Returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. Good afternoon and welcome to the program this is R T International coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your life news update condolences our beings time from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the catastrophe has claimed the lives of at least 100 people and left over 4000 injured according to the countrys red cross. Here we can bring you live pictures from beirut theres almost nothing left of the once bustling port au you can see rescue teams continue to search through the rubble the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced the blast destroyed nearby buildings causing chaos across the capital. Given a large number of injured to hospitals are under immense strain as well hes already dealing with the crowd a virus crisis were quickly fi
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Election day, very pleased to have a copy here to you. This is the american and they chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intellige
Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde
Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde