Hello im Barbara Sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes the u. S. Puts hamas leader Ismail Haniya on its terror list freezing his Financial Assets. And to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay. Donald trump orders americas controversial prison in cuba to remain open reversing a key obama promise. British Prime Minister to resign may signs a billion dollar deals and pushes for free trade benefits with china. And im peter stammered in go with all your supporters arsenal sign gagnes striker America Obama young for a club record seventy nine Million Dollars that and more transfer deadline news coming up later in the program. The u. S. State department has put israel the political leader of hamas on the terror list how mouse is the palestinian faction which has the fact of ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven well for more on this lets go straight to rosalynn jordan in the washington d. C. Also in
Have not told you is not a single political leader supported the movement. Matt won the crusade for voters. And naacp down. Elected leadership down. Nobody anywhere supported it so we asked the city council would you at least put the measure on the ballot so that the people can decide whether they want it or not. Would you allow the people to vote on it, and they didnt do that. At the time i think tim kaine was the mayor of the city, and i said, tim, can you work something out to at least put it on the ballot that people decide it . He said i can only get four votes. I cant get five votes, the majority to do it. Now with that, so what we had to do was to go out and get the people to sign the petition, and if you get the percentage of numbers of people to sign the petition, then it can go on the ballot, so we were able to get about 15,000 signatures to make certain that it had gone on the ballot, and even though the entirety of the leadership was against it, when the people voted, 80 of
Welcome to csis, and thank you for braving todays weather. It is great to see all of the interest in world war i. For those who have not been here before, our project is focused on history that also provides insights into contemporary affairs. We are delighted to cohost todays vent with the world war i centennial commission, and the csis center, and thank you dan fundy for your support. When we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in world history, and world war i usually comes out at number one, and americans tend to be fixated on the other wars like the civil war and world war ii, but this is the most important, and we are here today to try to provide some additional awareness, and so 100 years ago to this very day, Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his 14 points speech. Wilson had been a proare fes sor at princeton and president of the institution, and he drew upon the academic colleagues t
Obama promise. Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up the e. U. Pledges fifty three Million Dollars in extra aid for palestinians but will it be enough to solve a Funding Crisis the scandal surrounding germany stop car makers and their use of monkeys in a mission tests hits the German Parliament just how much did the government know and what do you get when you combine a blue moon a super moon and the total eclipse well an event that no moon gazer would want to miss. Its long been symbolic of the grave human rights abuses committed during the socalled war on terror but now u. S. President donald trump has this. Cited to keep the notorious contactable military prison open through an executive order former president barack obama had promised to close the facility in cuba within a year after taking office but while many prisoners were indeed released obama was unable to keep his promise to shut down guantanamo together in his state of the Union Add
Civil war. Historians discuss how africanamericans remember and interpret the civil war. This is an hourlong event. We are here for our fourth and final panel to discuss africanamerican opinions on the war. We want to begin with a discussion of the scope and significant. Maybe you want to get us started. The u. S. Color troops are more than anyone imagined. Massachusetts had three state registrants. There are over 140 of various kinds. They are a significant military force. What is interesting that i think in the beginning of the war none of the white northerners would have imagined you had black northern soldiers. They turned many patriotic northern freemen away. It is only the process of the war. The high death count, the sickness, and the fact that it did not go well. It prompted people to think about arming africanamericans. The emancipation proclamation was authorized. You had over 180,000 troops, which on one hand, people always say there were 2 Million Union troops, but they cam