From this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions in developing countries and thats an enormous victory for for for that the rights of more globally. By degrees has been following proceedings from a boozer. This is not the only case in court either in the netherlands or in the u. K. Where hundreds of people have queued up to shell for contaminating the niger delta i spoke to an actor is a short while ago he said this is just the beginning and a lot of analysts also believe that it will open the floodgates into so many late editions against all producing Company Production companies that have been operating in nigeria some of these cases have been there for a very long time and they were unsuccessful similar communities up and successful to try call a shell in nigeria and courts for example in this particular case today in the netherlands 2 of the people who filed that case have died have already died but again activists are sa
Was involved in high profile terrorism and kidnapping ioinvestigations, manage the bureau munication in response to crisis incidents. Overseas he was on multiple diplomatic operational assignments has been awarded the fbi combat awarded four times for his work embedded with military special operation. Hes presently a cnn Law Enforcement analysty on cnn. He is a term member of the council of the Foreign Relations and teaches National Security law at usc. He received his masters from Johns Hopkins universityop and much board for from our perspective in austin hes a graduate of the university of texas. [applause]. Most relevant to his book is that he was james comeys special assistant. The book crossfire hurricane gets its name, that was the codename for the fbi rush nvinvestigation and as james comeys assistant hes able to offer a fly on the wall perspective, account on the early days of the investigation as well as really insightful analysis into the investigation up to the present. He
Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the public broadcasting act of 1967. Next, public media figures including jim lehrer and talkshow host dick cavett gather to discuss programming. The next panel is on news and Public Affairs and talk shows. We will show you a clip from the watergate hearings. We Just Launched a curated exhibit about the coverage of the watergate hearings and that will be the first time they have been made available online. So will the next panel, and we can run the clip . Coveragee videotape for the Senate Select committee. Here is the Senior Correspondent robert mcneil. Good evening from washington. In a few moments we will bring you the entire seatings in the first day of the Senate Watergate hearings, hearings to hear the truth about the wide unethical, oral, improper activities surrounding the reelection of president nixon last year. We are running it all each day because we think thes
We will show you a clip of the watergate hearings. As carla hayden just mentioned, we launched a. A period exhibit on the coverage of the watergate hearings and that will mark the first time the complete Online Access to the hearings has been made to made available to the public on might. The next panel come up and you can run the clip . [video clip] here is impact ceo correspondent. From washington. We are going to bring you the entire proceedings in the first day of the second watergate hearings. Hearings to bear the truth about the wide range of illegal, unethical, or improper activity. Surrounding the reelection of president nixon last year. We are writing at all each day because we think these hearings are important and because we think it is important if you get a chance to see the whole thing and make your own judgments. Some nights, we may be an const competition with the late news. We are doing this as an toeriment experiment, give you the whole story. However many hours it ma
Gaveltogavel coverage of todays hearings. Here is the senior correspondent, Robert Mcneil. Good evening from washington. We are going to bring you the entire proceedings for the first day of the Senate Watergate hearings. Determine the truth of a wide range of improper activities established or merely alleged surrounding the reelection of president and. We are running it all the reelection of president nixon. We are running at all because we think you should get a chance to see the whole thing and make your own judgment. We are doing this as an experiment, temporarily out temporarily abandoning our ability to edit to give you the whole story. Of the final one scenes of one of those shakespearean histories, the forces hostile to the king are rising on all sides, messenger after messenger rushes in with bad news but the decisive battle is still some scenes away and we do not yet know if this is a tragedy we are witnessing. By telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presid