Political correspondent. Also on this Program Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of boston lonna to protest against capital line independence the pro unity rally hailed as a success by its organizes as madrid warns any breakaway efforts by catalonia as administration will have quote never effect. And a test of west african democracy two days before people in liberia choose a new president hopes a high for what would be the countrys first democratic handover of power in decades. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a thanks for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have reached a breakthrough agreement in a longstanding dispute between her christian democrats and the very. Sister party the Christian Social Union sources close to key talks between the two parties say theyve agreed in principle on an upper limit for the number of migrants to be allowed into germany every year if confirmed the deal would remove a key hurdle to Coalition Talks between merke
A clever compromise. Also on this Program Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of barcelona to protest against castle and independence the pro unity rally hailed as a success by its organized this is madrid warns any breakaway efforts by catalan his administration will have quote no effect. And a test of west african democracy two days before people in life period election a new president hopes a high for what would be the countrys first democratic handover of power in decades. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a thanks for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel and her christian democrats have reached a breakthrough agreement in a longstanding dispute with the bavarian so. The party the Christian Social Union or c. S. U. Sources close to key talks between the two parties say theyve agreed in principle on an upper limit for the number of migrants to be allowed into germany every year it would mean german or thought is accepting no more than two hundred thousand r
On that from our Political Correspondent in a second also on this Program Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of boss alona to protest against Catalan Independence the pro unity rally paled as a success by its organizers meanwhile madrid warns any breakaway efforts by catalonia is administration will have quote no effect. And a test of west african democracy two days before people in liberia choose a new president hopes a high for want could be the countrys first democratic handover of power in decades. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a good to have you with us german chancellor Angela Merkel and her christian democrats appear to have reached a breakthrough agreement. A longstanding dispute with their Bavarian Sister Party the Christian Social Union or c. S. U. Sources close to key talks between the two parties say they have agreed in principle on an upper limit for the number of migrants to be allowed into germany every year it would mean german all thought is ac
Santa rosa. Right now there are 400 people missing in Sonoma County alone. And more than 191thousand acres have burned state wide. And that number could rise. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. robin and im robin winston. And we are continuing our coverage of the deadly firestorm in the north bay. Another big story from the fires, the smoke. And winds are pushing the fire smoke all over the bay area causing bad air quality and forcing hundreds of schools to close. james the state schools chief says nearly 600 schools with about 260 thousand students are affected. Heres the list of school closures. Lets go ahead and begin cycling through them. adlib over full screens of school robin robin robin fire officials have began the process of identifying the bodies of loved ones who were reported missing. The search itself has been incredibly challenging because the fire is still raging. Homes are too hot to search. Even when they know there is likely someone in th
Offensive. Thank you for hosting this fabulous book festival. I am happy to be participating in this. And delighted tonight to have a conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The i