Does nothing to protect civilians thousands of people are fleeing the violence there from our correspondent on the turkey syria for her. To meet the people of alice say never again german prosecutors announced that the suspect in wednesdays gun attack could fast she is also admitted to having a right to a extremist and antisemitic motives. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us if the opium Prime Minister that has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 for his work to resolve the border conflict with neighboring eritrea ahmed was up against around 300. 00 nominees he was praised for his efforts to achieve peace and International Cooperation since being elected Prime Minister and early 2018 the. No weekend Nobel Committee made the announcement in austin and earlier this week nobel prizes in the fields of medicine physics chemistry and literature were also awarded level and for more on this story we have a lot of hope with us in studio hi tammy thanks for joining us and thi
If we get a currency pact, maybe we see a weaker dollar. Time now for global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to london to washington, this mornings top stories. We start off with china. After decades of waiting, china is setting out a timetable to remove its Foreign Ownership cap on financial firms. On the phone from hong kong is bloombergs enda curran. What does this actually mean . To wind is a roadmap they can fully take over their operation in china. Theyve been pushing for this for years. It will begin next year. Its just the latest step on chinas part to attract more foreign capital into its Financial Markets, to buy more stocks and bonds, and that is a good thing for their companies. The timing is hardly coming to dental, coming in the background is hardly coincidental, coming in the background of trade talks. It remains to be seen whether and how quickly these approvals are granted to foreign firms. Alix now i want to t
How does the Nobel Committee pick decide who is the most qualified person to receive the prize. This is a very secretive process so we dont really know we know that there were over 300 nominations this year for the Nobel Peace Prize but they dont make those public for 50 years clearly a lot of the money at the bookmakers have been on gretta dont bug and her. The way shes resonated on the climate issue in the last year and climate hasnt been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for some years that is sometimes one of the things they do they focus on a specific area that needs the worlds attention for example last year it was Sexual Violence in conflict with dennis macwhich of the congolese dr no idea. The campaign or other years they look at International Organizations and weve had organizations like the e. U. For example given the Nobel Peace Prize in the past what i think weve seen see here is something that weve also seen a pattern of which is a development an Important Development in terms
European union chief negotiator michele has been told to seek deal with the u. K. After talks between the british and irish Prime Minister. The 27 year old confesses to wednesdays attack against a synagogue and says he planned a massacre 2 days later the us still coming to terms with the. Welcome to the program. U. S. Defense department has to warn turkey that its incursion into syria could jeopardize the fight against socalled Islamic State the pentagon says it opposes what he says described as turkeys uncoordinated actions and hes calling on his nato ally to end the operation day 3 of the offensive for seeing thousands of people flee you have the operations also raising fears of an Islamic State comeback as kurdish led forces in the region say they can detain i as prisoners and hold back the turkish incursion at the same time. A funeral for a baby boy. Mourners in turkey said goodbye to the 9 month old syrian baby killed in cross border shelling. As the fighting intensifies in syria
In 2015, she was sexually assaulted by a member of the Stanford University swim team, brock turner. He was later sentenced to just six months in jail sparking nationwide outrage in the recall of the judge. The text of her victim impact statement was read by millions around the world. Today Chanel Miller will join us to talk about her remarkable new memoir titled know my name. In court was so stripped of identity. You dont have any. You dont have characteristic traits. Your spoken about in terms of being a some of your body parts and really nothing more than that. So coming forward is my way of saying, i have a history. I have people that love me and i also have talent in writing. Amy today, Chanel Miller for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In northern syria, dozens have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes amid the Turkish Military offensive against kurdishcontrolled areas