Leadership. Next week comes after the collapse of the snps power sharing deal with the greens last thursday, and finally, a gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the richest man on the titanic, has been sold at auction for a record breaking £1,175,000. Now it had been expected to fetch only around 150 k. Previous amount. The only around 150 k. Previous amount. The highest amount ever paid for a titanic artefact was 1. 1 million for a violin, which was played as the ship sank. Businessman John Jacob Astor was 47 when he went down with the ship in 1912. After seeing his wife madeleine safely onto a lifeboat. Now, rather than attempt to get on one himself, the businessman was last seen smoking a cigarette and chatting with a fellow passenger. They with a fellow passenger. They dont make them like that anymore. Well, for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common shirts back now to. Mark. Common shirts back now to.
Pro israel counter protesters all involved. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. Todays and violence that ucla comes a students and educators across the country try to stir up anger about u. S. Support for israel. Putting on a massive demonstrations at columbia New York City paid George Washington university in d. C. And arizona state. Christina coleman has the latest of ucla. Jon it appears we are having difficulty getting christinas microphone working. Obviously shes in a difficult situation. Will try and restore that and get back to you or get her back on the air as soon a siu can. On the east coast of Columbia University in new york promises it will not again call and police to remove protesters. Senior correspondent Steve Harrigan is live at columbia it with more on that change of heart. Jon, more than 200 protesters arrested overnight for that number continues to rise day by day. Most of those arrests at Northeastern University in boston. Officials there said t
Tonight were really honored again to have amitav ghosh and to be in conversation razia iqbal. Im just going to very briefly read a little bit of bio you and and then im going to turn it over just. One more thing in terms of the format of evening, were going to start with short talk that will help to contextualize the topic and the book and then joined by here. They will have a conversation and then well have a moment for q a and books, as you may have noticed, are on. And amitabh has graciously agreed to sign books upstairs. So with that in mind amitav ghosh is the author of the bestselling eves trilogy, comprised of sea of poppies, shortlisted for the 28 man booker prize, river of smoke and, flood of fire. His other novels include the circle of reason which won the prix de im sure im going to mangle this. Im not even going to say it, but glass palace, hes the author of many of nonfiction, including the great Climate Change the unthinkable and, the nutmegs, curse parables for a planet
Expected to fetch only around 150 k the previous high amount paid for a titanic artefact was 1. 1 million for a violin, which was played as the ship sunk. Businessman John Jacob Astor was 47 when he went down with the ship in 1912. After seeing his wife first madeline, onto a lifeboat. Then, rather than attempt to get on to the boat himself, the businessman was last seen smoking a cigarette and chatting with a fellow passenger. Old school style. For the latest stories , sign up to the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Now, as promised, our headliners. Promised, our headliners. Hello and welcome to headline is your first look at sundays newspapers with three comedians. Because comedians always tell the truth. Apart from my joke about being a bad lover, im josh howie. Im delighted to be joined by the ross and rachel of the headliners crew, chris de wetten and nick dixon. Headliners crew, chris de wetten and nick
The uk. Two men have been arrested at a pro palestine protest in london today. Police say one was holding a placard with a swastika and the other made a racist remark towards counter protesters. The event, organised by the palestine solidarity campaign, was calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. For an immediate ceasefire in gaza. Part of the march route gaza. Part of the march route tookit gaza. Part of the march route took it past a fixed pro israeli demonstration on pall mall. Earlier, a counter demo organised by the campaign against anti semitism was cancelled , with organisers cancelled, with organisers saying that the safety of jews was at risk. Saying that the safety of jews was at risk. Humza yousaf is asking leaders of rival parties to find Common Ground with the snp. As his leadership hangs in snp. As his leadership hangs in the balance, hes inviting them to talks at his official residence to see how they can work with his minority government. The Scottish First minister