matthew goodwin, professor of politics at the university of kent stop members of the vietnamese community. a service last night was attended by more than a hundred people and more are expected to pay their respects at another memorial today, as richard lister reports. this congregation feels the migrants‘ deaths more keenly than most. more than 15,000 londoners were born in vietnam, forming the largest vietnamese community in britain. some gathered at this east end church last night to commemorate their countrymen who died trying to reach the uk. 0ur sympathy to the people who have lost their lives on the way for the seeking of freedom, of dignity and happiness. and we ask god to welcome them into his kingdom. people here have been following news of the investigation closely. essex police are slowly identifying the victims and there are families in this congregation who have told father simon that they too may have relatives among the dead. i think the more information that we get, you know, the quicker the investigation could become. so i encourage them if you could, you know, provide. a

professor of politics and international relations at the university of kent. d as we had hoped. we got matthew's message there, i think. and if you find some of the language used during the election is confusing, log on to the bbc website, and you'll find an election jargon buster, to translate those political terms in to plain english. terms into plain english. lord mawhinney, the conservative politician who was a prominent member of government throughout the 1980s and 1990s, has died. he was 79. brian mawhinney was an mp for more than 25 years. he was a northern ireland minister, secretary of state for transport, and chairman of the conservative party. lord mawhinney was also chairman of the football league. the headlines on bbc news... the royal family and senior politicians join military veterans and religious leaders at the cenotaph to remember those who lost their lives in conflict. in the election, there's a row over spending, after the conservatives publish what they claim would be the cost of a labour government. floods in south yorkshire continue to c

with me now is matthew goodwin, professor of politics and international relations at the university of kentf the strategy? potentially this is an important intervention. nigel farage is trying to influence the direction of the selection. effectively trying to get as many committed no deal eurosceptics in the house of commons as possible. zeta borisjohnson eventually the softer brexiteer and commit toa eventually the softer brexiteer and commit to a more meaningful clean break no—deal brexit, whatever your preferred terminology and if you do not, then he will field candidates in every seat it up and down the country. and he has a 500, does he? the breaks party has been batting and fielding candidates that make the brexit party has been vetting candidates since the beginning of the year, so they do have significant resources behind them. it are they going to stand down against etihad erg eurosceptics who are saying that they are committed toa are saying that they are committed to a more pure from of brexit —— against the die—hard e r g eurosceptics. if they send out these candidates, what imp

earlier i spoke to matthew goodwin, professor of politics and international relations at the university of kentrty could play a big role in this election. potentially they will play a big role, even if nigel farage is not standing himself, he made clear this morning that he will be supporting potentially hundreds of brexit party candidates across the country, and were those candidates to take as little as five or 6% of the vote, that would have a significant impact on borisjohnson‘s ability to win the majority he wants, so the brexit party will be a big factor. in what sort of seats do you think the brexit party will be a particular threat to the conservatives? i think the first thing to say is, we have got to see what the strategy is. i imagine the brexit party will not stand candidates against eurosceptic politicians within the conservative party, and that would be a return to ukip's strategy in 2010, when they didn't stand candidates against politicians that wanted a referendum on britain's eu membership. but if they were then to stand candidates in the all—important marginal seats where the

of truth." max: thank you all so much for coming out tonight. tonight, we are hosting the photographer howard ruffner who, during his college years at kent state university was a , photographer for the yearbook and newspaper. his book tonight "moments of truth" is a collection of more than 150 photos around the kent state massacre of 1970 in which four students' lives were lost. so without further ado, please welcome howard ruffner. [applause] howard: first of all, i have to say it is nice to see some familiar faces out here. lots of people from pasadena village and relatives. my daughter is here with my son-in-law, and his parents are here. people from near where i live. but most of all, i have to think my wife for being here. if she will just raise her hand. [applause] as most of you know, whenever you endeavor on a real, good project, your stress is the one who picks up the other stuff, and laura kept me organized and kept me going and made sure i did not lose too much of a focus on where i was going with this. so let me get started. the intention of my book is to let you know more about me at the beginning before i attended kent state, my introductio

we did not know who was in charge, and for the record, the president of kent state university, robert white, at 12:00 on monday, may 4, was having lunch at the brown derby 20 minutes away with one of the other generals who was in charge of the national guard. give you an idea of what's going on. post-may 4, then there were massive demonstrations at universities across the country. i lived in seattle at the time, and at the university of washington, maybe as many as 10,000 students decided to march downtown to the federal courthouse in protest, and they melt they marched out onto interstate five and shut down the freeway, but in effect said and certainly implied that it was not unusual for universities to public as well as private to insist on their police forces, the university police retaining control over law enforcement on the campus, and that is what was the case at the university of washington at that time. the university president absolutely insisted that neither the state patrol nor the seattle police department were to come on campus without express permission from the univers

of truth." max: thank you all so much for coming out tonight. tonight, we are hosting the photographer howard ruffner who, during his college years at kent state university was a , photographer for the yearbook and newspaper. his book tonight "moments of truth

photographer howard ruffner, who during his college years at kent university was a photographer for the yearbook as well as the newspaper. his book "moments of truth" is a collection of more than 150 of his photos surrounding the kent state massacre of the 1970's in which 4 students'lives were lost. (applause)

. >> is that sort of the universe universe of initiatives took inside the state department your concerns regular channel. >> i also raised my concerns with deputy secretary george kent in particular early on when i think i may have mentioned this phone call that was odd in that it did not include the normal staf staff, indeed ambassador sondland's staff. and that struck me as unusual. i consulted with mr. kent mr. kent of this and also i had a conversation with mr. bret bull. >> that was a june 28th call, i believe? >> that's correct. >> and in your opening statement you expressed some concerns about what ambassador sondland had said. once zelensky got on the phone it proceeded in a very regular channel way, correct? >> that's correct. the june 28th call didn't ultimately as it played out present any problems for you? the call poor president zelensky did not. the preparation for that call. the preparation included maybe 15 minutes of just the -- just irregular in that it didn't have the staff. it was also in that pre-call in that 15 minutes before president zelensky got on the phone where ambassador volker bamentsz volker told the rest of the participants that he wa

of investigations for military aid quote crazy. sitting next to william taylor today will be george kent. the current state department deputy of european and eurasian affairs. masters degree from the national defense universityt johns hopkins. kent describes in his testimony that took place behind closed doors that was on october 11. he described it as a campaign of slander against the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. of course she is testifying on friday. those two men on the hot seat today. one story about the state department officials testifying this week and about what may happen to them in the weeks and months to come, noting democrats on the senate floor sent a letter yesterday to key state department officials urging them to prevent any retaliation against the three state department employees testifying. we call on you to unequivocally support and protect the employees to your fullest ability including by issuing a statement of support and ensuring that they are not subject to any reprisal. that is from a robert menendez, the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee. are inviting you and not secretary pompeo because his silence speaks volumes for him not standing

of racist graffiti and swastikas found on campus. and in one instance, students at the university's library received a white supremacist manifesto on their cell phones. on thursday, chancellor kent syverud signed a memorandum agreeing to 19 demands presented by student groups who organized a week-long sit-in protest of a campus building. in indiana, a white police officer has been fired after a viviral video showed him harasag two african-american men for "acting suspicious" by spending over $ $1000 at a shopping m ma. deputy constable daryl jones was a security duty as officer at a nordstrom rack store in the indianapolis suburb of lawrence when he followed aaron blackwell and his cousin durell cunningham to their car in the mall parking lot, demanding to see their id's. blackwell recordeded the interaction on his cell phone. >> get y your drivers license o. show me id. >> call your supervisor. what you need my id for, sir? >> because you want to run your mouth to me. amy: officer jones called for backup, and an on-duty officer arrived, eventually telling blackwell and cunningham they were free to go. lawrence township chief constable terry burns said he decided to fire officer

diplomats william taylor and george kent gave opening testimonies and described irregular and informal channels of communicationing joined by our guest, professor at the universityf london. impeachment offenses are hard to nail down. these are ultimately not political trials when you look at the allegations. on one hand, you've got the idea of the kwquid pro quo and then h idea of a coverup. >> i think they are both going to be very damaging. one is the set of actions carried out that are deemed to be illegal what you are asking someone to do in another country to do something likely to yield a result for you back home in an election that in it self is an offense. the ways you try to obstruct the investigation. so both of those will likely be unified together that is among the three things that adam schiff pointed out at the beginning. they combine to show that wrongdoing was done. >> if you take a step back there was wall-to-wall coverage of this yesterday. what do these proceedings mean for the ability of legislatures to actually pass laws over the next few months, do you think? >> this whole presidency has been bound up with investigation after investigation.

running on a parallel universe from the administration's policy on ukraine where rudy giuliani was leading things from the periphery. a campaign of lies is what was described by george kentpting to oust marie yovanovitch, someone who will be testifying publicly next week. there was also george kent's understanding of the alleged quid pro quo. his understanding that he believed that the administration was requiring that public statement in order to release or -- either ordered to release the security assistance or to arrange a sit-down with the president. there's that as well. again, no direct connection to the president but it makes very clear whether it's eu ambassador sondland, whether it's kurt volker or others in the top echelons of the administration's ukraine policy there was a significant problem here based on how the career folks saw it. you'll also see george kent testifying next week. he'll be in public on wednesday. democrats trying to paint the entire picture of an administration that they believe in some way had gone rogue on ukraine. that's the central thesis to things. the big question is can they prove or make clear that a quid pro quo came directly from

that sort of the universe of initiatives you took inside the state department to raise your concerns about the irregular channel? >> i also raised my concerns with deputy secretary george kent, in particular early on when -- i think i may have mentioned this phone call that was odd in that it did not include the normal staff. indeed, ambassador sondland's staff. and that struck me as unusual. i consulted with mr. kent and at his suggestion made a note of this and also had -- i think at that point i had a conversation with mr. brektbul. >> that was a june 28th call, i believe? >> that is correct. >> in your opening statement you expressed some concerns about what ambassador sondland had said. but then once zelensky got on the phone, it proceeded in a very regular channel way, correct? >> that is correct. >> so the june 28th call, at least in and of itself, didn't ultimately as it played out present any problems for you? >> the call with president zelensky did not. the preparation for that call, the preparation included maybe 15 minutes of just the americans that would stay on the call. again, that was a little irregular in that it didn't have the staff. it was always in that

universe of the initiatives that you took inside of the state department to raise your concerns about the irregular channel? >> i also raised my concerns with the deputy assistant secretary george kent, and in particular early on when there, i may have mentioned this phone call that was odd in that it did not include the normal staff, and indeed mr. sondland's staff, and that struck me as unusual. i consulted with mr. kent, and at his suggestion made a note of this and also, i believe at that point i had a conversation with mr. brechbuhl. >> that is the june 28th call i believe? >> yes, that is correct. >> in your opening statement, you expressed some concerns about what ambassador sondland had said, and then once zelensky got on the phone, it proceeded in a regular channel way, correct? >> that is correct. >> so the june 28th call at least in and of itself didn't ultimately as it played out didn't present any problems for you? >> the call with president zelensky did not. the preparation for that call, the preparation included maybe 15 minutes of just the americans that would stay on the call and that, again, that was irregular in that it did not have the staff, and also in that pre

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universe of the initiatives that you took inside of the state department to raise your concerns about the irregular channel? >> i also raised my concerns with the deputy assistant secretary george kent, and in particular early on when there, may have mentioned this phone it did not include the normal staff and that struck me as unusual with mr. kent made a note of this. in your opening statement, you expressed some concern about what began as utter said and then it proceeded in a very regular way, correct? >> that's correct. >> so, the june 28 call that and ultimately as it played out present any problems for you. >> the preparation for that call included maybe 15 minutes just of the americans that would stay on the call they told the rest of the participants that he was planning to have a conversation with the president zelensky in toronto the important components of the phone call we were trying to establish. i will have to check my notes on that. it raised issues for me that i didn't understand what he had in mind but he was specifically going to raise a. of relating to this corrupt charisma outfit consistent with the president's message. >> the president's concerns about the 201

university. counsel for the oversight committee. when asked change with george kent from the state department -- that's watch. -- let's watch. he has sort ofiven a speech , you know a little folksy about how he went into ukraine and he told ukrainians that if they do not fire the prosecutor they are going to lose their $1 billion in loan guarantees you have seen that, correct? >> i have. i think was a speech on the council of foreign relations in 2018. >> he also said he had been to ukraine 13 times. do you know if that is accurate? knowledge,est of my when he was vice president, he made six visits. maked the state department -- express any concern about the vice president's role going to issues?being any >> no, it was to help us pursue our policy agenda. role on hunter biden's the board of directors, you testified that you expressed some concerns to the vice president sub office, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> what did they do about that concern? >> i have no idea. i reported my concern to the office of the vice president. >> that was the end of it? >> sir, you would have to ask people who worked in the office of the vice presiden