john f. kennedy institute for the insight. now when people think about a holiday in the middle east egypt jordan perhaps dubai are often the first us nations that spring to mind but now ultraconservative saudi arabia wants foreign visitors to consider the kingdom problem as the country has an image problem is found in a char has been to the port city of jeddah to see some of the initiatives being launched to get you to think differently about the country. a lot of history can be discovered in just a multicultural and diverse city in saudi arabia jeddah has always been a bit more open to change that other more conservative parts of the country for example you will see here women without a headscarf a lot happens here first such as tourism in the past it's been limited to pilgrimage tourists or to people like them you know they are from russia germany or belgium foreign workers want to discover the city of it or not. they used to get it but my name is i.b.m. i'm going to be your tour guide welcome to the historical area of this

john f. kennedy institute for the insight. i've. we're going to catch up with some of the of a news stories making headlines at the moment in syria a monitoring group says twenty six people have been killed in missile strikes on military facilities in the north of the country the blasts reportedly hitting a syrian army base by iranian backed forces. the moment. israel is likely to have launched its. in afghanistan at least twenty five people have been killed and dozens injured in back to back explosions in the capital kabul with r.t. say one journalist was killed and two police officers after they rushed to the aftermath of the first explosion the blasts occurred in an area of the city housing foreign offices. u.s. border officials have prevented a group of around two hundred central american migrants from entering the country to seek asylum migrants who told facilities at the border to for president trump has warned against allowing the group to enter the u.s. in the urge to mexico to stop them. now the british interior minister am

john f. kennedy institute at berlin's free university thanks for being with us this morning thanks for having me. cross over to christophe for our business is also taking a look at the economic legacy of martin luther king that's right terry and u.s. president donald trump rarely misses an opportunity to take credit for the rise in employment among black citizens and while their economic situation has improved studies show that black workers still are chronically under represented in high salaried jobs of half a century after martin luther king's death differences and wages among white and black employees also persist. even the american flag is in tatters here this is a black neighborhood in memphis tennessee the city where martin luther king was assassinated fifty years after his murder black people here earn forty eight cents for every dollar a white american makes. people are working in their spending all their lives and they're spending all these hours but they're not getting out of poverty they're still in poverty so i don't know that i would say it is better that people are working. it'

john f. kennedy institute for the insight. at a big development in the u.s. mobile telephone sector t. mobile u.s. owned by germany's stacia telecom agreed to acquire rivals friends that will combine the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the u.s. if the deal is approved it will mean the creation of a carrier with one hundred twenty seven million customers that's as much as the population of japan but the merger will be facing an uphill battle and washington. it's a big deal and this video featuring the c.e.o.'s of sprint and t. mobile is proof that two wireless carriers are doing what they can to get everyone on their side they say the merger will help them better deliver mobile services to customers in particular the latest and greatest five g. technology i'm only system eight that america early four g. leadership added millions of jobs in this country and billions in u.s. g.d.p. i mean five g. the stakes are even higher just to put this in perspective the difference between for g.m. five g. is the difference between black and white t.v. and color t.v. but that may not be

john f. kennedy institute of free anniversary thanks for being with us this morning as we just heard in our reportthere martin luther king and grew up in a segregated america give us an idea of what relations between blacks and whites were like in the us back then before the civil rights movement when martin luther king grew up especially in the u.s. . discrimination and racism and white supremacy or the logics that ruled society and especially on an everyday level it was institutionalized segregation was institutionalized so you had separate bathrooms separate schools churches down to water fountains that each kind of jim crow laws were on the one hand challenged and courts repeatedly by african-american civil rights organizations and slowed down after world war two were challenged in courts at the same time. laws were designed exactly to keep african-americans from voting and participating in the process like literacy tests and that was is what dr king was fighting against to give them for african-americans a voice in political processes it's really hard for many to imagine what that was like in

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