This morning, president obama nominated former Defense Department official Ashton Carter to be his fourth defense secretary. He would replace chuck hagel. Mr. Carter has served in a number of roles within the department as defense secretary from 2011 to 2013. Watch the president s announcement of his nomination at cspan. Org. The cspan cities tour takes book tv and American History tv on the road traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about their history. This weekend we visit waco, texas. As we began to receive the vinyl to be saved, we began turning over the b sides of the 45s that we received. First off, gospel music was not widely heard in the white community. What it was, it was only the hits, if that. The b or flip side would be heard less. What we discovered quickly was how many of the b side songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres few databases and none of them are complete on gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that
So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if we cant resolve well, i think, drive good journalists away from the subject because they will just find to it be such a challenge to continue working on. The other thing which has been alluded to is we have an issue, a difficulty with reports from north korea that its quite unique to international relations. So we often hire south korean nationals, be they interns or staffers in seoul and we actually have a problem with quite a high turn over rate with these people because oftentimes they will a
General steve lenic. That starts at 10 00 a. M. Eastern live on c span 3. Here a few of the comments weve recently received from our viewers. Im in my 80s and im a big fan on c span, i want to complement them on being able to bring together two different ie deologies like they did this morning from the Kato Institute and the immigration policy center. I think you need more programming that way among people that can conduct themselves with a very civil tone. I applaud you for that. Thank you very much for c span. I listen to c span pretty much on a daily regular basis. I find it to be very informative. Its a very good look at all of our different politicians so that citizens can understand exactly who we elect and whats being done in congress because it seems to be that congress is undecided or always fighting. Its important that the citizens have a nice outlet for them to see the proceedings that go on. So i appreciate c span, and regardless whether or not its popular with mainstream c
This is bbc news im simon mccoy. The headlines at 2pm brexit trade negotiations enter their final stage in brussels ahead of a crucial call at 4pm between the Prime Minister and the European Council president this afternoon. He was very downbeat. I would say he was very gloomy. A deal can be done. Final preparations are under way with the first Covid Vaccine jabs to be administered in the uk tomorrow. Hashem abedi brother of the Manchester Arena bomber admits his involvement in the conspiracy for the first time. The days of snowball fights and snowmen could be over for much of the uk by the end of the century according to the latest met Office Research. Cheering applause and hes made it. Leeds rhinos Kevin Sinfield completes seven marathons in seven
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