Prevent antigovernment protests. Hello and welcome to the program. We begin in israel where Benjamin Netanyahu has belied quote, playing fire. He has accused the Lebanon Group has blood denies denies anyh confrontation. Al jazeera has more. Reporter smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident. It said a cell of hezbollah fighters try to infiltrate israeli territory, and israeli fighters propelled them. Held repelled them. A rare show of unity. Hezbollah terrorists cross into israel to harm israeli soldiers. Officers acted professionally and accurately and prevented a severe incident that could have cost human lives. Reporter israels Prime Minister made explicit reference to the war of 2006 in morning hezbollahs leader that israels armed forces respond further. Hezbollah must understand it is playing with fire. Andade a big mistake lebanon paid a price. Any attack against us will be met with great force. Israel has been on height
A week now ever since an air strike inside syria killed has been a fighter theres been a long standing promise from hezbollah that any such event would lead to a response from lebanon against israel and so these are the militarys been on a heightened state of alert along the israel lebanon border inside the Golan Heights as well and in the occupied Golan Heights instead of farms there was this security incident as Israeli Military initially called it has ball of those says that it didnt do anything that this was the confusion and panic that its threats had sowed among israelis and that is what led to the fire coming from israel as far as the israelis are concerned there was infiltration a tent of some 3 to 5 hezbollah fighters getting inside israeli controlled areas that they were traced and tracked as they prepared to do so and they were repelled by israeli fire. The cascade of civil rights pioneer a long time u. S. Representative john lewis has arrived at the Capitol Rotunda after a
A civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capital. And the driver is a stopped and questioned but zimbabwes leader is the nih claims the lockdown is to prevent antigovernment protests. Hello welcome to the program we begin in israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned hezbollah it is quote playing with fire hes accuse the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of show about farms hezbollah denies that its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is urging both sides to show restraint aljazeera is harry force it has more. Smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory Israeli Soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where theyd rushed for security assessments israels julian Pr
Fixbering campaign. He discusses how the leadership contributed to a victory. This event was part of historical parks small battles big results symposium. Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy r. Smith is a veteran of the park service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee at martin. In addition to numerous articles and essays hes the author and editor and coeditor of 18 books including Champion Hill, the decisive battle of vicksburg. His book comes out this fall and actually is now out, and you can buy a copy of it out at our bookstore at battlefield center. So im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [ applause ] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. Ive always heard about it and its my first time to be here. Ive always heard about it and how nice it was and im a believer now. I believe you. Youve got a great place here and appreciate the invitation to be here. Were going to talk about the western
Books and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. Ou have got a great place here we are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just turned over several Hundred Acres to the national park. Ervice a lot going on at Champion Hill. We are going to talk about that battle in particular. The larger Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. I do not have powerpoint either. I am a little oldfashioned. We do have a map, which we will talk about a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i do powerpoint and completely