Syria is close to ending meanwhile the head of the largest saudi backed Syrian Opposition group has resigned riyadh his job had led the High Negotiations Committee since december twenty fifth. Right youre up to date those are the latest headlines from us here at aljazeera coming up next it is the stream of. Young rich and famous in china one of the news goes behind the great chinese firewall to meet the cyber celebs of a booming multibillion dollar business. Like this time on aljazeera. Today on the stream were joined by special guest mo the billionaire philanthropist who made his fame and fortune developing mobile phone services across the african continent now hes giving back through his work focused on promoting Good Governance and leadership in africa. Joining us from london though it were him is the founder of the most foundation and the motive for him. Prize the Worlds Largest prize award for excellence to a departing african leader his Foundation Also puts together and ambitious
President bashar assad toles with russias leader Vladimir Putin in song change the person at the black sea resort but day the kremlin says putin told assad the fight against groups in syria is close to finishing you can settle those stories on our website after dot com. With the news which would follow next its the street. Here is a very important for information for many people around the world when. Im still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. Down the stream were joined by special guest mo abraham the billionaire philanthropist who made his fame and fortune developing mobile phone services across the african continent now hes giving back through his work focused on promoting Good Governance and leadership in africa. Joining us from london hello abraham is the founder of the moat Abraham Foundation and the motive for him prize the Worlds Largest prize award for excellence to a departin
The library of congress cohosted this 50 minute event. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming and welcome to the library of congress. I am carla hayden, the 14th librarian of congress. [applause] thank you. We are looking forward to a very, very exciting afternoon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing by president Lyndon Johnson of the public broadcasting act of 1967. Four starstudded panelists in store for you, featuring many great names of public broadcasting in on radio and in television. I want to take this opportunity to single out one of our guests today. Is mr. Henry morgan fall morganthall ii. I. He is 100 years old. [applause] and he was working at wgbh 50 years ago with the act was passed. His grandfather was fdrs treasury secretary. I am proud to say the library of congress has the papers of his grandfather. Sir, we are truly honored you are here with us today. Thank you. [applause] carla many of you may know that the library of congress is the largest and most compr
Many of you may know that the library of congress has the most comprehensive collection of sound recordings, Radio Broadcasts in world, honor to host this event with wgbh educational foundation, our collaborators in the american archive of public broadcasting or a apd. A apb. Up. T my centuries mixed [laughter] 1964. The National Education television and radio center. Incidentally, last month, we digitized two of these programs so they could be more accessible the of the librarys website. The librarys public Broadcasting Holdings have grown since 19th before to include tens of thousands of film, video, and audio masters from eta, and inet and w addition to the thousands of excess copies, we routinely acquire as copyright deposits from public broadcasting stations and producers across the nation. Americahief steward of s in the world record of knowledge, we took to heart the television and video preservation study commissioned 20 years ago by the library of congress, which characterized
[applause] roemer is a louisiana native, a former member of congress and served as governor of louisiana from 19881990 two. He was a president ial candidate in 2012 with a platform centered unrigging the system. Washington is bought and sold. Special interest control washington, d. C. He has not been invited to a single televised debate. Wake up, america, they stole your government. [applause] buddy welcome to louisiana. [applause] stay be wonderful. Was a governor 30 years ago after eight years of congressmen. I have been around the world a couple of times. And i can tell you that louisiana is one of the special places in the world. Flora, fauna, rivers, french heritage, some call occasion call it cajun. I speak slowly as i get old diabetic am a type one and have diabetic neuropathy. And mycts both my speech walking and gets worse and worse , so i apologize. Thisise the work of convocation. I ran for the United States congress five times. Them, successfully. Ran for governor and won i