The Los Angeles River might only know it is the scene of the big chase in the film Terminator choose in which on each falls and I go rides along its sloping concrete channel at a racing speed on his motorbike. Baby indeed many Angelenos didn t even know the city had a river but that s all changing not only here in Los Angeles where the architect Frank Gehry is creating a river master plan but in cities around the world the regeneration of rivers is a hot topic. This is the compass on the b.b.c. World Service I m seriously mulling man in this pair of programs a tale of 2 rivers I m going to report on chewing will show ways that are on opposite sides of the globe but which have a surprising amount in common with clang revoke the runs through Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and here firstly Today the Los Angeles River in California I think it s the subject of Los Angeles at the moment because it s a way to talk about real estate development and Judge vacation it s a way to talk about water poli
The former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez to Kitchener will run for a seat in the country s Senate in actions in October despite facing multiple corruption charges his Leonarda Rochelle Cristina Fernandez is returning to frontline politics less than 2 years after stay down as president has become a fierce critic of her successor multi-cell Markley and his business friendly policies despite facing 3 separate trials for corruption and war for financial mismanagement during her 80 years in office she remains popular with many a vis politically divided nation thousands of people attended the launch of her new party Citizens Union on Tuesday but critics say have a main motivation in October s election is to seek immunity as senators in audience you know cannot be sent to prison the authorities in Colombia say they ve arrested 8 people they suspect of involvement in an explosion of the shopping center in Baghdad time last week the prosecutor s office said those arrested were mem
In Tommy in this half hour more violence in the Syrian reaction to a presidential morality crusade in Burundi and a move to solve the mystery of Israel s missing children. This time yesterday we were telling you about the peace deal signed in writing which aimed to bring an end to the violence between Christians and Muslim militias in the Central African Republic Well any hopes some may have had about a ceasefire was short lived no sooner had the agreement being signed the reports came through of yet another outbreak of violence flashpoint this time a small town northeast of the capital boggy fighting between rival factions set of left more than 40 people dead I got the latest from the B.B.C. s Max and a room in bog. Circular according to the testimonies of residents clashes started early in the morning on Tuesday between 2 rival rebel groups the anti Baloch a faction and the former Seleka fighters residents said that the clashes were violent and as the gun battle got closer all those
The 25 hour young people who love the walking study and creating can feel very different culprits this is the campus a young world. Attention is hardly the audience s watching and. The singular who s trying to have long hair really Tiffany is trying to make her mark she knows that a lot depends on health reform tonight her future possible. I want to be famous I hope all of people love my voice. Really now to stick in everything in a televised competition hoping that the judges will praise her and the audience will. This is a talent show a bit like American Idol 2 of the 10 remaining contestants will get knocked out tonight hopefully not this one. But. The show s coming from a place where normally we hear more about conflict than pop music this is Ramallah in the West Bank I m Deborah him and my homeland has one of the youngest populations in the Middle East in this edition of the calm past a young world here on the b.b.c. World Service I ll be finding out how we young people in the We
You re flying as normal and the next minute not so good Fortunately this all started at 12000 feet so we have plenty of time to panic tales of daring escape that leave me asking with my ejector seat that s crowd science with me money Chesterton after the nice B.B.C. News with Mick Kelly the South Korean military says North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile thought to be a ballistic missile it s said to have flown about 700 kilometers the Japanese government said it came down in the Sea of Japan South Korea s new president moon in is reported to have convened an urgent meeting of his National Security Council computer security experts are continuing their efforts to reduce the impact of the vast cyber attack that spread rapidly worldwide on Friday more than 120000 systems in about 100 countries are estimated to have been infected government ministries banks and hospitals were among them President Trump has said the replacement for the sacked F.B.I. Director could be announc