That it is a government out of sight. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Soviet, millions of citizens faced starvation in one of the worst famines in history. Setting aside political differences, Vladimir Lenins new soviet government asked Herbert Hoovers American Relief administration for help. Next on American History tv, historian Douglas Smith gives an illustrator talk about the story based on his book, the russian job the forgotten story of how america saved the soviet union from ruin. Estate museum and gardens hosted this event. Good evening and welcome to Hillwood Estate Museum and gardens. Already,ny of you know but in case we have not met, my name is kate mark kirk m arker, the executive director here. I want to thank you in joining us tonight as we welcome back Douglas Smith, longtime friend of hillwood and author of the book the russian job the forgotten story of how america saved the soviet union from ruin. You may have noticed that the theater looks just a little
Last post plays when you go home, say, for your tomorrow we gave our today. Nimrod plays the familiar sound of nimrod at the National Memorial arboretum and around the country, two minutes silence was observed at 11 oclock to mark Armistice Day. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, to remember the deaths of fallen servicemen and women in the two world wars and in conflicts since. The duke of kent is attending that service at the National Memorial arboretum in staffordshire. The silence is marked every year to mark the day in 1918 when the fighting in world war i was stopped. The allies and germany signing an armistice in and germany signing an armistice in a Railway Carriage in france at 5am on the 11th of november 1918. Six hours later, at 11 oclock, the conflict ceased. The first armistice silence was observed in 1919 and has continued every year since then. Nimrod plays youre watching bbc newsroom live and these are the main stories this morning. The country has just fal
Neighborhood. The weather sponsored by cattle and ways. Last wave of heavy rain of couple days ago produced vast amount of flooding in certain parts of Southern China that hasnt gone away as the next belt of rain starts to form as you can see hong kong is not underneath the cloud its gone syas that whats gathering is for the west and you know the grungy towards the yangtze and this is going to develop into proper rain come monday again a bit of a circulation suggests the heaviest stuff is just out of sichuan but the line is down towards those in vietnam and its going in this direction so in hong kong to be a wet day again on monday but the heaviest rain does look further inland and as is always the case this time of year thats going to bring bring some flash floods on the risk of landslides and almost certainly some destruction of property to the south of that well the showers are rather more broken up the still a pretty obvious line through northern sort of icy dental board here and j
Still be alert the borders us to visually porous cases of people are increasing in the d r c and as long as people can still manage to walk in and out of both countries without being properly screened at some point there is still a danger that it could be another outbreak if people arent you. A military spokesman for yemens whos the rebel group is warning civilians to stay away from ports in saudi arabia and the u. A. E. The rebels have already targeted saudi arabias portion of the border with yemen. Mohamed al highty says whos the operations on the airports and military sites will continue as long as the war in yemen goes on another whos the military official has told al jazeera that its retaliate against previous saudi attacks. Your are drawn operation of the airport is a strategic talk its resulted in the complete destruction of the radar system that means the navigation of commercial flights would be terminations such a move puts king solomon and his regime in a difficult position
Lisa is a fantastic journalist. Seven years of fox news, publishers foreign desk, and she has the privilege of no, that is wrong. Lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [laughter] [applause] lisa good evening. I just realized that i am going to be the only person on this stage tonight who doesnt have a british accent. [laughter] lisa but i do have an accent, so you have to see if you can detect it at some point. [laughter] lisa more pertinent to the city we are in. Him, lord dobbs would tell you that he never had a proper job. Yet, it was in his restless search, as he calls it, for this ideal job, that he just happened, happened to stumble upon some of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences that anyone could ever hope to have in a lifetime. Ones that honored his presence. Ones that called upon him as a crafty in skilled storyteller. Ones that demanded his inquisitive mind, and others that we boarded his wondrous rewarded his wondrous creativity and innovation.