Say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of wild scale abuse which the army denies. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start so of the pandemic there have been more than 64000000. 00 confirmed cases nearly 1500000. 00 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on coronavirus diplomatic editor james bays is at the u. N. In new york and james that session is still ongoing but we understand the secretary general has addressed the meeting what did he have to say. Well secretary general was the 1st to address the meeting one of only a couple of speakers who were actually in the room at the General Assembly because of covert 19 most the leaders have submitted their speeches recorded speeches theyre being played out from all of them for
To double standards passed on to the senate backs a bill to jail sports except in the u. S. Itself. Donald trump rushes to carry out election promises including getting troops out of afghanistan and iraq, as he continues to question the us president ial election result. And russias president says, care about bloodshed could have been stopped, weeks ago, before the armenian is there. A conflict took so many towns and cities. Our correspondent reports from a russian peacekeeper observation post. One of the benefits of the true god, russian. Shes far more has room stations that have been called the car bomb is a very warm welcome to you. Its 11 and 12 oclock here. Watching r C International with me are processed turned violent in france, following a draft security bill to ban the publication of images of police with intent to cause them harm. The interior minister insists the bill will protect the officers, but it sparked outrage from rights campaigners. Takeouts and water cannon have bee
He is currently writing the chronicling of life when she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer. Welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and im very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child and, you know, i think an author perhaps shouldnt have a favorite book. But i will say that this the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings. Of course, they had been Young Children and one or two had almost been teenagers. And then at the end of the process the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he died in 1923, so this was in 199
Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about American History. His previous book is lincolns white house the peoples house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms in office. Can you tell us why you decided to focus on the white house in your book about Thomas Jefferson and his presidency . James sure. My book about lincolns white house i guess inspired me to move backwards to jeffersons white house. I foun
Who robbed by offices while he was filming, while we were trying to do an interview on the World Antidoping Agency blasts, the United States for double standards after the senate backs a bill to jail those behind in sport except in americas domestic leagues. Even just gone 5 here in moscow, you with r. T. International police in berlin, have used water cannon on protesters, making a stand against covert 19 down measures. Were looking at some live pictures there from berlin. It is against a backdrop of debate in parliament at the moment on a bill that would make it easier to introduce restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic. Ok lets go across to berlin and speak to peter all of the pay to just explain why people are so angry about this bill. Well, theyre angry because they think it will take away freedoms that they say are already being eroded. Now the group that are protesting, still continuing that demonstration, despite being told by the police that it was over despite all that ic