Residents of often those ibish. Welcome to its good to have you with us plans to hold the olympics in tokyo next year in july, appear to be on course the chief of the International Olympic committee. Thomas has expressed confidence that the games can be held with spectators. Buckys got to be in tokyo to hold the view meetings on preparations for the olympics and paralympics. But the meetings are being held under the shadow of the outbreak. Open questions on the safety of athletes and participants. And of course, the additional costs of hosting the games already defined by thomas. The international in Big Committee president meeting new japanese Prime Minister yoshida suga for the 1st time. But has now confident that fans will be able to attend the tokyo games next july. But they could be a catch visit, as it may have to get back sneed it in order to protect the trip. A nice of people and out of respect for the japanese people or the i. O. C. Will undertake a great effort so that theres
News. This region igned a government ultimatum to surrender. The defense minister telling us the military offensive will be over within a week. Plus, huge police raids here in berlin. Last years elaborate theft of precious jewels. They say that no sign of the spectacular stolen 18thcentury gems, worth more than a billion euros. Hurricane iota rips through central america. Claiming hundreds of lives. We will go to nicaragua where the country , we will go to nicaragua, the country hardest hit by the hurricane. I am brent goff. To our viewers on pbs and the United States and to all of you around the world, good to have you with us. We begin with what could be one of the final decisions of u. S. President donald trump. The United States announced that it will be bringing troops home from afghanistan and iraq by midjanuary. President trump said he wanted to withdraw. Theentagon says th just 2500 trips will remain in each country. U. S. Troops have been stationed in afghanistan since 2001 an
The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions questions,political which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. Boss insses with his richmond, samuel cooper, reports of general wheeler indicate sherman is about to move. Probably heading to charleston or savannah. There are a great many variables sherman can take when he begins to head north or south from atlanta. A junction may be formed with the enemys fleet. I would advise all available forces which
Bombing the bases a kurdish fighters that calls terrorists. A new u. S. Sanctions come into effect to isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. And support german football giants byron munich celebrate their 8 for the title in a row maybe further bremen one near one nail to secure a 29 but in this league aircraft. Began in south asia where china and india are trying to calm tensions after a deadly clash over a border dispute in the himalayas no shots were fired but 20 indian soldiers died in a mass brawl were iron bars and wooden clubs are used as weapons top diplomats from the 2 countries have spoken over the phone and agreed to more talks now on the disputed border lies in the call one valley region near indeed administered kashmir or 2 of his hoodie on has more. In the remote western himalayas there is little evidence of what let indian and chinese soldiers to the worst of violence in decades. India and china share of the world the longest unmarked border. Chinese
First we are going to talk about general william t. Sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into South Carolina. He built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. He discus