he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting billie's and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president xi jinping will be hosting an africa china summit here in beijing for us but a software company microsoft claims that uncovered russian hac

advantage of the unusually sunny weather to test the final development of the charging system a fit zion car it's an all electric vehicle with solar panels to top up the battery as you drive. this little car has come a long way since a couple of students built a prototype in their garage. the project was the brainchild of a group of university students in the southern german city of munich in twenty sixteen they launched a crowdfunding campaign and raised nearly a million euros to build the car the munich base to start up so no motors unveiled the final prototype of busy on in july last year. so. we've cleared the entire shell with solar panels meaning on an average sunny day in munich we can generate up to thirty additional kilometers of range and that means for us and the community that we are able to significantly reduce the intervals when the car has to be charged particle most likely that it's income. that added range should any fears about reaching the next charging station before the lights go out and the team at solar motors have made the design practical. it should be a car that

zion kelly spoke at the right direction awa ceremony last night.is brother was shot and killed walking home from a convenience store last september. since then zion is spreading the message of violence across the country. >> i wanted my story toe heard. i wanted to represent my community. and i wanted his life to impact others. >> kelly also received a rightd ction award just one month before he was killed.> stormy daniels' attorney michael avenatti is hitting the campaign trails. the din ar known as key stop for those eyeing a presidential bid. avenatti said h would consider running for president if he thought democrats didn't have a candidate capable of beating donald trump. >>> bringing work home isn't just a hassle for you, it could be a problem for your family, as well. researchers at virginia techl ked at how employer expectations can affect a worker's family. they found what many of us already know. when employees are expected to check their ghmails at ni it could put a strain on significant this is true even if employees didn't have to do a

to the killing of heather heyer, in a few hours i will be speaking in charlottesville at the mount zion first african baptist church. more on that anniversary in a moment. later on in the show, how a black police officer made a fool out of the grand wizard of the ku klux klan. a true story. and now a movie by filmmaker spike lee. spike will tell us why this film is a message to trump supporters. and the republican nominee for the u.s. senate in virginia is calling for secession and praising the confederacy for rebelling against the union. he'll be live in this show. can you tell me we have a theme for today's show? it is race and politics in the era of trump and that's where we start today. joining me now is anne gearan, white house correspondent for "the washington post" and astead herndon, national political reporter for "the new york times." astead, your goal when we saw what happened in charlottesville, and the killing of heather heyer by a alleged -- allegedly white supremist who was there defending the statue of confederate generals and the counterprotesters saying we have no plac

seeks to pick off one by one those countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan since zion when became president of taiwan in january two thousand and sixteen five countries have severed ties with taiwan el salvador now joining that lengthening list on tuesday taiwan's foreign ministry reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared. to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting billie's and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do

he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting believes and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president xi jinping will be hosting an africa china summit here in beijing. sort of that andy is the managing director of the china team at ts lomba

he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting billie's and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president xi jinping will be hosting an africa china summit here in beijing. cambodian land rights activist has been freed from prison after receivin

to the killing of heather heyer, in a few hours i will be speaking in charlottesville at the mount zionirst african baptist church. more on that anniversary in a moment. later on in the

mount zion road, a crash ther the rest is 70. looking pretty good as you saw. ce and green there. inner loop and outer loop, no complaints now on thisriy morning. north 28 near the toll road. dale city, eastbound deal bouleva boulevard, blocked by a crash there. 95 northbound, southbound. prince william parkway as we look at the travel times, 95 looking good, 56 looking good as well. in maryland, 270 here. no worries. the top of the beltway, outer loop. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 f.m. melissa.morning, happy friday. tgif is finally here. need toour things you know about the next couple of days. for today there will be a chance r stronger thunderstorms late this afternoon into early% chance of rain tomorrow. notll an day rain event but you need backup plan. a lot more clouds around. next completely dry day doesn't come until nday. dry along the i-95 corridor near the bay. there had been rain showers near martinsburg. future weather carries thatno hbound into pennsylvania. the remainder of the morning commute will be dry. future weather stops at 4:30. frederick, maryland, down

well thoroughly significant because president zion when of taiwan has just arrived back in the country following visits to paraguay and billy's and she stopped over in los angeles on the way back and became the first time when he's needed to speak in the united states in ten years that upset the chinese are no low and behold just a day or so later we learn that el salvador has decided to sever diplomatic relations with taiwan this is another symbolic victory for china as it seeks to isolate the island republic which of course china regards as part of its territory and gradually one by one the aim of china is to pick off those seventeen countries that are left that still have diplomatic ties with taiwan this is the third country this year that has now severed relations with taiwan if fact since zine when became president in january two thousand and sixteen five countries have severed diplomatic relations so this is a blow for the taiwanese they were insisting on on choose day at the foreign ministry that they knew that el salvador was planning to do this in fact the taiwanese foreign mi

the colorado plateau later to be named bryce and zion canyon and of course, the grand canyon. itself. which powell would name. aside from sporadic attempts including by the indigenous people, the terrain as you can imagine, and you probably know firsthand, has proved to hospital and too difficult to penetrate up until that time a much at all.the 36-year-old powell, in the face of many naysayers decided to go down the river in rowboats. and complete the job that lewis and clark had done 70 years ago. when they started exploring the continent. john fremont, famous explorer, no stranger to risk-taking consider the passage suicide. no one remotely knew the course of the colorado through those dark canyons. whether the water dropped in great falls and leaps or really what was down in there. the indians reported that the river itself would disappear underground for miles at a time. only to reappear just spontaneously. powell was so in the dark about what his expedition would encounter on the colorado that they packed hammers and nails and screws to build a cabin transfer needless to

i live in moved even but if you have those empty lanes this is my daughter and zion neutrally and my horse i am saying that new pm. yes one year later than the pm new very easy to move it up slow and steady sanity and show co-producing example here. and so when we are listening to this what is it exactly that we're hearing because what comes across to me there is that i'm hearing about the provincial side of things and i'm hearing the mix of names they are hearing right vs m.d.c. and i'm counting in my head how many is that what you're hearing there is no what people are interested in this is what we're saying this simply repeating some of the people we looked at as members of parliament of course they talk also announced in those would be injured electors the senators and you know members of the provincial council but people are not interested in this people want to know who won the presidential election saw all this. assuring you know they're going to go through the whole night doing this and they're not going to get to what people are interested in and this is the point i'm trying

identified as the one now hitting the democratic republic of congo the health ministry says it's the zion is strained and it has a vaccine to fight the virus an international team is in the town of benny in north kivu province where the outbreak was detected on wednesday twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and four others are ill. more than five hundred fathers are holding a hunger strike in the immigration detention center in the u.s. state of texas the carlists county residential covered the houses hundreds of newly reunited migrant families according to seize an advocacy and legal services group the fathers are striking to pressure the government to speed up the process u.s. president donald trump was forced to end his tolerance family separation policy last month after a public outcry you can follow those stories of course on our website and i'll just have a dot com about with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's inside story with peter dhabi stay with us. one is considered a war criminal now an aspiring presidential candidate in the democratic repub

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this sun i'll be preaching at mount zion in charlottesville because the real testimony is that thereainst racism and supremacy that we cannot forget. we can't forget the girl that died. but we also cannot forget the tremendous push back against the president's ugly statements, and martin luther king jr. said the measure of a man or woman is not where they stand in the time of convenience but the time of controversy. people are standing up. last sunday, joe, i was in florida, clearwater, your home state where we were taking on the stand your ground, the whole stand your ground law. six years ago i went and did that with trayvon there was not a lot of white support. this time all five democratic candidates came to the rally and stood with us and even the republican, desantos said i'm not coming to the rally, i'm not an al sharpton fan but i challenge how you can shoot unarmed people and stand you ground. so if you keep going you can make progress. the hard part is fight wrong without enacting the wrong spirit and wrong feelings that you're fighting. you must be above it and stay above