Imagine. It is wonderful to have you all here with us this evening at the museum and also to all of you at home who are watching via cspan. We have this evening a wonderful presentation by john browne and then followed by a discussion with professor daniel of rice university. Without further ado i will hand it over to john browne. Help me welcome mr. Browne to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me. As someone who served on the boards of several museums and galleries i have a deep appreciation for the role that institutions like this play in the local community and indeed in society more generally. As a window on the path and an explainer of the present and as a guide to the future they are indispensable resources which go above and beyond what you can read in books. Houston is fortunate to have this place and it is a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist and subsequently an engineer ive always sought
Discussion with professor from Rice University welcome to houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen thank you for the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to someone who sits on the board of several museums i have a deep appreciation for the role of institutions that play in the local community as a window of the past and a guide to the future the indispensable resources i go above and beyond what you read in books. Houston is fortunate enough to have this place its a great pleasure to be here. As a natural scientist i have always sought to maintain to be involved in cultural organizations and when i applied for scholarship at the university of cambridge i had to submit an essay about was completely different to my main area of study. And a piece about the architectures i can explain later to anyone who is interested what that actually means that my first bonus check and the more Senior Executive such as the Folger Shakespeare library in washington dc the British Museum tod
Broadcasting live from our studios most of this is r g international. Im going to have you with. Militants aback by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in italy but province but they were pushed back by russian airstrikes has more on the developments. Basically what happened terrorist factions launched an offensive on the Syrian Forces who were holding one of the villages a village in that Northeastern Province a very large scale offensive supported by artillery strikes by the turkish army so that offensive or that was of such scale that the troops the syrian troops on the ground could not withstand it on their own so the ask the Russian Air Force to help out so it did but again that offensive that terrorist offensive was supported by turkish artillery so moscow had to intervene and reach out directly to ankara and ask them to stop the support to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into the sea you 24 aircraft of the Russian Air Force at the re
His birth he was in such Poor Condition that he couldnt remember. Good morning from moscow its friday february 21st money is called in by welcome to the program 1st for you this friday then the European Union is calling for an immediate end to waging conflict in the final hotbed of the war in syria as turkey steps up its operations in the province meanwhile washington is pushing for diplomatic action to be taken against syria and its backers over their military actions in the region despite admitting that it has become a haven for terrorist groups. It seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways their average of groups theyre all of them are a nuisance and menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter getting up to speed then correspondent you go down off now takes a look at how the syria conflicts are volved. Its coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel a
The protests between locals and police in ukraine over the coronavirus of quarantine nationals return from china. Germany holds vigils for the 9 victims of wednesdays shooting in the western town of the suspect xenophobe motives were behind the. 9 am this february 21st im calling brain r t h q with the news 1st this friday the European Union is calling for an immediate end to waging conflict in the final hotbed of the war in syria as turkey steps up its operations in the province meanwhile washington is pushing for diplomatic action to be taken against syria and its backers over the military actions in the region despite admitting that it lives become a haven for terrorist groups. To be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the river rights of groups there all of them. Hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter and next correspondent takes a look at how the syria conflict of alving. Its coming t