trinidad: [tose] luisa: ¿estás bien, mami? trinidad: sí, mi amor, no te preocupes.

one musicians all music lovers not professionals from thirty different countries from australia to trinidad and tobago aged between ten and seventy five are all here today they formed a very special orchestra and today we are featuring the month there is music the big feel orchestra conducted by simon rattle. your. time cecilia from hong kong you can come in la q it's my chinese name and i'm playing overall i'm home i come from the netherlands and there i work as a police officer and. i play the french horn i'm on there i'm from spain. and i play by only maybe. i'm an engineer i run my own company in brazil that's where i'm from and i'm here to play the cello my name is dorothy i'm i'm a violinist in daily life i'm a dentist and i have my office and. i'm john from korea and i play the violin and i'm jeremy i'm twenty five years old and i'm from canada i'm a violinist and in my day to day life i'm a lawyer. musicians from first brahms two three number one for three days in berlin first with stanley dogs and think it's a time in russia. stand to be feel orchestra is actually really your baby

eight foot by six foot and they had all the rituals of the british hanging had been kept by trinidad and you couldn't. back hanging good because the constitution and the down by britain expressly preserved the death penalty but it also had a section not prohibited talked and as i sat with michael day after day screaming noise the coffin e of death row i said to him this is a place of mental torture maybe we could argue that since the constitution prohibits torture this death row is a form of torture and a prolonged stay on it amounts to torture so that the death penalty has to be commuted and i never forget he put his fingers to his lips as he. said just listen and you could hear a pin drop all those men were pressing against the monkey cages and he said you must make that argument for them not for me they're going to kill me whatever but make it for them because you represent it so i made a promise to michael they did kill him they dragged him to the gallows the day before we were trying put on another motion to save his life and. twenty years later actually the privy council the hi

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the west indies have beaten sri lanka by 226 runs the claim the first test in trinidad and tobago, withictory coming on the final day. having been set a world record target of 453, the tourists lost four wickets before lunch, and didn't last much longer after it either. kusal mendis the only man to put up a real fight, but when he was out for 102, the hosts secured victory shortly after. the second match of the three test series starts on thursday in saint lucia. gabrieljesus, neymar, and philippe coutinho scored as brazil swept aside austria 3—0 in their final world cup warm—up game in vienna on sunday. manchester city strikerjesus opened the scoring on 35 minutes before neymar, making his first start since february, doubled the lead midway through the second half. while barcelona midfielder, coutinho, added the third goal shortly afterwards for brazil who haven't lost since june 2017. a run of 10 games, and have kept 16 clean sheets in 21 games since tite took over injune 2016. dustinjohnson has reclaimed the world number one position with a six stroke win at the stjude classic in mem

hijos de sus padres en este gran paÍs somos, -- somos seres humanos que merecemos trinidad.portar a proteger los derechos humanos, civiles de estos inmigrantes que vienen a buscar una mejor vida. al igual estÁn siendo detenidos con criminales. viviana : esta congregaciÓn se llevÓ a cabo como preÁmbulo al dÍa nacional por los niÑos. >> la separaciÓn de un niÑo de su mamÁ o papá es un abuso infantil. es lo que sucede ahora en el paÍs, es una crisis humanitaria. viviana: los menores de edad se han convertido en las vÍctimas de la era trump. >> esto es algo inaudito. nunca lo habÍamos visto y no tenemos una informaciÓn de cómo son tratados los emigrantes. viviana: legisladores quieren transparencia y responsabilidad por parte de la administraciÓn actual. >> la ley requiere que el gobierno federal reÚna las familias una clase pare. este es un problema muy grande-- no que las separe. este es un problema grande que vemos con este presidente. viviana: piden que mÁs organizaciones se unan al movimiento nacional que promete cambios para el bienestar de la familia. palmira: el gobierno

en trinidad y tobago se estaba una de las sorpresas mÁs grandes en la historia de las eliminatorias mundialistase palo y me dice que estamos en el mundial. nosotros estÁbamos celebrando el repechaje. creo que en ese momento hicimos un cÍrculo. ahí fue donde empezÓ todo. >>anÍbal godoy es un panameÑo de 28 aÑos, que a la fecha sigue disfrutando de ser parte de la historia deportiva y social de su paÍs. ser parte de la primera generaciÓn de futbolistas que han logrado clasificar a su selecciÓn a un mundial. creo que para nosotros, en un futuro gente va laraÓn de clasificaciÓn al mundial. >>hoy es un latino que triunfa en en la mls. fue con el mundial a la vuelta de la esquina, la responsabilidad social se multiplica para anÍbal y cada uno de los seleccionados panameÑos. >el fÚtbol a panamÁ le ha regalado muchas alegrÍas, alegrÍas de momento> de las alegrÍas que sentimos el 10 de octubre se volcÓ todo, se olvidaron de todos los problemas. creo que en un dÍa se acabaron los problemas para panamÁ. seguir con el legado y demostrar a su paÍs, su panamÁ, que es altamente posible para los jÓvenes futboli

eel es jose trinidad tavares quien se cree que violó a una niña de cuatro años en las instalaciones der agredir sexualmente a una menor de cuatro años en la iglesia. >>> creemos que podría haber víctimas adicionales. >>> llevaba aproximadamente un año como guardia de seguridad, tiene récord criminal ya que en el pasado tuvo problemas con las drogas. >>> Él hace unos años empezó una nueva vida y venía a la iglesia todos los días. esta joven quien dijo estar decepcionada con la noticia nos explicaba que ella pensaba que él había cambiado después de que se bautizó en la iglesia y nunca pensó que había algo así. la iglesia envió un comunicado diciendo que este caso ya está en manos de la policía. >>> los residentes de esta zona piden que se haga justicia. >>> tienen que saber que clase de personas meten ahí pero si no lo hacen no les interesa. >>> un juicio se lleva hoy, ayer se escucha la llamada que hizo la hija de sospechoso. el magistrado vio fotos de los niños encadenados en sus camas. >>> los menores eran golpeados y pasaban hambre. los padres se declararon no culpables. >>> una dema

talked to the c-h-p about how parents need to stay mindful. 23 year old alexandrea raven scott of trinidad is being held with out bail after being arrested on suspicion of willfully causing or permitting a child to suffer great bodily injury or death. the mendocino county sheriff says the young mother left her 18 month old son inside a her car for 10 hours while visiting a friend in willits. they were called to the scene after 1:30 wednesday afternoon. by that time the tempature outside the car was 80 degrees.the website noheatstroke-dot-org says it's the first child vehicular heatstroke so far this year in the state. heartbreaking i have three kids i couldn't imagine putting my kids in that situation i could don't know what's going through peoples minds i don't think they mean the worst but i think that people underestimate what he can do to people and as tempatures around the bay are expected to heat up....local law enforcement ask that parents be mindful of their little ones.. if you're if it's outside it's 800 after sometime 2030 minutes inside of the car can go to 130 so people don't

. >> her in trinidad, kisses on the first date. >> they take it to a bar in this case a sands bar. >>be, if the conversation is good. >> these are trained. they know if they come to this area, humans will feed them. i'll suck your hand. because they do. they do. they do. when you give them real food, there it is. >> there were some other stuff going on, here's eric holding it, this is them dancing. they do have their barbs, but in the 30 years that they have been dhog down in grand cayman, there hasn't been any injuries. he gives him a kiss. this is supposed to be seven years good luck. ten watch the stingray gets up close and gets him on the side. >> does this work? if i break a mirror and break out with a stingray, am i evened out. >> i think. so it's like the rule of the universe. ollie is okay. >> yes. >> and he's got beef. >> when are you told to get up, get out, exercise, eat well. one company in canada is taking a stand. with the opposite. >> you had me at pizza. >> nothing will ever be the same. >> a food tray. >> so greedy. >> this is so good. >> yeah if you want to eat your

will continue to build on their first innings on day two of the first test against sri lanka in trinidad later they lost early wickets on day one in port of spain they hear of camorra did the most damage week with the ball taking three wickets for the hosts fought back captain jason holder and wicket keeper shane dow rich put on a ninety round stance they were two hundred forty six to six at the close and finally a baseball fan is going viral after a lucky catch the san diego padres were taking on the atlanta braves when a woman in the stands got more than she bargained for in her drink she called a foul ball in her cup and won some fans. and that is all useful for now more later marty thank you very much indeed well that's it for this hour dizzier news our lower they will be in this chair in just a minute or two so don't go away stay with us here at out to sarah. yes i want to know if you were there. to see. so is there not. to bunches at the top to bottom in the first episode of a two part series al-jazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs . sports doping the indus

the americans had to lose against the bottom side trinidad and tobago will panama had to beat costa ricato pick up your script. and then the goal! how can you describe that? goal! jumping over here, jumping over there, and i just lost it. they didn't! you could not write it. famous for a 48 mile stretch of water way, this world cup will be a footballing fairy tale for panama, and a lot of their success is due to an englishman who had been a community officer at millwall.|j was born in panama. left very early and went to live in london, and then after work all those years at millwall, i thought of coming to grandma. there's a lot of potential here, they're very raw. i don't think there's anything to say that... fit football has progressed. the players are getting that after every training session, which did not a lwa ys training session, which did not always happen. we have a training ground for my balls. normal things but you have that, so it has come a long way. with england losing to iceland, do you think it would be a bigger upset if panama were to beat england? oh yes, definitely. ic

end of the night, knowing i'm a cigar smoker he prepared me with a box of my favorites which were trinidads and then signed the top of the box. when i got home, i showed to its my wife. she was ecstatic. couldn't understand why. she said, well, the kid' school auction is coming um. this will be fabulous. of course i had to complaint was then the most valuable item in my estate and probably still is. ien conducted barack obama's first live rad intview from the white house. that, too was great column fodder. i'd been prime minister mitted 30 minutes one -- promised 30 mints one-on-one and it would bell tweeze e del surprised lie on cnn, msnbc and fox, many suggested it questions should ask. i thought i premeds for every eventuality but overlooked one and that is that the president of the united states would arrive area, budget me in the position of having to make small talk because, as we say can you e dow don't want to live it in locker room. reflects on the fact that the night before, am family dinner one of the boys and -- and all three of them are here tonight -- said, dad, make sure you

the west indies have beaten sri lanka by 226 runs the claim the first test in trinidad and tobago, withkets before lunch, and didn't last much longer after it either. kusal mendis the only man to put up a real fight, but when he was out for 102, the hosts secured victory shortly after. the second match of the three test series starts test series starts on thursday in saint lucia. that's all the sport for now. thank you. processions have been taking place all over the uk to mark the 100th anniversary of women getting a limited right to vote in britain. chi chi izundu has been following today's marches in the footsteps of the suffragettes. music they followed in the footsteps of the suffragettes of a century ago. in belfast, they started at the titanic quarter. in cardiff, their procession passed through the city centre. and in edinburgh, they marched towards hollyrood park. it's been a great opportunity to find out more about our own history and name some of the women. there are so many, many women who have great stories. all of these women, it is amazing, but especially to represent tho

night knowing that i'm a cigar smoker he presented me with a box of my favorites at the time were trinidadnd thene signed the top of the box. when i got home, showed it to my wife she was extactic i couldn't understand why. and she said well you know the kids school auction is coming up this will be fabulous -- [laughter] i had to explain to her that it was then the most valuable item in my estate and probably still is. [laughter] i conducted president barack obama's first live radio interview from the white house that too was great column, i had been promised 30 minutes one-on-one and my radio interview would be televised live on cnnmsnbc and fox -- many suggested questions that i should ask of the president, i thought i had prepared for even eventual but i had overlooked one. and that is that the president of the united states would arrive early. putting me in the the position of having to make small talk because as we say you don't want to leave it in the locker room well i reflected on fact that the night before -- at family dinner one of the boys and all three are here tonight maybe o

it moved around various town halls they used to happen in january to mirror what was going on in trinidad because they have theirs in january anyway england far too cold and it moved to notting hill in the mid sixty's and it's there were it really started to grow and then the sort of afro caribbean community basically took it over for quite a while it was hard jacked by the jamaican sound systems in the early seventy's but no all tribes are welcome and everyone's represented except techno techno don't work at a carnival man cheesus do you believe though that music is becoming even more of an issue as regards censorship by the authorities obviously the british police want to take down all these videos by drill artists type of graham music one of them abracadabra saying that this is ridiculous that it's about distraction from cuts to schools youth clubs and social housing yeah exactly i mean you hit the nail on the head it's an absolute distraction once again demonizing the youth aware of we seen that before and yet it distract people from dealing with the real problems you know the cutback

that seal a world cup place but they needed two unlikely result, the americans had to loose against trinidadeat costa rica but in football you can never rule anything out. think you see all of the things that happen that night, nobody is going to pick up the script. then the goal. how can you describe that? goal! goal! idon't goal. how can you describe that? goal! goal! i don't know what happened, i just lost goal! goal! i don't know what happened, ijust lost it. goal! goal! they did it. beautiful. you couldn't write it. famous for a a8 mile stretch of water way, this world cup will be a footballing fairy tale for panama, and a lot of their success is due to an englishman who had been a community officer at millwall. . englishman who had been a community officerat millwall. . i englishman who had been a community officer at millwall. . i was born in panama, left very early, and we went to live in london and after working all three years at millwall, my dad said have you thought about coming to panama, there is is a lot of potential here, they are very raw, i don't think there is any shame to

they worked with you in trinidad. >> that's correct. >> and i think you used aiq? >> that is also correct. >> and you obviously were very correct with them because they were involved in a campaign for you. what was it for you having met -- people said -- [ inaudible conversations ] >> introduced you to aiq and you -- [ inaudible conversations ] >> so, look, that isn't necessary at all. i mean, first let's talk about chris riley. kris riley had an instrumental role in the company. >> it basically makes it sound like someone who was like an intern. >> well, i mean, i think those are the facts of the matter. >> what you said now -- >> well, the facts of the matter are that chris wiley was on a tier 2 student visa. he was limited to working 20 hours a week, i believe. you'll have to check that. and as such, he could only work two days a week or at the company, which is probably why they alluded to him as a part-timer or a consultant or an intern or whatever he said. but that's not to undermine his value. chris wiley brought some very significant values to the company.

aiq worked for trinidad and then engaged to design the whippon system you described. they worked on campaigns , john walton, election races in america 2014. they worked on the ted cruz campaign in 2015. they get revenue from the beginning of 2014 to the start with scl. those teams were totally integrated with yours. they were not a separate entity. they were part of the same team it. isn't that the reality of the situation? >> not in my mind. i never considered aiq part of our company. they were a subcontractor brought in over a period of time to undertake specific tasks . they did design what you described. other than that, there working continuously -- and that will improve the targeting campaign. >> what they call -- the data sharing, and data handling given what they were handling in the data. i think that are not correct when you talk about data sharing. in a software engineering company, and it is a data analytics company, they built the product, and if we go to the trite analogy of the car in the can, they built the car and we put the petrol and. the petrol tha

c- h-p about the dangers parents need to stay mindful of. 23 year old alexandrea raven scott of trinidad is being held with out bail after being arrested on suspicion of willfully causing or permitting a child to suffer great bodily injury or death. the mendocino county sheriff says the young mother left her 18 month old son inside a her car for 10 hours while visiting a friend in willits. they were called to the scene after 1:30 wednesday afternoon. by that time the tempature outside the car was 80 degrees.the website noheatstroke-dot-org says it's the first child vehicular heatstroke so far this year in the state. heartbreaking i have three kids i couldn't imagine putting my kids in that situation i could don't know what's going through peoples minds i don't think they mean the worst but i think that people underestimate what he can do to people and as tempatures around the bay are expected to heat up....local law enforcement ask that parents be mindful of their little ones.. if you're if it's outside it's 800 after sometime 2030 minutes inside of the car can go to 130 so people don't

c- h-p about the dangers parents need to stay mindful of. 23 year old alexandrea raven scott of trinidadter being arrested on suspicion of willfully causing or permitting a child to suffer great bodily injury or death. the mendocino county sheriff says the young mother left her 18 month old son inside a her car for 10 hours while visiting a friend in willits. they were called to the scene after 1:30 wednesday afternoon. by that time the tempature outside the car was 80 degrees.the website noheatstroke-dot-org says it's the first child vehicular heatstroke so far this year in the state. heartbreaking i have three kids i couldn't imagine putting my kids in that situation i could don't know what's going through peoples minds i don't think they mean the worst but i think that people underestimate what he can do to people and as tempatures around the bay are expected to heat up....local law enforcement ask that parents be mindful of their little ones.. if you're if it's outside it's 800 after sometime 2030 minutes inside of the car can go to 130 so people don't think about that (maureen)outsi

bureau immediatea -- bermuda and trinidad and jamaica and bellize and halifax. that's the story of all of these people. the ones who fled, they wanted to do something they were proud of. they wanted to have freedom. they wanted to have choices. and the ones who fled, initially their choices weren't so good. but it was their choice nonetheless. those who remained, they had no choice at all. >> next, we'll take you inside the t.c.u. 360 journalism news room to speak with author garza, to earn about -- learn about journalists' representations of mexican americans during the great depression. >> the story behind this is one of how newspapers covered mexicans and immigrants during the great depression in an iconic city in the united states. snow, texas. important not only for its role in texas history, remember the alamo, of course, but also important in terms of the development of an identity of mexican americans nationally. so, the book starts with the 1929 and runs through the 1929 through 1934 period, which is the deepest recessionary pert of the great depression

opponents they had in front of them watching england for a long time, i've seen them toil in playing trinidadn 2006 and algeria. it is nice to see scenes like this england scoring goals and playing at least to what you would expect them to do in tournament so often there is a golden ger ner rags coming in with so much hype in them two games, qualifying with a game to spare. it's only the third time in world cup history that england have actually got a game to spare and already been through for the knockout stages. >> they're playing belgium next. do you think that they will put on the reserve team to give the top players a break on this thursday's match given we know for sure they're going to the next round >> after the game he said at halftime that he was telling the players to get at least one more goal they were upset they conceded at the end. the goal, historic goal for panama but that would have taken them to the top of the group. it did take them to the top of the group. he says they want to wip the group. they want to have it in their own hands. what happens after that, the last 16 cou

i'm still not over the trinidad & tobago loss. who are you rooting for?m keeping my options open. i don't want to get in twitter, facebook, and snapchat trouble. >> got other things to talk about? >> look, i would just as soon watch a world cup game at the moment, but you know, i got a few things to talk about. good to see you. >> you too. >> have a good rest of your morning. good morning, everyone. i'm ali velshi. it's thursday, june 14th. let's get smarter. >> secretary pompeo, president trump just after returning to washington said people can sleep well tonight because there's, quote, no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. isn't that premature when north korea has just as many nuclear weapons today as it did a week ago? >> what the president was speaking to there is the moment that we had in singapore, the moment where for the first time an american leader sat down, a sitting american president sat down with the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea

i'm still not over the trinidad & tobago loss. who are you rooting for? >> i'm keeping my options open. i don't want to get in twitter, facebook, and snapchat trouble. >> got other things to talk about? >> look, i would just as soon watch a world cup game at the moment, but you know, i got a few things to talk about. good to see you. >> you too. >> have a good rest of your morning. good morning, everyone. i'm ali velshi. it's thursday, june 14th. let's get smarter. >> secretary pompeo, president trump just after returning to washington said people can sleep well tonight because there's, quote, no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. isn't that premature when north korea has just as many nuclear weapons today as it did a week ago? >> what the president was speaking to there is the moment that we had in singapore, the moment where for the first time an american leader sat down, a sitting american president sat down with the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea and had a blunt conversation about the changes that would need to be undertake

people out of countries like honduras, el salvador, venezuela, colombia, belize, guatemala, jamaica, trinidad tobago. brazil. get people out. get people young people out of there because it's too dangerous for them. they might be killed by the gangs down there. and i recall sitting in a judiciary committee meeting when john conyers was the ranking member from detroit and they were making that argument it's too dangerous in central america for these young it's too dangerous3, i think if you think it's too dangerous for those children in guatemala, you better not take them to detroit because it's more dangerous in detroit than guatemala. it's more dangerous in baltimore than it is in honduras. it's more dangerous sometimes in washington, d.c. it's more dangerous in new orleans. it's more dangerous in st. louis, especially east st. louis than it is in any of these countries down here that i just mentioned. but, mr. speaker, these countries that i mentioned, i'm going to go through it in more detail, these are the top 10 most violent countries in the world. there's a website called world life exp

you know, the british liberated slaves and they evacuated them to places like bermuda and trinidad and jamaica, belize in halifax. so i think that's the story of all of these people. the ones who fled, they wanted to do something they were proud of. they wanted to freedom. they wanted to have choices, and the ones who fled, initially their choices were not so good but it was their choice nonetheless. those who remained, they had no choice at all. >> next, we'll take you inside the tcu 360 journalism newsroom to speak with author melita garza told about journalists representation of mexican-americans during the great depression. >> the story behind this is one of how newspapers cover mexicans and immigrants during the great depression and iconic city in the united states, sanitary texas, important not only for its role in texas history, remember the alamo of course but also important in terms of the development of an identity of mexican-americans nationally. so the book starts with the 1929 and runs through the 1929-1934 timeframe which is the deepest recessionary. according to the nati

really 500 migrants from countries including jamaica, bermuda and trinidad arrived in 1948 when the shipround, but actually, john palmer is dead, and it was a murder. and there is a contract killer out somewhere, out loose, who needs to be caught. charlton athletic has confirmed it is expecting a takeover of the club by a group of investors linked to the australian football consortium. in a statement, the club gave no indication of when the deal might be. it said lee bowyer will continue as caretaker manager until further notice. a foundation has been started in memory of a 21—year—old who the prime minister credited with helping her shake up the system and reform stop—and—search practices. alexander paul died of complications due to brain cancer lastjune. it is hoped the foundation will encourage young people to express their emotions through creative activities. turning to the travel situation now. charing cross station has been evacuated as a precaution after an incident there. no services are currently stopping at the station. on the tubes, the northern line is part—suspended between

nation in fact they are the smallest nation to advocate all the five for the world cup it used to be trinidad and tobago up until iceland made it three hundred thousand people. some say that large part of the country is actually now in russia to support their team but it's interesting to see whether this will go their way because everyone is saying argentina would win but obviously the iceland fans have a different opinion but what is the prediction coming from one of the best managers in world football is a marine you know he told us what he thinks about this game. isn't in and i would say an incredible talent advanced against a very very happy team i think he's had plays shows help in this and they will and they love to compete so we don't any kind of pressure they're not going to give an easy and it's just time to argentina but argentina means the talons so i seem to go into it. and i have to keep that well meanwhile the match between australia and france is in full swing at the cousin of wayne up and no goals yet. well you know i tell you. what i feel that we're going you know you. really

joseph m.mondelo of new york to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to trinidad. gordon soland to be representative of the united states of america. harry b. harris jr. of florida to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the united states america to the republic of korea. ronald gets wits -- gidwitz of ill you know -- illinois to to be the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. brian nichols to be the ambassador extraordinary to the republic of zimbabwe. assistant secretary of state, african affairs. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that the senate vote on the nominations background en bloc,o further motions be in order, any statements relating to the nominations be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of the following nomination, executive calendar 902. the presiding offi