afghans discuss peace for their country is the to all of iraq's national assembly called in noid jericho which will see the government it is to go see asians with atomic bomb. for some couple. full painted concrete walls holding up the hopes of a nation they call this the loya jirgah taint it's with three thousand afghans a gathering in a ridge national assembly to define what peace looks like in a country that hasn't seen it for a generation we have to back for it because you know we have spent forty one years of war in this country we have lost the family our sons our husbands our sisters our brothers all together and know now this is the this is the chance for us sufi acidic he is hopeful she was elected head of the committee she says it's a sign that gender equality is improving the government says thirty percent of the delegates are women but this is still a country where women and men have separate entrances as of women at the african whether this is a responsibility just to talk about peace and to believe in that the government has started the diversity of this crowd the young and

you know you have a very beautiful short story or sort by jericho about the one sitting there are so when the sun is losing his existential perspective but his father destroyed the city by putting nonsense waited houses were glazed in the city today no one. has everybody builds huge buildings group of buildings. and nobody is asking how is it going to affect the sense of a creature who is sensitive even when the cloud quote was the old changes. of organic lead to change his opinion and he's feeling that all with what he has today culture global culture is a killer is a killer prepares. prepares. i think ok so let me let me. i want to like maybe make it a little more concise and maybe speak of you in terms of a culture because you are a man of i would say an old code of honor right like you were brought a certain way in a certain era i'm the member of the players exactly. and those those values that you have inside of you will with which you have lived or lives that there are there's no place for them in the new world for this new technological weird you call it propaganda how culture

hosts hundreds of events like this through the year and one such that we are doing on april 26 with jericho in for his new book eight men who changed america. a little bit of housekeeping before we start. if you could turn off or silence your cell phone, we would greatly appreciate it. please remember tor step up to the microphone that we have over there before asking a your question so we can not only enjoy the conversation that sure that it's going to be recorded. for those who want to buy copies of the book we are selling them out front by the registers and we will be giving a signing after the q-and-a so if you would like to get your book signed, and sign up next to the podium and keep them there because we will have another event after this. another reason we all are here i'm honored to introduce sonia tto overview, reported and biographer whose work has appeared in many publications including the sun eight times and thtimesand the economist. she's previously written two this oneks before luincluding clementine the lifef mrs. winston churchill. this afternoon she's going to talk about

>>today in the trial of a ship master tenant jericho and creative director max harris. a man testified he had to jump out a window that night. another was brought to tears when he described how he tried to save another tenant but could not pull him to the front door force show kingston live for us tonight in oakland with more. >>on that day in court michelle. >>we continue to hear from those tenants who lived inside the go ship. the night of the fire now one of those people telling us despite that fire. like a museum inside he said it was breathtaking and eye catching. derick almena next harris continued to sit in their trial dressed in suits in showing very little emotion as what former tenant after another takes the stand. >>answering remembering his escape from the fire in the warehouse and december second 2016 he ran into this man, peter was worth he tried to lift him up to pull him out but it right to call this blocking the path to the front door and had to let go of him was what is one of the 36 people who died in the fire lulay told the court he saw 2 people he d

this group from the town of jericho is led by sharon farmer a veteran of the struggle for kurdish rights and that's not the. gauge b.c. gen was formed as an internal security force but back at base sharon says the women will also stand up to any outside threat. i'm not saying we are not afraid of our enemies and we are always well prepared for them was one of the our enemies threaten as daily we will fight and sacrifice for this land. the kurds expelled the outside regime from northern syria when the civil war broke out in twenty eleven they have since been autonomous but the regime has a lingering presence. it's a hold on to some neighborhoods in the town of commissioner the capture of the kurdish region. and now that it is winning the war goes once for control of the country. turkey visible from the rooftops of the border town commission is also hostile to kurdish self rule in syria. in the kurdish region it's not unusual for women to pick up a gun thousands join the fight against islamic state and many did not return home they lie buried in cemeteries like this one income usually. the

will return to the polls in september meanwhile mr netanyahu met with senior white house advisor jericho to talk about donald trump's peace plan for the middle east their own foreign minister has criticized the yet to be unveiled american plan calling it shameful flew she nice jerusalem is not for sale truth doesn't belong to trump and he can't give it away to anyone it will never be owned by benjamin netanyahu and no one is allowed to buy or sell it on behalf of the great palestinian nation kosovo's foreign minister says he'll band visits by the serbian prime minister accusing her of making racist comments is just the latest flare up in tensions between pristina and belgrade serbia already has its forces on high alert after course of and police launched a raid in the mainly ethnics area in the north natasha butler as more from gretchen in kosovo. it was a message of hope the new born sculpture in pristina was created in 2008 to mull kosovo's independence from serbia but 2 decades after conflict tore the 2 sides apart rivalries between serbs and albanians in kosovo still threaten peace t

one event is the one that we are doing on april 26 with jericho and, for his new book, accidental presidents, eight men who changed america. a little bit of housekeeping before we start, c-span is here, so if you could silence your cell phones, we would appreciate it. for the q&a, please step up to the microphone that we have before asking your question. so we could not only here and enjoy the conversation but to ensure that it will be recorded. for those who want to buy copies of the book, we are selling them out front by the registers. we'll be doing a signing after the q&a. if you would like to get your book signed please line up next to the podium. please keep your chairs where they are after the event as we will have another event after this. for the reason why we are here, i'm honored to introduce sonja to all of you. sonja is a reporter and biographer who has appeared in many publications including the sunday times and the economist. she has previously written two other books before this one including clementine, the life of mrs. winston churchill. this afternoon she's going to talk a

both theresa may and jericho have said that we should not leave without a deal.the conservatives, ithink, could can't keep imposing red lines. the conservatives, i think, could have been more flexible on agreeing to a form of customs union or customs arrangement, and colleagues on my side, i hope, were not insisting on having a referendum and there is a condition, we know that the prime minister was never going to weigh pei’ minister was never going to weigh per mps for that. so yes, if you end up per mps for that. so yes, if you end up imposing red lines which never make a negotiation were, i think thatis make a negotiation were, i think that is a failure of leadership. where does politics go from here? the old tribes are failing to deal with the situation we are in now, does the need to be a kind of shake—up of who sits where depending on their views on brexit primarily? well, i really hope we can get away from single issue politics. we need politics which deals with public services, with the economy, with education, the climate crisis. if we arejust dominated