Thank you. I am david nassau and i am absolutely delighted to be here. As i tell my history students until they want to choke me, the past is a foreign country. We can visit their, we can try to learn the customs. We can translate the language, and we can feel the air and light. We can smith observances and recoil of the folders. The we are for. We are foreigners. Writing about the recent past is not easy. While i was privileged to spend a lot of time talking to a lot of kennedys, it was difficult to weed as a historian, working with living people. I would much prefer to work with documents. You have to figure out what is true and what is not true. Where the story came from. Because the stories are all told with the same authenticity and vigor. The other difficulty about writing with the recent past is that it is not always easy or to establish one distance from it. We have a responsibility to demystify and move beyond the cliches about the wisdom and courage of the greatest generation
Plus we report on how f. I. F. A. Stands to make millions from the world cup in brazil, but local shopkeepers are feeling the pinch. Israel has struck its biggest blow against hamas since 2012. Seven palestinian fighters are among the dead. So far the total toll stands at nine with many more injuries and it follows a week of violence across the occupied territories. Gerald tan has the latest. The air strikes continued through the night. Israel targetting what it calls areas in gaza, in response to a surge of rocket fire earlier on sunday. Hamas which controls the strip says several of its fighters were killed, that many other people were also injured. Its a testing time in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Both sides have been on the edge since three Israeli Settlers were kidnapped and killed in the occupied west bank. Hours after they were buried, a 16yearold palestinian was abducted. His body was later found burned. The early autopsy results show he was alive when he was set on fire.
The zoo. Reporter this all started last night when park police pulled over that driver on old mason street which is near the tram pole lean park near the house of air. He had fireworks in the back seat of his car and the bomb squad stopped in and detonated the suspicious device and took them into custody. That is when they decided to get somebody and they were confronted by a woman. Police searched the home and brought out bags of evidence but what that is, they are not saying. They cleared the scene and we are waiting to hear what charges the man faces. Ktvu news. They are following the stabbing of two men at a strip club. It happened at the garden of eaten in broadway. Two men were stabbed and rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries and so far no arrests have been made. It has been seven months since they increase interested security in that area. They added more security cameras, more officers and better lighting and as a result, crime is down 40 in that area. We are l
Ended, katherine stone, who do you on the screen, published her memoirs of which he called the easy life that she, her wealthy slave owning family have led under 1200acre plantation in prewar louisiana. For members of her family, she recalled there was always something going on. Dark. The stone familys life of, again her words, luxurious ease, some 150 enslaved human beings toiled in the plantations cotton and cane fields. Six days a week, week after week, month after month, year after year. The civil wars outbreak in april of 1861 signaled the beginning of the end of the stone familys accustomed wealth and comfort. Katherine was soon confiding to her diary the fighting between north and south infected slaves with the hope of radical change in their condition. They were, therefore, she said, becoming lazy and disobedient, and they were giving a lot of trouble, her words again, generally. And one evening as katherine and her relatives sat on the veranda of their plantation home, someone
Algerian soldiers have surrounded a gas facility near the border with libya. Two people and killed. Gunmen are holding about 40 people inside. We have spoken with some of the hostages. Its not clear if there were speaking underdress. Duress. The but the photographer decided not to show their faces. This is the gas field where the workers are being held hostage. Its run by british, norwegian, and algerian companies. The nationals are being held from algeria, ireland, japan, france, and the United States, and britain. Many of the people ive worked in the area many years. I asked for your understanding for not being able to give you more detailed information. Its not clear how many algerian workers are being held. Least 30 people have managed to escape. A Catering Company said that it has 150 employees alone still confined at the plant. The gas field is in remote parts of the countrys eastern desert, serviced by its own air fields, accommodations, and hospital. Several hundred people are