history, the grantor, a journey through the historical underbelly of europe and most recently chase fedele and the improbable revolution that changed world history. as a college student, tony regularly disappeared to hitchhike through the outback and travel through rural india where he briefly enjoyed a career as an extra. now based in the east village he makes it a point to continue to explore in iceland, tierra del fuego, beijing, and tasmania to name a few. tony's travel stories have been published in magazines like the new york times and smithsonian magazine and have been translated into a dozen languages and widely anthologized, having been selected seven times for the best american travel writing series. is also a regular television guest on the history channel he spoke in a but everything from the crusades to the birth of disco. his book is available for signing after the program. please join me in welcoming tony. [ applause ]. hey everybody, thank you for coming out on a beautiful spring night for dc is looking pretty good today. to celebrate the secrets of the cuban revolution. yo

making sure the federal government pays all of the state's debts from the revolution aary war if the fedel capital is placed on the poto c potomac. that deal is struck in 1890. you have the residents act and it's agreed the federal capital will be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence of the antcostia and potomac. george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location. >> again, slavery, why do you feel that had an impact on the location of the -- >> oh, well, the southern interests who are angling for a potomac capital want to make sure the capital is in the slave south and that slavery is protected in the national capital. they're particularly interested in that because the capital had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during the continental congress. and philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there's a large quaker population that was beginning to turn against the institution. in the 1770s and 1780s in particular. >> so it became in what's known now as washington, d.c. how did that work out for the sl

more times than anyone else, but despite his experience, he couldn't catch the ferraris of sebastian fedelehis third pole of the season. really good job. come on baby, yes, yes! with a gap of a quarter of a second to his rivals, leclair will be hoping he can go on to secure a first race win. hamilton and mercedes will have their work cut out trying to catch him. nick parrott, bbc news. rugby union now. wales' 11 match winning home run is over and they've also dropped off the top of the rugby world rankings. they lost by 22 points to 17 to ireland in cardiff. they face each other again in dublin next weekend before heading to japan and the world cup that starts in 3 weeks patrick gearey reports. wales are planning their world cup down to the last note. they have had singing lessons to help them with the anthem. that's the warren gatland way. this is his final home match as wales' head coach, but the first verse was set to an irish tempo. that's jacob stockdale, with a new aerodynamic haircut. ireland are hoping he will be their bullet train injapan. once he's off, it's nonstop until he reach

more times than anyone else, but despite his experience, he couldn't catch the ferraris of sebastian fedeleonaco top the time sheets in all three sessions on his way to his third pole of the season. really good job. come on baby, yes, yes! with a gap of a quarter of a second to his rivals, leclair will be hoping he can go on to secure a first race win. hamilton and mercedes will have their work cut out trying to catch him. nick parrott, bbc news. let's bring you right up to date with today's football. in the last 15 minutes, the final whistle at turfmoor saw liverpool eight matches, adam wilde is there for us, manchester city looked pretty good, didn't they? i pretty good, didn't they? very pretty good, didn't they? , very impressive indeed, plenty of calls this afternoon. some real crackers as manchester city has the pleasure of inviting brighton. plenty of goals this afternoon, and some real crackers as well. manchester city, who had the pleasure of welcoming graham potter's brighton to the etihad this afternoon. before today, city hadn't been beaten in 17 league games, a tremendous run t

owonomy overall is slowing let's break this down with maya macguineas of the committee for a responsible fedelget. maya, thank you for joining us. i want to look at the long-te issues here. let's look at what the deficits are projected to be now for the next few years, lot,ok at th $1 trillion, $1 trillion, $1 trillion as far as the eye can see, $1 trillion and above deficits. let's look at how this relates the g.d.p. and the curve historically. you can see that high peak i world war ii. now we see we are on path to near tse levels that we wee hitting in world war ii. i think biggest question to you, mayback you have said and c.bha. said this level of debt is atsustainable. oes that really mean to the average american? what will happen if we do keepis on trajectory? >> yeah, and the trajectory is a ng one, as your chart shows, because the fact that we are at the dearbt levels tha the highest they have ever been relative to the economy other than just after world war ii without having fought in a war, a world war, sort of shows you this is a very different situation. this iself-imposed by a lot

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more times than anyone else, but despite his experience, he couldn't catch the ferraris of sebastian fedelees! with a gap ofa come on baby, yes, yes! with a gap of a quarter of a second to his rivals, leclair will be hoping he can go on to secure a first race win. hamilton and mercedes will have their work cut out trying to catch him. nick parrott, bbc news. a really important day at the world rowing championships in austria, with medals and also places for next year's olympics and paralympics in tokyo up for grabs. to sum all of the action, here's matthew pincent and dame katherine grainger. it is such an intense world championships this year. we keep talking about qualification for tokyo, both 0lympics talking about qualification for tokyo, both olympics and paralympics. the biggest event you can qualify is here. so to see a lot of the crews that were touch and go getting the qualification slots. the women's quarter, it's good to see them. the men scored. you want to see them up in the metals, but for them both to qualify as huge. i think from the metal side, you cannot look past our para