Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison strewart. Stewart good evening, and thanks for joining us. The United States and russia are promoting a new plan to end syrias civil war, now in its sixth year, having caused half a Million Deaths and forced millions to flee as refugees. In talks in geneva, switzerland u. S. Secretary of state john kerry and Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said a countrywide cease fire is scheduled to take effect at sundown on monday. It calls for Government Forces of president Bashar Alassad backed by russia and rebels backed by the u. S. To stop shooting while humanitarian aid is delivered w
Cspan2. Booktv live coverage of the Annapolis Book festival continues. Starting now a panel on drone warfare. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Annapolis Book festival. We will be Getting Started in just a minute. This is being broadcast on cspan booktv. We ask that you silence yourself and then remain quiet during the discussion. It is my distinct honor to share the stage with these tremendous authors. Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im going to let each of them talk for about ten minutes, then im going to take the power of the chair and ask a few questions and then open up to the audience for questions. On my immediate right is richard whittle. His book, predator the secret origins of the drone revolution, is the book well be discussing today. Richards a career journalist, he cut his teeth at the raleigh news and observer, then on to the Dallas Morning News where he covered defense issues for a numb
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
Look back at a letter fromr kings jail and the life and death of medgar evers. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] a legend when he was only 12 and he said when he asked his father why would they him and his father said that is what they do. So he said im sure he was a bit angry, frustrated. He was hurt. So getting away from it, i said away from mississippi he he wasd not army when only 16 and served in world war ii. Defendingabout america. It didnt matter about the color of his skin until he came back his to mississippi and on 21st birthday he tried to register to vote. Charles whorother was also a veteran and other veterans and these group of them aroundrned with shotguns and ran them off and medgar says we ran, we did not go up against those men but made medgar get serious. From the American History tour of the Civil Rights Movement tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern on span. Friday on cspan in prime time, important sites in the Civil Rights Movement. Saturday ni
And what kind of, negotiations pressure whatever you want to call it, are we entering into with the u. N. So that does not happen again . Well, which, the short fall itself the u. N. World Food Programme . Right. Unfortunately people have made pledges arent stepping up and demand is increasing and this has reached it is largest humanitarian crisis on the planet today and it is going to get worse. Im sitting here, this is part of frustration. It is going to get worse. We are the largest single donor in the world and we should be proud of that. More than 3 billion weve put on the table since 2011 more than any donor. We had three million into the red crescent to provide syrians and refugees from kobani. We put 133 million into the world Food Programme and other partners because of the emergency needs. Its not sustainable and its one of the reasons why were looking at this question and syria and other things with great urgency right nows as to what other alternatives may be available. 201