it's about griffiths.arl brown was a very young assistant cameraman worked with griffith on birth of a nation and other things. he was this irreverent character was full of stories about the making of intolerance and birth of a nation. his book, the title i cannot think of but it's in the bibliography was also a pretty wonderful memoir at the time. >> to more questions. >> are there any connections between the growth of las vegas and the growth of la? >> las vegas was much later and was kind of more mob related. different mob. other than that, i think they are comparable in some ways because they kind of were built in an area he wouldn't naturally think, that the place where city should be. but, anyway. >> the inside cover of your book makes reference to the first oil well in los angeles. where specifically was that? >> though he- - i don't think i necessarily the first one in los angeles but it was - - first one. i don't have a hard copy. let me take a look at that. you know, we actually had to move it be

yeah, so, we're in griffith park, and here is one right here. this park isis surrounded by freeway, by urbanization, by some major barriers for wildlife. so, we just saw two, maybe 3 coyotes within this picnic area. so, they know that this resource is here on a regular basis. coyotes are doing pretty well in this urban landscape thanks to their adaptability, but the mountain lions are another story. they really need some help if they're going to have a population here for multiple ggenerations to come. i use camera traps, which are motion-activated cameras that have a sensor in front that's triggered by motion or heat that aows me to document wildlife that is using a particularrea. and each photo or eacimage is titime- and dadate-stamped to tl e activityty levels of cecertain spspecies. ohoh, there he is. walking right past on the same trail. yeah, he's s looking healthy. he's walking really well, which is great to see. p-22 kind of adadapted to griffith park, and when i say "kind of adapted," i mean that he has retained the same behavior of his

so we've been listening in to the united nations listening first of all to mr martin griffiths u.n. special envoy for yemen who's reporting to the u.n. about progress of what he thinks should happen next as brain rolls jordan our u.n. correspondent has also been listening in laws so it was a pretty thorough briefing but the main conclusion seems to be that he wants to begin these can consultations in september in geneva to kick start the political process that he sees as being the end goal here. that's right tom martin griffith this going to basically bring together the representatives of the yemeni government of president hadi as well as representatives from the who thing rebels who have been engaged in this battle for control of the country so that they can try to see where they can actually make some sort of political resolution this is a situation where they're basically trying not to just manage one particular hotspot in this case the threat of a siege against but trying to actually stabilize the country and try to restore some sense of normality for the millions of yemenis who

from canberra, hywell griffith reports. big griffith reports., the fifth injust big australia's letters prime minister, the fifth in just eight yea rs. scott minister, the fifth in just eight years. scott morrison is known as scomo to this friends, allies he will need as he seeks to rebuild a governing party which is torn itself to shreds amongst the trust of the struggle in public. there has been a lot of talk this week about whose side people on this building. watch oui’ side people on this building. watch our chennai he did tell you as the new generation of liberal leadership is we are on your side. that is what matters. once again, australia has a new prime minister. scott morrison fazes the huge dual challenge, not just healing the woods and this party, but seeking the forgiveness of vista in public, who watched last week's events with exasperation and angen week's events with exasperation and anger. they will not be impressed with what they have seen. just a few days, scott morrison was standing shoulder to shoulder with this predecessor,

thank you forjoining us hywel griffith, outside parliament in canberra.ews. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: it's known as the blue danube but the summer heat has turned the famous river brown. washington, the world's most political city, is today assessing the political health of the world's most powerful man. indeed i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. in south africa, 97 people have been killed today in one of the worst days of violence between rival black groups. over the last ten days, 500 have died. chanting: czechoslovakia must be free! russia is observing a national day of mourning for the 118 submariners who died on board the kursk. we all with them now within our hearts. the pope has celebrated mass before a congregation of more than 2.5 million people in his hometown of krakow. "stay with us, stay with us," chanted this ocean of humanity. "well, well," joked the pope, "so you want me to desert rome?" you're watching the briefing. our headlines: australia's prime minister is

donald mckay steps in and sees what john lewis griffith has done, what eastern merchants are doing and he begins building this big your heavier vessel for the call via ashtray. is most famous with the legendary flying cloud built in 1851. donald mckay was an immigrant success story who came from nova scotia, son of a poor farmer and shipbuilder. at age 15, he came to new york to become an apprentice in a new york shipping yard and donna macao's had a bit of a stubborn streak. he did not really like working as an apprentice eventually struck out on his own and founded his own shipyard in boston in the mid- 1840s and the flying cloud was the second clipper ship he built. donald mckay was a fascinating man. he saw himself as a heroic mechanic, not as someone who was some that the businessman or someone who was hobnobbing with high society. he thought of himself as a self-made man although he had become very successful was proud of having worked with his hands. he was the sort of man even though he owned his own shipyard he would have no problem working alongside his man putting place in t

martin griffiths has been shuffling between all the capitals.ves they mean it this time. the problem in yemen, evenif this time. the problem in yemen, even if they are serious about talks, they also believe in trying to gain military advantage, to try to gain military advantage, to try to gain military advantage, to try to gain more ground. as we have seen yet again today with catastrophic human consequences, military action, despite all the denials by all of the players, saying they will take ca re the players, saying they will take care with the targeting, military action so often has these catastrophic, human consequences. so there needs to be talks but they are setting the bar very low. martin griffiths will bring togetherjust the yemenis, not the outside players. they may not even sit in the same room together. it willjust be talks about talks but he is hoping it will be a beginning. what i was hearing this week from yemenis from all sides, not the parties themselves were people who backed different sides, they all agree this will be hard,

going to griffith for advice. tell me about those pitchers after pro-- no one could say if would exist ever. that january, heads of major and minor leagues wondered as one put it, could they operate or play at night? would players be slackers? look for public boycotting to the public, did they want baseball in a war? all awaited franklin roosevelt. as he did clark griffith insured the opinion by large and small names, quickly reached his desk. listen to what wendell wilkie said, 1940 gop nominee. if the american way of life is to survive like baseball survived, and if the games should perish, in my opinion, the larger part of what we are fighting for to protect will end. listen to at new york mayor laguardia said. the one great tie was home for in africa australia -- here is what an army private replying to a pole said. baseball is part of the american way of life. remove it and you remove something from the lives of american citizens, soldiers and sailors. is the mom and pop apple pie niche, except without a trac

sorts of different parties you know to come up with the right solution well one of the things that griffiths has been stressing is that he has been able to maintain laws of communication with the government of president hadi with the who the leadership with other interested parties who have been playing a role in this civil war and he said that because these lines of communication have been open and because people have been willing to at least try to figure out a way for example to keep the data port open for humanitarian aid delivery that he feels that there is at least the political will on all sides to actually try to have this conversation is highly unlikely to expect that he would have made this announcement had martin griffiths not believed that people would actually show up in geneva early in september while still in jordan their life in the united nations as always for us thank you. watching al jazeera live from london still to come on the program sporadic protests in cities across iran amid a dramatic drop in the reaal and a sponsoring economy. has seen his hand up the selections on

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bill griffith is off tonight. optimism over trade talks sent oarfes hi igher, deal making activity also put invest irs in a buying mood. and it sent the s&p to within 1% record and the dow to its highest since february. ustrial ave cragese ad de8925,000. thda n wqasasp gained wedsdhis bul6. 3,453 days old. making it the longest in history. mike takes a look at the three phases of this market milestone. >> the 320% gain00n the s&p since march of 2009 has unfolded more as a three act drama than a simple story of everising stock prices. the first act was a powerful reboundf a 13 year low. the economy emerged from the great recession. the s&p 500 doubled over the next two years before the european debt crisis trigg sharp correction of nearly 20%. after europe stabilized thoughts went sideways through to the 20 election until the next rally phase kicked in. thanksor to healthy coe sionlts and surging tech e nexnr and inate gsarsh. decli 2015. ushering in another sideways phase through 16mid- since then, stocks have wri

warned delano built a clipper also designed by john willis griffith and soon after what really through fuel on the fire was the construction of bigger and larger and the discovery of gold in california territory, recently taken from mexico, and when the discovery of gold was announced you had over 120,000 people from the east coast migrating to california in search of great riches but it was the largest migration in u.s. history up to that time. and cisco would grow from a village of around 2000 people, a little fishing village and would grow to a major metropolis within a decade. what was needed to build the great city of san francisco, labor, lumber, glass, booze, provisions, stuff that was not made in california but all manufactured in new york, new bedford and boston. what was needed? big ships and fast ships. so in entered donald mckay, the great clipper shipbuilder of boston and he began building ships that had instead of the bottoms, ships with water bottoms and sharp and that could carry much more cargo. his ships were also much more heavily built to take the punishing route ar

i'mood evening everyone, tyler mathison in tonight for bill griffith. i'm sue herera,ev good ing, everybody. the last days of summer are anything but lazy on wall street. the nasdaq powered past 8,000 for theirst time ever. the s&p 500 closed at an all time high. the dow blew past 26,000. a brethrough trade deal with mexico removed a source o uncertainty that's been hanging over the markets for months. the dow jones was 259 points, the nasdaq hit a record. and the s&p 500 added 22. more on today's market rally. >> it was aor r setting monday for the stock market. and the nasdaq, soaring to new highs. the nasdaq broke above 8,000 for the first time in history, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix and google parent. phabet. the trade talks were really the story of the day. president donald trump set the stage for stocks to riper hi and rip higher right across the board. the ow broke back born 26,000 mark for the first time since february led by boeing, goldman sach and caterpillar. industrials and materials were among the sector winners day, that happens when

>>> this is "nightly business report" with sue herer and bill griffith. >> alive and kicking, the bull market is officially the longest of all time and thearket are rally mode. target's big paying off and investors are reaping the reward. trade talks as officialsrom the world's two largest economies resume discussion, a factory owner in guangdong, china, is paying very close attention. those stories and more tonight on "nightly business report"or wednesday, august 22nd. good evening, everyone andil welcome, griffith is off tonight, history was made today on wl street and this bull market is now the longest in history, surpassing the dotcom run-up of the 1990s. by mosteasures t bull was born on march 9, 09 during the depth of the financial crisis and five months and 13 days ter the s&p has more than quadrupled and today sits just below its all-time high. todayhetocks fin mixed. the dow jones industrial average lost 88 points to 25,733, the nasdaq was up 29nd the s&p 500 fell one. >>> an area of the market that's been rallying has been the dow transportation index. today it closed just b

bill griffith is off tonight. longest entered t bull market in history with trepidation. after as drifted lower new round of tariffs went into effect and many market watchers tried to figure out what might come next. today the dow jones industrial averageell 76 points to 25 points to 25,656 and the nasdaq dropped ten and the s&p 500 gave back four. b so with thl market now being the longest in u.s. history, are there some changes that you should be making to your investment portfolio. here is chad morganlander and the portfolio manager at washington crossing advisers. good to see youagain, chad. >> thanks for having me, sue. >> do you, first of all, set the stage. longest bull market in history. do you think there is more upside? >> i do think that there is much more upside, but one has to be somewhat more circumspect about their investments at this point ine. so overall, we think that on an annual basis for the next several years, you can see roughly 6% total return, but nonetheless, it's far below what the historical average has been for the s&p 500? now there are somef

to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffith's argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian chief describe just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word occurred in yemen last year with one point one million cases. the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who

bill griffith is off this evening. we begin with thearket.oday the s&p 500 and the nasdaq closed at their hshest lev ever. this comes just a few days after the bull market marked a milestone becoming the longest in history so let's get right to those numbers. the dow jones industrial average advanced 133 points to 25,790. the nasdaq added 67 and the s&p 500 was up 17 and all of the major averages were higher for the week. investors' optimism got a lift after the federal tserve defend central bank's plan to raise interest rates. jerome powell made the comments at anvent attended by some of the world's most influentiall cent bankers meeting in jackson hole and steve liesman was there. >>> chairman jerome powell in his ftist m as chairman at the renowned kansas cityrv fedel re bank conference in jackson hole, saying they remaia approprinder cheg markets by saying there does not seem to be a risk of overheating in the market and this dpite hiej amounts of fiscal stimulus. ube u.s. economy has strengthenedantially and more important for markets. h

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of this fighting between the opposing sides they are expecting not just to get an update from mr griffithsbut also some sense of what the possibilities are for trying to find some sort of political solution to this war that's been going on for several years now certainly this is an opportunity for members of the security council to extend or to demonstrate their support for martin griffiths efforts to try to bring priest to yemen a country that has seen so many millions of people displaced as well as hundreds of thousands of people injured or killed during the fighting roles once you're a sense of the level of if i can use the word will at the u.n. to put some sort of structure in place to bring an end to this desperate conflict well there is certainly a lot of pressure on the u.n. security council to try to help broker some sort of solution to this effort the ongoing efforts for example just to try to establish the data as neutral ground as it were in order to bring in humanitarian aid and just because it is something there the whole of jais empty we're just going to listen and mad to mar

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♪ ♪ >>> this is "nightly business report" with sue herera and bill griffith. ♪ >>alling it quits.arge mergers are scrapped. what does it mean for the deal making landscape? senter beware. new technology fueling the rise of renl scams. what you need to know to keep from getting burned. >> and disappearing act. you've heard of no-show jobs. how about no-show workers? the growing phenomenon that's pacaught comnies off guard. all that and more tonight on "nightly businessre port" for this thursday, august the 9th. >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome. the nasdaq's streak hits eight. just have more on that in a moment, but we begin with a pair of deals that didn't happen. well, actually they did, but then they first, pharmacy chain rite aid and grocer albertson's called off their merger inrowing opposition. they recommended shareholders vote against the deal.ec this is thed failed merger for rite aid. hast year its merger w walgreen's was scrapped. albertson's was privately held and rite aid shares were down 11.5% to $1.54. bertha coombs has more. >> rite aid and albertson's break u

to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific fans for moving process forward griffithsargument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word of the card in yemen last year with one point one million cases the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the

>>> this is "nightly business report" with sue herera and bill griffith. >>> making miss. disney's earnings and revenue come in below expectations even though strong growth in several key areas were shown. what now for the widely held dow component? >>> u-turn. tesla's elon musk says he's thinking oaking the automaker private and that sends investors on a wild ride. >> and bad bread? the major indices are closing in on all-timehs h again, but is the rally broad enough to keep the bull running? all that and much more tonight y for "nightly business report" for this tuesday august the 7th. >> already. good evening, everyone and welcome. stocks rise and inch closer to all-time highs. we'll have more on that in just a bit, but there was big news from a pair of big names today. we'll start with disney. earnings that were off the mark. the company did come in belowev earnings andue estimates, but it also had strong growth in studio, parks and broadcast units. here are the numbers. disney earned $1.87 cents a share. that is an 8-cent miss and revenue was a little light and still

♪ >> this is "nightly business report" with sue herera and bill griffith. looks.r than the economy added fewer jobs than anticipated last month, but the market looks past the headline and the dow climbs by triple digits. >> keep on trucking. >> the trucking industry says there's more freight than it knows what to do with. one problem, thoughug not e drivers and that could creategh waves throu the economy. >> and chemical attraction. meet two men whose quest is to make chemicalsetter, safer and cheaper. all that and much moreht ton on "nightly business report" for this friday, august the 3rd. >>> good evening, everyone. and welcome. it is the first friday of the month and that generally means the monthly employment report is out, and that certainly was the case today. the headline tells you it was a miss, but the economy created fewer jobs than expected in july. that would be true. the economy added 157,000 jobs last month, more than 30,00 off the mark. wage growth, not all that great, but ntunemploy broke back below 4% and it turns out may and junee w actua

from canberra, hywel griffith reports. hywel: meet australia's latest prime minister, the fifth in eight years. scott morrison is known as scomo to his friends, allies he will need as he seeks to rebuild the governing party which has torn itself to shreds and lost the trust of the australian public. prime min. morrison: there's been a lot of talk this week about whose side people are on in this building. we are on your side, that is what matters. hywel: australia has a new prime minister, but scott morrison faces a huge dual challenge not just healing the wounds of his warring party, but seeking the forgiveness of the australian public, who watched the events of the last week with exasperation and anger. they won't have been impressed with what they have seen. a few days ago scott morrison was standing shoulder to shoulder with his predecessor malcolm turnbull, pledging loyalty. >> this is my leader. i am ambitious for him. >> good on you. hywel: but bitter feuds within this building over climate change and immigration mea

♪ >>> this is "nightly business report" with bill griffith and sue herera. >>> buyback binge.orporate america is expected tm buy backe shares than ever. a trillion dollars worth this year. what are the ramifications for the market and investors. >> calling it quits. ra nooyi stepping down. >>> and why morend more big-name companies are adding sa bat chemica bat californias as a major perk. all that and more for monday, august 6th. >>> and we b you good ening, everybody. welcome for this monday. stocks started the week in the ack, thanks to strength in technology, especially facebook. shares of the social media company rose 4% today on reports it's in talks with banks to allow facebook users to use its mer platform for financial transactions. that in turn helped push the nasdaq higher for theifth raight day. has done the nasdaq that since may. here are the numbers when all was said and done. the dow rose 39 points to 25,502. the nasdaq climbed by 47. the s&p added ten points today. >>> and while facebook did have a big say in the nasdaq's move today, goldman sachs says htvestor

to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffith'sargument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word occurred in yemen last year with one point one million cases. the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the wh

we hope to hear very shortly from our correspondent, hywel griffith.knowledged that hush money was provided before his 2016 election for two women claiming they'd had affairs with him. but contradicting tuesday's sworn testimony from his former personal lawyer, michael cohen, he's now claimed the pay—out was made with his own money — that election campaign finance was not, illegally, used. he's previously insisted he knew nothing about the payments. the president's been speaking to fox news. did they come out of the campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign, they came from me. i tweeted about it. i don't know if you know but i tweeted about the payments. but they didn't come out of campaign. in fact, my first question when i heard about it was, "did they come out of the campaign?" because that could be a little dicey. well michael cohen's own lawyer has been in tv studios declaring his client is "more than happy" to "tell everything about donald trump that he knows" to robert mueller — the special prosecutor investigating russian interference in t

hywel griffith there.s develop but this coming in from reuters, we're hearing the australian government has moved to adjourn parliament on thursday, allowing the ruling liberal party to hold a second leadership vote for prime minister. as we were saying, it looks like malcolm turnbull is manoeuvring within the party to arrange treasurer scott morrison to be his anointed successor to compete with peter dutton for the leadership and for the prime ministership. we're hearing several senior ministers have now tended their resignations and called for a second ballot. that story moving pretty fast now. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the second separation for korean families, briefly reunited after decades apart. washington, the world's most political city, is today assessing the political health of the world's most powerful man. indeed i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. in south africa, 97 people have been killed today, in one of the worst days

hywel griffith, bbc news, on the central coast. enlargement is to be offered on the nhs. the treatment can be done under local anaesthetic without an overnight hospital stay. one in three men over the age of 50 are affected by the condition. 0ur health correspondent michelle roberts is here. tell us more about this new treatment. so, it is a new option for men with this really common condition, particularly as men get older they can get this enlargement of the prostate. because of where the prostate. because of where the prostate sits, directly below the bladder, when it gets bigger it can cause symptoms because it pushes on the tube that lets urine out so it can be difficult to go to the toilet. this treatment is less invasive and it involves a probe which is put up and then some steam kills off some of the tissue and it heals so that the tube which lets the urine out can work properly again. the advantage for men is that it can be done as a day case under local anaesthetic and it can spare some of the surgical complications and t

abdul robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who these the us ambassador used her security council remarks not only to chastise iran for destabilizing yemen but also to send a message to riyadh about its air war against the who these we've hit a new day now in yemen and we've had a new sense of urgency anyone and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk but in the last three years at least ten thousand people have been killed in yemen another forty thousand injured the risk for civilians already a reality rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the united nations turkey in the united states agreed to resolve issues that are causing tension between the two countries foreign minister. and the secretary of state one pump am met on the sidelines of the sea and summit in singapore the turkish foreign minister desc

hywel griffith, bbc news, canberra.abinet office minister david liddington has dismissed criticism of a letter written by philip hammond to the treasury select committee saying there was "nothing new" about the analysis presented by the chancellor. writing yesterday, mr hammond warned that a no deal brexit would have large fiscal consequences. but his letter has been described by brexit supporters in the conservative party as "another instalment of dodgy project fear". 0ur political correspondent tom barton is in westminster. can you unpick this latest one for us? yes, this isn't the first time the chancellor has faced incoming fire from brexit supporting mps in his own party. in this letter to the treasury select pity he warned that in15 treasury select pity he warned that in 15 years' treasury select pity he warned that in15 years' time, treasury select pity he warned that in 15 years' time, if there is a no deal brexit, britain's economy could be 5-10% deal brexit, britain's economy could be 5—10% smaller than it oth

special envoy martin griffiths just been in sana'a trying to get the warring sides around the table or at least talk about talks of course but mohamed was saying is there any desire on either side to do that. i think what you have to reference is doing is with. with. nonsense. with all due respect to him and to that of the u.n. but you know because they are talking and the other side of the issue they are talking in that they are talking about the. yemeni groups this is not to yemeni groups it's something else in the area and yemen saudi arabia saudi arabia want something in saudi arabia is telling people that what is doing in the oven is being legitimate judgment and not anything and it has nothing to do with saudi arabia this is completely untrue it's something that is for saudi arabia saudi arabia is not. saudi arabia is not helping legitimate government subsidies and saudi arabia is doing what it wants saudi arabia is giving iran as they say they are killing iran in yemen but it killing and destroying yemen so if that if you would send u.k. and france in because if you will not und

to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffiths argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people. three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word of the card in yemen last year with one point one million cases the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the u.s. under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for th

the matter before the security council and it was there that the special envoy for yemen martin griffiths announced that he would be convening representatives of both the who these as well as of the yemeni government and was presumably there are saudi backers would be there in the wings to advise them for direct talks in geneva on september sixth whether or not this incident is going to to rael those plans at mr griffiths house to try to bring the yemeni war to an end is one of the outstanding questions but certainly the few people who are here at the united nations headquarters are aware of this deadly attack ok well glenn tilton joining us there from the u.n. thanks very much. now one of them bob weighs leading opposition figures has appeared in court after zambia deported him back to harare despite a court order allowing him to seek asylum tendai biti of the movement for democratic change will face charges for inciting post-election violence the m.d.c. was defeated in last week's vote which it says was rigged in favor of the ruling zanu p.f. rusher is under new pressure of the poisonin

months but one common thread throughout all of his reports to the security council has been that griffiths feels that all of the parties have been engaging with him in good faith and so he feels that there is political will between the central government among the members of the who the leadership and among those who support both sides namely the saudi coalition as well as ron which supports the who these that there might be an opportunity to try to stop this carnage once and for all and so he wants to seize this opportunity and really try to force both sides in this conflict to actually say we need to lay down our arms we need to figure out how to co-exist or how to restore the rule of law inside yemen simply put more than ten thousand people have been killed since the civil war started three years ago at least another forty thousand have been injured millions have been displaced as you noted there have been infrastructure problems there's the risk of cholera if there's another psych loan there is it the capacity of the central government to deal with the damage from that kind of storm th

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our sydney correspondent hywel griffith reports.he fastest man in the world, but usain bolt has a lot of catching up to do if he really is to become a professional foot all. —— football. today is the second —— 32nd birthday, an age where some players are to think about retirement. at bolt says buying professionally has been a lifelong dream which he is determined to achieve. football has a listing something of mine that has been a passion to enjoy. even my coach said don't play football, you can't be playing it in the middle of the season playing it in the middle of the season but i kept doing it because it is something i enjoy. i have retired and now i have the opportunity to play with a top team and to show what i can do. i want to challenge myself. no one can doubt his athletic ability, still the world recordholder at 100 and 200 metres, he retired last year as the finest sportsman of his generation. since then, history and with football teams in germany, norway and south africa, but so far nobody has offered him a professional c

here's our australia correspondent hywell griffiths .in bolt has a lot of catching up to do if he really is to become a professional footballer. today is his 32nd birthday, an age when some players start to think about retirement. but bolt says playing professionally has been a lifelong dream which he is determined to achieve. football has always been a passion of mine. even when my coach at a professional level said, don't play football in the middle of the season, i would still play because i enjoy it. now i have retired and i had the opportunity to play with a top team and show what i can do, something i want to do, i want to challenge myself. nobody can doubt his athletic ability, still the world record holder at 100 and 200 metres, he retired last year as the finest sportsman of his generation. since then he has trained with football teams in germany, norway and south africa, but so far nobody has offered him a professional contract. if this is a big pr stunt, then it has already worked, but if it is to have a more lasting impact, u

to agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process forward griffith's argument keeping her data open to delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis is important but it's much more important to end the war the un's humanitarian aid she described just how bad the situation has become for ordinary people three years of conflict have left two million people displaced from their homes eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and the worst cholera outbreak in the word occurred in yemen last year with one point one million cases. the humanitarian situation is indeed shocking both in scale and severity and these figures they represent a call for urgent action the saudi coalition which backs the government of president abdulla robbo monsour hadi and iran which gives the who these military support are not invited to griffiths talks but they'll probably go to geneva to keep an eye on things and then there's the us under fire for giving military support to the saudi coalition and a critic of tehran support for the who

griffith, they were showmen. the best publicity you could get was to show this film in the white house. they convinced woodrow wilson to show the film, and there are conflicting stories about what wilson's reaction to the film was. there was a quotation which i believe is apocryphal, that it is like history written in lightning and the most terrible thing is that it is also true. i think griffith actually used that in subsequent releases. >> he made it up. >> he made it up. >> fake news. >> he was a friend and he got suckered into this. but these days, there is a very nasty rock 'n roll song about woodrow wilson which describes him as -- even i can't say it on stage. it says he led the resurrection of the kkk. it is out there in part because of that event. >> there is also a rock 'n roll song by warren zevon about veracruz -- veracruz, mexico. shifting from the african-american situation, what is wilson's relationship with mexico? the revolution of 1910 happened. what's going on with wilson and mexico? >> it is a