Historic visit. European leaders have so far failed to agree on an unified policy to deal with a refugee crisis. Thousands have arrived by train and by bus. Many are now head to go austria from hungary and slovenia, many by foot. The slovenian Prime Minister has criticized croatias decision to send refugees to its border. They visited a refugee camp with croatia. Thousands are hoping to enter slovenia and travel on to austria and germany and they accuse croatia of not doing enough to control the situation. We know were confronted by a large wave of refugees coming from croatia. Unfortunately, croatia has not fulfilled its responsibility. They have not been behaving appropriately as they send refugees towards slovenia. Laurence lee has been speaking with refugees we have this report. Since hungary closed its border and put a razor wire up, croatia has had no choice but to try to disperse them in different directions. Some are forced into hungary. They have been moving them towards the b
As japan beats south africa. It has been just nine months since the left wing syriza party swept to victory in greas greeca platform to stop austerity. A staff photo was called after syriza lost its parliamentary majority in august. The party of the leader Alexis Tsipras plummeted. , after syriza had promised to oafoppose austerity measures. Lets go live to greeces Second National city, thessaloniki. Hoda abdel hamid is there. Even just two months ago when the greeks went to vote in the referendum they voted no to a third bailout program. They said it was about greeces dignity and then when the Prime Minister had to accept that bailout, then that dignity was scorned. So now theyre coming back to the ballot. Lots of people i spoke to said we dont know who were going to vote, doesnt really matter, even that different ie image tht Alexis Tsipras was giving, is he really different from the old establishment . When you look at the old opinion polls they put a new democracy not very far behi
One of the big upsets history. As japan beats 2time winner sav yeah greece syriza swept to victory on a platform to fight austerity. Now the party is battling to stay in power. The snap vote was called after syriza lost its parliamentary majority in august. The popularity of its leader fell after he agreed to try a new bale off deal. The bailout involved Economic Reforms which syriza promised to oppose. He angered members of the party by signing the deal after a referendum in which more than 60 of voters rejected austerity measures. And now the new Democracy Party poses the greatest challenge to syriza. Lets take you live to grease. Al jazeeras Hoda Abdelhamid is outside a polling station there. Hoda abdelhamid, nine months after they were last asked to vote for a government. How did people feel about the election . Well, they are tired and exhausted about the economic turmoil. A couple of months ago they were in the same police. There were many voting in the everyoned um. It is six re
And a big upset in world cup history. Japan takes on 2time winner south africa its been just nine months since the left wing syriza party swept to victory in greece on a platform to fight austerity measures. And now they fight for power. The snap vote called after syriza lost its parliamentary majority in august. Popularity of its leader Alexis Tsipras plummeted after agreeing to a bailout deal with e. U. Lenders, it promised tough reforms that syriza promised to oppose. Alexis tsipras signed the bailout deal after a referendum in which 60 of voters rejected the proposed austerity measures. We are joined live. Hoda abdelhamid, we have not seen a huge amount of enthu yax for the vote. You can understand when either way greeks will be hit with more austerity. Well, definitely they are going to get hit with more austerity, the whole point of the next government. And that is why Alexis Tsipras tried to call for this snap elections. He wants to get a mann day if he wins to push forward with
Creole affair, the slave rebellion that led the u. S. And Great Britain to war, but arthur downey. He has been an officer, and a diplomat and former staff member of the National Security council. For a dozen years he taught International Law at georgetown university. His first book was published. His current book the creole affair was published last year. He is in the stages to complete his book deal that will be published in september. Please join me in welcoming him to the national archives. [applause] good afternoon. For most of us, American History begins with the American Revolution and the drafting of the restitution and perhaps make a brief stop at though war of 1812. Then we rush onto the civil war. As a result, that period imagery in between is a black hole. In that black hole there took place in rebellion that led the u. S. And british to the brink of another war. I want to tell you this interesting story. On october 25, 1841, the creole left the dog in richmond, virginia, wi