Youre watching booktv on cspan2. And we are on location at george mason university. Every fall. Every fall for the book festival called fall for the book, and one of the authors u. S. Be at the book festival is Brooke Stoddard. Here is his book, world in the balance the perilous months of juneoctober 1940. Brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. What was happening in europe in june 1940 . The war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. Hitlers idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. With the intent later on to invade the soviet union. He hated communism. This is one thing that was really part of his agenda. He was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, ma in novemberdecember. He had to put that off because spent of 1939 . Of 1939. Because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, soy put off the invasion until may, and he came up with a n
Military veterans finding jobs but facing challenges from the oil boom in the north. Two major stories. The crisis in ukraine, and the search for flight 370. Now today, serious concerns over russias military moves and suspensions an invasion may be planned. But the u. S. And russia imposing more punishments frying to diffuse the situation. We talked to a leading scholar about what can happen next. We are go steps from a kind of missile crisis. But we begin with the intensive search underway, in the southern indian ocean, it is happening nearly two weeks after the boeing 777 disappeared. It is just about 8 00 in the morning and some 15 hull miles off that coast, search crews are back at it again. Looking for possible debris floating in the southern indian ocean. Last night, the Australian Government released satellite images these are those images of two large objects in the ocean. The government called eight credible lead after the plane disappeared. Our Andrew Thomas has more from sid
Russia signing papers annexing crimea, ukraine signing the Association Agreement with the european union. That is the trade deal that started this cries months ago. Crimea has only been officially russian for a few hours, but things are changing fast. Residents are stopped at check points, their cars being searched. Im ready to stay here for days if thats what it takes to have a good life. Yes, we are ready to stay here for many days. We work, were simple workers. I want peace and friendship, not this shameful oppression. The switch very, very complicated especially for the military assets in the region. Inive glass has more from sevastopol. They raise the Russian Naval flag over a ship that was until yesterday ukrainian. On her side, ukrainian colors as i said alongside russian ships in sevastopol. She used to sit next to the ukrainian command ship that still flies the ukrainian flag and is locked in by russian ships. The Ukrainian Naval academy changed hands. There was fanfare here,
The search for survivors as mudlike quick sand buries people and homes in Washington State. Lots of news people have been fearing since Malaysia Airlines flight mh370 vanished more than three weeks ago. A new analysis of data indicated that the plane crashed in a remote area. Southern indian ocean. None of the 239 on board supplied. Ships and planes from 26 countries are searching for the aircraft. Good evening, theres a race op now to find those black boxes, which may unravel the mystery behind flight mh370. Good evening to you. Yes, the thoughts this evening for now turn to the families of flight mh370 who have been briefed formally today, for the first time, by the words from the malaysian government. They came up to at a pentagon briefing ending only in the last couple of hours at washington d. C. Rearadmiral john kirby saying there are more than 200 families out there from the malaysian government, but he called it honest news. Nevertheless everyone is grieving. As he was speaking
Lead and you know the list, like a quarter of the periodic table. Reporter the push to get one company to cleanup its act after contaminating 70 miles of a river. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, russias military making an aggression move in effort to take over crimea. The troops seized three Ukrainian Navy vessel in sevastopol and quickly changed the flag over the flag to russia colors and president obama is warning russia not to go further ni in, ukraine and they have close ties to russian president putin and he signs an agreement for closer ties with the eu and we have Team Coverage this morning and phil is in kiev but lets begin with Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol where the navy ships were seizeed and you have been following the take over of the vessel and what do we know at this point . Reporter well, you know, we noticed a lot of activity with ukraine navy yesterday, activity with the ships and blocked in the port for nearly three weeks but that is