A disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air earlier china made the accusations and said that troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was Chinese Forces that fired shots from the base side usually avoid using firearms in the area tensions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead katrina you has more from beijing. Both sides india and china have had decades of this kind of tension because they fail to agree to agree over the line of actual control the delineation of the territory between both sides and over the past few months starting about from last year weve seen a build up of troops both on the chinese side and the indian side and according to some analysts we see a situation of quite literally troops from either side staring out staring down each other eyeball to eyeball and there have been some skirmishes although up until recently up until these last few months in june there were no actual
Street y offered here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and a little bit of time for leisure learning. Today we welcome you to the 29nd street y series in partnership with timestalks called tuesdays with the times featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Our tuesdays with the times series, as well as all of our daytime lectures a foumpl for issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that is greatly in our conscious. We welcome james dwyer and kevin flynn, 102 minutes, the fight to survive the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn, native new yorkers, veteran newspapers writers and winner of many awards together and separate. Jim dwyer joined in 2001 as a reporter for metropolitan section. Prior to joining the times, mr. Dwyer was columnist and associate editor for New York Daily News and before that a columnist for new york news day and previously a reporter for the bergen record. Mr. Dwyer is coauthor of two seconds under the world
Rains are forecast until the end of september given morgan has this update from khartoum. The river that you see behind me is the nile river which a Sudanese Government Officials Say is unprecedented in terms of the level of waters it is carrying right now at 17. 621 meters meteorologists say its the high is that have been recorded in nearly a century and that has resulted in massive flooding in various parts of the country now one of those areas is right here in this island of tutti which lies between the blue nile and the white nile the flooding from the nile waters has resulted in massive destructions of Properties Many people have been forced to leave their homes to look for refuge and shelter and for drier lands. And. Most of the destruction isnt just because the river flooded we have an annual phenomenon where the water in the river increases during the rainy season the river manages to break the makeshift dams that we build this is will cause the most destruction but this year i
Hi, im adam shafter. Im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. Today were going to take a look inside the flight 93 Visitors Center which was dedicated in september 2015. Were currently standing out at the end of the flight path overlook so were standing on the shadow of the flight path that flight 93 would have been on just before impact in the ground behind me. The reason were standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design center, itself. The walls of the Visitor Center shield the visitors view of the landscape around us here and the enormity of the landscape. And only frame the flight path as you approach the Visitor Center entrance so as youre coming off the parking lot you have to walk the flight path that this plane was on just before it crashed and the tall walls help to frame the last piece of sky that flight 93 passes through before impact here. One of the first things visitors notice as theyre walking the night path from the plast to at
Jonathan marwil teaches a class on how the victims of 9 11 terror attacks are remembered, a photograph from a 9 11 victim falling from the north tower of the World Trade Center. Okay. Lets begin. So far what they have been focusing on, first of all, was the film, the images in the film done by two brothers, French Brothers 9 11. So we have looked at what . Images of the buildings and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. And then last week we started talking about the 9 11 commission report. That is, how was the event investigated . And were going to continue on with that on thursday this week. What we havent looked at and what you might think is in some ways not appropriate to look at are the dead. And the dead of this event, when you think about it, if you have thought about it very much, theyre in a rather unusual position visavis the dead of other either terrorist attacks or attacks by political regimes or armies on populations, and that is