continues and president zelensky is winding ukrainian forces are holding out but are outnumbered. belgian s king arrived in congo, two years after expressing regret for his families brutal colonial ruling. let s start with borisjohnson and the fallout from yesterday s confidence vote on his leadership. although he won, more than a0 per cent of his own mps voted against him. in recent months, the prime minister has faced mounting pressure following revelations of lockdown parties held at downing street. the prime minister addressed cabinet ministers today here s what he told them. thank you everybody for all your good work yesterday because it was a very important day because we were able to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about and we re able to get on talking about what i think people in this country want us to. we know that cabinet support for the prime minister still holds firm here s foreign secretary liz truss. we had a vote yesterday.
Of thrones and award seasons all rolled into one. This is how i discovered to my non china friends. Detailed profiles of whos who in chinas political circles and how they are connected start popping up everywhere and everyone certainly depictions on who they think will make it onto the seventh person Standing Committee which is the pinnacle of power in china. This Years Congress however was all about one man and that man was general secretary. Prior to the congress dominated the basic among china watchers. Some analysts any doubt about his strength was put to rest last week when congress amended the partys constitution to include and i quote xi jinping on socialism with chinese characters explore a new area as a guiding possible. Hes the First Chinese leader to have his name and trying to the constitution while still alive since mao. This has led some to argue, especially in the media have been reading these headlines that he is now the strongest chinese leader in history since mao, pe
The most anticipated books that are being published in the spring. According to the book Industry News source Publishers Weekly. Coming out in march, john gideon shows her journal entries from a certain road trip in 1970. And her time reporting on the patty hearst trial in 1976 and south of and west. New york times former asia correspondent Howard French reports on chinas local ambitions and everything under the heavens. And immunologist stephen hatch recalls his work in liberia during the west african Ebola Outbreak in inferno. A look at Publishers Weekly most anticipated books of the spring continues with locking up our own. The role africanamerican leaders have played in the rise of mass incarceration. Also that month, New York Times science reported gina coletta examines how genetic illness affected a family in south carolina
Be the president. A lot of these trends have been long in the making, some more recent but the bottom line is whoever wins the election can chose everything. Their running mate, policy and the only thing they cant change is their inbox and i wanted to talk about what greeted the next president and how we got from the optimism of 25 years to something that is not optimistic and i talk about what we should and shouldnt do about avoiding it. I noticed in the beginning of the bock you discussed you had the opportunity to speak at Cambridge College that richard deer brought you in as the visiting professor of state craft and diplomacy. Great title. Great title. Yes, it is. What influence during the lectures you were delivering . How did this gel . You didnt know what was to come but when you impacted by your students . Lectures you were giving . What about that connection . Any time you give three formal public lectures it helps you organize your thoughts. I gave those and got lots of feedb
I might be able to fin find timn my schedule. [laughter] to talk to her. My intention was because i was working on another book and ive been working on it for a while. I cant even remember what its about. [laughter] my intention was to interview her, put the interview in the archives collection where it ought to be and some historian in the future would bless my name. But i had no intention of writing a book about them emitt hill. It was rooted in that old coast of race and sexuality, you know the pure white southern hub and the power of the land. I knew about that stuff and ive also written, it was predicted in the 1950s, so this was familiar territory and the i knw the story pretty well i thought. But i went to the library to do a Little Research just to prepare for the interview and what i found was we had all of the novels and poems and songs and memoirs. But there was one bit of history about the case. It was thin and flimsy, very lightly researched and 25yearsold. Which surprised