of chile was. it made felix again and international star in twenty fifty. queen elizabeth the second welcome to invited guests from the british commonwealth to buckingham palace on wednesday the commonwealth of nations is made up of fifty three sovereign states most of them are former british colonies or dependencies. prince charles and his wife camilla duchess of cornwall were also on hand for guests were honored for making significant contributions to society in their home countries. the scottish capital edinburgh is celebrating the chinese new year by decorating the city zoo with huge advantage is shaped like animals chinese new year start some friday february sixteenth. two thousand and eighteen is the year of the dog for the chinese lanterns were created with the help of chinese artists. and they'll stay up at the zoo until february the twenty fifth. next up we're off to northern germany for neil show off his sister is quite literally his role model lucia off got into modeling when she was spotted on the train to berlin. after sharing pictures of her brother online modeling scouts found that good looks run in the family now the two of them are regularly book together and there's no sense of sib

second wife's death, he writes his will and deeds the property to the commonwealth of virginia under the operation of the national society of the colonial dames of america. that is how we still operate today. we are owned by the commonwealth and operated by the dames. we opened in 1961 is a museum. from there, we have had an illustrious history filling the house with objects and interpreting george mason. in recent year, the mission has shifted to focus on the ideals put forward in the declaration of rights and the constitution. if you come today, you experience us talking about george mason and why he is still important to us today. we are a little under a quarter-mile away from the house now. we have walked down the driveway up to the family cemetery. we have approached this beautiful avenue of cedar trees planted by the last private owner about 100 years ago. i am standing next to a red oak tree we think was planted in honor of george mason after his death in 1792. george is only a little ways away. he is right over here in this walled section of the cemetery. the wall was added by the last private owner under

representing all fifty three countries of the commonwealth has been launched in london the commonwealth fashion exchange aims to boost rising talents of the member nations among them designer euphemia and sidney davies who fled her native sierra leone at the age of eleven the project also enjoys the support of the duchess of cambridge the first designs from the initiative will be showcased during dungeon fashion week at buckingham palace on monday. belle and sebastian have a new album out the scottish pop band recorded fifteen original songs for how to solve our human problems including we were beautiful. really but. over the last two decades belle and sebastian have made a name for themselves putting out low fi indie pop with heart and soul they're currently touring europe before heading to north america in june. that's a german rock band that is celebrating its twenty five year anniversary talking tronic were formed during the tail end of the how school movement during the eighty's and ninety's several bands that sang their socio critical lyrics in german sprang up in the hound bird region targets on external remain relevant today as proven by the fac

of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a north korean official under international sanctions, choe hwi, has been allowed by the united nationsn south korea. but there'll be no games for 47 russian athletes and coaches who were accused of doping. their appeals have been rejected just hours before the opening ceremony. in december last year, two reuters journalists were arrested in myanmar — wa lone and kyaw soe oo. they are still in jail, awaiting trial for allegedly obtaining confidential government documents. it was known that the two journalists were covering the aftermath of some of the brutal violence inflicted on the rohingya last year, but since their arrest rumours have circulated around what those journalists were investigating. now, reuters have published what they believe is the real reason for their arrest, revealing details of the story that they were working on — a detailed investigation into a mass execution in a village in eastern myanmar. james clayton from newsnight has the story. on december 12 last year, two myanmarjournalists working for the reuters news agency, wa lone and kyaw soe oo, travelled to a res

the founding era that believed that hebrew republic, the exodus to the core nation of saw, they see in the hebrew commonwealth a form of government that they perceive to be republican in nature. it's a republican government well designed to promote political prosperity. and political discourse, and pamphlets and sermons of the founding area appears numerous appeals as a model of their own political experiments. example, in an inflew we know chal 1775 massachusetts election sermon, samuel, the president of harvard college. later serves as a delegate to knew hafrp shir constitution ratifying convention. he says the government which was divinely established, was a perfect republic. the policy of israel is doubtless, excellent general model. at least some principles and laws may be copied in more modern establishment. and again, i think you're going to find similar expressions from this period in american history where they are first describing that form of government they read in scripture as republican and suggesting, there's some things we can learn about republicanism from this model as we embark in our own n

rejoined the british commonwealth after all of fifty two member states unanimously approved the move a flag raising ceremony marking the change has been held in london the west african nation withdrew from the group back in two thousand and thirteen but new president damo barrow signalled he reversed the decision to leave the commonwealth and other international bodies. all right we're going to go back to berlin because european leaders are welcoming the deal reached by germany's two biggest parties to form a coalition government it's been more than four months now since germany held elections here european council president donald tusk is currently meeting with chants on the american called the deal good news the coalition agreement reached on wednesday would see brylin contributing more to e.u. budgets something brussels sees as a welcome change maracle is also due to meet with the commission president. later today. are right let's find out what this would be government could mean for europe with political respondent thomas farah here with me on the set and with max hofmann brussels ver chief a very good day to you both gentlemen want to start off with you thomas if i ma

i think likely it will be someone from from a major commonwealth nations, perhaps a former president or prime minister, one ofh, almost anyone. thank you for having me. jacob zuma has been president of south africa for nine years. and according to his critics — nine years of corruption that has seen the poorest grow poorer and the ruling elite prosper. overnight the party that put him in powerfinally decided that his reign is over and voted to formally ask him to resign — known as to "recall" him. the president is still refusing to go and if he hasn‘t changed his mind by next thursday he will be forced out by a vote in the south african parliament. we can speak now to toby shapshak a journalist and writer who has been a fierce critic of jacob zuma. it would seem he is a survivor, but do you think this is definitely get? definitely. we have lived through nine very lean years of a corrupt era. remember, he was facing 783 charges of fraud corruption and racketeering before he became president. and through nifty work he managed to get those charges thrown out. they have since been reinstated by the highest court

of the highlights. it is what the athletes work hard towards, getting your national kit especially for a major competition like the commonwealthscotland will wear their kit with great pride and honour as well. it seems crazy with the winter olympics on going to already be thinking about the commonwealth games! manchester city's sergio aguero will not be punished for the altercation with a wigan fan, in which teh player claims he was spat at, during the pitch invasion which followed wigan‘s historic fa cup triumph of the premier league leaders last night. ade adedoyin is with me. we'll reflect on the match in a moment, but first to that news. aguero avoids punishment, but both clubs have been charged for failing to control their players follwing the sending off of fabien delph at the end of the first half. well the headlines today have been marred by some of those unsavoury scenes after the match of stop you mention sergio aguero, some wigan fa ns mention sergio aguero, some wigan fans went onto the pitch after their famous win against manchester city and today he said that he was spat at by one wigan fan. and that police we re

queen and the duke of edinburgh made support for charity central to their decades of service to the nation and commonwealthworked alongside. the generosity of the british people and the entrepreneurial and creative passion thatis entrepreneurial and creative passion that is at the heart of our communities has seen the number of charities grow from a few thousand in the 1950s to around 180,000 today. social media was changing the weather people engaged in issues, making it easier to campaign than ever before. and engaging young people in new and exciting ways. the diversity of our society was creating huge opportunities to get people from all walks of life involved in tackling important challenges. to provide the meaningful leadership and support of the sector our parents and grandparents had, we would need to think about our roles in a different way. we approached the answer to this question by establishing the royal foundation. our own foundation which would help us explore big issues that were close to our hearts. when katherine joined after our wedding hearts. when katherine joined after ourwedding in 2

of the past here. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] on american history tv, on to -- c-span3, former virginia governor douglas wilder at virginia commonwealth university. >> i have a one-word word definition i use for politics. that is just one word to define politics. money. give me something that is a proposition for any tribunal that does not involve money. announcer: sunday, from the west oral history,f senator hank thomas, a veteran during the vietnam war. announcer: my father served in world war ii. served, it was your military service you hoped would confirm your bona fides as a first-class red-blooded american citizen entitled. announcer: at 4:00 p.m. on railamerica, with the cpac conference in washington, d c, we look back to 1988 when reagan spoke at a dinner. announcer: the america does >> the american people know what privatization have meant. i can guarantee they will not want to throw that away from for a return to the liberals national interest. announcer: watch america national tv every weekend on c-span3.

nation building. let me state that i think is obvious, most of what the founders knew about the hebrew commonwealth they learned from the bible. they were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the hebrew experience, and they studied these traditions, ancient and modern. yes, they studied the roman republic. they studied more modern theorists who wrote about republicanism. but the republic that was described in the hebrew scriptures reassured them. it reassured them that republicanism was a political system that enjoyed divine favor. this was reason enough for them to think more deeply about what role republicanism should play in their own form of government. but for john adams, more important h than the model was aic republicanism, it handbook for good republican citizenship. it is a handbook for republic can -- republican citizenship. the bible more than any other source taught the civic virtues required of citizens in order to govern themselves in a republic. historian james hudson at the library of congress described the essential connections of religion,

nation building. let me state that i think is obvious, most of what the founders knew about the hebrew commonwealth they learned from the bible. they were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the hebrew experience, and they studied these traditions, ancient and modern. yes, they studied the roman republic. they studied more modern theorists who wrote about republicanism. but the republic that was described in the hebrew scriptures reassured them. it reassured them that republicanism was a political system that enjoyed divine favor. this was reason enough for them to think more deeply about what role republicanism should play in their own form of government. four john adams, more important than the model of he break republicanism, the bible was republican because it was an indispensable handbook for good, republican citizenship. it is a handbook for republican citizenship. in particular, the bible, more than any other source, talk this virtual disk -- required of citizens to govern themselves in republic. historian james hudson at the library of congress desc

of independent figures to look at the way the commonwealth is governed. it will meet for the first time today in london. portraits of barack and michelle 0bama have been unveiled at washington's nationalviral online, and it wasn't all complimentary. while mr 0bama said that his was "pretty sharp", social media was soon awash with jokes about him being stuck in a hedgerow. he said the portrait of his wife captured her "hotness", although many reacted to say it looks nothing like her. it's an honour that the gallery gives to past presidents, but let's just say that these were in stark contrast to the more traditional presidential portrait. they are, aren't they? its time they we re they are, aren't they? its time they were brought up—to—date? they are, aren't they? its time they were brought up-to-date? it's always interesting seeing portraits because when you know someone really well, it's always interesting seeing a portrait of them. you don't necessarily agree with the artist. is that the official unveiling? 0h, it's so amazing! it's never really good getting a port had done. it's a bit like you get them done. the beachfront and the caricatures. after the beach, you will would have g

council of philadelphia, a devoted public servant who worked her way from clerk typist one to citywide leader with national impact. so well done, marion. your adopted city and our commonwealth is proud of your noble work. thank you, mr. president. i would yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. hatch: i ask the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: thank you, mr. president. today marks nearly two weeks since the murder of 17 students and staff in parkland, florida. today also marks the moment that we resolved to do something about school violence. may it mark the moment of left and right determined to lay aside their differences and work together to prevent future tragedies, to keep our children safe from harm there is no panacea. no one legislative solution. and it disheartens me when i hear talk about what can't be done. it's time to focus on what can be done. fortunately, solutions on the state level, including in my home state of utah, can help show us the way forward. working in the realm of the possible, utah state legislat

of the great republic and its constituent states. the u.s. is not the only nation that derives its legal code from the british commonwealth system. it has turned into a confederated government. australia deals with this beautiful problem as does canada. the question of how to divide power between the state and the federal government is one that all confederated governments struggle with. -- becausethe u.s. the u.s. struck out early on struck outon, i mean on the path to answering that question early, our experience with it is useful to those countries as well. next question from twitter. let's go back to that list of seven justices. we talked about the chief justice. henry livingston, and joseph story and others, did they go on to earn a special role in american history? guest: joseph story is one of the great figures in american legal history. he is appointed to the court and the first for faster of law at harvard university. he wrote a massive number of treatises and had a great influence on american law and also to areas beyond the constitution. by any measure, joseph story was one of the great justices. fascinatingson is a fig

nations in emerging economies and the commonwealth. a good trading relationship with the eu and free trade deals around the rest of the world under an independentuc have got it all wrong, that they don't know best how to prosper or grasp opportunities. ijust best how to prosper or grasp opportunities. i just put best how to prosper or grasp opportunities. ijust put it gently to her, it might be they have more of a clue than he has about the interests of business, jobs and living standards. last week, the health secretary — and it is wonderful to see him here today. i assume he was speaking on behalf of the government when he said there will be areas and sectors of industry where we agree to align our regulations. he seems to know the answer, so can regulations. he seems to know the answer, so can the prime minister and lightand answer, so can the prime minister and light and the rest of us as to which sectors of the government —— which sectors of the government —— which sectors of the government —— which sectors the government wants to remain aligned and which they plan to divert? first of all, the right honourable gentleman himself has said th

commonwealth is. ijames landale, thank you. the rate of inflation held steady last month, with the consumer prices index unchanged from december, at 3%. the rate, reported by the office for nationalber. most economists were expecting to see a small fall. a further rise in interest rates could now happen in the coming months, as our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. if you go down to the shops today, beware of the odd surprise — like fruit, up 7.2%. orcoffee, up 7.5% compared to a year ago. more recently, those food prices have started to fall, but not by enough to slow down the overall rise in the cost of living for ordinary households. i think people are digging deeper into their pockets now and thinking carefully about what they are spending their money on. everything's gone up, hasn't it? just everything's so expensive. you're working all these hours in the workplace and everything, and for what? by the time you've paid your wages and everything, and you pay your rent, your gas, your bills, your electric, you're left with nothing. the difficulty is, prices have gone up, but my wages haven‘t. i haven‘t had a pay increase in line with inflation for about six years.

nation building. now, let me state what i think is obvious, which is most of what the founders knew about the hebrew commonwealth, they learned from the bible. now, they were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression and traditions apart from the hebrew experience. indeed, they studied these traditions, both ancient and modern, yes, they studied the roman republic, yes, they studied more modern theorists who wrote about republicanism. but the republic that was described in the hebrew scriptures reassured them. it reassured them that republicanism was a political system that enjoyed divine favor. this was reason enough for them to think more deeply about what role republicanism should play in their own form of government. for john adams, more important than the model of republicanism. the bible was an indispensable handbook for good republican citizenship, a handbook for republican citizenship. in particular, the bible more than any other source taught the civic virtues required of citizens in order to govern themselves in a republic. now, historian james hudson at the library of congress has desc

establish a natural -- a national slavery is imputed douglas weather has been a public service with more than 40 years dedicated to improving the quality of life in the commonwealth of virginia. he has been the mayor of our city. he won all my districts. remember how we talked about how we had to buy order of the supreme court rearrange how we did voting because of annexation? he won a majority and on my districts to be elected our first at large mayor of the city of richmond. he has been in general simply in the state senate, has been lieutenant governor and was the first elected african-american to serve as governor in the united states. he is also a lifelong resident of our great city of richmond and knows more about our city and pretty much anybody you can talk to. this semester long journey of uncovering richmond, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce governor douglas wilder. [applause] muchilder: thank you very to all of you this morning, happy halloween. that i was going take my mask off tonight while everybody else puts theirs on. i would have liked to have been here to listen to some of the speakers you have had. i saw one couple of mexico, a good man

national slavery museum. douglas wilder has been a lifelong public servant with more than 40 years dedicated to improving the quality of life in the commonwealth of virginia . city. the mayor of our districts to be elected. he has been in the general assembly and state senate. he was a lieutenant governor. he was the first elected african-american to serve as governor in the united states. he is also a lifelong resident of our great city of richmond and knows more about our city and pretty much anybody you can talk to. as we continue this semester long journey of uncovering richmond, it is my pleasure to introduce governor douglas wilder. [applause] >> thank you very much. happy halloween. was going tory, i abide with the custom, and i'm going to take my mask off tonight while everybody else puts verizon -- puts theirs on. i would've liked to have listened to some of the speakers you had. john meza knows a great deal about our city. i think some of what i might say might be repetitious, that you will deal with it. -- but we will deal with it. i think it is important to start at the outset by recognizing that richmond is an independent city. vi

effort to establish a national slavery museum douglas wilder has been a lifelong public servant for more than 30 years, dedicated to improving the quality of life in the commonwealth of virginia. he has been the mayor of our city. he won all nine districts. remember how we talked -- talked about how we have to rearrange the way did voting in richmond because of identification? , aton all nine districts first at-large mayor in the city richmond. he has been in the general summary. as you know, he was the first elected african-american to serve as governor in the united states. he is also a lifelong resident of our great city of richmond. he knows more about our city than pre-much anybody you can talk to. as we continue this semester-long journey of uncovering richmond, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce governor l douglas wilder. [applause] >> thank you very much to all of you. happy halloween. i'm going to take my mask off tonight. while everybody else puts theirs on. he is a good friend. he knows a great deal about our .ity some of what i may say may be repetitious, but you will deal with it and we will answer your questions when you ask them. it is importan

united states isn't the only nation that derives its legal code from the british commonwealth system. australia also deals with this problem as does canada and the problem of how to decided power is one that all governments struggled in because the united states struck out early on that question, i mean on the path to answer the question early on our experience is useful to those as well. >> host: next question comes from pamela young and she asks can you rate the supreme court justices during this time and during the case? so let's go back to the list of the seven injustices we talked about the chief justice and the others washington, william johnston, the one who didn't participate, gabriel duvall and joseph story. if any of them to want to ear ga special role in history? >> guest: joseph story is one of the greatest in history. he is appointed to the court and is also the first professor of law at harvard university and wrote a massive number of treaties and had a great influence on american law in all sorts of areas belong to the constitution. so by any measure was one of the great justices. william johnson is a fascinating figure. jefferson's first ap

nation that derives its legal code from the british commonwealth system that has turned into a confederated government. australia also deals with this beautiful problem as does canada. and the question of how to divide power between the state of proper level and the federal government is one that all confederated governments struggle with. and because the united states struck out early on that question -- i mean, struck out on a path to answering that question early, our experience with it is useful to those countries as well. >> next question on twitter comes from pamela young setia. and she asked, can you rate the supreme court justices during this time and during the mccullough case? >>> let's go back to that list of seven justices, only six participated. others were washington, william, johnston, todd didn't participate. gabe duval and joseph story. >> joseph storey is one of the great americans in history. he is appointed to the court, also the first professor of law at harvard university. he wrote a massive number of treatises and had a great influence on american law in all sorts of areas beyond the constitution. so, by any measure, joseph storey was one of the great justices. w

nation. certain --ng is for when the present begins arguing with the past, you are likely going to lose the future. the largest of all civil war mortals as the commonwealth of virginia. it was the major battlefield of the conflict. three out of every five battles were placed inside the old dominion. the state suffered more human inflicted damage than has ever occurred in the western hemisphere. and when the civil war centennial ended in the mid-1960's, widespread feeling existed that we have found all the manuscript material that is, and we don't need to do further research. but historians know otherwise. and then came the 150th anniversary of the civil war, forvirginians, sometimes people, but we tend to be more interested in our history than we are and anything else. after all, without more of a. we have three times more history than that of the united states, so we brag about it, justifiably so. it should be no surprise that the virginia legislature was the first to be created in the civil war sesquicentennial years. and it's eight years of existence, state commission accomplished more in commemorative effects or efforts than the rest of the nation co

commonwealth started on the downhill slide, there were 65 countries in it. i will not say that canada is the same equivalent of kenya in the way they were being treated but they enslaved nationsjust recently, if you were to watch the parliament where they had a group in their, maybe one third of the parliament, talk about how they wanted to get rid tothe invitation for trump visit the u.k., others wanted him arrested if he showed up, i've had such an appreciation for the difference between united states and our true freedom of speech compared to other countries, where they will ban someone like billy graham jr., the u.k. has banned the entrance of billy jam jr. from entering -- of billy graham jr. i think i'm a cousin dennis in texas so i would take i like the way in which you framed the difference between ae horrible things that weighing of the radical islamic faction has done and promoted and the greater islam community. those tapes do not make that differentiation. that is very important. what you see is a defiling of an entire religious group in the world, and frankly a population in the world in those tapes which are hate filled, and so hate filled that donald trump walk

of man and woman. these too are the times that try our souls here in the commonwealth. we may not be at war as our nation was when those words were written. but the battles, the devisiveness continue. we find ourselves under assault. we find ourselves divided on issues of morality, on issues of spirituality, on issues of politics, on issues of ideology, on economic issues. these, too, are the times that try men's souls. again, it is the 138th. it will be here through this session. and the 138 that will follow them into the next session and next generation and next century. there will always be 138 kentuckiens that whenever the times are tight will step up and stand in the gap. i want to take a look at what we're talking about in 2018 as we look forward. so long we have had issues that have been ignored. i want to put a graphic up here that will be perhaps a little bit of amusement to some but speaks to the truth of what we are going to discuss. this is the truth about our challenges. we have in the commonwealth lined up for many, many years, some intentionally and some not realizing they were in the line