A Human Rights Watchdog accuses u. S. Backed special forces in afghanistan of committing war crimes and other atrocities during their operations its calling for the units to be destroyed and it was the german carmaker boast wagon putting its money on eat mobility v. W. Starts production of its 1st fully electric mass market vehicle to get high level support from german chancellor Angela Merkel with a promise to expand car infrastructure across the country. Im off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we start tonight right here in germany the country celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall which happened on the 9th of november 1989 for lins mayor has a few. Opened a week of festivities with a white shirt at the world famous alexander plots thats the square where hundreds of thousands of east germans demonstrated today 30 years ago november 4th 9089 calling for freedom of expression and democracy commemorations will culm
It is calling for the units to be disbanded. Plus, the german car maker, volkswagen putting its money on eating mobility. Vw starts production of its First Electric massmarket vehicle. Sherman chancellor Angela Merkel with a promise to expand ecommerce infrastructure across the country. I reviewers on pbs in the units kids, welcome. We start in germany. The country celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, which happened on the ninth of november 1989. Berlins mayor has officially opened a week of festivities with a light show at the worldfamous alexander platz, that is the square or hundreds of thousands of germans demonstrated 30 years ago, november 4, 1989, calling for freedom of expression and democracy. The commemorations will culminate with a ceremony atat e berlin wall memorial on saturday. Joining me now is our chief political correspondent, melinda crane. She is at alexanderplatz. Is it possible for the events we are seeing today to truly represent those
Hello, everybody. Hey. Such a fantastic crowd. And you all are so young, it is freaking me out. Seriously, like you are so young, it is terrifying. Hi. Nahal toosi. I am pleased to welcome everybody here today. Let me introduce our panelists. I doubt i can do justice to all of their compliments. Rob malley is the Vice President of policy at an international group. He previously served in the , who servedstration as the coordinator for the white house for the gulf region. Emailged to obtain robs address, but for the longest time, i was too shy to reach out to him. And then i reached out to him because he is really a nice guy. I do not know why i did not do it before. Jong to the other end, glaser is the director of form possibly Foreign Policy at the cato institute, a libertarian think tank. Grandterests include strategy, u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east, the rise of china, and the role of status and perceived motivations in international politics. That sounds like everything. Ta
You are also young, it is freaking me out. Seriously. You are so young. It is terrifying. Hi. I go by holly. I cover Foreign Policy for politico here and im pleased to welcome everyone here for what i hope will be a fruitful discussion. Let me introduce our panelist. I doubt i can possibly do justice to their accomplishments. Rob malley is the Vice President for policy at the International Crisis group. He previously served in the Obama Administration as a special assistant to the president , Senior Adviser to the president and the white house grenade or for the middle east, north africa, and the gulf region. When i covered portrait Foreign Policy, i managed to obtain his right at a address early on. For the longest time, i was too shy to reach out. When i finally did reach out, turns out he is a really nice guy. I dont know why i didnt do it before. Sorry. Going to the other end, john glaser is director of foreignpolicy studies at the cato institute. In the press, we often say the lib
Thank you. [applause] withspan recently set down hillary to get her account of the 2016 president ial campaign. In our conversation, we spoke about her new book as well as other topics, including that speech you just heard from former president bush. President bush thursday talked but the cruelty in american politics. He did not mention the president by name. Your reaction to what he said. I really appreciated president bush delivering it. He covered a lot of ground. He talked about how White Supremacy is an absolute blasphemy to the american creed. He talked about the importance of listening to each other and working with each other. I do not agree with president bush as i think any democrat today would say to you. But i never doubted his patriotism and i never doubted that he worked really hard all day. He went to bed worried, woke up concerned about what he would do. I was in the oval office with him two days after 9 11 and i understood a lot of what he was having to face. Out andia