Joanna gosling the headlines a vigilfor the victims of the London Bridge attack the Prime Minister and the labour leader will be among those honouring jack merritt and saskia jones at a Remembrance Service in the city. The un secretary general, antonio guterres, says the world must end its war against nature as two weeks of talks on Climate Change begin in madrid. Travel disruption for thousands of rail passengers as workers on South Western Railway begin a 27 day strike in a dispute over guards on trains. Jeremy corbyn pledges to cut rail fares by a third and give under 16s free travel as part of labours plan to renationalise the railways. And coming up in the next few minutes the Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon will be answering your questions live on independence, brexit and more. Captainjoe root rescues englands cricketers in the second test in new zealand he makes a double century, to leave them trailing byjust five runs. Good morning 7 and welcome to the bbc news a
You nighted mine workers of America International president now on the future of the coal industry. He spoke at the National Press club about issues facing the union. Welcome to the National Press club. I am the 112th president of the National Press club and a well, im an incoming investigations editor at the Associated Press rig. Right now im unemployed. We extend warm greetings to those of you listening to us on the radio or watching us on tv. Dorian turned up the east coast, Climate Change and what to do about it is at the top of political agenda for many. Alexandria ocasiocortez put forward a controversial Green New Deal. Washington state governor built his now aborted president ial Campaign Around climate and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have called out fossil fuels as the primary culprit. Our guest today, president of the United Mine Workers of america and a Vice President of the aflcio says some critical people have been left out of the conversation. Workers who
And Megan Phelps Roper recounts growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist church. Watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. And be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the Miami Book Fair in november on booktv on cspan2. Coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. Later the toledo van band crash of 1931. We begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. They had built things. The first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. Drawn by rich reservoir natural gas. Brought his Glass Company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. Its on the same site today. The glass industry was big and important into in toledo once did that. As the eco
Saudi arabia. Its 10 oclock here in moscow and youre watching out International Live from a studio with me. Welcome to the program millions of weapons made in serbia have reportedly fallen and the hands of Islamic State fighters in yemen and syria after they were bought by the United States and its allies according to documents seen by a bulgarian investigative journalist. This isnt anonymous it was see a lot of documents about you becoming not so not actively pursued and the u. S. Soccer mom tracking oh the. War or so on the concept i was able to id if i want to speak a lot lot of left in the sand. They would. Stop again to video e. M. F. If those documents prove to be genuine then weapons sale need some exciting video in yemen could well be serbian made off to being sold to us military contractors our Senior Correspondent rob god staff explains how the weapons could have ended up in terrorist hands. Its a remarkable trail from the arms factories of europe for the hands of isis terror
You have become a labor day tradition for us. Welcome. First, background, is born and raised in southwestern pennsylvania where he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. He is a graduate from penn state. Graduation, he joins a legal staff of the United Mine Workers and became president of the age of 33. Since 1989, he spent working on the executive council and elected president of the federation in 2009. There on the record here, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while its underway. Once the session ends, you can file away. We will email pictures to all the reporters here as soon as it ends. If youd like to ask questions, send me a signal and i will call on you as time permits. If you like to make a brief opening remark, the floor is yours. I cant believe its been 11 years. Thats incredible. You say happy early labor day to everybody here. I want to thank you for hosting us. I want to thank