In 1849 it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those 100 years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and cosmopolitan center. Of commerce and culture and of industry and shipping for the war in the pacific. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945 San Francisco was the center of mens hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945. Representing almost 2,000 Million People, more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war. A curse which in 30 years killed 40 million human beings. Maimed, countless millions more, both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who helped we
Continued rise of communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 20913. 2013. Ian buruma professor of human rights in journalist at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won several awards for his work among them the International Erasmus prize and journalism award, publications he writes for in the new york review of books, new yorker, New York Times, and r. C. Handleblog and the guardian, which recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the British Museums current exhibition shunga, sex and pleasure in japanese art. Also taming the gods, religion and democracy on three continents. Murder in amsterdam, liberal europe and inventing japan 1863 to 1964. In the year 0, history of 1945, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the Common Center in 201112 to the series fellow, fellows, he was so productive, produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii
I have to mean how it work. Im. Germany has criticized china for the dismissal of 4 prodemocracy opposition. Politicians in hong kongs parliament. Several of their fellow lawmakers also resigned in solidarity after the Chinese Parliament passed a law allowing the islands chief executive to expel legislators without going through the courts. Budging has defended the legislation as necessary to uphold the rule of law. Opponents say it spells the end of the territories fight for democratic rights. Who stand out way back. They were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong. Now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement or to go that they got all part of the decision made by the National Peoples congress today. It is extremely ridiculous, it shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. Dennis
Baseless claims insisting that he wasnt i mean hes being robbed of reelection. Time phil gal welcome to the program. Joe biden is edging closer to the white house as final votes us till being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election the democratic challenger is narrowly ahead in the case states which have yet to declare their results so lets have a look at the overall picture which hasnt changed for quite a while now so far joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes president to trump has 214 according to the a. P. News agency remember they need 270. 00 votes to win pennsylvania would be a massive prize with its 20 Electoral College of votes joe bidens late desk early more than 13 and a half 1000 with 98 percent of the vote counted georgia with 16 College Votes is also extremely close biden has pulled ahead of trump here but there are only about 1500. 00 votes between them so thats likely to go to a recount overall Donald Trumps path to victory is looking increasingly narrow states in re
Nearly 2 trillion euros long term budget that included recovery, package, hungry and cold, and again refused to budge over plans to make the money conditional on respecting the rule of law. And 75 years ago, the norm back trials began. They sent a legal precedent on Holding International leaders to account for their crimes and laid the foundation for todays criminal court in the case below. Im terry martin. Good to have you with us. Army says it has entered the 1st of 3 districts to be handed back by armenia. As part of the contentious peace accord. The russian brokered agreement ended weeks of fighting over the disputed region in and around nagornokarabakh. Got some maps for here, the 6 week war killed thousands of people in the go in a car thats an armenian populated region inside. The Armenian Forces later expanded their control over surrounding regions. But under the recent peace deal, john has recaptured its last territory and gained control of new regions shrinking the borders of