Well china for instance reporting an increase of cases and u. S. Officials warning this week will be the toughest yet as hospitals struggle to maintain and eck up and down their capacity. Coming up on todays show, blackstone is donating millions of dollars to support Health Care Workers and First Responders in new york well speak to the ceo about that and his thoughts on this volatile market. Plus, well be joined by the ed of the transports union. 59 minutes left of trade. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching nowful meg with the latest on treatments for the virus. Peter from canter fitzgerald is here with us to talk b about the volatility in the oil market in particular, but first, mike, want to get your take on todays rally and where this puts us a pretty crisp rally, cant argue with that. Where it takes us is one of the most interesting things. A oneyear chart, 26. 30ish on the s p 500. Its exactly where we closed on march 30th so you remember that was that big three day ral
A lot to the countrys fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in. Was a slogan that whatever the Prime Minister Boris Johnson counting the cost on aljazeera. This is the u. S. Mexican border a harsh landscape thats become the focus a bitter debate between the 2 countries. Yes. Ok well bill the long haul you get paid. The right got it right for. The film were about to show you the 1st ad in 2007 it questions a policy thats become even more contentious today. The Sonoran Desert in the south of the United States a harsh hot and unforgiving landscape straddling the border with mexico a natural barrier not so much a protective wall but a regional belt dividing the bodies of 2 nations. Thousands of Illegal Migrants cross into this area of arizona every year to them it represents a gateway to a better life. In reality its often a cold glitter of death from which they may never return. Crossing the desert to avoid these steel and concrete
[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the hundred years war on palestine covers some aspects of palestinian history that he has written about before butthis is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members who were present at some key events and provocative because he offers a very different take on the Israeli Palestinian
Most a fuckin mile he calls himself ataturk father of the turks and catapults turkey into the modern age couldnt in good english one of his greatest achievements was making women visible. He knows no mercy for himself or for others im not a dictator i want to rule by capturing the hearts of the people not by breaking up a controversial hero both loved and hated is present day turkey still divided by the turks revolution. The 1st world war the Ottoman Empire allies itself with the german empire and austria hungary against france russia and Great Britain one of modern historys most brutal battles takes place all turkeys mediterranean coast allied warships attempt to pass through the dardanelles straits and reach istanbul but they fail this gives rise to a new allied strategy and an opportunity for most of our kemal ataturk. The allied forces attacked the peninsula with infantry sparking a static battle that lasts for months. The Young Ottoman officer mystified kemal is in command of an e
Tonights big who served, and and counsel to the house energy and commerce subcommittee and Commerce Consumer protection as a member of president clintons task force on healthcare reform. Thanks so much. So what were going to do is start with a conversation between us and then over to audience to ask questions directly. And in the process, i know that their appetites for reading this book will be seriously whetted. I spent the weekend reading it and it is, indeed, terrific. Let me start where you start in the book which is to describe the various kind of shaping forces that help shape our culture and our politics and the way in which they led to the moment were in today, the political moment, the social moment, the cultural moment were in today. And you start by arguing that throughout our history, theres been this ongoing tension in our sense of ourselves between rugged individualism on the one hand and a commitment to community, to collectivism on the other. Say a word about that and