Borisjohnson urges the eu to show that its willing to compromise with the uk on a brexit deal. Police in hong kong charge protestors with batons and use tear gas once again a day after the government bring in emergency legislation banning the use of face masks. Roman catholic bishops are gathering at the vatican this morning, as the pope opens a three week synod focusing on the Amazon Region of latin america. More british success at the world athletics championships in doha as both the men and womens 100 metre relay teams win silver medals. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, microsoft boss Satya Nadella uncovering state led internet manipulation. Satya nadella uncovering state led and abominable animation. Satya nadella uncovering state led look at him. Hes a yeti. Some call it fake news, some call it disinformation, online manipulation, or even information warfare. The tech giants call it coordinated inauthentic activity. False news articles on facebook, bots amplifying q
Loss of life. Security forces have been deployed by the Prime Minister who has also appealed for calm. If the security situation worsens, he warns the risk is the destruction of the state. These protests havent come out of nowhere. Their roots lie in the terrible damage inflicted on iraq and its people by decades of warand iraq and its people by decades of war and the failure of politicians to unite and rebuild a fragile country. A big force driving them to demonstrate is unemployment. Even those with jobs are struggling. Almost a quarter of the population lives on less than 2 us per day according to the world bank. This man says he has a masters degree that the government wouldnt even hire him, he says, is a street sweeper. All these young people, he complained, are treated unfairly. Frustration feeds their anger. Iraq has the worlds fourth biggest oil reserves. It should be rich. But it is also one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Another generation has grown up in a state
Good morning to you and welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday, september 20th. Im dave clark. Im pam cook. Lets get straight to allie rasmus because we are not off to a good start. Thats right, not off to a great start. Its all clear on westbound highway 4 and down to concord looking good as well. There is a crash at northbound 680 at stone valley. Then the one we have been watching, this has become a problem spot, the tracy commute with crashes on westbound 205 and westbound 580 at northland road. So you have to give yourself a lot of extra time if this is where your drive takes you this morning. 880 past the coliseum, traffic moving without any problems there. Bay bridge toll plaza also open, metering lights wont be on for another hour or so. Well send it over to steve for whats expected to be a warm day today. Dont you worry, it wont be that bad. We could have upper 80s tomorrow before we cool off on sunday, then right back up monday and tuesday. Maybe way down by this time ne
This is a panel on the book civil war places. We have a couple copies up here that people will be thumbing through. And were going to have something very unusual for me, were going to have a screen behind us. He is smiling because i dont do anything this venturesome. To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn sta
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v