Georgia faces political crisis after disputed election
The World
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4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Georgians went to the polls over the weekend to cast their ballots in parliamentary elections, which resulted in a contested vote. Also, satellite images document the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes on Iran over the weekend. And, Pakistan launches a massive campaign to vaccinate 45 million children following a resurgence of polio cases in recent weeks there. Plus, a look at Jamaican apple pickers in a town in New York State that is part of the Champlain Valley.
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| 0:00.0 | It is hard work assessing the damage Israeli missiles have left at military sites in Iran. |
| 0:10.0 | The reality is the Iranians just aren't going to invite us to take tours of the places that the Israelis have struck. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Marko Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Today satellite imagery tells the story eyewitnesses can't and in Georgia a disputed |
| 0:26.2 | election has people out in the streets in Tbilisi. |
| 0:29.6 | Pakistan is launching a vaccination campaign to fight polio. |
| 0:33.0 | It will not bring any benefit if we are doing the same thing again and again. |
| 0:37.0 | What health officials hope will be different with this vaccination drive? |
| 0:41.0 | And why we don't hear much about Africa from U.S. Presidential Hopefuls. |
| 0:45.0 | It's always the continent of the future. It's never the continent of the present. |
| 0:49.0 | Plus, they know the farm better than we do. |
| 0:52.0 | Jamaican seasonal workers and the apple harvest. |
| 0:55.0 | That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Marker Werman. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Carolyn Buehler. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you for joining us on this Monday. |
| 1:05.0 | Today in Tbilisi the capital of the Republic of Georgia, |
| 1:08.0 | crowds gathered outside the Parliament building, waving flags of the European Union. Their message, they believe the results of their parliamentary election were skewed by the ruling party which favors Russia. |
| 1:21.0 | According to the official count, The party, Georgian Dream, won 54% of the vote. |
| 1:28.5 | The opposition rejects that tally. |
| 1:30.8 | The world's Daniel Hoffman reports that the Republic of Georgia is on the edge of a political |
| 1:35.1 | crisis. |
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