At the kennedy institute, we are committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are also proud together together a group of panelists for the program, including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics and Higher Education at wbur where he has been since 1988 serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city and the south america reporter for cbs news based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four scholars who provide erspective on, and knowledge of, our nations founders. Togeth
Middle of a pandemic students in india no choice but to take College Entrance exams despite safety concerns. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us protests have erupted in northern china over a new education policy that replaces mongolian as a medium of instruction with mandarin the you know mongolia also enormous region borders mongolia and russia ethnic mongolians comprise about 17 percent of its 25000000. 00 residents on monday before the start of the new Academic Year the local government announced schools would have to use new textbooks in mandarin the changes extend to 3 subjects literature politics and morality and history that will gradually be taught in mandan instead of mongolian the changes are typical in schools where mongolian is the principal language of instruction parents and students say this puts the future of the mongolian language at risk and is an attempt by beijing to promote the majority hun culture or the ethnic mongolian one. A rare scene in a mongo
They started playing and all this was very positive in the end of those days and it just gave me the feeling that these people in spite of all the hardships and the obstacles that they had to overcome were still very optimistic that a better life was ahead of them. Back then there was a lot of criticism of course at the time here in germany of opening the borders in hindsight do you think it was the right decision to really depends who you ask of course from our perspective on the ground back then it seemed the only right decision because of the humanitarian crisis we had there but to be fair afterwards we learned that the communication of the Different Countries was very basic to put it that way and we did think about our own reporting on the ground did we do the right thing were we to one sided but you know you have to remember we were down there and hungary and authorities were definitely playing games. The migrants always distributing leaflets that were exclusively in gary and that
Welcome to tomorrow today the science show on d w. Is this really ice it is under polarized light ice shimmers in a rainbow of colors. And this is where it comes from the arctic weather sea ice has been declining for decades. And International Research group spent a year studying it to get a better understanding of Climate Change and its impact. Think. Well take winter is a black void in 2 senses 1st its dark thanks to months of nights in which the sun no longer rises over the horizon plus theres a huge data hole we know precious little about when tearing the area around the north pole which plays a major role frog. Climate and is itself changing the ice has been receding for decades now what explains this Climate Change sure but how exactly does that affect this northern most part of the planet because if so how is the sea ice changing how does it grow in the winter and how does it melt in the summer. Christian hans is a sea ice geophysicist in the us could be in the institute in germ
Welcome to tomorrow today the science show on d w. Is this really ice it is under polarized light ice shimmers in a rainbow of colors. And this is where it comes from the arctic weather sea ice has been declining for decades. And International Research group spent a year studying it to get a better understanding of Climate Change and its impact. Feel to take winter is a black void in 2 senses 1st its dark thanks to months of nights in which the sun no longer rises over the horizon plus theres a huge data hole we know precious little about when tearing the area around the north pole which plays a major role frog. I meant and is itself changing the ice has been receding for decades now what explains this Climate Change sure but how exactly does that affect this northern most part of the planet because if so how is the sea ice changing how does it grow in the winter and how does it melt in the summer. Christine haas is a sea ice geophysicist in the us institute in gemini he sees the arcti