When the state will stop fighting for racial equality angle in brazil after Security Guards beat a black man to death. Plus the current virus pandemic has canceled test events until 8 qualifies it here in cats on the hard work continues as it pays to host the world cup in 2 years time rocket attacks in several parts of the Afghan Capital of killed at least 8 people. One rocket landed near a School Forcing students to run from the building. The interior Ministry Says dozens of people have been injured. The taliban has denied responsibility for the contraflow is joining us now from kabul. Talk us through whats been happening this morning. What happened here is this morning was an unprecedented and very brazen attack. Right in the heart of the Afghan Capital of been coming to this place for 15 years. And i have to tell you have never ever witnessed anything like this because for 10 minutes a little bit after 8 this morning, it really felt like the Afghan Capital was under attack. I was in
Inside the once majestic country of cambodia, after a decade of work, history witnessed the collapse of the regime. It was then one of the worst genocides the world had ever seen. This memorial helps to ensure that the world never forgets those who died during the years of the cambodia killing fields. Yet, there is more to the story. Ofre is the untold episode tens of thousands of survivors who sought refuge inside thailand. This is my father in a refugee camp in 1980. I knew that my father was a survivor of the killing fields but i was shocked to learn that he and many thousands of others faced a more terrifying atrocity. He massacre me to tells pushed him the story and i always said to him i dont want to. We lived it. He would say just tell me one time. That is how we get here to do a documentary. James taing, that is the opening to your documentary, gh mountai mountain. James this is the story of my father and the killing feels of cambodia. It is considered the second holocaust but
Inside the once majestic country of cambodia, after a decade of war, history witnessed the collapse of the regime. It would end with one of the worst genocides the world had ever seen. This memorial helps to ensure that the world never forgets those who died during the years of the cambodia killing fields. Yet, there is more to the story. There is the untold episode of the fate of tens of thousands of survivors who sought refuge inside thailand. This is my father in a refugee camp in 1980. I knew that my father was a survivor of the killing fields but i was shocked to learn that he and many thousands of others faced a more terrifying atrocity. The massacre on the mountain here. He always pushed me to tell him the story and i always said to him i dont want to. I dont want to relive it again. He would say just tell me one time. That is how we get here to do a documentary. James taing, that is the opening to your documentary, Ghost Mountain. Tell me about this project. James this is the s
2007. I want to thank shelby for her steadfast support for the biography center over all these years. It is her program that made this possible. Please note the next event is coming up in two days on this thursday october 15th where victor and i will interview larry about his timely and important new biography of joseph mccarthy. Tonight we are here to celebrate the publication of abe, Abraham Lincoln in his time a new biography by david reynolds. His book launch and the book has received early reviews and the Publishers Weekly and elsewhere and we encourage everyone to look it up on amazon or your own local bookstore. David reynolds is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center and the author of Walt Whitmans america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. His other books include beneath the american renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mighty year than the sword, Uncle Toms Cabin and the battle for america. He is a regular book reviewer for the New York Times bo
Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and