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Plants that could save us if our crops fail Also today. Thats one of 9 u.s. Media outlets that Russia says it now views as foreign agents what will that mean in practice and he 1st brought his country in the 1920 s. We look at the life of Roumania as former king Michael whos just died at the age of $96.00 youre listening to the b.b.c. World Service. Hello this is David Austin with the b.b.c. News the u.n. Human rights chief has issued a powerful indictment of me and mass treatment of ethnic row...

Trucks peeling smoke could become more common on California roadways if the trumpet ministration overturns and Obama era rule aiming to reduce emissions k.q.e.d. Lindsey Hoshi reports a rule slated to go into effect in January would limit the production of new semi trucks built without engines the so-called glider kits can be fitted with older less expensive diesel engines the California Air Resources Board is opposed to the overturn because even though the state requires new cleaner engines to...

Annette Bening is playing screen legend Gloria Graham in film stars dont die in Liverpool she tells us what the actress was like she was a real classic femme tall of the period. And she got older things got really rough for her and Haven bestselling American novelist Celeste inning tells us what inspired her new book little fires everywhere we have music from the wondrous Molly and Amadou and Mariam. Above with. Donna and Nigerian poet while a showing talks about his youthful ambitions to chang...

For instance, on a national level there are really only six major players of which comcast, which owns nbc, is one of them. nbc and comcast is a merger that happened, so, you know, these companies, these big companies are getting bigger and the president has expressed concern about media consolidation. but you have to address this holistically, you cant just give merger approval to your friends and not to those who are critical of you. >> but if the argument is were concerned about media consoli...

Launch brings us closer to war meanwhile North Korean state run media is celebrating this weeks launch Will Ripley reports Korean state media boasting Kim Jong Il and declared with pride that now we have finally realized the great historic cause of completing this state nuclear force also claiming the 23rd missile test of the Trump presidency reconfirmed the safety of the warhead in the atmosphere and reentry environment Jr is expected to meet with the House Intelligence Committee next week Cor...

This is Karen Anderson a funky little theatre company and you are listening to k.c. M.j. LP f.m. 93.9 Colorado Springs. From community Public Radio this is the c.p.r. News. From the York Im Don De Bar today the 18th installment of a conversation that weve been having with Professor Louisiana bone about the political economy the history in essence of the founding and the on timely demise of the u.s.s.r. The period from say 917 until 1991 Lucienne Its a pleasure to have you with us again thank yo...

Soviet fears and finding a formula which mr. gorbachev can accept. >> george bush understood he had a partner in shaping the post-war world, and that partner was mikhail gorbachev. but gorbachev wanted to be neutral. bush always wanted a unified germany and a very disciplined manner, moved gorbachev towards that position. >> in a major concession, gorbachev agreed to the western position that a unified germany is free to join nato. >> once you solved the german problem, you removed the basic sou...

It was depleted. then now its changing. >> leland: is not really changing? the defense authorization bill hasnt gone through, frustration hasnt been lifted. >> its going to take time. if we have sailors, airmen, marines that are working these long hours, long shifts, mistakes are going to happen. thats why what president trump is done to push on our allies, to spend more and have more men and women out there on the front lines with us, the challenges that like i said, being a superpower, even su...

U.s. did you see the american being annihilated by his own missile? im sensing a theme here. what makes all of this even more surreal is where we are. the korean demilitarized zone or dmz, a place unlike any other in the world. to understand the dmz, we need to go back to the end of world war ii. the soviets and americans divided korea just like they did germany. and the korean war set the two superpowers against each other with koreans caught in the middle. 3 million of them died. technically t...

Arsenal. and i was one of the american schoolchildren diving under desks in a foolish belief that we could survive a russian attack. as a political science student, i was immersed in the great issue and debates of my generation. with the united states and kremlin rivalry lead to a war end to all wars? a 1954 nbc documentary ominously titled "three, two, one, zero ♪ w was prime-time viewing. the idea that the world would end was not an apocalyptic uncertainty. but for all the fear, no one dared...