Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
Tested its 1st unpiloted drones about 2 years ago these drones are a company Fighter Aircraft from inside the cockpit the pilot can control the swarm of drones its a system designed to take some of the pressure off the pilots and protect them so far humans allston of the center of the Decision Making process here across the globe militaries are developing Weapons Systems that see Artificial Intelligence increasingly replace humans and theres this new aspect now that in the future the decision on target selection and combat likely redirected and it would be an algorithm in a computer not a human being making the decision that something new at no point in history has this ever been the case the decision has always been a human one no matter what weapons are you whether it was throwing stones and spears using a crossbow or even dropping by. The u. S. Military agency darpa has developed an unmanned ship the sea hunter. Equipped with cameras sensors and computers this autonomous robot ship
Rushing to conclusion. And erupting for a 2nd night in the u. S. State of wisconsin over the shooting of a black man by Police Security forces in the city of can osha. After demonstrators refused to disperse well take you to the city and one of the worlds best talker players in his squad for parting ways for are that little messy tales of sea alona he wants to leave the kind of one sided but legal wrangling over a clause in his contract name makes this split impossible. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin tonight in belo reuss where the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal. From the opposition to know the results of the countrys disputed president ial elections Alexander Lukashenko who has ruled bellerose for 26 years claimed victory in the elections sparking mass demonstrations against his government despite this unprecedented challenge to his authority hes shown no signs of giving in bellowing instead to intensify a crackdown on p
Of the United States of america. Together with Joe Biden Harris now has to convince americans that they can heal a country devastated by the pandemic and deeply divided over the politics of president trump. As coronavirus cases fight across Europe Germany and work towards its highest number of new infections and months our new restrictions on public life on the way. Plus a fire in munich but themselves into the Champions League final fans that celebrate as search and operate helps the bonus against top dog take care of francis leo byron looking for their 1st Champions League title since 2013. Im sumi so much gone its good to have you with us a spokes. And for russian Opposition Leader alexina volley says he is unconscious in the hospital after apparently being poisoned the volley was on a flight back to moscow from the siberian city of the homeschooling he started feeling sick prompting the plane to make an Emergency Landing the lawyer and anticorruption activist who was well known for