It is on the verge of success suspending embattled president seth platter. The russians say that their warships in the caspian sea fired missiles targeting the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. Theyre targeting rebel fighters not isil. From the caspian sea, russia opened the second front in the syrian war, unleashing missiles at isil positions. They were hallelujahed without warning. They were broadcast on russian state television. With a range of 2. 5000 kilometers the targets were well within reach. They obtained permission from iran and iraq to overfly their territory to enable the missiles to reach the targets. Russia released graphics showing the missiles over iran and iraq and avoiding southeastern turk turkey. The minister briefed the president on the strike. Data indicates that all targets were destroyed. The strike was totally unexpected, and it begs the question why russia would target isil positions 1200 kilometers away when its got a large Fighter Bomber force on the gr
If you agree raise your hands. Those were the words of the palestinian leadership as they signed a treaty applying to join the International Criminal court. It was one of over 20 treaties signed by Mahmood Abbas following the rejection of the draft resolution for an end to israeli occupation. In a moment well have reaction from editor james bays. What has been the reaction there . Well, a bold move after a very disappointing day. Several international treesies, including the rome statute. This is very significant because it effectively starts the palestinians down the road of joining the International Criminal court. Thats something that they suggested for years now that they wanted to do. Now predictbly theville are very angry at it. Benjamin netanyahu saying, quote, the palestinians have more to fear from the icc than the israelis do. This is significant. The icc would effectively allow the palestinians to press war crime charges against the israelis. The israeli Prime Minister sayin
Icon, a National Hero of unimaginable proportion and a legend whose name will live in history long after all here today have. Forgotten. Fate looked down kindly on us when she chose neil to be the first to venture to another world. To have the opportunity to look back from space at the beauty of our own. It could have been another. Ow it wasnt. It wasnt for a reason. No one, no one, but no one could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grace than Neil Armstrong. He embodied all that is good and all that is great about america. More from the Memorial Service for Neil Armstrong thanksgiving day on cspan at 10 oom eastern and just before 11 30, a behind the scenes look at life as a teenager in the white house with susan ford baal and Lyndon Johnson rob, and after one, how Scientists Use game skills and theories to solve world problems. A conversation with president obamas biographers after his reelection. Hear from journalists ron su
So she was very resentfull and said this is ridiculous and i have to pay them a fortune and it was outf of the money they were being paid. How did abigail handle the sons alcohol problem . She didnt talk about it. Two things you didnt talk about and one was alcoholism. Her brother died from alcoholism and when her son was ill all they said was he was a problem. It was clear he was dying. She dealt better than john. John said i will have nothing to do with him. But i found a wonderful letter from john to their youngest son after charles had died saying my loosing the presidency is nothing. I would never have been president and i would have given my life itself for charles to live. So you know how deep the afffection was but it was a horrible thing. And if anyone coughed, you just ignored it. If they sneezed, it was all right. But if you coughed it might mean you had tb. So you would never mention, particularly in a letter, someone was coughing. You might say they have a fever and down t
Utah about this woman who was a district leader 20 years before she was allowed to vote. How common was female leadership in tammany hall and what specifically did it do to help women suffrage . First of all, i have no idea how she got to the place where she was so early. Murphy and smith was supposed to first but the Womens Suffrage Movement past did new york 1979 believed. Maybe 1918 only when tammany decided, there was the calculation and realize where history was going it had failed before in new york. The reformers try to get it through but tammany changed under murphy it passed. Almost immediately when they are appointed as district leaders almost immediately certainly in the 1920s you see stories in the new york press the women of tammany hall. Lot of them were wives of officials but nevertheless they were integrated. I would not necessarily say they were in advanced on womens rights issues but they were there and women got the right to vote in new york ahead of every other stat