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To get jones and berlin. Good to have you with us. And were starting with news from china, which says it has given 2100000000 dollars worth of debt relief to developing countries as part of its trillion dollar belt and road initiative. China has financed Large Infrastructure Projects throughout africa. That critics say have left many poor countries overloaded with debt. Its been called the railway to nowhere. Kenya celebrated the opening of this train connecting its capital nairobi, and the port...

In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right ...

In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right ...

Security will come to order. Let me say at the outset a number of our members are still in route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. And they will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial recognition of Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committees meeting today to continu...

Nations in Eastern Europe but thats a kind of a narrative that is very western i suppose but i lived there it was i dont have that same kind of feel for it ok though having said that im very glad those communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and in hungary and indeed in september 89 i was in west ber...

Communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and hungry and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin is arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 ...

A bumper crop this year but with prices of the low some growers a warning that theyll go bankrupt if things dont improve soon Florence Louis reports from jakarta. I heard. The harvest time at this Coffee Plantation in sumatra and its plenty for us would normally celebrate but not this year they are the worlds 3rd largest grow as of the rip us to a variety of coffee beans but the market price staffordshire is at an 8 year low but. If the price of coffee stays like we cant continue we might not at...

Veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve Veterans Affairs programs. The event was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I amng toi skip a set of am going to skip a set of introduc...

Ukrainian. Defense capability is one of the key topics of the summit of the European Political Community. The leaders of the eu countries, as well as the states that only aspire to become part of the european family, gathered in the spanish city of granada. The ukrainian leader also arrived at the summit. Already after all the official meetings, my colleague iryna ivanova, who is currently also in spain, managed to ask Volodymyr Zelensky a few questions. In particular, the head of state told wha...

They started the bay areas third encampment on a college campus. Media representatives for the campers say the encampment will send a clear message to School Administrators, mainly the divestment. What were concerned about is the divestment on the behalf of the California State University system from the Israeli Military alumni returning to the campus say theyre encouraged to see students fighting for what they believe in. When i was on campus here, our movements were much smaller. And so seeing...