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Mass grave. And America Votes, 2014, fed up in kentucky, how coal and cash Impact Politics in the state that could see the most Expensive Senate race in u. S. History. And we begin tonight with that unexpected decision from the u. S. Supreme court. The justices refused to hear arguments on samesex marriage in cases from five states. It means the Lower Court Rulings which struck down bans on gay marriage will stand. You are joined in marriage as wife as wife. Reporter within hours of the courts a...

And. Im in eastern blifia, the government is bolivia, the government is applying economics in the fight against drugs. Its looking increasingly unlikely that a deadline for a deal on Irans Nuclear programme will be met. Talks in vienna when u. S. Secretary of state john kerry met irans foreign minister zarif and u. N. Envoy katherine ashton. Theres two days to reach an agreement. Talks on an extension could begin on sunday. We are working hard. We hope we are making careful progress, but we have...

Taliban after combat operations end in december. And im farah ill have all the sport, including Mani Pacquiao dismisses suggestions hes past his best as he successfully defends his welter weight title its a landmark moment for tunisia. The first president ial election since the uprising and revolution of 2011. Some polling stations have seen large queues of voters, in total more than 5 Million People are eligible to vote. There are 22 candidates to choose from. Two have emerged as frontrunners. ...

And as russia accuses the west of trying to topple president putin, we report from the arctic on the signs of a new kind of cold war. 4 hello. 28 bus passengers in kenya have been shot differential diagnosis by al shabaab fighters, the group saying its revenge for some alia. It took place near mandera. Nonmuslims on the bus were separated from the rest of the passengers and killed. Harry smith reports. Reporter witnesses said the victims were forced from the bus at gunpoint. They were ordered to...

Casualties in getting to the same place. They maintain great hope lee would triumph. Certain that lee and his men would somehow inflict a fatal blow to the norths willingness to fight. In the union army that june, soldiers saw the spires of richmond just eight miles away. Union soldiers, too, gained hope from that. But recognized, too, how hard those last eight miles would be. A pennsylvania soldier wrote of the moment, in the prospects, theres a magic influence in the expression as it passes fr...

The casualties were astounding, a stouinstounding to soldiers, generals and those left back home. Amidst the staggering losses at cole harbor, for every soldier killed, wounded or captured, there was a family. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters that also felt the loss. The loss of the men that fell at cole harbor in the spring of 1864 reverb rasreverberated thr kmunlts a communities across the north and south. The battlegrounds left indelible kbag impacts on the living left beh...

Been going on for some three years. Massive casualties and losses. Tremendous disaffection in the north with the war. It looked like it would go on forever. Abraham lincoln, of course, is up for reelection. Its important to have battlefield victories for the north and its important to win battles in virginia. Virginia is still the preserve of robert e. Lee and the storied army of Northern Virginia. So lincoln brings east his best general, thats going to be ulysses s. Grant, the general who won a...

To a pleasant day agenda. Its called political correctness. Its nonsense. You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it. And believe me, history is the best teacher any of you will ever have. So we have to look back to see where were going, and there is no other guide. So today we look back at the wilderness. We look back with all with reverence and installation. What those men in the north and south gave we all share. We must treasure those sacrifices always as being among our richest p...

Another. Lee basically takes a waiting game. What is grant going to do. Grant is going to move one way or the other. Lee is uncertain. So he for fits the initiative to his opponent. This is unlike the lee that we usually see. But in this instance he has no choice. He sends his cavalry out past each ends of his lines sort of to act as a trip wire to let him know where the federals are coming from and then waits. The army was commanded by general George Gordon lee, the hero of gettysburg, mead at ...

Nevertheless, while other Union Commanders were failing, grant had climbed steadily up the military ladder with resounding victories, stretching from fort henry in 1862, through vicksburg to Missionary Ridge in 1863. He was clearly the norths man of the hour. When lincoln ordered an east early in 1864 to take command of all federal forces. The somewhere near 500,000 combat ready soldiers grant would have authority over the largest post any american officer had ever led. The new Lieutenant Genera...