Next, we continue our coverage of this weekends meeting in washington, d. C. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. I am the executive director of us icomos. I will describe who we are and set a little context. Welcome to the session on World Heritage and the New Birmingham National Civil rights monument. Joining us today on the panel, we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Brent leggs, stephen morris, and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am here. While i am listed as the chair of this session, glenn eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of Energy Taking place. Us icomos dates back to 1965. We are one of the 110 or so National Committees of the International Council of monuments and sites. It is an
Noi Maryam Namazie and london youre watching aljazeera also coming up nigeria deploys more troops to search for more than one hundred schoolgirls seized by boko haram. Protests across italy as tensions rise in the run up to next weekends election immigration is a key issue. And power to the people the fight for Economic Justice in America Fifty years since it was ignited by a civil rights icon. The u. N. Security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria to allow an aide it follows days of negotiations at the u. N. Over the wording of the document five hundred people have been killed in seven days of Syrian Government attacks on rebel held east and thousands of people are trapped in underground shelters which are providing little protection against the syrian and russian rockets and. Every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering Group Getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria no
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Delivery what a great deal of work is being done by a partners under the astonished a process iran and turkey. In their monster com were preparing for an important meeting under this format. Under the southern us coalition of a zone of good cooperation has been established with us bodies albeit in some recently weve observed in some areas escalations of attentions are due to the ratcheting up of activities by armed groups. Resolute the resolution explicitly stated that it does not apply to the military operations against eisel. And other alqaeda affiliated organizations or other terrorist groups which have been a good knowledge as such by the Security Council but this is a struggle which will continue what we call upon International Players are too closely coordinated on this matter including with the Syrian Government. With strict compliance with International Law including respect for syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity. The name of the fight against terrorists must not beco
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