Our group and then we will get started. 22 ago, there is a switch. Thank you. There is a switch on the mics. In a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted religions continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholarship in american religious history has proliferated over the past 15 years. In political history, religion has retained a jackinthebox quality, colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will inress how religion matters american political history and we will do so in three ways. First, i blast each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, in their own research, how religion plays that they arees working on, but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, different story than if it
A mission to save thousands of animals from australias bushfires. Well have the latest on the desperate efforts. The it meltdown that exposed customers to fraud. Branded the truly shambolic bank, a new report says bosses at tsb lacked common sense after 2 million customers couldnt access their accounts. A special, special night, says wales boss ryan giggs, as they beat hungary to qualify for next years European Championship he says its a bright new start for his side. And totteham have sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino. Theyre in talks with Jose Mourinho to take over. Not as cold as dark today as it was yesterday. The cloud and rain and breezy conditions in the west. Something dry and write in central and eastern areas. I have more in 15 minutes. Its wednesday the 20th of november. Our top story this morning borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have traded verbal blows in the first tv debate of the general Election Campaign, but the public response suggests that neither man emerged as a cle
Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Naga Munchetty and jon kay. Our headlines today thomas cook asks for emergency government funding to stop it going bust and leaving thousands of holidaymakers stranded. Infighting overshadows the start of the Labour Party Conference as activists try to remove the deputy leader tom watson. Are our National Park a National Treasure which too few use . Will be talking about a big, bold plan for the future this morning. In sport. Australia make a winning start on day two of the Rugby World Cup as they beat a talented fiji side, with the game of the day to come holders new zealand against south africa later. Good morning. Itll be another dry and sunny day for the vast majority of the uk. A little warmer for many of us than yesterday, but windier as well. But there are changes afoot as the day progresses, particularly in the west. Ill have more detail for you in around a quarter of an hour. Good morning. Its saturday the 21st of september. Our top stor
Of arnhem, a mass parachute drop takes place in the netherlands to mark what was known as operation Market Garden in world war ii. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford, and john rentoul the chief political commentator at the independent. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The sunday telegraph looks at the future of labour and the partys leader Jeremy Corbyn, suggesting that succession plans are well under way. The sunday times says the party has been plunged into fresh chaos, after a Senior Adviser quit he reportedly didnt have faith that labour will succeed. The observer also leads on labour and mentions the partys plans to scrap the schools inspectorate, ofsted. The thoughts of nigel farage dominate the front of the sunday express. He says any delay to the Brexit Process will lead to what he calls a clean break. And the mail on sunday has the story of the 80
We start with Climate Change because European Union leaders have failed to agree a target of zero net greenhouse emissions by 2050. France and germany were among some of the nations pushing for the pledge to go Carbon Neutral into decades but failed to get unanimous agreement at the summit in brussels. This after opposition from some Eastern European countries over the cost to their economies. The eu has already agreed to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions by at least 40 from the 1990 levels by 20 to 30. And there has been some progress here. Emissions from the eu have fallen by 2296 emissions from the eu have fallen by 22 since between 1990 and 2017 but climate Scientists Say that is just not enough. This month, the uk became the very first major economy, really, to make a legal commitment to Carbon Neutrality by 2050. Here is one of the big problems the european reliance on coal. Germany gets 40 of its electricity from coal but plans close all 84 coal fired power stations over the next 20