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Meanwhile the infection rate continues to climb here in the u. K. Tougher restrictions are rolled out the Prime Minister warns that normal is still months away and remembering the past but looking to the future molly marks 60 years of independence from france. For the 1st time in history wildly does have been meeting virtually for the annual u. N. General Assembly Last of course because of the coronavirus and on tuesday the fight against covert 1000 dominated the speeches most called for a united fight and for the u. N. To repurpose itself in response to a while changed by the pandemic but its also exposed more tension between washington and beijing on the same day the u. S. Death toll from the virus passed 200000 donald trump once again pointed the finger of blame at china our diplomatic editor james bass as more like all the other World Leaders speaking at the u. S. President trump speech was prerecorded once his words though were as controversial as ever. We have waged a fierce batt
A new resettlement policy. Locked up for daring to protest against the better russian president we need the women now determined to carry on their fight. To. Fight and. I know i know that. And im we are starting with all of the days sports news this formula one World Champion Lewis Hamilton says he will not stop campaigning for Racial Justice that story and more at leader this news hour. Now its been described as a betrayal by the palestinians but has been trumpeted by the white house in the next hour the United Arab Emirates and bahrain will sign a deal to normalize ties with israel and so will being overseen by president i will trump in washington d. C. Where protests have already been held in gaza and across the occupied west bank against the deal throughout the day palestinians have described the move as a stab in the back. In the occupied west bank well get reaction from that in just a few minutes but 1st lets go to hide your castor trees in washington d. C. For us can you talk us
Considered to be the definitive work on that subject. Lets market welcome james morgan. Mr. Morgan good morning, everyone. I will be moving around. We are good on sound back there . All, our topic, our theme really is a small battles and big results. Balls bluff meets those criteria. Very small battle. 1700 men on each side. The numbers were almost dead even. Tomakes it really amusing read the officers after action reports because on both sides they insist that they were terribly outnumbered by the other side. Numbers were dead even. At every point of contact during the day as the numbers are increasing up to the ultimate 1700, at every point of contact the numbers are fairly close. Small battle. Wasral Charles Stone who the Union Division commander after the war wrote to one of the first historian chroniclers of the war. He said balls bluff was like an unremarkable morning skirmish. That is what it was. If it had been bought fought in 1864, it may not even been named. In 1861. Ff was
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the