Aa staff writer for the new yorker. And the author most recently of a novel about a pandemic that came out in this pandemic its called e end of october. I am so fortute and thrilled to talk to two wonderful writers i have enjoyed looking at their books but first of allet me tell you about our structure we will be talking for about minuteshen i wi take audience questions there is a function at the bottom you can ask questions you will have ten or 15 minutes at the end of the session to ask your question. Let me introduce these interestg authors. Aanadian who lives in frce just across the border from geneva wre the World Health Organization is located very conveniently for her. She began her career as a biomedal researcher and a science reporter for the past 36 years mostly with the british magazineew scientist and those that specializin Infectious Disease. For years increasingly urgent warnings of the risk of a pandemic. Mohammed is the howard hues medical Institute Professor biomedic e
Today. Really appreciate you joining us here today. Thanks for coming out this morning. I think weve got a really exciting morning of discussion. First of all, brief introductions, im Whit Saumweber director of the stephenson ocean security project. We are a program thats focused on the intersection of marine sustainability challenges and National Security issues. And from my point of view, there is no better representation of that nexus than the issue of Climate Change and how its impacting our oceans and what that means for our broader world. A few weeks ago the ipcc released reports taking deeper dives into the effects Climate Change is having on this world. One focused on the impact on lands, and the ocean and the sphere. That report is fascinating. Its the current state of the science about what we know, what we understand, the impacts of Climate Change are going to be on the ocean. And it posted a really, really stark view of the differences between taking strong, aggressive acti
He says one option is to move away from our state income tax system and instead use a payroll tax system. So a persons income would be reduced by the state tax amount on the front end by an employer instead of paying taxes and deducting it later. He says in any event, we could expect a ballot measure. Chances are we may be looking to take this to the voters because i think its important for the voters to kind of opine on this particular issue. Experts have criticized californias tax system for years, so we asked as long as youre at it, why not propose a full state tax overhaul . Weve had efforts in the last 10, 15 years to look at wholesale tax reform. Its been really hard to just get off the ground. I think what were really looking at is a direct response to this tax scam and seeing if we, can you know, take some of the money that the middle class gave to corporations and bring it back to the middle class. Next now this proposed gop tax law would take effect on january 1st, 2018. Now
Chair. On one side of her desk theres a stapler, and then next to it a fragment of a cannonball that ez soo using as a paperweight something she could have picked up on the civil war battlefield. All sorts of other useful and interesting things are here on this desk. Red cross windows are here. People on the street car could see those windows. People on the road would know what this house was about by the windows and the red cross flag that ordinarily flies above the windows. Clara barton died in her bedroom in this house three days before the titanic sank april 12th, 1912. You can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Keep track of the Republicanled Congress and follow its new members through its first session. New congress best access. On cspan, cspan 2, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. Republican Herbert Hoo
Off supply of gas in the middle of winter with during the last 6 to 7 years. The European Union has been saying that russia is using gas as a weapon without giving any concrete examples. But what we know for sure that with the in the well continue to play his her, that the games. This will also be heard in moscow. Europe cannot be divided also coming up as a symbol of cooperation in the stars, the International Space station, with tensions over the war in ukraine high russia wants to pull out of the project and take a giant leap forward in its commitments in space. We will fulfill all of our obligations to our partners, but the decision has been made to leave the station after 2024. I think by that time we will, if were going to build a russian or retail station or starter. Welcome to the day, the European Union agreed a plan to reduce its reliance on Russian Energy at an emergency meeting in brussels. The u ministers struck a deal on rationing their natural gas is coming winter. It co