Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand theres a whole crop leftparenthesis president ial beyond the one biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. Host you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in American History . How do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people and it seems a fair
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
Geopolitical tensions mean for investors as markets face fresh volatility. But first we will get you the latest update coming out of the israelhamas war. We want to go to our reporter on the floor. Bring us up to speed with where you are and how it is all occurring at the moment. What is the latest . We are seeing some developments today. All slightly different from one another on the fronts. On the southern france, seeing attacks. The areas contain. Question presently, there were still infiltrations from hamas from the gaza strip into the hamas vicinity inside israel but we are seeing a lot less of that and the entire area over there is now under control in the sense of the infiltration we have seen over the last two days. The communities and the settlements that are very close to about tony for settlements are being evacuated about 24 settlements are being evacuated. They develop and we are seeing over the last two hours is on the northern front. It is not major at this time, but it
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Sent a clear message of immigration that people want to control Free Movement for the European Union and that is what we will be doing in the negotiations that we will be undertaking and remain absolutely firm in my belief that we have to bring migration down to the same level, the government believes the government believes that is tens of thousands. It will take time to get there but now we have the aspect of what we can bring in relation to people moving from the European Union. Mister tim fallon. Thank you. You are very kind. Can i genuinely warmly welcome the Prime Minister and reflect she has come a long way she will reflect that she is enjoying greater support in this chamber than either of us got in the working mens club and there are reports a new brexit unit will hire lawyers up to 5000 pounds ahead, can i ask the Prime Minister will she be using the 350 Million Pounds to pay legal fees or is that penciled into the nhs as promised by her colleague who brings aids relief . It