Hung up, no signal. I did not know for eight hours where he was. I believed the worst happened and it is a miracle that i see him right now. The father says his son was at the Music Festival where hamas reportedly killed 250 people and kidnapped others. It turns out that the son lost his cell phone. It dropped out while fleeing for his life. So most flights are security concerns. This British Airways flight from london was almost in tel aviv today when the captain announced the flight would be turning around. Sfos daily united flight has been canceled. Meanwhile, a pro basketball player from sacramento who was trapped in israel took a chance that paid off. Brad waldo and his family initially hunkered down near the gaza border. Then they got word there may be more attacks so they made an hourlong drive to the airport in tel aviv. The car ran off of the road three times, only their passports but they made it on that flight. That is the most important thing just getting my family out of t
If anything, i think the world is becoming even more brutal and more engaged in genocide than it ever was before. I was just wondering what your feelings are about these trials and the role they play in terms of changing the way people feel about genocide and more important acting on those feelings . The acting is the hard part. We have not done too well. Look at rwanda, cambodia, any number of situations. But i think what has changed is the principal now. I think even every tyrant and somewhere in its mind is the thought, if i am no longer in power, somebody may charge me with work crimes. Or crimes against humanity. Those not a concern before. To me like also the stories there would lana mitts about not the hunters, like remember the voice from brazil hunting down a character not america. Some of that myth actually made people like escape justice. The hiding and living in terror at the end of their days. So maybe it is not all bad. But in terms of the principles that have been establ
And Marriage Equality from the 2016 political debate. And new orleans mayor, mitch landry, will join steve benjamin, mayor of columbia, South Carolina to talk about gun violence and Police Community relations. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning live from the Democratic National convention beginning at 7 a. M. Tuesday morning. Tonight on cspan2, it is booktv in prime time with book ons world history. First up, is till we have built jerusalem by adina hoffmen. In her book Adina Hoffman profiles three men who were responsible for much of jerusalems contemporary architecture and provides details of the city from the early times until today. This is 50 minutes. I am david johnson. Staff events associate and parttime professor at the university across the river in arlington, virginia. My understanding of architecture is a book that sketches out the life and culture and idling of people watching when the inclimate weather made every else impossible. In some ways, till we hav
The National Museum of mathematics in new york city for math professor andrew hackers discussion on advanced mathematics being required in schools. Next wednesday through friday book tv will be in chicago for book expo america. The publishing industrys annual trade show where we will be talking to authors of forthcoming books such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar and marcia clark as well as publishers and book sellers. Thats a look at some of the programs book tv is covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Im david johnson, fulltime coordinator. My connection to architecture comes only by way of a philosopher who is our case project written from 1927 1940. It completely sketches out the parisian city life in the 19th century, especially the covered pathogens that extended idle watching and people watching when inclement weather made it infeasible. In some ways, this book is a probing detective story of architec