Is Many Americans lost confidence in what the government told them about our policy. Americans should not be asked to support a policy that involves overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy. Tonight, therefore, i would like to answer some of the questions that i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me. How and why did america get involved in vietnam in the first place . How has this administration changed the policy of the Previous Administration . What has really happened on negotiations in paris and on the battle front in vietnam . What choices do we have if we are to end the war . What are the prospects for peace . Now, let me begin by describing a situation i have found when i was inaugurated on january 20. The war had been going on for four years. 31,000 americans had been killed in action. The Training Program for the South Vietnam people. No progress had been made at the negotiations in paris and the United States had not put f
About vietnam is that Many Americans have lost confidence in what their government has told them about our policy. The American People cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy. Tonight, therefore, i would like to answer some of the questions that i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me. How and why did america get involved in vietnam in the first place . How has this administration changed the policy of the Previous Administration . What has really happened in the negotiations in paris and on the battlefront in vietnam . What choices do we have if we are to end the war . What are the prospects for peace . Now, let me begin by describing the situation i found when i was inaugurated on january 20. The war had been going on for four years. 31,000 americans had been killed in action. The Training Program for the South Vietnamese was behind schedule. 540,000 americans
2017 hour we know bombing as far viber see councillors as to whether it could have been prevented. The European Union has condemned bellos government for what it calls repression of the people following the disappearance of 3 opposition activists kolesnik over who spoke in that many major rallies is missing after being taken away in a van by unidentified people shes been a Campaign Manager for opposition politicians and vocal supporter of svetlana to kind of sky up whos now in exile in lithuania. This is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that to be conceded the actions of the authorities in belarus unacceptable we are deeply concerned about the continued repression and intimidation of the population by unexplained our wrists very often arbitrarily our wrists our wrists of our us which are motivated politically this is unacceptable be call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be deterred to be released i
Accuse a leading pharmacy chain of posting racist advertisements. Hello saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist john g. In turkey last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but that has been cut to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years the court has also declared the case closed he was murdered by a saudi hit seen inside its stumble consulate in 2018 his fiance has called the decision a farce saudi arabia has refused all calls for the men to go on trial in turkey and in a series of tweets the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings agnes calabar said these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that. Prince mohammed bin sandman remains well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdict cant be allowed to whitewash what happened in jail sean is the executive director of the Arab Center Washington d. C. He says th
Again im peter w. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raising more concerns about Domestic Violence during the coronavirus pandemic. And 75 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 19 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. Lebanons government has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut giving the military full powers a day after a massive explosion devastated large areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300000 have been left without a home officials are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium i. Trait which they say were kept in unsafe conditions at the port from beirut zina holder reports. The people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday hi