Revolution to the civil war. Her masterful biography, southern lady, yankee spy, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy is published by hartford press. Peoples choice award. Today she will speak to us about her new book, armys of deliverance a new history of the civil war published by oxford. Some guy named Harold Holzer called the book, quote, highly original and sweeping new study. I had the good fortune to hear liz speak on this subject a few weeks ago in hampton rhodes, virginia, and im so glad to have her here at the forum to speak to us. Please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon. [ applause ] all right. Can everyone hear me . Yes . Good. All right. In his first wartime message to congress, delivered on july 4th, 1861, Abraham Lincoln casts succession as a duped and cowed the south into submission. After drugging the public mind for 30 years ago lincoln put it, seccessionists had relied on conversion to bring good men to take up arms against the government. Theres much re
And oh i Maryam Namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up african and european leaders agree an emergency evacuation plan for the hundreds of thousands of africans trapped in camps in libya. Britains Prime Minister repeats that donald trump was wrong to show online posts from a far right Group Despite and criticizing her on twitter. Syrians and homs worry that they wont survive the cold as they face another winter without food fuel all firewood. And dutch prosecutors confirm the violent Bosnian Croat war criminal down in court did contain a deadly chemical. And sport russia gets ready to start its role as next years world cup parks the games sometimes are gathering in moscow ahead of Fridays Group stage draw. Top story this hour european and African Leaders have drawn up an emergency evacuation plan for refugees and migrants in jaring terrible conditions in libyan detention. Camps between four hundred seven hundred thousand africans are thought to be trapped in libya its
This is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up zimbabwes new president unveils his cabinet renewing fears that this is a continuation of the mugabe regime. The date is set for japans emperor to step down making it the first to cation in more than two hundred years plus. Clashes in honduras is the country anxiously awaits results of a contentious president ial election. Ahead of the Roman Catholic church has led a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladeshs capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region hes been criticized for not publicly mentioning the wrangel crisis during the min my leg of the tour but he will meet the refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping a military crackdown in myanmar. Is following developments from coxs bazar in bangladesh where many are living in camps. Pope francis is only the second pope ever to visit bangladesh he has been holding mass o
That decision due around 7 45 eastern and then draghi will be holding a News Conference that starts 8 30 eastern. The dax is down by less th than. 2 . What is that . The euro sitting at 1 13 versus the u. S. Dollar. And crude oil price, prices initially falling over night. Wait a minute. Contract rolled overnight. It was 40 yesterday. This is rigged. It was 42. At one point in the day it was at 42. This is the rnc. This is rigged. This is like Reince Priebus is controlling the further and further out. Going to 85 and like a no brainer. Its 40 now its 44 just like a contract roled. Its rigged. You cant go from 40 to 44 overnight and i looked at crude yesterday and it was 42 and change. Must have been up then. And looked at that it was 43 and change. So yeah. Rigged. We got Reince Priebus and trying to get him mad. I think we did that already. Hes so defensive. Have you seen him any of the shows. Theyre preparing for cleveland. Down in florida with ted cruz for three days. I know. They s
If i thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with Oppo Research, oh, lets call the fbi . The fbi doesnt have enough agents to take care of it. But you go and talk honestly to congressmen, they all do it, they always have. And that is the way it is. It is called Oppo Research. Today on capitol hill, House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was pressed repeatedly about whether he condemned the president s comments. And he redirected again and again to blame democrats. We all should stand united to ensure integrity of our elections. What i am appalled about is what has happened in our elections. I watched in the last campaign the democrat president ial campaign spend 6 million to a foreign entity to travel the world to try to find something when they could not find it, they made false accusations. Should they go to the fbi . The president said he thought the fbi director was wrong. I think what you are asking is a hypothetical, so lets look at actually what happened. Ada