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mccloskey who will answer your questions about capitalism and socialism. check your program guides for more information. now it is my pleasure to introduce harvey solomon, a freelance writer based in washington dc and the author of three nonfiction books including book of days, the 60s, a day by day look at the pop-culture movements that made history. he has written articles for dozens of publications including the boston herald, los angeles times, and variety. today s book on the detention and repatriation of more than 1000 german japanese and hungarian diplomats, staffers and service journalists and spies. this follows those whose privileged world came crashing down after 1941, a squat cackling ambassador and his charming but conflicted wife, a wily veteran japanese journalist, beleaguered american wife of a japanese by posing as a diplomat and a spirited but nacve college age daughter of a german military at cachet. harvey solomon re-creates this period of detentio ....
to avoid drawing a veto from russia, which is an ally of the syrian government. french president emmanuel macron and german chancellor angela merkel will speak by phone on sunday with russian president vladimir putin, to push for the truce to take hold in the coming days. nick bryant reports. the people of eastern ghouta woke up this morning to continued aerial bombardment and the news from new york that the security council remained deadlocked. and still couldn t reach agreement on how to bring about even a temporary halt to the killing. delay in syria always brings more death. at least 120 children have been killed since sunday, according to human rights activists. hospitals overwhelmed by the number of casualties have been targets of the government s bombing. on the fringes of the security council, the tensest of negotiations. but always a sense of urgency from the backers of this resolution and always the unresolved question would russia allow it to pass? i would ....
killed since sunday, according to human rights activists. hospitals overwhelmed by the number of casualties have been targets of the government s bombing. on the fringes of the security council, the tensest of negotiations. but always a sense of urgency from the backers of this resolution and always the unresolved question would russia allow it to pass? i would call upon those who are in favour of the draft resolution to raise their hand. when it came to a vote, the russian ambassador held his arm aloft not to wield a veto, but to finally agree. yet, western diplomats still attacked moscow for delaying its passage for days. as they dragged out the negotiation, the bombs from assad s fighter jets continued to fall. in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution, how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling? while we ve been arguing over commas, assad s planes have been killing more civilians in their homes and in their hospitals, imposing unb ....
30 day ceasefire across syria. it ll allow aid to reach areas including rebel held eastern ghouta, where more than 500 civilians are said to have been killed in government air strikes in the past week. syrian rebel groups have welcomed the vote, which had been delayed repeatedly by russia, an ally of the syrian government. the leaders of france and germany will speak by phone on sunday with president putin, to push for the truce to take hold in the coming days. nick bryant reports. the people of eastern ghouta woke up this morning to continued aerial bombardment, and the news from new york that the security council remained deadlocked and still couldn t reach agreement on how to bring about even a temporary halt to the killing. delay in syria always brings more death. at least 120 children have been killed since sunday, according to human rights activists. hospitals overwhelmed by the number of casualties have been targets of the government s bombing. 0n the fringes of ....
for doping should not be lifted ahead of the closing ceremony at the winter olympics in south korea later on sunday. the decision means that the russian athletes, who were allowed to compete as neutrals, cannot march under their own flag. two russian athletes have failed drug tests in pyeongchang. it comes as a high level delegation from north korea has crossed into south korea to take part in the closing ceremony. a large crowd came to protest the inclusion of a controversial general, kim yong chol. he was head of pyongyang s military department and is widely blamed for an attack eight years ago on a south korean warship that killed 46 sailors. our correspondent stephen mcdonell joins me live from seoul. stephen thank you forjoining us. it looks like olympic diplomacy has worked to a certain extent? well, you know, there is a lot of controversy going on here right now, right to the very end, these olympic games are mired, really, in geostrategic manoeuvre is. on the on ....