Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be like the sort of pantheon book of history, you know, with everything, everything in it. Its actually going on what fascinates me in history, and its going to be probably the shortest book ive written, in fact, of all my books because its just going to be, its going to be a literary and philosophical look at life and the world. But through the lives of people. So thats why its called a biography, rather like i did in jerusalem. So thats going to be one hell of a challenge, too, but its wildly ex
Us. For the choices that our parents made. Fighting deportation. A woman waits to find out if her younger brother has to leave the u. S. , which is the only home the two have ever known. Good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its been held as afghans first democratic transition of power. In under an hour when the polls will close, security is tight. 200,000 troops deploy to protect the voters. The taliban is calling the election a sham and threatens to disrupt a process. Outgoing President Hamid karzai cast his vote and a top c contender Zalmai Rassoul cast his at the polling stags. Hes believed to have Hamid Karzais backing, but officials warn of possible corruption in his campaign. Bernard smith has more. Weve had thunder, lightening, its poring with rain and theres the threat of violence. Kabul, the city is on lockdown. There are checkpoints every 200m. Despite all of that we are seeing long queues at polling stations with kav gans d
Im tim wilcox live where more victims of flight mh 17 have been flown to netherlands for identification. A major briefing on the evolution of dinosaurs. Newly discovered fossils suggest the giant beasts may have been covered in feathers earlier than we thought. Also in the program, we have the business news. Has it stretched too far . Amazon is a true retail giant. Its announced a funky phone, tv and maybe plans for a drone. Investors have loved the man behind it all. Can he be king of the jungle forever . Very warm welcome to you. Its midday here in london, 7 00 a. M. Washington, 2 00 p. M. Gaza. Palestinian leaders have called for a day of anger. Tensions continue to to spread over the rising death toll from israeli attacks. Overnight, palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli Soldiers in the west bank. 10,000 people took to the streets, the worst violence near a check point. The security cabinet is preparing to discuss new american proposals for humanitarian cease fire. More th
Terrorist attacks. Most of the International Forces in the country are scheduled to leave by the end of this year. Health officials in the gaza strip say more than 800 people have died in israels current military campaign. Antiisrael sentiment is rising in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. The Officials Say the ground operations israel started one week ago have killed 583 people. When cash casualties from the previous ten days of air strikes are added, the death t Officials Say most of the fatalities were civilians. The Israeli Military blames hamas for the civilian deaths. They say the Islamist Group that controls gaza is launching attacks from houses, mosques, and schools. Israeli Security Forces shot and killed one palestinian during a clash with protesters near the west bank city of ramallah on thursday night. Israeli authorities are sending Security Forces to the old city of jerusalem ahead of friday prayers when thousands of muslims gather at mosques. Authorities across
Terrorist attacks. Most of the International Forces in the country are scheduled to leave by the end of this year. Health officials in the gaza strip say more than 800 people have died in israels current military campaign. Antiisrael sentiment is rising in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. The Officials Say the ground operations israel started one week ago have killed 583 people. When cash casualties from the previous ten days of air strikes are added, the death t Officials Say most of the fatalities were civilians. The Israeli Military blames hamas for the civilian deaths. They say the Islamist Group that controls gaza is launching attacks from houses, mosques, and schools. Israeli Security Forces shot and killed one palestinian during a clash with protesters near the west bank city of ramallah on thursday night. Israeli authorities are sending Security Forces to the old city of jerusalem ahead of friday prayers when thousands of muslims gather at mosques. Authorities across