Arguably the entire freedom of the press to reveal war crimes is on trial today the london court just 12 miles from the studio after years of alleged u. K. Torture in december mation even socalled mainstream news outlets that have attacked this channel and been responsible for an arguable attack on truth since 911 and before getting worried about this weeks alleged u. K. Persecution of Julian Assange the of wiki leaks well if you watch a lot of the coverage of this story today on television you likely came away with the understanding that julian a songe is some kind of russian spy whos in trouble tonight because he stole classified documents from the u. S. Government that is not true its factually incorrect saying so its not a defense of assads right here to promote him or excuse any number of things he said over the years that we disagree with quite a lot but just so its clear whatever his sins assad did not steal documents from the United States government he did not hack the d. N. C
Founding director, that is how we say it,. The first book a fragile freedom African American woman and emancipation in the antebellum city published by yale extremely well regarded an important study of an understudy topic up to that point and also the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of on the judge. Lets all give erica a big round of applause. applause good evening everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. First let me offer few thankyous to doug who invited me. I really think that there is no other place that i should be giving this top. Can you all see me im vertically challenged. Ill turn this. Lets see. Better . Yes. Okay. Id also like to thank the minimally for helping me with arrangements to arrive here. Its been a very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week and so im an academic, as doug said my first book was published a University Press and this book is more of a crossover trade book for a larger more general audience. On
People on board. The debate tonight in the u. S. Who is on the right side of history . Many democrats remain silent, showing no support for the protesters in iran as human rights watchdog groups repeatedly demand iranian leaders be charged with human rights abuses for torture, oppression and slaughter of it is own people. President trump showing solidarity with the iranian protesters. Tonight the former israeli ambassador to the u. S. , whether history will show the democrats and media silence on irans abuse of it its own people is a disgrace. Whether democrats remain silent deserve to be leaders of the worlds greatest democracy. Tonight President Trump moments ago hitting democrats hard tore attacking him for taking out the terrorist mastermind soleimani. Also tonight, new sound of nancy pelosi seemingly trying to downplay the protests in iran as democrat senator chris coons now concedes that President Trump has turned off the quote, terror money spigot created by obamas iran nuclear
What hes the proposal office. For a couple only when we meet with glue to newsmakers and talk about the stories the. Zeros. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have tons of questions that day how dangerous is the situation between the United States and iran and how did we get here lets get to the bottom line. Its hard to believe today but less than 4 years ago there was hope that major conflict with iran was off the table the major world powers had signed a deal constraining Irans Nuclear program and a new chapter in u. S. Iranian relations was being written or so that was the thinking well think again after a radical change of administrations in the United States the tearing up of the nuclear deal with iran and the assassination of one of irans top generals are all bets off and does anyone know where were heading fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have all the answers to these questions valli nasser is professor of middle east studies at Johns Hopkins university and author of the shia
A contentious of purpose of spectacle is on the cards as trumps impeachment trial begins in earnest plus sounding the alarm Chinese State media report a 6th person has died from a new Coronavirus International airports and train stations are screening passengers from china concern grows as Health Officials now warned the virus can be cast from human to human also coming up faces of life after the holocaust 75 years after the liberation of the us which death camp a new Photo Exhibit here in germany is bringing people up close and personal with Holocaust Survivors and their stories. Hoch a very warm welcome to all. View well we start in switzerland where the World Economic forum has officially kicked off in the ski resort town of davos u. S. President donald trump has a given the opening speech at the forum which is taking place just as the senate in washington prepares to open his impeachment trial on the president used his address to pitch the United States to the Global Business commu