A shooting on monday night the government calls it a terrorist attack. Ugandan politician will be winds arrested again shortly after he was nominated for next years president ial elections. Its 600. 00 g. M. T. And 11 am in the eastern United States where polls have opened for one of the most divisive and highly anticipated elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months its now up to the American Public polling has opened in all but one of the states the far flung island state of hawaii the man battling for the presidency havent stopped campaigning with biden in scranton pennsylvania and trump in arlington virginia. Heres our team on the ground weve got natasha got him standing by for us in minneapolis in minnesota d and he gallacher is in Miami Florida thats a key battleground state but 1st lets go to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan that they are is accounting a way to this election and yet the messaging still continues. Exactly 8 hours till the
Jose police are looking for a gunman right now after a hail of gunfire has been unleashed at a candlelight vigil 6 people were shot. This unfolded just blocks away from San Jose State University at south and east reid streets 2 people are now dead 4 others have been hurt. This is a developing story were watching this afternoon and kron fours rob fladeboe is live for us now at the scene in san jose and rob what was the vigil that was happening and do police have a motive this afternoon. Of all both questions answers hard to come by right now justine were not sure what that vigil was about at this point as for a Motive Police say nothing about a or any possible suspects but i do know that a couple of black and white units are still on the scene here. No doubt looking for one initial reports said 5 people were shot now weve learned that there was a 6th victim, heres more. It was fast. It was like back. Her south 8th street neighborhood still cordoned off wednesday morning. As police proce
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
The book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not in a failure. Maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was the stability and a better life for the people in the region. Of course once ultimately responsible for our country success for failure are the people who lived there but the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region
In terms of policy, you know, the fundamental issues were political and economic and they failed to deliver on their promises, on what people were expecting, you know, and this is this is what precipitated the rising i think significance of these religious groups, later on fundamentalist groups and later on extremist groups throughout the region, and the key problem here their rise was not just in terms of their own popularity, you know, within their borders, muslim brotherhood, 11, 12, 30 of the vote but more importantly i think they were able to dictate the parameters of the discussion in terms of the policy issues that were ongoing. You know, rise influence secular groups, nonpolitical groups so much so that they felt the need to bring religion to their own discussion, to their own sort of policies, proposed so to speak. One good example is what is happening in turkey today. Erdogan and akp have come to power in 2002 and hes been i mean, hes a politician and so successful in terms o