Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to europe. Many countries closed their borders. It was a trial by fire for a united europe. But the german chancellor called for solidarity. Weve done so much, we can do this. Michelle we have more on that coming up in the programme. But first to the mediterranean. Because of its long mediterranean coastline, italy has overtaken greece as europes migration frontline. Since the implementation of the euturkey refugee deal, the harrowing images of migrants attempting to reach greece have been replaced by those of people hoping to get to italy. Record numbers of migrants have drowned in the mediterranean over the past year. The men and women of frontex, the Eu Border Control agency, have saved 70,000 lives so far and hope to make the border stronger. Reporter on board the siem pilot. The norwegian ship has been sailing between italy and libya for months. Its part of the frontex operation securing the eu external borders. But the crew has its hands ful
And the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies to learn about their politics, policies, and legacies. All this month in prime time and every weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Each week during the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of president ial races. Up next, the first debate between Vice President al gore and Texas Governor george bush from the 2000 president ial race. From the university of massachusetts in boston, topics include tax policy, Medicare Prescription Drug proposals, education reform and abortion. Governor bush defeated Vice President gore in the general election in one of the most highly contested races in u. S. History. This is just over 90 minutes. 30 seconds. Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston, im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice Presi
I am jim lehrer and i will be the moderator for this event. It is taking place in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions to want. John masic of the boston clobe, ann compton and sandra van oker. We will follow a format agreed to by representatives of the clipton and bush campaigns. It contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The first question goes to mr. Perot. He will have two minutes to answer followed by rebuttals of one minute each by president clinton and then president bush. Gentlemen, good evening. The first topic tonight is what separates each of you from the other . Mr. Perot, what do you believe tonight is the single most important separating issue of this is . Campaign . The principle issue that separates me is that people came together on their own and put me on the ballot. I was not put on the ballot by either to have two parties. By any foreign
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to europe. Many countries closed their borders. It was a trial by fire for a united europe. But the german chancellor called for solidarity. Weve done so much, we can do this. Michelle we have more on that coming up in the programme. But first to the mediterranean. Because of its long mediterranean coastline, italy has overtaken greece as europes migration frontline. Since the implementation of the euturkey refugee deal, the harrowing images of migrants attempting to reach greece have been replaced by those of people hoping to get to italy. Record numbers of migrants have drowned in the mediterranean over the past year. The men and women of frontex, the Eu Border Control agency, have saved 70,000 lives so far and hope to make the border stronger. Reporter on board the siem pilot. The norwegian ship has been sailing between italy and libya for months. Its part of the frontex operation securing the eu external borders. But the crew has its hands ful
The summer of 2015. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to europe. Many countries closed their borders. It was a trial by fire for a united europe. But the german chancellor called for solidarity. Weve done so much, we can do this. Michelle we have more on that coming up in the programme. But first to the mediterranean. Because of its long mediterranean coastline, italy has overtaken greece as europes migration frontline. Since the implementation of the euturkey refugee deal, the harrowing images of migrants attempting to reach greece have been replaced by those of people hoping to get to italy. Record numbers of migrants have drowned in the mediterranean over the past year. The men and women of frontex, the Eu Border Control agency, have saved 70,000 lives so far and hope to make the border stronger. Reporter on board the siem pilot. The norwegian ship has been sailing between italy and libya for months. Its part of the frontex operation securing the eu external borders. But the cr