The Supreme Court. It has been a highly successful series up until now. We expect to finish it this evening in a blaze of glory. So we are looking forward. I want to especially thank Justice Kagan for hosting us this evening. Without the support of the justices about report, we would be unable to host these events in such a gust surroundings. Because the justice has another event immediately after this one, i will give a brief or introduction then she deserves. But she has to make her way to a second event. Justice kagan has an enviable resume. You will hear a little bit about it now. She received her a b summa cum laude from princeton university. She then attended Worcester College at oxford as princeton s daniel em sex graduating fellow. She received a masters of philosophy there. She then earned aj d. From harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. A Job Description that i assume she means they did the really har
A bit ofa a bit of a dull day for some others but at least it is not windy. That could all change when it comes to the weekend. More details later. Also coming up getting himself into hot water. The mp who admits spending an hour in the bath every morning so he can clean his body and clear his mind. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. The performance of hospitals has slumped across the uk, with targets for cancer, a e and planned operations being widely missed, thats according to bbc research. Nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland have not hit one of their three key targets for 18 months. 0nly scotland has hit one of the targets. The findings are revealed as the bbc launches its online nhs tracker, which will allow you to see how your local service is performing on these three key waiting time targets. Being seen within four hours at accident emergency, cancer care beginning within 62 days of diagnosis, and planned operations taking place within 18 weeks in
Back so i think theres a general consensus now this conflict is generational, its a different kind of conflict its not one where you can say you can walk away fromthis because we want. The enemy, this enemy has decided to keep fighting. You can watch this and other programsonline at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Im part of the event staff here and on behalf of the staff and our owners we are honored to welcome you to host john simpson for his book the word detectives. Searching for it all at the meeting of the oxford dictionary and a few housekeeping notes for us to get started. Take out the cell phones and noisemaking devices and silence those at this time so we dont have any unnecessary interruption, that would be great. We will also mention that we are on book tv is here today and they will be filming the event and we are doing our own reporting as well so john is going to come us about a half hour we will have anothe
Only about one thing, and that is unifying this country. President obama and president elect trump spoke about a wide range of issues from organizing the white house to foreign and domestic policy. Trump as promised to repeal bahama obamacare and change the policies, but today the two men had nothing but positive words about their meeting. I have been very encouraged by the, i president elect trumps wanting to work with my team around many of the issues that this great country faces. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future including counsel. He explained some of the difficulties, some of the highflying assets and some of the really great things that reporter after his visit to the white house, trump met with Republican Leaders on capitol hill. House speaker paul ryan, in fact, showing president elect trump, his wife melania and Vice President elect mike pence the view from the speakers office. The balcony overlooks the spot where trump is inaugurated in jan
At the end of the war, towards the end of the war as the japanese were withdrawing their forces towards the north, birch moved from south ofchina, the area here, up to this province which really was behind japanese lines. And many in this area the nationalist forces were primarily in the southwest where theyd been, they had to retreat, withdraw after fighting so long and hard with the japanese. The communists were forced up to the area after the long march, but their power increased through the course of world war ii. So when birch yets up there gets up there, he is in contact with communist forces from time to time, and the policy of the United States government is a very pragmatic policy, and that is to cooperate with the communist forces if necessary when theres a good reason to do so. He didnt have any particular sympathy for the communists or their cause, nor did he have any sympathy for the nationalists. His loyalties really were with the chinese people. There was great relief on