From this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions in developing countries and thats an enormous victory for for for that the rights of more globally. By degrees has been following proceedings from a boozer. This is not the only case in court either in the netherlands or in the u. K. Where hundreds of people have queued up to shell for contaminating the niger delta i spoke to an actor is a short while ago he said this is just the beginning and a lot of analysts also believe that it will open the floodgates into so many late editions against all producing Company Production companies that have been operating in nigeria some of these cases have been there for a very long time and they were unsuccessful similar communities up and successful to try call a shell in nigeria and courts for example in this particular case today in the netherlands 2 of the people who filed that case have died have already died but again activists are sa
She found this by while researching her previous book on nobel physicist. So lets go at it. I was asking you why close a few cars. I actually got interested in him when i was doing this because i had a lot of family papers, i had huge numbers of letters and diaries. In those, during the late thirties when he was there, he was always showing up in some little piece of paper that i had, he was showing up is very nice person. He took their children out to the movies. He played cards with them. He was in their little music on stumble. People liked him, he was very quiet, very shy but he was a nice person and all of a sudden he was a spy and they were dumbfounded and i came into this information as i did, i did know much about him when i was first working on it. So, at that point as i was writing about him i thought i should find out more about klaus fuchs, hes an interesting person. I went to the archives in london and there were three little skimpy files. The very last one that i looked a
The thing about the stars in the sky is you can gaze at them whether youre behind a wall or not. Much i want to quote my grandmother had a telescope we dont often get saturn or jupiter and its moons it was so common if you want to tycoon. Even though i was born in january 1901 a year after the wall fell. And a man. This happened because its incredible to think that my parents who seem so ordinary to me grew up in a dictatorship a place where tanks would sometimes roll through the streets that are just awful voice and. Cup if you can mouth there used to be a law i knew that it had been built and that my mother and my grandparents were trapped behind it that was the reality i grew up with guns film out of it. I. Brother and sister fans and antonia hey deafened and their grandfather here he grew up here in bend i washed asset which mounts the border between east and west germany he learned this an early age how cruel that border was his country go in and after my aunt affy it i remember y
A new round of tweaks he says hes the real election winner and is vowing legal action against the election process. That will see who came out on top. Welcome to the program u. S. President ial president elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force he has made tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to work on his covert strategy. Biden started the day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the Catholic Church in his hometown wellington delaware biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President on ultra meanwhile has refused to concede defeat insisting instead sending out a new series of tweets alleging Election Fraud so far he has produced no substantial evidence to support the allegations. Greeted by chance of losing. The us president ial motorcade weaves its way to Trump Na
For you are the one in trouble now. And he was. That fewsafe to say people if any have come to the presidency of the United States who seem so unqualified for that job, as harry truman did in april of 1945. When he became president , no one knew anything about him. What they did know was not reassuring. It was made worse by the fact that he followed one of the legendary president s in all of American History, frank lindy roosevelt. Income franklin d roosevelt. Manontrast to this little for missouri seemed ordinary, even as appearance. Harken back to the days of an earlier president ial misfit, Warren Harding. At least Warren Harding look like a president. Truman set i look like any other 50 people you meet industry, and he did. He seemed to be hard to caricature, he had no particular distinctive features, sort of generic person. Even his name, by the way, seemed inadequate. Harry s. Trumanto know the s stood for . Nothing. He simply added the s because he thought his given name was ine