From opi. [laughter] [applause] looking forward to a terrific discussion this evening now i have the pleasure of introducing the chair of the National Press club history the 87th president of the National Press club, bureau chief of gaylord News University of oklahoma and a dear friend. [applause] thank you so much the legacy of the 112 year history of journalism especially in washington we are pleased we have a new book of the new history of the club called tales from the National Press club scheduled to be published by the History Press and those that have had an impact on history. This event tonight was proposed by our moderator who himself is part of the Grover Family founded by eds greatgrandfather Alexander Graham bell. Who by the way now editor and publisher of the American Heritage magazine that has inspired generations of historians and hes also the author and editor of 13 history books and a thirdgeneration club member and is here to introduce our distinguished panel from the
The civil war photography. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photography, hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years, hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, Pennsylvania Cable Network and on history. He works full time as the chief historian of the American Battlefield trust. Without any further interruptions or excuse me introduction, i now present to you my friend, garry adelman. Thanks, tammy. Hello, everybody. All right, this isnt easy, doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if i get it done in 49 minu49 minutes or 53, whatever it takes. Good luck for those of you that like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and soon after, slaves are partly a person, for some purposes theyre a person, sometimes theyre not a person. You have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have the southerners look to the north and though they speak the same language, the
Silent night. Also coming up. The story of why terrence wont be spending christmas alone for the first time in 20 years. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police in new zealand have confirmed that theyre planning to head back to white island tomorrow to recover the bodies of those killed by a volcanic eruption on monday. At least eight people are known to have died, and another nine are missing, presumed dead. The recovery operation has been hampered by ongoing volcanic activity on the island. In a News Conference earlier this morning, police admitted that the operation would be risky but said they will do what they can to find any unidentified bodies on the island. Tomorrow will be more about. We know exactly where they are, those six people, so, our First Priority will be to get those six people off, and we will have very limited opportunity to look about for the two others we suspect are out there somewhere. But we have done lots of aerial reconnaissance and with the eyewi
Good evening. We are live in glasgow, more than 1500 people applied to be in the audience here in the studio and theyve come from around the country to be here. We have chosen them to ensure a range of political views and to reflect how scotland voted in the 2014 independence referendum and in the 2016 Eu Referendum. Here tonight to a nswer 2016 Eu Referendum. Here tonight to answer our audiences questions we have the leaders of the four parties who are vying for elections in all 59 are still ins constituencies. Willie rennie, leader of the liberal democrats in scotland, a job he has done for eight years. He has campaigned to stop brexit and argued against holding a second independence referendum. Nicola sturgeon is here is the leader of the snp and first minister of scotla nd the snp and first minister of scotland since 2014. Her party have campaigned against brexit and say scotla nd campaigned against brexit and say scotland should be able to hold a referendum on independence next ye
He represents a view that is about his brexit deal about his brexit deal. Outdated. Alas, i greatly respect this is cold, hard evidence that this is cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact a categorically shows the impact a him and his record. And i think that damaging brexit deal would have damaging brexit deal would have what we need to do now is not they will of the people and get brexit on large parts of our country. On large parts of our country. Done. Meanwhile, the labour leader claims a leaked government document the london fire im Christian Fraser shows the Prime Minister is misleading people brigade commissioner in kent for tonights last televised about his brexit deal. Strongly criticised over debate between borisjohnson the grenfell disaster agrees to stand down early. And Jeremy Corbyn in front of a live bbc audience. Crowds in india celebrate this is called hard evidence that after Police Officers shot dead four less than a week to men accused of the rape