Against turkey. Now to live coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, rabbi evan hoffman, congress regation anshe sholom, new rochelle, new york. The chaplain o lord, grant them the wisdom to draft laws that best serve the interests of the American People. O lord, in a time of polarization an rank rouse dispute, we beseech thee to help our elected officials to maintain decorum, civility, commonality of purpose and a sense of shared american investment. Guide our representatives so that they might serve in the eyes of the citizenry as role models of reconciliation and cooperation. We pray that in a future time, the prophets words might be said in reference to this congress, restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Bless our nation with peace and prosperity, our citizens with health and happiness, and our National Institutions with strength and stability. May this
Morning from southcentral michigan, made the journey, and is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions for lots of people is who is russell kirk . The man undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued he still does. Yet, russell kirk is not a name that is much known these days or much invoked these days. Brad, your book does many things , but it also helps serve as a marvelous bracing introduction or reintroduction to russell kirk. We are avoided talk about many things today, but for starters, please give us a quick overview of this man. Bradley sure. Thank you, john, and thank you, everybody, for coming here. Thanks to cspan tv and booktv. Russell kirk was born in 1918 in michigan into extreme poverty. It was something he experienced the first 35 years of his life , to varying degrees. Yet, he was always very bookish, became interested in all kinds of thi
first up today were the women following on from their victory at lea valley in london yesterday, ellie rayer put them ahead in the first quarter. that had been against the run of play and two goals in three minutes saw england lose 2 1 this afternoon. they re fifth in the pro league table. netherlands are second. after that, there was also disappointment for england s men. they lost 3 0 to the netherlands yesterday, and were thumped 6 3 today. england remain fifth, netherlands go top. before we go, let s get the latest from the cardiff city stadium as wales look to end their 64 year wait to appear at a world cup. just a matter of minutes left there in cardiff, and it is still 1 0 to wales. as things stand, as the clock ticks down, it says wales wales there are, it is of course wales ukraine. as it stands, wales will be going to the world cup in qatar. a nervy finalfew going to the world cup in qatar. a nervy final few minutes there. you can follow all the latest from a
she gasps see, i could see you flinching. yeah, i shivered in that little bit! but i think that s great because i think what that means is that the film is achieving that kind of fairy tale ambience. i mean, obviously, you know, apple trees, there s the spectre of the green man. there s all these male characters played by the same person, which tells us something which is either that she is seeing all men as the same person or that all men are basically the same, which is essentially, you know, the message at the centre of the movie. the reason i liked it is this firstly, i like the idea about adult fairy tales. i mean, the best fairy tales are scary. they are creepy. you know, when we were kids, we read fairy tales because we liked that. this is an adult tale, but it is creepy. second thing is, jessie buckley is terrific. she always is. i ve never seen a film in which she s bad. rory kinnear playing all the different men does manage to inject each one with a different ambi
the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you got for us this week, mark? a very exciting week. we have men, which is a horror inflected fairy tale. we have major, which is inspired by a true story of heroism. and bergman island can life and art ever be separated? men, the clip of this gives me the creeps so much that i don t think i could bring myself to watch it! and you say it s some kind of fantasy horror? yes. let me try and sell it to you. so it s by alex garland, who wrote and directed ex machina and annihilation. i think it s like a playfully twisted fairy tale about gender. jessie buckley is harper. she s come out of an abusive relationship. she decides to go off to a country retreat to what she calls the dream country house with the emphasis on dream, because everything about what we re looking at tells us, you know, there s an apple tree outside from which apples