, as he wore his purple and pink tunics around town, just because florence, like cities we know today that are creative cities, austin being, i think, foremost among them, but my hometown of new orleans, i hope has learned from austin. - definitely on that list, right. - or even places like chattanooga, you see this happening, where people are coming in, and they're creative, and they like technology. that's what was happening in florence, so even as a kid, he gets to not only work on the dome that they build on the cathedral in florence, that brunelleschi designed, but he gets to put the copper ball on top, and solder it, when he's an apprentice in one of these shops there, but he's also in charge of the costumes for a lot of pageants and plays, and even the props, you know the helicopter we think he invented? that was first for one of the plays, where he was just in charge of creating the ingenious devices. so we see how this diversity of creativity helped build leonardo. - the theater work reminds me that he really was good at, or at least was interested enough to get good at a lot

florence. which came under the domination of a family. and there was rome which was the kingdom in which the king was the pope. >> today, we don't often think of popes as family men. but in the 14 hundreds it was common for popes to have children. >> it's prethe victorian moment and the puritan moment. all of the people who are running this big institution, many of whom have come from topnotch families. cannot get married. and they understand that. that doesn't appear to mean chased. because the pope will have children. >> by stacking the college of cardinals with sons and nephews. popes ensure their families stay in power. >> there's great problem when the papacy changes between family. a dangerous everyone violent place. where the control the vatican under threat. >> i think the conspiracy is a beautiful micro kos m of crazy a place renaissance italy was. >> by the 1470s the italian families had been embroiled in power struggles for generations and theewly appointed pope. the member of the ambition family. feels an immeant threat from a

. >> the most important city states were milan, run by the sporza family of florence, which ran under the nomination of the medici family. and the king was the pope. >> today we don't think of popes as family men. but in the 1400s it was extremely common for popes to have children. >> all of these people who are running this big institution, many of whom have come from top notch families cannot get married and they understand that. but that doesn't appear to mean chaste. because the pope will have children. >> by stacking the college of cardinals with sons and nephews, popes are able to ensure that their families stay in power. >> there is a great problem when the papacy changes between families. rome can become a very dangerous, even violent place there where the faction that's controlled the vatican finds itself under threat. >> i think the conspiracy is a beautiful microchasm of how crazy a place renaissance italy was. >> by the 1470s, the italian families have been employed in conflicts for ages. >> there's conflict with the medicis. >> i think about them as being the dynasty of t

it feels a bit like the florence speech. when she made that speech did shift the mood.me across as more conciliatory and it did move talks on. i think that is what is required here. she wants to talk about future trade arrangements and about future trade arrangements and a future relationship with the european union, something that the eu haven't wanted to talk about up until now. there will be some more detail and i think there may be some more of that about exactly how she sees as idea that the uk could diverged from the eu in some areas but stick close to them in others. there may be some fleshing out of that idea but i do think the tone is actually going to be more important in all of this. whether this is a big vision for life outside the european union or whether this is actually about pragmatism, about practical politics and what can actually be negotiated, will would the european union be willing to agree to and what about parliament? parliament is divided as well. we know there will be a final vote for 01’ know there will be a final vote for or against any kind

a final farewell to davide astori, as thousands gather to pay their respects at his funeral in florence. and ferrari are in flying form, as sebastian vettel sets an unofficial track record in barcelona. hello and welcome to the programme. plenty of europa league action this evening, and we begin in italy, where arsenal ended milan's13—game unbeaten streak with a much—needed victory at the san siro. arsene wenger‘s side got off to a perfect start, when henrikh mkhitaryan opened the scoring after 15 minutes with his first goal for the club. just before half—time, aaron ramsey made to 2—0, and that sealed arsenal's first win in five games in all competitions. milan had just one shot on target in the whole game, from giacomo bonaventura early in the second half, and the seven—time european champions face an uphill battle to reach the last eight. look, we have one again, we have not... we have not qualified. and the result will mean it will be a relief to be in the team again, because when you lose three games in six days it is always very difficult. and we want to keep our focused and finis

louie she's in kuala lumpur and florence i understand you're actually at that memorial service is cry for us if you will the the mood with which the families of those on board the flight are coming together. father was a very moving tribute by family members who lost their loved ones on that plane they spoke of how it's so difficult for them to continue. not just because they've lost their loved ones but also because there's no closure there's no sense of understanding what exactly happened and this is what really keeps them growing some of them have told us it's not just that they want to know the truth but they also want to prevent something like this from ever happening again and that's why they keep having these events these memorial events not just in memory of their loved ones but also to keep up the pressure on governments to continue the search effort and this latest search and that has just got underway is that inspiring much confidence much hope in the families. called the c.e.o. of ocean in five minutes he and that's the private exploration company that's conducting this re

. >> he painted this painting -- he painted this painting -- lisa in florence. >> the drunk element ofis just the unpredictability. sometimes it's -- hi, the unpredictable happens. >> reporter: the ever changinging cast of characters hangs from will ferrell to ryan gosling and eva mendes and octavia spencer. >> whoever is down to help the union, just let me know. >> and i allow anyone to come see how he shoot account drunk history". >> derek waters is the host of the show that started as a web series. you have been doing it now for a couple seasons. how did you come up with it? >> it started in 2009 as a one time idea. it was based on a friend of mine, jake johnson, he is on "the new girl" and he is drunk and telling me a story. >> derek and jeremy konner enlisted their friend mark gagliardi. >> he said, i want to talk about a think and you reenact it and he said, i want to you be really, really drunk. >> and i said, what is a moment in history you feel more people need to know about it. >> today we're going to talk about alexander >> reporter: how far did you stop knowing what is goin

florence massachusetts, good afternoon to the most important issue is overpopulation. nigeria over 200 million, pakistan over 100 million. to talk about bringing more people in and destroying america, destroying the planet and discussing population control is just completely outrageous. >> host: florence. a sasha? >> guest: i'm not sure where he's going with that. i'm not sure where the caller is going to. how many people come into the country and how quickly a. of sounds that it could get quite nasty. you can't understand the national riots without looking at the demise of the french communist party. why is that? >> guest: this might sound a bit for him to be a co- foreign because it isn't something that we think of as a political fixer and a country that's what we mean by that is the head of the national front has very cautiously gone after voters who choose to vote for the far left party. it was a significant and powerful force in the decades and they have diminished and almost disappeared now. i would protect the working that, and when the voters used to vote for t

it joining us from the professor -- in florence. here in france, the national front leader marine le pen has been charged over tweets of pictures depicting acts of violence by the islamic state group. one of the grass of -- graphic images shows beheading a journalist. we will be bringing you more on that story as it develops. since france is a big agricultural freire -- fair is underway. the annual event is an opportunity to highlight of the struggles of the farming sector as well as its innovations. by 2022, the french government wants half of all food served in public cafeterias such as schools and hospitals to be made products. and organic one french has gotten a head start and our team went there and they bring you this report. barely begun to rise as this baker puts his last batch of flour into the knea der. along with flour and yeast, but no additives. >> it comes back out. weighed,ugh has been even outcome and sculpted before it is baked for 20 to 25 minutes at 255 degrees celsius, some 1200 of these organic bread loaves will

it is them seeking out to protect the best interests of their constituents. >> and florence? >> i am very, very excited to march along the thousands of people who will be here in d.c. but not only in d.c., but 800 marches around the world. my sister's helping lead the one in parkland. my brother is helping run the one in montreal, canada. they're everywhere and they're all coming to support the same issue and i'm excited that it's happening. >> we thank you all for taking the time to be with us. fred, safe travels. hope to see you up here in d.c. thanks again for taking the time to be with us today. all day tomorrow, of course, our coverage, msnbc will be live from washington as student activists arrive for the march for our lives with on the ground reporting from our entire team of nbc news journalists right here on msnbc. >>> senator tim kaine who just met with some of the students participating in tomorrow's march will join me in just a moment after this quick break. ♪ a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective. ♪ a wealth of opportunities. that's the clarity you get

steves: from florence? woman: we don't know. -maybe the area is genova. -steves: genova.resses a need with passion and expertise. fine instruments deserve the finest care. grand palaces sparkle with gold leaf, thanks to the delicate and exacting skills of craftspeople like this. a satisfying way to wrap up an oltrarno experience is to enjoy a florentine steakhouse, which any italian meat lover knows means chianina beef. the quality is proudly on display. steaks are sold by weight and generally shared. the standard serving is about a kilo for two, meaning about a pound per person. so, both of those for four people? woman: yes. steves: the preparation is simple and well established. good luck if you want it well done. man: i am hungry, yeah. oh, look at this. ah! steves: oh, beautiful. [ laughs ] man: wow. steves: chianina beef. -woman: white beans. -steves: okay. perfect. man: and that one. steves: so, the meat is called chianina. tommaso: that's its name, because it comes from the chianti. steves: oh, from chianti. okay. and tell me about this concept of the good marriage

. >> host: florence, massachusetts, good afternoon. >> host: the discussion among the panel was completely elitist and avoided the most important issue on the plate which is overpopulation. how can you discuss climate change and bartok about the impact of population? india's population will go up 400 million in the next 30 years, nigeria 200 million, pakistan over 100 million. the united states population is now 360 million people. if you have been to florida or california or boston to miami, undeveloped land, the staggering impact on all the living things on this planet and to dismiss all other living things and just talk about bringing in more people and destroying the planet and never discussing population control is just outrageous. >> host: been in florence, sasha polakow-suransky. >> guest: not sure where ben is talking about. if you are talking about controlling population that can lead in dangerous directions. we have seen the eugenics movement in the past, talk about forcing birth control on people. i am not sure where the collar is going but we don't need to be talking about thos

the florence —based outfit was scheduled to play udinese. udinese. he joined the team and made 58 appearances for them. sir roger bannister, the first man to break the four—minute mile, has died at the age of 88 foot he has been described as one of the inspirational figures will stop he also won gold over the same distance at the 195a commonwealth games. he later became a leading urologist and was diagnosed with parkinson's disease in 2011. —— neurologist. andrew posse got a gold medal. —— pozzi. it was a relief to the british co—captain he made some m ista kes british co—captain he made some mistakes but held his nerve to claim the gold. the burundi athlete was in a class of her own and defended her title. the fastest time of the world in 2018. thank you. sir roger bannister — the first man to run a mile in underfour minutes — has died at the age of 88. he set the record on a track in oxford in 195a — later winning the gold at the same distance at that year's commonwealth games. joe wilson looks back at his life. newsreel: 25-year-old roger

as i said in florence, we share the same set of fundamental beliefs. a believe in free trade and strong consumer rights and that we should not unfairly subsidized our industries. in other areas like workers rights and the environment, the e.u. should be confident we will not engage in a race to the bottom in terms of standards. there is not a constituency in the u.k. that would support this. quite the opposite. we need to resolve the tension between our objectives. we will be freedom to negotiate trade with other countries around the world. we want to take back control of our laws and a restriction of the border between us and the e.u. so we do not damage the integrated supply chain that our industries depend on and not have a hard border between northern ireland and ireland. toe hard facts for the e.u. face as wekk, -- as well. the only option available to the u.k. is an off the shelf model. none of thereas, agreements would be appropriate. as far as an ambitious and right ranging deal, there are certain areas to ensure fair competition. this would no

been discovered on beaches him or is just the french island of reunion and very close to tanzania florence louis is in kuala lumpur where the memorial was held. family members of those who were on board m h three seventy have been paying moving tribute to their loved ones at this memorial event now and they've also been saying that it's very important for the search to continue this is one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries and it's only when once the plane is located can this mystery finally been solved and the search. that is currently being conducted by u.s. based private exploration known as ocean infinity has been contracted by the malaysian government on a new york your no fee basis but it has to locate the wreckage within ninety days and that deadline will come up soon so there's a sense of urgency in this not an especially considering how fast the search area is and the depth of the ocean but ocean infiniti said they are conducting their search not only based on new information that we and now this is a satellite imagery but also because there is new technology that is now

weekend's a parliamentary election the ruling democratic party has made a last push for votes in florence as polls put its leader matteo renzi firmly in second place now the anti establishment five star movement looks certain to gain the largest single party vote many analysts predict former prime minister silvio berlusconi's party is likely to be part of a potential coalition with no party willing enough to govern on its own. now thousands of protesters in slovakia as outrage grows over the murder of a german journalist investigative reporter yannick chack who was found shot to death next to his fiance in the home in bratislava on sunday he was writing an article on suspected links between the italian mafia and the prime minister when he was murdered charlotte dallas reports. it was a silent march through bratislava the sound of boots on the frozen ground doing the talking. protesters rallied in a dozen slovakian cities demanding justice for the murders of investigative journalist. and his fiance. the twenty seven year olds would use omarion may they were killed in their home last week o

kuala lumpur to mark nearly four years since the passenger jet and their loved ones went missing florence louis reports. united by grief and a quest to know the truth families and friends of those on board malaysia airlines flight three seventy gathered in kuala lumpur to mark four years since the plane disappeared grace novenas mother was on that flight and grace has been leading the demand for the search effort to continue in the beginning it was a lot about myself about michael and about. my feeling and my how upset i was at how things were going but as time went on it became more and more about a vision fifty about a more global issue a more national issue about setting a good resort and we don't want something like this happening again m h three seventy disappeared on its way to beijing from kuala lumpur in march two thousand and fourteen. crash investigators say the flight ended in the indian ocean a path that drastically different from its intended direction is not clear how or why that happened after a two year effort the malaysian chinese and or strayed in governments suspended t

arguments she already stopped admitting new customers months ago but her freeze didn't target just florence is the convoy to today you can stay but ordinarily we've stopped accepting more people. but today we have plenty so you can stay but you'll have to wait until six. hours a day or you should be able to speak german otherwise how can we communicate. volunteers so the food before it is distributed many used to come to the food bank themselves including doors frank. this is what we thought. it was but my mantra akong my husband is very ill and requires level two. when he retired early we had four children here and i have never really worked with papers before. and now i don't receive much pension either. despite there being no new admissions more and more people keep coming to the distribution center in hopes of finding food for me and suddenly tensions rise. its ranks refused to serve a refugee she says he's already registered at a different distribution center. that's wrong it's no it's not it's not wrong ok. ok. thanks a lot you're welcome. as it is it's good that we have them register

influence the outcome of the twenty six for the brics that referendum to be declared null and void florence the reports . christopher what his extraordinary relations are now casting a shadow over democratic elections on both sides of the atlantic here he was speaking to a u.k. government committee explaining how he knew that public opinion had been unlawfully manipulated before the referendum which is leading to the u.k. leaving the european union to irrevocably alter the constitutional settlement of this country on fraud is a mutilation of the constitutional settlement of this country and you cannot call yourself a lever you cannot call yourself somebody who believes in british law and and win by breaking british law in order to achieve that. while the central claim is that the campaign group to leave the european union hired an offshoot of cambridge analytical the data mining company accused of harvesting personal details of millions of people through facebook and manipulating opinions in an attempt to put on trump in the white house the company he said had subverted elections for its ow

the port city of latakia protests have been held in italy over the death of a senegalese man in florence they called on the city's mayor to seek justice for the man who was shot and killed by an italian police said the crime was not racially motivated the incidents are contentions following italy's election that centered on anti migrant sentiment. well those were the headlines the news continues here on. inside story. he's been in office for one hundred days in bali's new president. is under pressure to improve the economy and corruption but is there any change from the robert mugabe and his men up to the challenge this is inside story.

now thousands of the taliban's have taken part in an anti racism rally in florence the demonstration included african refugees qualified justice after the shooting of a senegalese street vendor earlier this week was killed by a sixty five year old italian man that police believe the shooting was not racially motivated. now police in the united states say the gunman involved in the seizure where three hostages were killed on friday was the firmest former servicemen suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or three female employees and the gunmen were found dead after an eight hour standoff at the nation's largest home for war veterans in the california town of yelped thirty six year old albert wall who served for get a goddess than had been a patient at the home psychiatric facility. now the u.s. state of florida has passed modest gone destruction of the park and high school shooting that left seventeen people dead last month but in washington there appears to be little appetite for new laws john hendren has the story. the outcry for stricter gun laws in america has bred never be

say that a brit britain was sort of in favor of an open europe i mean theresa may last year in her florence speech said that britain probably never was really at home in europe and britain also got a very special deal the famous rebate so europe was seem to always be aware that britain needed something special and in this current negotiation we have a very similar scenario britain demands a special relationship the e.u. stands for. do you see a way out of this loggerhead situation. i'm very disappointed by the negotiations because the use is their country cherry picking that sounds very good but it isn't very good what they mean is if britain has decided to leave because they don't like the free migration of people then there can be free trade in goods and services. this is a logic which i as an economist do not endorse because. migration and trade are economic substitutes and if one is not possible you need the other if. if my left hand is handicapped and i cannot use it i should be free to use my right tend to substitute for something some of the things my left hand has done it is not goo

elsewhere in football, there have been emotional scenes in florence where fiorentina played their firstori. he passed away after a sudden illness at the age of 31 last weekend. when vitor hugo scored the only goal of the game against benevento, he held up a t—shirt with the italian international‘s face on it, as part of several tributes. players also wore shirts bearing astori's name and number in the warm—up. after ireland confirmed their place as six nations champions yesterday, the battle is on for a second place. it is currently advantage wales after they beat italy 38—14 today. wales enjoyed their biggest six nations win when these two sides met last year, and more of the same looked likely when hadleigh parkes and then george north crossed the line in the first six minutes. italy knew defeat would hand them yet another wooden spoon, and they struck back with a matteo minozzi score but wales added three more tries after the break to italy's one, with north's second score securing the bonus point. a good win for a much changed wales side. italy's 16 straight six italy's16 straight s

the story was in just a hero in florence he played fourteen times for the italian national team and also had spells at calorie and. he was found dead at this hotel a new day on sunday morning the club's goalkeeper marco sporty i was the last person to see him alive the night before a post-mortem is due to be carried out to determine the exact cause of a story's death. and how to german soccer on sunday when segal leaders byron unic were looking to bounce back in five zero after being out for a drive home last week against hearts are broken well not that they bavarians were desperate for when they went into the game with a massively. the best striker going into this match wasn't playing for the side you'd expect newspapers in his scored ten goals in his last ten outings for freiburg for more than pie and robin live in dusty who was rested for pick a tough go ahead freiburg scored first but at the wrong end to use you blocked thomas millis shot but he wasn't going to be denied again the next on the swallow deflecting into his own nets in the twenty fifth minute. by and waited just three mi

parliamentary election the ruling center left democratic party has made a push for last minute votes in florence as polls put its leader. firmly in second place the anti establishment five star movement looks certain to gain the largest single party effect those were the headlines here on al-jazeera more news in half an hour next its risking it all to stay with us. just is influencing. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our own in the media opinion by listening biased at this time on al-jazeera. her go go. go. go. go. go. go go thank god thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank god thank you. thank you thank god thank you thank you thank you thank you thank. flow there are two staples to vietnamese life rice and bamboo for its many uses. thanks thanks thanks i'll comment on the. film without a doubt not on the word out that i mean like that before it's the other guy you know. i am going to make one more. wonderful. thank you when your bride and i can get new laws what good are you going to. write your for your wife to

the story wasn't just a hero in florence he played fourteen times for the italian national team and also had spells at calorie and. he was found dead at this hotel a new day on sunday morning the club's goalkeeper marcos was the last person to see him alive the night before a post-mortem is due to be carried out to determine the exact cause of a story's death. well the beast from the east has been uncomfortably cold for many in europe the conditions were perfect for icy sports in berlin over the weekend the ice speedway championships came to the german capital with russia's dimitry call to comp producing base dunning performance their reading champ clocked a perfect score extending his lead in the overall standings to twenty five points on the next round takes place an insult in germany so the month of march the seventy. and germany's paralympians departed for south korea on sunday evening as they prepared to compete in upcoming in the upcoming pyong chang games and they were in high spirits. and a team of twenty athletes who will compete an alpine and nordic skiing as well as wheelchair

club confirmed a story passed away after what is what is called a sudden illness beyond playing in florence a thirty one year old had also paid for it in his national team he was found early on sunday morning in his hotel room just hours before his club's match against. all seven of syria's sunday matches were postponed. that was not just been a busy day on germany's political scene there was plenty going on in the bundesliga as well five been a fortress this season but what that changes by really coming to top why don't you find out in the would just be go with mark thoma coming up after this break. you're watching the news thank you for watching. d.w. media center see it find it here it discover little video and audio podcast in language courses from the g.w. media center at libya centered on the dylan dot com egg.

a final farewell to davide astori, as thousands gather to pay their respects at his funeral in florenceofficial track record in barcelona. hello and welcome to the programme. plenty of europa league action this evening, and we begin in italy, where arsenal ended milan's13—game unbeaten streak with a much—needed victory at the san siro. arsene wenger‘s side got off to a perfect start, when henrikh mkhitaryan opened the scoring after 15 minutes with his first goal for the club. just before half—time, aaron ramsey made to 2—0, and that sealed arsenal's first win in five games in all competitions. milan had just one shot on target in the whole game, from giacomo bonaventura early in the second half, and the seven—time european champions face an uphill battle to reach the last eight.

thank you, adam, martin, rachael, joni, florence.ught you her full report earlier. here's a short extract. it shows some graphic images of hair transplants. i always cover my bald patch when i'm out by wearing a wig or a hat. but it's not so easy for guys to hide their loss. perry is 23, and first started losing his hair when he was a teenager. hello, everyone. my name is perry and this is perry presents. he has male pattern baldness — by far the most common form of hair loss in men. so at times like this, what do you do? so i get my phone. and obviously i will look like a mirror. ok, so you put your phone on camera? yeah. and then i'll check it a bit. and obviously you can see now — really bad, right? yeah. and the wind makes it worse. so i have my brush. basicallyjust do the same thing again, restyle it. but to be honest with you, in the wind, it's just life. and until i get indoors, that's just the way it is. tidies it up and we'll take another selfie. you can watch a full version of too young to go bald on bbc iplayer. we can spe

parliamentary election the ruling center left democratic party has made a last push for votes in florence as polls put his lead in metairie firmly and second place and establishment five star movement looks certain to gain the largest single party votes europe is in the grip of the deep freeze so-called beast from the east a blast of siberian air brought why is fred snow and freezing conditions at the start of the week united kingdom an island being battered by storm. there's all the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to india. man man. take it. office sol is divided into a home a hole in. the heart of them and not only have tenants have. the same we love most definitely have a public event i'm on board other. so if you give me the border the hang on say. that's it only in those you know make me the league up there. haha got my love playstation mamdani out or do it caught up it made me want to switch from why you. say he prevented a little get up and i gotta say i get what you mean i had the king of school getting. going tonight and done getting your skull. is second in c

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. >> been in florence we've got the point. sasha,. >> i'm not sure where he's going with that. that will lead and some dangerous directions. we've seen talk about forcing birth control on to people. i'm not sure exactly where the caller is going. there is a legitimate debate to have. if you are starting to talk about forcible population control. nb, i could get quite nasty. from your book you can't understand the rise of the national front in france without looking at the demise of the french communist party. why is that? >> this might sound a p bit foreign to american viewers because of the communist party. the have of that national front in france. they almost disappeared now. a lot of those voters have not gone to other left-wing parties like you might have expected.ft i will protect your welfare state. and when the voters aren't carrying that. and they are not talking about the working class orng the information anymore. it's been very effective. it's a very conscious strategy. it is where the tunnel to the uk starts. and there has been encampments. i won 45% there. and the

her mother and one of her sisters helped florence nightingale in crimea. kate notinctly asked to volunteer for nursing for the confederacy, which i find interesting. 1862, just after the battle of shiloh, kate got her chance when a group from her church was deputized to help the wounded around florence, mississippi. she talks about her travel over to corinth from mobile. she tells us that, for the first nine days in attendance on soldiers when she arrived, that she was unable to wash herself or anyone else, she was unable to undress, she was unable to sleep on anything but the floor, and that is for maybe a couple of hours a day. once, she slept on a box. her skirts were tipped with blood and other effluvia. quite an initiation for her. time, one ofover the stalwarts of surgeon samuel stout in the medical corps of the army of tennessee, which pioneered the flying hospital system, a mash unit. cumming spends the next 3.5 years watching confederate troops and government support disintegrate. i think of her as a cheap witness to the destruction of the confede

collection up until the 1990's and our collection came to us in the early 1990's when his daughter, florence, who lived in the family home passed away. when they were cleaning out her house and preparing her possessions for auction, they discovered thousands of these original drawings in the basement in garbage bags. they almost were thrown out but luckily, the auction house realized their value and were going to put them up for auction and a foundation got wind of the sale and a lot of the cartoons deal with congress so they decided to purchase the collection and donate them to the u.s. senate on behalf of former majority leader mike mansfield. the idea was they would become senate records and come to the national archives in the center for legislative archives and become part of the collection. the collection has about 2400 of clifford berryman's cartoons, most of which appeared on the front page of papers. when the collection first came to us, we spent time dating the collection and pulling the microfilm and finding when these were. we have about 230 cartoons from jim berryman, clifford's

style as one important person had to miss the event to do a guest performance for the band who was florence joy is the singer of can you get into the star and she's also married to thomas the band's lyrics often refer to god in the familia do form a way to make him feel closer and more accessible. it tells us and for sure and then it's just nice when people who don't know about god or believe in god can still apply the songs to their own lives in kind of a and i know how it was it gives me such joy to sing these songs for someone and to ultimately praise god that way thing. can now and effect the it's ok to. share. all three with finalists in the talent show now i think released two albums and it's clearly going to pistone the single do bit is from their current album kevin and i. unfortunately the band are still waiting for the songs to hit the charts. here they are getting ready for the concert at cologne cathedral one hundred volunteers with a. to help the ns brothers with the event it's funded through to nations on them so . how do they define a successful concept. when the cathedral st

this is jill in florence, oregon. please go ahead. >> caller: yes, a quick question for mr. boot about this book and i would like for him to consider the very high-level position in defense with a democratic administration. >> guest: well if you could tell me when there's going to be a democratic administration i will think about it in a few years. >> host: let's follow up on that it does you been rather outspoken about the current administration. >> guest: that's true. i was a lifelong republican but i could not stomach donald trump and the part of his campaign when he began his campaign by attacking mexican immigrants as rapist and murders and attacks senator john mccain somebody ever fear and somebody i work for as a foreign-policy adviser in 2008 that he said he did my people who were p.o.w.s so it's all been downhill from there. everything he does pretty much has offended me ever since i can no longer remain as republicans and i reregistered after election and now i'm kind of leg homeless. i'm not stomach out of republican. i'm out there in the middle-of-the-road just t

remembering the life and career day a story the funeral for the italian international is taking place in florence he died on sunday just. our top story france warning of action if reports of another chemical attack in syria are proven to be true video showing what looks like phosphorus bombs being dropped on eastern ghouta has been released by activists they say it happened in a residential area in the town of her morea pictures emerged after eighty eight people were killed in another aerial assault on the rebel held enclave that's one of the highest number of casualties in a period of twenty four hours since russia. announced a daily five hour pause in the fighting there meanwhile an aid convoy heading for eastern ghouta has been pursued and the international committee of the red cross says it's been grounded in damascus and stripped of medical supplies by the regime on tuesday a convoy was forced to turn back because of the fighting let's get you a live update on that joining us is our correspondents in a harder you know how much pressure the rebels under right now. well they're finding it quit

or in florence the former italian prime minister and secretary of the democratic party matteo renzi is speaking as a final rally ahead of the election frenzy serve between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and sixteen and is hoping to secure victory for his party. in two thousand and sixteen after widespread when jackson off his proposed constitutional reforms he then resigned so it is a live pictures coming to us now from florence where material renzi is speaking earlier though. earlier the populous five star movement held its final rally the anti establishment party is on track to be the single biggest party in parliament that in barber explains. well this final rally by the five star movement did feature better grillo at the end he's the man who co-founded the party but there is a new generation now running it thirty one year old lady to my own hopes to be italy's next prime minister and he hopes he says he can do that without going into an alliance or a coalition with other parties but the new electoral system that italy has which is a mixture of proportional representatio

who was appointed by the military leadership is acting president until a successor is named florence lee. while still in me in march two journalists who work for the reuters news agency are there they are they've appeared in courts for the eleventh time since they were arrested in december while loan and short so who are accused of illegally obtaining secret government papers rights groups say the journalists are being targeted for their reporting of the crisis while they face up to fourteen years in jail we can now speak to read he's the chief operating officer for reuters news and joins us now via skype from new york thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera and if you can just give us an update on the two reporters as we're saying wednesday was the eleventh time that they appeared in court. well yes i mean there's been detention now for one hundred days those those eleven hearings they come essentially once a week at this point you know the been any number of witnesses have been called brother was called to the stand at this last hearing testified that they were no confide