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Of the ancient games. The gentleman speaking at the moment, the president of the Olympic Committee in greece, he is also a member of the International Committee. You can see the ancient remains of the 2600 year old temple, where this is taking place. What will happen is the flame will be lit and then it will be handed over to the paris 2024 olympic team. The relay will stretch from the acropolis to the south pacific. As you can see, there are hundreds of people at the ceremony and it is the First Time Since the covid 19 pandemic when of course there were toned down events for the tokyo olympics, that spectators are able to attend the Torch Relay Events and this flame Lighting Ceremony. We a ....
Percentage rate because the war hadn t started and inflation was looking at fairly low levels. since then the government has decided that it wants a complete changes to terms and conditions for employees to be a prerequisite before money is discussed. and as we have seen in recent offers, it has locked the two of them together. negotiators until a couple allowed to talk about money with train operating companies until the unions had agreed to a big raft of changes in terms and conditions. some of those can t be delivered for several years so the industry had said to the government, let s get the pay deal sorted and get an agreement that the unions would work with us to reform the way people work. but it seems the government has locked the two together and as long as those two things are locked together, changes to terms then you can talk about money, that will keep the dispute rolling on. is can talk about money, that will keep the dispute rolling on. the dispute rolling on. is the go ....
Senior military officers and other top level officials will be believed to be responsible for the alleged war crimes in bucha will also hit the sanctions list. it s a big raft of sanctions, but there s a lot of talk needed to get it over the line. nic, pope francis, he spoke with the leaders of the russian orthodox church. he told him to not become putin s altar boy. we also know, according to sources that the leader of the russian orthodox church is included in the eu s latest sanctions proposal. why include that figure? reporter: yeah, and there s been heavy pushback from the leadership of the russian orthodox church today as well on both those accounts. the reason being that the perception is and the words of the russian orthodox patriarch have been supportive of president putin, have been supportive of the war, and the pope, like other religious leaders around the world, doesn t mean that another religious leader should be ....
Sanctions will not only have bite on russia but it will mean sacrifice and pain for our european allies and even here in the united states. i think what the administration needs to be signaling is we re willing to do what is necessary to protect the sovereigty of all nations and push back on russian aggression. congressman gene robinson of the washington post is here with a question for you. gene. yeah, congressman, my question is about once again sort of intra party relations. are you getting are you and the moderate democrats whose jobs are very much on the line in the fall, are you getting the kinds of support you believe you need from the speaker, from the progressive caucus in the house and from the dnc? look, the democrat party talk about a big tent. i prefer the metaphor of a big raft. we have room for everybody, but ....
Relationship with the taliban going forward, and i think this echos what the president said, that thus far the taliban are working with us, thus far the president said, but we re now getting to that pinch point where we heard from sam that the taliban aren t allowing afghans to get to the airport because they say that afghan nationals should stay in their country, that the country needs the doctors, needs the engineers, needs the academics. it doesn t want to lose this big raft of intellectuals who ve been helping the coalition who feel that their safety is guaranteed only by leaving the country. so you have this pinch point emerging. british prime minister framed it this way. let me just quote it precisely here. the number one condition we re setting is the g7 is that they, the taliban, have got to guarantee the right-of-way through to the 31st of august and beyond for the safe passage of those who want to come out. so we seem to have a direct confrontation now between the agreed posi ....