Okay. Lets get started. Im dan runde. Were going to have a conversation about whether or not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. B. Bush, were country focussed where u. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful. But you would ask yourself, well, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the obama administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool. And i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool kit in the United States. And so we have examples from tunisia and egypt that were going to talk about as well. Were going to talk a l
Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system. The most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. So its, but it was a very long tail. There are many many directors, many and its a Program Officers involved National Science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of Course Congress of course was the ultimate arbiter of appropriations and making the decision to continue an investment but nobody was quite sure what would have a result so how risky is
Complaints. The video assistant referee is being used tonight as chelsea host arsenal in the first leg of the league cup semifinal. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. At least 15 people have been killed by mudslides and flash floods in southern california. Rescue workers are now mounting a desperate search for survivors, fearing that dozens of people might still be trapped. Many of those affected now are the very same people who last month fled from wild fires. The extreme weather has hit carpinteria, Santa Barbara and montecito from where our correspondent james cook reports. On californias Pacific Coast, ordeal by the elements continues. First, they endured the largest fire in the states history. Next came torrential rain, more intense than anyone here could remember. Then, within minutes, destruction, caused by an unstoppable wall of mud and debris. This 14 year old survived. Even she does not know how. Firefighters using rescue dogs heard her screams and worked for hours to pull
A video released on twitter thanked his supporters but he also expressed regret for the many journalist inmates hes left behind did germany strike a secret deal to get him released. But im Christopher Spring a good to have you with us day two of the Munich Security Conference is just getting underway around five hundred senior government to military leaders from around the world meeting to deliberate on pressing security challenges d. W. News well be bringing you live coverage of the event throughout the day among the highlights today british Prime Minister to resume a jew to address the conference and set out a vision for Security Cooperation between britain and the European Union often breaks it germanys foreign minister cigar gabrial is also about. To deliver a speech so lets cross now to munich mckayla coup for our Political Correspondent standing by for us mikhail as mentioned were waiting for gabrielle to speak to address the security conference we have any idea what to expect fr
Its famous feuds through the decades. Feuds. They are fights that go on and on. And on. Many of us have them with family, but history has witnessed ongoing arguments among rival scientists, sports figures, politicians and even actors. Today here on through the decades, were taking the hour to look back at some famous feuds throughout history. From the duel between Alexander Hamilton and aaron burr that ended a bitter rivalry as well as hamiltons life. To comedians jack benny and fred allens pretend feud that spanned nearly 20 years across both radio and television. But we begin with the 1959 debate, when politicians from the soviet union and the u. S. Went toetotoe on television. The summer of that year, Vice President Richard Nixon was visiting to moscow as part of a cultural exchange. That trip would earn a place in history, thanks to an impromptu debate with the soviet premier that would forever be known as the kitchen debate. For four days now, some of the 20th centurys most extrao