days later from cairo, sat him down with marshall's startling and if they are personally persuaded starlingo launch a simultaneous russian offensive on the eastern front at the same time as d-day operation, with a million russian troops so that hitler wouldn't be able to move troops from the eastern front to meet eisenhower's forces on the western front in france. and not only that, persuaded stalin that once germany surrendered unconditionally, the russians would provide a million troops to help defeat japan. germany first, then japan had always been president roosevelt's strategy from just before pearl harbor. so, this, for me, was certainly the most exciting of the books to write because this is the combination of the president's strategy for fighting the nazis in world war ii. and i wish we had slides and i could show you photographs i have of the president returning from tehran through cairo and a pointing this great moment of success, having gotten the british to back off and agreed. the president surprises everybody by not appointing them and everybody assumed would command the d-day

on the southern front the battle for starling grab would become one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. there are so obvious soldier's life expectancy was less than 24 hours and after 5 grueling months the hellish massacre ended with an estimated $2000000.00 casualties. but that hard earned victory for the soviet forces was a turning point of the war dealing a huge blow to nazi morale and proving they were not invincible by 944 the u.s.s.r. had cleared the enemy from all of its territories and started advancing on berlin. but british and american forces created a 2nd front soviet troops were able to liberate others after the fall of berlin in may $945.00 germany capitulated but the price paid was horrific more than 26000000 soviet people died in the great patriotic war more than half of them were civilians. may the 9th was declared victory day to commemorate the great sacrifice humanity paid for its freedom and a reminder of the horrors that war brings upon the lives of those who fight for their very existence. well this is victory day celebrations were supposed to be the la

is a military going to space x starling satellite broadband system? exciting times. a couple different questions. >> guest: first the x-37 which is the really fascinating vehicle that the air force has come like a miniature space shuttle, , reusable space shutte doesn't carry a crew. purely robotic but it carries an array of experiments many of which are classified. in fact, it has launched once on a space x rocket and could again in the future. that partnership has only been initiated between the military in the air force. regarding the starlike network which is spacex's plan to being broadband internet around the world using houses satellite and low-earth orbit, the our military contracts already in place for the army and other breaches and air force are looking at the utility of the star link service to see how and where and when it can be used for military applications ranging from troops in the field to navy ships to even beaming data into pockets of air force planes. >> host: last thought. what an exciting day for our country and humidity. i hope this event ign

we will now take some questions starlings with questions from members of the public.e there? my name is fred mcinerney and i volunteer in the local community in gloucester gloucestershire. my question is as we come through the tough times of coded how can we embed our reflected learning so as to ensure we address inequalities across community and neighbours? and continue to invest and empower local communities to thrive with mac thank you. thank you very much. i want to pay tribute to eve ryo ne very much. i want to pay tribute to everyone in gloucester share from the key workers like nhs staff to all those in care homes to all those doing criticaljobs and supermarkets are running deliveries which of the lifeblood of our communities going. i think you're absolutely right to say particularly after a pretty unique pandemic something i've never seen before in my lifetime, we will all want to learn lessons in this country and across the world. and i think one of the things that we found with coronavirus as it hasn't discriminated. we've got a prime minister has been laid

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. >> trace: you mentioned the competition and i know boeing and starling are competing also to carrynternational space station. the president wants us to go back to the moon by 2024. is that too optimistic? >> no, i don't think so. we have what we need to achieve it. a lot of things have to go right, make no mistake, but i think this agency, a small agency we call nasa and what we have an amazing group of people here. some amazing talent. the president is not just giving us the words. he's backing it up with a budget. our budget is strong. we are getting the right resources and the right policy. so i think we can get to the moon by 2024. >> trace: the launches wednesday. it will take 19 hours to get to the international space station. best of luck to you, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, trace. >> trace: the united states threatening sanctions against china for a new law to take away hong kong's independence. a live report on that controversial move just ahead. ♪ what does it mean to be a good neighbor? it means being there for each other. that's why state farm is announcing t

as giving tuesday launched this year, we're able to apply for a grant from the starling fund to gives more resources to up the cash prizes and highlight the really incredible work of some of our community members as they're highlighting such positive aspects of our community. >> where did the inspiration for this idea come from? how is it born? >> we do a triannual community assessment and those often talk about what are the challenges to being healthy. we started asking our community, what do you like about the community? what makes you proud to live here. that was the question that took people back. we started to look for ways to highlight that. the effort had more than 50 graphs, we had local social media influencers judge for us. we commissioned one of the photographers to do photographs for us that are still hanging in our office. when we started this year, our prize format is also -- we give a cash prize to the winner and we also allow that winner to select a local non-profit and give an equivalent, $250 for the winner and another $250 to the non-profit of the winner's choice.

else with solar city operations and partnerships to provide electricity now going to space with starling lot of endeavors no longer looking at products and services like cars that are changing the way we think about public infrastructure so the boring company produces high-speed rail and chicago said that's the mechanism the line objects to. [laughter] >> one of the questions is now having private sector companies in charge of a public infrastructure what happens if they don't want to make it available for all? so i talk about tesla's work in puerto rico when they really needed someone to step in and the government did not that they are not under any obligation to stay don't have that responsibility to provide equal and fair access to services. >> you say what do you say by that quick. >> also what distinguishes these companies is that a number of people have a large enough contingent to make a difference that technology should be used for good so in the case of google they work with the department of defense on contract of how to apply ai to recognition technology this is a very small c

they're moving into space with starling.here's a lot of endeavors were no longer just looking at the prime products and services like cars. they're really changing the way we think about public infrastructure. so for instance, with the boring company they are producing high-speed rail in chicago. so that's a branding mechanism it's object agenda objected to. [laughter] one of the questions is we now have private sector companies who are in charge of our public infrastructure, what happened when they don't necessarily this is one of the reasons we talked a lot about in the book in puerto rico we did not they were not under any obligation to stay. we did not have the same responsibilities the government had to for instance provide equally and fairly access to services. >> what do they want? you write in the book they do have beliefs what you mean by that? what are the blades customer. >> one a thing that also distinguishes these companies is that a number of people that work there, large enough contingent let's say. they are d

is the military ever going to use their starling satellite system?the x 37 which is a it's like avehicle, reusable space shuttle. it doesn't carry a crew. it carries an array of experience many of which are classified. it has launched once on a spacex rocket and could again in the future. that partnership has already been initiated between the military and their's. regarding the star link network which is the plan to be in broadband internet around the world from satellites, their military contracts already in the air force and other branches are looking at the utility of the service to see how and when it can be used for military obligations ranging from troops in the field to navy into airreaming data force planes. host: one last thought from a viewer. what an exciting day for our country and humanity. i hope this ignites our recovery. so excited to watch this event with my children. put this in the broad perspective just in terms of the feelings at nasa. here in washington and around the country, what does this day mean? >> i think this is the mos