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you re watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. this weekend on booktv arthur brooks is live on in depth. jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise african-americans on how to deal with police and the criminal justice system in the u.s., robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. check out our full schedule online, booktv.org. you give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. hi, i m lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the associated press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. that led me to the publisher of this book which is the white house historical association. we started talkin ....
and it s believed to be the biggest ever international crackdown on fraud. over 100 people arrested for selling bogus shares. hello, everyone. we begin with a new dimension to the growing crisis in ukraine where the interior minister has described this as an armed invasion. groups of armed men have taken over two airports in crimea. a largely russian speaking part of ukraine, which is home to a massive russian naval base. this is simferopol, the capital. they are saying nothing to reporters. but flights are still operating in and out of this civilian airport as normal. the situation is less clear at nearby sebaterpol. you can see some of the warplanes lined up by fighter jets belonging to ukraine s armed forces. this has been taken over by unidentified armed men. here s our nick childs with the latest. reporter: unsettling images for the new authorities in the ukrainian capital kiev and also for many more looking anxiously in the world. armed men on guard in crimea ....
gangs. a dazzling display of color in the night sky as the northern nights make a rare appearance across the uk. and also aaron is here. how times have changed in india. david, you know asia s third largest economy was once seen as a rising economic star with growth in double digits. india s economy has plummeted in recent years. we go to mumbai to see what can get india s star shining again. welcome to the program. it s midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 p.m. in the capital of ukraine s autonomous region of crimea. the question is this. who is taking control of that region? armed militia have moved into the civilian airport in simferopol. ukraine s interior minister says they are russian and this is an invasion. the government has called on the u.n. security council to hold a special session on the situation in the country. they will speak to our correspondent. and both kiev and moscow for the the latest on those. reporter: unsettling images ....
even higher levels of air pollution hitting southern britain with an oppressive mix of local emissions and dust from the sahara. hello, everyone. the war in syria is into its fourth year. the plight just gets worse. any family that can tries to flee the country. the crisis has been underlining by this, a tragic and new symbolic number. 1 millionth refugee. the u.n. calls it a devastating milestone. one million new of just 6 million people. altogether, the u.n. says a total of 2.5 million syrians are now registered as refugees abroad. and the actual number who have fled is unknown. it s widely thought to be much higher because many are too frightened to register. many have fled in every direction. northern iraq, northern turkey, jordan and above all, lebanon. lebanon has taken by far the most. it received only 14% of the funding it s asked for. some refugees have told us about their struggles. some names were leaked to the authorities. so they were afraid of possible r ....
an oil giant is caught up in the sanctions against russia. it may be british. bp owns a 20% stake many the giant rosneft. now the u.s. has added this man the boss of rosneft to its sanction list saying he s in vladimir putin s inner circle. we asked what impact this could have on bp. hello. it is midday in london, 7:00 washington, 3:00 in moscow. there s been a twist? the tug of war over ukraine. russia described the unprecedented increase in u.s. and nato activity near borders. the defense minister told his u.s. counter part to tone down the rhetoric promising russia had no plans to invade ukraine. meanwhile eu followed washington and announced new sanctions targeting top political players in russia. on the ground the situation remains unchanged and unstable. nick childs has this. sloviansk today looking very much like a pro russian strong hold in the ukraine s unsettled east. this local resident absolutely supports the separatists here and possible recession. this m ....