Where met with their rejection and boycotting by israel. Furthermore president Vladimir Putin of russia. And president xi jinping of china have launched initiatives for peace and the latest of these peace efforts all of which we are thankful for is being led by the United States President Donald Trump where of these initiatives and why israel is not accepting these initiatives on our part we have also repeatedly tried to revive the Peace Process and called on the Prime Minister to affirm to only affirm his commitment to the two state solution and sit with us at the initiation stable to delineate the borders between israel and the state of palestine in order to. Open a path for meaningful negotiations to resolve all other final status issues. Sitting together resolving the issue of borders and then discuss other matters unfortunately it was rejected by the Prime Minister and. We continue our genuine efforts success of the Peace Process. And despite these efforts. Israel continues to bre
We will now hear from the president of the state of palestine. I will request protocol to escort his excellency. [applause] on behalf of the General Assembly, i have the honor to welcome to the United Nations the president of the state of palestine and to invite him to address the assembly. President abbas in the name of god, the compassionate, the merciful, his excellency, secretarygeneral of the United Nations the president of united , nations General Assembly, ladies and gentlemen, peace be upon you. 24 years have passed since the signing of the oslo accords that was an interim agreement that set a fiveyear period for bringing an end to the Israeli Occupation. Granting hope to the Palestinian People that they would soon achieve independence within their state. And achieve peace between palestinians and israelis. What is left of this hope today . President , ladies and gentlemen, we recognize the state of israel on the 1967 borders. But israel continued refusal to recognize this bord
Putting your regime in grave danger. Two of the Big Six Energy companies are looking to merge. Im taking a look at what that will mean for their millions of customers. In sport andy murray targets a return to competitive tennis next year. The former world number one has been out of action with a hip injury, but faced Roger Federer in a Charity Match in glasgow last night. Carol has the weather. Good morning. It is a cold start to the day, there is quite a bit of frost around, some patchy mist and fog but for most it will be dry and sunny. However, in the south east there is more cloud, some rain and drizzle, and we have got some wet and windy weather coming in from the north west. I will have more details on that 15 minutes. In 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story downing street is examining new information about the International Development secretarys unauthorised contacts with senior Israeli Government officials. Priti patel apologised for meeting israeli Prime Minister B
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo