Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
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Environmental disaster waiting to happen the u. N. Sounds the alarm over a decaying oil tanker off the coast of western dam. Tens of thousands of demonstrators in bell are defying warnings to rally against president Alexander Lukashenko is the latest wave of protests against his disputed reelection earlier this month sonia gago has. United in one cause they gathered in the streets and in the squares of the bella recent capital minutes since the disputed president ial vote in august 9th protesters have defied the authorities and have been gathering every day calling for an end to present because those 26 year old despite the continued threats of a violent crackdown opposition supporters say they wont. Give up ahead of sundays rally the bellerose saw me rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching any unrest monuments and statues would not be tolerated and they not the police would see to that on saturday in the city of good old law in the west to the man at the cente
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Standoff with turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. 2 people are shot dead in the u. S. City of can im sure in violence that has followed the Police Shooting of a black man. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice while at the same time u. S. 1st Lady Melania Trump calls for the calm and unity during her address to the Republican Party convention. And in sport barcelona say they have now won tangshan allowing leon messi to leave the club methinks starting the footballing world by handing in rounds for request on shoes day. Well start with breaking news out of iran where an agreement has been reached to give the u. N. Nuclear watchdog access to 2 suspected former tomic sites leaders in iran announced it in a joint statement in tehran there with the International Atomic Energy Agency the i. A. E. A. A president Hassan Rouhani there also promising to continue cooperation. Is in teheran for us now just take us through this announcement 1st of all