Im michael okwu thanks for joining us in bello rues protests against president alexander look at shant go are growing thousands of factory workers have walked off the job as demonstrations against sundays disputed election result continue for 6 day workers from state run plants once the voting base of look at go or downing their tools and joining the protests across the country theyre calling for new elections and an end to the violent crackdown against the opposition. Who is facing the biggest challenge to his rule in years as dismissed the protests as a foreign backed plot. Were now joined from minsk by journalist. Hanna weve been seeing images of protesters in front of Parliament Whats the situation in minsk right now. Well. Some people are protesting right now at me and dont think of the parliament in minsk thats a peaceful protest people are sitting on the ground they are sunni they are clapping they are so there was a situation in the beginning. Again and their best some soldiers
Power also on the program in afghanistan really symbolic taliban prisoners as a precondition for peace talks but the move faces opposition. Im phil gayle welcome to the program crowds reported in the 10s of thousands of taking to the streets of belarus as capital minsk in another display of anger of the Violent Police crackdown against peaceful opposition protesters well sources have now released some of the 7000 people detained by police over the past week a many of them report being beaten and tortured in custody demonstrators have been joined by factory workers once considered loyal to president lukashenko. That. Their defiance is growing. Crowds of protesters are on the streets of minsk for its 6th straight day. There are chants and banners right side the bellows in parliament echoing across the city. And the protests arent limited to the capital and other towns and cities of protesters have come out carrying White Flowers one of the symbols of this push for change. In factories li
Department involving the roger stone case and other doj investigations. This is the first portion of the hearing before the committee took a short recess. You can watch the second portion on cspan. Org. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] without objection the chairs authorized to recess at any time. Political interference threatens independence. Before we begin i would like to remind members we have established an email address distribution list circulating motions or other materials members point might want to offer. If you would like to summit the materials, sent them to the email address distributed to your offices and we will circulate the material as quickly as you can. I remind all members guidance that face coverings are required for all meetings such as committee hearings. Everybody attending this hearing is required to follow this guidance. This is for the health and safety of all of us including our staff and the loved ones we will return to at the end of the day. I expect
And sally you take. While we get lost in all of the pomp and circumstance of u. S. President ial elections and fears of a virus pandemic i want to solve remember that one of the most important aspects of these 2 major stories is the reporting that has brought them to our doorsteps and newsfeeds. Its journalism the 4th the state that gives us the ability to question candidates seeking Public Office and hold officials accountable for their actions in times of crisis and that for the state has been under attack for quite some time not only from its own internal greedy thirst for higher readerships and the advertising dollars but also externally by governments individuals and corporations seeking to control the narrative and this external threat was on full display recently in southeast London England at the war its crown court where the extradition hearings of wiki leaks founder and publisher Julian Assange have been under way accused of conspiring with former Us Army Intelligence analyst
You even have your managers in ring ballets and just like professional wrestling most of the characters you see on t. V. Are being manipulated and created by the one percent who owns the business all in an effort to get you to part ways with your money and your free time modern Politics Today even runs the same story lines as professional wrestling take the recent headline making Peace Agreement signed over the weekend between the United States and the taliban that turned out to be pure w. W. Wheat you had your faces in the form of my pail in the trumpet ministration and then you had your your heels of the form of the taliban just like every contract siting on a w w w e violence erupted before the ink even had time to dry political reports that just hours after United States signed what was billed as a Historic Deal with the taliban to end the 19 year long war in afghanistan fighting had resumed between the taliban and the Afghan Security forces marking an end to the reduction in viole