Week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. History and biography is sponsored bywells fargo. [music] welcome everyone, everywhere here with Madeleine Albright, 64th secretary of state and here to talk about her new book Madeleine Albright hell and other destinationsand i just finished reading it and i look forward to having a conversation with Madeleine Albright about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you david, i enjoyed talking with you anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building in the library of congress, madeleine is at her home in the washington area. We had a longstanding relationship because madeleine and i were young staffers in the white house under president carter and i followed her career ever since then with great admiration so madeleine, this is her seventh book since you left as secretary of state so did you ever imagine when you finished as secretary of state first woman to ever serve as secret
Hear how the coronavirus pandemic has forced one brass band to change its tune and soothe the stress in yoga studio. Welcome to the program a russian brokered ceasefire in the disputed region of the governor has failed to hold as are by jan says shelling by Armenian Forces has killed several people and wounded dozens more both sides continue to blame each other for breaking the truce and escalating 2 weeks of fierce clashes. For an evening walk on the streets of. Azerbaijan 2nd largest city taking comfort in this trying cease fire. A safe spot that hasnt held following shelling in a residential area of ganja locals describe a night of terror. These were sleeping it was around 2 in the morning we heard an explosion and after that our house blew up it was. This that and debbie did go down but you are wrong fell on my face when i opened my eyes and another rocket hit. I said to myself what is this all i can see was clouds of dust. As if by john also ignored the cease fire releasing this f
With the levitated factories and parts of its towns and cities still looking war torn a growing number of people now wanted not only to travel abroad but to leave the country for good in hungary also part of the communist eastern bloc the border to austria was briefly opened in september 1909 and they willing thousands of east germans to flee to the west. Its. Meanwhile thousands more were seeking refuge in the west German Embassy in the czechoslovakia capital krog as communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the cold war itself appeared to be close to an end. But many stayed behind in the hope of bringing about change back home by voting with their feet in a different way the now legendary monday demonstrations in leipsic grew in size from one. Week to the next but there were fears that this opposition would be crushed the uprising by east germans in 1953 had been suppressed by soviet tanks. If the east germans wanted to do in the east germans debated this they called this the chinese s
Treated in hospitals but said there were no reported fatalities so far but protesters and organizers of these demonstrations insist that dozens of them members of been shot and killed some of them may not be part of the protests may just be innocent possible but a process by the fact of the matter is that a lot of witnesses saw People Killed because of last nights incident and a lot of people also fear that today may also result into into some cases of fatalities in some of these incidents weve seen in lagos state and its not its not only in lagos state but we see this we all saw i hear it but im confront reports in parts of the south of the country that demonstrations become so violent there so we are waiting for confirmation as to a confirmation too for these stories so that we know exactly whats going on but a lot of people still believe in this country despite denials by officials that in fact a lot of people were killed in yesterdays incidents of violence in lekki in lagos state a
Im going to have our 1st welcome to this special edition of the news as we cover the festivities commemorating 30 years of german reunification on this Germanys National holiday it was on this day 30 years ago that east and west germany reunited to become one country again for the 1st time since the 2nd world war this years event is being held in potsdam the capital state of brandon book state near berlin that german president from father steinmeyer will be speaking shortly well bring you his speech live its a splendid occasion but this years festivities are scaled down in compliance with social distancing measures and other restrictions put in place due to the coronavirus kind. Of help me guide us through the events today and shine a light on its significance im joined in the studio but it of you cross part. Common ration venue in potsdam nina hoss is standing by at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in berlin we welcome. Thomas sparrow and lets start with you the german president is speakin