from michoacan as the first muslim american woman in congress or now for man to gallacher in alabama or a record number of african-american women are running for office. in birmingham alabama the annual magic city classic brings the entire community together it's an american football showdown between the two largest historically black universities as the midterm elections approach politics is never far away. for doug jones this is an important event when he won a special election last year jones became the state's first democratic senator in more than two decades a victory sealed with overwhelming support from african-american women voters is when say campaigners sparks change we believe that that's how we're going to liberate those communities so you're saying these women particularly black women without the black man to say. we have to take back our power power back to the people. mother of two veronica johnson's one of those determined to challenge the status quo she's just one of a wave of women determined to change alabama's politics so yes i'm happy but there's only so much ran

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida the u.s. national security adviser says further sanctions about to start against iran are not intended to harm countries that depend on iranian oil the latest saying sen's due to start on monday were imposed off turns on the trunk holdout of that's once and testing nuclear deal with iran iran says american plans to reduce crude exports to zero won't work the u.s. is considering waivers for some allies that want to continue trading with iran. scientists and conservationists are debating whether or not since her and one of the remotest parts of the planet and so the largest protected area on earth the weddell say in antarctica could be hundreds of thousands of undiscovered specimens many are supporting a new proposal to make it a no go zone for industrial fessing mining and deep sea drilling now clarke reports then february al-jazeera joined the greenpeace icebreaker the arctic sunrise as she pushed through into the remote board says of the weddell sea coll

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida yes department of justice has charged two former goldman sachs investment bankers with crimes in relation to the corruption at malaysia's state development fund one m d b one bankers admitted to conspiring to launder money and violating a u.s. anti bribery law or thought to say public officials stole billions from the fund to buy property art and fine jewelry for malaysian prime minister najib razak is facing thirty eight charges related to the one n.d.p. corruption scandal is the final day of the first ever world health organization global conference on air pollution and health taking place in geneva discussing ways of reducing we estimated seven million deaths a year caused by polluted air the problem is particularly acute in the world's major cities jessica baldwin has been to meet one mother in london who's campaigning for change. ella kisi deborah was super sporty besides winning she played football and loved to downs but age seven she developed seve

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida we're going to weather update next here on i was there then pakistan's prime minister calls for calm off the death threats against a woman freed on blasphemy charges and the judges who released plus could this implant be the key to helping paralysis victims walk again. however just as the floods are draining from texas we have another frontal system set to pick up more humidity and produce more rain there it is at the moment across the plains states doesn't look very much but behind it there is cooler because ahead of it is still quite humid to come together tend to produce a lot of rain and there it is folks again texas then sweep nice was across the mississippi valley and edging slowly east with all that time the air behind isn't overly cold so if it is snow in colorado and further north the majority of the incoming stuff is on the canadian side of the border british columbia that's looks like a lot of fairly wet snow so heavy stuff if you live when it

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida or any of the asylum seekers in the caravan of fleeing poverty and violence at home was there as many as more from honduras. this bus arriving in honduras from guatemala is delivering twenty three migrants who have been deported many of those returning were part of the migrant caravan making its way across mexico toward the united states. as we were moving backwards now with nothing but we're happy because we're going home plus he's going to be ken says he left honduras because there's no work we can't provide for his family he and his wife felt migrant caravan was their ticket out of poverty. by it has done. a country is broken our president doesn't support he's on paper that's why i decided to leave with my wife and children. in our look at the town on the hunter inside the border locals say the number of migrants leaving the country isn't anything out of the ordinary cab in a local food vendor tells us the town relies heavily on the constant flow of mi

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida the gunman accused of killing eleven jewish worshipers at a synagogue in the u.s. has pleaded not guilty to forty four charges as more funerals were held in pittsburgh robert bowers is accused of multiple murders hate crimes firearms offenses and obstructing the practice of religion he's alleged to have shouted kill all jews to the shabbat service on saturday the russian space engineers are blaming a damage sense of last month's soyuz rocket failure a russian cosmonaut and american astronauts were forced to abandon their mission to the international space station they landed safely in kazakhstan after the emergency descent despite the failure a similar rocket has successfully launched a russian military satellites into orbit service and has more from moscow. it was the first failed lounge of a russian spacecraft since one thousand nine hundred eighty three on october eleventh only two minutes after takeoff the emergency system of the so use m s then start

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al jazeera fort myers florida pakistan's prime minister has called for calm after mass protests against a court ruling in a landmark case bibi a christan woman has been on death row for eight years she was acquitted by the supreme court on wednesday am on content den demonstrators who received death threats to the supreme court judge has overturned her sentence and ordered her release your year is just that they are inciting you for their political gain you should not get trapped by them for the sake of the country they are doing no service to islam jani a.k.o. trying to say that if the supreme court doesn't decide according to they wish they will not accept that judgment that means they would come on roads and stop the country can any country be run like this let's bring in from ohio his right as far as islam about excuse me so what we saw is protests across the country when that decision was made what's happening across pakistan today. well as you mentioned the picking up pays howev

single place in gallacher she found. her.lying living again rather than how are you going to listen if you're going to. be. one. long. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there's a journalistic integrity and then so in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. running six continents across the globe. al-jazeera as correspondents live and bringing the stories they tell you that this was not. the book not the letters. were at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian i'll just zero in world news the u.n. man in charge of middle east and north africa has refugee crisis that the end is still not incites the war doesn't arc like in cos or some other countries

she is likewise coedited with gary gallacher, the book on cold harbor and the crater. been the author of essays about the civil war and its aftermath and appeared in the journal of southern history. caroline is a public speaker and has given many, many presentations and we are very much pleased to have her with us today. please help me welcome professor caroline janney. [ applause ] [applause] good morning. it is great to be back home. >> good morning. it is great to be back home. it's great to be back in the valley. thank you, kevin, for that wonderful introduction and i also will tell you that i am going to try to stay in front of the microphone. i have a bad habit of wandering a bit, so i will catch myself hopefully and get back here. so i'm going to pick up on a lot of the things that dr. robertson talked about, but we're going to go all the way back to 1865 to try to understand in some ways how we got to where we are today. i want to say that since at least the mid '90s, mid 1990s, that is, there have been calls to remove the confederate flag, monuments or change

races it's an extraordinary final push in an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida. well for this i'm joined by philip gray he's an assistant professor at texas a and m. university here in qatar good to have you with us here on al-jazeera i mean what seems to be sort of the big issues all the issues that will make or break politicians in this particular election because migration and immigration seems has taken a hold of not just the white house but the whole discourse across america very much so most likely immigration and related issues of race will probably be a dominant factor both in democratic strongholds republican strongholds as well as in the purple districts that have mixtures in especially states like florida texas and others you will probably see this being a primary issue that will be on most voters' minds how much influence does sort of ration migration have on an election as an issue because we're hearing very much about health care or security or the economy in this case it's unique because it is taking up much more spac

races it's an extraordinary final push in an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida. let's not of course forget the caravan itself because a lot of the reporting on it has come under scrutiny according to some reports there are four different caravans traveling through mexico with up to six thousand people many of them mothers traveling with the children of luck and. the war has been lonely but i do this to apply for a better life because in my country we can't have it you can't study you come to me is bad there's violence and we can't stay there anymore since there were no job opportunities as they say why have a title if you can't have a job yeah yeah i'm your job in honduras there's a lot of violence there a lot of gangs they threaten you you have to flee for your children and that is why we do this for our children without them or nothing if something happens to them you won't feel good you won't feel like a mother. i'm going to try to talk to someone about this trying to get more of that perspective from central america because that

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida we spoke to evelyn major a little bit earlier president of project hope three sixty she says president trump is using the plight of migrants to rally support for his party this midterm election. these are human beings i mean a lot of these people are families that are coming together and so they're fleeing because there's the this debilitation of their country i mean from a social economic perspective the violence is rising and people just one better future for their children a better future for themselves and their families and so you know it's just the political unrest you know the economic instability those are the things that are really driving these people i think that they're very much aware that the president of the united states does not welcome them here but i think that they have probably using this to their advantage in the sense that he has been using this to mislead people during this midterm election and so he has given them a great platform

for this president it just gives him yet another headache thank you very much from washington andy gallacher. donald trump is now on his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina where he was jus to meet russian president vladimir putin but trump announced that meeting was cancelled over twitter without first warning the kremlin it tweeted based on the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia i have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president lied to me and i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as the situation is resolved or trumbull so says he won't be meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond because of times constraints the g twenty summit will be the first time the leaders are gathering together since the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. i would have sat with them but we didn't set that one up by meeting with president xi which is a very important meeting having to do with race and as you know i make it about three or four meetings are just a. meanwhile

not matter in the long run it's the example for others that may send the most powerful message and gallacher al-jazeera birmingham alabama. interesting steve perry here runs a company in the us which operates education centers many of those students from minority groups he or she tells the focus on race and identity can have different implications. we're focusing on what the my looks like more than what they care about and i don't think this is just a recent trend this is an ongoing we may forget that we had a black president a couple years ago so this is not a new way that has been inspired by donald trump alone what he has led to it because of his clearly racist and often sexist notions that don't speak much to a particular ideology but more to an identity that's the root of racism that we can look at someone determine what they think feel and believe when i hear an iranian american i don't know what she thinks i think that she's from iran and i don't know what she believes until i give her the opportunity to be who she is and respect for her for that and a large brush that the problem is

against white men and if they win it could change politics in the south from birmingham alabama and gallacher reports. inventing a mile a bomb of the annual magic city classic brings the entire community together it's an american football showdown between the two largest historically black universities as the midterm elections approach politics is never far away. with doug jones this is an important event when he won a special election last year jones became the state's first democratic senator in more than two decades of victories sealed with overwhelming support from african-american women voters is when say campaign is his spokes change we believe that that's how we're going to liberate those communities and so you're seeing these women step up particularly black women in the south step up but i thought black men to say enough is enough we have to take back our power and put that power back to the people. mother of two veronica johnson is one of those determined to challenge the status quo she's just one of a wave of women determined to change alabama's politics so yes i'm unhappy but ther

races it's an extraordinary final push an indication of just how important these midterms are and gallacher al-jazeera fort myers florida world health organization experts in geneva are holding the first of a conference on pollution which is linked to seven million premature deaths annually and it's a major hazard in cities worldwide including london weather who's convinced her daughter was killed by breathing the council's toxic air is campaigning to change an electric vehicles as old reports. l.a. kissy deborah was super sporty beside swimming she played football and loved to dance but age seven she developed severe asthma two years later she was dead. ellice mother rosamond is convinced london's unlawfully high pollution killed her daughter and she's campaigning to have the cause of death recognized as air pollution and the suffolk. makes no bones about this from. just over annoyed she wasn't in a coma three to four times and she was lucky to survive those. long. and i have since learned. how agonizing that is. this is the area where ella grew up the traffic on this road that circle for