Abuses, hunger, and the effects of the Climate Crisis are often behind displacement. Every year, tens of thousands of people try to reach europe. Routes often change, and new ones are added. Instead of leaving from libya, many now set out from tunisia on a dangerous journey across the mediterranean or from lebanon to e. U. Member state cyprus. At the end of 2019, there were around 6. 6 million refugees in europe, but landing on european soil marks the start of a new odyssey. Those who want to reach the United Kingdom face an illegal and potentially deadly crossing over the channel. Estimates suggest that so far this year, 7,000 people have managed it. Reporter crossing the English Channel in rubber dinghies. Its a journey that more migrants are making than ever before the British Government is getting tough. Control of u. K. Borders was one of the conservatives biggest brexit promises. But the crossings continue. So now the Royal Air Force and navy have been called in. Nazir from sudan
Im phil gale welcome to the program joe bidens edging closer to the white house as final votes are still being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election the democratic challenger is narrowly ahead in the key states which have yet to declare their results so lets take a look at the overall picture which hasnt change for quite a while now so far joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes and donald trump has 214 according to the a. P. News agency remember they need 270. 00 votes to win pennsylvania would be a massive prize with its 20 electoral votes joe bidens lead that is currently more than 15000. 00 with that 98 percent of the vote counted georgia with its 16 Electoral College votes also exchange be close biden has pulled ahead of trump here but there. Only about 1500. 00 votes between them so its likely to go to a recount overall Donald Trumps path to victory is looking increasingly narrow states in red or blue have been called by a 4th trump all bible states in light to blue or in pin
You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
Voters also coming up all street in mourning the chancellor Sebastian Cordes condemning what he calls a repulsive terror attack 4 people shot dead by a supporter of socalled Islamic State and germanys intensive care units freezing for a 2nd wave of coded 19 patients hospitals say they have enough beds but its infections keep climbing they may not have enough nurses to care for patients. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome well tonight millions of americans are casting their votes in one of the most polarized president ial contests in u. S. History turnout is set to shatter all records around 100000000 had already voted before polling began today. Well thats nearly 3 quarters of the total number who voted in 2016 today long lines have formed in many states democratic hopeful joe biden made a last Minute Campaign stop in his childhood home of scranton pennsylvania thats that crucial swing state hes ahead in National Poll
Latest Nonfiction Book and authors, cspan2 created by americas Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo i am judy would read and i am thrilled to be joining these three amazing offer authors, yoe them on the screen, george packer, Richard Holbrook the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker whose book is out this fall, the man who ran washington, the life and times of James A Baker the third period two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart, baker in houston in 1930, holbrook in manhattan in 1941, baker republican trained as a lawyer, holbrook a democrat, Foreign Service officer, student of Foreign Policy, their lives to very different project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and even was there before he came to w