Society of the cincinnati. It is my very special pleasure tonight to introduce cole jones will be speaking to us this evening about his new book captives of liberty, prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution. Which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We have known professor jones since 2010 when he received a society of cincinnati scholars grant to conduct research in our library in support of his doctoral dissertation on the administration of enemy prisoners of war and revolutionary america. We have since followed his career and accomplishments with great interest and admiration. He received his ph. D. From Johns Hopkins in 2014, went on to hold post doctoral fellowships at the New York Historical society. Since 2015 he has been assistant professor of history at purdue university. Captives of liberty is an important and thought provoking book that examines how the founding generation of americans grappled with the problems of pr
Countries follow suit. Last push for votes. Myanmars leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has rejected claims of genocide against her country at the Un International court ofjustice. Our digital elections reporter Recovery Efforts on new joe tidyjoins me now zealands white island volcano are on hold as seismic hes been looking at how digital activity activity suggests and social media platforms it may erupt again. Are being used during the campaign. The bodies of eight people have yet to be recovered. What s doing well at the moment . And, at the Climate Summit in madrid, Greta Thunberg has called on rich countries to reduce their Carbon Emissions and to help poorer you have probably seen the video countries follow suit. Yourself, it has been changing all morning on and off twitter and shared widely on facebook. The moment when Boris Johnson shared widely on facebook. The moment when borisjohnson was confronted by a reporter this good morning, welcome morning, it did not quite go to to bbc newsro
We re our leaders are not caving as if we were in an emergency. In an emergency you change your behaviour to live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, and here in london its just turned thursday the day the british electorate vote in their general election. The Party Leaders spent the final day of campaigning travelling from one key constituency to another, hoping to win last minute support. The bbcs Political Editor laura kuenssberg, has all the latest. Mrs monaghan at number eight was the yorkshire tory voter with an unusual milkman this morning. Morning so nice to meet you, Prime Minister. What are you doing up this morning . I am bringing your chocolate milk, orange juice. 0h, chocolate milk the last day of any election peak political pantomime. I will be with you in a second. I have an earpiece ready to go. Borisjohnson even retreated into a giant fridge when a reporter tried to persuade him on live television. Dont b
Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
To thailand in 35 as pope francis heads to the kingdom. Pulling out all the stops to welcome. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us now it may not look like it but hong kong is headed to elections the elections for no good District Councils ordinarily arent a centerpiece of the citys political calendar but this time around theyve been seen as a referendum on the protests its also the only chance locals could have of being in a position to affect the election of the next chief executive of a correspondent phoebe kong reports from hong kong. Luncheon is getting ready to hit the campaign trail as a newcomer to politics the 27 year old is not taking the conventional rage the guy for which i know i organize weekly runs in my neighborhood. And i hope we can keep everyone healthy. Because we need to be fit to be able to cope with the chaos here. Lammas running for a District Council sees together with other young protesters over half of the candidates from the opposition camp have