Look at the social reformer and photographer and this program is just under an hour. I am cheryl regan, im an exhibitor at the library of congress. On the curator of this exhibit, and im a historian at the library of congress. This exhibition jacob wreaths it is the first time that the collection jacob riis and the jacob jacob riis papers is a stellar collection at the city of new york. We pick the word go presentation very good now and very carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum in the city of new york and really that exhibit had revealed new yorks other half, and its slightly different it looks in a slightly different way and concentrating more on his biography more on his photography and here we are looking at jacob riis as a journalist because that is the strength of our collection the papers here which number 3000, and the Manuscript Division features well and come to the forefront. We also really wanted to emphasize the combinatio
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im erica pitzi. A fiery first debate, the top 10 gop candidates drew brews and cheers from the audience and fellow contenders. Michael shure joins us live from cleveland this morning. Good morning. Weve got donald trump out of the gate, did not even have to say a word to fire up the crowd but how did he do overall . Good morning. It really does still feel like good evening. Its been a long one here in cleveland. How he did if you ask donald trump, he did very well. He came to be himself, to be the person who breaks this debate up, who breaks up this race. He broke to the decorum of republican president ial politics right from the very beginning. He was asked questions about how he would run would he be a lone wolf out there lets say he didnt win the nomination, is there anyone on the stage who would run as an independent but donald trump has been consistent and that didnt change last night. Im looking to you to raise your hand now if y
Iraqi military say some fighting is still going on to the north and east of the town where i solicit rounded troops were greeted by jubilant villages in six kilometers northwest of the town and the capture of how we judge the only area that now remains under eisel control in iraq is a stretch alongside the west and border with syria but the military operation has come at a cost as Charles Stratford reports from by checkpoint it in Northern Iraq. Exhausted in scale it took this family five days to reach the peshmerga defensive position. They walked across these polished hills from their village in eisel controlled territory sometimes struggling to find shelter from Coalition Airstrikes and iraqi shelling but the situation is tense there are airstrikes artillery shelling i have escaped with my family as soon as we could i saw were relocating from one place to another and many of them were pushed. And squeezed further into how egypt there is no food or water available in i want a village.
Announcement from the ways capital. The. Nobel committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for twenty seventeen. To the international. Nuclear weapons i can i can the geneva based coalition of campaigning groups for more than one hundred countries has promoted a treaty to prohibit Nuclear Weapons its important to. Nine hundred forty five. With north koreas repeated Nuclear Weapons tests and its trading of insults with the United States nuclear war seems a more real possibility now than at any time since the cold war. With. Donald trump is also threatening to take the United States out of iran. The americans but also the other Nuclear Weapon states britain france china russia israel india and pakistan all boycotted the negotiations for the nuclear probation treaty the message we are sending is to remind them of the commitment that they have. Lets say so are. To work for nuclear free. These weapons and fury have not been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five b
And its war in yemen the United Nations says hundreds of children have been killed or injured in attacks and schools and hospitals both the Saudi Led Coalition and who the rebels are being blamed by kind of reports from the u. N. The report lists four thousand recorded violations against children by Government Forces in some twenty zones of conflict along with over eleven thousand violations by nonstate groups but in a carrot and stick approach the format of the report has been altered those states or nonstate perpetrators that have been gauged with the un and committed to improving protection for children are placed in a separate blacklist from those parties that have shown no remorse or concern about their actions the saudi Led Military Coalition in yemen is placed in this category what became of under clear he said there were some listed parties even through many years to three years that had generally been attempting to put in place may shows that i mean they had acknowledged the p