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Test yourself on the week of July 15: Panama’s former president is sentenced, tensions escalate in the Korean Peninsula, and Yevgeny Prigozhin rallies his troops.

In Opa-locka, Florida, an exhibition of Withers’s civil rights images demonstrates that the Black history the state is trying to erase is indisputable and factual.

Massively, like a huge security blanket right across the key flash points. >> and nic, i guess alleged police brutality and systemic racism, they are not unique to the united states. and the death of this teenager has sparked these recent protests. but there have been concerns, right, before about racism within the police ranks there? >> reporter: yeah, i think when you hear from the secretary general of the united nations come out so quickly and say that the french police need to address a raci...

Were afraid these potential flash points could have become very bloody. in the early hours of today we heard that the chechen leader, that his special forces were pulling out of rostov-on-don and hes a clear, powerful pillar behind putin. he spent his special forces into rostov-on-don. imagine if the elite chechen forces had gone up against prigozhins battle-hardened fighters. the overspill and potential for civilian cash utiualties are hu. yet you hear comments from people in moscow who felt th...

When a chinese spy balloon crossed into us airspace and president biden ordered it shot down. the relationship getting worse from there as xi strengthens his bond with russias vladimir putin and a series of flash points erupt in the south china see around taiwan. a chinese destroyer coming with 150 yards of a us warship in international waters -- a chinese fighter jet streaking near a us military plane, a move the pentagon called dangerous and unnecessary. direct military to military communicati...

Carolina i sold south carolina to every one. i will sell to japan, south korea, israel. >> you mentioned taiwan earlier about ukraine and russia, and its one of the biggest flash points in the u.s./china relationship. president biden repeatedly said u.s. forces would defend taiwan if china invades. would you make that same commitment? >> hes looking at this the wrong way. its about preventing war. what would prevent china from go into taiwan in the first place. there are two things china and rus...

Deciphering Moscow’s domestic politics.

Its white, male republicans in rural areas. thats a core part of the republican base. do you think that theres a connection between those two things? >> i think there is a lot of misinformation around this whole issue around gun safety. the fact of the matter is, this year, we have seen mass shootings in 38 states. in the district of columbia. those are red states and blue states and rural communities. and urban centers. but weve seen mass shootings that create these kinds of flash points, but e...

Those are red states and blue states and rural communities. and urban centers. but weve seen mass shootings that create these kinds of flash points, but every single day in urban areas, black and brown communities, witness a kind of carnage which, if you cumulatively, it is a mass shooting. every single day. so, what weve got a, do we have to close ranks. weve got to remember the covenant we have with one another. and if we cant keep our own children safe, what in the world are we doing? what im...

Banned from the house floor. plus, new nbc news polling on the cultural flash points gripping the country steve kornacki is at his big board with new numbers showing were just as polarized as ever. and flood fears, homes submerged from wisconsin to iowa, with some waters six feet above flood levels and still rising were in the flood zone. and then later, new video of brittney griner back on the court as were set to hear from her this afternoon youre watching "ana cabrera reports. were back...