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My late friend, could congressman john lewis, was a great champion of american democracy. and for civil rights around the world. learning from and gaining inspiration from other great leaders like gandhi, and mandela, but this final words, he was dying, to our nation last year, he reminded our country, quote, democracy is not a state. it is an act. democracy is not a state, it is an act. so over the next two days, were bringing together leaders from more than 100 governments alongside activists,...

It was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different but they have to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding her...

Influence instagram has on teenage girls. what were senators most concerned about here? >> yeah, they were pretty peeved off with the instagram ceo today. they were sort of saying they werent getting the transparency and commitments from him to be transparent about data. but senator richard blumenthal, who has been pretty sharp on this issue for the most part, asked a very good question, which was even when parents see things or just when any users see content on the platform that could be dange...

China has been a staunch supporter of the multilateral trading system as an important member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the WTO's Deputy Director-General Zhang Xiangchen told Xinhua in a recent interview.

India has pledged one billion US dollars as support for earthquake reconstruction in Nepal with one-fourth of the aid committed as grant assistance to be utilized for health, culture heritage, housing and education sectors, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.

A boiling point again? we know putins adamantly against ukraines desires to join nato. he said last week he would call for specific agreements that would rule out any further nato expansion eastward. we dont know if he addressed that with president biden today, but the white house says biden made no commitments, no concessions on the call. so where did they leave things? the two presidents asked both of their teams to follow up, and the u.s. said it would do so in close coordination with allies ...

Military action by moscow would end the hopes for a key natural gas pipeline. officials say putin gave no intention of his intent but asked for, quote, reliable guarantees that nato will not expand into ukraine. officials say biden made no commitments on that. the high-staking call came as russia has moved nearly 100,000 troops to the border in recent weeks. joining us now to talk about this, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, good morning. thank you so much for being here. we ce...

It was a time for something new, something more green. translation: now we have something different but they have _ to prove themselves. that mr scholz managed to form a government at all is seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. he will have to hold to get an unusual coalition. the social democrats, the greens, and the business friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding h...

Friendly free democrats are not natural bedfellows. this is an historic day for germany and there is a real sense of excitement at the political changes unfolding here. what the rest of the world wants to know is what does this mark a significant shift in germanys wider positions and policies? for now, it seems the answer is no. olaf scholz championed the eu, likes a multilateral approach. his government plans to spend more on defence and will stick to nato commitments. you might see some shift ...

Lawrence, on everything from new tools we can use to battle corruption, like those i wrote about with janet yellen, to tools we can use to combat misinformation, disinformation. were struggling with that here in the united states on everything from vaccine delivery to politics, and that is a phenomenon in so many pockets in the world and others in civil society and independent media have their tactics they have used to try to win the marketplace of ideas and strengthen independent journalists an...