Concerns over european involvement with. Challenges facing interference from. Moscow this is our team. To have you with us and we start in belarus where. In the wake of august election both supporters of president lukashenko and those opposing his leadership are flooding the streets these are 2 contrasting scenes from. On the right of your screen you can see thousands of people gathering. Waving the historic red and white flag which has become a symbol of the anti look at schenkel movement and on the left a crowd of the president s backers carrying the official red and Green National flag their main message is that the country cannot afford care. Must be right in the progress we have stability theres no war thank god we have bread to eat we have jobs even if we are not rich we would like to be but we just need to work more. With them and live peacefully and calmly in our mutual its very clean whats not to like about. That witness did quit or not like that for ines interfere in the affa
Roosevelt library and museum since 2015. He will be talking, obviously, about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel, who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. Hes spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather, and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So, today, well give a great opportunity for question and answer. And please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today, and i guarantee you theres going to be a lot of interesting ideas and discussions. So i will begin and introduce paul to begin us in our program. Thank you. Thank you, ed. And thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of the those topics that has generated enormous amount of debate throughout the years. Background fo
Following his arrival for the tripartite conference, president truman reviews the veterans second armored division. Accompanied by secretary of state burns, mr. Truman arrives in berlin where men, tanks and vehicles are lined up for the president ial inspection. On 18th july, the president and mr. Burns our guests at soviet headquarters. Premier stalin acknowledges a request for photographs below the balcony, and the group proceeds to the garden of the villa. The formal sessions of the Conference Get underway with president truman chosen to preside over the meetings. Premier stalin exchanges handshakes with Prime Minister churchill and British Foreign secretary anthony eden. Both churchhill and eden are to be replaced as britains chief spokesman at the conference. Englands Prime Minister by virtue of his labor partys victory in the 25th july british elections. After daily sessions for eight days, the conference recessed until the Election Results became known. Between sessions, preside
Said pretty definitively the atomic bombs wordwrap to end the war quickly and they did and the war quickly. Was this the correct decision to make . Did they end the war . The short answer is yes and yes. The ware dropped to end quickly, to save lives, both american and japanese. What we have to get right at the start is to understand the context. There are two basic principles. We have to count the dead and we have to treat the dead as having a common humanity and that means the japanese as well. The asiapacific war resulted in the death of 19 million noncombatants. And all of that number, the number of japanese noncombatants died was maybe one million, 1. 2 million. More than that were due to the soviet invasion in 1945. That tells you immediately that for every japanese noncombatants who died in the whole war between 17 and 18 other noncombatants died. There were other agents and about 12 million of them are chinese. And most of those noncombatants who were not japanese were already
Didnt leave too angry at a Political Class they blame for tuesdays blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived the explosion but part of all of us has died to be honest but what can we do i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all these people cannot so what can we do what they did was return to the streets they have been demanding a new leadership for months many were injured in running battles that lasted for hours but this time they say they wont be silenced they want justice and revenge for the victims of the explosion and believe a government led inquiry into the disaster wont hold senior officials accountable. We are not leaving if you go to them or us in this country and you know what the people always pick and we will fight we want revenge and all revenge i