and by the way, it s the intended effect is to leave the population of the unitedat c states dangerously ignorant on questions that affect liveyou has. ave at this point, you haveorke to wonder if the average, say, new yorker is really better informed than a factory workeray in pyongyang, north korea. probably not. both have been effectively blindfolded by information monopolies. and if you doubt that s true, ask your neighbors who s winning the war in ukraine. and , i of course, to tell yl winn ukraine is winning the that s what they ve seen on the today show every morning for the past eleven months. and not just on the today show, but in virtually every media outlet in america. apart from colonel doug mcgregor s appearances on this show, for which he hasn needles to say, been condemned as an agent of putin, but he s pretty much alone. here s the version that mostm americans see this as leonskerio describe the time as the beginning of the end of the war. does we have t
excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. they think war is a glorious thing and let s go and do it. but in the spring lincoln s overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team, would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. ellsworth led a band across the river to tear down the confederate flag. as he was walking down the stairs, the owner of the inn took his shotgun and shot him in the chest. he fell down the last few steps, clutching and wrapped in this increasingly blood-soaked flag. lincoln loved this young man, so the war came home really fast for lincoln. with the first cannon fired at ft. sumter in april 1861, the country is thrust into civil war
signature policies is facing a delay. he s now said he s willing to delay trying to secure us federal funds to build his wall along part of the border with mexico. the president has until the end of the week to agree federal spending plans with congress, or risk marking his hundredth day in office with a government shutdown. our north america editor jon sopel has more details. reporter: mr president, are you going to insist on border funding? donald trump made his fortune as a builder. now the president is staking a huge amount of political capital on the most controversial construction project of his life, a 2,000 mile long wall to separate the us from its southern neighbour, mexico. and no one can say it has come out of the blue. it was almost his campaign theme tune. we re going to do the wall, and by the way, who s going to pay for the wall? crowd: mexico! who is going to pay for the wall? mexico! who? mexico! but the mexicans have been blunt in their response. we re not
morning s front pages, including the sunday times, which says secret succession planning is underway for the next labour leader afterjeremy corbyn. the japanese prime minister shinzo abe, has described the launch of a ballistic missile by north korea, as absolutely intolerable . it s the first such launch since donald trump took office as us president. he says america is 100 percent behind japan. the missile was fired from an air base in north pyongan province and flew about 500 kilometres east into the sea of japan. the us military, which tracked the rocket, says it believes it was a medium or intermediate range missile. bill hayton reports. this significance of this test will depend upon what kind of missile was used. the successful launch of this would be a step forward for north korea s home grown missile programme coming after seven failures last year. however, if it s the tried and tested technology of the nodong or scud types, it will not symbolise any significant d
a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and japan have condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such test since donald trump took office as us president. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said the launch was intolerable and president trump said the us stood behind japan 100%. the missile flew for about 300 miles and landed in the sea ofjapan. 0ur tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. it s now thought the missile fired from north korea early this morning was one of these a musudan intermediate range ballistic missile. it flew about 500 kilometres before splashing down in the sea ofjapan. north korea s dictator, kimjong un, had been promising to test fire a much longer range missiles capable of hitting the united states. a much longer range missile capable of hitting the united states. that has not happened. instead, mr kim is almost certainly using the launch to crash this weekend party in florida. japan