Bloodiest ground in america. Hopefully we will have the opportunity to commemorate and recognized some of this stories. I am proud to be presenting for you a fabulous lineup of speakers over the next day and a half. An excellent tour on sunday morning, and to consider what a sunday and how that is our legacy. Kicking things off for our program is our keynote speaker, dana shoaf. He comes to us from civil war times magazine. For generations of people that magazine has served as the single most influential and accessible point in the civil war history. There for 16 years. He has been editor for seven. He has also left some commentary copies for us upstairs. When i asked him about coming down here to speak as part of our symposium, i told him the team and i said what is something that is interesting to you these days . What gives you the chance to explore . As a Magazine Editor heat oversees the stories of so many other people that perhaps he had not had the time to explore the stories th
Remarks and thank you for being with with us. There will be a conversation here at a conversation here at the table and we will open that up as long as time allows. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the introduction and for inviting me i am very honored. I can only address a few of the problems you just mentioned because i am only the finance minister. It was quite successful after all. You might think that our decisionmaking processes are complicated and you might think that your policies will lead to little or no growth. I can simply tell you that once the economy is growing again and every country is expected to grow but i want to raise a more fundamental question. How can advanced economies achieve growth . For the past quartercentury there was a credit boom in 1997 and after that it came back in 2007. At the beginning of each of these cycles people thought we were entering a new era of prosperity. It became clear long ago that the instrument no longer works the way it u
I tried to mention shortly, normally i speak longer but i would prefer to save time for questionandanswer is we have one of the major problem of all economies to increase. There are gross expectations for coming here. And they have given the recommendation not to increase our expenses but to reduce our taxation. We will spend in our government anything available for increasing infrastructure. If i increase Infrastructure Investment germany will be better. We have federal government, we have state level that we have to keep in mind and we need to deliver more. I think we have a balanced way to increase investment. It has become better in 2005. She has very much relied on strengthening the part of federal budget increasing federal budget for research and education. No government, never has increased the budget for research and education. Even in this year and you know germany very well education is a great responsibility. But federal spending for states to raise money for education has n
Lose you cherry warner, colina. Oh huh. A ukrainian folks are in 1914 has to come to new protest anthem and ukraine. It tells of the Ukrainian Military unit that fought against czarist russia in world war one. Ah, a marquis, a with the wave of patriotism has brought ukrainians together footing a powerful sense of determination in the face of russias invasion. National sentiments also growing in other posts of the at states. Culture and language play key role here. Singer songwriter, jerry hale and wrapper, a loaner, a loaner travel to berlin at the end of june to give a concert for their homeland even before the war. The pairs sang exclusively in ukrainian. Boy with a thing in my own language, just natural worth. It petri audit by it just natural. It is just like elemental mean ukrainian if your brain in your, in your brain, you speak ukrainian, you st. Ukrainian with russian president Vladimir Putin denying ukraine statehood. The issue of language has become hugely political. Its cons
Its the biggest attack of its kind in southern beirut in a generation. At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 wounded as a car bomb blew up in a stronghold of the militant group hezbollah. The attack comes just weeks after another bombing in the area wounded 50. The violence adding to fears that lebanon is being sucked into the civil war in neighboring syria. We talk about that with a correspondent in beirut in a moment, but first, this report on todays attack. The blast ripped through a southern suburb of the lebanese capital wreaking havoc. Ambulances rushed to the scene to tend to the dozens of casualties and transport them to hospitals. Cars were ablaze and people were trapped in nearby burning buildings. Authorities said it could have been a suicide attack. The political and military organization is made up largely of shia muslims and has openly expressed support for syrian president bashar alassad. Its chief even sent 1000 fighters to support him, causing friction with