. >>> and, on our testing japan's english series, we show you students in remote village learning english through songs and games from a young age. >>> rescuers report hundreds of casualties after a series of explosions ripped through taiwan's second largest city, the powerful blast in kaohsiung took place and 24 people were killed and 271 others were injured. nhk has more from te >> reporter: a large part of the street has caved in. this shows how intense the explosions were. cars have been flipped over. and there's rubble everywhere. an unknown number of firefighters are said to be among the injured. >> translator: suddenly i heard an explosion and the ground split open. i hurt my arm and knee. >> translator: i've never seen anything like this before. it looks like the street was bombed. >> reporter: residents say the blasts were loud. they say the ground shook like an earthquake. >> authorities are looking into the cause of the explosions, local media say the blasts may have been triggered by vaporized chemical substances that escaped from underground pip. the explosions were felt over

english is a universal language. hironari is still very young.o his way of expressing himself and communicating is premature. but i see the progress that he's making. >> reporter: now almost half of the students come from outside the area. the school has an open class twice a year for parent whoz are interested in sending their children here. >> translator: it's great for kids to be educated in this kind of environment. >> reporter: the principal says that the students are expressing themselves and communicating better with others. >> translator: the base of communication is to be considerate to other people. so we would like to cultivate the students' sensibility in this environment. i'll be happy if they're communicative abilities improve every day. >> reporter: the trial at this small school is changing the way students study english. it's also attracting more children to come here. and it might have saved the school from closing its doors, at least for now. >>> next here's the three-day outlook on the world's weather. >>> and that's all for n

they were allied to the english. that is very important. what did the english bring? they brought guns. the chickasaw for a. eriod of timer a p were the only ones in lower mississippi that had these guns. the bow and arrow are pretty effective weapons. what makes these rifles, the flip locks so important? it would not only killed people, but it scared them as well. >> ok, good. the psychological aspect of these weapons. is noise, the smoke. at it not great for hunting when you try to use stealth and quiet, but for warfare, it is great. they would unsettle these villages they would attack especially if they had not seen the before and they did not have them. what else would you say is an guns have that bows and arrows do not have? >> [indiscernible] one, you are hitting your target more, and two, there is a higher rate of fatality. >> good. what else did you say? >> they shot straight. they were parabolic. >> yes, the damage these bullets will do as opposed to a bow and arrow. what else can you tell me about the chickasaw that made them effective slavers? again, their

that speak english.it holds up everything. i don't understand this business of we are afraid of immigrants and all that. my parents were immigrants and my husband's grandparents were immigrants. nobody bent over backwards to have translators for the italians and germans and the french. i don't understand why this thinks that they are different. that's what america is. it's the melting pot. you jump in because you want to be american. thank you. host: we go2net: waiting in iowa on our line for republicans. i agree with the previous caller. i come from an italian family. grandson was first-generation bosnian. my concern is in the medical field where we see a lot of african immigrants with what old ilex. dialects.e it is difficult to find that will be able to translate different dialects. there is english as a second language here at the community colleges. unfortunately, their funding has decreased as well. host: cindy is waiting on the in florida on our line for independents. caller: i take exception to t

they were allied to the english. that is very important. what did the english bring? they brought guns. the chickasaw for a period of time were the only ones in lower mississippi that had access to these guns. i am going to ask you this bows and arrows are pretty effective weapons. you can fire them quickly. what makes these rifles, these flintlocks so important? >> the psychological component. you had the loud banging and flashing. it would not only kill people, but it scared them as well. >> ok, good. the psychological aspect of these weapons. the noise, the smoke. the fear and the panic. it is not great for hunting when you try to use stealth and quiet, but for warfare, it is great. they would unsettle these villages they would attack , especially if they had not seen the before and they did not have them. what else would you say is an advantage that guns have that bows and arrows do not have? >> they were highly effective compared to a parabolic arrow shot. so the damage is done. one, you are hitting your target more, and two, there is a higher rate of fatality. >

the tests are given in english. not spanish. the national and state tests are given in english.fore, i'm encouraging not mandating, not forcing every student to speak english -- >> they interpreted -- that's an affront to our culture. some of the students -- >> an afront to our country, i meant our country, our homeland. this is a problem we have with this obsession with diversity. right. we must be diverse. well, diversity is fine. intellectual diversity i think is the most important thing without regard to skin color. you can't have a teacher who's trying to communicate in her own way her desire for these students to do better and to succeed and if you learn english and you're affluent in english you're going to be more successful in public life regardless of where you came from or your circumstances. >> here's the worst part of the story. when this woman, the principal, miss lacey, made this suggestion to the students, she was attacked by some students who said, oh, you're violating my rights. >> yeah, they're learning early, yeah. >> but there was no counterprotest that we c

the tests are given in english. not spanish. the national and state tests are given in english.refore, i'm encouraging not mandating, not forcing every student to speak english -- >> they interpreted -- that's an affront to our culture. >> right away some of the students -- >> an afront to our country, i meant our country, our homeland. this is a problem we have with this obsession with diversity. right. we must be diverse. well, diversity is fine. intellectual diversity i think is the most important thing without regard to skin color. you can't have a teacher who's trying to communicate in her own way her desire for these students to do better and to succeed and if you learn english and you're affluent in english you're going to be more successful in public life regardless of where you came from or your circumstances. >> here's the worst part of the story. when this woman, the principal, miss lacey, made this suggestion to the students, she was attacked by some students who said, oh, you're violating my rights. >> yeah, they're learning early, yeah. >> but there was no counterp

for out of formal english fancy completely. for too many years in this country working class people been ignored and no one to listen to their voice and within four years were up so much so that people around the world have heard what we're saying that heard how we feel how we live in down at the bottom there's a massive gap between how people live in and what politicians dare speak about no politicians or none of our political elected leaders will dare to criticize and say the things that need to be said so we've formed this organization it was it was created for the right reasons it was born out of passion in defense of our armed forces and we progress report many if you look back at all the things we've been highlighting whether it be muslim paedophile grooming gangs which are now being tackled and smash one into the country to the other they were ignored accommodated on facilitated in a conspiracy of silence religious leaders to place leaders political leaders for twenty years only now are they being tackled many issues whe

thomas jefferson was born in english men and an english world. it was up to him to fashion something new in the world phew, what it meant to turn them into something different. so he did this. you see instantly that it is made of english parts and english fashion, but he did something different. the first thing one notices is gone nowhere is there a straight line next. there are no clipped hedges. that coming to him, the gardens that he grew up with regard to some of royal power, oppression, absolutism, the king of france and so forth. he made monticello with these wonderful curving lines of a flower beds and woodlands that came up and use of into the distance. what he really did explicitly me was this was a free, democratic card for free and democratic people. it is a demonstration in a sense of his ethics, ideology, aspiration, believe for all of us. yet it is completely on reconciled with the way in which he made a living. mainly the garden was built by slaves. >> host: public spaces always been important in american history? >> guest: of cour

thomas jefferson was born an english in an english world and it was up 0 him to fashion something new, an american character, taking english institutions and thoughts and ideas and turn them into something different, something that is american. so he did this at monticello. and the first thing one notices is this sort of nowhere there is a straight line in monticello. there are no clipped hedges, no taupe area, because that to me, the gardens he grew up with were gardens about royal power, before the oppression, the king of france and so forth. so he made monticello with wonderful curving lines and flower beds and woodlands that came up in views off into the distance, the mountains, and the river below. and this was a free democratic garden for free and democratic people. so, it's a demonstration in a sense of his ethics, his ideology, his aspirations and believes for all of us but is unreconcilable in with the way me made a live, namely his garden was built by slaves. >> host: have public spaces always been important in american history? >> guest: of course they have been enormously

there is no sencensorship rulesd english is an official language. if we are on a path to democracy, it will be dead on rifle unless the free press which can keep leaders accountable without fear. >> the editorial positions of most mass media in hong kong, chinese and english languages has been shifting to pro-beijing side. south china morning post is no exception. scmp is no more the official source, unlike the past couple of years, it is now just another pro-government and beijing newspaper. >> today on "the stream". >> americans are councilfortable talking about death and dying. social media is normalizing the conversation and making it surprisingly helpful. don't miss "the stream". >> today, 12:30 eastern on "al jazeera america." finally, bag to ferguson, missouri over the years, we have learned one of the best chr chroniclers was mark fiorna, his work was published in the san francisco chronicle. he put them in digital animation. he goes into irony overloadload mohammad in what was supposed to be our post-racial america. we will see you next tim

she hiding from sergeant english. she hiding from sergeant english.eant english ain't going in there. >> she had that kitten put out right here in a box. >> there's no telling where she carried him to. >> man, what's up? >> where's fluffy? >> why? >> 'cause it's one of my jobs. >> one of your jobs? >> yeah. >> one of my jobs is to keep you from catching her. >> you got all the ammunition. you got to give me a break, man. >> that don't play. one of us is going to fail. >> i know, it's going to be me. >> i hope it's you. >> i hope it's you. and she's got another kitten. >> yeah, it's black. can't get to her yet. she ain't going to let you get to her. >> you get her where you can pet her up. we'll give her to somebody. >> i used to be a hunter way back. when i got married my wife has tendered my heart towards animals a little bit. so i can't be mean to them no more. one of them kittens went all of the way to california. >> yeah, i heard. >> i believe he might be living better than me and you are. >> i know he's living better than me. he's free. i'm insid

designated english language learners and that means extra money for the school.hat is about half of the students in california and it is pretty amazing. i do not know what the affluent families are doing. they are not producing, or something. half of the kids in the schools are from low income families. what can i say? there it is. we understand it and we are doing something about it. then, of course, water. these are all individual issues. what you represent is growing and it is growing in really important ways. that oursaid connection with mexico is so close and it was not all that long ago that carlos the third said to occupy san diego. you did not know that california started the occupy movement. to occupy third said san diego and monterey. the father up with and the mexicans throughout the spanish in 1850. gringos, of course, the throughout the mexicans. -- threw out the mexicans. you never keep control for ever and there are always new waves coming. you have to stay ahead of the wave. that is what we call brown power. but, anyways, so, i am going to mexico

knowing that the young people speak english.ut then said his english wasn't great. he was finding it difficult but slipped into italian. just of the fact that he was trying absolutely delighted the crowd. and he seemed very at ease, pope francis, talking to this young crowd and clearly enjoying himself. >> paula hancocks joining us live in seoul, south korea. thank you for your reporting. >>> well, there is a major new warning from the world health organization from africa. it says the ebola outbreak is, quote, vastly underestimate david mckenzie has the latest now from johannesburg. >> reporter: aid organizations are saying that the ebola outbreak in west africa continuing to spiral out of control. the head of doctors without borders likens it to a war zone. >> i really have the feeling it is like a wartime. it is fear. general fear, all over where you are, nobody understand whagts going on. the other thing, it's moving, it's advancing. >> reporter: disturbing words, doctors without borders say they're building at least two mor

the english kings met with barons before king john's meeting at runnymede. but magna carta signifed an enlarged role for the meeting -- for the barons. that role focused on issues of taxation but extended to other issues of public concern. iiing the reigns of henry and edward i, those councils coalesced into parliament in which nights and burgesses and bishops and eric participated in the deliberations. era, whene tudor royalty and parliament found common ground, magna carta's influence became less visible, at least as a matter of public law. but magna carta once again came to the fore with the stewart monarch when james i and charles i imposed taxes without the approval of parliament, the members saw to revive what benderman -- what benjamin -- ole decrepitold rule of magna carta. to justify parliament opposition to the royal claims. he characterized magna carta as olubleg the in vi rights of its -- he declared magna carta is such a fellow, he will have no sovereign. that is an exaggeration to the events at runnymede. the effect, cooke promoted magna carta

a phd inut to get english literature, so i hope ice oak english well. -- i hope i spoke english well. they started talking to be about my graduate exam scores and i said, my son was up all night and i was giving all these apologies because i've only scored in the 93rd or centile on my exam and it was low for me. he said no. the problem is your scores are too high. you're clearly not disadvantaged. again, tell that to my father who had a ninth grade education. tell that to me who had to pay for my tuition and borrow money and work even though i was a mom and a wife at the time. started sudden, i inking, this idea of affirmative action isn't quite what i thought it was all about. the rest is sort of history. i went into the regular administration. i was part of the movement to get rid of racial quotas and get rid of programs that treated people by the color of their skin. favory, it does no one a when you look at them and because you know their name ends a certain way or their skin is darker than yours, that you know something fundamental about them. that you think you know if they can

me will be your counselors don who is our could you please state your name for our english learners and following her will be take care and he'll talk about the classroom situation and i have two students who want to speak in regards to their experience and what they feel is needed as john urged we support. thank you. >> hello. thank you ms. tom and good evening to you. >> i'm dawn a counselor at mission high school i've got the privilege to work with the immigrant students in our new comer pathway as was mention after our new students come to meet with me i review they're cumulative folder to get a sense of their background. last year and now this year's enrollment i noticed our students in central america have paperwork from north carolina and heard about this from our esteemed colleagues our kids are crossing the borrowed and sent to detention centers families will sometimes open up after awhile about the treacherous adjourned user journey and waiting for the children's arrival. of course, many families are not ready to talk about it they and their children are trying to keep for wha

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normally like morocco, you go to teach english.here was a time when syria was placid, you beautiful. i used to travel all by myself everywhere alone as a woman in syria. >> and you felt safe? >> i felt safe. it was beautiful. there is no way i would walk in without a full set of security and probably not right now. >> exactly. i hope your luck doesn't run out or you are a freelancer. you try to attach yourself to the veteran journalists and find that information on the ground. syria was an open border at that time. a lot of young westerners went in, freelancers went in. we have americans being held hostage now. >> a lot of things have changed. cou courtney keely joining us live. >>> the california bay area has been rattled by a 6.0 earthquake. the epi center is between napa and american an yon pictured there buildings buckled and thousands of people have their power knocked out. scientists say this is the largest quake to hit the bay area 6 the since.9 quake back in 1989. al jazeera's jake ward joins us from napa. good afternoon to

the real universal language is english. key you can use to talk with anyone on earth, except your dry cleaner. donde esta my pants, abilio! so it's no wonder the world is desperate to learn english, which has opened the door for the brazilian language training company c.n.a. to exploit a dangerous new source of english expertise. >> we created a tool that connects our students with students in the u.s u.s.a. retug home. >> hello? hello, hello. can you hear me? >> yes, i can, can you hear me. >> this is my prght. he has 23 years. >> do you know instead of saying, "he has 23 years, "you could say, "he is 23 years old." >> stephen: nation, this is the most terrifying thing i have ever seen. and i have 50 years. ( laughter ) now, that young brazilians are learning english from our senior citizens, it won't be long until they have fluid discussions about sherbet, early bird specials. and brazilian teens are taking more than just language from our illegal immi-gramps. >> that's me and my wife when we were young. >> oh, you were g

the speaker is using a variety of english known as multicultural london english. that's a kind of melting pot accent that's emerged in recent years. particularly in deprived multi-ethnic areas of inner london. >> reporter: the video contains a wealth of her data, we're told, like the measurements of a face, that could help investigators sift through a days thatbase of passport photos, but it is possible the man whose voice chilled many westerners was not the one to carry out the killing. nick paton walsh, cnn, london. >> we'll bring you more on isis later this hour, including a closer look at the militant group's growing social media campaign. how promises of money, cars and guns are helping recruit young jihadists. >>> and now to the police shooting of unarmed 18-year-old michael brown. there are some new developments in this case. a possible audio recording of the shooting has emerged. a missouri man who lives near the spot where the officer shot brown said he was video chatting with a friend when the gunshots broke out. >> you are pretty. you're so fine. >> so

i was about to get a phd in english literature. i hope i spoke english well. it went down hill from there. they started to talk to me about my graduate record exam scores i said my son had kolic he was up all night and i was giving apologies because i only scored in 93%, and that was low for me. he said no. no. the problem is that your scores are too high. you're not disadvantaged. again, tell that to my father who had a ninth grade education, to me who had to pay for tuition, borrow money and work though i was a mom and wife at that time i started thinking this idea of affirmative action isn't what i thought it was about the rest is history. i went into the reagan administration, one of the -- part of the movement to get rid of racial quotas and programs that treated people by the color of their skin. because frankly, it does no one a favor when you look at them and because you know their name ends in ex or skin is a little bit darker than yours you think you know something fundamental about them, you think you know whether or not they can succeed you think y

. >> there are some disturbing clues answer on closer examination of the long speech in english and the gruesome execution, some fresh puzzles, first, there is a clear edit in the video which fades to black between the english accented talker and the man who appears to carry out the beheading, and the man on the left who has the english accent appears of a different stature to the man on the right, who apparently carries out the killing. there is another problem with continuity, the knife wielded by the english speaker is different visibly from the knife left by the body of the deceased. >> there's definitely a change of actor, the change in the physique of the individual standing next to the deceased. there are noticeable, there are subtle but there are also noticeable changes in that build that, physical appearance. the dimensions of the knife, the style of the knife that is used. >> reporter: when trying to determine whether the british accented man is also the executioner, it helps to examine where his pistol is hollistered, th holstered, for use of his right hand but the executione

we are talking about european leagues, english premier leagues.didas has an advantage but it is very expensive. they just took over the contract from manchester united, $94 million. unprecedented amounts of money being spent at the club level. i spent all summer boring you guys about adidas' soccer. adidas has a lot of other brands and a problem that comes up at earning calls is the golf brand. millenials are not playing golf. >> nike also has golf, it is operated nike -- all branded nike. >> has the swoosh. adidas has brands, nike is so consistent worldwide. ,> wendy liebmann of wsl branding is key. >> nike has always been so consistent. foras always been one brand performance, fashion. adidas has chopped and changed it for different countries and different sports. >> as an aside, is nike the apple computer of retailing? analogy.s a fair they have continually pushed innovation and design. >> i think nike does offense that apple can only dream of. >> you've gone to all of them. ologyke was called a fash- company, a fashion technology company. >> i

american history is portrayed to english eyes. yet, spain and hispanic culture much an integral part of the borderlands. history is a great mystery to people. population, the pendulum is swinging back. there are many more people in a population who are of hispanic origin. this is their heritage in the western hemisphere. >> tonight's look at the people, places of native american history. countryl across the following the literary life and history of each city we visited you can see more of the c-span city tour at our website. c-span.org. c-span's american history tour continues next friday. stories from the western expansion. see historic sites and hear from those who have written on the subject starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. c-span's american history to sure -- during now benson's the monument and outlook turkey, new mexico. we some some of the 24,000 drawings.

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>> i am curator of henry and albert berg collection of english literature. worked in the new york public library in the past and was later a curator at methodist university and downtown at the theological seminary and got a doctorate and renaissance history at columbia and that led to me being here. >> host: how long have you been at the new york public library? >> as curator september 2000. >> host: you brought up things to show us. >> the berg has 2,000 linear feet of archives and printed items and $400 but this is what i like to call the tip of the berg. we have the only surviving manuscript of police on it satires and paradoxes done in his lifetime. not in his hand but in the hand of his secretary and personal assistant. this has the highest authority deriving directly from his own manuscript. you can see the differences between the text that were made in the first edition them perpetuated but in this on at all who wore burst a each all of those have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. and this word is transcribed as death

of kids, 22% of elementary, are english left wing learners. we -- learners. the kids rise to the occasion, but they need time to collaborate and learn from others. it is such a difficult job we're asking them to. do our teachers are rising to the occasion, and we just can't do enough to support them. >> let's talk about standardized testing. students and teachers are judged every day. this parcc testing, p-a-r-c-c, talk about. that we've heard some from some teachers it's not rolled out fully, widespread yet. they're have something initial challenges with it themselves. >> sure. >> getting questions right. >> you know, fortunately, montgomery county we've been doing this for about five years now. we really were ahead of the curve in developing new curriculum, providing new professional development to our teachers. so now we're going to have the new test this year. it is a completely different test. i encourage you to go to the website, see sample items, it is different, what we're asking kids than what they did before. i think the test are goo

we're talking about the younger fighters on the ground, many of whom are english speak and many of whom are european, feign few that are american. so for them, they grew up with twitter. they grew up with instagram, and twitter is about something you just do-- do during the day. so they go on the battle field. there's been a big fight. their instinct is to tweet about that. >> sreenivasan: the influence of kind of american speakers-- or i should say english speakers throughout the western world participating in this conversation, how important is that to the recruitment of others? >> it's extremely important. if one of your attacker audiences, if their sole language is english, then it's necessary to bring them in as foreign fighters. but it's not simply that. as an annualit, i also have interacted with isis supporters and they will try to influence materials that comes out of other areas. they will understand. this is kind of a full-spectrum approach, if you will, to spread their narrative or influence other people on the web. >> sreenivasan: for example, the state department now is ki

we speak english.when we go to other country, we speak english anyway. >> you can use your google translator. it works very well. >> uh-huh. >> coming up straight ahead, another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry. but will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? >> brian terry's uncle says enough is enough. he will join us live. >>> and first lois lerner and now another top official says she's lost e-mails as well. ♪ ♪ female announcer: sunday's your last chance to save big during sleep train's triple choice sale. for a limited time, you can choose to save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. or choose $300 in free gifts with sleep train's most popular tempur-pedic mattresses. you can even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice, with head-to-toe customization. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep tr

it is the way that my daughter's wedding to write and conversant to choke in english. i would say for me it is shaped the way that i write as well. >> audience questions. there are many parallels. one is the most striking, the cultural identity is in danger of a solution to the dominant culture. deasy the pervasive trend of ventura marriages and subsequent offspring for getting to will cultural messages as positive? >> let me just tart with the end of that question which is that dual cultural messages are positive and. want to assert that his statement. and a bit of a cliche. torn between two worlds, caught between two cultures. anybody growing happen in every household feels a certain paul. but in general i treat this as an additive, not as zero sum. i see this as a positive something. one plus one equals three. in directing that mindset is very important whether you're talking about a chinese-american, jewish-american, irish-american call whenever. on the question of the kind of parallel or comparison is in sight jewish-american and chinese-american experiences were

but i went backwards to the beginning and i also studied english history and wrote a book on english history. >> host: joyce appleby we have invited you to be on booktv for your most recent book "shores of knowledge" new world discoveries and the scientific imagination" what are you attempting to do with this book? >> guest: in right think the book. i love the cover. i did not design it. it is:this and ferdinand isabella and those native american cities brought back and pineapple's that is the anachronism the europeans fell in love with pineapple but it could not survive the trip so only came back as dried. and they would have trays and it quickly became a symbol of hospitality and a luxury. that with the eagle was the symbol for the americas. what i was trying to do was to answer a question. how is it the west known for its investigative spirit is the essence of western culture? how did they read these curiosity for the prohibitions the church had maintained? through the 16th century the catholics and protestants preached you were not to be curious about guards creation it was adult

this use of english is very deliberate. when pope john paul ii last came here 25 years ago, there were less than 2 million catholics in south korea. today there are five-and-a-half million, and many of the new catholics are young and speak english. these are the people he wants to speak to. even before he arrived there was another first, the papal airplane was allowed to fly over china. feverish speculation ensued on the diplomatic breakthrough with china's communist rulers. followed soon by disappointment as confirmation came that beijing is blocking chinese seoulics from coming to to meet the pope. coping with china is expected to be his most cherished ambition. his next visit will not be to beijing. >> back to the second of our special report on refugees coming to america. u.s. allows some 7000 people, the biggest numbers in the world. we introduce you to a family that is looking to leave the refugee camp in northern rwanda. the bbc's alan to sutra caught up with them. >> just months into a new life. getting to grips wit

>> guest: curator of the collection of english american literature. >> host: how did you get to that position? >> guest: i worked in the rare book division, regular curator at the university. downtown at the general theological center. and a doctorate in renaissance history in colombia. all of that led to my being here >> host: and how long have you been with the new york public library? >> guest: since september of 2000. >> host: you have brought some things out to show was spirited collection. >> guest: i have. well, an enormous collection, about 2,000 manuscripts and tens of thousands of printed items. this is what i like to call the tip of the burke said to speak. here we have the only surviving manuscript. it was done in his lifetime. is not in his hand, but it is in the hand of his secretary, personal assistant. this has the highest authority directly from his own manuscripts. you can see changes, differences between the text as presented here and mistakes in transcriptions that were not made in the first edition and perpetuated throughout the centuries. for instance, in this a