and public policy program, which strives to reach public resource record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world and based upon those records, to facilitate scholarship, education, and debate. we also mobilize scholarship and research to inform public policy in other ways from podcasts like international history declassified, to blogs like my own, stubborn things. and today s program is very much in line with that purpose. our guests today, andy car. andy has served as the national chant for democracy interim chief of the george barbara bush foundation president of franklin pierce university acting dean of the bush school of government of public service at texas a&m university and senior government roles under three u.s. president under george w. bush, secretary of transportation under george h. w. bush. and we have andrew natsios. andrew is executive professor at the bush school at texas a&m university and director of the institute o
Away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. To the centre, south of tel aviv. And earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the Eritrean Community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. They say that the authorities didnt heed their warnings. Certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. There were attempts to break through police barricades. The Israeli Police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving Asylum Seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that weve seen in the past not on this scale i
And Lewis Hamilton wins a record equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. Good evening. One of the scientists behind the first Covid Vaccine to emerge from early Clinical Trials with high levels of success says it wont start to make a significant difference until next summer. Professor ugur sahin, whose Company Biontech developed the vaccine with the pharmaceutical giant pfizer, told the bbc today that normal life should be resuming this time next year, if mass vaccination programmes had taken place by then. Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. Tiny vials of the new biontec pfizer vaccine, which hold the worlds hope for an end to the pandemic. But today, one of its creators, from the husband and wife team, warned there are still many months to get through. This winter will be hard. We will not have a big impact on the infection numbers with our vaccine this winter. The bigger impact will happen until summer. The summer will help us
At the age of 72. And Lewis Hamilton wins a record equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. One of britains best known entertainers, des oconnor, has died at the age of 88. The comedian, singer and Television Star died yesterday in hospital, following a fall at his home in buckinghamshire. He found fame as the host of smash hit prime time shows, in a career spanning nearly seven decades. Hell be remembered for his warmth and versatility as a performer, along with his readiness to laugh at himself. Our arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Ive kept a list of the insults against des oconnor. Des oconnor was, in the 70s, famous, a star and, on morecambe and wise, the butt of hundreds of gags. But the singer and comedian took it all with good grace. Number one. Eric ivejust heard some good news. Ernie what good news . Eric des oconnor has got a sore throat. Nothing seemed to dent that clean cu
That has to be a seamless transition. Self isolating but showing no symptoms of coronavirus british Prime Minister borisjohnson is under orders from nhs track and farewell to one of our best and trace after meeting an mp known entertainers des oconnor has died who later tested positive. Thousands of ethiopians at the age of 88. Flee their country amid fighting between their government and forces now on bbc news our world. In the Tigray Region with the conflict now spilling across the eritrean border. And its a magnificent seventh world title for Lewis Hamilton, as he wins the turkish grand prix, becoming the most successful driver in the history of formula one. Hello and welcome, if youre watching in the uk or around the world, if youre watching in the uk and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Former us president barack obama has told the bbc that america is more divided now than when he was in office. British historian David Olusoga met him t