Humanity is the essential element, we share that with them. Gives a deeper appreciation of history. Take away all the halos and look upon them as real people and we will be inspired by them, i think, much more keenly. Thank you all very much. [applause] cspan2 providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend booktv for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as Public Service by local cable satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. How do you acquire a book . There are a million ways to do it. One, which is not often talked about, you really come up with an idea and you try to find the perfect writer, the person whose passion for the idea matches yours, and that is one way you can make a book happen. Another way is you make sure to talk to agents as much as possible to see what kind of projec
Company, about succession and more. Apparently that race is down now to two guys. Yeah. Well take a look at who they are and why they are potentially his successors. Lots of good questions there. Meantime, stocks are rallying on the first trading day of the month, and even though they are coming off the best month since october 2011. The big market story here is the nasdaq hitting 5,000. Remember, it was 15 years ago this month on march 10th 2000 to be exact when the nasdaq hit its peak. March 2009 when it hit its low. We Team Coverage for you. Melissa lee on why it is different this time around. Bertha coombs on what the fax 100 is telling us. Are first, dominik chew standing right next to me looking at the stocks that got us here. Dom, what are the names . I mean over the past year there have been stellar runups. Obviously, when were at 15year highs for the nasdaq a lot of companies have to contribute but its a market cap weighted index, and these are the stocks that have big market
Welcome to americas news headquarters, i am eric shawn. Hello. Im in for arthel. The coalition of senators select say they will vote to oppose, formalizing Electoral College results, its just one more chapter in an election battle that still play out. Rick is live at the white house, the latest on all of this. Rich. Reporter good afternoon. This is just days ahead of Congress Working to formalize results of the 2020 president ial election. A session that will now feature objecting debates and voting. All that coming as now growing list of republicans joining that effort. They will object during next weeks joint session including senators ted cruz, ron johnson, john kennedy and incoming oaxacan senators, Roger Marshall and tommy taber will among others. The right, we do not take this action lightly. Rather to protect it. Every one of us should act together to ensure the election was awfully conducted under the constitution and do everything we can to restore faith in our democracy. Demo
And African Swine Fever is going global as vietnam has to kill off millions of pizzas expert experts are calling it the largest Animal Disease Outbreak. Also on the show the number of millionaires is rising. Tension up in the race of the rich. This is business as welcome shes in pain has become the 1st chinese leader to visit neighboring north korea for 14 years its a sign of improving relations between the 2 traditional allies despite a drop in trade between them both president g. M. Kim your own will want to make sure that trade remains strong despite u. N. Sanctions against china secretive communist brother country. The chinese president s arrival on north korean soil was a momentous one clearly not everything that crosses the border between the 2 allies is rooted with such excitement most of the exchanges between china and north korea happen here the Friendship Bridge across the yalu river 70 percent of bilateral
trade passes here between dandong and the north korean city of sin na
If the last few weeks have proved anything, it cannot be taken for granted. Talking to the plant pickers, Prince Charles calls on pickers who are stickers, to join a National Effort to help farmers with the harvest. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Latest figures show that deaths in care homes now account for a quarter of all coronavirus related deaths in the uk. The office for National Statistics says the number of deaths in care homes since the start of the pandemic is now more than 11,000. Thats more than a quarter of the overall number of people who have died in the uk with coronavirus related symptoms. That number stands at 41,020. Meanwhile, the Economic Impact of the crisis shows a sharp rise in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits. That number has soared to more than two million. Well have more on the impact onjobs in a moment, but our first report comes from our Health Correspondent lauren moss. Its another day counting the human cost of the coronavirus.