President kennedy and his funeral cemented her in the public consciousness. Welcome to the cspan series, first ladies, influence and image. We have two guests at the table, to tell you more about her story. He has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Robert parry is a political scientist and as part of the modern first ladies series, he has written the Jacqueline Kennedy biography. Before we get into more details about her white house years, i want to talk about the images of that assassination. Anyone who was alive at that time has those images in their mind. This is a collective consciousness. She was just 34 years old. Just 34 years old. We know so much about this story. He was shot and into her arms, for five minutes they were there and she felt that they left the hospital to go back to washington, but they had to do something to make sure that he had the historical reputation. What would a 34yearold woman have have the sense of that experience . What
Coming up, is time running out for nouri almaliki, the iraqi Prime Minister . We will ask the foreign minister if the country needs a new Prime Minister. First, lets get straight to our top company story. Poised to make his case again to french leaders today. Tomis making the case for als Energy Assets. Things going on surrounding this deal. It is becoming increasingly political. Will france be set aside . Bothine, ge and siemens improving their offers and both meeting the president today. Thats right. A pretty exciting day today. The french president will meet with the siemens ceo at 2 45 french time. And he will also meet with the General Electric ceo. Sides improving their offers. Ge last night said instead of just taking over alstoms Energy Assets, they will also create a joint venture with alstom in renewables as well as relliance on nuclear technology. Ge is selling israel for naming business selling its rail signaling business to alstom. Siemens decided to improve their cash com
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The government, if it fails, congress doesnt like that very well. They will sometimes use failure as an example of why are you even doing this in the first place. So thats why it is important that these related ngos still have the resources to inspire the government. But repeating what you said, only the government can scale these projects back. Hello, my name is ben hirschman. Thank you for speaking to us and thank you for the objectivity and nonpartisanship. A lot of us are appreciative of that as its difficult for a former public official to be objective. You touched on Energy Security and how theres aspects there. I wanted to ask could speak a little more about who security and Energy Security is, particularly with how they are grown. I think my friend could be able to comment better than me. In africa we have this initiative that the goal is to provide enough electricity so that farmers can be relatively independent in terms of their own Living Standards and production standards.
From ukraine. President fires depends f bogota, civil rights command to allow the official disavowed his term. He says the president is targeting him for political reasons. Youre watching france 24. Thank you for watching us. The potential breakthrough in the search for flight 370. Tonyalian Prime Minister abbott says two objects, one quite big at 79 feet or 29 meters, have been spotted in the remote south indian ocean. Lets go live to kuala lumpur where we will listen to the latest press briefing from the transportation minister. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We have with of the honorable acting minister. We have the minister of foreign affairs. [inaudible] ladies and gentlemen, to start the press conference, i call upon the honorable minister. At 10 00 this morning, the Prime Minister received a call from the Prime Minister of australia, informing him that two possible objects related to have beenh for mh370 identified in the southern indian ocean. The australia authorities in