Ed my cochairman of the conference next to him Kerry McWilliams editor of The Nation magazine. Is your applause my right James Storrow up publisher of The Nation magazine next to him a man who needs no introduction doc Dr Martin Luther King next to him Robert Vaughn. Co-chairman of the conference and on his right Mr Jack Spitzer participate by to supplant in the conference. There was just a slight pause there Jack that s because apparently meaningful. It s now my pleasure to turn the program over to James Starr. Thank you. I can t begin to tell you all want to honor and a pleasure it s going to be to work with an associate like your portfolio. And to have on our staff such a man is Phil Kirby as associate editor something I look forward to. Now I have some rather. Unfortunate it was we had hoped to have here may go to Rome Cavanagh or Detroit. And circumstances conspired against his coming. He has sent the remarks which he would have made and rather than make them myself which would b
Celebration of 20 years of the program I ve been joined by an audience in the heart of Westminster to meet a very special guest the Oscar winning actor activist and fitness guru Jane Fonda in a career spanning 6 decades she has never shied away from speaking her mind a trait not always welcome in the movie business where sexism and abusive behavior a currently in the spotlight as never before you know I m I m hoping and I hope that we all hope and do everything we can to make this so that with this coming out about Harvey Weinstein and about Bill Cosby and about the man who is currently our president that men will not feel that they can get away with it and that women will be brave enough including myself to speak that s Jane Fonda on home talk after the news. This is the b.b.c. News Hello I mean Q The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has just started to evacuate critically ill Syrian patients from a rebel held suburb near Damascus on Saturday international agencies ap
No major world we re causing any problems will make for good drive this morning traffic flowing freely and just about every major highway I 70 s. Good along with 36 and I 25 I m sure if you bear 7 tin can us 1st alert traffic. Weston for a single media group station crew. Thanks. Again . Peter show here we go again everyone it s a Tuesday morning all I saw on the Alabama special election the attempted New York City suicide bomb Tuesday morning and again December the 1213 days till Christmas 63 will be high today 57 Wednesday Thursday it s going to be 5060 on Friday gee the cold day of the week Sunday 48 degrees I don t know Tom has the news and good morning sir good morning Peter thank you and the New York City is increasing security following the terrorist bombing and the subway walkway near Times Square and President Trump is renewing his calls for immigration reform and live with the fact that the suspect came into the country from Bangladesh on what s called a chain migration that
Plants that could save us if our crops fail Also today. That s one of 9 u.s. Media outlets that Russia says it now views as foreign agents what will that mean in practice and he 1st brought his country in the 1920 s. We look at the life of Roumania as former king Michael who s just died at the age of $96.00 you re listening to the b.b.c. World Service. Hello this is David Austin with the b.b.c. News the u.n. Human rights chief has issued a powerful indictment of me and mass treatment of ethnic row hinge of Muslims asking if anyone could rule out that elements of genocide were present Zaid rather are Hussein was addressing a special session of the un Human Rights Council in Geneva from where image and folks reports the use of the word genocide reflects deep concern at what the un describes as decades of dehumanizing discrimination and brutal violence against Myanmar stranger Muslims say draggle Hussain said genocide could not be ruled out and he said the hundreds of thousands of Ranger
P.c. Radio last. B.b.c. News at 6 on more Alderson a teenager has been arrested in connection with the death of a 78 year old woman who was killed in a hit and run accident in Liverpool he s being held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident Danny Savidge reports it was at 5 o clock yesterday afternoon that a 78 year old woman was hit by a motorbike as she crossed the road she suffered multiple injuries and died shortly afterwards and hospital police appealed for help after the rider left the scene and said many people would have noticed the scramble a tight bike on the wrong side of the road near to the crash site the woman was hit under a fly over in the Walton area of Liverpool since then detectives say a teenager has been arrested after voluntarily going to a police station in the city in connection with the pensioners death the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned supporters of Bracks that Britain won t leave the Europ