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For the rory peck awards. The awards pay tribute to an International Field of freelance journalists around the world. A warning this programme contains images some viewers may find upsetting. Some of the most powerful images of the year. Often filmed in difficult and dangerous places. But who are the people who bring us these pictures . Why do they do it . How do they do it . And what is the impact on them personally . Each year, we step behind the camera and speak to the men and women who captu...

Recognition they deserve thank you to the Us Army Leaders joining us today including secretary of the Army Christine mormon and army chief of staff general james mcconville. Let us recognize the members of congress who worked to make this momentous event possible including the late senator Johnny Isaacson who showed his Great Respect for our veterans. There was leadership on the Veterans Affairs committee and congressman sandy. Bishop has long champion the marauders legacy and former congressman...

Shares in siemens slump with a quarterly loss it reviews the russia business no technical justification behind the cuts. We have no major announcement from the breakdown of operations this is why i cannot reconcile a technical reason for the supply of gas. And moodys cuts the italy outlook to negative with the political volatility in rome the center level is falling apart ahead of the key general election good morning welcome to another trading week. European markets digesting the strong payroll...

In the book mr. Gates, who served as secretary of defense under president george w. Bush and president obama, talks about his management of the wars in afghanistan and iraq, and he shares stories about his relationship with the white house and congress. [applause] secretary gates, i also want to thank you for being here, especially in light of the fact that youve recently had an injury. I know youre making a robust recovery, but having to wear a neck brace is surely has surely complicated your b...

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Have the arab spring and it was during the strikes against libya, and the objective was to restore democracy in libya. Two years later, its now in libya. Its no man land. And libya is destroyed, as afghanistan, iraq, dont speak about yemen, sudan, and all these conflicts. Do you think dont you think if you are going to enter military or us to other partners to make war against this socalled Islamic State, dont you think thats going to make also jordan and lebanon, maybe iran, and other countries...

Generals we have had since world war ii. Both as commander in afghanistan and as commander of the joint special Operations Unit in iraq and afghanistan. He did a lot of damage to our enemies and the people who were killing our troops. But the world of politics and the media was the new battle space for general mcchrystal and he was, he was a brandnew Second Lieutenant and that realm. And as effective as he was in the command position, he stepped out of line on some of his interviews. But i felt,...

This book in some ways gives voice to those people and those concerns, and hopefully will cause others in the community to at least engage the question at a more serious level than just the reflex reaction against guns that is sort of a caricature of what the actual conversation needs to be. Host certainly has given me rope to revisit my thinking about guns and with a more historically informed perspective. Thank you for that contribution. Guest thank you for your interview. Next, robert gates a...

For making that effort. When i, until i became secretary of defense, i had never broken a bone or had a u surgery [laughter] february of 2008 i fell on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places. Ould ten months later putting a snowplow blade on a tractor, ir pulled a bicep tendon off this arm. My security guards quickly came to the conclusion that alqaeda was no risk to me atcae all compared to myself. [laughter] to me at all comparedo myself. [laughter] and before we start i would like to...

Good morning. First of all, id like to thank the savannah book festival for having me here. You know, i think what theyre doing is a marvelous thing, and it gives a lot of authors access to to venues like this to bet of able to, you know, talk about what they do and what theyreo passionate about. Passionate about. So first and foremost i would like to thank them for bringing me here and everybody that is sitting out here for taking interest in what it is that i do in the book i wrote into the me...