Matheson in doha with the top stories on aljazeera counting is underway after a peaceful day of voting liberias president ial Runoff Election observers say the turnout is much lower than it was during the first round of toba voters have had to choose between former International Footballer george will and Vice President joseph book i hollered out of reports from the capital monrovia. Thousands lined up to vote in more than five thousand stations across liberia arriving long before the stations opened the tunnel to know when the foster home held in october that had been delayed twice of the being contested in court amid claims of medical oddities in the floss to round Officials Say the reduction of candidates from twenty two just to may have caused the among vault is. Placed. Well this morning the contests is between a former International Football star where im Vice President just what the we know would replace africas first female head of state Ellen Johnson sirleaf who came to power
That children in conflict zones all around the world are under attack on a shocking scale the report highlights the deaths of children over the past year and afghanistan child suicide bomber saying to boko haram in nigeria and at least five thousand killed or injured in the war in yemen. So hospitals and schools are being deliberately attacked children are being brutalized and it feels like all the rules in war as you say that used to at least protect civilians and children in particular in these terrible wars out of all disappeared and feels like there are no rules to protect the most Vulnerable Children in these conflicts and all repeal is unicef is doing all the warring parties whether their governments or rebel groups is it surely we can all agree that we need to protect the children. Aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern guta a rebel held on klav of syrias capital damascus last month the un call for five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical c
Good evening. Im larry temple. As chairman of the lbj foundation, its my true privilege to welcome all of you to this program tonight. I happen to think that the lbj library has set a pattern or is setting a pattern. Three weeks ago we had two stars on this stage; bob schieffer, moderation, in conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright. Well, tonight weve got two more stars on this stage, john avlon and Mark Updegrove. Johnjohn avlon is a true risingr in this country in the media and journalism world. John got his start as a speech writer for Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate. John avlon today is the editorinchief and managing director of the daily beast, but hes way more than that. He is a very active writer in this country. Every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover, hes on television all the time. You can look at cnn, you look at msnbc, you can look at pbs, you can look at cspan, and youll see j
Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker, writer, journalist. He started his career in washington d. C. With richard hol brook at Foreign Policy magazine. A correspondent for life magazine and the thing i am very envious of is 20 years at 60 minutes and at abc news and won multiple emmy and pea body awards. He won a columbia du pont journalism award. He is the executive producer of programs like spy faster, the cia, and the cross hairs. And the the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which lefthand