john duncan is the architect of the columns, you see the three statues including george washington all the way the top are done by william rudolph, who was very important, the vast relief engraving you see on the front of the monument that's one of two bronzes they were done by the famous philadelphia painter thomas egan's. these are the only two bass relief sculptures that he gives is known to have made in his entire career, most of what he did was painting. these are really artifacts. we are standing in front of the monument and we're going to show you why the monument is here and why this position was important. to left it today we call north street, it was queen street, and this is king street. you see on the ground is open and how the streets slope downward. what is provided was an exceptional artillery position, because the guns of the time could fire down the streets, a solid shot that could skip down the streets as well as canisters spring pellets and all sorts of ammunition. if he could hold this position and get his artillery batteries positioned on the streets and fire down

that has not been what david davis, john redwood, jacob rees mogg, iain duncan smith, that is not whatith and jacob rees mogg, it will take two years to sort this out. not a problem. and a lot of people believe that. you don't know how long it might take. this could be bluster. the start of negotiations, a lot of tough talk. it doesn't mean that it will be that hard and it could just ta ke will be that hard and it could just take the two years. it could end up being a very good deal, but the idea that there wasn't going to be a lot of noise around it — that was always going to be the case. it could be incredibly hard and we could end up crashing up with no deal at all, and that what the brexit campaign said was a little optimistic, perhaps. the front page of the financial times — the side bar, diane abbott's issues today, which are taken, but a much more in—depth analysis of the problems concerning the shadow home secretary. on the inside page of the times. labour policy in tatters after abbott's interview to forget. after my own very poor start to the session, she is a very experience

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very soon these seats will be filled next to be and we'll have iain duncan smith, john mcdonnell forting today. let's have a quick look at the scorecard because i'd like to look at that now. we spoke to jonathan we spoke tojonathan barkley a we spoke to jonathan barkley a few minutes ago. ukip have lost 139 seats so far, they have the one council seat in these results. it's been a very turbulent time for them. we'll be back in a few minutes to speak to our guests and to pick up on the latest results coming in. in the meantime let's join jane on the latest results coming in. in the meantime let's joinjane for the day's news. huw, thank you. the conservatives have made significant gains in the local elections, with labour performing poorly and ukip suffering big losses. the tories have gained 11 councils — including taking derbyshire county council from labour. labour have lost six councils — including glasgow city council which they've held since 1980. in the last half an hour labour's andy burnham has been elected as mayor of manchester. our political correspondent eleanor garnier ha

united states secretary of education, arne duncan, called himself a, quote, strong supporter of charter schools. his second united states education secretary john king, himself, founded a charter school and ran a system of charter schools. secretary betsy devos, the current secretary of education has spent most of her life as a strong supporter of charter schools. the united states congress in 1994, 1998, 2001, 2015, always bipartisan and usually by large margins, has supported charter schools. 44 states and the district of columbia have created an environment through their laws for charter schools. so in 30 years, mr. president, public charter schools have grown from a dozen in minnesota to 6,900 today. today charter schools are serving over 3.1 million students. over 6% of all the public school students in america today now attend charter schools and another one million students are on waiting lists for charter schools. this past year i saw an estimated enrollment increase of over 200,000 students representing a 7% growth in just one school year. over half of the students served by these institutions are eligible for free or reduced-price lun