.) >> the united states is a grow country a small stab of the united states is a big stab of humankind the united states is a desirable place for artists the city government is generals for the space and this is a small step of the united states u you guess but a big step for taiwan's history we're grateful and appreciate the opportunity >> (speaking foreign language.) >> as a proof of art history i'm confident to say you wouldn't be disappointed because first of all he is an excellent artist with a unique asian cultural and we're a professional team with international experience and third the button and expressive shape of skurmz will brings happiness to the people of san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> god bless america thank you very much. >> yeah, the good citizens of san francisco they're sharing the glory of the u.s. to every corner of the world thanks to the u.s. thanks to mayor ed lee and god bless america. >> there's a saying in taiwan first, you become friends then you get to work. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so, now i'd like to welcome to the stage my fr

"to save humankind, and aim not a happy ending. haven't we already had a save your and look what happened to him. the people who made the movie the guy the saviour goes around calls himself mr. carpenter. nudge, nudge wink, wink. one thing you learn from science fiction is this. any creature of this universe should be subject not only to the same laws of physics and chemistry but the same rules of right and wrong. if you ever did come across a race that never sinned how would you know that they had the freedom to sin, the freedom you need to be truly good. and should anybody think that technical advances actually mean moral advances? is the human race of the 20th 20th century more moral than our technologyically primitive ancestors. think of world war i and world war ii. the more you have, the more you got. art, beauty, ethics. not so. we have better paint. we have better plaster than michelangelo tide. dedon't have better artists than michelangelo. and the fact that we have better plaster doesn't make what michelangelo did obsolet

the thinking is if something bad were to happen humankind can start again >>> a global insurance policy threatened by climate change war and natural disasters. tomorrow night. 10:30 eastern. that's the show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. >>> an historic step forward. >> if iran cheats the world will know it. if we see something suspicious. we will inspect it >>> iran agrees to a framework deal on its nuclear programme, and the prospects of the eased sanctions sent iran into the streets to celebrate >>> carnage on campus al-shabab storms a college in

the thinking is if something bad were to happen, humankind can start again >>> a global insurance policyrld threatened by climate change, war and natural disasters. tomorrow night. 10:30 eastern. that's the show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... night. >>> as winston churchill warned his country men 70 years ago, it may not be the beginning of the end, but may be the end of the beginning. from lausanne, news went out that iran, the p5+1, and germany have a deal in principle and are drafting a document representing the deal begins. there are tough months ahead. but the parties are talking like they have cleared an enormous hurdle.

the thinking is if something bad were to happen, humankind can start again >>> a global insurance policyld threatened by climate change, war and natural disasters. tomorrow night. 10:30 eastern. that's the show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. >> i think we're into something that's bigger than us... >> that's the pain that your mother feels when you disrespect her son... >> me being here is defying all odds... >> they were patriots they wanted there country back >> al jazeera america presents the passion... >> onward.. >> pain... >> it's too much... >> ..and triumph... inspirational real life stories >> all these labels the world throws at you, that's what drives me hat drives me >> >>> celebrations in iran after world powers reach a breakthrough deal on tehran's nuclear programme. israel warns that the agreement threatens its existence. hello. this is al jazeera live from doha. i'm eoin finn. -- adrian fin gan. also on the program - the u.n. calls for swift justice for those behind an

it fights the first total war humankind ever fought, a much bigger cost that anybody intended. it ends slavery overnight. 4 million people are liberated. a bloodletting like no other in its history, and then, it has to put itself back together. you might tell your friends that's a hell of a story. it's an epic. that is why we are drawn to it. its legacies. it's meaning. there are problems still out there laying around everywhere. they are on the newscast every night. they are in the headlines every day. if your friends don't know that, tell them to start watching the news or read a newspaper, or maybe you should recommend a few books for them. host: david blight, maybe because it is opening week, but we have a tweet from john who says -- dr. blight did you run across anecdotes involving civil war baseball, perhaps even at appomattox? david: i don't know of any at appomattox, but yes, i am a big a small fan. maybe this is someone who knows that. baseball was played by civil war soldiers. regiments had teams. units had teams. they played a game that we would probably recognize, b

near his farm and hidden within the city's shadow is what's known as the cradle of humankind.e, the human animal, came from. >> it's a classic little sink hole. >> there are loads of these. this is what this area is. the cradle. it's called a cradle. now a world heritage site. because 60% of all the evidence for human evolution comes out of the valley. it's from caves like this that keep the record. that geology just conspires to preserve fossils. they're very, very rare things, but they're found more here in the last ten years than they're found anywhere. so you're home. this is where you started. >> this is my ancestral homeland? >> this is your ancestral homeland. ♪ >> that sound makes me happy. what does that sound remind you of, guys? what does that evoke for you, that sound? primeval. you know? happy childhood? soup over the fire. parental love? your enemy's genitals frying in hot oil? nothing? i get to work on the heart. something i strongly suspect will be delicious. and i'm right. andrea works her magic on the liver. dredged in flour and sauteed. this loin seared and

and i write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what i call the human rainbowhich is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. but the human rainbow had been mutilated by a choose no -- machismo, racism, militarism, and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, are possible greatness, are possible duty. -- our possible beauty. amy: eduardo galeano, acclaimed uruguayan writer and journalist, speaking on democracy now! in 2013. galeano died on monday in montevideo. we will come back to more about interviews with him in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: eduardo mateo, uruguayan songwriter. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we continue our look back at the life of eduardo galeano who died on monday at the age of 74. he was author of many books, including "open veins of latin america." amy: he was a major editor in uruguay. after military to took power there in 1973, he left for argentina and their he also was editor of major publications bu

here is a vision of one planet and one family of humankind. but the view from earth reminds us of a common human dilemma, the rise and fall of our many ways of life. here, among the ruins of ancient civilizations archaeologists are retracing the steps in a long and shared human odyssey. across two worlds, the old and the new, they are discovering the independent spark of the human genius, the many times and places that we have created grand civilizations. ancient egypt. as early as the 18th century scholars came here to marvel at and study the great relics of the ancient sun kings. laboring among the pyramids and temples of this old-world civilization early archaeologists speculated that complex civilizations were created in the near east to spread far and wide. they thought the greek city states, the roman empire, and all the civilizations that followed were the inheritors of a single act of creation. but discoveries in the new world would provide a stunning challenge to this myopic vision of human history. in 1839, in the jungles of mesoamer

he comes down and takes on human form and invests in the struggles of humankind. that's what we try to do invest ourselves into the struggles of people here in san tonne. >> you are saying god wasn't a commuter god so i'm not a commuter man. >> that's right. >> is that what i hear you saying? >> yes. >> reporter: you moved into the heart of sandtown. let's keep it real baltimore is one of the top 10 dangerous cities in america. were you scared? >> a little bit. you know like there's scary stuff that happens anywhere in baltimore. there's a lot of ways i stick out. >> reporter: after all, sandtown is 96% plaque. >> reporter: a lot of re-locatators are white, and you are black, and the majority walking around is black. is there skepticism, where people think this is a form of white gentrification. >> definitely. there's a running joke that the drug dealers thought the whites moving in were cops and the cops thought only white folks that move here are drug dellers. -- dealers. >>> this is antoine who says the streets are as hard as they team. >> this intersection cha

if you look on twitter and take ten seconds, you can see the ugliness of humankind when it's unfilteredbut roll g"rolling stone" is supposed to be edited and filtered. that's the whole point of editors. but you had basically men editing an article about women being raped, written by a woman journalist who was very plausible. and i think for lots of reasons, and possibly they admit, this is what the columbia journalism school said her political correctness didn't push very hard to poke holes in a story they wanted to be true. >> there are plenty of american on women college campuses who will stay there is still a serious problem with sexual abuse. if this is going to be addressed, who is going to address it? the campuses? the fraternities at a national level? >> i think college administrators, first of all have to do it. parents have to do it. parents have to bring up their children properly. but i think, you know we're a very federal place. and universities tend to have their own police forces and tend to bring in local police forces only rarely when they have to. so i think it really i

i can think of no one who has performed more service for humankind venue. thank you very much. [applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] >> 11, ken walsh talks about faith on political agendas. he appeared on the morning program "washington journal," where he discussed his boat and took viewer phone calls. >> there is a familiar face. ken walsh one tenuous news and world report correspondent. the author of several books including his most recent "celebrity in chief: a history of the presidents and the culture of stardom." here is the cover of the book. mr. walsh, you write that american presidents have always been famous, but it was only after they had end of the mass media and the vast increase in power and reach of all the presidency under fdr that the leader of the u.s. became a true superstar. what did fdr do to create the aquatics >> guest: a number of things. i've written seven books now. fdr is the first modern president. he not only gained a lot of power and took a lot of power is the president in the modern sense because we are fi

these people are looking to the aliens to be the saviors of humankind.o i got one of those e-mails i get all the time. this undemanding that i tell pope francis the next time i see him yeah right. [laughter] that i get pope francis to tell us the truth about e.t. and that quote because this guy knows what the truth of e.t. is, e.t. life is likely to be more ethically involved -- evolved and less satanic than humans. pope francis must empathize -- emphasized the themes of extraterrestrials not sharing original sven being more ethically evolved, being capable of sharing the christian method, being brothers. i love how he knows all about what the e.t. is going to be like. you no think back to the atheist who are convinced of finding e.t. until proven that atheism is correct and the guy who says finding e.t. will prove that there is a god that he made all of these universes. the fact that we haven't found e.t. hasn't caused either of those sites to doubt their faith. i don't see why finding them should convince anybody. and furthermore whose to say that e.t.

you realize -- humankind since they have been writing have been writing about memory. you cities -- the cities -- the peloponnesian war, one of the oldest books we have, he has this wonderful line where he says -- and he's writing about the greek civil war -- he says the people made their recollection fit in with their sufferings. you read that and passages and parts. it's not a great read but they've got some gems in there. i remember when i read that, i underlined and put a post it in there and said i have to use that some day. the people made their recollection fit in with their suffering. that's what we do. that's using the past. that's making the usable past. history and memory -- what do we mean? history can be viewed or perhaps ought to be viewed, as what historians do. it's a reason to reconstruction of the past rooted in research. it tends to be critical, therefore, and skeptical of human motives and actions and is therefore usually more secular than what we might commonly call memory. history can be read by or belong to everyone. everyone can claim to be in a

god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represent the very foundation of human social order. every enough value since i'm not a period in the two shins, governments, prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on stability. when it is weakened or undermined, the entire superset or can begin to wobble and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the american people didn't demand the change that is occurring. in fact, the population in 31 states voted one at a time on the definition of marriage and every one of them a firm that being exclusively between one man and one woman. those proclamations were ensconced in their state constitutions. now however, many of those popular elections are being overridden by imperialist federal judges who are changing the course of history. in mid-2013, only 13 states have legalized same-sex marriage. now, two years later there are 37 and the supreme court seems poised to make it 50.

rarely does a time long in the advancement of humankind on this planet earth tweaking the potential of really demonstrating to ourselves and to the rest of the people the full list of the challenges. we can put together what is necessary to send people to mars in an efficient way to make them do it by using some things are not getting bogged down with investment that are involved in landing humans, and then storing them. we donate to do that anymore. we can observe how other people take care of them. where we want to do that is that mars and we need to invest for things to get to mars. if we invest in an asset stage to go along with the people going there, it is going to cost more money. go wayne manor interferes with the lander. building that stage and the return capability is taking longer to do that in time. the cost per person on the surface of mars is the last that they stay there. if we start bringing people back. the biggest thing to me is all of this comes along on earth that humanity being able to advance into all the wonders you. it will cost billions and billions of dollars

but the same middle east has contributed greatly to the cultural and scientific progress of humankind throughout history. president obama himself highlighted some of these contributions in his historic speech. and we believe that this region still has the potential toaóocj create great things. so the question is, how do we turn this potential into concrete? after decades oppression and war we witness our -- the people in the transformation process start to shake the very foundations of the century-old -- in the region. in this process we played a very supportive role. we extended our $3 billion of financial assistance and tick income cal expert -- technical expertise too tunisia, and yemen and contributed to the efforts of the european union and the council of europe in all these countries. but the transformation process is currently characterized bay massive challenge. share my views for dealing with all these challenge. the conflict in syria affects turkey the most. the situation has become more complicated with the emergence of daesh, or isil you say in the united states. understan

but the same middle east has contributed greatly to the fill cultural and scientific progress of humankind throughout history. president obama himself highlighted some of these contributions in his historic speech. we believe that this region still has the potential to create great things. so the question is, how do we turn this potential into concrete improvements? after decades of wars we witness the offspring. the people led the transformation process and it shook the foundations of the century old status quo in the region. in this process, we played a positive and supportive role as turkey. we extended around $3 million of financial assistance, as well as technical expertise to egypt, tunisia, libya and yemen. we also contributed to the efforts of the european union can the council of europe commission in all these countries. the transformation process is categorized by a massive channel. let me identify some of them and also share my views for dealing with all of these challenges. the conflict in syria affects turkey the most. the situation has become more complicated with the emergen

god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represents the very foundation of human social order. everything of value sits on that base. institutions governments prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on its stability. when it is weakened they're undermined. the entire superstructure can begin to wobble. and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the american people didn't demand the sea change that is occurring. in fact the populations in 31 states voted one at a time on the definition of marriage and every one of them affirmed it as being exclusively between one man and one woman. those proclamations were ensconced in their state constitutions. now, however, many of those popular elections are being overridden by imperious federal judges who are changing the course of history. in mid-2013 only 13 states had legalized same-sex marriage. now two years later, there are 37. and the supreme court seems poised to make it 50. whateve