Thursday, June 23, 2016

#Ukraine - Soviet Archives Revealed: Ukrainians search their relatives repressed by totalitarian authorities: UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 22 Jun 2016
Numerous Ukrainian citizens have rushed to search for their disappeared relatives, since the Ukraine's Security Service opened the archives of Soviet communist regime.

During the mass repressions the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ("NKVD") and Committee for State Security of USSR ("KGB") arrested thousands of Ukrainians with their further deportation to the far north.

Now each and every citizen is entitled to look through the numerous files to find the relatives, once swallowed by Soviet communist machine.

#Afghanistan - explosion kills twelve Nepalese security guards: Al Jazeera English

Published on 22 Jun 2016
Twelve Nepali security guards have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. As their bodies arrive home, the government is being accused of not doing enough to protect workers like them.
Al Jazeera's Subina Shrestha reports.

How a Tesla SolarCity buy would impact investors: Fox Business

Published on 22 Jun 2016
Gerber Kawasaki CEO Ross Gerber explains why he thinks Tesla's proposed acquisition of SolarCity is bad for Tesla shareholders

#France - The right to protest? French government makes U-turn after outcry over ban: FRANCE 24 English (part 1 & 2)

Published on 23 Jun 2016

The state of emergency in France, in place since November's terror attacks, and the hosting of the Euro 2016 have put extra strain on the security services. Should this burden be increased by the protests against social change? The French government had planned to ban a large-scale trade union demonstration on Thursday, but after threats by the unions to carry on regardless, a compromise has been reached. Should the right to protest be upheld during this state of emergency?

Produced by Yann PUSZTAI, François WIBAUX and Van MEGUERDITCHIAN.