The Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a really superb guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and ahor, ian toll. Ian, welcome. Thank you, rob. Ian probably is one of those people who with, you know, doesnt really need an introduction, as we like to say. You all know what that means, the introduction should be really long. Ians an extremely accomplished scholar and writer. Hes the author of six [inaudible] the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. Hes won the Samuel Elliot morrisonward from the naval orr of the United States, hes won the william e. Colby militaryriters award, hes won the other morrison award given by the uss constitutio museum. If theres any more morrison awards out there, i fully expect to see you winning one in the not too distant future. But thanks so mu
Disappoint will hold the line and our unity will prevent the e. U. Commission president. Vowing to help greece deal with thousands of refugees greece has been blocking seldons of them trying to cross its border from neighboring turkey and as the corona virus continues to spread around the world well meet a Hong Kong Family thats been told to self quarantine. And others like them are dealing with the isolation. Im bring to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world well we start tonight in the United States where millions of people are casting ballots in the countrys super tuesday primaries its the. Biggest day on the Campaign Calendar for the 5 Democratic Candidates still left in the race for the president ial nomination now whats crucial about super tuesday is that 14 states are holding primary today and under the system the more votes that a candidate gets in each state the more delegates there are awarded and the states with the most democratic delegates u
Intelligence officials warn russia is taking steps to interfere in the 2020 president ial campaign to help donald trump get reelected. We begin in afghanistan where an agreement thats supposed to usher in peace is to stick to facts in a few hours the taliban and the United States will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence as of midnight if the 7 day deal does prove to be a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups and the u. S. Has said it wants to pull its forces out of afghanistan. The u. S. Presence in afghanistan began in 2001 a month after the events of 911. 00 it launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power more than 12000. 00 american soldiers are still in the country thousands more from the nato allies and partner countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to have spent
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry deny doing anything wrong but would you that you know that i think t
A crime school. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you that you on