My name is sarah and i am im the events director of kramer books and on behalf of both the staff im pleased to welcome you and bruce for his book jfk forgotten crisis. In the buck, he book, he shares a gripping story of the conflict that really has escaped history is attention but is really still resonates today that of the union war. He draws on the documents and details of the decisions made by jfk to send the tie the tide of an allout war and explain how the forgotten crisis is influencing the world more than half a century later. We are glad hes here to share his book. Please welcome bruce. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction and all of you for coming out tonight. I want to begin by taking you back half a century. On the morning of october 16, 1962, george bundy, john f. Kennedy National Security adviser arrived at his office in the west wing of the white house. On his desk as there was every morning there was a final prepared by the white house situation room of t
Into morning and then might melt a bit into mix for a couple hours. Thursday temperatures in the 20s and mostly cloudy warming will start to take affect this starting on saturday. 3 3 3 donald trump is still taking aim at ted cruz. Polls show the texas senator surging ahead in iowa. And gaining ground on trump all across the country. C b s news correspondent don champion has the latest on those numbers. 3 he gloves have officially come off in the battle between donald trump and his new top rival, ted cruz. sot Donald Trump Republican president ial candidate i dont think hes qualified to be president. Hours after referring to cruz as a maniac on fox news. Trump took to twitter expressing his disappointment in the texas senator. For questioning his judgment in remarks cruz made at a private fundraiser. Cruz jokingly responded by posting a video of the song maniac from the 80s hit movie, flashdance. Nats the jabs come as polls show cruz ahead of the billionaire front runner in the key sta
Plus im james bayes at the United Nations. World leaders are gathering. The focus on isil, and in the next hour or so a speech by president obama. We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise. Mission accomplished, india joins an elite group of countries becoming the late toast put a satellite around mars. The United Nations General Assembly is getting underway in new york as we speak. These are live pictures coming in to us from that meeting. Well be following the speeches this throughout the coming hours here on al jazeera. U. S. President barack obama expected to speak shortly, and well take that speech live. But well begin this news hour proper with news from syria that fighters from the opposition muse muslim front with evacuating their bases, and another group says it too is leaving its bases. Lets get the latest from zana huda. What are we to make of this . Reporter these are powerful rebel movements. They have told their followers to leave their bases, headquarters, a
Cleared of terrorism charges. All that. One beyond the boundaries of women enterprises. Mission accomplished for india as it joins an elite club of countries, the latest to put a satellite around mars. We are going to start with syria, Northern Syria actually where the Islamic State of iraq on the lavant is advance october border town. Isil has sent tanks into the town right on the border with turkey following u. S. Led airstrikes against isil fighters which began opinion monday. While turkey said it could lend military or Logistical Support to the airstrikes. With stefanie dekker, near kobani. Tell us more about this advance. Reporter we have this confirmed yesterday afternoon that following those coalition airstrikes, an isil strong hold and further to the east, there are many isil fighters who had advanced to kobane, a syrian town which is 50 meters down from where we are. We can actually just see it. Most of them were based in the south. Now, whats happening today, we had news of t
Strikes hit close to their bases. Yemens government cuts fuel prices in a desperate bid to regain control of the capitol. And heaven on earth for fans of lego an part display in london featuring more than a million of the tiny plastic bricks. The u. S. President has told the u. N. General assembly that the world needs to join together in fighting the group known as the Islamic State of iraq and the levant, otherwise known as isil. Barack obama used his 40minute speech at the u. N. To tackle a range of issues. He hit out at moscow, and told iran to agree on a new deal over its nuclear program. He urged countries to make concrete commitments to fight the Ebola Outbreak. He also used the speech to urge action on Climate Change saying every major power needs to join the effort, but his main focus was the uslead air strike against isil, and he said the group must be destroyed. I have made it clear that america will not base our entire Foreign Policy on reacting to terrorism. Instead we wage