My name is mary cox and im pleased to be here. I just published my first book, ill do a little plug at the beginning this was released in the u. S. A few weeks ago and today lecture ill be giving a lot of what is inside this book and theres a lot more thats in there. What im going to try to do is tell you a story about what it was like to be in germany as a civilian during the First World War and the years following. As part of that story, ill be disgusting Herbert Hoover and some of the things he did to alleviate the suffrage in germany which had been a big enemy and ally of the United States. For me, one of the things i enjoyed so much of my research is seeing his compassion for people that were very unpopular and were ready to encourage others to feel that same compassion and safe ability in life. Heres the book im, going to start by telling you about something about the british blockade. Right when the war started the British Government started the introduction of goods and they ha
The bbc news at one. A man has been shot dead by police in a pre planned operation near the m62 motorway in huddersfield. He has been named as yasser yaqub. West Yorkshire Police say an officers gun was fired and five people have been arrested. They also say the operation was not related to terrorism. The independent Police Complaints commission has sent investigators to the scene. Well our correspondent danny savage is at ainley top in west yorkshire. It is only in the last few minutes yasser yaqub has been named locally as the man shot dead here last night. We understand he is in his late 20s. He was here last night in one of those vehicles were the shots we re one of those vehicles were the shots were fired. The scene behind me, screens have been put up around the vehicles involved in last nights incident. What is happening is specialist officers are now on site trying to establish the exact sequence trying to establish the exact sequence of events that led to his death. It was abou