Interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend, 48 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Joel simon come executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and author of the new censorship talks with a target a journalist by governments around the world including the u. S. Government. During this event mr. Simon is in conversation with Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the associated press. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here tonight. Im thinking of Academic Affairs at the columbia Journalism School. We are very pleased to have the Kathleen Carroll and joel simon any conversation on the new censorship. Journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. No one knows this more than our guests tonight. Joel simon is director of the committee to protect journalists, nor physician founded in 1981 my group of u. S. Correspondence who realized they couldnt ignore the dangers their colleagues arou
Live shots i think from the press conference in switzerland. Lets take you now to washington d. C. And speak to al jazeeras correspondent there. James was alluding to a little earlier all this being very very carefully watched by congress. Reporter it really is. I want to give you a scheduling update. President obama was scheduled to go to louisville about two hours ago for a speech but hes still at the white house. Officials are not saying if well hear from the president or not. Theyve been putting out stories that the president is intimately involved with this process, knows the number of centrifuges, has been keeping abreast of every step. And one reason hes put so much on this is that this is going come down to an ultimate fight with congress. There are two different bills that they could try to scuttle this deal. They could say congress has to have oversight of any final agreement. One thing they say at the white house is lets say we make a Deal Congress passes the bill and then t
The wealth Top Oil Producers that agree to cut production to boost prices. The white house accuses them of aligning with russia. Ah, hello, im sorry, im noisy in london, youre watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. Russias president signs a law to alex for ukrainian regions, while his forces fleet front line areas. Keith calls at the act of collecting madhouse as hunger and desperation in somalia, when millions of people were starving and what could become the worst famine in a generation. Also it was shocking and surreal and stunning in every way. And the nobel prize for chemistry is given to 3 scientists for developing a way to snap molecules together. Like like our breaks. Ah, our white house is accused and alliance of the worlds Top Oil Producers of aligning with russia are today agreed to cut the output to boost prices. The opec plus group, which includes rusher and saudi arabia, says it will reduce production by 2000000. 00 barrels a day. But the u. S. Is called the
Global security threat. While suggesting they may put north korea back on a path of terror. Nbc Kristin Welker at the white house right now. He is most likely going to be ask about this line against iran as secretary tillerson is saying that iran is complying with this nuclear deal. Theyre not cheating. Thats right the question for the president today, is he going to in fact move to rip up, as he put it, the iran nuclear deal. This is something that he vowed to do as a candidate. It is also somebody he talked about doing as a president. As you know, the United States is not the only country involved in this deal. Its not as simple as just pulling out, and it would raise serious questions about the United States level of commitment to these types of international agreements. Having said that, the talk, as you point out and you were there yesterday for seccer tear tillerson was skwas tough sayin theyre tough in their viewing of iran. The administration argues that b iran is not doing eno
Dozens of those twisters have been tearing through the heartland for weeks now bringing the potential for historic flooding across the region. Here is what we know so far about what happened overnight. A series of twisters reported in indiana and ohio. There is significant damage but no deaths reported so far. In ohio crews there going doortodoor this morning checking for survivors. Bill the survivors you heard from one there, here are a few more now describing the terrifying experience in the dead of night. The walls shaking back and forth. There is wind from the tornadoes pushing through up through the vent into my face and im freaking out sitting there. It lasted 10 to 15 seconds, scariest 15 seconds of my life. We knew exactly it was a tornado going over. There was just no doubt. Everything they ever said about a tornado was really true about sounding like a Freight Train coming through and it was very, very frightening. The damage was significant and many citizens and folks are st