nathaniel gordon was from portland. he was an experienced slave trader, had done at least four slave trading voyages in the 1850s. and in 1860, he made another to the west coast of africa. and in august of 1860, he loaded up a cargo of 897 africans into, the bottom of his ship. he was very experienced, very skilled. he used a blade to cut off the of the clothing that the men and were wearing. he then used that blade to separate them male and female into the ship. but most the people on the ship were actually women and children. it's not something we would imagine. but he was going after the weakest, the weak. and in just 45 minutes he loaded these 897 human beings into the bottom of his ship, the eri. he then set sail heading east or heading west. and as goes he is approached by another ship. the high seas now under international law at this time british ships were not allowed to search american vessels. the british had treaties with many of the powers of the atlantic world to be able to search ships for evidence of sla

with gordon corera, is in our newsroom. more on those gordon, with more on those german arrests, gordonat the authorities are saying about this plot.— are saying about this plot. there does seem _ are saying about this plot. there does seem to — are saying about this plot. there does seem to be _ are saying about this plot. there does seem to be a _ are saying about this plot. there l does seem to be a significant plot from what german prosecutors are saying, two men arrested, one of them for a period of some months alleged to have been carrying out reconnaissance at military sites in southern germany, including us military sites. what's significant is the suggestion this wasn't simply intelligence gathering, the kind of normal spying you'd expect, but actually plans for sabotage for carrying out some kind of explosion or arson at those sites. german media also reporting that one of those sites is where us military to train ukrainians on their tanks, and the suggestion certainly from german authorities is that this was linked to you ukraine, and an attempt to undermine german support fo

bumping into gordon two nights before his. into gordon two nights before his death— into gordon twos death is incomprehensible. i- into gordon two nights before his. death is incomprehensible. i would like to— death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay— death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay tribute _ death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay tribute to _ death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay tribute to tracy- death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay tribute to tracy and i death is incomprehensible. i would like to pay tribute to tracy and herl like to pay tribute to tracy and her family— like to pay tribute to tracy and her family for— like to pay tribute to tracy and her family for showing _ like to pay tribute to tracy and her family for showing the _ like to pay tribute to tracy and her family for showing the strength i like to pay tribute to tracy and her family for showing the strength to| family for showing the strength to come _ family for showing the strength to come to— family for showing the strength to come to court _ family for showing th

cctv footage gordon's back.eved he'd done nothing wrong, but was threatened with violence after the confrontation, remi gordon found a picture of cody online and asked his friends to help identify him. seen here messaging a group chat only 45 minutes after the initial incident , gordon says he's due incident, gordon says he's due to shank him up. cody's simple mistake would turn out to be the catalyst for his murder. fast forward to boxing day and cody fisher can be seen in this footage arriving at the crane nightclub a few hours later, his murderers remy gordon and cammy carpenter turn up and smuggle a weapon through security . gordon weapon through security. gordon had found out from friends in the hours before cody was going to be there. just before midnight, cctv shows violence breaking out. it's at this moment, fisher is fatally stabbed in the chest with the knife penetrating a valve in his heart. he's later pronounced dead at the scene. west midlands police detective inspector michelle thurgood led the inv

with gordon, it is a pivotal decision and — i agree with gordon, it is a pivotal decision and we neede need to make sure the aid gets to the ukrainians and we need — the aid gets to the ukrainians and we need to— the aid gets to the ukrainians and we need to make sure it happens as soon _ we need to make sure it happens as soon as_ we need to make sure it happens as soon as possible and in doing so that opens — soon as possible and in doing so that opens a window for europe and others _ that opens a window for europe and others to— that opens a window for europe and others to step up their support ukraine — others to step up their support ukraine and to step up the action in support— ukraine and to step up the action in sopport of— ukraine and to step up the action in support of ukraine against the russians— support of ukraine against the russians but we need to buy time and the aid _ russians but we need to buy time and the aid package is critical for that — the aid package is critical for that. , ., ~' the aid package is critical for that. ,, ~' 3 the aid package is critical for tha

gordon there in the newsroom. — fighting russia. newsroom, thank _ fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you _ fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for _ fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for the - fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for the latest | newsroom, thank you for the latest on those arrests. ukraine's prime minister is in washington to urge the us congress — to pass a long—stalled foreign aid bill — which include $61 billion earmarked for kyiv. the house of representatives is set to vote on the package this saturday. in an interview in washington, ukraine's prime minister told my colleague sumi somas—kanda about the risks of a russian victory in ukraine. the global system of security will be destroyed at all, and all the world will need to find and will need to look in for a new system of security. or there will be many conflicts, many such kinds of wars. and in the end of the day, it could lead to the third world war. so our mutual task is to

lorna gordon, bbc news, edinburgh.o lorna gordon live from hollywood soon, but first let's look at iran. a teenagerfound dead during high—profile anti—government protests in the country was sexually assaulted and killed by undercover agents working for the security forces. that's according to a leaked document obtained by a bbc world service investigation. nika shakarami was 16 when she disappeared in september 2022 after telling a friend that police were chasing her. her family found her body nine days later. the authorities denied involvement in her death, claiming she took her own life. but what appears to be a classified report by iran's revolutionary guards reveals the teenager was beaten to death by the agents who detained her. reha kansara from bbc eye investigations has this report. a warning, you may find the details distressing. this is the moment an ordinary teenage girl became an iranian icon. nika shakarami is burning the hijab as part of a women's freedom movement that swept iran in september 2022. moveme

this gordon is going to be in lace for there? this gordon is going to be in place for some _ there?ing to be in place for some time _ there? this gordon is going to be in place for some time to _ there? this gordon is going to be in place for some time to come. - there? this gordon is going to be inj place for some time to come. there is a lot of work that police want to do here. you had the dramatic details of what is alleged to have happened. the suspectjumping over fences and the back of houses at 7am, a chase with police officers, all of those alleged details will be, and the police are wanting people to come forward to work out what exactly happened during this incident, and what the motivation was for this attack. as you say, a car being driven into a house, sparking the police to be called just before 7am today. they arrived and there were multiple stabbings, and there were multiple stabbings, and then we heard that five people have been taken to hospital, two of which are police officers. b, have been taken to hospital, two of which are police officers.— which are police off

lorna gordon reports.en for the first time since her husband was arrested and charged. it's incredibly difficult, but that's not the main issue here. so i can't say any more — i won't say any more. the home she shares with peter murrell was searched by police when he was first arrested last year, as was the snp's headquarters. mr murrell was its chief executive for more than two decades. after being held in custody for more than nine hours yesterday, he now stands accused of embezzlement, the misuse of funds — stealing money from the party he once ran. we now know that the individual has been charged, peter has been charged, where the allegation of embezzlement from party funds — and that's a really serious matter indeed. many people in the snp right across scottish politics will be shocked by the news. the party's former treasurer, colin beattie, and nicola sturgeon — who were both also previously arrested — remain under investigation but have not been rearrested or charged. when nicola sturgeon stepped d

] >> jimmy: gordon cormier. >> okay.nder pressure! >> jimmy: i want to show everyone a clip. here's gordon cormier in "avatar: the last airbender." take a look at this. ♪ >> have you seen appa? my sky bison? six legs, horns? brown arrows. sky bison? sky bison? >> repeating it doesn't help. [ low roar ] ♪ >> appa! [ growling ] sky bison. >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] sky bison. >> sky bison. >> jimmy: sky bison. gordon cormier, everybody! "avatar: the last airbender" is streaming now on netflix. hey, come back and see us, okay? >> definitely, man. >> jimmy: don't be a stranger. congrats on everything, pal. we'll be right back with a a performance from schoolboy q. stick around, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪♪ imagine a future where plastic is not wasted... but instead remade over and over... into the things that keep our food fresher, our families safer, and our planet cleaner. to help us get there, america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars to create innovative products and new recycling

gordon, when he saw the lineup for today, describes himself as a gordon wood fanboy. and i think maybe we would use different terms but there are a lot of gordon wood fanboys and fan girls in this crowd and in the country in general, americans who care about the founding and gordon has been a leading figure that work for a long time, half a century in preparation for marking the bicentennial of the united states, i put on a project that's somewhat similar in some ways to what we're doing now. they invited a group of leading scholars to to offer lectures on key themes in the american founding. and one of those, it was essential just is now to invite gordon wood. the lectures were put together in these little and in our library can find the one by gordon wood. and if an extraordinary lecture that i really recommend to it's online to it opens with a picture of you in and you haven't changed a bit as would imagine and just just as then it would be it would be crazy to try to start these conversations in any other way except to invite gordon wood to speak with us not only

head, at least a spark of intelligence appeared in his head, but i still have a simple question: gordon well, explain to me, you are cowardly and vile. beasts, i told you 100 times, let's drive up, quietly, calmly, let's see what you're like, pull up to the front, i'll tear you apart, let's drive up quickly, come on, you kept saying that you're wild there, that he's there with your hands, feet, you tried to crush something with your sausages so much that even that unfortunate ivan ivanovich, as they call the rubber dami who is beaten with their hands, even he laughed at you and... by the way, i hope you haven’t forgotten the pyramids, about all these rituals, i have one question, and that someone else thinks ukraine still an orthodox country, well , just not for the sake of interest, by the way, does anyone know about gordon’s religion, what kind of person are you, i believe in a bottle of scottish gin, that is, what is he? well, that’s just what this idiot is talking about, this pathetic nonentity that the russians have forgotten, but the ukrainians haven’t learned. well with on the ot

gordon's men are as tangible. a reminder of the cost of the overland campaign as you can after the bloodshed of spotsylvania courthouse, the second army corps was reorganized and they were kind of amalgamated together in gordon's division, he commands the remnants of individual infantry regiment, 30 of them pepper strength infantry regiment is a thousand guys, right? on july 9th, 1864, he commands the remnants of third infantry regiment, and he barely breaks 3000 soldiers. so the infantry regiments are averaging about 100 men each. and what gordon decides to do is attack ricketts. his front in echelon, which is a french term r staggered saults from right to left. and so that begins around 330 in the afternoon. clement evans's georgia brigade steps off towards what's called the thomas farm. so from the wortngton farm to the thas farm, evans's men will be by themselves for about 15 minutes. and the idea behind an exclent attack is to dw the enemy and then be able to fight them or, flank them with her fighting units

gordon >> it works elsewhere.esn't work in the countries where it's been there longest the belgium, the netherlands, canada and oregon . netherlands, canada and oregon. even in oregon, you have people with anorexia qualifying because they're they defined as being terminally ill. it all comes down to the detail. you know, the devil is in the detail. and in this case, you know, what is the terminal illness in the scottish bill, which i, you know, i know about terminal illness is very broadly defined . illness is very broadly defined. it applies to many disabled people, quite simply , you can't people, quite simply, you can't have a safe law and the safeguards get removed over time. >> baroness meacher's bill does not allow for those kind of exceptions. anorexia would not be acceptable. it's only in extreme cases. there's no wriggle room for people to twist and bend things. it's very precise , very limited and does precise, very limited and does protect the vulnerable. >> jacob rees—mogg , do you speak >> jacob rees—

amy: neve gordon professor neve gordon, we want you to stay after the show so we can continue this conversationill post it online at democracynow.org. professor gordon teaches international law and human rights at queen mary university of london. we will link to your piece in the new york review of books headlined "the road to famine in gaza." next up, we go to senegal where a pair of opposition leader's went from prison to the presidency and the prime minister ship in three weeks. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "tamvela mama," mother's prayer, by mokoomba. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we end today's show in senegal where the newly inaugurated president bassirou diomaye faye has named ousmane sonko to be his prime minister, capping a remarkable three week period that saw the two opposition figures go from prison to ruling senegal, vowing to fight poverty, injustice, and corruption. faye and sonko were released from prison in mid-march just days before faye won senegal's election to replace president macky sall who had attempted to delay the vote. faye

but remy gordon and left the club.king revenge. and in a nightclub in birmingham, they went with a zombie knife they smuggled in and attacked him on the dance floor. cody fisher died in the arms of his girlfriend. two weeks ago, they were both convicted of murder. today, they are here being sentenced and we have heard victim statements both from cody fisher's girlfriend who said the past 14 months have been horrific, but winning sink in being attacked and holding him as he took his life breath and died in my arms was the most terrific experience of my life —— last breath. tracy fisher acknowledged there are other parents who had to suffer the same sort of loss and tragically, a 15—year—old boy was stabbed to death in waltz not far from here last night. she also described cody as a brave, fierce and most genuine soul she knew. as i said, the sentencing hearing began this morning and will resume it to be m. carpenter and gordon will get life for murder, they will wait to hear the tariff and how much time they have to spe

under pressure _ gordon can now tell us. under pressure and out _ gordon can now tell us.and out of _ gordon can now tell us. under pressure and out of time. - gordon can now tell us. under i pressure and out of time. humza yousaf facing judgment on his future, jumping before he was pushed. g future, jumping before he was ushed. �* ., ., , , pushed. a route through this week's that motion — pushed. a route through this week's that motion of— pushed. a route through this week's that motion of no _ pushed. a route through this week's that motion of no confidence - pushed. a route through this week's that motion of no confidence was . that motion of no confidence was absolutely possible. i'm not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whomever simply for retaining power. therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government and for the country, that i lead, i've concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm. i have therefore informed the snp's

we had aired gordon —— we heard ed gordon saying this was someone who seem to have beaten the system,n a civil case with the predominantly white jury, in a civil case with the predominantly whitejury, then predominantly white jury, then deemed predominantly whitejury, then deemed to have carried out the murders. quite mike tom, we will be back with you in a few moments. this is bbc news. thanks for being with us. hello, there. the weather we've got over the next couple of days is really quite unusualfor april. if we take a look at this anomaly chart, the redder the colours, the more unusual the heat is, and as you can see, we're towards the top end of this scale. how warm is it going to get? well, some places could see temperatures around 21 degrees celsius. for example, around greater london. temperatures for quite a few areas will be around six or seven degrees celsius above average for the time of year. and the reason we've got this mild flow of air is down to the jet stream pattern, which is bringing mild and quite humid air up from near the azores. now, it might be mild, but it's

joining me now, gordon, thank you. first of all, the u.s.k keep? -- cheap? >> well, china right now is intransgent. we heard this from the foreign minister when he had his meeting with secretary blinken and also from xi jinping. so clearly, on the core issues china is not budging, and those core issues involve things such as, for instance, china's support for russia's war effort in ukraine. and as we just heard, china's support for iran and north korea. so, you know, secretary blinken can say what he wants, but until he starts imposing costs on china, i believe that beijing is going to continue some very binge represent activity. arthel: gordon, should there be a fundamental policy change towards beijing? and if so, what should that be? >> yeah. i think we should stop talking to china. you know, i know a plot of people say, welsh you know, at least we're having discussions. but the problem is we've been pleading for discussions ask and dialogue with china for more than three decades. and for more than three decades, china's behavior has dete

this is timothy j. gordon. he is a catholic philosopher, author and pod, castor, his show called rules for retro grades, can be found on youtube and anywhere podcast are syndicated his latest book. the case for patriarchy is out now. thanks for joining us. tim. thanks for having a great to be here. so in late february we saw po francis once again be hospitalized briefly for the flu. i mean, he's an 87 year old man. we know he's had some health problems in the past. he has now publicly stated that showed his health getting the way of him performing his paypal duties. that he would step down as pontiff. like his predecessor, pope benedict who was, i believe the 1st ever to do. so my question to you is, should pope francis do this and will this become a trend among future popes? and would that be a good thing or, or a bad thing? no, it's not a good thing. it is arguably a very bad thing that po benedict, the 16th did it. not just because the pontifical of frances has been so catastrophic, which it has. it was a ba

we'll discuss it when we return with timothy j. gordon and sit tight. the m o will be right back. the the world's largest democracy votes, the rest of the planets, watches in an emerging, multi polar world, india as voice matters. but who will be the power behind it? watches almost $1000000000.00 people decide and billions more, react the, what is part of the, is it that the employee would posted? isn't the defense you of us and bidding the word? or is it something deeper, more complex might be present? good. let's stop without cases. let's go out of the welcome back to the m o i manila chant. timothy j gordon is back base for sticking with us. tim. all right, let's talk about the role of church in our society as a whole. the catholic church and more broadly, perhaps christianity, according to a 2019 p research pole. and over whelming majority of americans, 2 thirds of them believe in the principle of separation of church and state. does that separation truly exist? and how would you compare or perhaps contrast that with how other countries don't separate the 2, i mean, take, for

yes, zelensky generously showered gordon with his magic. the news went crazy in the west, they were collecting billions of dollars for ukraine, hundreds of thousands of shells, it turns out they could just send a couple of dozen city crazy people there. gordon is known for statements that are often surprising in their absurdity. i want to say that ukraine has weapons that will fly to the ural mountains. this will happen. already in the fall, i know this for sure, in chelyabinsk, yekaterinburg, perm, and other cities of the urals, ufa, vezhevsk, i know geography well, gordon knows geography so well that he even has a head in shape globe of ukraine. poland has been causing havoc this week. that it was precisely russian ammunition, there is no evidence, but we definitely felt that it smelled of russia, the polish foreign ministry said, one of... this is not the first time that poland has unprovenly accused the russian federation of violating airspace. previously, a similar incident occurred in november 2022, in that case the missile turned out

still to come, kim gordon.ung bride of elvis in priscilla. you can see her alongside kirsten dunst and nick offerman in the new movie "civil war." it opens a week from friday. please welcome cailee spaeny. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: can i interest you in half a nonalcoholic beer? >> oh! so kind of you. >> jimmy: how are you doing? >> yeah, i'm all right. >> jimmy: you're all right. you're from missouri, i hear? >> i am from missouri. >> jimmy: just like in the movie, your character's from missouri in the movie. >> that's true. >> jimmy: what part of missouri are you from? >> i'm from springfield. >> jimmy: you worked in branson as a kid, right? >> anyone been to branson? >> jimmy: a lot of people have been to branson. >> for those of you to are who don't know -- >> jimmy: they're not enthusiastic about it but they've been there. [ laughter ] >> no we like to hall it hillbilly vegas. >> jimmy: yeah, i'm interested in bran son son. i've never been there. i'm from vegas so i have this interest in it. >> i

the welcome back to the m o i manila chance timothy j gordon is back base for sticking with us. tim. all right, let's talk about the role of church in our society as a whole. the catholic church and more broadly, perhaps christianity, according to a 2019 q research pole. and over whelming, majority of americans, 2 thirds of them believe in the principle of separation of church and state. does that separation truly exist? and how would you compare or perhaps contrast that with how other countries don't separate? the 2, i mean take for example, b is lama republic of iran, regardless of what anyone thinks of that country as a matter of governance. religion in this case is long is part of the state. that's a very, very fascinating question. and it's got a couple of parts, and i'm an honor to be able to respond to it. first off what a lot of america. i'm also a constitutional scholar. i went to law school pretty much only to study the constitution and what most americans don't know or have been brainwashed or lied to about. is this idea of the separation of church and state. this cou

liz peek, jump in here. >> good morning, gordon.'m interested to note that the next ev forum or show, i guess you'd say, by chinese ev manufacturers is going to actually take place in california. i think this is what is going to really bring this whole issue of china oversupplying, manufacturing goods to the entire world to a head. what are the unions in america,s what's the uaw going to do if they really do produce evs in mexico and begin to flood our market as they have in europe? i think this is a very visible confrontation and the reason that janet yellen actually had to go to china. >> she did talk about evs. she did talk about green tech. but when she talks about that, she gives the chinese an opening. the problem here is that -- this is to a certain extent elon musk's fault. that what he did was he built his giga factory in shanghai the chinese took the technology and gave it to byd, the chinese car company that's done so well and this is again an issue of theft. what the uaw is going to do, the leadership of uaw has probably

the third image is gordon dressed up as a u.s. soldier. and historians questioned gordon's identity. was he real? was this all one person? was it three people. i would argue that the 150 men can be men who joined the second south carolina volunteer was the day after the raid. the 135,000 black men who joined the u.s. colored troops that they were all gordon and we can finally know their stories and the stories of their families through the pension files that the south carolina volunteers, which included my third great grandfather here, had taken these men, the combahee river out of the rice fields. it took hose out of their hands. it put muskets in them. and the can be soldiers went on to fight for the freedom of others. thank you. so sweet. about 15 minutes for your questions. we have an audience watching at home. so if wouldn't mind directing your questions to that mike to this mike over here. good evening. good evening. my name is kim chase. i'm from baltimore. one of the things i wanted to be when i was coming out of high school wantin

we heard ed gordon a bit earlier.he family of the victims, and some response from fred goldman, ron goldman's father, speaking in the past few minutes saying that the death of oj simpson is "no great loss". it is a further reminder of ron goldman being gone, for fred goldman. and we heard ed goldman —— ed gordon talking about the families of the call brown simpson and ron goldman and the thoughts of many being with them at this moment. this was a very public event, the trial itself, —— nicole brown simpson. and those families will have to be soaking up this news as well. at that particular time. so i would imagine that a lot more reaction will come in during the day. and it was notjust the american and international watching public, very high—profile time —— people at the time talked about being grip by this. bill clinton was set up broken off from the oval office to go into the corridors of the white house to watch the moment of the jury being put back into the room, to see what the verdict was. this absolutely grip

lorna gordon, thank you. let's return — terminated. lorna gordon, thank you.ed. lorna gordon, thank you. let's return to the other story - terminated. lorna gordon, thank you. let's return to the other story we - let's return to the other story we have been keeping across this morning, the test of his inquiry, where a former post office executive who is described as knowing more about the faulty horizon it system than anyone else, is giving evidence. angela van den bogerd was the company? most important executive and was heavily criticised by the judge in the previous case for misleading the court in her evidence. in her opening statement this morning, she offered an apology to the wrongly convicted sub—postmasters, saying, i'm truly sorry for the devastation caused to you, yourfamily and sorry for the devastation caused to you, your family and friends. let's return and listen in. ”i you, your family and friends. let's return and listen in.— return and listen in. "i found out this week _ return and listen in. "i found out this week that _ return and listen in.

gordon jones. gordon jones is a senior military historian here at atlanta history center. among his many includes serving as the chief for cyclorama big picture here at atlanta history center. well, as turning point, our exhibition about the civil war. now, further ado, please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon and gordon jones discussing the book. longstreet the confederate general defied the south. good evening, everybody thanks for being here. thanks to you, claire. thanks to team who's putting thing together. thank you, liz. it's a delight to be here. i'm so grateful you all came out. and actually, the first thing i want to point out. okay. is the cover of this book, which a lot of what you need to know about liz baron's work. normally in a biography, a civil war general, you would expect to see someone in a uniform in black and white. no. here you see a colorized image of james longstreet after. the war in civilian clothing. that tells you a great deal about what we're going to be discussing tonight. so front. but from the cover of that book to the back of that book