The largest stone fort in the United States its at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near virginia. Up next fort monroe director robin read gives us a tour showcasing the history from the colonial era to its completion. In 1834 and its role in the seven civil war. Welcome to the very Pleasant Place that we call point comfort. Actually we call it all played comfort and its been named that for a long time. It is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. In fact someone say even longer, some say even thousand or years. Youre actually inside a case mate. Case made is nothing more than a fault inside the fort wall xerox lean side the fault for wall. Kind of unique for a museum to this day in time we will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the genie indians, they africans who first arrived here and there play during the civil war. Thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to mi
If welcome, we are in this place called point comfort. Its been that way for a long time. It is here that over 400 years of history have occurred. In fact some would say even longer, thousands of years. We are inside the case made museum, aptly named, because yours actually inside a case made. Its nothing more than a vault, its not afford ball. So you are actually inside the fort wall. Kind of unique for a museum in this day and time. Were gonna walk you through the case, museum we will talk about the very interesting thing that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the africans that first arrived here, and the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. The migrated as far as west as mexico. And the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america. They migrated all the way here to point comfort, where 40 monroe is located today. They were hunters, gatherers, and they lived a very successful an
Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us weve reported on the hundreds of detention facilities across the shing gem weekend in china where the government has rounded up some 1000000 weekers a muslim and ethnic Minority International condemnation has not discouraged beijing it appears that the system put in place inching genk is being installed in tibet once again china says these are voluntary Vocational Training centers but if whats happened in ching gen is any indication its more about forcing Chinese Culture on unwilling to bend. Over the world you are going to continue to distance china seize control of the land they live on tibetans have complained that their religious freedom and traditional way of life are being actively cotyledon now it appears the situation is getting was best evidence that beijing is slow seeing hundreds of thousands of tibetans off balance. And and into socalled Vocational Training centers that are set to resemble labor camps traditional fa
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Assistance thank god i. Welcome to the program protesters in nigerias most populous city lagos are back on the streets to demonstrate against Police Brutality thats in spite of a government curfew imposed after protests turned violent on tuesday Security Forces opened fire Rights Group Amnesty International said several people were killed and many others injured the incident has sparked global outrage and ignited fresh anger among a growing Movement Young nigerians. Said they came out in defiance of a curfew and after dusk the trouble started the many green uniforms was seen setting up barriers surrounding the area and eyewitnesses saw c. C. T. V. Cameras and Street Lighting being disabled the car then suddenly gunshots i would but im sure there are thank you rafael since your huge people were outside the tollgate started taking cover down sit down i think i wrote i. Think a d w news crew who were on the scene were forced to take shelter next to their vehicle i the army has denied resp