applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurric
Hurricane katrina, 10 years ago. I knew that for my generation, we owed it to my parents generation. To make sure it came back. The actor also recently starred in the film selma, half a century after the civil right march, pierce said he stood on the symbolic Edmund Pettus bridge, and reflected on the movement. All the souls at the bottom of that Alabama River saying, just tell us the way, make sure they dont forget us. When a critic said, the decision to wear an i cant breathe t shirt, protesting Police Violence at the movies premiere, might cost an oscar, pierce said he has no regrets. Something that we vigilantly fight against and know, and that people will rationalize violence, in ways that are just ugly. And divine intervention, is how he describes his work in treme, a drama, set in post katrina new orleans. I literally held my mother in my arms, the last moments of her life, and it was because i was here doing treme. I caught up with Wendell Pierce as the 10th anniversary of katr
Today, ukrainian president , roishenko, said that rebels are pouring in, and six more ukrainian troops died today. And nine more wounded. Meanwhile, russian president , vladimir putin, accused the United States of foam enting a new cold warp. Russias president is still strong. The german business groups have been some of the biggest opponents to western sanctions on russia, and even so, the European Union promises more sanctions in the pipeline if russia doesnt back off. And ukraine, thats why putin is warning the industry and agriculture to come up with plan b. Today, putin urged companies to sale to russias domestic market and away from trade with the west. And indeed, they have set off a new doled war, and the weapons are not planes or rocket launchers, though we have seen plenty of that on the ukraine, its everything that the people need to live, these polish apple farmers are on the front lines of a war waging between russia and the west, sparked by the real war in ukraine. Polish
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Over the next hour im going to take you on a journey that illustrates how russias confrontation with the west is spreading far beyond the ukraine. Flash points like donetsk and luhansk have set off a new cold war global tensions from nato to moscow. President obama and british Prime Minister David Cameron have warned about a frozen conflict. Steven harper has been even more blunt telling putin, quote, you need to get out of ukraine. But the message has been clear. Nato has been taking advantage by butting in on its new sphere of influence and russia will no longer take it. Putin has vowed to protect russian people and their interests abroad. But the wests situation with russia, has much to do with energy. As far north as the Arctic Circle, competing for precious Natural Resources and polar shipping lanes with new urgency. And yet whats happened in Eastern Ukraine may have fundamentally changed the game. Today a new cold war is brewing. Its 10 00 a. M. An atom morning autumn morning in