Welcome to bbc news. Labours Election Manifesto has been formally approved by the Party Leadership and will be published next week. Jeremy corbyn said the policies would be fully costed and would prove to be very popular with voters. Some of those policies had already been revealed after a version of the document was leaked overnight. It included proposals to re nationalise the railways and to scrap University Tuition fees in england. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more on the Campaign Events of the day. They wondered what exactly was going on, and you might too. This was meant to be the grand unveiling of a labour poster, albeit on a waste ground in south london. But the party leader was nowhere to be seen. Its got a terrific slogan. Jeremy corbyn should have been selling the slogan. Hed been promised as top billing. But after the astonishing leak of a draft of labours complete manifesto. We were told he had other things to do. Mr lavery, mr gwynne, wheres mr corbyn . He wa
Water vapor than cold. You can get stronger storms. The atmosphere is about 4 12 than it was four years ago. That is an enormous change. It loads the dice for drought and they lose and downpour and flood. That is what were seeing all over the planet. We will go to haiti where Hurricane Sandy killed at least 50 people, devastating parts of the country still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. And we will look at the storms impact on the nuclear industry. At least 16 Nuclear Plants are in the path of this unprecedented storm. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from medford, oregon. Much of the east coast is shut down today as residents brace for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could be the most powerful to hit the United States in decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been evacuated, millions could lose power over the next day. Meteorologists say it is rare hybrid
Virginia police are investigating vandalism at Trump National golf club over the weekend. They found graffiti that said, help, i dont want to be president anymore. [ laughter and applause ] thats right. Thats right, Virginia Police are investigating vandalism at Trump National golf club. Theyve narrowed the list of suspects down to all of us. [ laughter ] President Trump said today that his infrastructure plans could cost more than the projected 1 trillion. Said trump, i dont want to alarm anyone, but it could go as high as a bajillion. [ laughter and applause ] the Trump Administration the Trump Administration recently hired a man whose name turned up on a list of accounts released in a 2015 hack of the cheating website, ashley madison. Even crazier, thats all it said on his resume. [ light laughter ] i like this guy. [ laughter ] the show the americans aired earlier tonight on fx. Any fans of the americans here . [ cheers and applause ] fantastic show. Personal favorite of mine. For
Virginia police are investigating vandalism at Trump National golf club over the weekend. They found graffiti that said, help, i dont want to be president anymore. [ laughter and applause ] thats right. Thats right, Virginia Police are investigating vandalism at Trump National golf club. Theyve narrowed the list of suspects down to all of us. [ laughter ] President Trump said today that his infrastructure plans could cost more than the projected 1 trillion. Said trump, i dont want to alarm anyone, but it could go as high as a bajillion. [ laughter and applause ] the Trump Administration the Trump Administration recently hired a man whose name turned up on a list of accounts released in a 2015 hack of the cheating website, ashley madison. Even crazier, thats all it said on his resume. [ light laughter ] i like this guy. [ laughter ] the show the americans aired earlier tonight on fx. Any fans of the americans here . [ cheers and applause ] fantastic show. Personal favorite of mine. For
All the way down. Can you hear me . Good evening. Thank you, paul. And were delight partner with the Bryant Park Corporation and Oxford University press on this exciting series. Tonights program will be followed by question and answer session and a book signing, so please do join in for both. Im really delighted this evening to welcome author and historian fergus bordewich. Hes the author of six nonfiction books. Hes published and written childrens books and written the jefferson pbs documentary. Hes a regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine mainly on subjects in 19th century American History and his articles have appears in many magazines and newspapers including the new york times, the wall street journal and american heritage. His new book americas great debate explores the way in which slavery distorted american democracy in the years leading up to the civil war. David Levering Lewis is one of the countrys most distinguished historians of the civil rights movement. Hes the Juli