The congress of the Russian Union of industrialists and entrepreneurs is taking place in moscow. Vladimir putin is expected to speak there. What issues will be discussed by government and business representatives . Well find out from my colleague maria slobodyanskaya. She joins us. Masha, good morning. Tell us about the composition of the participants . Sasha, greetings. Well, the composition is indeed very extensive; heads of federal government bodies have been invited to participate. Management, for example, of the bank of russia, of course, members of the rsp Management Bureau and many others, but if we talk about business stress, it is really very broad, of course, there will be representatives, for example, of metallurgy, the nuclear industry, fintech companies, also companies, who are working towards transport and logistics, of course, the Banking Sector is also expected here, so there are really a lot of issues that will be discussed, if we talk about the main event of today, th
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
Be on ah. Hello, im emily. Angry mrs. Al jazeera alive from dough house. So coming up, maam, please not guilty to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie. The rider remains in Critical Condition after he was stamped on stage in new york state. Ukraines president accuses Russian Forces of using the declaration of Nuclear Power plant to launch attacks and wants to be targeted by his own forces and in an al jazeera exclusive, his Senior Television later reveals what he sees as the Group Achievements and failures confusing power. And ive gone on almost a year ago. Ah, welcome to the program. We begin in the us, where donald trump is facing mounting pressure. Following reports, his lawyer assigned a statement back in june, confirming all classified material and the former president , florida home has been returned to the government. Thats according to a report in the New York Times. The statement would be at odds with this week. Seizure of 11 sets of classified documents from mar, lager miss
In texas, and its a long and tangled tale. You can read about it in the book. But its really astonishing that schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the third reich, was living in texas. But as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. The threat was that the soviets, who, bill the way, had their own program of german scientist, they got a lot of rocket scientists, but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists on pedestals. Pedestals and treated them with great regard and made them the top dogs of our program. The soviets loathed the germans. There was deep animosity from the war, and so their german rocket scientists were kept at a second tier and they were actually squeezed of the information, and sent back to germany by the russians, at which point the cia stepped in, grabbed up all those german scientists to learn what they could about the soviet missile program, but what they learned was nothing, because the soviets didnt share with the gem ger