Who ruled yemen for more than three decades and played a pivotal role in the ongoing civil war has been killed by hoofy rebels his convoy was attacked at a checkpoint outside the capital sanaa entails tayyab reports. A sudden end for one of yemens most powerful men who the rebels say they killed ousted president aliyev delish sala during an attack on his convoy. His remains were packed on the back of a pickup truck in a televised statement the leader of the said salo was involved in a conspiracy with the Saudi Led Coalition to take over well. What are the reasons behind this new transfer to the other side suddenly you took the egresses against your own people salah had been and an alliance with the iranian backed for more than two years together they controlled the capital sanaa and fought against the Saudi Led Coalition which supports the internationally recognized government led by months or hadi but this partnership with the collapse last week sparking major confrontations between s
As the capital of israel palestinian leaders have denounced the action they say theyll meet and decide the next steps in the coming days harry force it has more from occupy these jerusalem. This announcement had been trailed for days now it was up to donald trump to make the case that a wildly controversial move opposed by the palestinians arab states and most of the International Community can advance the Peace Process it would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result therefore i have determined. That it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel trump said he was directing the state department to begin preparations to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv talk of architects and engineers confirming earlier suggestions that this would be a matter of years not days we are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the israeli sovereignty in jerus
Pres. Johnson my fellow americans. Not long ago, i received a letter from a woman in the midwest. She wrote dear mr. President , in my humble way, i am writing to you about the crisis in vietnam. I have a son who is now in vietnam. My husband served in world war ii. Our country was at war. But now, this time, it is just something that i do not understand. Why . I have tried to answer that question. Dozens of times and more, in practically every state in this union. I have discussed it fully in baltimore in april, in washington in may, in San Francisco in june. Let me again, now, discuss it here in the east room of the white house. Why must young americans, born into a land exultant with hope and with golden promise, toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place . The answer, like the war itself, is not an easy one. But, it echoes clearly from the painful lessons of half a century. Three times in my lifetime, in two world wars and in korea, americans have gone to
Period. In china he was born with a feudal empire which hasnt really changed for 2000 years. When he left, when he died it was a major power. A member of the u. N. Security council with satellites, with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. Cspan how long have you spent in china . Guest i first went to china 90 and 77. I open their office and then i have been back for periods of up to a couple of months pretty regularly. Almost every year for the last decade or so, less often in the previous 10 years. Cspan this is a big low, close to 800 pages. Guest its not supposed to seem like that. Cspan is their new material in there . Guest oh yeah three of the is there has not been a new tiger field mouse for 20 years. The last one, the last major biography was in 1980 and over the last 20 years, so much has emerged. Facts, documents, memoirs by people who were around mao. Huge areas which we didnt really understand our winter stood wrongly are now much more clear. Its possib
Thanks for the answer. I appreciate it. Welcome to the nyu bookstore. This is a first event of our fall season where happy all of you are here tonight. You probably notice the cameras. Cspans booktv is here tonight as also tell your friend who could not come up they can watch it on television later. Since we are filming, when opened the floor for questions, please hold the questions until you are given this microphone. Also please turn off your cell phone ringers. I appreciate that. Tonight were just love it the release of kevins new book, a force so swift mao, truman, and the birth of modern china, 1949, which was released today. Kevin peraino is a veteran and Foreign Correspondent was reported from around the world. He spent a decade as a Senior Writer and pure chief for newsweek magazine. He was a finalist for the livingston award for Foreign Affairs reporting and was part of a team that won the National Magazine award in 2004. His first book was titled lincoln in the world, the mak