Contenders for the november election. At a tugofwar over tiktok. The video app chinese owners could sell the u. S. Interest to microsoft after the u. S. Government threatens to ban tiktok. Brent to our viewers watching on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. Here in germany it is the first day back at school for some children. It is happening amid warnings of more and more new coronavirus cases across the country. Today is the first time schools have reopened in the country since closure in march when the pandemic began. But a return to school is not a return to how school used to be. Finally back with a wanted to be, in the schoolyard with all of their friends, for the first time in five months. These children from Primary School can play together without a mask and without needing to social distance. Even huts are allowed, although hug us are allowed the not recommended. It is better now because we are allowed to sit next to each other again, and we can see our fri
A financial hole. And south korean Ship Builders are crossing their fingers for new orders of l. In g. Tankers something that would keep their industry afloat and be a positive sign for the global recovery. Welcome to the show im stephen beards in berlin its good to have you with us microsoft is in talks to buy the u. S. Operations of social media platform to talk a development that would prevent a much feared ban of the app by washington of the American Software giant hopes to seal a deal by the middle of september and appears to have a thumbs up for now president donald trump. Today would be unthinkable without microsoft word and excel but so far the worlds leading Software Producer hasnt had a social media hit among young people that however could be about to change. President trump is giving chinese own social me. Platform tick tocks 45 days to sell its u. S. Business a chance for microsoft 2 8 3 2 2 4 8 9. Ticktock is an internationally successful social video platform that allows
Education interrupted and children and teachers be kept safe in the classroom. On wedlock thank you so much for your Company Everyone the inauguration ceremony for a new motorway bridge is underway in genoa italy the bridge replaces a structure that collapsed almost 2 years ago 43 people were killed when the marandi bridge broke up as vehicles drove over its in 2018 it was one of italys worst civil disasters in decades a new bridge called sun georgiou was completed in near record time in attendance at the ceremony are among others at least the Prime Minister just a conte and star architect renzo piano you see right here who design the new bridge on lets take you now word to a genuine to our correspondent some because she is standing by for you show it set the scene for us how is it really celebrating or marking rather the inauguration. That ceremony has just got under way a short time ago on the bridge behind us we are expecting a jets to fly over the bridge trailing behind in the colo
Johnny is my given name. Narrator thats a rhyme children used to scribble in their schoolbooks a long time ago, a time when the school was built, a time when we were proud of being educated. Through the years, weve lost some of that pride, taken our education for granted, and even ground neglectful. Grown neglectful. All around us, things have been changing. We have gone from the one horse shade to the space satellite, and now schools have a lot to do with National Security and our survival. Now theres trouble. And we realize the trouble is with brains and training and technology. So, in 1957, a lot of americans began to take their schooling their schools a little more seriously. This is a report on American Schools in 1957, what they did, what they didnt do. And what theyed didnt need. It is a report by the office of education in washington. My name is alan edwards. Heres the man who is making this report, United States commissioner of education, Lawrence Jeter thick. You know, americ
The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record subject to the length, limitations in the rules. To insert something in the record please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact of the full committee staff. I see that we have a quorum and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, miss pelosi, will be stopping by this hearing and i ask unanimous consent she participate in any point she arrives during the hearing. So ordered. There she is. Madame speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senate, democrats and republicans, with one