*Hundreds are arrested in opposition rally outside Georgian Parliament.
*Left-wing Party leads polls in context of 2024 Ireland General Election.
teleSUR
*Left-wing Party leads polls in context of 2024 Ireland General Election.
teleSUR
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00In other news, the president of Senegal, Basser Odiomae Faye, ratified to France the obligation
00:05to close the military bases on his territory.
00:08Odiomae Faye warned that he would not allow the presence of armed forces of any nation
00:13because that would conflict with the sovereignty of the country.
00:16Faye warned that he would not allow the presence of armed forces of any nation because that
00:20would conflict with the sovereignty of the country.
00:23The president spoke about a forthcoming update of the military cooperation doctrine in this
00:28regard.
00:29Moreover, he stressed the need to reconsider the nature of France's partnership with Senegal
00:35and redesign it on the basis of cooperation and mutual respect, devoid of any military
00:39presence.
00:40Faye also stressed his government's interest in moving towards the diversification of its
00:45international partnerships and away from foreign military presence.
00:49Senegal is an independent country, it is a sovereign country, and sovereignty does
00:59not accept the presence of military bases in its territory.
01:03According to Georgia's Ministry of Interior, more than 100 people were detained during
01:06an opposition rally outside Parliament in Tbilisi on Friday night.
01:09A report said the arrests were made on charges of vandalism or disobeying police orders.
01:15Protesters began gathering outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi last Thursday as the country's
01:20prime minister, Irakli Kobikidze, suspended negotiations with the European Union over
01:24Georgia's membership of the regional bloc until 2028.
01:27The country's president, Salome Zurabishvili, joined the demonstrators last night, who attacked
01:33police officers with blunt objects.
01:37In Ireland, the left-wing party Sinn Féin is leading the polls ahead of the 2024 Irish
01:44general election with 21.1% of the vote, according to national pollsters.
01:50Pollsters interviewed over 5,000 citizens in more than 200 polling stations across the
01:53country.
01:54The centre-right parties Fianna Fáil and Finnegan obtained 21.5% respectively, while
02:02others such as the Green Party, the Labour Party and the Social Democrats obtained less
02:06than 10% support.
02:08Early elections to the Irish Assembly were held this Friday after the dissolution of
02:11the lower house last November 8th by the president of the country, Michael Higgins.