Coronavirus cases have been detected with no known origin. Sport it is canceling International Football friendlies because of coronavirus the lympics are also in downs but were in senegal where africas best boxers still trying to qualify at the 2020. 2 to the news that the u. S. And Afghan Taliban are due to sign a preliminary deal in the coming hours the could eventually and americas longest running war is the result of 18 months of talks but once its agreed to go the 1st stage will be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence to include the exchange of 6000. 00 prisoners now that deal is being. Described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan itself its hoped that this will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops now leading up to the signing theres been an initial weeklong reduction in violence and that mostly held although there were still some a
About me. Its about the movement of young people coming together. To watch this program and other episodes, visit our website at booktv. Org. Click on the indepth tab at the top of the page. Joining us is pulitzer prizewinning author and historian rich atkinson. Here is his latest book the lfbritish are coming, the war for america, 1775 to 1777. Mister atkinson, your wellknown foryour world , you wrote back 200 years. I did. I spent 15 years looking at the american role in the liberation of europe and world war ii and when i finished third volume having gone through north africa and western europe beginning in normandy thinking about what to do next the obvious thing was due for that campaign whative done for western europe. I just didnt have a heart for it in part because i would have had to start the war over again at pearl harbor even earlier. Ive been thinking for a long time about what was i want to do as a historian and a narrative writer and ive always had a fascination since i
I did. I spent 15 years working at the liberation of europe in world war ii and when i finished the third volume having gone through north africa, sicily, italy and in europe speaking about what to do next the obvious thing would have been what to do for that campaign thathecampaign that ie mediterranean and western europe. It is hard because in part i would have had to start the war over in pearl harbor even earlier and ive been thinking for a long time about what it is i really wanted to as a historian and a narrative writer and ive always had a fascination since i was a kid with the resolution. It seems to be more important than ever now so thats what ive done. Im one third of the way into what i hope will be another trilogy. This one about the history of the revolution told from both the american side and the british side equally. Host why do you say that its more important now than ever . Guest when we look at the revolutionrevolution, we are tro figure out who we are, who we come
A very big summit and a very crucial speech for the chancellor what can we expect her to say about brets today well this is as you said one of the policy speeches that she regularly gifts in the german pod them and its what she does to give the members of the parliament a general auslan on how shes going to handle the different topics that are going to be talked about at the pin commission summits but in regards to backs it will of course be the overlying topic of the overshadowing topic of this has now been reports that sort of an agreement has been reached between the e. U. And the United Kingdom but moguls law and on brecht it hasnt changed and we will see probably that shes going to stick by what she has called or as her redlines she doesnt think the u. K. Can cherry pick in terms of how to leave the European Union and also that there should not be a hawesville of its fee in ireland and north and ireland and thats been doesnt that been a very. Porton issue the irish border the bord
Lets bring you some breaking news now in the past half hour, borisjohnson has announced that the uk and the eu have struck a Brexit Agreement. Writing on twitter, the Prime Minister said weve got a great new deal that takes back control , now parliament should get brexit done on saturday so we can move on to other priorities. well, the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, said it was a fair and balanced agreement for the eu and the uk. However, the democratic unionists whose 10 votes the government might need to get the deal approved in the commons have said in response that they remain opposed to the deal. Let us been to chris, who is keeping gcioss let us been to chris, who is keeping across all of the developments here in the European Council. We had the following over the past half an hour some of the developments that have been coming in. Michelle bernier same as we have a deal, they were talking about whether as a builder isa talking about whether as a build