Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. We begin with drama on the high seas. Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by guncarrying members of the russian coast guard, who
Heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. We begin with drama on the high seas. Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by guncarrying members of the russian coast guard, who fired warning shots dangerous
Officials are pushing for its removal from the day more on that later shout. A fan. Its tuesday that the report by the washington scene during the bidding or watching rt america. We begin today with breaking news german Media Outlets are reporting that Us Intelligence began spying on german meters long before chancellor Angela Merkel took profits. The report says that the us began spying on chancellor merkels predecessor Gary Hart Schroeder in two thousand to you because of his opposition to the us led invasion of iraq. This comes of course this months after an essay the syndicated merkels cell phone had been part of it paul spoke with obama by phone just last july about allegations that the us was conducting surveillance on its european allies and in that call she made it clear that if the information about the us having monitored her phone were true it would be completely unacceptable. Now in response to the revelation chancellor schroeder had this to say. Well back then i would neve
That zone. And when our activists are going to take action, like, last year when i was involved, we would go in through an inflatable boat. But, you see, ill tell you the way we do it. The moment an inflatable leaves the ship to enter the zone towards the rig, our captain contacts the captain of the rig because the rig is actually considered to be a ship at sea, right . And says, captain of the platform, this is greenpeace. We are engaged in a peaceful protest. This is why we are doing it, because the arctic is the refrigerator and the air conditioner of the planet, and what happens in the arctic has impact globally, and this is crazy what is happening, and for these reasons, we are taking this action. Please be assured that we are peaceful and theres no threat to property or to people. We communicate that very quickly so its always very clear. I myself participated in an action a year ago protesting against that very same rig. We need to understand that drilling in the arctic has not
Money. We have a special valentines day top five. Were kicking it off with what everyone is talking about. Season two of the hit show house of cards. The series has been a huge win for netflix. What is the creator have planned to stay in the Winners Circle . You want to talk what you did with season one. It is releasing all the episodes on one day or releasing it onto the internet is not there. It is just the story itself. It motivated us to expand the scope of the series, to deepen our exploration of characters, and challenge ourselves to do better than we did before. As with the first season, netflix released every episode of the dark Political Drama all at once encouraging binge watchers, including phil mattingly. Here he is for the 3 00 a. M. Premier sitting with his great dane. He spoke with reallife d. C. Lawmakers about how realistic the show is. Capitol hill staffers were up watching. That is how highly anticipated the release was. Government was closed until 10 00 a. M. This m