Cspan three. Brought to you today by your television provider. Many americans thought they were voting to bring our sons home from vietnam in peace and since then 20,000 of our sons have come home in coffins. I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan and as one whose heart has ached for the past temperature years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of china on inaugural day. It was 2 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. He would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. Were live from the museum in mitche mitchell south dakota. Why is it 2 30 in the morning . The reason i think it was embl emblemmatic. And what happened was that as you heard the senator there, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me is one of the most flufl of those that ran for the presidency but was not successful. I think he did two things. One he spoke about that war in ways that no president ial candi
Devastation that it has left. Government demonstrators defy. Gatherings. And in paris i mean just spiking daily Coronavirus Infection seize the french capital return to tough measures. From moscow thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program we continue with our breaking news this hour local media reports in the kid of white house that the president ial Office Building have been torched crews have already arrived to tackle the blaze writers in the Central Asian states torn down agape. Leading to the state committee for National Security in protest at disputed elections the former president whod been convicted of corruption has also been released after demands from demonstrators of the current president is urging protest organizers to be reasonable crowds armed with petrol bombs and stones broke into the national parliament. Or the countrys Health Ministry is reporting over 120 injuries about half of those of Police Officers the opposition is the morning a new election as the vote was
The year after rising. Protest Movement People in chile still waiting to change. The latest attempt to end fighting between armenia and azerbaijan appears to be faltering just hours after it began both sides accuse each other of violating a 2nd ceasefire its been nearly 3 weeks of fighting in the. Region which lies within azerbaijan was occupied by i think armenians more than 700 people are estimated to have been killed on both sides the 2 nations had agreed to a russian mediated ceasefire a week ago but that collapsed within hours but at smith. Capital with more. Just minutes after the cease fire started. Fired at targets military targets within terror. The tree its operating in the going to karabakh says the targets were military targets military positions and it happened just after as i said just after midnight now this truce came into play after russias foreign minister contacted his azeri armenian counterparts on saturday to try and persuade them to implement this truce that theyv
To keep it in place. We start with the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan there are claims the latest attempt to when the violence is faltering just hours after it began both sides are accusing each other of violating a 2nd russian mediated ceasefire in the space of a week it was established the day after the there is said 13 people were killed in a missile attack in the city of ganja more than 700 people are estimated to have died so far in the fighting in the occupied region of nagornokarabakh of the remote mountainous area is officially part of azerbaijan and its been controlled by Ethnic Armenians since the end of a 6 year war in 1994. I mean it is in ganja as a very john with the reaction to the cease fire from there but theres not much belief in that you many tarion ceasefire was in the hospital a short while ago where you had still do did of the attack on saturday which killed. 13 people and then i asked the people there would you think this cease fire is something good and
The last million. Europes displaced persons from world war to the cold war. Im joel rosenthal, Prime Minister of Carnegie Council for ethics and international affairs. For those of us in the carnegie family of institutions, we have a special affection for david. His biography of Andrew Carnegie published in 2006 was a lifechanging event for us. Through davids work, weve come to know Andrew Carnegie in all of his humanity and complexity, and theres one lesson from the book that really stayed with me and has animated my work at the Carnegie Council, and that is the as david would put it cashtys carnegies cockeyed optimism was not entirely misplaced. For all the madness we see in the world, progress based on reason and a cando spirit is, indeed, possible. That idea keeps me going, and this occasion gives me the opportunity to say thank you, david. In addition to the carnegie biography, davids previous books include prizewinning biographies of joseph p. Kennedy and William Randolph hearst.