Have british manager, welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back into the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying
The name is Eddie Michael jr. Youre welcome to the program. The theme for this . Well, aids day is ending the h. L. V. Aids epidemic resilience and impact. Now while theres been great progress in tackling the virus and reasons, yes, the global aids hiv epidemic is far from over, especially in africa. South africa is a country where one in 5 people are living with the virus. Our correspondents, reports from cape town, you know, almost 2 decades. The Nonprofit Organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. Like here in the cape town township of delft. To 2 years ago, luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult to, an accident, left her unable to work out a whole problems followed. And then she became infected with hiv. But my family didnt want to have anything to do with me after my h. I. V. Diagnosis. They cut off contact. And even now if my neighbors knew that i have a chevy, they would only say hi from a distance. Th
I mean for the last time German Police have now confirmed that 5 people have been killed after a car plowed through a process train zone in the western city of tia. And 9 month old baby is among the dead. Several other people are seriously injured. The driver, a local man is in custody. A police havent yet been able to say what prompted him to carry out the attack. Investigators are hard at work. Im acting halfords. Earlier the suspects vehicle was taken away. True, here is a city in shock. That hastened our sorts are with the victims next of kin who have to mourn the death of a loved one. People whose lives were extinguished from one second to the next by such a heinous crime. Among them as a baby, a truly horrific thought. The parents would have to mourn the death of their child. Its just terrible. As i thought, besides the child police say 4 others were killed when the 51 year old local man drove an s. U. V. For around one kilometer through the center of tree or hitting people at ra
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This book the anatomy of blackness, sites of slavery in the age of the leather. And then came last year the much diderot and the art of thinking freely which is now in paperback and im holding it up. Its a beautiful cover. Andrew, how did you go from, im curious about the through lines of the three books. How did it start with the first book which is about an intellectual history of monstrosity in literature and ideas which have a lot to do with bitter row, to what the enlightenment figures thought about race and onto the third book diderot and the art of thinking freely . First, thanks, jim pick a truly great to be here today. I have always been attracted to which my call intellectual history, tracked down an idea over time, both of the affects people and the people are affected by the idea. So very quickly about this first book, how to monstrosity was incredibly important for people of the 17th and 18th century because it was this hotly contested topic. Was god responsible for human