These trials were not held by what we consider to be modern law. Has not been in place and no one has a defense the were no lawyers. Tonight, author stacy schiff talks about her book the witches, on the salem witch trials. Part with theting accusations is that wealthy merchants were accused as witches, sea captains were accused as witches homeless fiveyearold girls were accused to be witches. This is not an incident where all the victims are female. We have five male victims, including on minister. We didnt burn them, we hang to them. Hanged them. There is so much myth, i thought it was important to dispel. A signature feature of the coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country, with Nonfiction Author talks, interviews, viewer callin segments. Coming up they will be live from the miami book fair. Authors include representative john lewis discussing his book march. I live callin with author peggy noonan. Joins us tor discuss her book, the story. Book,d koppel on his ligh
And dont forget be, theres an offer today to have a personallysigned copy of his book, poison spring, just outside the door. Thank you. And if any of you would like to get further information about whats going on in sustainable claremont, get on our mailing list. Theres a place where you can sign in up here. [inaudible conversations] is there a nonfiction be author or book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv to the cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Hes our prime time lineup for tonight. Up next, her from freedom fest in las vegas, an annual libertarian Conference Held last week. Then at 9, after words with veteran space correspondent jay barbary. He talks about the life and career of Neil Armstrong with michael neufeld. Historian and political strategist chris derose examines the civil war through five president s. And we wrap up tonights prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern with Michael Waldman examining
With the euro into decline and the real threat of deflation hanging over the eurozone there are real doubts what basically printing money will be. Im sure at the moment it will have a positive affect. I fear it is not radical enough in form and too late to be transformational. I think the outlook for the euros economy is low inflation and low growth, but at least not quite as low and not dwight as low growth as it was if we hadnt had this action. The bold historic move side steps germ forces. And all will share some losses. Its hopeful that it will provide the muchneeded capital capitalist of the much needed growth in the eurozone. Here in davos the consensus has been positive towards the move. The social and economic costs are enormous, so we have to use this instrument, do more infrastructure investment, critically. And getting the eurozone up and going in the right way. It took five years before qe could be deemed as a success in the u. S. The question is not when europe will feel s
Votes in favour of a new resolution demanding that Houthi Rebels give up control of yemens government a ceasefire between Government Forces and prorussian separatists holds in eastern ukraine, but fighting continues in a disputed town and. [ singing ]. We are live on the streets of rio for all the colour and spectacle of carnival. The Islamic State of iraq and levant has released a video apparently showing the killing of 21 egyptian christians the Coptic Christians were killed in libya after being kidnapped by a group loyal to i. S. I. L. Families. Victims protested their capture in cairo. Egypts president called an emergency meeting with the National Defense council. Seven days of mourning has been announced. Translation egypt has not only defended itself but the whole region egypt will react in the right time. Well follow the situation and how we react. Egyptians will not we able to go to libya. I asked the foreign minister to go new york to discuss the issues and hold International
Of prims. Thailands Prime Minister summoned for questioning by anticorruption investigators. Protesters demand press freedom for al jazeera journalists still behind bars in egypt a day of action. But we start in ukraine where prorussian protesters seized government buildings in the crimea region. The ukrainian interior forces and police have been put on alert. Wooden barricades have been erected at the entrance to the crimea supreme council. The area surrounding the building has been the scene of violent confrontations. They raised a russian flag as a possible challenge to the new leadership. We are joined live from the crimea. A russian flag flying from government buildings. Tell us what is happening now . Thats right. The russian flag flying from the building behind me. About 200 metres away. Thats the Parliament Building you can see over my shoulder. Inside armed men, professionals. We dont know who they are, but they are understood to have come in overnight. Security was not strong