Sure to join the conversation with your calls, texts, and tweets. Announcer as the Republican National Convention Gets Underway tonight, we will hear from prominent speakers from past conventions. Senator howard baker from 1984. Then pat buchanan in 1992. , retired general colin powell in 1996. And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2012. Howard baker had already been Senate Majority leader for three years when he addressed the 1984 Republican Convention. He became 18 years, known as the great negotiator, including passage of the Clean Air Act and the clean water act. Senator baker was vice chair of the committee that investigated whitewater, president nixon, and members of his administration. 35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, intelligence chair adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates in dallas. Sen. Baker thank you very much. Late is a
Vladimir putin has offered to send in security forces. German lawmakers from across the political spectrum as well as president from father steinmeyer have condemned saturdays rushing of the Parliament Building in berlin during a protest against the governments pandemic policies hundreds of far right activists and science than ayers overwhelmed police and occupied the steps of the Police Regain control of the situation before they could get into the building. Police in Portland Oregon have launched a Homicide Investigation after a protester was killed the victim was shot dead as supporters of president clash with matters of protest protestors portland mayor ted wheeler blamed trump himself for stoking the racial unrest. This is due to your news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website www dot com. Oh. I stuck in berlin house is germanys parliament the building is steeped in history. In 19451 of the last great battles world war 2 raged here the red ar
Ones have the documents papers and implements on the desks. And this Historic Site is presented within the broader world context. In the viewer gets a sense of what was happening in the summer of 1905 and the impact of the 2nd world war which was still going on in asia for example what. The conference tracked on to 17 days newsreel footage gives an impression of how many among the leaders but behind the scenes the high encouragement has already begun to take shape the berlin wall which later run only a few meters away from the palace game that was the differences were so great that they could only be patched up provisionally. And the cold war got its start and cecilia healthy. The 2 superpowers were already facing off against one another. My next stop is the topography of terra with over a 1000000 visitors a year its one of the best known places of remembrance in berlin the Documentation Center informs and educates visitors about perpetrators the people behind the nazis regime of power
This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the atomic bombing. This was the 50th anniversary. I decidedst of that, with one of my students who whose mother and grandmother survived the bombing, and her grandfather died my we decided to was going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. Plus, bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. While we were planning this, the smithsonian exhibit got canceled , so the museums here in nagasaki asked if we could bring some of those artifacts to American University and do another exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. That was the first time the bomb exhibits had been outside of japan. This is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the original bombing, so we decided to do it again. We combine artifacts from hiroshima and nagasaki with six of this that 15 of these fabulous panels. These are historic panels and they can be compared to the or t
For guy stuck in berlin houses germanys parliament the building is steeped in history. And 9451 of the last great battles the world war 2 raged here the red army did everything in its power to capture the vice talk building on may 1st 945 the last defenders withdrew shortly afterwards on may 8th germany surrendered. That was 75 years ago a long time but even today the city is still full of reminders. And today im going to visit some of these places i would like to learn more about the end of the war here in berlin and also more about the people of that time about the victims and the perpetrators about the victors and the defeated well join me in the search for traces here in the capital. Take a look at the building where the German Family signed the surrender. Visit the epicenter of the security and terror of her actors off the 3rd reich. And go down into berlins underworld the ruins of a bunker in one but kind of hard. To see the inside of the thai stock building you have to register