Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american country, symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two possible camps. It formally signaled the end of the cold war and set the osce, or the csce, the conference on security and cooperation in europe, on the
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Beethoven is for us, is for beethoven 202250th anniversary year this week on world story. Beijing, joe biden causes a boom for a noodle bar. Berlin, bidding farewell to take an airport. But we start in finland at the capitals airport in helsinki. Dogs are helping to detect coronavirus and infected people. The dogs can accurately snip out the virus as early as 5 days before. Symptoms appear. For a treat, preferably cathode, this snout can be programmed to find it just about anything more old bed bugs, cancer. Now it could change the course of corona virus detection meat to see rescued from being euthanized as a puppy in spain. Hes returned that favor for years sniffing out deadly disease for the wise new smell Detection Association and then learned as coded 19 began to spread. Q. C. Was asked as an experiment to try to detect it. It took you about 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they want it to look for. So that totally blew our minds. You know dog be able to change training s
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