Museum and memorial symposium. Good morning. Am not and it is my pleasure to welcome you, thank you for coming out to what i think is going to be an extraordinary couple of days as we came together and learning at this of speaking together and learning at this symposium. We are delighted to work with so many partners to create another exceptional opportunity for us. I hope it will take the time to spend time in the galleries. The special exhibition piece with 19 from 1919 fits with this piece. Preparing for the opening of a new exhibition, the vietnam war, 19451975. That opens next weekend, so this is a teaser. We invite those of you who are able to come back to memorial day weekend of year to come back and take in an exceptional exhibition that also provides the link sent helps people understand the enduring impact of the war and world war i. And how it contributed to the vietnam war. There iskes us is that a continuum and growing interest in world war i and its enduring impact. I am
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is matt miller. I service the president and ceo here at the national War One Museum immemorial it is my pleasure to welcome you here to what i think its going to be an extraordinary couple of days to thing together and learn at the symposium. We are delighted to be house need networking with so many partners to create yet another, i think, exceptional opportunity for us. Whilst you are here, i hope that you take time to spend some time in the galleries. The special exhibition, piece 1919, certainly fits with this theme and he will enjoy that as well as our main galleries where we are preparing for the opening of a new exhibition this week on the vietnam war, 1945, 1975. That is not open until next weekend so its a teaser for you. But we invite those of you who are able to come back through the next several months 30 memorial day weekend of next year to come back and take in really quite exceptional exhibition that also provides the links and
The hunt for whales japan has resumed commercial whaling in its waters despite global outbreak but is the practice commercially sustainable and course of the Cultural Roots of boiling in japan and is culture a justification this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dolby whales were hunted to the brink of extinction until 1986 when a group of countries agreed to temporarily stop whaling for profits which turned into a Semi International ban however conservationists are now worried the species might be facing a similar threat many countries continue to hunt whales for what they say are scientific purposes and japan which is one of the leading commercial whaling countries is now resumed that practice in its waters it says whaling is part of its culture and can be done in a Sustainable Way but as mariana home explains japanese pallets and tastes of moved on. For more than 30 years the International Whaling commission has been locked in a fight its job is to protect w
All europe as a woman child michelle the belgian Prime Minister is nominated to be the next head of the European Council with spains foreign minister josep barrel as the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief while the International Monetary fund boss Christine Lagarde is nominated to head the European Central bank you know had 6 in the tide of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the European Council has approved the fact that its capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various Prime Ministers i believe it to be an athlete. The dutch labor leader from stimulants had been seen as the front runner for a Commission President as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the Czech Republic and slovakia the socalled visit for the hungary in some polls have been strongly criticised by symonds over their record on the rule of law throug
To the general population there will be a few communities where its more commonly et but beyond that really this is just something which creates so much problem for japan all around the world and its done a very strange thing with this latest move michael you were nodding there listening to mark bristol staying with you in tokyo is there a silent minority of people who if it came down to put in a cross in a box i guess would support the wheeling industry because theyre and t. And t. Whaling industry people because they feel theyre being got at because they feel perhaps no somebody outside japan should not tell us what to do. Well if i was to characterize the majority japanese position on the issue of whaling it would be indifference its simply this not part of their daily lives and and that their its not something that they they see a lot on the media here its just not a concern but there are 2 points i think are worth bearing in mind about this change one is that the compared to the c