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U. S. For talks until now. And turkey calls on the world to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of eventual palestinian state as muslim readers leaders gather on a summit to the newest move from the u. S. To recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. And how facebook is changing its Business Model to pay more taxes in countries where it makes money from advertising. The details in our business update. And the forces officially with episodee last jedi eight for star wars fans opens around the world. Our top story, live from paris. We start with that surprise victory for doug jones in alabama. The democrat beat republican roy moore to take the senate by just 1. 5 of the vote. His campaign had been frontpage news in the states, not just moore was accused of that of feeley assaults, but because donald trump had thrown his support behind him as well. This win narrows the ne ....
Polling that specifically asked does selma change their mind about working to a new Voting Rights act and are you going to get involved . The people are already involved. Selma did modestly well at the box office. I think i have the figures here. At home, a made 52 million and that is gross. The budget was 20 million. Foreign was not good. Only 14 million. We really do not know, but now it is on dvd and it is available on netflix, apple tv, your phone , maybe we will have an answer to that question eventually. Maybe this version of selma will have an impact. Has the criticisms of the film from historians been mostly on your side of the camp or has there been a counterbalance from other historians who are backing up the directors approach . Mr. May the question is, are there any historians totally supportive of the film . Not that i am aware of. What i did see, the night that i saw the film in november 2014, there was a journalist o ....
My name is Justin Desmangles i of the chair of the foundation celebrating the 41st year. [applause] for decades. I want to and extend my gratitude to an hour founder our founder who was one of the great artists, warriors of our time, ishmael reed is with us today. [applause] i also want to think our friends here the center for being so generous in in particular the director and to fellow board member presently the poet laureate at the center cisco jazz festival San Francisco jazz festival. [applause] the american book awards are hosted by the jazz center. Jazz has the uniquely american art form the american is a and the thread of telling it like it is to invite openly all cultures to develop and to seek peace with one another. And with that National Conversation that is exacerbated by a violent political crisis ....
U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1955. And a veteran of more than 20 Cold War Missions and three arctic expeditions. He was awarded to legions of merit as a cold war submarine commander and was the president of the american polar society. He is the author of a firsthand account of historic under ice survey of the siberian Continental Shelf by the u. S. Queenfish. He joins us from his home in nederland, colorado. Alfred i will take you through a variety of things. The very first part i will take you through, some of the highlights from my first book. The first survey of the siberian Continental Shelf. When i finish talking about the book, if there is time, i have included, starting in 1999, i started documenting the titanic and total to almost 16,000 feet to see ....