You at the next event. Thank you pj. Book tv continues on cspan two television for serious readers. Good evening good afternoon we know we had people here all over the world. Greetings, welcome. The Elliott Bay Book company. On behalf of all of the people who are staging this production today we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of Arundhati Roys new book azadi. This is been published and launched with her in new delhi. In the evening hours. I am in seattle where it is still a new day. All of you joining us everywhere around the spectrum. May even be earlier in the morning. The publication was the suspicious one. First to acknowledge all of the books publisher. In publishing this book. Haymarket is published based in chicago in the u. S. Its been around since 2001. And dedicated to social justice books. They have come around for on for the past 20 years. You can certainly got it haymarket books. Org. They are huge part of this. It is a south asian arts organization. It wa
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I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
It the greatest threat to commercial livestock in a generation. And a special bbc investigation reveals Domestic Workers being sold in kuwait via an online slave market on platforms provided by google, apple, and facebook. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9 00 in the evening in washington where the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has entered a new, and more heated phase. The us house of representatives voted to formalise the process and move towards public hearings. The vote was the first formal test of support for impeachment and went along party lines. Laura trevelyan has this report. On this vote the yays are 232, the nays are 196. A historic moment. A house of representatives votes to formalise an impeachment enquiry into the president. On the table. Did donald trump create a high crime and misdemeanour in trying to strong on the ukrainian president into investig
Screen is a president of the usa was on the big screen is a moment president of the usa was on the big screen is a moment ago. He was not well received, there was some booing. At the moment it is the home cited trail, 4 0 to houston astros. We are currently at the top of the fifth innings. Tulsen tollett, thank you. Some straight talking washington fans for us. Tiger woods has equalled the record for pga tour wins. He won his 82nd at the zozo championship, the first ever pga tournament in japan. With a three shot advantage and just seven holes to complete of his final round in the rain affected event, he held on to win by three. He matches fellow american sam sneads record, set in 1965. It isa it is a lot, you know . I have been able to be consistent most of my career. Able to be consistent most of my career. I put myself up there with a chance to wind on a number of occasions. Plenty of times when i didnt. Today was one of those days when i was able to pull it out and it has been a lo