And patriotism as donald trump leads 4th of july celebrations in washington his supporters turned out in the pouring rain but critics blast the president for politicizing independence day. And the end of an era veteran former byron unit star young bing retires from all soccer at the age of 35. 00. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us students in hong kong have rejected the offer of a meeting with the territories chief executive kerry lamb now lead us pasta efforts to pass an extradition bill into law after weeks of huge protests but activists want the bill withdrawn completely on monday they stormed hong kongs Parliament Spending a month 3 of those involved in the incident. Stephanie boris and can not their real names were protesting outside the Legislative Council on monday when suddenly a group of young people started to attack the parliament trying to break the glass from. The time i was still struggling over whether i should leave or i should support them i by the time
The b. M. D. Got a shipping company to transport arms to crisis regions are in for many with this but he kept quiet and today those regions are war zones. We have arranged to meet at a remote location in our contact thought mailing the documents to us seem too risky even now 10 years on. We are given the shipping company stowage plans for arms transports the documents also include photos of tanks in a ships hold tanks for a brutal military dictatorship supplied despite an embargo. We are also given the freight papers of other ships and finally a computer stick and that is it. The stowage document shows how 80 tanks have to be positioned in order to get all of them on board. The shipping Companies Plan to deliver a consignment of tanks to islamic north sudan. The documents also include a manifest tanks guns and ammunition for delivery to kenya. But the arms were ordered by goss the government of south sudan. Controlled by rebels at the time south sudan was in the process of separating f
Blum, an investigative journalist and author of the new New York Times bestseller become become as well as many other great books. He is currently a contributing editor at vanity fair. While at the New York Times he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Several of his books were nonfiction best sellers including, among others i pledge allegiance, the true story of the walkers, an american spy family that was turned into a great mini series on cbs, perhaps some of you watched it in the past. Gang land how the fbi broke the mob in 1993. The eve of destruction. The untold story of the yom kippur war in 2003. American lightning terror of mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush in 2011. I should also mention that Warner Brothers is preparing a film of dark invasion starring Bradley Cooper as tom, the hero of the book. Please welcome, howard blum. 4 lu
Union you ever had. The answer to the question is they asked for tons of enriched uranium. Of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. But groves got in the middle of it. Groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. Groves was one person as a onestar general that could walk into George Marshalls office screaming and throwing stuff and not get courtmartialed for it. He went into the office screaming bloody murder. Convinced marshall of the stupid idea. Then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. Groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2. 2 pounds which you cant do a whole lot with. This is like 10 refined uranium, too. You couldnt even make a Nuclear Reactor out of this. You need about 80 , 90 refinement of uranium to make a bomb. So, yes, he was very much they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no
The house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. And with the new congress youll have the best access on the x] cspan networks with the most extensive coverage anywhere. ÷ track the gop as it leads on capitoh22wr rp er4bnt n say as events 0u [nunfold on tv, radio, and the web. Next on American History tv, author and journalist howard blum describes german espionage in the u. S. With a focus on the olhq years 1915 to 1917. R zn before america entered world war i. Nyax germanys secret hunt for the war innn the first teariest cell in5v r american, hei german spiesaorengaged in sabotage, germ warfare andu 9t assassinations l÷ attemptsbwnh an effort to prevent the u. S. From ÷2i 9u ay he also profiles nypd inspector tom cunning who helped develop a modern counterterrorism strategy. This event was hosted by the new York Military affai i,a mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold ru