Thanks for joining us in our. Welcome to the program. U. N. General assembly is underway in new york but not everyone. Russias Foreign Ministry has said that 10 members of. The head of the session the kremlin called the move a provocation which warrants a tough response. With the details. Well moscow is absolutely furious because if you think about it thats a huge thing. Constant in russias prominent politician and diploma a term and all of the Foreign Affairs committee of the upper term for the Russian Parliament said hes not going to attend the Un General Assembly that is open these days in new york because of visa issues and he wasnt actually denied american visa but what basically happened as far as we understand is that his application didnt go through and he was not to fight about that very very last moment and he failed to protect american visa on time it doesnt sound like anything criminal he can still reapply but clearly there is no time enough. So hes going to miss the discus
Summit on the environment talking to the General Assembly yes on tuesday but not being part of this particular summit would i be right. Youre absolutely right and thats certainly no coincidence he is due to leave brazil in just a little while he will be arriving after this is supposed to be all over in new york and he will only be staying until after he speaks on tuesday not very long at all but in the meantime and this is very significant rather than approach the United Nations and the world to try to show ways that brazil can contribute to reducing Greenhouse Gases what he has done is launch a new counter offensive a p. R. Campaign if you like called brazil by brazil which is meant to sort of give us a kind of version of what theyre doing here and is the capital resample of not the but also state which is the graying capital of brazil this is where they have been cutting and cutting down the rain forest for years to make way for soya for corn for sugarcane and of course for grazing l
Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . Dean of the libraries . Another strong supporter. As is stewart rock off director of the Mississippi Humanities Council. I do believe hes in the room. We thank them for their support and we are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm. Our panelists are Jacquelyn Hall, shelby harriel, ben wynne and john nsmarszalek. You can purchase the books ne outdoors. And you can find the times they will be signing in your brochure. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and then w
New figures reveal cancer survival rates in the uk are on the up, but still lag behind other high Income Countries. Good morning, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. The Prime Minister has insisted that he didnt lie to the queen over the suspension of parliament. Hes been speaking this morning. Heres what he had to say. Prime minister, your announcement today, whats the aim behind it . Well, the uk is one of the great centres of shipbuilding and were expending that now. I think that shipbuilding is an area of industry, which is of massive promise for this country. We are exceptionally good at it, we make loads of frigates used in australia, the canadians are buying them and we are now announcing another five type 31, a new type of frigates that will be built at shipyards around the uk, so they drive high qualityjobs here in they drive high qualityjobs here in the uk, the shipbuilding programme, but they also represent a massive export opportunity for this count
Headlines. The boyfriend of the teenagerjodie chesney, who was stabbed in a random attack in a park in east london, has told a court that she screamed continuously for two minutes after the assault, and that it took around 15 minutes for the Emergency Services to arrive. Two men and two teenagers are on trial at the old bailey, charged with the murder of the 17 year old, in march. Dan johnson reports. Today, eddie coyle gave his account of the last moments of his girlfriends life, describing how two men come out of the dark in an instant and she was fatally stabbed. They had been together forjust three months and he said she was a great person, funny, sometimes silly, sometimes sensible. He told the jury they were in the park with friends, listening to music, drinking and smoking cannabis, when two hooded men approached without a word being said. He demonstrated to the jury how the taller man raised his arm and swung it towardsjodies back. Close to tears at one point, eddie said, jodie