A japanese rain forest thats been polluted for decades by the American Military. Good morning welcome you with r. T. International this Tuesday Morning where its just turned eight oclock here in moscow. Now its been more than five months since iraqs second largest city was liberated from i saw this precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city. Reveals what life is like there today. There are things you have to see to believe mosul is such a place the old city of mosul is by any measure a dead and miserable place war rubble the buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies yet despite this people are coming back to live here and most often not out of choice. When iraq were going to go im turret turrets only god knows what can we do its our affiliate its our free pizza hut so you will have my daughter was injured five times i have no money and we slept on the streets on the other side of. The others have returned to old
2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
Night vote by city council. And were just hours away from the debate between President Biden and former President Trump. The role of governor gavin newsom will play during the big event. Good morning to you. It is thursday, june 27th. We want to check on our weather. Drew. Its pleasant out there. You liked yesterday equally as delightful today. But then we talk about some hotter weather moving in by the part of the weekend. Were out there celebrating pride on sunday, but this morning, a live look at the exploratorium camera. Not a lot of cloud cover, but you look on the horizon. You can see a few of those clouds lurking out there. We have partly cloudy skies along the coast right now in the city and oakland. Not widespread cloud cover. This morning, a lot of us starting out with clear skies, and that means well have a lot of sunshine today. But just like yesterday will be breezy this afternoon and temperatures a few degrees below average for this time of the year. So looking at current
Night vote by city council. And were just hours away from the debate between President Biden and former President Trump. The role of governor gavin newsom will play during the big event. Good morning to you. It is thursday, june 27th. We want to check on our weather. Drew. Its pleasant out there. You liked yesterday equally as delightful today. But then we talk about some hotter weather moving in by the part of the weekend. Were out there celebrating pride on sunday, but this morning, a live look at the exploratorium camera. Not a lot of cloud cover, but you look on the horizon. You can see a few of those clouds lurking out there. We have partly cloudy skies along the coast right now in the city and oakland. Not widespread cloud cover. This morning, a lot of us starting out with clear skies, and that means well have a lot of sunshine today. But just like yesterday will be breezy this afternoon and temperatures a few degrees below average for this time of the year. So looking at current
Night vote by city council. And were just hours away from the debate between President Biden and former President Trump. The role of governor gavin newsom will play during the big event. Good morning to you. It is thursday, june 27th. We want to check on our weather. Drew. Its pleasant out there. You liked yesterday equally as delightful today. But then we talk about some hotter weather moving in by the part of the weekend. Were out there celebrating pride on sunday, but this morning, a live look at the exploratorium camera. Not a lot of cloud cover, but you look on the horizon. You can see a few of those clouds lurking out there. We have partly cloudy skies along the coast right now in the city and oakland. Not widespread cloud cover. This morning, a lot of us starting out with clear skies, and that means well have a lot of sunshine today. But just like yesterday will be breezy this afternoon and temperatures a few degrees below average for this time of the year. So looking at current