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Emory university provided this video. Prof. Allitt todays class is about president Richard Nixon and his National Security advisor, Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people ever to occupy the white house and had incredible political gifts. And on the other hand, hes one of the worst people to ever occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of paranoia. He was mistrustful, sometimes against the instruments of government like the state department. In the e...

Where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. So for the record, what they got was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. So we took them to hospital. I would have thought the way for book it was around 9 am...

In as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, philip gordon. He is a senior fellow at the u. S. Foreign policy here at cfr. For joining the council fill a special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa in the gulf region under president obama. He previously served the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. He is responsible for the relations of more than 50 countries in europe and eurasia along...

Efforts to end a more than 3 year blockade imposed on qatar and goals in political and economic crises. Perus gets its current president in a week and al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate his immunity from prosecution. But with infections surging worldwide, and governments struggling to respond, theres been another dose of hope in the battle against covert 19 years. Pharmaceutical firm, a durness says early tests show aids vaccine is 94. 5 perce...

Engulfed in political and economic crises, parun gets its 3rd president in a week. And al jazeera says, recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate immunity from prosecution. With infections surging worldwide and governments struggling to response, theres been another dose of hope in the battle against covert 19 u. S. Pharmaceutical mcgurn says early tests show its vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective in preventing the virus fellow drug maker. Pfizer reported similar resul...

Hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. Shavar dancing has more on the situation in the us from wilmington, delaware home state of president elect, joe biden. The midwest is a particularly big head to the middle of the country, basically is being particularly hard hit 200000 dollars 200000 cases a day, you know, being, being recorded. A...

Relief for artists who have fled political persecution in their own country. And settled in berlin. What drove them to leave . What challenges do they face in their new home . What attracted them to the german capital . People in berlin are demonstrating for every bello roosts theater director smithson charge, who is one of the cold organizers of the protest. Hes glad that he can express his opinion freely in germany, and that he can send a signal from abroad. Merely showing them that barry lynn...

My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was l...

Legend, diego is laid to rest at a private ceremony. And earlier, tens of thousands of fans were lined up to pay their final respects at argentinas president ial palace on the road. He opens fleeing for their lives as the government orders the army to start the final phase of an offensive in the Northern Region of tikrit plus, using chemical weapons to attack civilians in syria in 201320178 was among the worst crimes should take place in the conflict. Now human rights organizations hoping that a...

President elect, joe biden has hinted he wants negotiations back on track. But with fridays development has his chance gone before he even reaches Office Around the clock across the world. This is our Team International from the team and myself, you know, neal hello and welcome to the program. Breaking news is where we begin. A scientist labeled the father of the uranium you can learn a program has been killed on the outskirts of tehran. Local reporter told me more about what is known at this st...