Lead to success but there is one major hurdle hugh have very little influence over and thats your social and ethnic background an equal opportunity as a topic today on made in germany dont fool yourself the old fashion class system still exists in germany it might not be as evident as an england where the elites can easily be spotted by sending their kids to eton but trust me money and pedigree counts for a lot in germany too kids from wealthy families have better Career Opportunities if only because they have better contacts to people who matter people who can pave the way into company boardrooms of course there are exceptions to the rules theyre few and far between but we met someone who made it still spite not fitting the elitist bill. Those in both there are 1000 people taking the Big Decisions in this country. Sociologist michiru hartman has conducted Extensive Research into elites and more specifically germanys business elites the captains of the dax listed corporations lots of m
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Tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Andith the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributis to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. For the first time, investigators in the house of representives have heard a direct account of the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry. It came today from a veteran of 20 years in the u. S. Military. Our White House Correspondent begins our coverage. He arrived at the capitol in uniform, wearing his metals. An army lt. Col. Works for the National Security council. On tuesday, he became the First White House official who was in the call between President Trump and president ukraine to testify in the impeachment inquiry. That call sits at the heartf o the democratic investigations. He said he was concerned about what he heard. Some republicans, like congressman jim jordan, dismissed the tes
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About racism and President Trump. 22 years later, prince harry follows in his mothers footsteps as he visits a partially cleared minefield in angola. And i am in doha, well the world athletics championships are under way and the heat is dominating the agenda. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news wales have named an Unchanged Team to face australia at the rugby world cup. And that means a record 130th cap for alun wyn jones. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The former cabinet minister amber rudd has accused number ten of using aggressive language that incites violence. It comes after a turbulent week in which mps returned to the house of commons and took part in furious exchanges in the commons. Today borisjohnson again defended his use of language and insisted that delivering brexit on 31st of october would bring much of the heat out of the debate. Meanwhile, scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon has indicated that shed be open to backing Jeremy C