Curated Video
RR7948A NATO'S NEW MISSLES
On December 12th 1979, NATO ministers meet in
Brussels. Faced with what is claimed to be superior
Warsaw Pact strength in conventional forces, NATO
has to decide whether to deploy the new generation of
US-made nuclear missiles, notably...
Curated Video
USA: LI ZHAOXING CHINESE ESPIONAGE PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
China's ambassador to the United States is denying Congressional claims that Chinese spies stole American nuclear secrets.
Li Zhaoxing says charges of spying made in a report out this week are untrue.
But U-S Energy...
Curated Video
Israel - Netanyahu on Deng Xiaoping's death
A day after the death of Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (20/2) told visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Lanqing that Israel shared China's grief.
Exterior of Prime Ministers office;...
Curated Video
TIBET: CHINESE MARK 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF FORMAL ANNEXATION OF TIBET
English/Nat
The Chinese authorities are marking the thirtieth anniversary of the formal annexation of Tibet.
On September the first 1965, China declared the establishment of the Tibetan Autonomous Region - fifteen years after invading...
Curated Video
USA: NEW NATO MEMBERS: REACTIONS
Independence, Missouri, U-S March 12, 1999
1. Pan view of aircraft on tarmac
2. Cutaway controller
3. Close-up U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright disembarking, followed by Foreign Ministers
4. Cutaway of police car
5. Pan view...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Polish PM sacks defence foreign ministers in reshuffle
Poland's new right wing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sacks his defence and foreign ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle as he seeks to mend strained ties with the country's EU partners
Bloomberg
China's Vice President Delivers Opening Address at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum
HE Wang Qishan, Vice President, People's Republic of China delivers the Opening Address at the 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.
Press Association
Thousands of Royal Mail workers join rally in Parliament Square
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) march from Parliament Square to Buckingham Palace, London, during a rally with Royal Mail workers to mark another strike in the increasingly bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions....
Bloomberg
PBOC's New LPR Provides Mechanism for More Efficient Rate Move: Fidelity
Aug.19 -- Bryan Collins, fixed income portfolio manager at Fidelity International, talks about China's decision to make borrowing costs slightly cheaper, and the bond market. Chinese officials introduced a revamped market benchmark rate...
Crash Course
The Modern Revolution: Crash Course Big History #8
Will advances in technology save us from exhausting the Earth's resources? Throughout history, progress helped us revolutionize society. The video discusses the growth in collective learning, exploration, machinery, communications,...
PBS
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
Macat
An Introduction to Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age Of Revolution
Discover the ways that the exploited class has influenced our modern lives with a short study of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789 - 1848. High schoolers discuss the Marxist perspective of how the Industrial...