Announcer tonight on the communicators, we will examine the Communications Act with two of its chief authors will stop jack fields and senator edward markey. The two will discuss whether the act is outdated and whether it should be rewritten. Words like google and hulu are popular today, but they were not there before the app. Moved not only our own country but the world from analog to digital and our goal was to take away the lines of demarcation that prevented competition. The competitive forces, it created the investment that was able to bring us to this world debate. Announcer watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan two. Next q acoming up with robert kaplan. Then, the washington journal. Andill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. Announcer this week, robert kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a thirtyyear journey through romania and beyond. Brian robert kaplan, in your you sta
Those books be due to other books. Often very obscure ones. We travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. The relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. Brian why a book about romania . Robert i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. Where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. Brian 1973 . Robert my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. I stayed in Youth Hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. That journey taught me that all these countries were the same. What i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. That trip did not really start my session with romania. That happened later. It happened in 1981. In the fall. I was getting out of the Israeli Defense forces. I was in jerusalem. I found a book, a seemingly obscure book by a canadian author
Dictator hosni mubarak. At the time, egyptians enthusiastically ushered in a new era, but the new president has since left many people deeply disappointed. Some egyptians are downright worried beethat under the Muslim Brotherhood, the country has moved even further from democracy. One blogger is one of those who openly criticizes the new government, but he had to leave egypt to be able to do so. The Market Square is a popular tourist destination. Usually, it is filled with people strolling through, taking pictures of st. Marys church, but not everyone carrying a camera here today is on holiday. Kareem is not a taurus. He is a 28will blog your 28 yearold logger blogger from egypt. The city offered him refuge for one year. The idea was to give him some breathing room and time to feel safe again. His First Impressions involved pigeons like these. It is not like this in egypt. Pigeons do not just come and sit on your hand. In egypt, birds are wary of humans. Poles are not like the egyptian
Again, supporters of the opposition are being killed exactly two years after the bloody revolution that toppled dictator hosni mubarak. At the time, egyptians enthusiastically ushered in a new era, but the new president has since left many people deeply disappointed. Some egyptians are downright worried beethat under the Muslim Brotherhood, the country has moved even further from democracy. One blogger is one of those who openly criticizes the new government, but he had to leave egypt to be able to do so. The Market Square is a popular tourist destination. Usually, it is filled with people strolling through, taking pictures of st. Marys church, but not everyone carrying a camera here today is on holiday. Kareem is not a taurus. He is a 28will blog your 28 yearold logger blogger from egypt. The city offered him refuge for one year. The idea was to give him some breathing room and time to feel safe again. His First Impressions involved pigeons like these. It is not like this in egypt. Pi
Hello and a very warm welcome to european journal coming to you from dw studios in brussels. Good t have y with us. Heres what is coming up far from home. Why an egyptian blogger is seeking refuge in poland. On the edge why gibraltar is in new haven for spaniards. After the worst while londoners are changing their minds about germans. We first turn to the struggle for democracy in egypt. Again, supporters of the opposition are being killed exactly two years after the bloody revolution that toppled dictator hosni mubarak. At the time, egyptia enthusiastically ushered in a new era, but the new president has since left many people deeply disappointed. Some egyptians are downright worried beethat under the Muslim Brotherhood, the country has moved even further from democracy. One blogger is one of those who openly criticizes the new government, but he had to leave egypt to be able to do so. The Market Square is a popular tourist destination. Usually, it is filled with people strolling thro