The United States army presents the big picture. An official report of the American People and to show you part of the big picture, here is george queen. In recent years on the big picture television series, we have been privileged to report on the progress of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nato. Today we turn to the same subject. It is nair ratrrated by edward murrow. It is hist i had in the making. It is a story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the accomplishments more than ten years ago. And we have developed a deterrent and retaliatory capability of gredestructive po for the prejengs vengs of general war. We have an important part to play in International Security today, tomorrow, and for the future. December 16th, 1957, a date to remember. For the first time, 15 chiefs of government gather around one table, eisenhower, besh, mcmillan, menderes, dr. Conrad adnar. These men and their countries have sometimes been at war with each other. Often they have been uni
She was pregnant. Approximate her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug. It had not been approved yet for use in the United States of america but it was available many european countries. It was used to treat a number of Different Things. Women began taking it to aleave morning sickness and her husband had been in europe. He had acquired some of these pills and brought it back home for her and she takes about 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. They did not know that it causes birth defects. She read an article about the drug, she found out a little bit more and she called her doctor. She started to learn more about what the medicine can do. For children, it can cause brain damage, damage the eyes, nose, ears, face, damage the growth of limbs. And many cases, the children who had been affected by it did not survive at all. In england about half of the babies died within a few months. Somewhere around 10,000 of these children were born. Most in western europ
A stunning woman requests asylum in russia after her exhusband is acquitted of sexually abusing their daughters she stresses her story with our team. Direct from our studios most of this is R T International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Us Democratic Senators are urging the trumpet ministration to impose additional sanctions on russia following reports alleging the country is meddling in the 2020 president ial election. A letter from Congressional Democrats was presented a sensually calling for more sanctions to be imposed on russia in response to allegations of russia trying to interfere in the 2020 president ial election which will take place in november heres some of what was included in the letter. We urge you to immediately draw upon the reported conclusions of the Intelligence Community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing elections interference including president putin the government of the Russian Federat
A lot of focus on the u. S. Jobs report we saw in the u. S. As you look at the pound its 1. 3003, we need to look at the trade relationship and negotiations between the u. K. And eu. Up versus dollar currently 109. 68. Coming up we talk all things geopolitical and geopolitical at 11 00 a. M. London time. Lets get the first word news in new york city. Volcanoe philippines, a eruption is prompting evacuation of thousands. Triggered earthquakes and spewed ash across manila. Markets were suspended, experts morning a hazardous explosion explosive eruption is possible within hours or days. U. S. , the nation is looking at reviving semiannual talks with china. There will be used to discuss the economic relationship between the company countries. Today, chinas vice premier heading to the u. S. To sign phase one of the trade deal on wednesday. Many shortcomings, that is the conclusion of the report during hong kongs recent unrest. The investigation finding a lack of communication, no clear guid
Longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran best in this country, and i will just move from my left, Maziar Bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21, 2009, thousand nine, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. You will know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like. If you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart called rosewater if memory serves, was the name and the unmistakable calling card of his interrogator. In 2014 he started something that im sure its know youre too many people in this audience, certainly is a must read for anyone who wants to follow iran, and thats his website called iran wire which gathers information from iran, reporting, commentary, immensely valuable resource for all of us. And Suzanne Maloney who is