Events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time in equally warm welcome andany open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your Cell Phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy fighter weapons program. Were thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, Dan Pedersen. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953. And went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary top Gun Program at naval Air Station Miramar in march 1969. He served in combat in the Vietnam War with the flying crews on Uss Hancock and three on uss enterprise. He retired as a captain, having accumulated 6100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. For those of you who knowpedersens story from the 1986 movie top Gun Youll be happy to kno
To explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your Cell Phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy fighter weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, Dan Pedersen. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary top Gun Program in march 1969. He served in combat during the Vietnam War with a flying crews on Uss Hancock and three on uss enterprise. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. For those of you who know his story from top gun, youll be happy to know that Jerry Bruk Hiemer is producing a sequel, which is squeded to be released in 2020. Pedersens book, top gun, is available for Purchase And Signing following
Side where the annual vigil is usually held, but crowns gather outside to remember the pro democracy of protesters killed in beijing in 1989 and anti government protesters in columbia about justice for their dead. But after 2 months, there is no sign of an end to the violence. Our reporter goes to cali where the military has been sent into the streets. Ah. A mariana evanS Dean. Its good to have you with us. Nigeria government says its suspending twitter indefinitely after the company deleted a controversial tweet from the countries president. The social Media Platform remove the pose from president mohammedan hari saying it violated the science rules against abusive behavior. In between, hurry threatened to punish members of the session this movement in the country, se nigeria is Information Ministry accused twitter oF Double standards and ignoring violent messages from a separatist leader have been certified all the Countries Information Minister ally mohammed Question Twitter is acti
Not rocky, is against the government, but then people say that theyre going to investigate these and theyre going to put, put out the, the official reaction. All right, so its clear that the government is unhappy with twitter. But what about ordinary nigerians . How have they been reacting to this move this, this is on this suspension of 3 top indefinitely of course, and get an idea. And you have to know that nigeria is probably the biggest, i mean they have to have the biggest market in jania. Maybe, you know, across african identity and the biggest market men and i, j, i actually use tree top and theyre so angry because the platform, they used to use this platform to vent their im guy to contain about rud services, that government is giving them. But now by suspending, it means that the government has cut off their voice. So its something that has made and i did, and i agree, i mean or deny j and, and even critics ok. ThatS Doable. Heidi. Alright, fred mooney, reporting for us from l
Economy already. Now that means that Luxemburg Or Island or the Netherland Middle came and may want to object, but they wont be able to. They can offer lower tax rates, but those tax rates will get top it up to at least 15 percent in the countries where the real activity is taking place. Thats what makes this very powerful. But it also, again means that its important, its fair that the benefits of this on just captured by the g 7, theyre shared with, particularly the lower income countries who lose a bigger share of tax revenues to this type of corporate Tax Abuse. Why has it taken so long for a decision like this to be made . That is a great question. And the reason is this, the g 7 countries have all of the power, but they are split about this. On the one hand, they will the revenues just as everyone else does. But on the other hand, each of their multinational companies who are mainly responsible for this, the u. K, in particular, has been a major blocker. And if you take the u. K,