welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest. or at least it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security , that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole countries going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making these supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here, and across the world, accor
aimed at countering china s influence. (singing). and we meet the nigerian queen who fits in her role as a royal with entertaining her subjects. hello and welcome. documents seen by the bbc that are said to have been hacked from chinese police computers show that uyghur prisoners in the western region of xinjiang are shot on sight if they are caught trying to escape. thousands of photographs shed light on a secretive system of mass incarceration. the chinese government has dismissed as fake news , claims that uyghurs are arbitrarily detained in the region. john sudworth, who spent many years reporting from xinjiang as the bbc s china correspondent, has this special report. these are the faces of china never intended us to see. from inside its system of mass incarceration and xinjiang. they insist these camps are vocational schools for willing students. the photos, almost 3000 of them show the reality of how whole swathes of uyghur society have swept up person by person stopp
industrialization, and the cultural history of petroleum use in the 20th century, and what it revealed about american environmental ethics and preferences. he has examined industrial america s grammatical dramatic shift in industrial intensity during the civil war era, as well as the impact of modernism and land-use planning on the modern environmental movement. professor black received his doctorate in american studies from the university of kansas in 1996. this evening, he will address how world war i informed the 20th century s use of energy sources, including petroleum, and the fuel s enduring impact on our environment and climate today. give a warm welcome to professor brian black. [applause] prof. black: thanks everyone. thank you for being hard-core , a hard-core audience to come out on an evening like this. thank you, kamil, and everyone for putting together this program. i truly am impressed by the on a number of levels, and i happened been to this facility, so
The first part of the issue spotlight in understand to cus on the 1953 coup. It led to muhammad mosedai. He was succeeded by the shah. In his book qull at the shahs man Stephen Kinser explores the u. S. Iran relationship today. This took place in 2003. [applause] thank you. Its great to be here in oak park. Not just being here in the library. We actually did do a good deal of research for this book. But also being in the hometown of earnest hemingway for a writer cannot fail to stir some emotion. I actually live only about two blocks from the home in which Ernest Hemingway where he was in high school and did his first writing. Im hoping that some of the karma will blow over towards my side of the block. The readers have to be the judge whether or not any of that succeeded. I doubt that hemingway found a story that was as exciting as the one that i uncovered and tried to put together while writing this book. It was just 50 years ago in august of 1953 that the c. I. A. Overthrew a govern
Speech to thousands gathered in tehran on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. This is just a week after President Trump imposed new sanctions on iran. Afterwards analysis from press tv which is advanced with our english language news station. Translator the great iranian nation reaching independence, that the independence of iran and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in the country, our revolution since that day as seen ups and downs, has seen many ups and downs. And many of its, many officials and many people. However, the iranian nation seek the lost ideals, lost ideals of the revolution, and the iranian nation continues to seek those ideals. Today, the late imam ayatollah money, martyr, the late rafsanjani, and many other big officials and brave men, they are not among us nowadays, today. Men and women though who actually, who served this nation in different cities and villages and who have served this nation, they have created make ethics in this country, and th