University of Virginia History Professor Caroline recounts Robert E Lee surrendered to the Union Army and ends of war. Find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold. Watch for many of these authors to appear in the near future on Book Tv. Welcome byron from cincinnati, jennifer formally from cincinnati now lives in New Mexico. I will let them talk about how they met each other in the book that they wrote together. Welcome this afternoon. Thank you jan. Thank you jan. We are excited to be here. It is great to be here today. Byron and i are going to start by introducing each other a little bit. Then were going to do readings from the book and then we will take some questions. And this feed is supposed to be on cspan Book Tv coming up. So it may be replayed again, fingers crossed everything technically works from end to end, that is always the challenge. I am going to start by introducing brian mcauley. Byron will not say it himself but he has been an award winning Journalist
Good afternoon. I would like to give you an update on the situation in afghanistan and ongoing efforts there. Particularly as they relate to u. S. Citizens and i am happy to take your questions. Let me begin with profound appreciation for our diplomats and servicemembers who are working around the clock in the airport in kabul to facilitate the evacuation of americans, families, citizens of allied and partner nations, afghans were partnered with us, and other afghans at risk. They are undertaking this mission under extremely difficult circumstances. With incredible courage, skill, and humanity. Since august 14th, or the eighth 2000 people have been flown out of 82,000 people have been flown out of kabul. Only the United States could organize and execute a mission of this scale and complexity. August 14th, or the eighth 2000 people have been flown out of 82,000 people have been flown out of kabul. Only the United States could organize and execute a mission of this scale and complexity.
Hello, hot sunshine, really the name of the game across the middle east and some spots were actually above where we should be. So thats, thats the case where exactly this is a level. Yep. Youre above average. Same goes for back that 50 degrees and q 8, also a high of 50 degrees fall above average. And we are running the risk of seen some Storms Bubble up toward the he jazz mountains and also the Alpha Jar mountains toward the Northeast Portion of oman on thursday. Keeping the risk of sand in dust. Storms for southern areas of pakistan, karachi, 34 Degrees Sunshine in the hor, 39, but just somewhat weather trying to sneak in across the foothills of the himalayas, monsoons, moister, that were dealing with those winds finally back off through the Boss 1st and its stumble. So quite nice, stay 31 degrees in the sunshine. Take you through the tropics of africa. Storms really going to flare up through ethiopia as we had toward Gabon And Camera room pushing to western areas of africa and other
Well, deescalation is also mentioned in the d. G. O. President cohen okay. If you look at section 8. 202 of the definitions, it has deescalation, officers shall, when feasible, employ deescalation techniques to decrease the likely use of using force and increase the likelihood of volunteer compliance. So throughout the course of our training, deescalation is at the front of all of our training. President cohen thank you. I appreciate you reading it for the record. If i may, in our critical mindset response training, its embedded in that and many other modules of our training, so its in all of it. We are seeing some really good outcomes because we are focused on deescalation. President cohen great. All right. Thank you. All right. Well, theres a motion on the floor, and that motion is to approve the revised draft of department general order 8. 02, hostage and barricade suspects. Is there a second . Commissioner brookter second. President cohen i think that was a second by commissioner b
Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin sandman for the killing of journalist john montage of. Hundreds killed thousands displaced allegations of war crimes being committed against civilians in northern mozambique. Thanks for joining us we begin in nigeria thats where the government says 279 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northwest forest they have been released gunmen took them from a state run school on friday its the latest in a series of recent abductions of students in the region by the dresses in the town of forest state where the girls have been taken. The government said no one is left in captivity no one was killed the 279 in fact all the girls that have been taken and all of them are safe now what we saw actually were girls limping because they had to walk when they were taken from their beds for 5 days ago and they had to walk long distances one girl was telling me that she walked more than 60 kilometers they spent a night in the 1st come for for 2 days and then moved to another camp