drugmakerjohnson &johnson must pay $572 million for its part in fuelling the state s opioid addiction crisis. the largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk has been felt in lancashire. and. record breaking weather the hottest late august bank holiday sees temperatures hit 33 degrees celsius. good evening. the prime minister has told european leaders meeting at the g7 summit in biarritz not to listen to british politicians who say they can stop brexit. he told reporters at the close of the summit that he d reminded the eu britain will leave on october 31st even if no agreement is reached, and he said ‘colossal‘ preparations have been made for a no deal scenario. also at the summit, leaders agreed measures to try to help deal with the fires in the amazon. we ll hear more about that in a moment. first, our political correspondent, vicki young, reports on the mood around brexit in biarritz. it s not easy keeping world leaders in line. order, order
i never thought at my age, 61 years of age, i would have to be here protesting against the shutdown of parliament. there s been renewed violence in hong kong with pro democracy protesters defying a ban on rallying. more than 50 migrants have been detained as they tried to cross the english channel to reach kent several boats have been intercepted. same sex couples could be allowed to compete on strictly come dancing from next year. i will be back with you at eight, but now i m bbc news, it s time for sports day. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. here s what s coming up on the programme this evening. motorsport mourns the death of 22 year old frenchman anthoine hubert, killed in a high speed crash at spa this afternoon. we ve got all today s premier league results coming up. it s four out of four for liverpool. they are top of the table heading into the international break. a double from ireland s jacob stockdale ends wales winning run in cardiff. also co
of reconstruction to world war ii. i do agricultural history and economic history. i am happy to be here. end to begin the introductions to our panel. we have a tight timeline. i am going to try to control our panelists. in a good way. haveke sure that we adequate time for everyone. minutes get to five left, i have a five-minute card and i will lay it up so you can see. we have time for everyone. i m going to introduce each panelist as they come forward. i have found a few introduced them all at once, people forget who they are. i will begin with our first panelists, panelist, john polk. he received his phd of mathematics from the university of delaware in 1979. he served two tours in the army. a 45 year career as a scientist and senior advisory of international research collaboration at the u.s. army research laboratory in maryland. he is currently the clan historian for clan polk international. he has published two books on historical topics beyond dam to polker: the hi
panelists. in a good way. to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. when you get to five minutes left, i have a five-minute card and i will lay it up so you can see. we have time for everyone. i m going to introduce each panelist as they come forward. i have found a few introduced them all at once, people forget who they are. i will begin with our first panelist, john polk. he received his phd of mathematics from the university of delaware in 1979. he served two tours in the army. he retired from a 45 year career as a scientist and senior advisory of international research collaboration at the u.s. army research laboratory in maryland. he is currently the clan historian for clan polk international. he has published two books on historical topics beyond dam to quarter: the history of the polk family on the eastern shore in the colonial era. that was published in 2015, which received a prize from the maryland genealogical society. and his second book, somerset re
okay. the question was, how forrest and hood related to each other at the springhill situation, is that what i understand? and nashville. and nashville. well, in regard to franklin, certainly, forrest did not agree with hood s decision to attack there. back at springhill, it seems to me that forrest was never fully clear about hood allegedly wanting to block the pike, and instead was coming in and attacking the union troops that were marshaled there, maybe some 6500, rather than trying to concentrate on blocking the pike. i think there s misunderstanding certainly between hood and forrest at springhill. i don t know that that particularly affected what happened the next day at franklin. i think that probably forrest just disagreed totally with the idea of a frontal attack, a frontal assault at franklin and, of course, wanted to try and blank the federals out of their position. i think another interesting point is that what happened in the nashville circumstances, forr