Booksusan cole from folio and we are thrilled to have one of our local authors here tonight. Bill yenne is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as novels. He has written numerous books on military history and recently released a book called, hit the target, which we have over here. Related to the eighth air force. Tonight, we are honored to have bill to discuss his latest book with us, operation long jump. Bill yenne. [applause] thanks to paula, who is not here, and john, who is. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Sitting down and listening to my story. Stories are almost as fun to write about as they are to read. That is not true. They are more fun to write about. [laughter] bill an assassination anspiracy story, seem to have special residence and people get excited and interested in that stuff. I am here to talk about what i am maintaining is the largest assassination conspiracy in history. Churchill, roosevelt, stalin, in ,ne room, with three bullets and the co
Resignation to parliament but its done little to calm protesters across the country i do a doormat he held an emergency meeting with his cabinet and also the lower house to debate his resignation he said he had no choice but to leave his post simona full time has more from baghdad on what might happen in the parliament on sunday. He has officially now sent his Resignation Letter Resignation Letter to the parliament we are still unclear whether that is in fact how he should be resigning the constitution does not really mandate to step in fact the bylaws of the Parliament Say that he should be submitting his Resignation Letter to the president who would then merely accept it and that there is in fact no need for the parliament to be voting on that now that the matter he has previously said that he would step down but he was basically pressured by the political establishment to stay on and it seems that following the call of grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani on friday to resign he was basica
Believe it probably work trumps admission their meeting with the taliban comes after the president abruptly broke off talks in september following the killing of a u. S. Soldier in a bombing claimed by the taliban talks had been making progress up until then the taliban has confirmed to al jazeera that some meetings have been taking place to pave the way for the resumption of talks the group also recently released 2 western hostages and 10 Afghan Soldiers in exchange for 3 of its Senior Leaders but Officials Say theres still no sign the taliban is ready to give up its weapons in exchange for a role in afghan politics demilitarization is a key demand from afghan president ashraf ghani but hes been sidelined while u. S. And taliban negotiators meet still ghani joint tromp on stage by graham air base and tweeted out highlights of the moment apparently keen to show he is relevant in the Peace Process for donald trump the priority is cutting down the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan fr
They cannot. Gather in todays 2nd u. N. The biz military base but they have sitting some fires there around and they try to force their gun shots started but we still confuse because in that it appears the formation on the way saying that because i was sure that he was shot to death by the army but i have been discussing just a minute now with one of the officer hes denying it saying that a gun was not a shooting did not come just from the outside one more again accusing the u. N. For killing this boy is body still lying down here as im talking to you. Sting in the region officials in northwestern kenya say tens of thousands of people have been affected by flooding and landslides at least 52 people are being killed in the past few days relief teams have been so to reach the region and some roads and bridges have been cut off by flooding several east african nations are being hit by heavy rain and more is forecast hong kongs chief executive has admitted that voters have delivered every
To not only does a lot to him sanction people in hong kong and china but if that special trade status that could be so critical if the secretary of state was to come back and say no china is not going along with the policy hong kong doesnt have enough independence they could basically take that status away that would have a huge impact on trade but bigger than that it could send a signal to a Financial Markets to investors that hong kong is not a safe place to park your money so that is the big concern it does seem unlikely that theyre going to take these steps the other bill that the president signed or concretely it stops American Companies from giving or selling any thing to hong kong authorities that could be used against crowds such as tear gas canisters or rubber bullets so that really what the president is going to do its not clear congress has given him this authority he has sent the signal that he doesnt want to use it so well wait to see what the secretary of state says but f