Stream later this year not novak says its trials show its job to be nearly 90 percent of fact against it 19. Plus china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference. To begin this hour with breaking news from the netherlands where the court of appeals has ordered the Oil Giant Shell to pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they accuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills its the 1st time a Dutch Company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary lets go straight to step fasten shes standing by for us in. Step with a ruling then gone against shell what are the courts say. Exactly same here as a clear victory according to a friends of the earth or nablus who actually filed this case to get away for a nigerian farmers against shout the court said that the Daughter Company of shell s. P. C. In nigeria is liable for the pollution that
To prove. Im going to. Want to welcome to the program it. Region has gone ahead with Regional Elections despite being told not to do so by Prime Minister of the country had been due to hold national and Regional Elections last month but the federal government postponed them indefinitely because of the. Decisions into groene accuse obvious made of using the situation to prolong his rule no surprise population is rated to be small its around 5 percent of ethiopias 109000000. 00 people need us from the ethnic group dominates at ethiope. His politics were nearly 30 years but that ended when i be afeared came to power in 2018 now about 2700000 people in the region are expected to verts to gray officials have warned that an intervention by the federal government would amount to a quote declaration of war. An act of defiance in ethiopias Northern Region and to cry. These people are lining up to vote in an election that the federal government says is illegal. It also says the results will be n
Welcome to the weekly where we bring you the latest news along with a roundup of the biggest stories from the week that was. We start in belarus where another huge protest against president Alexander Lukashenko is underway currently people have been rolling for more than 2 weeks accusing look of rigging the august 9th election. Download and constantine pretty bhalo report from mitt. Romney right in front of me people have blocked independence after me. Right now right at the intersection near the cinema 500 meters from Independence Square the 1st of which is the people have left the pavements and taken to the roads. In violation of the traffic. People heading to the square to protest. People behind me on the Independence Square of the belorussian capital minsk they have been chanting slogans like leave calling on the president of but a recent example of the shuttle to go long live belarus right now theyre clapping and my cameraman is just going to zoom in to show you the scale of the p
Will putin react. Or thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point and my guest in the studio are belarus spawn all eager to rid over from the Research Center for Eastern European studies at the university of brim and she says active support for the wounded bellicose leader would only damage russia the mood of the pro russian nor pro european also with this is because in a dorm flute experts on russia and Eastern Europe and a former moscow correspondent she says its almost inconceivable that russia would simply tolerate a democratic turn around. And a woman looking to to dont have ellos own. Who is from the russian desk he argues the. So far nothing has happened in belarus that putin really needs to react to. An interesting comment were come to that shortly 1st of all the girls will go there and over dramatic events in your home country are we seeing the final days of Alexander Lukashenko. Where i think we have to make a difference of people seeing you know these brutus d
The 2020 Republican National convenon. Good evening, im judy woodruf and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the repu National Convention. This years political conventions are like none any us can remember. Welong with thousands of others have planned to be in thcharlotte, north carolin week. But because of the pandemic, this gathering will be almost entirely virtual. Speakers w are the thethe republicans am im here in the studio with amy walter and amna that. Warner right around the corner. Both df them sociallytant. We have reporters and analysts across the country. We plan to bring you the same depth of coverage and analysis ering this critical time in an historction year. This week President Trump will years. He case for another four and we will be here to hear all of it. Lets turn first to our newshour reporters am that nawaz as i say is in thstudio just around the corner from me to give us a guide on whato expect and key moments to look out for. Hi judy, like the