asterix comics or read all around the world. almost everyone calls the little girl as tricks but when it comes to his corpulence come right translations diverged number five in the blank. is stunning record that's what the us then does call him no doubt you recognize the character you probably just call him something else in the original french he's called obelix and in most other languages too. more than anything else in the world loves his little dog and the dog loves trees above all else. it's never for the books or dogmatics in english looks is the name in africa it's in french and in german his called it a fix that's derived from the expression day six after all dogmatics has very firm beliefs about protecting trees. he's a nice character well at least if you don't have to listen to him lucky that you don't have to put up with his awful voice when you're reading the comic. laura pix is our number three of the asterix characters names you've probably never heard of that's the character's bangladeshi name golly that means som

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asterix in spain was published in nineteen the nine. a sly wink at the holds a french tourists who had started taking the holidays in spain. with all the cliches bulullfights a and traffic jams on on the highways of the tyrannies a year earlier the ghoulish parents in the peak gains wetland magic potion is stolen b by the romans. use it as a performance enhancer. was a coincidence the games in mexico that year with the funds to apply drug testing to athletes. let the current defense that came from writer clinical shinny. do the job. identity he was one of the editors chief for the deluxe might. and in that role you to have to be plugged into what's going on in the news. the trend continued into the nineteen eighties. streets and the black gold is about petrol time when frances breasts on coast was clinics in an oil slick. he does seem to me most is of the series. thank you from real life to. when we find things. check with. worries or cern's. and we tackle that was a. humor. think they liked best. so william yes is also the question of

and asterix and all blix the beloved comic book heroes are back with. a new adventure this time their creators are sending them on a bad dash across italy. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. leaders are meeting in brussels for a two day summit to discuss issues such as migration and the deadlock brags that negotiations british prime minister theresa may has called for renewed urgency in moving the braggs of talks along but european council president donald tusk ruled out a breakthrough ahead of the summit. the british prime minister arrived in brussels with one aim to push talks on britain's divorce from the e.u. to the next phase that means post break the trade ties between london and brussels it's also about looking ahead to how we can tackle the challenges that we all share across europe that means a fool's continued cooperation cooperation which must be at the heart of the strong future partnership but for tourism as european partners talk of future relations is premature even for french president emanuel my com who's been

at long last he's back with a new adventure asterix and the chariot race. just thirty seven comic in the series has asked jackson travelling to ancient italy for the first time aside from a few brief appearances in rome a previous adventure is this is the third story penned by julian fifty and drawn by da coming up the dio took over from asterix is now ninety year old in this trying to about in two thousand and nine. among this year's laureates for the premium imperial our spanish architect raphael mondale and left three an american dancer and choreographer and mikhail baryshnikov . the award ordering them for their life's work is one of the most prestigious international art prizes and it comes with an award of around six hundred thousand euros it's presented every year in tokyo. on friday the british library will get a touch of wizardry with the exhibition titled harry potter a history of magic. and looks back at the twenty years since the publication of j.k. rowling's first novel harry potter and the philosopher's stone. on display are copies from the au

well now to a big day for comic book fans as millions of copies of a new asterix book are released in europe this time fans can follow their heroes as they compete in a race across italy. asterix and his sidekick over leaks take it up with the romance once again the news story is set in an ancient italy. we had italy in mind and then i had the idea of a chariot race a sort of rally from engine times a trip across the peninsula leading you from city to city. this time the two heroes don't just have to deal with pretentious moments they have to win a race and beat some fierce competitors including breath and. a challenge also for a cartoonist. there were lots of details when you have chariots of four horses and you need to put them into small boxes it gets complicated. asterix and noble it's also make friends along the way they team up with the atomic a tribe that is seeking independence from the powers and rome and somehow that story songs all of. that politics has caught up with us although we didn't plan for that with all that's happening in catalonia right now our album has become e

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ancient rome is the place to be it is a big day for comic book fans as millions of copies of a new asterix book are being released here in europe this time fans can follow their heroes as they compete in a race across italy going to happen we're going to get that report the ok i've just been told that the story for some reason about technical problems it's not running that can happen when you are trying to race back to the future all right let's do a sports story for you now we're going to go to the europa league it has been another bad night so far for german sides here to berlin last two one at ukraine's and cologne went down one no at borisov in cologne have only won one match in all competitions so far this season and that was against a fifth division team in the german cup hoffenheim are playing now. here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you the spanish government has announced that it will move ahead with suspending the autonomy of catalonia this after the region's leader threatened to declare independence madrid says it will discuss next steps at an emergency

the civilian casualties from asterix in afghanistan are up by more than fifty percent compared to last year that's according to reports by the united nations assistance mission but u.n. also says more than two hundred sixty six thousand people have been displaced since january with many women and children having to stay in makeshift shelters. you know the. u.s. forces bombarded everyone including children men and women in our houses have been destroyed and the children and women and children there are no houses left. some homes with the islamic state militants and others were hit by u.s. drone strikes like you only eat a little like watching. the drunks who were thrown the fight that is ongoing islamic state militants came and started the clashes they wanted to cause a head self and us troops bombed the area so we left and came in our houses were destroyed and now we're leaving temporary shelters here. but there was some of the junk little bit of a shrug of. the woman she had to hear their problems through water supply to fetch water from very far away. from the market a couple hundred

and asterix an open mics the beloved comic book heroes on now. back with a new adventure this time the creators are sending them on a mad dash across italy. helen a woman. the crisis in catalonia is escalating spain is preparing to suspend the region's autonomy after the catalan leader threatened to declare independence the central government in madrid said catalonia karla's suppresion more ignored a deadline to withdraw its plans to break away and must now face the consequences. the game of brinkmanship heats up catalan leader colors put them on at the regional parliament for the latest showdown camera struggle to get a good glimpse of the man who is refusing to back down in his latest letter to the spanish government he warns that the catalan parliament could vote to declare independence if madrid triggers article one hundred fifty five this allows spain central government to take over any of the country's seventeen autonomous regions if they break the law which declaring independence is deemed to be. the spanish government's reaction to double

texas, willingof to house the center here, i hope by name,n asterix for more photos, go to university of texas. some of the programs bput on by the briscoe center. . we're truly blessed to be texans, to be in texas and to the briscoe center here at the university of texas manage the work. americane watching history tv. 48 hours on c-span3. forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. afterwords, craig shirley on the life and political career of new gingrich with his book "citizen newt. use interviewed by tom davis. this was before cable television, before cnn, before msnbc, pockets of cable here and there, but mostly reruns of i love lucy and andy griffith, things like that. there's no talk radio to speak up. just the big media. and c-span. quickly realizes the potency of getting special orders every afternoon, giving a five-minute speech, because of it being carried over cable to 100,000 homes around the country. former congressman did army used to rip him about it. and he would say, gingrich would give ack, would you go speech to 100,0

so there are certain things, monarchy, futile is where it -- feudalism with an asterix, and we shall have no established religion. we once agree on things that we won't compromise on. definehat is easier to issues that you can't compromise on. what was my asterisk? it was on feudalism. one of the points i have been wrestling is is how come this new world that is america and the caribbean, how come there was one area that they brought from the old world? they didn't bring established religion. they didn't bring monarchy. brought a new form of feudalism, which was slavery. is thatuestion becomes going to go away naturally? for, as i can put it later on, can we have this compromise -- half free/half slave? and the answer is no care you can't have it as a permanent solution to be half free and half slave. you have to be totally free and totally slave. now we can compromise. and i think the framers -- i think lincoln would agree with me -- the framers tried to put slavery on the course of extinction. but not each generation is better than the previous one. for example, we like to think th