Museum director, gives us a tour showcasing the forts history, through the colonial area to its completion in 1834. And its role in the civil war. Welcome to fort mineral, located here on the very Pleasant Place we call Point Comfort, actually we call it old Point Comfort, and thats been that way for a long long time. It was here that over 400 years ago, 400 years of history have occurred. Some would say even thousands of years. Right outside the museum, happily named because youre actually the case made is nothing more than a vault inside of fort wash. Youre actually unsolved fort wall kind of unique for museums in this day and time. Were gonna walk you through the case make museum, and talk about the very interesting history that occurs here. Some of our stories reveal with the indians, the africans that first arrived here. And their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate, they migrated as far as west as
Brave new world. Like it or not our future is definitely digital but is it also sustainable we look for answers here on tomorrow today. The rain forest is home to a huge number of plants and animals. The species diversity is astounding. But tropical forests are under threat from logging making way for fun plantations so in indonesia the island of sumatra still has a tropical lowland forest in the book he took up to National Park a team that is looking for a very special animal. Were on a mission to find dora shes here somewhere deep in the sumatran jungle. So want to just create a party or to steam release feel run a tie. And into the wild equipped with a transmitter. Dora has been in the jungle for quite a while now so we can no longer predict where she is we have 2000 square kilometers of forest here so it takes time but then suddenly you hear a rustling in the trees. And its if you go. In the end doris curiosity gets the better of her and she appears. Shes now 80 years old. 3 years
Of disease among Rohingya Muslims in the worlds biggest refugee camp. Im in the kutupalong refugee camp, where people are living in the most and many tributes for cyrille regis, the man who led the way for black footballers in britain hes died at the age of 59. Its five oclock. Our main story is the collapse of carillion, the Major Construction and outsourcing group which is involved with some of the biggest public building projects in the uk. The business, which employs 20,000 people in the uk, went into liquidation with debts of £900 million. Its involved in projects such as crossrail and the h52 rail link, as well as cleaning and maintenance contracts for schools, prisons and hospitals. The Cabinet Office minister David Liddington has told mps that protecting those services would be the governments priority. Labour is asking why the government awarded major contracts to carillion even after it was clear the company was in difficulties. 0ur correspondent Simon Gompertz has the lates
This upcoming 250th anniversary. Examining our american experiment as key. This revolution of ours created waves across the world. With its lasting impacts, felt even today. This symposium the world turned upside down the American Revolution. Its impact on a global scale. Well study the effects of this revolution that trans formed governments and the governed across the globe. Appropriate as we consider the birth of our nation, is to acknowledge the Ancestral Lands of our Indigenous Peoples on which we gather. We recognize the many tribes who moved through this region trading and drawing resources from the land and waterways. We honor their descendants today. Our community is shaped by the diversity of its people. Past, present and future. And we affirm that this is central to the values of the place we now call alexandria. I have a few important housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the micr
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