Briefly allow screenings of a film exploring lesbian love this in a country where homosexuality can be punished with prison time. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us we begin in iran where dozens of people are dead and many more wounded after a gunman at tact a military parade in the countrys southwest several militants opened fire on the crowds marking Iranian Military history it happened in a city near irans border with iraq both separatists and the socalled Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack irans government has promised a crushing response to the incident. Members of irans elite forces taking cover dignitaries and civilians fleeing for their lives as gunmen opened fire on a military parade and. The soldiers were marching in one of the countrywide annual parades marking the start of irans eight year war with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. When the shooting started. We suddenly realized that some armed people wearing fake military uniform
Says biggest foreign visit to blitz italys riata coastline that storm injures some 20 people causes damage to buildings during the peak proceeds. And their sports stream lives on madagascar are in football fever as its National Team prepares for the quarter finals of the african cup of nations. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us for the next 6 months the European Union will be putting Climate Change at the top of its agenda finland has just assumed the blocks 6 month rotating presidency in the finnish Prime Minister says the e. U. Should provide Global Leadership on the issue he says its important to take seriously the demands of europes young people. 16 year old. Spent many fridays traveling 2 hours each way to protest at the finish Parliament Holding signs pleading for Climate Action the climate itself wasnt too cooperative as he stood there through the winter its really horrible in front of the its all over the end it will be raining or snow or ice most of politicians jus
a symbol. the madness of russia s war of aggression. also coming up with months of uncertainty are over for one ukranian woman and her baby after soldier, husband returned and a prisoner, a swap exchanged. but she says the government could have done more to help her at least 14 people are left dead after california is hit by floods and mud slides. and the entire seaside community of monte seato is told to evacuate and humanitarian workers on trial, and greece faced charges of espionage and forgery. they could spend years behind bars, the activists say they were only trying to save the lives of migrants crossing the mediterranean. ah, article further so much for joining us. german foreign minister and alina babel has made a surprise visit to the northeastern ukrainian city of car keith, not far from the front lines. babcock held talks with her ukrainian counterpart and toward several critical infrastructure sites, including a power station and a children s hospital. ukraine s
responding to how the eu is now working on its third sanction package in one week and she was talking today about targeting russia s ability to fund its military action in ukraine and she was saying that there is now an agreement among all european union member states, remember, some of them are lagging on the idea of ejecting russia from swift, the international financial transaction network, particularly italy, germany, hungary, these are countries with close ties with russia. business ties and relying on gas supplies but everybody, said ursula, is agreed to target russia s banks through swift and focus on russia s central bank, making it difficult to get money from the globalfinancial difficult to get money from the global financial markets, difficult to get money from the globalfinancial markets, not global financial markets, not just globalfinancial markets, not just european financial markets and capital markets as well. also, she said, the eu would be
warned. we will stop putin from using his war chest. we will paralyse the assets of russia s central bank. this will freeze its transactions and will make it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets. and, finally, we will work to prohibit russian oligarchs from using their financial asset on our markets. all of these measures will significantly harm putin s ability to finance his work. the eu, which does not have a reputation for acting swiftly in normal times, reputation for acting swiftly in normaltimes, made reputation for acting swiftly in normal times, made up of 27 individual countries, but the aggression of russia in ukraine is definitely focusing minds here. so ursula fonda line was