In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri
Hello and welcome to the aljazeera news hour live from our headquarters in doha with me and as a purana coming up in the next sixty minutes. Should have happened a long time ago should happen years ago u. S. President donald trump says hes designating north korea a state sponsor of terrorism paving the way for more sanctions zimbabwes voting party begins in page one proceedings against Robert Mugabe as he refuses to resign as president the head of syrias main opposition body the High Negotiations Committee steps down just days before kate talks on solving arabia plus as Coalition Talks fail in germany and going to merkel says shed prefer a new election. U. S. President donald trump has designated north korea states. Terrorism trump also promised more sanctions against pyongyang but secretary of state Rex Tillerson says washington has not given up hope on dissolving the Nuclear Crisis on the Korean Peninsula through diplomacy shihab or tom seaver reports from washington d. C. And presid
Thats all to come in the Business Briefing. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. It was only commissioned twelve days ago, and it cost 3. 1 billion pounds to build, but already the uks biggest and most powerful Aircraft Carrier has sprung a leak. Today we want to know what have you spent a small fortune on over christmas that failed to live up to expectations . Get in touch with us just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. President trump has outlined a new National Security strategy focusing on economic stability and identifying russia and china as competitors, challenging americas influence and wealth. The president also said washington had no choice but to deal with the challenge posed by north koreas weapons programme. He broke with several of his advisers and previous american policy under president obama by not mentioning the threat posed by climate change. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. The us National
Government. Slate magazine hosted the event. Leon hey everybody. [applause] leon hi everybody, thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. Here, a week and a half after the show ended. Season one ended. , or it could slate have even guessed that we would be talking about season one, and that we are now planning season two of slow burn. Thank you again to the slate plus members who are here. It is really a dream to be here in the watergate hotel. We have a great show tonight, it is our first live show. We have this fantastic lineup of guests. Introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew to my left. [applause] elizabeth covered the water gate scandal for the new yorker. Her coverage was collected in the book washington journal. Dickight is did cap it cavett. [applause] etthosted the dick cav show. He introduced interviewed a number of key figures in the watergate scandal. Here we have susan glasser. [applause] susan is the chief International Affairs col
None of us at slate assumed, could have guessed we will be talking about it season one and we would be planning season two. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to the slate plus. Embers who are here i dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests. I want to introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew, to my left. [applause] leon she covered the watergate scandal as it was unfolding. It was covered in the book washington journal. To my right, dick cavett. [applause] he hosted the bi of the show the dick cavett on abc between 1968 and 1974. In the months following watergate, he interviewed a number of key figures in the scandal. Later he broadcasted an entire episode from the watergate room. Dick true. True enough. Leon we have susan glasser. [applause] leon she is an Affairs Columnist for politico. Previously she was the editor of politico and political magazine. A