the death toll now topping 1,000. that s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. a half century later, nasa counts down to its next moon shot on its most powerful rocket yet. and later, marching to his own beat. how music is opening doors for a texas teen. to become the best person that i can ever be. i mean you only live once, so i have to make it great. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with a developing story out of ukraine. this video shows new attacks near europe s largest nuclear power plant. overnight, fighting there is reported as intense, and the plant has been repeatedly damaged by days of shelling. it is controlled by russian forces but operated by ukrainian engineers. international experts say the latest shelling underlies the risk of a nuclear catastrophe. now to a political battle for control of congress. a cbs news poll o
Any affects previous missile launches north koreas soft force brings Quick International condemnation the un is set to hold an emergency meeting well talk to a weapons expert about what the scene and right now the u. N. Security council is being briefed on the humanitarian crisis in syria following years of death and destruction and over in geneva syrian officials have arrived for talks on how to end the war. U. S. President donald trump sparked a social media about frostbite retreating a british far right leaders anti muslim stories well have a live report coming up from washington. Im heading home and its International Day of solidarity with palestine and monitoring all the latest developments online so connected us using the hash tag a day a sprint. Here with a newsreader live on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com its ignored u. N. Resolutions and defied International Sanctions north korea has launched its most powerful missile yet and
Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera life and hall so coming up. Russian and syrian troops launch an offensive to retake a border city under our control in syria. What is going on on models i love the movie the crisis and no one will help us a desperate plea from hundreds of refugees who say they have been abandoned on mannus island. To the new wave of artisans in hong kong waving modern life and to an ancient craft. An International Search and arrest warrant has been issued for deposed catalogue president carlos put him on spanish prosecutors want to investigate him for rebellion and sedition over last months declaration of independence but the sacked leader is missed two days of Court Hearings in madrid. And brussels where he intends to challenge any attempt to extradite him to spain but he has also said hes willing to cooperate with belgian authorities elgin has twenty four hours to react to the european arrest warrant several months aides are also being sought so catalans views abo
Talking specifically about the sixday war, i came to the understanding or at least this is my argument that you should see the war in a global context because even before were starting to deal with what nasser did on the 13th of may and why he acted the way he did when he received that memo, webbed think about the fact we should think about the fact that the whole developing world was experiencing a severe economic crisis at the time, and all the countries that fought the sixday war were developing countries. Some were more developed than others, israel more than egypt, but they were all developing countries. And what happens in the mid 60s is basically the end of a business cycle. A decade beforehand, in the mid 50s, everybody looked, lets say, in places like the u. S. , in washington, in new york, even in moscow. They looked at the developing world like people looked at china until two years ago. Or beforehand the way people looked at japan and thought it would rule the world. They s
Doctor laron was a great pleasure to welcome you to this event. Im a christian and i directed the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center, a program that tries to provide Historical Context to current Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with one of the subprojects of the history of Public Policy, the program we have run here for 25 years. More than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, translating, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence from what used to be the former communist world archived but its crept to what now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today, a series of activities discussing, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most important new publication of International History to come out on the war. I thank you are all in for a treat. We are also doing