These trials were not held by what we consider to be modern law. Has not been in place and no one has a defense the were no lawyers. Tonight, author stacy schiff talks about her book the witches, on the salem witch trials. Part with theting accusations is that wealthy merchants were accused as witches, sea captains were accused as witches homeless fiveyearold girls were accused to be witches. This is not an incident where all the victims are female. We have five male victims, including on minister. We didnt burn them, we hang to them. Hanged them. There is so much myth, i thought it was important to dispel. A signature feature of the coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country, with Nonfiction Author talks, interviews, viewer callin segments. Coming up they will be live from the miami book fair. Authors include representative john lewis discussing his book march. I live callin with author peggy noonan. Joins us tor discuss her book, the story. Book,d koppel on his ligh
And arent united after more than 30 years, argentinas stolen faces. But officers the United States has launched a second round of airstrikes against fighters belonging to the Islamic State group in Northern Iraq. Fighter jets attack their positions in erbil. The white house said its protecting refugees and citizens. Delivering aid to the yazidi Minority Group that had left after capturing the town of sinjar. President obama explains his decision to launch the airstrikes. As commander in chief i will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. The combat troops will not be returned to fight in iraq because there is no American Military solution to the crisis there. But we will continue our broader strategy in iraq. We will protect our citizens. Well work with the International Community to address this humanitarian crisis and well help prevent these terrorists from having a permanent safehaven, and well urge the communities to reconcile, come together an
Its cooperation with ukraine. The observatory for human rights says the number People Killed in syrias civil war has now reached 150,000, one third of them civilians. Also coming up, Business News rivet we will be hearing about american lawmakers grilling the chief executive of General Motors. Facing difficult questions over Technical Glitch that led to the deaths of 13 people. That is coming up in just a moment. Inst, news just coming tonight, john kerry has been speaking about the middle east Peace Process which seemed the last few days to be on the brink of collapse. Not so to the secretary of state. Speaking in brussels tonight he said a lot of strategies were still in play and it is far too premature to write off the Peace Process. John kerry has canceled a planned visit tomorrow, he was due to meet with the palestinian president mahmud abbas. He was trying to rescue the talks in which a faltered over the issue of 26 palestinian prisoners that israel is refusing to release. A pale
The military having said they had achieved total control of the nation. And now, it has been essentially run over by opponents to the coup, supporters of the government, who are now essentially occupying that studio and broadcasting out in the midst of this unfolding series of events. We do not know the whereabouts of the turkish president erdogan, an extremely controversial figure being although he has face timed into media stations, urging people to take to the streets after the coup became clear. People have responded. All of the various opposition parties, even opposition parties that have been relentlessly persecuted by erdogan, have also expressed their opposition to the coup. We also have reports of gunfire being exchanged. Weve seen videos of helicoptering shooting down at civilians. We have word of explosions in ankara. I want to go straight to our nbc news producer on the ground in istanbul. What have you heard . Reporter well, i can certainly tell you that weve been hearing