>> how do we keep the west, hide we keep the dream of the west alive? i'll elaborate on the premise of your question. the west has always been the region of america's future, from the very beginning when farmers had kids and the kids couldn't find a form right near they moved west. horace greeley said the go wes, young man. henry thoreau said his steps, they turned with an average of these but they traveled most freely to the west. the west was where there was always this new opportunity. there's this westward movement. the western movement was fairly steady and predictable and tell a lie at settlement to the edge of some but reached the mississippi river. then it went up against 100 miles or so across the mississippi, runs up against what at the time was called the great american desert. something weird happened. the line of settlement leaps all the way to the pacific with the discovery of gold in california and the migration to oregon, people going out to the fertile land of the valley. in between is the great plains which is often called the great am

and the west gradually moved west over time. i really did not want to write about daniel boone. it's a really interesting story but to write the history of the west that way and to do nothing less than write an entire history of the united states because everything except jamestown was part of the west basically prey so i needed a good case and by containing a chronologically starting with the louisiana purchase, the united states had claimed legal title to land west of the mississippi river and that also gave me the queue as to what i was going to deal with. turns out west of the mississippi river and essentially the 19th century, so 1803, to where do i and it? i decided to end it well before the president to get historical respect if you have to be far way from it to figure out how things turn out but the other thing was i ended at the end of the 20th century and when theodore roosevelt becomes president in 1901. theodore roosevelt was the first western president pretty was born in the west. the west was essential to the perso

to me some west in the me i deal. recent issues to misty. is was more than it was a total business loan and with us it's a true sense nor does lehman play it on but what was up at our wood subway even with those i start to slow the economy does a bit because my checklist and i see her you know you don't even think. of my hear from iraq or the dilemma as which is scary adults nearly with words that are mildly dust oily strongly carlos' are not this does not a mildly of the royals their way or the growth of their family star noir the total media nearby at eco pollution she was there with interests of the russian aesop's ebook about yourselves and russian eally should connect butyl mr doesn't know what's in your sleep but it's just very good deal with c e. a sheer substance a. sheila e. a she of those that are way outside at it she was the mr at the dump or whatever that is the other no new person to believe in that anybody because literally little do so anybody mash forgot to look at it it has had some as they are to. the ability to school dau

to bring you into this context of the civil war west. the next person she is the last image here when nita who don mentioned interaction actions. when nita was just a teenager when she married manwell ito who is a powerful navajo headman with a very long history of resisting spanish and mexican and american incursions in their homeland. pretty soon after their wedding the civil war began and readers of the three cornered war will follow when nita as she and manwell ito and their band negotiate with, manipulate, and evade union forces in their homeland and are forced by impending starvation to surrender to the u.s. army in the fall of 1866. when he does story of the long walks and incarceration at the union army reservation and a place i think we can really think of as a prison camp named bousquet redondo dominates the final part of the book. when nita's wartime experience was one of suffering but also one of persistence and survival. of all the protagonists, she is i think the heart of the book. she is there from the beginning to the end

they wanted the west for its gold and each of them also saw the west as part of this important vision for their future. the north envisioning an empire of free labor. free from coast-to-coast and with west was pivotal to this. the confederates or he saw it and an empire of slavery. they could jump off from there and invade mexico and create a hemispheric, latin america, the navajos who are living in the southwest, saw the white man's war, and indigenous groups as obstacles. and their vision of this national future. after the union, successfully defended with confederates invasion in spring of 1862 they turn to these other enemies. what this meant is at the same time that the union was fighting the war to emancipate, enslaved men and women in the east, to exterminate or remove native people in the west. i figure these things out, it was an interesting aspect of the war, and why i never heard about this before. the civil war, focuses on the east, focuses on virginia, focuses on eastern battlefields, and those subjects are extraordinarily important but what that means is rarely do we mov

are people like her in west virginia that had no idea of what catherine johnson did for nasa and the united states of america. when the movie figures came, out it showed everyone who catherine johnson was what she did and how profound she was in the pages of american history. catherine was hired as what they called then, a computer. she simply came in and did mathematical type of equations for nasa. what they did not realize was that she was more than just a computer. she was a mathematical genius that is what catherine johnson was. >> five, four, three, two, one, take off. >> in fact jon glen who said, this computer thing, not catherine, this actual computer that was built, calculated his actual trajectory into space and he wanted that verified by catherine johnson. here is the important part. he did not ask the mathematicians from mit. he did not asked him mathematicians from stanford or hartford. he asked the brilliant mathematician from west virginia state university to calculate my trajectory and make sure i get home safe. that says a lot about what catherine was to not only nas

and the west much more. effectively than russia has you know why do the russians get themselves into these quarrels with the west we've been able to avoid it now they see that in fact it's not russia's mistakes that lead to this it's very much depends on how the you know what what the dynamics are within western societies and it has come as a profound shock to them and i think the chinese themselves are going to start adjusting their record of this and societies and society from now on to a future where they no longer think of the united states and the west in quite the same way as they did before as a really. really good point because of the time that i've lived in russia it's been a distant the growing disenchantment with the west ok well the way it was in the early ninety's ok and i think that that's going to happen again i mean i you know i look at what are called procedures publications i. i don't want to call them out now because some of the writers i like you know this is president she's greatest nigh

and the west much more. effectively than russia has you know why do the russians get themselves into these quarrels with the west we've been able to avoid it now they see that in fact it's not russia's mistakes that lead to this is it very much depends on how the you know what what the dynamics are within western societies and it has come as a profound shock to them and i think the chinese themselves are going to start adjusting their record of these and societies and society from now on to a future where they no longer think of the united states on the west in quite the same way as they did before as a really. really good point because of the time that i've lived in russia there's been a decent a growing disenchantment with the west ok comparative well though it was in the early ninety's ok and i think that that's going to happen again i mean i look at what are called procedures publications i. i don't want to call them out now because some of the writers are like you know this is president she's greatest n

we already have some showers coming to the south—west, is a mistand showers coming to the south—west, is a mist and fog around the coast, look how extensive the cloud is the east as well and so it is taking its time to lift and break, it is even thick enough to give some drizzle and we have seen some fog over the hills but hopefully most will enjoy some sunshine as we head into the afternoon, there are a few showers around and they could develop not just across the south—west but wales as well and possibly a few showers into the far north—west of scotland as well. near the coast, it will feel cool as it has done recently in the north coast of northern ireland colour than of late, but for many inland it will feel warmer again, not quite as warm as yesterday. 0ne thing that hasn't changed is the high level of tree pollen for many parts once again. let's pick up on those showers, the risk is with us not just for the south—west of england but wales, drifting eastward through the night and as low pressure approaches the western and northern isles, these showers will become more preva

and the west much more. effectively than russia has you know why do the russians get themselves into these quarrels with the west we've been able to avoid it now they see that in fact it's not russia's mistakes that lead to this it's very much depends on how the you know what what the dynamics are within western societies and it has come as a profound shock to them and i think the chinese themselves are going to start adjusting their record of these and societies and society from now on to a future where they no longer think of the united states and the west in quite the same way as they did before as a really i mean economic knowledge that's a really good point because in the time that i've lived in russia there's been a distant a growing disenchantment with the west ok well the way it was in the early ninety's ok and i think that that's going to happen again i mean i look at what are called procedures publications i. i don't want to call them out now because some of the writers i like you know this is pres

secretary of state says the annexation of the west bank is a decision for the new israeli government to make south africa deploys 98 percent of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. and the special precautions that this already isolated community is taking to protect itself from the pandemic . now the u.s. has called for iran to be held accountable after the iran successfully launched its 1st military satellite runs revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development reports. on wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutio

there's no record of his arriving in the west. however in a series of interviews conducted in the chattanooga area around 1900 mr. ag carter tells this story. a white man named north married an inladian who later became blind. he, says mr. carter, heard they through him in the river on the way west because he was so much trouble. but because of the high casualties of these first groups, permission was given to the later removal of the other groups until fall when it would be cooler. also the cherokee leaders petitions general scott that they be allowed to conduct their own removal. permission was granted. james harris father, harrell conrad was the leader of the first detachment to lead that fall however he soon became too ill to continue as lead earnhardt -- leader and had to relinquish the position. james harris sister, betts, the wife of ashhopper, travelled in the detachment. and reverend butrick also accompanied this attachment, wrote in his journal saturday, december 1, 1838, on a thursday, two children, one a daughter of ou

the west because of the influence of the jewish. i don't want to return to their home. game. for trying to answer the israelis and sort of basically he's well known they would not commit to it. and they would not give him a day or. he can do the. job and nobody is. any good. so if the solutions. are rendered we think we'll go back to palestine nasr views were echoed by palestinian refugees who believed liberation was close a town. how do you think. about. how do you. he is growing quickly about it but. how they're going to liberate it while with the volatile how are you going to get the 3 of the above the political air if you don't know yet by 4th of all. the revolutionaries of led by yasser arafat found refuge and support within syria viewed as one of the most hardline regimes in the region at the time and it was syria that brought matters to a head in 1967. but at us last i absolutely did when the israeli and us that border syria began to cry was claiming that israel was about to wage war against it and the soviets concurred so nasa sent an egyptian military delegation to t

we have now lost 13 people in west virginia. a second agopdated of a 50-year-old female in berkeley county. you know, like i said so many times, all these people, these are not just statistics. these people have names and they have families. a lot of loved ones and friends and everything. so please, let's just don't get wrapped up in a number. we just hate it. let's all just keep them in our thoughts and prayers. prayers are powerful, powerful tools that we have and have been given. join think we all need to in all the time in thinking and keeping these people in our prayers. amazing,, it is just there are lots of stuff that we seem to keep cropping up that we have to cover. always, if you are a or, you guy or a coach know, just a person but is willing to step up and take a leadership role, there is always times that are the difficult times. make this as clear as i can possibly make this. and it may very well be that some people are going to be displeased or unhappy with my approach to this. haveveryone knows that we multiple nu

west restraints smellers alessi. money on but i'm glad he did consciously people racially when you go into the period of always is a good thing to do them in america because training up with was to be the study habits of puss in your team a good each was cool cool no need to look you missed by the normal daily mirror of not toes or achieve them. russia wanted to avoid regime change in syria and has backed her ally president assad since the beginning of the war she brought in her air and land troops into 1015 proving that she was back on the world stage ready for combat. but i see here are the. body we still don't. get all the goodies month not just the images night but you more than. you would usually. but i will. leave this year. but what i did is i don't know how or matters it's got there it is what it. is delia that i share. your usual with police who are you sure you will do more than will be his visit. in this particular of known. position you gotta. get. them using your chest. yeah. we're going to see which sid

were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party is for the system to a multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. so i ask you so you. or i'm glad by the mother of all men not the one in on that i joined the russian. stock and come behind your watch that option more than you bitch. and going yeah because of dollars i trash you see. i'm a girl who's one say is anything near city or similar simply thanks that doesn't your mails that are sending you mostly just. in the me of the general state of shock. just to prove that. north of there was that i mean what. at that even though . sources james much company grow you know. what my a time machine that i shipped over to an admission is going to smart that you'll only. hold the demand that we. get

had no designs on the west bank and was only interested in regained territory from israel. should be spent the next few years building support for the p.l.o. he set out to create a body that could truly be considered a voice for the status palestinians he traveled far and wide in his endeavors. here he is seen in china where he was accorded a welcome usually reserved for visiting heads of state. and shook at 1st. sight. a is a palestinian 1st and foremost true he was close to nasser but he proved more than once that he was a palestinian 1st and. he didn't take on the job to be a tool of nasser but to channel the energies of the palestinian people he raised the bar when it came to losses views on palestinian nationalism get him off. he out of the house we were supposed to launch in 1964 before the palestine national council meeting in jerusalem in it i was there in jerusalem but didn't attend the meeting i was preparing to launch military operations as a gift to the pansy but we decided against it because we thought it might be perceived as an attempt to upstage the council

rain trying to fringe into west wales and the south—west of england but, generally, sunny spells and hefty showers. into the afternoon, those showers could get really heavy indeed, with frequent lightning and thunder thrown in. 25 degrees once again in london. but further north, a much cooler feel, as we introduce this northerly wind. through sunday night, still some showers for a time in england and wales, more of us feel the effects of the north or north—easterly wind and, on monday, that drags a lot of cloud into northern and eastern scotland and down the eastern side of england. further west, with shelter from that wind, we will have the best of the sunshine. but the wind particularly brisk for eastern and southern coasts. could see gusts of up to 50 mph for the channel islands. and look at the temperatures. aberdeen, newcastle, 7 degrees, that is your top temperature. cardiff and plymouth, a high of 1a degrees. through monday night, as this area of high pressure builds strongly across the british isles, notice the blue colours developing on the chart. with light winds, it is g

the best of the sunshine to be found further west, so through parts of wales, south—west and north—west of england, south—west scotland, and northern ireland. a noticeable wind, particularly for eastern and southern coasts. the channel islands could see gusts of 50mph. and look at these temperatures — way, way down where they have been. seven degrees there in newcastle, cardiff, plymouth 1a degrees at best. ans as high pressure builds strongly across the british isles through tuesday morning, you can see this blue shade on the chart — a widespread frost. that's one to bear in mind if you've spent the weekend gardening. a fairly cool feeling day on tuesday, but a lot of dry weather through the coming week and it turns warmer once again. this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm simon pusey. our top stories: uk deaths from coronavirus exceed 900 for the second day running as doctors warn of a dangerous lack of protective clothing. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, says he owes his life to the doctors and nurses wh

west restraints smellers all se. but i'm glad he did consciously people racially when you go into a period of well as is a good thing to do to me i mean it comes close to running up my car with post the police tell ya but of course in your dream a good each was cool cool no need to look you missed but the normal daily 30 mil of . achieve them. russia wanted to avoid regime change in syria and has backed her ally president assad since the beginning of the war she brought in her air and land troops into 1015 proving that she was back on the world stage ready for combat. and i see here are the. little the not just the images night but you're more than ready. and i am. but i have a lot of. iraq leave this year. but what i did it was on a policy matters it's got there it is what it. is composed of. is the sure. it will be his vision at. this particular of known. position you've got about. we're going to see which side to rest on the. which is also just on the porch at the start like a pretty good job so again a war for. p

ross to serve as physician and accompany them on the way to the west. the last letter i had from him was mailed at johnsburg, illinois, on the 19th of november come about 20 miles this side of the mississippi. they did not accomplish quite half of their journey at this time. they had considerable sickness. about 27 of their number lay buried between that place and the one where they commenced their journey. during this time, george hicks, one of the conductors of the attachment and a member of the church, sent the following letter, johnson county, illinois, 13th of january, 1830 nine, "my dear friend and brother, we left the cherokee nation eased some of the land of our nativity come on the first day of last november and took up the line of our march to the far, and through the mercy of an all wise providence, who is ever ready to assist oppressed, and whose ears helped are open to their cries, have arrives thus far on our journey to the west. the following winter has been very cold, and we have suffered from exposure, from cold, and fatigue. our people

this context of the civil war west. the next person she is the last image here when megan: suwanee was just a teenager when she married and he was a powerful navajoma pigman. as long history in the homeland. pretty soon after the wedding,ci the war began. in raiders of the three corners will follow juanita as she and he, they negotiate and manipulate and he made union forces in their homeland. and then intending starvation to surrender to the u.s. army. the story and incarceration at the union army reservation, a place we can really think of as a prison camp. they dominate the final part of the book. wanting to sort times experience is one of suffering but one of persistence and survival. and of all of the intactness, she is the heart of the book. she is there from the beginning and until the end in your story really revealsls the extent to where the three-quarter war the civil west. i just want to tell you about john clark. his picture is in here kind of in the middle. parents on the right-hand side ofth the page. you

telling you now brigades are also ahead of us secretary of state says the annexation of the occupied west bank is a decision for the new israeli government to make. in the us and europe of forty's face a major challenge how to ease lock down restrictions without triggering a 2nd wave of infections and we must fight climate change like the coronavirus that message from the un on the 50th anniversary of earth day. hello the us has condemned iran successful launch of its 1st military satellite into orbit iran's revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused ron in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development same bus ravi reports. on wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth and the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic

shiloh and all this area around the mississippi river that historians call the west. so there is a problem with the words that we use like it seems impossible and also if you have any kind of civil war history and you see a map it usually ends right around the 1h meridian and if you have the book you can slip one - - go to where it does not end at the 100th meridian that is right in the middle of the two page map in the book and if you ended there you are actively erasing 40 percent of the nation's land mass. literally erasing it from the story of the civil war so it was important to me t i when i s talking to simon & schuster about the book production i want to have this map the first thing the entire continent you see with all of the territories and the states to organize at the beginning of the war but then you also see the navajo and apache homelands on the map with those three layers. but it is a continental map from the atlantic to the pacific. also where it is interesting when i went on my research trips that, even though the sites of the civil war are really w

in 2017, the west african rosewood tree was given international protection. it was listed under the convention on the international trade in endangered species. known as cites. its code of conduct — to protect the living environment that both senegal and gambia have adopted. both the gambian and senegalese presidents have made public declarations about working together to stop the trade in rosewood. but the reality on the ground is a world away from those good intentions. over the last year, the pace of destruction in these forests has remained unchecked. entire forests of senegalese timber make a second lorryjourney down the road to the gambian capital banjul and its atlantic port. it's shocking and surprising in almost equal measure that one can find logs virtually everywhere in the gambia these days. i've been coming here for well over ten years and i've never seen so many logs in so many places. exports of illegal rosewood are estimated to be worth about 10% of gambia's gdp and half of its total exports. gambia is now in the top five largest global expo

the west because of the influence of the jewish lobby i don't want to return to their home. game there. but trying to answer the israelis the answer basically he's well known he would not seem to be . and he would not give them there. but he can do the. job and nobody is. any good. so if the solutions. are rendered we think we'll go back to palestine nasser's views were echoed by palestinian refugees who believed liberation was close a town. how do you think you're going to do that. how do you. in-grown could have at it but it's. hard to go into liberated reporter volatile how are you going to get the 3 of the above the political are developed yet by part of all. the revolutionaries of led by yasser arafat found refuge and support within syria viewed as one of the most hardline regimes in the region at the time and it was syria that brought matters to a head in 1967. but at last i absolutely didn't when the israeli and us that border syria began to cry was claiming that israel was about to wage war against it and the soviets concurred so nasa sent an egyptian military delega

in the west bank. the israelis will ultimately make those decisions as an israeli decision we we will work closely with them to share with them our views of this approach with. south africa's president has announced a $26000000000.00 covert $900.00 rescue package and more than $70000.00 soldiers nearly the entire standing army being deployed to enforce a lockdown to prevent more coronavirus cases they'll join namely $2300.00 personnel already on the streets it's one of the largest army deployments in the country's history the u.k. government has again come under fire for its response to the pandemic this time by the new leader of the opposition it happened during the 1st virtual session in parliament 700 year history the u.k.'s foreign secretary standing in for prime minister barak johnson was forced to defend its record on covert $900.00 testing and supplies of protective gear for doctors and nurses. spain's parliament is set to vote on a government proposal to extend the nationwide long doubt until m

had no designs on the west bank and was only interested in regained territory from israel. should be spent the next few years building support for the p.l.o. he set out to create a body that could truly be considered a voice for the state as palestinians he traveled far and wide in his endeavors. here he is seen in china where he was accorded a welcome usually reserved for visiting heads of state. and shook atavistic saif. ali. is a palestinian 1st and foremost true he was close to nasser but he proved more than once that he was a palestinian 1st and. he didn't take on the job to be a tool of nasser but to channel the energies of the palestinian people he raised the bar when it came to losses views on palestinian nationalism get him off. he out of the house we were supposed to launch in 1964 before the palestine national council meeting in jerusalem in it i was there in jerusalem but didn't attend the meeting i was preparing to launch military operations as a gift to the pansy but we decided against it because we thought it might be perceived as an attempt to upstage the co

mike pompeo says that is up to israel to annex parts of the west bank. president trump says he will sign an order partially blocking immigration to the u.s. in a bid to ease unemployment. it comes as the health protection agency warns it is about to face a second wave of coronavirus infections in the winter. declared inas been city after a yemeni it was hit by flash flooding. heavy rain inundated streets and homes. the u.n. says dozens more have been injured. the prime minister is asking for foreign help. aid organizations are saying the country's infrastructure has yet but collapsed. the floods are adding to the exisisting crisis in the countr. humanitarian the factors in yemen are responding to the entire situation. ofs flood has added a layerer vulnerability. has beenpartner responding to the floods by for, bringing counties together -- providing food, bringing counties together. in addition, hygiene items are being distributed. this goes in line with all of the measures that need to be taken by the you many people -- by the you many people. -- by the

they're shorter north and south and wider east and west. so very broadly speaking, his plan revolved around three key themes. he divided the landscape in north and south grounds. the white house itself the dividing line between the two halves. and this arrangement may seem familiar as most american homes have front lawns visible from the street and back yards that are more secluded. this is jefferson's intent. to have the north grounds freely accessible to the public and the south grounds reserved for the private use of the presidential household. this distinction blurred and changed but even now the white house grounds is completely restricted, still fair to say the south grounds are the mansion's formal front lawn and the south grounds the homie backyard. as for the third theme, jefferson called for plants in abundance. his vision, of course, included trees, lots of them, in fact. but also productive gardens for growing fruits and vegetables and ornament gardens for flowers and decorative plants. the plantings on the north grounds are for

to other news now and the united nations says israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank violates international law and deals a devastating blow to his 2 state solution the comments made at a security council meeting come after the u.s. secretary of state said it was up to israel's new government to decide whether or not to do it diplomatic editor james space has the latest. israel's new coalition government a deal between benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz means the possibility it will annex parts of the west bank is now much more lightly i know your forte but mr nicol i could not get in a virtual session of the u.n. security council the man in charge of middle east peace efforts for united nations said that would be a disastrous step for peace in the region mr president. the dangerous prospect of an accession by israel parts of the occupied west bank is a growing threat if such a home were implemented it would constitute a serious violation of international law deal a devastating blow to the 2 state solution close to not over your will of negotiations and threaten effor

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and the west much more. effectively than russia has you know why do the russians get themselves into these quarrels with the west we've been able to avoid it now they see that in fact it's not russia's mistakes that lead to this it's very much depends on how the you know what what the dynamics are within western societies and it has come as a profound shock to them and i think the chinese themselves are going to start adjusting their record of these and societies and society from now on to a future where they no longer think of the united states and the west in quite the same way as they did before as a really i mean economic knowledge that's a really good point because in the time that i've lived in russia there's been a distant a growing disenchantment with the west ok well the way it was in the early ninety's ok and i think that that's going to happen again i mean i you know i look at what are called procedures publications i. i don't want to call them out now because some of the writers i like you know t

in the 1960s, west point -- according to the the social scientist at west point-two of whom are former or prepare military of -- quote, had to lower academic standards to secure enough students-up coat quote and the early 1970s it had, quote to accept virtually every qualified candidate in order to make the enrollment quote attempt unfloat. from the 70s to 90s, quote, west point continue its qualitative decline. eventually, the intellectual capacity of the student body at west point hit bottom and remains there today. some cadets -- this is according to information from the authors who are at west point and who produced the study -- some of the cadets produced test scores so low they would not qualify or barely qualify them to enlist at the lower ranks, quote, the worst year for the academy in this regard was 2006 when 25% of its test takers and army tests fell below the minimum officer candidate school. officer candidate school is not way to enter the army. west point accepted students, quote, who scored in the category four range of the test which enlisted recruiting is the lowest al

and the west much more. effectively than russia as you know why do the russians get themselves into these quarrels with the west we've been able to avoid it now they see that in fact it's not russia's mistakes that lead to this it's very much depends on how the you know what what the dynamics are within western societies and it has come as a profound shock to them and i think the chinese themselves are going to start adjusting their record of this and societies and society from now on to a future where they no longer think of the united states on the west in quite the same way as they did before as a really. really good point because of the time that i've lived in russia it's been a distant the growing disenchantment with the west ok period well the way it was in the early ninety's ok and i think that that's going to happen again i mean i you know i look at what are called procedures publications i. i don't want to call them out now because some of the writers i like you know this is president she's greatest

♪ ♪ ♪ pete: samaria, the west bank, the physical holy land for jews, christians and muslims. across all checkpoints and borders, occupation, liberation or land grabs? the truth depends on where you sit, who you listen to and the fact of the ground. battle in the holy lands starts right now. ♪ pete: i'm pete hegseth and this is battle in the holy land. not just weapons but it is left night language and is it sovereign israeli soil or occupied territory? there is the biblical and religious arguments, the history of this ancient land and then there are the geographic realities. right here where i'm standing the front edge of the day at samaria heights which overlooks israel popper, jerusalem the ben-gurion airport, tel aviv and beyond it on a clear day the mediterranean sea. 70% of the population and industrial base can be seen from this point. whoever controls the hills of judea and samaria controls israel. >> you may not be familiar with the names of judea and samaria but you probably heard of the west bank. >> there's no geographical difference. the art and historical term

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in 2017, the west african rosewood tree was given international protection. it was listed under the convention on the international trade in endangered species, known as cites. its code of conduct — to protect the living environment that both senegal and gambia have adopted. both the gambian and senegalese presidents adam barrow and macky sall have made public declarations about working together to stop the trade in rosewood. but the reality on the ground is a world away from those good intentions. over the last year, the pace of destruction in these forests has remained unchecked. entire forests of senegalese timber then make a second lorryjourney down the road to the gambian capital banjul and its atlantic port. it's shocking and surprising in almost equal measure that one can find logs virtually everywhere in the gambia these days. i've been coming here for well over ten years and i've never seen so many logs in so many places. exports of illegal rosewood are estimated to be worth about 10% of gambia's gdp and half of its total exports. gambia is now in

i got in it and moved it up west executive drive. now, remember, to park on west executive drive, you have to be a senior aide to the president. you go through three checkpoints manned by people with automatic weapons. your car is swept for bombs and you pass over some kind of devees embedded in the -- device embedded in the concrete that i don't know what it does. maybe it x-rays you, i don't know. this is very secure. i took the car and drove it up west executive drive about 75 yards. after the 9/11, they had four trucks, looked like ice cream trucks that were parked at the four corners of the complex and sampled the air for chemical and biological agents. it was just large enough that when i parked the car behind it in a vacant space, you couldn't see it in the west executive entrance. so i wasn't there, but i have eyewitnesses who said at the end of the day, hubbard came out, took a look around, couldn't see his car, took out his flip phone, hit the speed dial to his assistant, and said my car is gone! it's stolen! my car! [laugh

we will start in the morning again on our journey west. the roads are all in a very bad order, as the ground was frozen very deep and there's been, for the last ten days, a general thaw. not even any frost. together with a good deal of wet, which will probably make the roads almost impassable. but we must necessarily calculate on suffering a great deal from hardship and exposure before we yet reach our homes in the far west. we look to the almighty for strength and protection to enable us to reach the place of destination, as yet we are hardly halfway. and to look forward to the determination of our journey and our toils we could not as yet but hope for the best. respectfully george hicks. our principal chief, john ross, left last after he'd seen all the other cherokees on their way west. he travelled by team boat with a small group of cherokees, in order to take those who had been too ill to leave with the regular detachments. and while the various detachments were waiting to cross the mississippi river, he visited the camps, and he wrote

we are all part of west virginia. we are here to try to make sure we protect our citizens, as the governor said. try to reduce the number of people that die of the covid virus infection to an absolute minimum, but also to make sure that we are providing safety for our essential workers, for our first line medical care providers, for our first responders, our police, , emt's, and even people that are working in essential industries, doing the work that is helping us keep our place clean, help keep ourselves stocked with groceries and the food we need and the different resources, so this is absolutely a team effort, and to that level, it is very inspiring for me, but as the governor said, it is easy to become complacent, and we want to make sure that every day, we wake up and we stay just as committed as we have been today to try to protect the state of west virginia, and currently, i think people have done an amazing job, so my thanks. those are my comments. >> thank you. next we go to major general hoyer with the west

a bit more of a breeze in the far north—west, eight to ten the high, 13 or“; far north—west, eight to ten the high, 13 or 1a elsewhere to close the day. those yellow tones will disappear quite sharply through the night under clear skies and we will see another chilly night, temperatures low single figures, not as cold as the nightjust passed, poor old mother nature starting to blossom after the one weekend, it will be a shock to the system. a light frost.. more courage into the far north—west, maybe just filtering into northern ireland from time to time. —— more coverage. living out of wednesday into thursday we do not need to start drawing attention to this area of low pressure pushing up into the south—west. ahead of edge, warmerair into the south—west. ahead of edge, warmer air still, there's temperatures are likely across central and southern parts of england and wales to peak once again at 22 degrees. the weak weather front in the north, a band applied to scotland, northern england and northern ireland, elsewhere we keep sunshine until the end of the day. as that area o

, and certainly it will cloud over for northern ireland, the far west of wales, the far south—west of england. we'll see a bit of rain splashing in here later in the day. it's going to be windy for all of us, but particularly windy in the west. those are the wind gusts — could see gusts of 50 mph or more in parts of northern ireland and western scotland. but those temperatures — 21 degrees in london, even further north, glasgow up to around 18 degrees. pollen levels, though, will be high across england and wales. it's mostly tree pollen at this time of year. the levels a little bit lower across northern ireland and scotland. now, as we go through sunday night, we'll see this frontal system sliding its way eastwards. some rain with that — in fact, it could linger across the south—east corner for a time on monday morning. could see some slightly heavier rain just drifting along that front for a time. it should then clear away, then we'll see some brighter skies and some sunshine. some showers, too, particularly across scotland and northern ireland. some of those showers could be

in the west, we find the highest temperatures. further east, six, seven, eight celsius perhaps as we go on through the day, followed bya we go on through the day, followed by a widespread frost across northern and western parts of the british isles to start tuesday. more details on the bbc website. this is bbc news. the headlines. the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the uk has now passed 10,000. the health secretary calls ita 10,000. the health secretary calls it a sombre day. borisjohnson is discharged from hospital where he was treated for covid—19. he thanked nhs staff for their care when it could have gone either way. united states overtakes italy with the highest number of deaths from coronavirus in the world, more than 20,000 people have now died. pope francis says a prayer for those affected by the pandemic in his traditional easter address in an almost deserted saint peter's basilica. says stirling moss has died at the age of 90. now in bbc news, italy's prime minister speaks to our correspondent about

that's across the south—west. some areas of england and wales have not seen rain for four weeks so that will come as welcome news because the gardens are starting to look a little part. staying cool and disappointing in the far north—east but here it will be largely dry, 8 degrees in aberdeen and 17 in london. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. i'm 0lly foster at the sport centre. the english football league and the players union, the pfa, have proposed a 25% wage deferral this month for players in leagues one and two. a working group is also being set up to discuss the longterm plan earlier i spoke to the former fa chairman david bernstein who says the pandemic has exposed the huge financial problems and poor goveranace in football and that independant regulation is urgently needed. i think ithinka i think a regulated come in and deal with this. we have had select committee reports, government departmental reports. it has

of wales, the far south—west of england and the far west of scotla nd england and the far west of scotland as well by the end of the day. these other wind gusts we are expecting. it is going to bea we are expecting. it is going to be a blustery day for all. we could see gusts of 50 mph or more for some exposed spots in northern ireland or scotland. with those winds coming in from the south, yes, it will be warm. 21 degrees in london, even further north in glasgow, highs of 18. high pollen levels, though, it is tree pollen at this time of year. across england and wales, levels much lower for northern ireland and scotland. as we go through sunday night, we see these outbreaks of rain in the west, putting eastwards. the rain will tend to fizzle for awhile, but it looks likely that into the early hours of monday morning we will see some slightly heavier rain pushing its way into the corner, and what will be a really mild night. temperatures holding in double digits for some of us. now, as we move into monday, this weather front still staggering its way eastwards. the pulse of heavy rain likely

of wales, the far south—west of england and the far west of scotland as well by the end of the day. these are the wind gusts we're expecting. it's going to be a blustery day for all, but could see gusts of 50mph or more for some exposed spots in northern ireland and western scotland. but with those winds coming in from the south, yes, it will be warm. 21 degrees in london. even further north, in glasgow, highs of 18. high pollen levels, though, it's tree pollen at this time of year, across england and wales. the levels much lower for much of northern ireland and scotland. as we go through sunday night, we see these outbreaks of rain in the west, pushing eastwards. the rain will tend to fizzle for awhile. but it looks likely that into the early hours of monday morning, we'll see some slightly heavier rain pushing its way back into the south—east corner on what will be a really mild night. temperatures holding in double digits for some of us. now, as we move into monday, this weather front still staggering its way eastwards. a pulse of heavier rain likely to be running along it, so