the race borders at which certainly in the west because the west actually was more multiracial than the east. so, you know, there again, it was just part of -- this is a settler's society. we don't have so many laws and rules and regulations here. >> yeah, that racial question just came in from one of our viewers saying if the western states that encourage suffrage were primarily white, what about suffrage for native american women and men? >> yeah, that's a -- some native american women and men didn't get the vote until the 1920s, and even later. a number, this gets complicated, a number of native american women and men did get the vote with the severalty act was passed. this was an act that the people who promoted, thought it was going to be a wonderful thing for native americans, turned out to be a disaster. it enabled the tribal reservations to be apportioned into plots that they gave to different people, and part of, if you claimed one of those plots, sort of like a homestead, you also got the right to vote. so some did get the right to vote. but a lot of native women as we tal

migrated to the west. most 19th century americans, including beecher, considered politics too base a pursuit for women but not all. in july 1848 as migration increased, katie stanton -- elizabeth katie stanton, who we see here in all of her mag magnificence -- [laughter] and lucretia mott, both abolitionists, famously held a meeting in seneca falls, new york, to discuss what were first called woman rights. the event was later promoted as the birth place of suffrage, the right to vote in national mobile elections, sit on jury, run for office. but seneca falls really only helped to formalize and publicize a cause amid e the ferocious battle to abolish slavery. by the 1830s black abolitionists soon personified by sojourner truth upheld universal suffrage or the right to vote regardless of race, sex or creed. they inspired white women abolitionists to rebel against their own second class status which was based on gender instead of race. stanton and mott were well aware that in their own upstate community the n

to test the unity of the west. _ allies are sinking. to test the unity of the west.f the west. not that i allies are sinking. to test the - unity of the west. not that russia is havin: unity of the west. not that russia is having battles _ unity of the west. not that russia is having battles are _ unity of the west. not that russia is having battles are won - unity of the west. not that russia is having battles are won official. is having battles are won official dismissed the west thinking as keep calm and blame russia. but russia does have a track record of testing the west. it did so in crimea, it did so in georgia, it even did so in space this week by destroying a satellite and a missile task much to nato's irritation. here in the uk the conservative mp tobias ellwood sees another test coming. everyone is watching. and this isn't just about military might because to understand prudence plan we also need to think about energy too. this is the gas pipeline. it runs from russia all the way to western europe. but it's not switched on yet, in fact germany has just del

and then went west. she -- represented the west with a distinctly female perspective in art, journalism and novels. no heroic cowboys alone on the prairies for her. she was determined to show that women were just as important to men, to western development. and that -- you can kind of tell from the demeanor of the men and women in the pictures that the men were by no means all swashbuckling heroes. but few new women compare with caroline lock heart, an amazing wyoming woman. she has a special place in my heart. she began her writing career as a girl reporter for the boston post. nearly blind start of this thing of, send the women to do something, and caroline we dive into the boston harbour, and jump off a building with the net the fireman were holding. anyway, she went west on an assignment and then fell a love with cody, wyoming. she published the local newspaper. she founded the famous cody stampede. but she was most famous for her novels, which challenge the idea of good guys and bad guys. but severa

west and a little further west, they were going to do what theodore roosevelt and former state historian called the great leap westward. we are going to leap over the cumberland plateau and settle here. the reason they picked to this spot was james robertson who was a surveyor and long hunter had been here a time or two and he had seen the abundant amount of game because all of the salt licks where salt comes up out of the surface of the water, of the ground were attracting animals, animal trails all over middle tennessee, you see what the land look like and they were followed by hunters but native american hunters as well as long hunter is coming from virginia and north carolina so this great leap was made in the middle of the revolutionary war and it was a hotly contested effort to claim this land because the chickamauga and, a hostile group of cherokee, had tried to prevent these people from saying, tried to push them out and the casualty rate among the early settlers was very very high but things begin to settle down, north carolina will ultimately claim this pocket of settlements he

when he returns to west point some of the correspondents at the west point correspondence does survive and there's an expert -- excerpt from his brother sam and pelham says i do not think a man can be strictly honorable and less he is brave. if he fears encouragement to other men he cannot fulfill his definition of a man and his west point letters gave us a little bit of insight into his foundational thinking and we can see that play out as opportunities arise in the civil war. pelham's actions tend -- he wants on her knee wants to be brave so the quote from the west point letter is very insightful in that way. deception calms or john brown's. in 1859 raises tensions within the barracks of west point just as it raises tensions across the united states. pelham tended to stay out of the political squabbles and fights and his classmates know this. in the mid-1860s he went home to see his family who would then seriously ill but he returns to the military academy in time to meet chris edwards of england who is in the united states at that time. others around pelham in this period described

eric eyre how unique is mud lick west virginia and what happened to it? >> it is a really small community there is about 30 residents outlive their and to show you how small it is, it took me a while to figure out how to spell it i heard mud lick is one word in mud lick as two words and i actually had to call the sheriff's office in wayne county to figure out exactly how to spell it and she says it's two words but don't worry there's only 30 people that live there and they won't be reading your book. it's a typical hollow and west virginia and between the mountains, that is where the overdose that started this whole story and this all occurred with the overdose on oxycontin it's very small and very rural. >> at one point did 12 million oxycontin arrived in the count of 30 residents reads alert? >> it really raised alerts we had to go to court to unseal some documents, there was a modified complaint that was filed in circuit court in a case of the distributors, west virginia versus the drug distributors and these are companies that shift onto chip opioids

we didn't see that in west virginia. as a matter of fact, larger pharmacies and walmarts in kroger and supermarket chains here and right aid in cbs, for the most part, did a pretty good job of policing thise and cuttig off people obviously bring in bogus prescriptions but it doesn't seem to be the case nationwide. there's currently, there's a trial that started earlier this week in ohio where the plaintiff, the cities and towns across thehe country part of ths consolidated mdl in cleveland where cases have been consolidated, they are going toe to toe with the pharmacy chain right now saying they contributed to the opioid epidemic but in west virginia, i have to say you'd have this situation where you have an independent family-owned pharmacy w disturbing 30,000 pis or hydrocodone pills for months and down the street two blocks away there would be a walgreens disturbing like 1000 oxycontin or hydrocodone so very different but my guess is they left after the independent and chain pharmacies talking about chain pharmacies h

so it is the typical hollow in west virginia. right in between the mountains and the creek but that is where the overdose that started thehi whole story and where the whole book occurred with an overdose on oxycontin. host: at what point did 12 million oxycontin pills arriving in the town of 30 residents raised alert? >> it really raised alerts, we actually went to court to unseal some documents there was a modified complaint filed in the circuit court in the case of the state against the distributor and these are companies that ship opioids from factories like purdue pharma to pharmacies. so we went to court the whole case was argued under seal hidden away from the public and then ultimately when we prevailed in court we started to see the's gargantuan numbers how is it possible in three years that it could absorb or have use for 12 million and opioids it was impossible people were driving from all over from kentucky or ohio or from north carolina even as far away as florida to come to west virginia to buy prescription opioids m

none the less ukraine is in the west orbit. and america and britain, which of course, all the heart and soul of nato, are intent on bring in the ukraine into its ranks. because a ukraine in the ranks of nights. so the main that russia is and so on it's western border, it would mean that russian supremacy in the black sea region would be seriously compromised. because even as we talk now, the americans are referred to shit. the at odessa, an article in ukraine to accommodate american and british will shit. so what we see at the moment in the black sea region and in ukraine is a measure that the americans and the british are going to take. they now have ukraine in their orbits. they are going to do if the thing they possibly can, with the exception of defending ukraine, militarily, they will do everything they can to ensure that ukraine remains in their presence. so one of the options to russia, well gosh, is, does have options in ukraine. and quite frankly, ukraine should never have been allowed to enter the west or beach in the

west virginia or the country? sen.: i was blessed with having good support from republicans, democrats, independents. i never got the far right or far left. i can understand that. never in our country or state or politics from the far left or far right. i gave a speech one day. the first time we came back off covid to bethany college. a beautiful little college in northern west virginia. i walked on the stage. they gave me a speech. i have good people who work with me. what do i say? i had nothing on paper or nothing in my mind i was going to say as i walked to the podium. i'm thinking i don't know what to say. i walked up and i apologized. i am sorry. i've been radicalized. they looked at me and i don't know how that came out that way. i said your grandparents have been radicalized. our generation was radicalized because we don't understand what is going on. i never had computers. i never had cell phones, any of those growing up. i got my news from cbs, abc, nbc. i remember when john kennedy was running for president

when he returns to west point, some of his correspondence, his west point correspondent does survive and there's an excerpt from a letter that he wrote to his brother sam. pelham says, i do not think a man can be strictly honorable unless he is brave. if he fears and cringes, then he cannot fulfill the full definition of a man. and his west point letters give us a little bit of insight into his foundational thinking and we can start seeing as opportunities arise in the civil war,'s actions -- he wants honor and he wants to be brave. and i think that's quote from the west point letter is very insightful in that. way this action comes. john brown's rate in 1859 was in the barracks of west point, just as it raises tensions across the united states. pelham tended to stay out of the political squabbles and fights. his classmates notice. and in the mid 18 sixties he went home to see his family who had been seriously ill. -- in time to meet prince edward of england, who is visiting the u.s. at that time. others around pelham at this period described him as wise and discreet. not jumping int

he's off fighting in the west. he takes part in topping john brown's raid at harper's ferry and stuart is a favorite with general robert e. lee and known for his flair and charisma and he tries out new tactics. and i think that is something that sometimes we forget about stuart. he has an incredible spy network that he's using throughout virginia and he also innovated with artillery. so stuart has this idea, could he have horst artillery. it is something that they used on napoleon battlefields and it is moving artillery from point to point. stuart gets the organizer down in richmond to buy off on this idea of horse artillery but he has trouble finding a commander. first he thinks it is john cook. but cook spends half of his time in richmond and doesn't have interest at this point in forming an artillery unit. then stuart puts forward james brod ard's name, they're not so into him at the moment and third time is a charm, he puts forward pelham's name. pelham has been active with the artillery and are training the un

the, with the west has instruments to stop this. you for can act if it has the political world, they are actually understaffed and to remain. but they can call in over the horizon to stop any conflict. but it's a question of political will. and that political will was not there when the, when the west was friends with the russian beat on you for ok. and so they accepted this black mailing in the, in the security council of stripping the resolution of extending the many for one more year from any language reference to our. and that by itself does not have legal consequences. but it sense a very dangerous legal political signals, because always tell mr dodie to bang right and to russia, that it is not clear that in a case of a threat, a security threat which, which these announce steps towards succession would mean that the west is ready to grant authority to the high right. ok to use the one on the political side and to you for on the other end to, to, to act on the military. and that's a very dangerous judgment that we're going to h

and also it provides the west to continue beef in up. it's the military present in nature and in the black sea region. that is what the, the crux of the matter is concerning. the tension on the polish russian border. it is about later increase in its presence along the russian order. i think it was kind of a psychological thing to, i mean brussels this can't confidence back that there was and say no, they can say no. and when you get away with it here and because of that now they've taken options off the table. like i said, there's the error to one option you might might or might finance it resolved your problem. ok. and they're not willing to accord the same kind of policy towards a great, very reason explain to us. right. i agree, and i will also add to that perhaps that i think kind of a me turn challenge here is that, well, the rules maybe kind of turn into what d p a r k is for china. you know, when you put too much pressure on kim and refusal kind of neat options for negotiation that me, that way you have, you know, north korea as

so the west not only has not driven its crisis to emerge. its officials are directly responsible for the emergence of this crisis. they need urgently make your turn and take this crisis serious and pull the public right. but he says, self inflicted, what is it, what is it that they haven't done that they should have been doing? well, i mean, for 15 years we've gone since we, since the west has put over responsibility for leaving the country to the domestic leads. we are lacking any policy western long term strategic policy towards the reach and that's what was missing. we created a wide comment which nationalist could thrive and in which russia would jump in as a low cost spoiler on the other end for the last 34 years. and then went home, lack of political will to deal with the country and deal with the white or by some fucking region. we have seen mid level officials. we have been tasked with mission and was on to fix situations in the bottom without higher level support. that they for career is reason i'm starting to collude with domestic

lazy depictions of stereotypical west virginians.and derision. >> elaine: if you google appalachia to this day, you're going to see dirty-faced kids, bare foot on a front porch, shaking lyndon b. johnson's hand. there's a lot more to appalachia than that. >> anthony: in 1964, lyndon johnson declared his war on poverty. a good thing, yes? but the accompanying press tour portraying the people here as an incapable and bewildered helpless masse, missed the basic essential character -- the pride and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. >> elaine: when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat -- how all these things are -- i think we've all felt it at some point. shame. >> anthony: what should people know about this area that they don't know, that they're not getting? >> it's just how much that people in this area have been exploited. [ bells ringing ] [ machines whirring ] >> nick: the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. the coal and timber companies that started extracting and t

eric i who won a pulitzer prize for his reporting on opioids at mayo and now a reporter in west virginia and the author a coal country fight against the drug companies that develop the opioid epidemic. patrick, let me start with you in your devastating, absolutely devastating portrait of the family and their role in that opioid epidemic. can you give us a brief description of empire of pain and tell us what led you to write this book. >> absolutely first of i'm really humbled and honored to share a panel with the two of you and who have written such amazing stuff on this issue, the opioid crisis is so big as an issue that i feel different parts of it have been worked over by people in different ways there's great books on opioid crisis i wanted to look closely at the perpetrators so i was very interested in the family who owned purdue pharma connecticut pharmaceutical company that a lot of people with the tip of this. of the crisis the drug that started this on the road to where we are today. it is not in opioid crisis per se it's a broad look of three generations of the families of fami

i am getting first reports of a crash west bound 80 near carlson just west of here. things are busy across east shore freeway ride. bay bridge, metering lights are on and traffic is backing up well beyond the 880 over pass. you will have brake lights across the upper deck. travel time is almost 13 minutes between the maze into san francisco. also a busy ride for commuters heading to altamont pass coming off of 205 onto 580, all the usual stuff. there is a new crash, counter commute over to the right hand side. 53 minutes west bound 3580, 205 to 680. 19 minutes highway 4 to the maze and highway 4 is starting to back up with 42 minutes from antioch towards 80. other super commuter routes, brake lights north 101 out of san martin into morgan hill. the good news is the rest of the way through san jose is okay, no delays on 101, 280. that will change as 49ers take on the rams. expect busy conditions at levi stadium later on. >> thank you. >>> construction kicking off at the embarcadero bart station in san francisco. contractors will begin working on concourse and platform

pope service in the west was not done. immediately or take part in the following campaign of the siege against. publican illustrates one of those personality traits learned about, insubordination. during the campaign, siege of crime would advance his column to quickly, disobey the structure of movie no faster than the other elements of the union army, in this case that command of the will. also disobey order from henry hallett by lawrence during the campaign about 4 miles east. this new trait that emerged constantly disobeying orders, including, not expelling one of pope's tools to promote himself. henry ordered the removal of the media and the press out of the army during the campaign and pope yet again is an insubordinate to his commanders orders. he enjoys posting of himself, he loves gossiping about others to those in the media and press. henry ford right in the moment say pope was no doubt an able man and good soldier but he talked too much of himself. of what he could do and what he ought to be done and he indulged c

the west has the instruments to stop this.ave the political world, they are understaffed, but they can call in over the horizon forces to stop any conflict. it is a question of political will. and that political will was not there when when the west was threatened with the russian veto on it. so, they accepted this blackmailing. stripping the resolution of any language reference to hr and that by itself does not have legal consequences but it sends a dangerous political signal that it is not clear that in a case of a threat, a security threat, which these announced step toward secession would mean, that the west is ready to grant authority to the high rep to use the bond powers on the political side, and on the other end, to act on the military ends, and that is a very dangerous situation. adrian: gentlemen, we're going to have to end it. many thanks indeed to you all, hamza karcic, bodo weber, and aleksander brezar. as always, thank you for watching. don't forget, you can see the program again at any time by going to the webs

send me back out west. but the question then comes in at this moment for historical debate, who else would be the right fit a at this moment. lincoln administration needs someone that is outspokenly republican. pope fits that box. antislavery, check. suggesting using african-americans, check. willing to wage a hard war against the civilian populous, check. and a commander that is aggressive, all of these things that mcclellan is not. the new york tribune would note pope is not the type of man to sit around and wait. he's a man of action, a man of boldness. the philadelphia public ledger would write pope would bring order out of the chaos in the valley and be ready at once for offensive service. now pope takes command. and pope is going to be called into different meetings. lincoln and stanton are locking for some advice from pope on how to help mcclellan down on the peninsula. mcclellan is screaming for reenforcements. lincoln and stanton is saying no. pope is saying this is bad news on the peninsula. and b

west unsettled you? >> i'll tell you where. on issues of race. >> mm. >> my inclination prior to our deep engagement on these racial issues was to suppose that the fundamental problem is that people are race-conscious. they think of themselves as white or black, when race is really something ephemeral, something that, strictly speaking, doesn't even exist. it's a kind of artifact of culture. >> mm-hmm. mm-hmm. >> wouldn't it be better if we just were color-blind completely in all of our dealings. and that sounded, to me, like a very good way of solving the problem. what cornel has driven home with me is, yes, there's a sense in which we should relegate racial categories to the ash heap of history, and, yet, we have to deal with the facts of history, which include the emergence of cultures based on "race" so that a program in african-american studies is, for example, studying a tradition, one that makes sense. cornel sometimes refers to african-americans as a people. he says, "i come from a people that has suffered for 400 years

there could be some rain in places, particularly in north—west scotland.ud but it will be milder for all of us. this is bbc news i'mjane hill. the headlines... world leaders have agreed a plan to drastically cut methane gas emissions, at the un climate summit in glasgow. but china, russia and india are not part of the deal. together, we are committing to collectively reduce our methane by 30% by 2030, and i think we can probably go beyond that. separately, leaders strike a deal to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade. we have to stop the devastating loss of our forests, these great, teaming ecosystems, trillion pillared cathedrals of nature. brazil is one of the signatories to the deal, but the bbc has seen evidence of the growing deforestation of the amazon rainforest.

more than a quarter of a century later it remained in place encircling west berlin. it shows where the wall was cut off and sense reagan mentioned it in the speech you have to the brandenburg gate was 18th century monument that once served as a ceremonial entrance to berlin and then the berlin wall cuts it off. so that brings me to the speech itself the spring of 1987 i am a speechwriter in the reagan white house i'm told the president will speak in front of the berlin wall, he will have an audience between ten and 40000 people and he will speak for about half an hour and given the setting the subject will be foreign-policy. that is all the guidance i got. i flew to west berlin with the security people who work out security with the westerman's members of the oppressed office and check the camera angles and i went to gather materials. first stop is where the president would speak and it's very difficult to convey how momentous the place felt. just a few feet away is the water had damaging the second world war i climbed and observation platform to look over the wall i

territory to the west. so, leaving listen poll. and by 1960, one 5th of the entire population of east germany had done just that. they fled. to stop this enormous exodus, the east german's proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed. and in middle of the night, august 13th, 1961, the east german's strung barbed wire all the way around west berlin, cutting it off. there is a slide that shows this barbed wire. the east german's would later replace the barbed wire with cinder blocks. and later, they would replace the cinder blocks with slabs of concrete, 13 feet high. more than a quarter of a century later, the berlin wall remained in place, again, in circling west berlin. here's a slight that shows where the wall cut off the brandenburg gate and since president reagan mentioned the gate in the speech, you know that the brandenburg gate was an 18th century monument that had once served as the ceremonial entrance to berlin. again, the berlin wall cut that off. and that brings me to the speeches. it's the spri

the dynasty and eric eyre won a pulitzer prize at the charleston gazette and now at the spotlight in west virginia is the author of "death of mud lick", a coal country fight against the drug companies in developed the opioid epidemic. patrick radden keefe, let me start with you and your devastating absolutely devastating portrait of this family and their role in the opioid epidemic and can you give us a brief description of "empire of pain" and tell us what led you to write this book. >> i first of all want to think you and very humble the two the two of you of recent amazing seven this issue and it s is so vague is an issue that i feel as though different parts of it have been worked over by people in different ways, the great books on the opioid crisis and i wanted to lookth closely at the perpetrators. so is very interested in his family, who owned, this pharmaceutical company that produces oxycontin, sort of the tip of the spear, the drug it started us on the road to where e we are today. it's not an opioid crisis book per se, sort of a broad look at three generations of thiss famiy m

very often they do it just by stepping across the street into west berlin and once in west berlin they could get on a train which had the right to cross east german territory to the west. so leaving was simple. by 1961 a fifth of the entire population of west germany had done just that. they fled. to stop this enormous exodus the east germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed. in the middle of the night of august 13th, 1961, the east germans strung barbed wire all the way around west berlin cutting it off. there is a slide that shows this barbed wire. essentially the -- eventually they would replace it with cinder blocks and then with slabs of concrete 13 feet high. more than one-quarter century later the berlin war remained in place again encircling west berlin. the slide shows where the wall cut off the brandonberg gate and since president reagan mentioned the gate in the speech you need to know it was an 18th century monument that once served as a ceremonial entrance to berlin. the berlin wall cuts it off. it is the spring of 1987. i am a young speechwriter in the reagan

, to the west. it was simple. by 1960, one-fifth of the entire population of east germany had done just that. they had fled. to top this enormous exodus, the east germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed. in the middle of the night, the east germans strung barbed wire all the way around west berlin, cutting it off. there's a slide that shows this. eventually, the east germans would replace it with cinder blocks and after that they would replace thecinder blocks with slapz slabs of concrete 13 feet high. it remains in place encircling west berlin. this is the slide that shows where the wall cut off the brandenberg gate. it was a monument that had serve served as the ceremonial entrance to berlin. that brings me to the speech. it's the spring of 1987. i'm a young speech writer in the reagan white house. i'm told that the president will speak in front of the berlin wall, that he will have an audience of between 10 and 40,000 people. in the end, it was about 40,000 people. he will speak for

i flew to west berlin with the security people and with west germans in the press office, checking the camera angles and so forth and i went to get the material and first stop was in berlin rated versus site with the president would speak that is very difficult to convey spretty momentous place, just a few feet away which still bore second world war shots, i climbed a hundred and observation platform and looked over the wall to east berlin in behind me west berlin, monitors city and ocean and traffic and on the other side of the wall, powerlessness, more soldiers and pedestrians on one side of life on the other side, there's kind of a twilight next i went to the office of the diplomat in berlin and he was telling me what president reagan should not say. these very nuanced and subtle no anti- communists bashing and don't ever mention the wall, they've gotten used to it now. and then i was given a ride over the walnut u.s. army helicopter and it looks worse from there because them the air he would lend of the other of the bulk of the gardens, towers and kind of killing zone or a no man's

which change, west virginia or the country? sen.: i was blessed with good support from republicans, democrats, independents. i never got the far right or far left. i can understand that. we never ran on country or states or politics in far right or far left. i give a speech one day, the first time off covid, to bethany college, a beautiful college in northern west virginia. i walked on the stage. they gave me a speech. i have good people here that work with me, what do i say? i had nothing on paper or nothing in my mind that i was going to say as i walked to the podium. i said i don't know what i'm going to say. i walked up there and apologized. i said i am sorry. i have been radicalized. they looked at me and i don't know how they come out that way. i said i have been radicalized. your grandparents have been radicalized. our generation was radicalized because we do not understand what is going on. i never had computers or cell phones or any of those growing up. i got my news pretty much down the middle. cbs, nbc. west virginia was

the majority of whom live on the west side. we're super excited to see more housing opportunities in the city, but making sure folks can travel safely to and from that housing is vital and making sure service providers can come to those houses to give in-home services is vital. i've heard from so many older adults and folks with disabilities during the pandemic when muni service was cut back. i heard things like i am stranded in my home. i would have never moved to this neighborhood if i knew there wouldn't be a bus. i heard people say i can't transfer to another bus, it's just too hard. i've heard folks say i can't get anyone to come to my home to help me because there's no bus. folks have said, i can't walk to the bus because i can't get up and down that hill with my walker. most of the seniors and people with disabilities that i work with aren't transportation professionals like me. they don't get updates or communications. many of them aren't even online. so they didn't know what was happening with the cut-backs. they have

and one from west virginia you can help us to understand. wants to know by some states like west virginia art out of the multistate settlement on opioids? so why did west virginia quick some people are confused by that. >> in a nutshell. it isl because they didn't think they would get enough money from the national settlement. we saw 400 million. we think the state deserves a lot more than that and the people in the state feel the same way. we basically have three different things going on. the $26 billion settlement on the table and then to sign up. and huntington is the second largest city in the state of west virginia and then there waiting for a judge to make a decision and then there is something called the mass litigation panel which most of these others cities and towns and county hospital school boards are separate but it basically boils down that it has borne the brunt of the opioid storm and we should get a lot more money than we are going to get out of it currently. >> so a few weeks ago there was a settlement approved by the bank

and how the west should deal with it. >> how should e west deal with chinese increased influence? >> in china, we have a wisdom -- to deal with anythin you have to be strong yourself. i don't think west is strong themself enough to deal with china. >> in what sense, is the west not strong enough? >> in many, many ways, if you can't sense how -- what a failure the west by lacking of vision or lacking of compassion in dealing with refugee situation, climate change, and also the war in afghanistan, iraq. >> yeah. >> so i don't think the u.s. has the ability to really examine the situation of its own moral and start behaving. >> you have, for a long time, called for the freedom of julian assange. you visited him in prison. you staged a protest against his extradition to the united states. and last year, you even said quote... assange has been linked in some reporting -- actually lots of reporting -- to russian government. how would that change your view if he is, in fact, acting in concert with or on behalf of an authoritarian regime? >> julian assange exposed s. invasion in afghanist

late on tuesday, another week weather france moves in from the north—west.rn ireland later in the day, but again, most places have a dry day. a touch cooler, about ten to 13 degrees. and then, as we had three tuesday night and into wednesday. here is that with the front. as we follow it, it slips its way south. it will start to introduce some slightly cooler air during the middle part of the week. on wednesday, sunny spells, scattered showers, maybe wintry on high ground of scotland. single diggers for parts of scotland, still 11 or 12 degrees in the south of england. we have got weather france moving in towards the weekend, slowly making their way south but holding onto the dry weather. really, to summarise the weather through the course of next week, it is a mild, settled weather. showers around on thursday and turning wet and windy year in the north—west and staying dry in the south and east. things turning colder by the end of the month. this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. negotiators at the cop26 climate con

clarks burg, west virginia, is the place i write about. i works in clarksburg as a photographer right out of college, not a particularly good photographer, i should point out. t it's a town with about 16,000 people in the northern part of west virginia. and the first thing you notice when you get there is it is a place that had a real sense of ambition. you go back to the 19th century and read the things that people wrote about what they wanted it to be, we want it to be the at a thens of allegheny, an economic capital, a place of consequence. and they had some of the first telephone lines in the state of virginia. and they built these tall buildings in this little town that feel as if they were a kernel of what they expected to be something much bigger. and we know, all of us, sort of the end of that story which is in this more or less period beginning the late '60s until today, jobs vanished, downtown dried up. but what's fascinating to me is to talk to people about how it feels. how does it feel. somebody at one point made to observatio

and eric eyre who won a pulitzer prize for reporting on opioids at charleston gazelle mail, and in west virginia is the "death in mud lick", in the coal country and the opioid ep epidemic. and patrick let me start with you and the sadler family, and can you tell us about the "empire of pain", and what caused you to write the book? >> i'm honestly humbled to share a panel with you, two people who have written amazing stuff on this issue. the opioid crisis is so big as an issue that i feel as though different parts of it have been worked over by some people in different ways, great books on the opioid crisis, i wanted to look pretty closely at the perpetrators and so i was very interested in this family, the samly who owned purdue pharma, a connecticut pharmaceutical company that produces oxycontin that a lot of people think of the tip of the spear of the crisis, the drug that started us on the road to where we are today. and so, it's not an opioid crisis book per se, it's actually sort of a broad look at three generations of a family, the family saga. but i think there are things in the

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