Im sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. A cold war of words and even where United States and russia squared off on how to resolve the syrian conflict, that has caused hundreds of thousands of lives, spawned a refugee crisis, and facilitated the rise of the islamic date. Barack obama has said that Bashar Alassad cannot remain in power for the longterm, but Vladimir Putin argues his forces must play a role in bed pushing i. S. Vanquishing i. S. At the center of the debate, how to bring an end to the war in syria. Barack obama said that assad cannot stay in office, but that the u. S. Was ready to coordinate with two of his most powerful supporters to an end for the conflict. President obama the United States is committed to finding an end for the conflict. But we must recognize that there cannot be after so much bloodshed, it so much carnage, a return to the prewar status quo. Russian president Vladimir Putin used his speech to call for a broadening coalition, including muslim station inc
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Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff afghanistans military fought today to take back a provincial capital, the first major city captured by the taliban in 14 years. The militants stormed kunduz yesterday, in a major setback to the government. Today, afghan troops and militiamen launched a counter offensive, with u. S. Air support, and a promise of more help, from president ashraf ghani, in kabul. translated Afghan Security force made achievements today in kunduz province. They have recaptured some parts of the government buildings. New reinforcements have reached kunduz and baghla and a battalion from the National Army will get to kunduz soon. Woodruff the taliban disputed those claims of success, and later reports told of taliban fighters
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched