To prepare for the worst as a dive boat catches fire and sinks off the california coast. There were 35 people on board 8 bodies have been found. And an astounding admission from hong kongs leader. Carrie lam says shes to blame for the territorys political crisis and wishes she could quit. Its shaping up to be another significant week for brexit. Rebels from the Prime Ministers own party look likely to join forces in parliament with the opposition, to try to force another delay. If that vote goes against him, Boris Johnson has hinted there will be a general election. After an emergency Cabinet Meeting mrjohnson claimed he didnt want an election and would do everything he can to ensure the uk leaves the European Union at the end of october, even without an agreement. This from bbc Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Boris, boris, boris out, out, out. Conflict and confrontation, the soundtrack to recent days around downing street already. Behind the gates, the Prime Minister stepping forwa
Signalled their intent. They will move tomorrow, to delay brexit for a further three months until january 31st. Also on the programme. Hurricane dorian is battering the bahamas. Catastrohpic winds and storm surge are causing widespred damage as the storm hovers over the islands. And more details are coming to light about the gunman who killed seven people during a weekend rampage in texas, while residents mourn another mass shooting. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in downing street. Michelle fleurry is in washington. The phoney war is truly over after meeting his cabinet here tonight the Prime Minister is puttting tory rebels on notice. Either they back him and his attempts to re negotiate a deal with brussels, or he will seek to trigger a snap election. Mps return from their recess tomorrow they will try to take control of Parliamentary Business to take no deal off the table. There are at least 20 conservative rebels thinking of voting with opposition parties, to demand another
And im jane hill at and imjane hill at hull minster, tonight we wait to see which artist has been awarded the most prestigious prize in british contemporary arts, the turner prize. More at half past. We are getting reports of a passenger train in germany colliding with a Freight Train in meerbusch, near duesseldorf. Local police and the Fire Department say at least 50 people have been injured. Details are still coming in. We are going to keep assuming that for you, this is the latest picture we have from the scene, so far the only picture we have. You can see the train appears to have buckled after a collision. It appears to have collided with a Freight Train. Details as soon as we get it, a close up of the commuter train and the damage that appears to have been done. You can see the third window from the left, looks like a doorway partly caved in. We will give you a reminder of where. Looks to me from that mapping that it is a suburb of dusseldorf as much as anything else. Likely to b
Good afternoon. On behalf of our 4000 members is a great honor to welcome you to the 10th annual Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture by tim mondas. [applause] s just a word on the 1st Arthur Miller lecture which was delivered here in this room and 2,006. His new wants to observations read as if they could have been written this week. He said, respect for the rights of religious and ethnic minorities should never be an excuse to violate freedom of speech. We writers should never hesitate on this matters the matter how provocative is pretext. Unnatural attachment and design understand those unlike us should never stand in the way of our respect for human rights. But thomas is not leave it at that. He goes right on to say he is always had difficulty expressing my political judgments in a clear, emphatic, and strong way describing the world where the oppressed can quickly become the oppressors and the oppressor the oppressed. We are we are holding firm views about people and things is a
Program online cspan. Org history. Founded in 19203 the museum of the city of new yorks collection contains nearly seven or 50000 objects. We visited. To learn about the exhibit gilded new yorker. My name is jeanine i am one of the co curators of guilder new york, fashion, society and culture that is being shown here at the museum of the city of new york the show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this a beautiful jewel box of a gallery we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate the 1 in the original gilded age the period that filed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. And that period was characterized by great wealth, kind of like the. Com people of her own era. In those days the money came from various kinds of industry, mining, railroads, smelting iron and the rise of the modern corporation. All of those businesses yielded an enormous wealth at the same time there was Mass Immigration to the area. A time when new y