a week ago stone awards the sun may be coming down though on the days of the golden passport because of pressure from both the e.u. commission and the united states that threatened catastrophic sanctions on any bank involved in money laundering david chaytor al-jazeera the missile. also ahead for you on the program we meet a female historian in washington he s breathing new life into old defunct telephone boxes. and in sport the celebrations continue as cattles football heroes return home after winning the asian cup. in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror . but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth s natural resources. shadow war in the sahara. until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cover included todd s tragedies of quakes and that was it but not the how couple feel how they look how they think and that s what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding i
diplomats attending. china of course has steadfastly refused to back the tough us stance towards russia. and the american actorjames caan, best known for playing the gangster sonny corleone in the godfather, has died at the age of 82. pressure is growing on borisjohnson to step down as prime minister as soon as possible, rather than waiting until his successor is named. in his resignation speech on thursday, mrjohnson said he d stay in the job until the autumn but many of his colleagues, along with opposition parties, are unhappy with that and have called on him to go immediately. political editor chris mason has this report on a day of political upheaval for westminster and the country. at breakfast time, there was talk of a constitutional crisis, a prime minister who wouldn t budge, and more and more ministers resigning. butjust after 9:00am, news borisjohnson would resign today. this, the most powerful street in the country, suddenly packed. those arriving for work here ca
now an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university where she teaches courses on the american civil war and american military history and environmental history credit her research interests history. her research interests involve the evolution of american forces from the 1600s and 19 century, with focus on the interactions of soldiers with their natural environments and their mental and physical health. her first book, common soldiers in the environment won the wily silver prize for best first book on the civil war, and she is conducting an early study on jubal early. welcome kathryn shively meier. [applause] kathryn: thank you for having me. i m delighted to be here. i think you will see some connections between my talk on jubal early and the earlier talk we heard on richard taylor. the confederate general jubal early was one of the influential losers in american history. [laughter] kathryn: known for a petulant personality, early loss at the shenan
focus on the interactions of soldiers with their natural environments and their mental and physical health. her first book, common soldiers in the environment won the wily silver prize for best first book on the civil war, and she is conducting an early study on jubal early. welcome kathryn shively meier. [applause] kathryn: thank you for having me. i m delighted to be here. i think you will see some connections between my talk on jubal early and the earlier talk we heard on richard taylor. the confederate general jubal early was one of the influential losers in american history. [laughter] kathryn: known for a petulant personality, early loss at the shenandoah valley in 1864, contribute to overall confederate defeat. yet, scarcely missing a beat after the confederate surrenders in spring 1865, he seized control of the historical narrative to substantially redeem his reputation and position himself as chief authority on robert e lee s army of northern virginia, when robert