Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Could this change the way african farmers do business. Cocoa producing nations join a campaign to fix the massive imbalance between farmers incomes and the money made by commodities traders. African nations are primed to boost Energy Production but a new report says it will take 120000000000. 00 to solve the problem of electricity shortages. And 30 years up to the fall of the berlin wall we look at the imbalances in the economies of germanys west into and Eastern States as well as one of those struggling to communism. It was all one lets do business this could spell sweet justice nigeria and cameroon are seeking ways of jointly negotiating with cocoa buys for a better premium the chocolate industry is worth tens of billions of euros a year but some grows in west africa a poor and now than they were half a century ago. Its cocoa harvest season farmer Frank Johnston is gathering the fuel pods left on the farm hes renting the farm so when he gathers the harvest only one 3rd of the profits
Ken and lynn have made a new tv series about the vietnam war, we talked to them about the program on the washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Nu joining us now or can burns and ling, the vietnam war which airs on sunday, thank you for coming on the program a lot of stuff and information have come out with the vietnam war, why do you think your version was needed out there. I think will be constantly but unfortunately we have spent more so the last 42 years not discussing it. Theres been so much new information, veterans are coming forward with their story and people involved are coming does, forward. What i think it does is aggregate the most recent scholarship and speak to the veterans of the United States and we have no political agenda, but also interview people in North Vietnam and civilians and soldiers to get a 360 view of it and create a space where we cane finally find a way to do it. Fortunately we had an underwriter at bank of america o that was willing to say we want you
And it could result in lives lost unless we have enforceable rules and regulations that protect the traveling public, not just the folks who may be behind the wheel but also passengers in vehicles out on the roads today. Driving continues to be one of the deadliest activities. The reason the framework issued yesterday concerned me so greatly is that it depends on voluntary selfassessment by the industry as opposed to mandatory rules. It was termed by one report even less burdensome than the voluntary one issued under the obama administration. The net effect would be to leave enforcement virtually toothless. So i am putting to you the question, to all of the witnesses here today, isnt it necessary to have mandatory rules and regulations enforced by the government, by the department of transportation or some enforcer to protect the traveling public . I think thats absolutely true. There has to be weve seen too many examples of and thats one of our concerns, is whether or not theres going
Cspan3. Great. Welcome, everyone. My name is michael matera. Im the director here. Its great to have you all here today. We need to make requirement of csis an emergency announcement. If there is an emergency, im the emergency officer. Follow me. We dont expect any problems but given that were having a program today on hurricanes, one never knows. So this special Public Program on hurricanes irma and jose and the Massive International response thats already under way. Weve all seen the pictures of the tremendous damage thats been done on antiqua and barbuda, the British Virgin islands, cuba, florida and elsewhere and we shouldnt forget Hurricane Harvey. Disasters like these hurricanes always present an opportunity to refocus our efforts to see where we are doing well and where efforts need to be improved. Emergency response systems have been tested like never before in the u. S. And in the countries of the caribbean. We organize the program today to bring greater attention to both the