[applause] hello everyone. Is the day the lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. It is his day. So, good morning. Welcome to the dedication of the museum of the bible, the first worldclass museum to the bible and the history of though whirled. What a blessing to have you here. Were so pleased everyone is here. Youll hear from a lot of wonderful people today and you are making History Today as we thecate this museum and washington, d. C. , area but it is also the Nations Museum in the worlds museum. As you can see, we are located in our worlds stage theater. It is wonderful theater. We are hosting, cohosting the Broadway Musical amazing grace. Theyre here. They had their second performance last night. They are going to perform a limited engagement through january 7. You can get your tickets online. There is my commercial. Museumofthebible. Org. Allpurpose is to invite people to engage in this wonderful book we call the bible. Its history, its narrative, and its impact. Those i
You are making History Today as we dedicate this museum in the d. C. Area, but its also the Nations Museum and its the worlds museum. As you can see, we are located in our world stage theater. It is a wonderful theater. We are hosting, cohosting the Broadway Musical amazing grace. They are here. They had their second performance last night and theyre going to perform on a limited engagement through january 7. If you havent got your tickets, you need to get them. You can go online at the museum of the bible. Org. There is my commercial. [laughter] [applause] you know, our mission as an educational, innovative, and global institute, our purpose is really this to invite all people to engage in this wonderful book called the bible. Its history, narrative, and impact. Those are the three themes you will see throughout this museum. It continues to lift up people and we have lifted up already thousands of people in our grand opening events as you can imagine. Two litmus questions before we cr
The earthquake here hundreds of thousands of people are living in tent cities and no excess to clean Drinking Water and still on going reports of rape. Syrians are pushing forward to rebel positions, activists are saying that the opposition fighters could be losing a strategic position of the country and that means that rebel controlled areas could be cutoff and the fighting is continuing. The opposition fights are simmering for months now and the internal fighting the focussed. In the past week infighting is intensified leaving 500 people and dozens of fighters are being kidnapped and we are getting reports that the Al Qaeda Linked fighters have control of a key town. We have the latest from monitoring the situation in syria from neighboring lebanon. It seems that the Government Forces are taking advantage of the infighting. The rebels are bogged down in their own war and the regime is trying to move forward and make advances, it is a strategic territory and Industrial Area and the ma
Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Thousands of mourners say goodbye to former israeli Prime Minister ariel sharon. His body will lie in state and monday will be laid to rest at his family farm in israel. Dignitaries are expected to attend the journal and Vice President joe biden will lead a delegation from the United States. Nick schifrin joins us live from jerusalem. Walk us through the next few hours and days leading up to Ariel Sharons funeral. What protocol will be observed according to jewish law . What you are seeing now is the equivalent of ariel sharon laying in state behind me. That is the coffin and these are the visitors. Behind me is the israeli knesset, the parliament, the closest they have to the u. S. Congress. What you see is ariel sharon laying in state, being given the honours that a former Prime Minister, general, as decorated as he is is given here. He will lay in state for the next few hours. Tomorrow mor
Strategy. Host bing west has been our guest this month on in depth. He is the author of seven nonfiction books and one novel, and this book right here, the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan, is booktvs Book Club Selection for the month. Booktv. Org, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Live coverage on cspan and cspan2, here on cspan3, we are the home to American History tv with programs and events until our nations story. Lectures include delving into americas past and our new series real america features archival films produced in the 1930s to the 1970s. We travel to museums and Historic Sites to learn what this reveals about history. This focus is on the nations commanders in chief and we will go to the battlefield for key events and figures during the 150th anniversary of the civil war. Cspan3, created by cable tv and funded by your local cable and satellite provider. Follow us on twitter. Next on booktv, the National Black writers conferen