Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on something. Its a symposium on the warren east, hosted by the emergency bill war blog. Welcome back to the emergence of a war symposium, great to have you with us my name is chris mackowski. Our next speaker today comes to us, actually from our sister site emerging revolutionary war. Mark maloy its a historian with a National Park service and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war . And i said, mark know this is a civil war. So we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter because its the closest we can get to the war to the revolutionary era. Mark is a delightful historian, a wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue. The most distinctive feature that we are like is his laugh. But we are delighted to have him, and he came here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war act fort sumter. Mark. Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak out this symposiu
The revolutionary war era. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on q. His most on cue. His most distinctive feature is is left. Were delighted to have him speak on the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Mark thank you very much for that introduction, chris, and its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We would love to have done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it, as well. But yeah, as chris mentioned, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But i worked for the National Park service, and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I actually started my career with the National Park service as an intern down at fort sumter in charleston, South Carolina. I worked there for about a year, in charleston, South Carolina, if youve never been, its a beautiful town. Theres a lot of history, revolutionary war history, but most people associate
Whether it is cars, clothes, smartphones or the raw material to make them, the vast majority of the stuff we buy is sent around the world by ship, and the greenhouses gases that produces are being targeted at a un meeting here in london this week. In fact, 90 of global trade involves stuff being moved around by sea. But the industry wasnt included in the paris climate agreement, which the us is pulling out of. However, it is signifcant because it creates about 3 of the global Greenhouse Gas emissions that are causing climate change, and that is why governments want to reduce them. One answer is to slow ships down. It means it would take goods longer to get from factories to shop floors, but one study estimates a 20 speed cut could reduce emissions by 24 . Other Solutions Include cleaner fuels and more efficient ships, as the uns International Maritime organisations seeks to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions by at least 50 by 2050 compared to 2008. Richard meade, editor of lloyds listjoins m
The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, says the uk will form a european led Maritime Mission to counter irans piracy, after their seizure of a british registered tanker. Get your suncream ready, this week is set to be the hottest weather of the summer so far. Temperatures rising into the mid 30s in some parts of the country. And motsi mabuse has been confirmed as the newjudge Dame Darcy Bussell on strictly come dancing. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. He accused some of the uks highest ranking public figures of child abuse, torture, even murder. But today carl beech was found guilty of making it all up. A convicted paedophile himself, beech had said he was sexually abused in the 70s and 80s and pointed the finger at, amongst others, the former Prime Minister edward heath, the ex chief of the Defence Staff lord bramall, his allegations led to a £2 Million Police investigation that resulted in not a single arrest. Today the police insisted they acted in good faith. June kelly reports
instead they are taking the long way round from asia to europe and around the cape of good hope. that s an extra 3500 nautical miles, or up to two week s sailing, adding as much as a million dollars per ship in fuel alone. maersk ceo vincent clark told the bbc s aaron heslehurst that these extra costs are already being passed onto consumers. this is one of the most important arteries of global trade and having to re route all of this cargo now south of the cape of good hope is going to create significant disruptions to the global supply chain for the duration in which we have to do that, and probably a few months more as we have to get back then into normal. so you need to see, i think, a stronger mobilisation. the other thing is that the level of threat is actually evolving, and so for the coalition that is trying to put in place this safe passage, they need to constantly reassess the level of protection. but for us, it is really important that this is being addressed with d