a 16-year-old girl. roslyn joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes, that s what russia seems to still be carrying out in its war against ukraine. early today, russian forces bombarded the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding thousands of others. the shelling was concentrated on a number of apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. another he instance of vladimir putin s invading army violating the laws of war. ostensibly, it served as a particularly on the battlefield against russia and we recent weeks. perhaps, the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula, a critical supply route for the kremlin s forces, as you might imagine, a thin skinned putin has not taken these defeats well. on the contrary, he has renewed his nuclear saber rattling, unnerving weste
watching. i am sam stein. katie fang will be back next week, do not worry, 7 am eastern. all will show online. though she is starting right now. ng right now. and good morning to you from beautiful detroit, michigan. it is sunday, october the 23rd. i m ali velshi, this is a very special edition of velshi across america. i am in belle isle state park in detroit, michigan, within 16 days until the most consequential midterm elections in recent memory. michigan is arguably the leading edge of a combustible trumpist, anti-democratic movement which includes fringe political figures, self styled militias and the potential for violence. i saw that with a group of michigan residents and voters from across the political spectrum to talk about this, plus women s reproductive rights, which is actually, literally on the ballot in michigan this year. and how they should think we can move forward as a country, full of people with different views, and the same set of facts. more of that c
The northwest area after world war ii. Many believe that is where the cold war started. The second was the oil crisis of 1951 and 1953, in which the iranians attempted to assert control over their Major Economic resource. In the end, the effort was frustrated, in part because of a cia sponsored coup against the iranian leader. The second two occurred after the islamic revolution. The first was something i was involved in personally, which was the hostage crisis from 1979 until 1981. And the second was the crisis involving the hostages, american and others, held in lebanon during the 1980s and a part of that, an incident that touched this institution here at the navelnaval academy, what is commonly known as irangate or iran contra. Lets go back to the first one. You say the cold war is often thought to have begun in crisis. What do you mean by that . What had happened is the allies the british and the russians in september 41, had occupied iran as a supply line to the soviet union, whic
Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. My name kim dorman and im the Community Engagement coordinator for the princeton public library. Its my pleasure to welcome you here. This and to introduce tonights program. I want to start by thank you all for joining us. This program is presented with support from the National Endowment for the humanities and in partnership with Princeton Universitys, charming and beyond, most of our Rahmani Center for iran and persian gulf studies and labyrinth books. Tonights event will run for about one hour. Dan sheffield, interim director for the sharmeen and bijan moss of our rahman center, will join author reza aslan in conversation about his new book, an american martyr in persia the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville. Following their conversation, we will reserve about 15 minutes for a question and answer session. There will be an opportunity to purchase copies of the book after the program from labyrinth. Thank you very muc