Killing five officers and wounding nine others. President obama played his nowfamiliar role of mourner in chief this week, calling on americans of all races to come together, as the people of dallas have done. How deep are americas divisions, and how can they be repaired . That is what we want to talk about this week, on quadriga, with three guests who are following the events there very closely. It is a pleasure to welcome erik kirschbaum. He is a new york native and longtime germany correspondent, currently working with the l. A. Times. He says, the United States feels like a powder keg, with deep political, economic, social, and racial divisions, threatening to erupt into a bigger explosion. And it is a pleasure to welcome Rieke Havertz. She is a Senior Editor at zeitonline, and she has also reported from the u. S. For a daily newspaper. She says, American Society has failed to address the issue of racism for years. President obama has to ask himself if he has been too defensive in
Thanks for joining us audience chanting Stephen Stephen welcome welcome, everybody thank you so much cheers and applause stephen folks. Folks. Im sure you know, but americas relationship with russia continues to degrade. Finally, a true strong leader stepped up to punish russia and, no surprise, its vladimir putin. laughter jim . Vladimir putin is striking back against the wests economic sanctions. Today banning food imports to russia for one year. For the next year they are banning all imports of beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, poultry, seafood, cheese and milk in all forms fresh, frozen, processed, whatever and this applies to european union, australia, canada and norway. Stephen yeah, putin is impose ago ban on food imports from all major countries and norway. laughter i mean, face it. No one wants lutefisk. Sanctions cafe wide, banning everything from australian beef to latin and lithuanian pork and moldovan fruit, a relief to all the moldovan people who all really had their eye ton
Be saying aloha to another laughter this is the colbert report cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central eagle caw cheers and applause welcome to the report thanks for joining us audience chanting Stephen Stephen welcome welcome, everybody thank you so much cheers and applause stephen folks. Folks. Im sure you know, but americas relationship with russia continues to degrade. Finally, a true strong leader stepped up to punish russia and, no surprise, its vladimir putin. laughter jim . Vladimir putin is striking back against the wests economic sanctions. Today banning food imports to russia for one year. For the next year they are banning all imports of beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, poultry, seafood, cheese and milk in all forms fresh, frozen, processed, whatever and this applies to european union, australia, canada and norway. Stephen yeah, putin is impose ago ban on food imports from all major countries and norway. laughter i mean, face it. No one wants lutefisk. Sanct
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Things have changed a lot. I think its really impresentesive and i feel really good about that. Thank you. Thank you so much. Im with new rules for global finance. I wanted to pick up on the tax issues. I note in the g20 when they talk about tax and context of development they say we really have to do Capacity Building. Im wondering if the african finance ministers and Central Bank Governors and so on, tax administrators, if on a continental basis you have been able to get together and say, here is the Capacity Building we want and need and here are our preferred instructors. If not, ill work with you. One more. Im with the center for Global Development here in d. C. My question is, i was hoping would you touch on the measurability of some of these targets. I know one of the greatest strengths about the mbgs was they had these specific percentages and numbers that people could actually tangibly measure to varying degrees. Obviously, there is some discussion about the measurability of t