A great power in trump. Whats wrong with germany, the hello and very warm. Welcome to this weeks to the point time, have you know . Yes, and im happy to introduce this weeks guests on a daves is a government reporter for bloomberg. News based here in berlin quality buena is a journalist and editor at the Berlin Bureau of the german use paper targets. And katya jolla. Is there a researcher at the kings college, london, an author of the best selling book beyond the wall, about the former german democratic republic . 12, you are very welcome as well, and thank you for being with us. Uh valerie, id like to start with you. Most of our viewers are not in germany and might be wondering why were giving have things this discussion. How would you describe this sensation, this feeling in germany . The things are not going well. I feel like when the worst started, the Russia Ukraine worst started on february 24th 2022. Basically in germany was right at the center almost immediately because of the
All members will have five legislative days in which to submit materials for inclusion into the records. The hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine legislation that would impose a secondary legislations on foreign banks whose business support north koreas regime. By encompassing virtually all of north koreas economic activity, these measures would represent the top list financial sanctions yet. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals. And north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. S. Sanctions by where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. The bills countries on notice. The proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea as well as the u. N. Panel of erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. North koreas six tests o
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Said what if nobody comes so its nice of you all to come out. I know that some of you are here to talk about the book but the reality is we are fortunate to have with us two friends of mine, it will be more interesting and probably more fascinating to many of you, Jacob Weisberg who many of you may know as the chairman of the slate group, longtime journalist recently published a book on Ronald Reagan that i cant recommend highly enough, particularly in todays political environment and malcolm gladwell, a writer for the new yorker and a very insightful nonfiction bestseller so we talk a little bit tonight about my new book, the seven cents and one of the things that were going to get him very quickly is one of the big ideas in the seven cents is the idea that theres so many questions to answer that this model of us talking to you is not entirely the light model so we will do that but we also want to open it up for questions and debate and i hope people will talk about the guys that are