Secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on the International Pressure for an independent investigation. Israelis will say, look, we will investigate this. We will see if there are lessons to be learned. Theyve said theyre going to do that. Whether they will do a kind of open, internationally supervised investigation of the kind thats being alluded to by some outside israel, i slightly doubt that. But they clearly recognise that theyre under pressure to explain what happened in the early hours of thursday morning, because now it isntjust a question of what the israeli army is saying versus what palestinian doctors are saying. You now have, for the first time, International Observers in the form of representatives from the un who were in Shifa Hospital yesterday and who met people who they said had experienced gunshot wounds. Now the un team says they did not see dead bodies, so they were not able t
Winning columnist timothy egan jims multiple books have inspired popular documentaries and have found their way into many classrooms. His book, the worst hard time the untold story of those who survived the bowl, won the National Book award and inspired ken burns documentary film the dust bowl is other books include a pilgrimage to eternity, the mortal irishman and the good rain, and was previously New York Times opinion columnist on politics. The American Experience and as a reporter, he was on the team that won Pulitzer Prize for the series how races lived in america. Here today with us to discuss his recent book fever in the heartland. The ku klux klan is plot to take america. And the woman who stopped them, it tells the story of a murderous con. The klans rise to power in indiana in the 1920s, and the woman led to their downfall. Booklist it riveting. Please join me in welcoming megan to the festival of books. So before we get going, i just to give a big thank you to the of tenness
The Prime Minister in dumpy shell. Its been a real privilege to be with you. Thank you for your questions. Thank you for what your day and ill hopefully ill get your support in a few weeks thoughts. All right, 5, i bought a position to labor productivity. The keys stomach was in kent. Sole sales this is hit, shooting in hot, which you traditionally conservative probability this time around late. But its the sort of place that illustrates how the election is likely to go. According to the opinion polls, which way you think it was the labor, the y racing southern. So yeah, im please, there isnt that action because part so they will get a better government in the end of everyones in the same one with another. I think that it needs to change because it will pete again. The label, positive, remember, has been totally on average 20 points, the head of the conservative party for many months now thanks to fully living standards, record high taxes and failing public services. The current calcul
Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president and launches the new deal, the moment he won no one knew how big a deal it was. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected and immediately things start to fall apart.
Thank you. [applause] the writers festival continues now with a discussion on us president ial elections with Arthenia Joyner and historians mark and morley. Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president an