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This week marks a special anniversary. It was 100 years ago that archduke Francis Ferdinand was shot dead in sarajevo. The assassination sparked the First World War. Bosnia was part of the austriahungary a hungarian empire. A serb nationalist shot the archduke and his wife dead from up close. A short while later, austria declared war on serbia, and europe was plunged into a terrible war which was to last for long years and would enter history books as the First World War. Decades later in the 1990s, war raged again in the balkans between bosniaks, croats, and serves serbs. The differences betw...

Observers from the osce are finally free again. We start off here in europe where eu leaders meeting in brussels picked Jeanclaude Juncker as the new president of the european commission. But not all leaders were happy with the nomination of the former Prime Minister of luxembourg. His appointment was overshadowed by british Prime Minister David Camerons vocal opposition. Although tensions risk boiling over, nearly all Member States through their support behind the eu veteran. But the heated dispute could still prove a turning point in the relationship between the u. K. And the European Union....

E. U. Commission president. Politicians and locals in sarajevo are marking the assassination of archduke Frantz Ferdinand of the austrohungarian empire that changed the course of the wanted century. He and his wife were shot in the center of sarajevo 100 years ago to this day. Be assassination triggered a chain of events that led to , whose repercussions are still being felt today. Going to bless we hope to talk to our correspondent in sarajevo to get more on the story and find out what is happening. We are having problems getting to our correspondent. We are going to iran to a special concert...

Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown connecticut. Some in congress advocated for tougher gun laws. In our first 45 minutes who would like to get your views on gun control. Have they changed since sandy hook and consequently other shootings, even as early as yesterday. Heres how you can reach out to us this morning you can participate on a pole on our facebook page. And you can send this email to journal cspan. Org. The connecticutbased papers play up the event of last year in this manner, the hartford. Urrent out of connecticut go to the newtown local paper, not much mention of ...

Our guest today, dr. Larry schweikart is a native of arizona. He earned his bachelor at Arizona State university received his doctorate from the university of california santa barbara. Throughout his high school and college, however, he spent most of his time playing drums in a variety of rock bands. As a rock drummer he was part of several groups, one of which open for steppenwolf among other performers for those old enough to remember them. This first film, rock in the world about rock music started bringing down communism began airing on pbs this week and will continue throughout this year....