Buses aside to make their way in to this area and then they staged a sit in if you will for several hours and then when it became very late at night kind of a couple of 100 several 100 hardcore protesters stayed here overnight then at 4 am thats when the government issued an emergency decree saying that any group over 5 was illegal and thats when we saw that clearing out process that led to this empty street behind me yemens who the rebels have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 fighters the swap is the 1st of several prisoner exchanges expected in the coming days between the saudi Live Television and movies. Fighting is escalating between armenia and azerbaijan the azeris say they have destroyed missile launchers that were targeting their cities medium government denies its forces have been firing into. Protests continuing in cyprus against government corruption they follow an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell passports to convicted crimi
Protests and said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election where the state the president approved of support but his Prime Minister cypresses speaker of parliament has resigned in the wake of the cash for passport scheme the controversy was brought to light by an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government is now bullish the program the rebels in yemen have released to us citizens in exchange for 250 of the fighters the free 2 thieves of arrived in yemens capital sanaa off to going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday the whole data has more on the how the exchange is being carried out. A senior official is saying that the operation is under way and theyre expecting the 1800. 00 prisoners to be released today so what is going to be happening from a logistical perspective is that were going to see plays taken. Prisoners all the way from the word and then
Flown from the saudi city of all the way to words the capital sanaa sources from both the government and the hotels are saying this expecting the operation to and by to morrow kyrgyzstans new Prime Minister says are jumper off as resumes president ial powers after the resignation of the current president and the parliamentary speaker have been weeks of antigovernment protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protesters accuse the government of rigging the vote in its favor you see thousands of antigovernment protesters are still out on the streets of bangkok their sorrow openly defying a government ban on public gatherings theyre calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and for reforms to the monarchy the government imposed its emergency measures in the Early Morning hours to stop months of demonstrations. The speaker of the cyprus parliaments to meet choose c. Or c. Lura has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and ill just say their inves
Ross said look you know the current of our situation isnt out of control in france but it is certainly extremely urgent and that is why he said it was necessary to put in place this new restriction he is imposing a nighttime curfew all paris and 8 other major cities now what that means is between 9 oclock at night and 6 oclock in the morning businesses restaurants cinemas the it is will have to close people will be expected not to be on the streets unless theyve got a very good reason for being there. The u. K. Meanwhile has recorded nearly 20000 new Coronavirus Infections in one day its the countrys a 2nd highest daily increase wednesday also saw the start of a new 3 tier restriction system in liverpool and its surrounding areas bars and gyms are closing as the region enters the highest level lets go to afghanistan now where tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after heavy fighting between the taliban and Government Troops taliban fighters have been battlin
Dwight pitcaithley. [applause] ms. Drake dr. Pitcaithley nick promised he was not going to include the rockstar part. Thanks to nick for that wonderful introduction. Thank you that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 30 or 45 minutes. Robert and moran, who, many of you know, was a Pulitzer Prize civil war is our only felt history. History lived in the national imagination. I think thats true whether your ancestry goes back that far or not. My mostly does not. But the civil war affects ken burns, maybe its part of the dna. We think about it a lot. Every year when i teach the civil war course, the first day i give my students an exam and i ask them, in a word or phrase tell me what caused the civil war, what caused secession . Without secession there is no civil war. Everybody has an answer. Its not the same answer. But they all have an answer. Its states rights no, no, no. Its labored. No, its the tariff. General economic issues. I think its cultural differences to train