A terrific venue and compelling cause and a wonderful place this evening. It is an honor to join these titans of diplomacy as we commemorate the fall of the berlin wall. I want to begin by thinking the Diplomacy Center foundation for the important work it is doing to honor the contribution of american diplomats and preserve the history for future generations. 9, 1989back, november was a pinnacle day in history. But it took time to understand the magnitude of that moment. It is a moment that stands as a tribute to the resilient work, to the incredible men and women d the Diplomatic Mission behind the genetic mission. They promote Economic Prosperity and Global Leadership of the United States. And onple in this room the front lines all over the world, it is a mission that never stops. Today, the United States and its allies have new complexities to navigate, different adversaries, and new global threats. The pace of the Technology Change is made the world smaller and presented new opport
Especially during the later obama years ok what does that leave russian and chinese influence. Well china is deeply deeply involved in the issue because china as your correspondent was saying is indeed the 3rd party and theres an area of the former Princely State of german kashmir that is now held by china called the outside chin and china has deep Strategic Interests in the region because of unsettled border questions with india in the himalayas both on the east and in the west in kashmir. At the same time china has some limitations in terms of challenging the domestic politics of other countries because it has a very strong sovereignty norm and really rejects criticisms of other countries about the treatment of minorities in areas like to batten sinchon sinchon so there is with china i think a little bit of. Choice to move it towards more neutral International Fora like the Un Security Council which is in fact what pakistan is doing to with russia its not as clear because i think rus
A wide ranging political effort by the right wing in israel and the religious nationalists to get more access to x. The mosque compound site known as the temple mount to jews a lot of what happens next will depend on the actions of Israeli Security forces and police there has been a precedent going back many years that normal thems are not allowed access on a major muslim festival day but that president was broken earlier this year in june the end of ramadan coincided with a jerusalem day which is when jews and israelis mark the seizure of East Jerusalem by Israeli Forces in 1967 there were limited scale wishes at the site as a result of the Police Decision then to allow jews in on that day a lot now depends in terms of how confrontational this sunday becomes a lot now depends on the actions of Israeli Security forces. Well the whole area is central to the Israeli Palestinian conflict and a constant flashpoint is both sides lay claim to it jews referred to it as temple mount which luxo
Said that the Canadian National mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didnt divulge much details concerning these circumstances of his detention this is not hes not the 1st foreign nationals to be released in the past months a few weeks ago an American National was released about him himself playing a crucial role now hes calling this a humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the Syrian Government wants to give to the west as it tries to gain legitimacy as it tries to and sanctions at the end of these 2 these 2 foreign nationals who are held and in syrian jails are not among the high profile people who went missing and believed to be held by the Syrian Government so messages possibly from the Syrian Government to the west trying to regain lost legitimacy. Well still ahead on aljazeera a beach in troubled waters we report from the start of these results in todays year where tragedies playing out for migrants. An
University titled u. S. Politics and government from the earliest days of the american republic. American history tv airs at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Adam, the title of your paper here at the meeting is crossing the border after the underground railroad, africanamerican north americans returning from canada. Why was slaves trying to escape to canada and how were they able to do that . So, the underground railroad really is a whole set of things together. Its boats. Its some rails. Its roads. It was people trying to get out of serving, finding where they can be safe. Sometimes it was just in the northern states. Sometimes mexico. Most famously to go to canada, being in a different country and be free from the chance they could get recaptured and brought back to slavery. What was that journey like . Where are slaves at this time and how are they making that journey into canada . In the decades before the civil war slaves are every where in the United States. We think most of them b