Today the first consequence would be the dismissal of catalonia separatist president well take you to madrid and barcelona also on the program. Ballots are being counted in kenyas rerun president ial election but voting day saw a deadly clashes with police a vote to boycott voter intimidation and low turnout well bring you the latest from nairobi. And australias top Court Disqualifies the deputy Prime Minister beholden to all citizenship decision that has cost the government its the fifth majority in parliament. Im phil gale welcome to the program. Experience Prime Minister addressed the countrys upper house of Parliament Today ahead of a debate and vote on the government plans to be imposed direct rule on the region of catalonia the senate is expected to approve Mariano Rajoy request to trigger article one five five the spanish constitution which allows Central Government to remove catalans regional leaders from Office Starting with president Carlos Bustamante article one five five ha
Offensive. Thank you for hosting this fabulous book festival. I am happy to be participating in this. And delighted tonight to have a conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The i
Conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan. Which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in t
You promote books and reading. You live with books. And you are involved with the study of books. And i said, thats true. We also promote books through events such as tonights. This is part of our books and beyond author series. Its where we focus on authors who have written new books that have Something Special to do with the library of congress. And in this case, as our speaker will tell you, there is a direct connection with the library and with an archive. And when i wrote the press release, i didnt really realize the extent of the collection that we have that supports this particular book. We have the archive not just the recordings for Mary Margaret mcbride. You will hear about that tonight from our speaker. Susan is a special friend of the library of congress. She has been here before to work on a particular project. We have some of the editors of this project here tonight. A american Women Library of congress guide for the study of womens history and culture in the United State
Horrendous act, a Chemical Attack against your own people, Syrian People are going to be positive about anything that retaliates against that, to show that in an International Community that is not acceptable. It is also measured in the sense that syrians would say thatis the sense that syrians would say that is good but why are there no similar reactions when there is a tax when the Syrian Regime throws barrel bombs on us all when there are Chlorine Gas Attacks . There was also a reservation in terms of what is this actually mean . Does this change anything on the ground . Is this a recalculation in terms of us policy . It has been clear that they have been keen to stress this doesnt change its policy, it is a one off strike of retaliation for those Chemical Attacks. The trouble with these things is that offer Military Attacks have their own calculation. When we look at the syria conflict, it is clear half a Million People have been killed. 2 Million People have been killed. 2 million