Prepared himself to don it after catching the coronavirus but somehow this world war 2 veteran managed to cheat death once again and recover. Hello im terry larson good to have you with us a Memorial Service has been held in houston for george floyd the black band who died after a white Police Officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes as the events unfolded democrats in Congress Proposed a bill aimed at preventing more Police Misconduct floyds death 2 weeks ago in minneapolis has sparked worldwide protests against racism and Police Brutality. Hundreds scorching texas sky thousands. To enter the chat trade george floyds. A last chance for the public to pay their respects to the man whose death has become a rallying cry against racism around the. The public hearing was held in houston the city where floyd grew up. Well this is an important time in our world. And i feel bad it is necessary for me to be here. As a human being. Human race being an africanamerican man it is. Why people
My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here
For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here tonight to tell us about one of them, one of those epic stories is steve vogel. A former reporter for the Washington Post whose book, betrayal in berlin the true story of the cold wars most
Fraud in last months election. Plus hes big and yellow and 15 years old age catches up with all of us even big bird and the rest of the sesame street crew but they show no sign of retiring from intervening and educating the worlds children. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us prodemocracy demonstrations in hong kong turned violent when a policeman shot a protester the man i sense undergone surgery in the hospital and is said to be in Critical Condition now other footage from the latest demonstrations shows increasing Police Violence they fired tear gas supply water cannon and several parts of the city today of the Hong Kong Government is denying what its called online rumors saying police have been ordered to recklessly use their firearms their. That allegation totally false and malicious the police have said the shooting will be fully investigated. And we can to speak to activist joshua wang whos joining us from hong kong right now hi joshua thank you for joining us we m
Its. The beginning of a new era in astronomy for the 1st time scientists have detected the ghostly particles that are not just extraterrestrial but extragalactic. They come from millions of light years away where stars explode or super massive black holes swallow cosmic matter in tremendous full disk neutrinos theyre among the most abundant particles that exist at the most mysterious every 2nd 100 begin of them restrung bodies are close to the speed of light without occupant noticing they move on hindered through the universe because they can fly and hes ok through most matter. The neutrino the closest thing to nothing we can imagine. 0 size 0 charge mass very close to 0 and it interacts so weakly with everything. But somehow or other the neutrino isnt what it might be the key to the universe. For astro physicists the universe is one huge laboratory and which most things still have to be discovered. The matter of which the stars planets in sr like gas clouds and humans are composed onl