To get jones and berlin. Good to have you with us. And were starting with news from china, which says it has given 2100000000 dollars worth of debt relief to developing countries as part of its trillion dollar belt and road initiative. China has financed Large Infrastructure Projects throughout africa. That critics say have left many poor countries overloaded with debt. Its been called the railway to nowhere. Kenya celebrated the opening of this train connecting its capital nairobi, and the port city, mombasa, in 2017, built in finance for a china. It has now become a symbol of the controversy over chinas presence across the continent. China has loaned over 100000000000. 00 to african countries as part of its transcontinental infrastructure program, known as the bolton road initiative. Many african countries were already crippled under the weight of the money they owe china for projects like the money losing kenyan railway. Now the coronavirus pandemic has made it nearly impossible for
In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that and commenting on it. It is the pe
In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that in commenting on it it is the peopl
Security will come to order. Let me say at the outset a number of our members are still in route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. And they will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial recognition of Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committees meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year after new ths that the department was expanding its use of facial recognition for varying purposes such as confirming the identity of travellers including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want to reiterate that im not holy op
Nations in Eastern Europe but thats a kind of a narrative that is very western i suppose but i lived there it was i dont have that same kind of feel for it ok though having said that im very glad those communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and in hungary and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin as arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the Eastern European communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the j