Chapel hill. Im standing in front of the morehead building. Home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John motley morehead iii, from a famous North Carolina family, the moreheads, his grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motley morehead iii, attended carolina as undergraduate student in chemist chemistry. Made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab that led to the founding of Union Carbide and from that, he became an extremely wealthy man. And in the 30s when he conceived of this idea, what you did as a leading edge Science Education contribution would be building a planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the morehead planetarium was the first in the south. So his contribution was significant. We were also the first planetarium anywhere in the world on a university campus. So he visited the planetarium in chicago. The hayden planetarium. He also visited zeis, the leading lens manufacturer in the world. They arguably still a
Also poisoned relations between the e. U. Nato and russia this video shows the volley before the attack campaigning in the russian town of nor was he beares he became popular for uncovering corruption and mismanagement and for his videos exposing the luxurious homes of politicians loyal to the government hes regarded as the leader of the opposition. Now vali has been a thorn in the side of russian president Vladimir Putin for a long time the kremlin has tried to stop now with exclusion from elections prosecution and even jail time but all the efforts have failed so far russians who openly criticize putin are aware of how dangerous it is especially for the leaders of protests and opposition our moscow correspondents met up with some of them. Piotr theres the love knows all too well what it means to enjoy life one day at a time ever since he was poisoned in moscow in 2018 much like opposition activist alex a never really in august this year unlike now finally though he showed no signs of
And even if they lost using fraud they won anyway. The outspoken opposition figure has organized numerous anti kremlin protests has been arrested several times for civil disobedience and even attempted to get on the ballot to run for president in 2018 his bid was blocked by the courts not only has suffered physical and verbal attacks in recent is. Pressure is now growing on the German Government to stop a major project being carried out with russia the controversial gas pipeline north stream too which has previously been criticized from many sides including e. U. Partners and the us. There are voices in germany already calling for a complete stop of the project this i believe would go too far but we have a situation with mr nobody who is hospitalized just a few 100 meters from here from the German Parliament and we have a german russian project this pipeline and business as usual is simply not an option german chancellor Angela Merkel said last week that not all news poisoning and not
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I british my misery welcome to day news asia its good to have you with us chinas foreign minister has said a recently introduced security law was needed to bring peace to the streets of hong kong one year he made the remarks earlier in the day as he met German Foreign minister heikal moscow just outside berlin wang said hong kong had been in chaos at the high point of street protests and the law which critics have described as being draconian was required to calm the protests there was more of what he said. Over 80 percent of the people in hong kong think that their lives and rights have not been affected by the National Security law. Besides all foreign nationals and Foreign Companies in hong kong can have their benefits legally and sufficiently guarantee through the law isnt that a good thing if you who call the shots you. Really are someone who may know if that is indeed the case but 1st here is what German Foreign minister heikal must set at the same press conference. I am currentl