Things have changed a lot. I think its really impresentesive and i feel really good about that. Thank you. Thank you so much. Im with new rules for global finance. I wanted to pick up on the tax issues. I note in the g20 when they talk about tax and context of development they say we really have to do Capacity Building. Im wondering if the african finance ministers and Central Bank Governors and so on, tax administrators, if on a continental basis you have been able to get together and say, here is the Capacity Building we want and need and here are our preferred instructors. If not, ill work with you. One more. Im with the center for Global Development here in d. C. My question is, i was hoping would you touch on the measurability of some of these targets. I know one of the greatest strengths about the mbgs was they had these specific percentages and numbers that people could actually tangibly measure to varying degrees. Obviously, there is some discussion about the measurability of t
The ambassador nominations to egypt and iraq. The center for American Progress held a discussion recently about the population and politics in the southern united states. Former naacp Benjamin Jealous moderated a panel, talking about the release of the true south report, examining current voter and ridge sla registration problems. This is one hour. Thank you for being here. Good morning. My name is ben jealous, im a senior follow here and a partner at cape work capital. We are here today to talk about the report true south, advancing democracy in the black belt 50 years after freedom summer. We are deeply honored this morning to be joined really by an allstar panel of leaders from throughout the region who are helping to transform the way that we see the south and quite frankly, the way the people in the south see the prospects for the region. Were joined by stacey abrams, who will be coming up here to speak in a few minutes and give the big speech, if you will, that we will all respon
To what we heard over the weekend from senator graham and from others. And i think what were going to see in the coming weeks is probably more of these sort of closed briefings to try and figure out what exactly is going on on the ground there. Obviously one of the immediate concerns is the safety and security of the embassy facility in baghdad and other issues with u. S. Personnel who are on the ground there. But the other thing thats going to come up and senator graham was one of the people who mentioned this over the weekend is that if there are in fact, as were now seeing reports that there are these back channel negotiations or conversations of some sort with the iranian regime, that will be something that will certainly get the attention of congress. And it tells you what kind of a world that were dealing with and that were seeing in iraq if talking to the iranians is necessary for regional stability, which is something that im sure not a lot of people could have fathomed just a
But yet, this is reiterating carissima sport. But hercules jumped out well, dworkin is hercules jumped out at us because it was the closest thing you get to like this is hercules is not a robot, but it shares a lot of the same features that we could imagine of the robot. So that was one of the reasons why dworkin found his place therefore sure. In terms of, just one more point since carissima brought it up about cast some sting. For us what we hope with part of an interesting contribution with this paper was that people who are commenting in the field and some sting as a good example of that have been so focused on the question of functional capacity. And the debate so far is always a question of will we ever get there, like at the end of yesterdays panel the question was, you know, how far or close are we to those kind of things that is a useful question to think about whether personhood is ever going to be on the table. But what we wanted to do in this paper was not sort of say that
Than a quarter of their income. Theyve done it. For the first since 1998, scotland can celebrate qualifying for a mens major tournament after a dramatic win over serbia on penalties. A spell of pretty heavy rain and gusty winds for many this morning but things will turn drier and brighter, sunshine later, details on that and the full weekend forecast coming up. Its friday, the 13th of november. Our top story. A significantjump in the daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk has led to increasing concerns about the growth of the virus. More than 33,000 new cases were recorded yesterday, a rise of almost 46 in a day. But some experts warn against reading too much into one days data. Simonjones reports. Schoolchildren in liverpool get tested as part of the citywide trial offering checks to everyone to try to stop the spread of the virus. Yeah, definitely worth doing. You know, obviously, we have to keep safe because you dont want to get coronavirus. So obviously, especially in a big