The shock area this is al jazeera life and also coming out the french president offers to help mediate between iraqs government and kurds wanting to break away. The meticulously planned on the worst mess because you know if they. Say the las vegas gunman was disturbed and dangerous and spent years building up a stockpile of weapons plus. Im going to be reporting from bangkok where there is a last minute rush to ties to pay their last respects to the late king before his funeral. Iraqs Prime Minister says his military has recount turtle beach a from eisel the campaign to retake the northern town was announced two weeks ago we just one of just two remaining pockets of territory held by eisel in iraq thousands of civilians fled to nearby areas during the campaign in a moment we will go to Natasha Butler in paris for the french and iraqi leaders have been meeting first though to trial strafford into this for the latest in this fight against. Other Iraqi Government saying that they have ret
Taters is the news hour live from london coming up. Separations as Iraqi Forces Push on still out of her region its last stronghold in the north of the country. This is the red cross says there is suffering its worst violence since the battle for east and the. Spains biggest bank to move its legal base out of catalonia the countrys top court has also bought the council on parliament for meeting. And he said the las vegas gunman had previously booked rooms overlooking two other Music Festivals. And im sorry a small have all your days sport including a late penalty cheap syrias world cup hopes alive as they battle for a draw but against australia in their world cup qualifier. Iraqi forces have captured the town of her region and the surrounding area isis last stronghold in Northern Iraq the Iraqi Military say some fighting is still going on to the north and east of the town where i saw a surrounded troops were greeted by jubilant villagers in the zaka six kilometers northwest of town the
Stage devoted to the 1820s and 1860s. Among many of his accomplishments, too many that i could go to tonight. High seeked and difference and desires of americans. Hes working with cureuating new exhibits and portraying americas workers 1750, 2015. Speaking directly to his talk tonight, david has his fourth scene on view now, it is calling dark field of the republican. Alexander garner photograph 1857 to 1872. Which in multitude severals lincoln paragraph. This i mage was the you my remember last year walt wittman was a theme of our lincoln event. I may mention that along the way, with his work of the National Gallery of david ward is a poet and an editor and a literally critic. His poetries was published in 2011 called internal difference. David earned his bachelors degree from the university of rochester and Yale University and england. Please join me in welcoming david ward. [ applause ] thank you, brian, thank you all, i am delighted to be here. We ai want to congratsulatioe portrai
Gold medalist returned to North Carolina were rio police could requestion him. On thursday after speaking with police for a second day connor bents and jack conger, as for jamie feigen he is only swimmer to sill in rio. His lawyer said he will pay a 10,000 fine and leave brazil today n that instagram statement lochte says he wait todd comment on that instance until the legal matter was handled and sure his teammates would be arriving home safely. Olympic organizers and rio mayor say that they expect, lochtes apology. Meantime Major League Baseball has cleared ryan howard of any wrong to go in connection with allegations of Phillies First base man used human growth harmone. Doping claims were made by pharmacist charlie sly in an aljazeera documentary last winter. League also considered Ryan Zimmerman of the washington nationals. Both players, filed defamation lawsuits begins aljazeera in january. And the president ial race, is there another major staff change, in Donald Trumps campaign.
I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. I would like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have warren come up here. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Cedar creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great hist