Good afternoon. This hearing is called to order. Very pleased to see a hearing on s. T. E. M. And math and science and precision as starting precisely at 2 30 and 0 seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly a half Million People crowded on to the national mall. They werent there for a protest or to celebrate a national holiday, and they werent there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead a half Million People went there drenched in sweat to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected on to the washington monument, commemorated the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin took that giant leap for man kind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there are a half Million People on the mall and it aint a protest, Something Big is going on. And landing the first humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth marks as one of the epical moments in the history
Byron munich leave it to late in the game but take home what could be a crucial win. Im for girl welcome to the program. Police in india have taken hundreds of people into custody for defying a ban on protests against a controversial new citizenship law that was imposed after protests in 2 states became violent the new law Office Citizenship to immigrants from pakistan bangladesh and afghanistan if theyre escaping religious persecution but excludes muslims transport and Communications Networks have been shut down amid the ongoing demonstrations. Defiant they came out to protest and peacefully they resisted people across the country refused to be deterred by the protest ban there against a new law they say makes religion a basis for granting indian citizenship and discriminates against muslims and they believe it threatens the secular nature of indian democracy yet north here this citizenship Amendment Act is against the Indian Constitution it is a legal it is against the spirit of inde
Berlin. Our guide is lead cure art alexis albion who explains, and shows us artifacts used by the east germans to spy on visitors and control their own citizens. Hello, im dr. Alexis albion and im a cure art here at the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated art facts in the world. And today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii ended, germany was divided between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. And this is the start of the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. Now that division became concrete with t
Im alexis, i am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. The united states, france, United Kingdom and soviet union. Soviet union again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of germany and berlin. That became concrete with the direction of the berlin wall with the berlin wall. The wall was put up by east germans of stents of late to keep people out. And with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of intelligence and skills in the east. The east germans called what we called the berlin wall the antifascist fork. It was to keep out the fascist, to keep out the west. It did keep millions of these ge
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