Capitol. Your guy becoming the first in the world to legalize the trade in marijuana. These are live pictures from the government building there in the capitol. Allowing to see him before he is buries on sunday. The countrys first black president died in his home six days ago. Now mike, you have been standing outside the building watching the dig nit tears coming in and out. Whats been the mood there . The respectful move we have seen here, the viewing of the body began within the last half hour. That is they were the first to view the body, and since thin we have seen a number heads of state pass through, particularly african heads of state. He was all an old friend of Nelson Mandela, in the freedom struggle. A stream of dignitaries from this continent, and far beyond, and then within the next few hours it will be the publics turn, ordinary South Africans the people for whom mandela fought so long and suffered so much, they will be filing pass in the Union Buildings. Now mike, just ta
Time, ten years later in 2020 for the number will be below 100,000 so the generation as generations do is slipping away, theyre passing over and i think we are finding 6 children, grandchildren, even great grandchildren who are keen to understand what their fathers, grandfathers did in part because it is part of their heritage, part of a parsimonious and part of understanding who we are, where we came from, world war ii affects us in very profound ways to this day, the way we think about gender, we are talking at the military academy, the way we think about race, the way we think about our role in the world. We will never be isolationist again the way we were before 1941. All of this do block from world war ii and people are interested in that just as they are interested in their own personal family histories so i think that helps to feed this ongoing fascination with it. Finally it is the greatest catastrophe in human history, sixty million dead. It is on not to watch a train wreck, h
Canada to geneva. French oil company has been killed in a plane crash on a moscow runway. We begin in iraq and the governor of kirkook told al jazeera he needs help from the u. S. Led coalition to stoep stop isil from taking the city and the oilrich area lies on the main road between baghdad and arbil and goes from the town of dibs to south of the city to the town of kirkuk and the towns are 500 meters from each other and we have a report from kirkuk. Reporter the kurds own the oil fields but maybe not much longer. There is a 64 kilometer defensive perimeter around this city in northern iraq, kurdish troops replace Government Forces here when isil pushed them out of many cities in june and since then there has been a struggle to hold the ster territory and the governor is asking the coalition to launch intense and sustained assault from the group and isil wants kirkuk oil fields. That is what i said when i talked to them here and that is why its so important for the United States and f
Affectional observers. So i lean on them heavily. People like ernie pyle, and others, ive is then sent to cover the war in new york with a really wonderful liberation trilogy there is nothing like how it comes out of the european theater. There are some pretty good memoirs. And it holds up pretty well. Bradley wrote to memoirs. A soldier story in a general story. But it was nothing that quite has the resonance and the grittiness of the other book. This is ernie pyle. I look at it this way, if by having by only a small army, we have been able to save a half million lives in europe. If such things were true, i wasnt sure they were true. You just feel the way that it is so knew ye. Here is a guy from indiana writing about aviation and things before the war. And then somehow they accidentally become a war correspondent. They have written millions of words before the war began. Of course, have a great knack of empathy. It is always with a grunt with the emperor chairman. He goes through har
Broadcaster. And we have lift off. And going where no olympic torch has ever gone 3w6. 3w6 before. The sochi olympic flame blasts into space. Details later in the program. Of well it appears as they are demanding an International Investigation after new evidence shows that their former leader Yasser Arafat was almost certainly pois poisoned of. The swiss scientists found pulonium 210, 18 tile 18 18 timr than normal. He was exhumed last year. First they found high amounts bleof blewflplunomiom poising p. They received the information from their lawyer. If i was a judge and jury this is stone stone cold certain. It was pe pulonium that caused e death of Yasser Arafat. For widow an daughter its 100 proof. When they came with the results, i said again, you told me he just died. I will not stop. Me and my daughter will go to all courts in all over the worlds to punish who did this crime. Now that i have proof that he was poison i feel relieved, actually. The final close your for me will be