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vall valley. the homeless people taking shelter in the lapped of thest tech giants. there is supposed to be a ceasefire in ukraine. in the last few hours, the airport in donetsk, in the east, has been under attack. ukraine s prime minister has been saying the country is in a state of war. arseniy yatsenyuk warned that the russian president, vladimir putin, wants to take over ukraine and recreate the soviet union. let s go live now. robyn, the airport attacked. what do you know about what is happening right now. well, david, have been hearing the ominous and continuous rum blengs of disc and artillery fire and explosions within the vicinity of the airport, a few kilometres up the road from where i m standing to the north-west of the city. the airport, a strategic location which the ukranian forces held for several months. since the cae fire agreementry came into effect. there has been continuous attacks, shell fings, views lated rockets, and it seems as if this is a ....
sanctions - what sanctions. an exclusive look at how north korea is defying the u.n. and sport - the beijing marathon goes ahead despite heavy smog, with participants forced to run in face masks. welcome to this newshour, we start in syria, with the battle for kobane. kurdish forces fought off an assault by i.s.i.l. faces on the border crossing, with which it could have cut off supply lines if it succeeded. these are the latest pictures. u.s.-led air strikes helped the fighters hold the up to. the leaders of the kurds told al jazeera, they need help from the international community. zeina khodr reports. this man is in charge of a self-declared kurdish region in north-eastern syria, he is under pressure. the democratic union party, pyd, is at war with the islamic state of iraq and levant. he has been appealing to the world for weapons, first the pyd is asked to make concessions. one is giving up power to other syrian kurdish factions that are allied to tuckey. with ....
cop hopkins touch on c-span2. next from politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. thane gustafson looks how russia s unstability systems could impact the oil supply. he explores what it mean for the global economy. it s a little under an hour. it s a pleasure to see you here tonight. as we know, happiness is relative thing. i began the day this morning in the dentist s chair having a crown put in, and here by tonight i m at politics and prose. i m a happy man. having gone from one extreme to another. it s a special pleasure to welcome you here tonight. and standing room only. this is marvelous. i thought i would begin by telling you a few stories about what the book is about, and skipping the big structure and simply tell you some stories about some of the people in the book. in the end it s very much about real people. so what kind of book is this? it s big, it s heavy, it s, you know, you may open it with a certain trip dedication. what it is is a memoi ....
graphic edition in 2014. host: amity shlaes, who is the forgotten man? guest: president roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man as the man at the bottom of the pyramid so that would be the homeless man. but they were aware of another forgotten man in school and that was the man who pays for the government projects. the third party. there is even algebra about the other forgotten man saying a wants to help x but b wants to help x, too, but the problem is when they coherce c into it. it is the taxpayer. that is the question also today. host: in your book, the forgotten man: a new history of the great depression, you write the big question about the american depression is not whether war with germany and japan ended it. it is why it lasted from 1929-1940 from hoover to roosevelt government intervention helped to make the depression great. guest: thank you for quotes that introduction. this is a book i wrote about the 1930 s because we all learned something about it ....
senate is expected to pass abfunding bill today, but it does not include republican demands to cut funding for president obama s health care reform law. the two sides have until monday to reach an agreement. libby casey joining us live from capitol hill. we re losing the signal a little bit here. libby can you hear me. reporter: i can hear you now. we re seeing floor speeches now that are all leading up to a series of votes. what we expect to vote from that is a clean bill, that is one that takes out that stripping of obamacare funding. now despite that predicted outcome, it is not stopping some republicans like senator john cornyn of texas from making a last-minute effort. i hope that we have five democrats, perhaps those who hoped 2010, that obamacare would actually work, but in light of subsequent experience will we consider and say maybe we ought to start over again because obamacare has not worked. now despite republican unity in that dislike over obamaca ....