i ve come to guyana to see how decades of racial tensions have shaped this nation s politics. hello. tunisia is just one attack away from collapsing. that was the stark warning from the president who has announced a state of emergency. it follows the murder of 38 foreign tourists at a beach resort eight days ago. the president said that the emergency powers were needed to maintain security and safety. announcing the emergencyier that tunisia is now in a state of war. the islamic state carries the black flag and wants to establish a caliphate. there is no country in our region or in europe that is free from terrorism today. the state of emergenci announced by the tunisian comes a week after the beach massacre. 38 tourists died. 30 of them from britain. the new emergency legislation will give the tunisian government more flexibility. at the same time will hand the army and police more authority. also restricts the right to public assembly. the state of emergency is b
discuss those experiences and much more all chronicled in her new more of the story, a reporter s journey. the book covers the full span of judy s long accomplished career in journalism nearly three decades of which are with the new york times. she joined the paper s washington bureau in 1977 as and spent the mid- 1980s abroad and carolyn parrish returned to washington to serve as an editor. stories about osama bin laden and al qaeda that she and a small team of others did in 2,001 four command immediately after the 911 attacks one of pulitzer prize for explanatory journalism. going right up to the iraq war in the months after the 2,003 invasion judy wrote a number of high-profile articles about an audible that later turned out to be based on information. she came under fire by many critics outside and inside the times reporting. in 2004 and five she ended up embroiled in further controversy this time over the plane case which children nearly three months the defending report
richard: it s my childhood come to life. like a marionette show. also, before i forget, this is the first time my mother has attended one of my readings. and today is her 83rd birthday. richard? richard: happy birthday, mom. so i m going to tell you today about pirate coast. this is my new book and about thomas jefferson and the first marines and the secret mission of 1805. he had no troops. he had no backing. but he pulled this mission off. this was america s first covert operation against state-sponsored terrorist. right. we have a little bit of a parallel today. when you hear those stirring marine lyrics i usually think of marines, weapons over there had, amphibious launches. it was a covert operation by one man and a marines. it was a rogue operation. this is the story i want to tell you about. you have to know a little bit about the time period to get into the sense of the story. you know how we re on an airplane today and we might complain we don t get two bags of
swea hi everybody. i see a lot of familiar faces out here. i m thrilled you could make it. it s my childhood come to life. like a marionette show. also, before i forget, this is the first time my mother has attended one of my readings. and today is her 83rd birthday. richard? happy birthday, mom. so i m going to tell you today about pirate coast. this is my new book and about thomas jefferson and the first marines and the secret mission of 1805 [inaudible] the time period to get into the sense of the story. we re on an airplane today and we might complain we don t get two bags of peanuts or something like that. back then you could be sailing on the mediterranean and be made a barbary save. you could be sailing on your nice ship, your nice summer vacation and these marauders from triple e sail down on you and sule spend the next five years as a slave. i want you to get a sense how different the world was back then. washington, d.c. was a swampy outpost with 5000 cit
libya remains on the brink of civil war. like many of its neighbors libya failed to transition into a stable representative democracy hoped for by the citizens following the arab spring. sadly it s a libyan people who have paid the price. fighting between militias has undefined internal security, we can government institutions and damaged the economy. it is also posing substantial risk to the u.s. and to our allies. infighting is created a permissive environment for terrorist groups like isis. the organizations gains in libya have led to u.s. supported boteri options in places like sir. conditions allowing extremists to thrive remain. i think any of us agree that the libyan political agreement needs to be altered and the current government lacks the power to actually govern the entire country. that s only the beginning. until the array of militias come under some type of simple political control no government will be able to provide potential services across the country. ev