Sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life is not that bad. You re in the good place. The beautiful thing about the sitcom is it has provided so much joy in times of uncer uncertainty. There is a lot of pressure in the 1960s. This notion of new products and everything being new, this brave new world. Everything is about the future and modernizing. Yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships but it s a scary thing. What does the future hold? air force general curtis la may suggested we bomb north vietnam back into the stone age. Yabadabadoo. The flintstones was a modern age family, if you recall. It sort of celebrated the modern family and the guys of a stone age setting. It was like time travel fantasy for us watching. You almost through with the dishes? i can t wait until they invent the faucet. With all the progress in the late 1950 it s and 60s, the flintstones was an escape from the modern family. It was kind of a satire on this consumer. G
That we are experiencing today. You see it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. For the jews, solomon built the holly temple. For muslims, jerusalem is where prophet mohammed made the journey. No other individuals changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. Solodyn determined to take on the christians. At a time of islamic rule, the british wanted to control the holy land. Fo for palestinians, it is a great disaster. The history of jerusalem, very complicate ds story and if you don t know it in its comp complexity. It is hard to understand what s going on today. The past is never dead. It is been two decades since the end of the first world war. And while another global conflict looms on the horizon, jerusalem is already in chaos. The british continued to control the holy city through a system known as the mandate. The mandate system was a way british were going to be able to colonize palestine without calling it colonization. The british played everybody to their
Earthquake. The misery now compounded by a storm headed their way. The afghan army has collapsed. The central government has fallen. And if nothing changes, the taliban look to be the new rulers afghanistan. The militants wrapped up a blistering advance over the weekend ending the surrender of kabul. Ousted president ashraf ghani has fled the country, and video from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban lounging in the presidential palace, an extraordinary sight. The taliban have called for peace, but their descent on kabul set off panic. Have a look at the scene the city s airport before they say they took over air traffic control. Up to 6,000 u. S. Troops are being earmarked to help u. S. Personnel. Foreigners are racing to get out, but so too those afghan civilians, many afghans including those who work with the u. S. Fear a return to taliban rule is a death sentence. America s top dip that the is defending the administration s decision to withdraw those troops from afghanistan. Se
Haiti where the death toll is climbing from a devastating earthquake. Welcome, everyone. The afghan army has collapsed. The central government has fallen. And if nothing changes, the taliban look to be the new rulers of afghanistan. The militants racked up a blistering advance against major cities over the weekend, ending in the surrender of kabul. Ousted president ashraf ghani fled the country, and this video that you re looking at from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban looking very comfortable in the presidential palace. Now, the u. S. Military s withdrawal set up the taliban takeover. The u. S. Says all of its embassy personnel have been evacuated to the airport, and many other countries have followed suit. This was the kabul green zone earlier. The former hub of military and diplomatic activity now a ghost town. But things have been very different at the airport. [ sound of gunfire ] gunfire ringing out earlier as these crowds raced to try to catch a flight out of kabul. Too m
Ugliness too, because it means that people believe that they must possess it absolutely. The palestinian/israeli conflict that we are experiencing today, you ve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. For the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. For christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. For muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. People who are said to have conquered the world have swept through this city. No other individual changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. Saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. At a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. The main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. We are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. For israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. And of course for the palestinians, it s a gre