Imagine or times you were going underground after repeated aerial bombardment of syria by israel armed by britain e. U. Nations in the United States coming up in the show. We ask a former middle east based m i 6 agent whether a joe biden presidency signals a new road to damascus and the renewal of Isis Al Qaeda and u. K. U. S. The u. S. Attempts at regime change in syria, even during a global pandemic, and what bloodshed to expect from obama officials accused of facilitating civilian drone killing and the destruction of libya, africas richest per capita country. And as an inquiry launches in, rumania after a coronavirus intensive care units that fire and kills 10, we investigate oscar tipped film collective with its echoes of el edged incendiary profit driven corruption for which an inquiry continues here in london into the grenfell fire in the poorest area of one of the richest in the world. All this more coming up in todays going underground, the football star, Diego Maradona being m
A secular nation hours before he died. Warplanes from israel by britain, even nations, and the us a bomb, the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world, damascus. Joining me now from room is the conflict forums, alister crook, who cut his teeth at m i. 6, and since the siege of bethlehem has dedicated his life to deescalating violence. Alastair, thanks so much for coming on going underground. I think its a 1st time, although you dont choose the wine before. Just how do you explain the fact that during a pandemic we know antonio good terrorism. He wanted a worldwide ceasefire. Why was there this barrier arch of aerial bombardment from the Israeli Air Force on damascus . And this happening as we hear of netanyahu going to saudi arabia denied by the saudis, and to the blinken. This old obama era official being selected by joe biden to be the next secretary of state. What i think 1st of all the main aim, and at the moment the main aim that netanyahu had icing, with his visit to saud
Like as possible. To those of you joining us the first time putting a work in welcome and an invitation to explore the wide range of programs we have available here. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phones or anything else thatt might make noise during the program. Take you for doing that. We are thrilled tonight to welcome a claimed historian mary beth norton. Author of five books and coeditor of several others and her textbook, a people and nation, survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and is sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and was a 2018 president of the american historical association. She is the mary [inaudible] Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, is available for purchase and signing following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming marybeth norton. [applause] it is nice to be here. I want to make sure that the quicker is the clicker on . It doesnt seem to be. Oh, there is spi
Is on the west and waning role of the world stage. Hi there and welcome to weekend world update from international in moscow welcome to the program 1st one of the biggest defense digital contracts in American History has been put on ice Online Retail giant amazon is taking on the pentagon in court after washington gave the 10000000000. 00 deal to buy microsoft the lawsuit argues that donald trump was biased in his decision against amazon supremo jeff bezos its called the joint enterprise defense Infrastructure Project for short and its a Cloud Computing storage contract at the end of last year but its all stressed the importance of the military project but as caleb maupin reports hes now hindering the deal that was awarded to microsoft. Remember when jeff bezos called out his tech rivals for not stepping up to the plate when the country needs protecting my view is this big tech is going to turn their backs on the department of defense this country is in trouble this is how were going t
Existed for 30 or 40 years dont they have anything to do except protest. Their good afternoon just turn to peer on this saturday in moscow my name is kevin owen youre watching out international here for the next 30 minutes well welcome to you 1st and political disunity in the west is dominating this years Munich Security Conference ongoing this weekend where officials from around the world are tackling the biggest questions in International Affairs now among those addressing the attendees this saturday with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh and also frances president mccrone fair few words came out there peter all of us across europe correspondent very in capital peter conflicting views them from either side of the atlantic it seems today on how the west is fairing right now youre. Well thats right the idea of the theme for this years Munich Security Conference was restlessness essentially an existential crisis about the role of western nations on the world stage today and on