even worse if the agreement is not ratified so fear on the official side from china there but clifford how do you think this is being perceived by the chinese public what are you hearing there well on the one hand a lot of the focus in china right now is on the u.s. after the meeting in anchorage last week which is being seen very much as a as a major power game between the 2 and and so it's very very much by resolution opposition to the u.s. so in some ways the e.u. isn't quite on the radar but the message has been quite. quite a tough stance as well so i think this is playing out among the public as as another front on which china is currently battling all right so that was my colleague clifford kuhn and here in the studio and to reason fallon she's the founder and director of the center for russia europe asia studies in brussels thank you both for your insights today. now to some of the other global business stories making news. energy giant saudi aramco sought 2020 profit tumbled by more than 40 percent crude prices have been under pressure with a coronavirus pandemic weighing heavily

even worse if the agreement is not ratified so fear on the official side from china there but clifford how do you think this is being perceived by the chinese public what are you hearing there well on the one hand a lot of the focus in china right now is on the u.s. after the meeting in anchorage last week which is being seen very much as a as a major power game between the 2 and so it's very very much of a resolution opposition to the u.s. so in some ways the e.u. isn't quite on the radar but the message has been quite. quite tough stance as well so i think this is playing out among the public as as another front on which china is currently battling a riot so that was my colleague clifford cohen and here in the studio and to reason fallon she is the founder and director of the center for russia europe asia studies in brussels thank you both for your insights today. now to some of the other global business stories making news facebook says it took down 1300000000 fake accounts between october and december last year the company also stating it removed more than 12000000 pieces of content ab

let's get more from clifford could it from d.w. business welcome how has the pandemic affected the communist party's control of china. for both technical problems with clifford could perhaps we'll come back to him later let's move on. now while some wealthy nations have already inoculated millions of people against cope with 19 many african states are struggling to secure even a small number of doses the world health organizations kovacs initiative to help poor countries abroad vaccines now nigeria kenya and rwanda started inoculating health workers and other vulnerable people. it's an historic moment for this medical work as they are the 1st kenyans to receive a call back 19 vaccine. the east african nation has began rolling out those us from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to vaccines. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent and say kenya's president stressed the importance of global cooperation. is something that. we think a

clifford spun out there this morning. he's not going to check in and let us know how the lunch rush went in people pretty excited to get back to eating endorse charles. >>oh absolutely, but it's a beautiful day here in palo alto so i think a lot of people are just eating outside because it's nice and again restaurants are reopening today, but there's still limited to 25% capacity. so even if maximum number of people are indoors. it's still not very many people inside. but you know we have taken a step in the right direction and folks are getting back inside and they can sit at table and he dinner lunch, if they want to. inside the peninsula fountain grille in palo alto wednesday morning, the staff were cleaning off tables and getting ready to welcome diners inside to sit down. >>for a meal well we had to you know just move things you know gets table's ready rob fisher says he's excited the coronavirus restrictions are being eased the past few months have been difficult was about as rough as it gets it was very hard rob says that when they were forced to close the dining room he had to lay people off and now is trying to hir

clifford. two and a half minutes in. that works. off of the face-off, i am going to punch you in the face. it is funny howdial set it it it it i evander kane. good night. game over. 3-2, sharks get a much-needed win in o.t. many thought it was a bad idea, but the nba all-star game was so much fun. steph curry and damian lillard shooting from half-court, throwing down alley-oop dunks with chris paul. steph reclaimed the trophy as three-point shootout king. after the all-star game chris alvarez asked steph how much he is looking forward to competing with klay thompson in future three-point contests. >> any time you are in this environment you can't help but to think of how much fun that klay would have. he is trying to get healthy and will be here next year. the splash brothers bringing it back. ins it rightful place right now. we will keep it. >> absolutely. i ins. h had pot with authority. he also had 12. before halftime the buzzer-beater. santa cruz advances to the semis in the g-league, 110-84. g-league ignite lost, their season is over. st. mary's taking on top-ranked gonzaga. gaels don't have the fire

clifford. two and a half minutes in. that works. off of the face-off, i am going to punch you in the face. it is funny how cordially they set it up.d night. game over. 3-2, sharks get a much-needed win in o.t. many thought it was a bad idea, but the nba all-star game was so much fun. steph curry and damian lillard shooting from half-court, throwing down alley-oop dunks with chris paul. steph reclaimed the trophy ast o after the all-star game chris alvarez asked steph how much he is looking forward to competing with klay thompson in future three-point contests. >> any time you are in this environment you can't help but to think of how much fun that klay would have. he is trying to get healthy and will be here next year. the splash brothers bringing it back. ins it rightful place right now. we will keep it. >> absolutely. santa cruz warriors in the g-league quarterfinals. jeremy lin, he had 12 points. every once in a while attacking with authority. he also had 12. before halftime the buzzer-beater. santa cruz advances to the semis in the g-league, 110-84. g-league ignite lost, their season is over. st. mary's taking on top-ranked go

how do you approach this idea? >> as the son of an anthropologist, let me go back to clifford. it's the stories that we tell ourselves. but lonnie is right. undertow is the only way to do it. it's inherent in everything. it's lawful. it's only the forms of our storytelling that periodically suggest that it should be one thing or another, the binary-ness of our computer world, the sort of dialectic of our superficial politics meaning a red state or blue state. what we know from human experience is it is much more complex and dynamic, changing. that is lawful. we will always do this. the dna of all of this is memory. memory itself is fragile and not yet a thing. dna is not yet a thing. it has to combine and re-combined to be something. i think we are watching the layers of a parole being imperceptibly added. remember, a pearl is created through irritation, friction. american history is this pearl borne out of perpetual friction, that at times, presents itself in a very positive way and at other times in a not so positive way, but it's our job to collect the stuff and interpret, i

how do you approach this idea? >> as the son of an an throw polgist, let's go back to clifford garretts. that is inherent in everything. it is only the forms of our storytelling that periodically suggest that it should be one thing or another. the binariness of our computer world, the sort of dialectic of our superficial politics, meaning red state or blue state. what we know from human experience is it's much more complex and much more dynamic. changing, as lonnie suggests, that's lawful, we're always going to do this. so the dna of all of this is memory and memory itself is fragile and not yet a thing. dna is not yet a thing. it has to combine and recombine in order to be something. so i think that we are watching the layers of a pearl being imperceptibly added. a pearl is created through irritation, friction. so, american history is this pearl, borne out of perpetual friction that at times presents itself in a very positive way and other times, particularly now, in a not so positive way but it's our job, qulon's to collect the stuff of it and interpret and interpret and interpret. and

how do you approach this idea? well cultural the school as the son of an anthropologist. let me go back to clifford garretson. it's the stories that we tell ourselves, but lonnie is right and ambiguity or contradiction or undertow is the only way to do it that is inherent in everything. it is lawful. it's only the forms of our storytelling that periodically suggests that it should be one thing or another the binaryness of our computer world the the sort of dialectic of our superficial politics meaning red state or blue state what we know from human experiences that it is much more complex and much more dynamic changing. aslani suggests. that's lawful. we're always going to do this. so the dna of all of this is memory and memory is itself fragile and not yet a thing the is not yet a thing. it has to combine and recombine in order to be something and so i think that we are watching the layers of a pearl being imperceptibly added and remember a pearl is created through irritation friction. and so american history. is this pearl born out of perpetual friction that at times presents itself in a very positive way a

anthropologists clifford geerts once said that culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. what are those stories in the united states? how have they been shaped and told sustained and valued and by whom? and how do they affect our cultural memory and our future? this afternoon. we have an extraordinary group

clifford clark lawson. suddenly, we had three wonderful new biography of turban and i wanted catherine to to tell us a little bit about how she wrote the biography and to talk also a little more extensively about harriet tubman's activism during the civil war. thank you, manisha. well in indeed her i want to point out that her network was strong, but it was john brown who'd heard of her and sought her out in canada in 1858 and tried to enlist her so we can see that she had built up such a reputation. i point out my biography that she was introduced to a boston audience as harriet garrison in the print so i make the argument that she had to be infamous that they were giving her a suit in them to really protect her during that particular era her work. however on the underground railroad it is so well known so popular when i began to think about my biography of her there was her own biography published during her lifetime, which was sponsored. there was a biography by earl conrad which here 60 years before mine, and i was determined also as you point out to talk about her civil war career if you do get to auburn and you lear

. >> anthropologist clifford garrets once said that culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. what are those stories in the united states? how have they been shaped and told, sustained and valued and by whom? and how do they affect our culture memory and our future? this afternoon we have an extraordinary group of three people who will engage in those questions and others. lonnie bunch is the 14th secretary of the smithsonian, the world's largest museum, education and research complex. and he's the founding director of the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history and culture which has attracted over 4 million visitor, and has become a pilgrimage for so many of us. ken burns is one of the preeminent documentary film makers of our time. his work chris crosses american life from the bridge to baseball to jazz, to the civil war to country music. and today's moderator is as we think of her in our house and told her she's the thoughtful and informed sound track to our evening every single evening. she's the senior national correspondent and primary substitute anchor for pbs' news hour, a former foreign corresponde

churchill's speech and talked about how the world changed in the 50 years and the 1991 collapse of the soviet union. >>> then on sunday at 2:00 p.m., artist sands and clifford truman daniel reflect on their grandparents winston churchill and harry truman. at 4:00 p.m. reel america features an audio hearing of churchill's iron curtain speech accompanied by images and brief motion picture segments. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> up next, author and historian gary gallagher early in the civil war served on the staff of robert e. lee before becoming the south's artillery officer. it was hosted by the historical society in richmond. >> confederate general edward porter alexander competed in all the great battles as well as tennessee in late 1863. alexander wrote two books still regarded by many scholars as the most influential of the personal accounts to come out of the civil war. in today's lecture our renowned speaker will assess alexander. books and how they continue to influence historians and other writers. dr. gary w. gallagher is the john now professor in history of the american civil war at the univer

kuhn and here in studio clifford good to have you on the show we keep hearing the same formula we know by heart vaccines are necessary to get the global economy back in order how big a role does astra zeneca play in this overall scheme well as you say i think it's clear the vaccination will be crucial regarding the timing and the speed of which we get through the pandemic and the economic damage that it's done and i think. is a key factor in the bottle it's the cheapest in many ways of the virus of the of the vaccinations that have already been approved it's also the it's the easiest to transport and it's the one that seems to work best in developing countries. so it's very very important that it remains part of of the package of things that we have to do with the coronavirus and this is one area i think where the virologist and the where the scientists and the economists really agree that it's going to take a package of of different vaccinations to to really start bringing an end to the pandemic and astra zeneca is going to be a big part of out. in the e.u. have been somewhat at odds even before this happened there's been quite a history of china to what's be

kuhn and here in studio clifford good to have you on the show we keep hearing the same formula we know by heart vaccines are necessary to get the global economy back in order how big a role does astra zeneca play in this overall scheme well as you say i think it's clear the vaccination will be crucial regarding the timing and the speed of which we get through the pandemic and the economic damage that it's dumb and i think. is a key factor in the bottle it's the cheapest in many ways of the virus the. of the vaccinations that have already been approved it's also the it's the easiest to transport and it's the one that seems to work best in developing countries so it's very very important that it remains part of of of the package of things that we have to do with the coronavirus and this is one area i think where the virologist and the where the scientists and the economists really agree that it's going to take a package of of different vaccinations to to really start bringing an end to the pandemic and astra zeneca is going to be a big part about. in the e.u. have been somewhat at odds even before this happened there's been quite a history of china to what's bee

churchill's speech and talked about how the world changed in the 50 years and the 1991 collapse of the soviet union. >>> then on sunday at 2:00 p.m., artist sands and clifford truman daniel reflect on their grandparents winston churchill and harry truman. at 4:00 p.m. reel america features an audio hearing of churchill's iron curtain speech accompanied by images and brief motion picture segments. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> up next, author and historian gary gallagher early in the civil war served on the staff of robert e. lee before becoming the south's artillery officer.