Forward. Meanwhile the eus lead brexit negotiator, rejects borisjohnsons demands for the irish backstop to be scrapped. Michel barnier says the uk has now reached a moment of truth. Pro democracy activists in hong kong target the citys airport. Large crowds gather outside the terminal building, causing long queues for passengers trying to get inside. Political leaders from across the world gather in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war ii as the german president asks for polands forgiveness at the event. And pope francis apologizes for arriving late for his weekly address to crowds in saint Peters Square after he was stuck in a lift for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labour says itll present a bill in parliament this week designed to stop the uk leaving the eu without a deal. Sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, has told the bbc that if the legislation is passed its likely to delay the date of d
Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have got to read. Stephen berry also always brings to his research, incredible and beautiful writing with rich insight and we like him so much because his work is so good and stephen is such a wonderful guy and is a fantastic teacher as well. And i have as well as many of my students have worked with steve over the years. A
This country in more than a century. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Im stephanie lin. It is sunday august the 13th, another warm one for us today. Lets get your day started with a first look at the weather with dave sphar made good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. And it will be quite warm. But again, for those inland valleys, it looks like by this afternoon as were Still Holding on to summer here. However. It looks like conditions will be much hotter away from home will be showing you this a little bit. Heres whats going on outside. Heres the leftover fog along the east bay shoreline. But right above and you can see the blue skies. Thats basically the future that were talking about. Our temperatures thus far were in the 60s in the east bay. For the most part. 71 in antioch, 50s cover most of the west to ken. Nice. Cool. 55. There and Half Moon
Swastika. A documentary about this sounds of power, inspiring story about survival of the home or do you go get the tennis . I was the only one, usually nazi germany. Watch now on youtube dw documentary. The, [000 00 00;00] the as nations go. The vatican is tiny. But on the stage of world history, its a giant the magnificent buildings of vatican city were built around the humble tomb of saint peter. Even the 1st basilica on the site was almost as large as no true dom and paris. Yeah, of course and killing me. Structure was over 120 meters long and 66 inches wide. Its dimensions were colossal valley. And the successor to the 1st basilica is even more impressive. St. Peters basilica was intended to be the Largest Church in the world, covering over 20000 square meters. The size of 3 soccer fields. It can hold 60000. 00 worshippers, both in size, but also even in its aesthetic qualities. It needs to be grand a year old in order to impress if visitors, building a church of this size present