19th amendment, the [inaudible] serves as a destination for discovery and inquiry and to introduce our audience to new narratives and themes in american history. We cant wait to see you again when the library opens to engage in new conversations about womens history, equality, democracy and the right to vote. [background sounds] good afternoon. My names nathan, and on behalf of humanities tennessee, i want to welcome you to the 32nd annual southern festival of books. Humanities tennessee would also like to say a special thank you to their key sponsors, the Metro National arts commission, the ingram group, tennessee arts commission, Vanderbilt University and parnas us books. Before we get started, i want to share a bit about our session. Theres these are unique times, and the book festivals also unique this year. So we we really appreciate everyone being here, and humanities tennessee carrying on with the event. If youd like to purchase a book, please use the parnas saws book link, and
Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. Several cities and brazil denouncing jay or bolsonaros overing of the pandemic as half a Million People in the country have been infected. Thank you for joining us. Six days after george floyd died in police cusustody, protests he broken out a across the united states. People are on the street demanding justice and change. Demomonstrators in numerous instances have been met with a heavyhanded response from the police. Curfews have been imposed across several cities. Like minneapolis, where on sunday a truck drove into a crowd of protesters before the driver was dragged out, beaten, and then arrested by police. Earlier on sunday, france 24 met with residents of minneapolis who were coming together to clean up after a night ofof protests. After another night of violence, residents woke up to scenes of devastation, making their neighborhood unrecognizable. I have been here many times. Yeah. It is very sad. Yeah. It is devastating. It is not just i
China requires a decrease in new cases of coronavirus. Five and a half years after a malaysian airliner was shot down over the ukraine, for men 4 men on trial in a dutch court. Suspects are on the run and russia. Hello. Welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. This is our top story. European and asain markets markets asian continue to tumble over fears of the coronavirus, stocks in the asiapacific tumbling. The ftse down by 6 . The dax down by 6. 5 . Followreet looking to when it opens in a few hours time. , as oil prices dropped by more than a third. Arerter oil prices experiencing their steepest drop since the gulf war in 1991, the plunge the result of an unexpected enough that by saudi arabia on a steep discount on oil to his customers in europe, asia, and the u. S. Stocks in asia fell as a result of the coronavirus, as in australia. Another have been announcements about the russians and the saudis in relation to oil. We are seeing a steep drop in the oil price in recent weeks. Our F
We will not allow this to continue and one way or another we must proceed straight to an election. In other news, the driver of the lorry in essex, in which 39 people died, appears in court charged with their manslaughter. The death of a british teenager has changed the way social media firms deal with harmful posts, according to the head of instagram. Campaigners call on the government to extend how long women can store their frozen eggs, saying the 10 year limit breaches human rights. And at 11 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, ros altmann, former pensions minister, and mihir bose, writer and broadcaster. Stay with us for that. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister, who said last month that hed rather die in a ditch than ask for another brexit delay, has written to the European Council president , accepting a three month extension to the brexit process. Its the formal confirmation that mrjohnsons pledge to take britain out of the
To him and the other prisoners with stephen sackur. He is being held with. Is there any avenue you can get information through about jack . Can you contact, for example, British Government officials welcome to hardtalk, or canadian government officials, becausejohn, you are a canadian im stephen sackur. Citizen and jack has dual citizenship, or at least he did alongside the humanitarian until the british fallout from turkeys invasion of northern syria, citizenship was revoked . There are grave security concerns. We get a little bit of consular not least, what will happen access in syria and we know nothing. To the thousands of so called Islamic State militants imprisoned thats all they say, and same with the british side, so no one informs us of anything. By Syrian Kurdish forces . The only thing we can rely on is social media orjournalists on the ground. My guests today, john letts there have been reports he has been and sally lane, are the parents of one such prisoner taken by the am