You to welcome to the alex salmond shoe in this year of many tragedies perhaps the passing of joined him did not get the prominence it deserved john hume is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the recent political history of ireland as one of the architects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and he took a day he was a finding member of the social democratic and labor party the s. T. O. P. And served as a 2nd leader from 1989 to 2001 he also served as a member of the European Parliament im to member of the u. K. Parliament i dont so as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Today we look at the contribution of john hume by contrasting the position of disaster reached in the province and the early 1970 s. At the height of the troubles with the peace which still holds to be despite the intense strains caused by bricks it 1st we speak toward winning journalist David Blake Knox about his new book on the killing of Thomas Needham our manager of Northern Ireland fact
President harry truman like to refer to his wife as the boss. Family was their number one priority. Destroyed many of her letters and spend a good part of her white house years home in missouri. Truman served as true first lady on her own terms. Cspans continuing series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, story the 33rd president of the United States, this truman. Here to tell us more about her, we are pleased to welcome back to our set the white house historian, his latest book called the imperial season. And the history professor and author of a biography of harry truman called the coming of the cold war. Thank you for being here. Where we left off last week was the death of Franklin Roosevelt. April 12th 1945. The call comes into harry truman. Where is he . He gets the message that he is needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he often was known to do. A lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone cal
Impeachment trial and quoted the 1950s tv show dragnet to explain one of his points. Dragnet . [ light laughter ] oh my god, dude, are you afraid the glasses werent making you look old enough . [ laughter ] why dont you just put a bandaid on your face and be done with it [ laughter ] President Trump performed the coin flip before this weekends Army Navy Football game. Its the first recorded instance of trump intentionally letting go of money. [ laughter ] im going to need that back. [ laughter ] the House Judiciary Committee this morning published its full report on the impeachment inquiry, which describes President Trump as the Founding Fathers Worst Nightmare though, from what i know about the Founding Fathers, they wouldnt have been too crazy about the last guy either. [ laughter and applause [ audience ohs ] just sayying things were different at the founding. [ laughter ] senator Elizabeth Warren is reportedly trying to boost her poll numbers by shortening her stump speech to 10 mi
Around 6 months ago show no signs of dying down a days long standoff at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has led the u. S. Senate to pass a bill aimed at censuring beijing the new hong kong human rights bill has infuriated china which accuses the u. S. Of ignoring protests or violence neither sites looks like backing down so how will this ends i will be speaking with our guest shortly but 1st sarah clarke reports on the standoff between police and students who are refusing to leave a university campus. In a city rocked by violence and months of protests everyday life is carrying on. Primary and secondary schools have resumed classes after being closed for more than a week some major roads have also reopened but traffic is still congested and some raw lines remain blocked at Polytechnic University in Central California up to 100 protesters are refusing to leave. Riot police have surrounded the campus ready to bike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. All. Of this. On tuesday aroun
President. Chiles government cracks down on protests or how the latest in santiago and whats going to demonstrate or so worked. Hello there weve had one to 2 showers across areas of the middle east in the last few days and you can see some bits and pieces of cloud working their way eastwards and this is where indeed we have seen one or 2 showers now through sunday we still have the chance that you cross into the northern sections of iran but also across into turkey and at times we could see some heavy thunderstorms certainly by monday and those shows like had to work their way to the east was time which is not too bad 34 celsius across into baghdad and 23 across into kabul now further to the south again temperatures here they have been coming down slowly the humidity has been improving slightly as well were going to temperature of 30 in must pass on sunday and temperatures in the mid thirtys really for doha 35 as you can see there on monday and 35 across into to riyadh further to the s