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they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without hot places to stay, without anything and they were told you dont belong here. we will have an opportunity to talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? >> of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitzgerald, an american reporter , longform, magazine. and kate webb. >> your subtitle is how three women rewrote the story of the war. they were provided a...

era were not considered capable. they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without hot places to stay, without anything and they were told you dont belong here. we will have an opportunity to talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? >> of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitzgerald, an american reporter , longform, magazine. and kate webb. >> your subtitle is how three women rewrote the story...

>> your new book is titled you dont belong here. >> i am telling the story of three amazing women who went to vietnam because women in that era were not considered capable. they were mostly in women sections of newspapers and these three women arrived in vietnam without jobs, without host: your new book is titled "you dont belong here." what is the story? n opportunityo talk about each one of their lives. what are their names? >> of french photojournalist and photographer, francis fitz...

Evolved, because theres such a rich history and what you see and hope for moving forward. I was talking to tim about this earlier coming in. So the print, i want to say the print is the median age is probablily early 60s. We Just Launched a new website the main demographic at thenation. Com is 25 to 34. The continuity in change, the ability to bring people in and i mean, i want subscribers who are 105 and i want readers who are 12, and we had writers who are 13 and writers who are 104. So i thin...

It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i ...

Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon wor...

Covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally familiar with these womens backgrounds, we would just start by going down the line and have all of you briefly tell us how you came to be in vietnam. Its a far away place a long time a...

The roll out of the welfare benefit universal credit. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to three hundred thousand new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. What are the government may be prepared to borrow mo...

Welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building hundreds of thousands of new homes. Speaking on the andrew marr show, the communities secretary sajid javid said up to 300,000 new homes a year are needed a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. 0ur Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. New homes are being built, but nowhere near enough. The government admits that the Housing Market is...

Im a refugee, i came to england at the age of six. He campaigned for more to be brought to the uk. Today he reacts to a government decision to stop receiving children under the scheme he championed, calling it shameful. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today accident and Emergency Departmen...