days. scottish national party s chief exec as it has resigned with immediate effect, after the snp was forced to reveal a massive drop in its party member ship this week. you are watching bbc news. time for the media show. my guest today has covered some of the most defining stories of our time. gary younge briefly became part of nelson mandela s entourage, joined revellers as president obama was elected, and has covered much else too gay marriage, brexit, the windrush scandal, and the black lives matter movement. gary left as a full time journalism at the guardian in 2020 to become professor of sociology at the university of manchester. although he continues to write articles for various publications and books. his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in yourfinal year
The hostage release deal negotiations . Why do you remain silent in the face of his actions . Why do you not come out and tell the public, as galant has done , how netanyahu has done, how netanyahu tirelessly takes action to sabotage the hostage release deal . Deal . In other news, thousands of people can now safely drink their tap water again following a parasite outbreak southwest water has today reduced the boil water has today reduced the boil water notice in the brixham area following all clear test results. The number of confirmed cases of cryptosporidium in the brixham area are 46, but the Water Company has confirmed it is now safe for around 14,500 households in the alston supply area to use their tap water as normal, but theyre still advising around 2500 properties in hillhead , upper parts of in hillhead, upper parts of brixham and kingswear to continue to boil their Drinking Water before consuming it. Water before consuming it. Meanwhile, olympian Dame Kelly Holmes has joine
Giving my verdict. Yeah, thats a pretty lively take. At ten an hour away, you wont want to miss it. So two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Mark dolan tonight is your perfect saturday night in. Lets have some fun and a bit of a ding dong along the way. First, the news headunes the way. First, the News Headlines and sophia wenzler. Mark, thank you from the gb newsroom at 9 00. Your top story this hour. The Israeli Military says its recovered another body today after the bodies of three israeli hostages were recovered from gaza on friday. It comes as a member of israels three man war cabinet, benny gantz, has threatened to resign from the government if it does not adopt a new plan for the war in gaza. Israel says it believes 100 hostages are still alive. Their hostages are still alive. Their families of hostages have been holding a News Conference in tel aviv calling for their return. The war must be stopped at once and the hostages must be rescued. War cabinet mem
The point where he gives positive orders. Do what i want, but theres always tension and we see that tension not just with mcclellan, but we see it with burnside side, we see it with hooker. And although tend to gloss over it, i think we see it with grant as well. So there. Well, youve conveniently welcome to this session, which provided a segue way by mentioning grant and andy, i is a debate we think on the wonder about some of your topic of lincoln and his thoughts because youre youre working on a book project that generals and i am glenn that involves lincoln and grant. Lafantasie from professor yeah. Thank you glenn. Emeritus from western kentucky and most important i should say that this a distinct privilege to be sitting on a panel with university wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this historians who. Morning a distinguished panel i, ive long had the great esteem for and their books have been i regret to say that one of our really formative, shaping my own thinking. So th
Welcome to this session, which is a debate we think on the topic of lincoln and his generals and i am Glenn Lafantasie from Professor Emeritus from Western Kentucky University wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this morning a distinguished panel i, i regret to say that one of our panelists took ill and lauren foote will not be joining us this morning. But shes at home recuperating fighting with many regrets that cant be here. But let me go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and you have longer biographies of these people in your packets. But i thought id go ahead and introduce people anyway. And to my immediate right is. Ken. No. He is the drawn of southern history at auburn here received his doctorate. Doctorate from, the university of illinois. His most recent book is, the howling storm, whether and the american civil war. He is currently writing about the idea and the realities of Abraham Lincoln as a commander in chief to his right Harold Holzer who all of you im sur