Here. Its my pleasure to welcome you all an audience and to welcome our guest, allen guelzo. He is discussing his book,robert e. Lee a life, a biography of the figure that we all may know, and has a lot of interesting insight in the book. It was just published yesterday, and allen, we are so excited to have you. You can get a copy of the book from Atlanta History Center book, its online, we ship, there is in store pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And given orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century American History. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. Allen, welcome, and thank you so much for being here. Thank you very much, claire for hosting this program, monique for acting as our wonderful Technical Support and hello to all of my friends in atlanta, a city i have known an
A forecast of significant rain causing flooding. Maybe again, here in bahrain as well, western iran, and even in q, wait on saturday. Is this a one year . And normally i have to say, i dont know, it seems to be an extension of the monsoon drop. Will it be repeat in future years with yet to see . Ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, the u. S. And chinese president s have held more than 2 hours of chalks and whats been described as a tens phone call. She didnt brings warn joe biden over taiwan saying he shouldnt, as he put it, play with fire. U. S. Economy is contracted for the 2nd quarter in a row, but the by the administration insists its not in recession. G d p fall 0. 9 percent of the 3 months from april to june. But job growth is still strong, which hasnt been the case. And previous downturns, ukraine says Russian Forces of launched a mis islet sagnier key for the 1st time in weeks. Russian troops withdrew from the area, months ago, after failing to capture it, the Nor
The elephant stood survive. And therefore, its like this kind of hopelessness that we fear because we cant really treat it does not like science is not far enough. That we, for example, half of x seen ah, as al jazeera and these, the top stories, Ukrainian Forces say their troops on the frontline as stepping up a counter offensive and curse on. A strategic bridge is now out of action of Ukrainian Forces, hit it with long range rockets. Keith says it targeted 5 russians, strongholds around the city on thursday. Another 3 bridges across it. Denise, pro river have also been damaged in recent weeks, making it harder for russia to supply its forces. John hanjin is in the port city of odessa with more on whats going on in the rest of the country. In the dawn, best region in eastern ukraine, ukrainian officials have warned residents to leave. They say, if they dont leave, they risk having power, water, food, medicine, heat and communications cut off. And we also learned a little more about wh
Which causes death within days. I dont you under there with me. So here robin indo hall, reminder of our top stories. Ukraine says its ready to dispatch the 1st shipments of grain from its black sea port for the blood of his landscape says hes waiting for the go ahead from the u. N. And turkey 1200. Is that the ports that he does with more . Until this agreement was brokered by turkey, these waters were simply too unsafe for anybody to transport grain. So none of that has happened. Youve had 20 to 25000000 tons of grain just sitting in this port. And now it appears beginning today that ukraine will once again feed the world. And thats important because theres a looming food crisis in africa and elsewhere where people are desperately waiting for these shipments to come. So well have apparently a 1st shipment today, and then there will be other shipments ukraine and russia, blaming each other after an asteroid called a prison facility killed dozens of people that happened in the russian