president s abuse of his I office the public trust and our national security the president s misconduct is as simple a
Times even on Internet radio they re listening to radio they re listening to streaming music they re listening to podcasts and all sorts of audio that is being distributed via the Internet so whether or not there s a free and open Internet directly impacts our ability to receive the streams and to transmitted and especially radio survivor we care about the small players out there community radio stations college radio stations community podcasters up starts looking to create new networks looking to create new channels and possibly new programs out there that are on the Internet so that maybe it requires less capital than creating a radio station or less time an investment than creating a radio station right that has been sort of how the Internet has helped to foster new media new media forms such as podcasts going to the radio how I want to add to that that really the free and open Internet net neutrality matters the most because the future of community media is certainly online and w
There s explaining why the Central Bank did this thing or that thing with interest rates today though not because fundamentally the incumbent chair in question one Jay Powell didn t say anything new no moving interest rates economy is fine he s not worried about inflation nothing to see here move along status quo status quo however comma now that 200-1000 is in the books monetary policy wise and the Fed has pretty much done a u. Turn from where it was a year ago and what this economy could bear it might be time to ask some hard questions of chair Powell at all Neil Irwin has been asking some of them in his coverage of the economy for the New York Times Neal it s good to talk to you again thanks Kai much as one hates to I suppose think ill of the Federal Reserve is it possible given what has happened this year. And the past couple actually that maybe the Fed has just been wrong for a while now I mean it s not just possible it s it s there almost ignoring it they re almost acknowledging