talks began in moscow, where president manuel my crohn met with russian president vladimir putin. mccracken said his goal was to de escalate tensions along the border between russia and ukraine and to work towards a solution that helps to avoid war. the visit is part of an ongoing effort by nato members, france, germany, and turkey aimed at facilitating talks. while russia has proposed security agreement to nato. the u. s. was quick to shut it down and to criticize the requirement that guarantees ukraine will not join the alive who and thank mccracken for his effort to solve the 1st piece of this complex situation. and that wasn't the only meaning while microns visit to moscow was seen as a way for him to fill the void left by chancellor, uncle and merkle. it was the new german chancellor who made his way to washington off shoals arrived at the white house to meet with president joe biden for the 1st time on monday. shoals has been in office for 2 months now, and already he has been criticized for being almost invisible, especially when it comes to maintaining the presence of the youth larg

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now, it seems, mccracken is very eager to find solutions to the ukraine crisis. what did he discuss with president lensky today? while the money will microns fast becoming the the go to a human, the state leader for all matters serious. really stepping into that void. that was left when i'm going merkel. step down is german chancellor at the last federal election. he's been a very busy man because he was in moscow on monday in ukraine on tuesday morning. he'll be here in berlin on tuesday evening. we'll get to that in just a moment though, because he had an awful lot to say while he was in ukraine on tuesday, he pledged that front would continue to be a part of financial aid that would be given to ukraine as part of a lot of money that's been handed to them by the european union as part of, of grants as well as loans that are going to be given to them. he also said that there would be a continuation of normandy format talks. now these are the talks that take place between representatives of the governments of france, germany, ukraine, and russia. they had to be i

began in moscow were french president, manuel micron met with russian president vladimir putin. mccracken said his goal was to de escalate tensions along the border between russia and ukraine and to work towards a solution that helps to avoid war. the visit is part of an ongoing effort by nato members, france, germany and turkey aimed at facilitating talks while.

so, this from the reuters news agency saying mccracken —— a moroccan boy trapped in a wealth of five the royal palace said in a statement. carried by state media on saturday. that is from the reuters news agency, and clearly that is a devastating conclusion to this five days of desperate efforts to save him. absolutely dreadful because we know his parents have been at the well throughout all this. his father was there when rayan fell through. the father has been quoted as saying he just took his eye of his son for a split second, turned around, and rayan had fallen down this well how. his mother has been at the scene as well. in effect, praying for her son to be rescued. there was a huge rescue operation, but it has been incredible difficult. they can go down the well holed itself, that was too fragile, too brittle, they didn't want to bring all the rubble and sand down on a rayan himself, so they had to spend this four or five days digging in sideways, if you like, and whether that was a factor in this, whether he managed to survive the early hours of this incident, because we saw h

i think when mccracken came to power, he promised that he will actually leave the key behind and he will launch a new partnership equals between the african continent and france. and by extension to you, i'm not sure that this has happened during the last 5 years of his tenure. i think the friends and by extension that you are feeling that they are being pushed out of africa little by little. i'm not sure that you are really willing to launch a new partnership that is truly for forgetful past the colonial past. instead of promises, we need to see acts and deeds and so far on the 27 countries of the european unit have not really fought for the provision of back scenes to the continent. shun pinsky reporting, they're just coming up to half past 2 here in the russian capital. good to happy company back again with the headlines and more stories in about a blue with . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race, his on offender sparing dramatic development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy wil

and and don miller the john henry mccracken professor of history emeritus at lafayette college. and another museum presidential counselor. so time for me to leave and turn over to nick what will be an incredible discussion? dr. mueller well, it's a great to be back with you. all again. i think everybody has been saying that ever since we got here yesterday and after covid it feels like coming into the light out of a long tunnel, but we're finally here and glad to see all of you. it feels it feels like family and i'm gonna take the privilege of the share just a moment here just to give a shout out to my successor stephen watson who is gotten us through that tunnel. yeah, i guess building museums a little bit like war. i mean you always have to expect the unexpected and for me it was trial by fire was hurricane katrina when the city was filled with water for the entire year. nobody was in it and then the economic recession of '08 and visitation collapsing and for stephen had to endure. 13 months now of covid in addition to that whether the hurricane and in the meantime, he's manag