Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, sought a better relationship with the soviet union, and presented his doubts on the u. S. Involvement in the non. This is about one hour. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be back at politics and prose, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, not just in washington, d. C. Id like to ask you, who here has seen the portrait of kennedy in the National Portrait gallery in the halls of kennedy . Thats great. You know its quite unlike any of the other portraits. It was painted by the estranged wife of the story behind how the portrait happened to be there i think is a kind of interesting one and, in fact, i opened my book with it. Id like to share it with you just briefly. She was supposed to paint one portrait for the Truman Library in independence, missouri, and she was chosen because everybody knew that john f. Kennedy was too restless to sit for portrait painter. So William Weldon thought lets get elaine it was not as the fastest brush in
Bill must be approved by the house of lords. Heres a 90 minute portion of the debate. I beg to the death of marriage to samesex couples bill be read a second time. Mr. Speaker, you and i know that every marriage is different. Indeed any husband or wife is a member of this house is a very distinct set of challenges to face every day. [laughter] was marriage offers us all is a lifelong partner to share our journey, a loving, stable relationship to strength a nice and a mutual support throughout our lives. I believe this is something that should be embraced by more couples, feeling, love and commitment is no difference between samesex couples and opposite not couples. This enables society to recognize that commitment in the same way through marriage. Parliament should value people equally and a lot and enabling samesex couples to marry removes the current differentiation and distinction. Theres no single view on equal marriage from religious organization. Some are deeply opposed, others t
Us to dig for our moral compass and push our country forward. Leaders like del mar. In and phyllis lion who still carry on, despite the passing of del. Frank kennedy, barrick lost and, if your margin. [applause] despite all their accomplishments i suspect not one of them would claim to have made the loan. In communities across the country they came together with lovers, friends carry compatriots in the struggle for human rights, they created families. Chosen families. Well the community suddenly did not invent the idea of a dozen family i believe through necessity and through our struggle to survive and to love for the may have perfected. [applause] i have been in this movement along time, and we have changed everything from the words we use to describe our love for each other to changing the words we use in our marriage campaigns. We learned over time and through more than a few losses what truly touches peoples emotions and what changes their votes, that a vote is a personal thing, t
Growing fears that it wont be possible to stop the spread of coronavirus across the world. In italy, the number of cases rockets and 11 towns are put into quarantine. Also on the programme. As Bernie Sanders emerges as democratic frontrunner we look ahead to the next nine days. Will it be a lingering fight, or a decisive end . From howdy modi to namaste trump donald trump begins a two day visit to india with hopes of a major trade deal with south asias biggest economy. And keeping all our sporting dreams alive a zamboni driver gets the emergency call in a professional hockey game. Best of all it has a storybook ending. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington, James Reynolds in london. Harvey weinstein, once the most powerful man in hollywood, has been convicted of rape and Sexual Assault against two women. But the jury of seven men and five women acquitted him of two of the most serious charges at his trial in new york. The guilty verdict is a dizzying fall for the hollywood
Thats right. 100,000 americans dead. Potentially a best Case Scenario. And with the president calls a good job. Thats a drastic change from what the president had to say just over a month ago. On february 26th, he use d a similar phrase. The difference, well, ill let the president s own words speak for themselves. When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple days will be down to close to seetzero, ts a pretty good job we have done. Why the change this tone from the president . Perhaps something to do with the r5e89 check offered by dr. Fauci this morning, the top Infectious Disease specialist, who did not sugar case the worst Case Scenario for our country. Looking at what were seeing now, i would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases, but i dont want to be held to that becau because excuse me, deaths. Well have millions of cases. I just dont think we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong. Lets look at the data of what we