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this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agencys humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum — despite a ceasefire agreed...

welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agencys humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum — despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights a...

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co—ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agencys humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a "full—blown catastrophe" — warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital kha...

snow remain in force across northern england and north—east wales. an intriguing weather story. i will have all the details. an emotional call from the father of elle edwards, who was shot at a pub on christmas eve. he tells us how he wants the people of liverpool to take a stand agianst violent crime. justjoin us, come as one and we will get through it and we will win. delays to the h52 high speed rail line. the government says it will help save money, but not everyone is happy. ill...

I spent over a dozen years looking into this story, and i had worked at the wall street journal for over 20 years and i had never encountered a story of this magnitude or drama. As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. In a a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A la...

Programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. This is about a century old project. We have been working on the project since five years. We expect to open in 2017. We have a place to show up these wonderful and amazing original object from the revolutionary era. For general view, or sometimes looking at 18thcentury firearms they tend to look alike that this really speaks to the one power of the ideas that were made the country and particularly the men who served under arms. If you loo...

Bryce williams on the air. He died this afternoon after shooting himself. Lets begin team coverage. Reporter it was supposed to be a light morning assignment. Alison parker in front of the camera, photo journalist adam ward behind it when a gunman opened fire. 24yearold parker and 27yearold ward were killed as colleagues and viewers watched on tv. People behind us in the news room crying. Reporter Vicki Gardner seriously injured. Police zeroed in on Vester Flanagan aka Bryce Williams. Flanagan l...

They call themselves seabees, im oliver north and this is war stories coming to you from the u. S. Navy seabee museum, port hueneme, california. Seabees landed on iwo jima and built the bunker i lived in. Their motto, we build, we fight, has taken them with a rife until one hand and a hammer to every major battlefield in world war ii, korea, vietnam and beyond. Today their cando spirit, ingenuity is evident in iraq, afghanistan and anywhere elsewhere the global war on terror is being fought. Joi...

Other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website cspan. Org history. Up next on American History tv author Michael Mccarthy discusses the july 1915 capsizing of the ss eastland in the Chicago River. Over 800 factory workers died in the tragedy including 22 entire families. Mccarthy examines the faulty ballast system that caused the ship to capsize any talks about the forgotten legacy of the ss eastland. Posted by the new york public library, this program is about 90 minutes....

The museum has undergone a number of changes. This museum was the next phase of being built in appomattox, chosen to be here because of the people that come to this particular area. Appomattox is one of the top draws for civil war historians or people interested in civil war history. We wanted to give them another experience where we could bring more of our collection out and bring the collection that specifically relates to appomattox. I have been with the museum for 15 years. Four years as dir...