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🗓️ 11 September 2024
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Mexico's Senate has just approved a controversial judicial reform; the country's judges will now be elected by popular vote. Protesters flooded the Senate floor to voice their objection to the reform. Also, Russia's use of drones supplied by Iran indicates that Russia is coordinating with Tehran significantly more closely than in the past — even the recent past. And, Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam has brought nonstop rain, and the resulting flooding and landslides have killed at least 64 people.
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0:00.0 | In Vietnam a typhoon made landfall and has only gotten more deadly. |
0:09.2 | Hundreds of people are trying to rescue the families who are buried in the mud in this |
0:14.8 | northern hamlet. The rescue operations are still going on but they're |
0:18.0 | complicated by the fact that it's still raining. I'm Marco W. Today, Typhoon Yagi doesn't let up. |
0:25.0 | Also a big change to the justice system in Mexico had people storming the Senate over what they might |
0:30.0 | lose. |
0:31.0 | It has been the judicial power that has established a lot of advances regarding human rights. |
0:37.0 | Plus a strange turn of events, why Ireland appears upset with a ruling that would bring them billions of dollars in back taxes from |
0:44.2 | Apple. So I think privately a lot of people in the government at the moment are like |
0:47.5 | okay look we fought the battle we said from day one that we were going to agree |
0:51.3 | when Apple that this was wrong. |
0:53.0 | All that and more today here on the world. |
0:57.0 | I'm Marko Werman, this is the world. |
0:59.0 | Thank you for being with us on this Wednesday. |
1:01.0 | We start today in Mexico where last night tensions flared in the |
1:04.5 | country's Senate as lawmakers voted to pass a contentious constitutional reform to elect |
1:09.9 | judges and magistrates by popular vote. |
1:19.6 | Demonstrators stormed into the chamber during the debate, but they failed to stop supporters of Mexico's |
1:24.1 | outgoing president from passing the measure. |
1:26.8 | Melissa Ayala is an attorney focused on constitutional law in Mexico. |
1:30.8 | She joins us from Mexico City. |
1:32.1 | First of all Melissa this, this was such a |
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