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Across the capital of ghana in west africa. Linda is a young gunny woman who dreams of starting her own business. Here. She wants to open a hair salon, but it wont be easy. Some of the money she needs to get going will come from her family who live in germany. Lindas step father is one of the many africans who transfer money back to their home countries each month, globally, these so called remittance payments total around 600000000000. 00 every year. Thats more than all Development Aid combined...

He seems like a really smart guy, a really great guy im sure andy ernst i can say about him he earns, you know, sort of my job was to ask tough questions on behalf of see, they have 107 lobbyists on capitol hill. They are swarming capitol hill their lobbyists. But ive got 100000 i had 100,000 people, more than 1000 people write me their objections. And so the first thing i would do is stop this deal. I would not let this go through if i were its not up to me. Senator franken weighs in on the pro...

F the city made a conscious decision that beyond the sale of the aforementioned parcel to the Redevelopment Agency i see, my notes are in a different order than the slides. I apologize. Let me go back. All right. I apologize. My notes are stapled in the wrong order here. Let me address this slide here. The city made a conscious decision that beyond the sale of the first parcels to the Redevelopment Agency it would wait to sell the larger parcels until the market octavia Community Planning proces...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Pfizers vaccine has been approved by regulators for use in the uk and could be rolled out across the country next week. Well start with the most elderly, and with people in care homes, and of course their carers, to make sure that others dont catch it. The uk expects to have millions of doses of the Pfizer Vaccine against covid 19 available by the end of the year, and the first 800,000 coming next week. Englan...

A very warm welcome to the programme. China has passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over hong kong, deepening fears for the citys freedoms. Last month china announced it would impose the law, which criminalises any act of secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces. The move comes after angry protests last year sparked by another law which became a Pro Democracy Movement. Theres been strong condemnation of the new law by the us and britain who fear the ...

This mother picked occupy her daughters belongings today and has no attention of letting her child return to Kiddy Academy because Police Arrested Deborah Gratz on felony child endangerment charges. They say she put sominex in the sippy cup of several children. This mom who asked that we not use her name is frustrated. She said the academy didnt tell her until tuesday. We needed to make sure my daughter is okay because safety is the most important thing and whether or not it was ever ingested. I...

Channel alhurra. A female suspect traveling in her car with a child tried to breach a white house barrier and later was almost stopped near the capitol. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa get this, get this. I am. I am. [ gunshots ] holy [ bleep ]. [ speaking Foreign Language ] come down, come down. [ speaking Foreign Language ] heres what we know at this hour. At about 2 18 this afternoon, the female suspect identified as miriam kerry of stanford, connecticut, traveling in a black infinity coupe with...

We take you directly to nairobi kenya. The president of the United States addressing an audience there. Lets listen in. As president i try to keep my promises and i said i was going to come and im here. [ cheers and applause ] and everybody go ahead and have a seat. Im going to be talking for a while. Relax. I want to thank my sister ama for a wonderful introduction. Im so glad that she could be with us here today, and it was as she said it was alma who first guided me through kenya almost 30 ye...

Seven iranian citizens recently released and handed over. We know the group coming out of iran may be headed to switzerland where they could meet with secretary of state john kerry in geneva before flying to the Landstuhl Army base in germany. They then will head back to the u. S. A fifth prisoner Matthew Trevithnick has left iran and seven iranians have been released whose charges have been dismissed as part of the prisoner swap. All seven, we understand, just walked away from a Detention Cente...

For a different outcome, we prefer a different outcome. I imagine many of you here felt the same way. Good afternoon, i am Andrea Mitchell, in washington. It was the shock heard around the world. As britain votes to leaf the European Union. We have it all covered beginning with our correspondence bill neely, how are people responding to the light of day . Reporter stunned. It is political earthquake and it is an economic earthquake that you can see and wall street, the dow jones falling 500 poin...