three, two, one. and soon this will be for real. the go ahead for lift off of artemis and a return to the moon is expected from nasa. live from our studio singapore, this is bbc news, with newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 8am in singapore and 8 in the evening in florida where the former president donald trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the materials it seized from his mar a lago home two weeks ago. in a filing to the court, mr trump s legal team is requesting the appointment of a watchdog to oversee the fbi review. this is the first formal legal action since federal agents seized highly sensitive documents. our north america correspondent chi chi izundu has been examining the documents filed by mr trump. 27 pages of what donald trump s legal team are trying to assert in a court in florida, and donald trump himself has just issued a statement, helpfully i might add, detailing exactly what it is he believes occurred when
and in pakistan, a political crisis deepens as former prime minister imran khan is charged with terrorism offences, accused of making threats against state officials. russia has accused ukraine of organising the assassination of the daughter of one of vladimir putin s top supporters. darya dugina was killed on saturday when a car she was driving exploded near moscow. this is a statement from the fsb, russia s internal security service, which says the assassination was carried out by ukraine s special services. they ve also released footage of the woman, a ukrainian citizen, who they say was responsible. ukraine has denied any involvement. here s an adviser to president zelensky saying russian propaganda lives in a fictional world . he appears to blame what he calls vipers in the russian special services. darya dugina was a political commentator and vocal supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine, who was sanctioned by the us and uk. she was reportedly supposed to be trav
Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough than
And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough thank you, dr. Coles. Thank you all for being here and for inviting me. So extend the last speaker eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, id like to with that. That
Its government officials thought, what better immigrants to have then these confederates who have advanced agricultural knowledge compared to a lot of other perspective immigrants. Obviously, are not happy with how things are going at home. So they essentially were given land grants to come to brazil. So that is the reasoning behind it. Just to bring home berts point, i would like to read something briefly called, its from the virginia magazine of history and biography. Alternatives to appomattox is the title. Edited by frank j. Merley. I want to read the opening paragraph. It really brings home how people were feeling and how people responded to these various surrenders and the prospect of life following the end of the confederacy. The title of the essay is alternatives to appomattox. I am sure many of them wished there had been an alternative. Some weeks after general robert e lee surrendered at appomattox courthouse in april 1865, a disgruntled leader put a rifle in his mouth. He ch