Of philadelphia my name is andy director of author events. I do have one unfortunate update to our program rick burns will not participate in our discussion this evening due to a work related incident. However, the good news you will see a sneak preview of his new documentary which will be aired on pbs later this year and based on ten years of research by our guest. A curator with more than 30 years experience, doctor Gretchen Sorin has consulted with 250 institutions including smithsonian, Jewish Museum in the near state historical association. She is a director of the cooperstown drip program of the State University of new york and the author of in the spirit of martin, the living legacy of doctor Martin Luther king junior. And through the eyes of others, African Americans in identity and american art. In her new book draw th driving while black just out today professor soren tells the story of an an dispensable green book that reshaped the africanamerican traveling experience throug
A pathogen crosses the globe well hear how its already wreaking havoc on the global economy. Im Michael Oconnor thanks for joining me turkey has made good on threats to allow thousands of migrants to move closer to the European Union theyve been a rivals by land and by sea along borders with greece and bulgaria refugee boats have arrived on greek islands closest to the turkish mainland and groups of people have turned up at the land border but greece and bulgaria are not letting anyone in with increased security at their borders with turkey turkish officials announced they would no longer stop migrants from crossing into europe after dozens of turkish troops were killed in a Syrian Government airstrike in the profits the decision has fuelled fear. As of a revival of the 2015 migration concerts. People slip under the border fence from turkey to greece when Greek Security forces arrive some of them turn around and look for another place to get through. We heard the border is open we took
Tech trends like augments and reality are heading your way from the Clothing Store to the airport well take a look. This is your Business Report im Stephen Beers of the lead its good to have you with us could seamans into its involvement in a new coal mine in australia the german industrial giant was selected to supply rail signalling infrastructure for the carmichael mine in the countrys north east its led by Indian Company adani but campaigners are demanding the German Company pull out and siemens says its reassessing the deal now shows devastating bushfires have only added to the pressure Climate Change linked to fossil fuels is widely blamed for the disastrous places whose costs continue to mount. Sydneys bond beach normally a place of sun sea and sand recently its smoke thats dominating the world famous attraction casting a haze over the swimmers and sunbathe has. Historic bushfires in New South Wales perfecting businesses all over the state including a bond i supply chains are be
Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us investors around the world are holding their breath as tensions but mounts between america and iran with iran promising a major retaliation for the killing of its military commander Qassam Soleimani american businesses could be a target as iran has proved to have formidable cyber attack capabilities. From 2011 to 2013 from 2011 to 2013 the the iranian hackers target j. P. Morgan chase bank of america and wells fargo with large denial of Service Attacks make it difficult for customers to log into their accounts and access their money iran attacked the Saudi Aramco Oil company in 2017 with the shamoun virus which was so devastating that the network had to be rebuilt almost completely from scratch. And in november 29000 microsoft experts suspected that iranian hackers were going after a disturbing new physical target employs that major manufacturers in operators of Industrial Control Systems used by power grids manufacturing and Oil Refiner
But not by. Many as the spiritual leader. Presents. Its good to have you with us. Last saturday the leaders of bangladesh and india signed a watershed india between the 2 countries less than 48 hours after that a student in the bunker they shook up with the talk up was dead because of it a bit of a hog a University Student in his early twentys was tortured by fellow students for nearly 4 hours on campus his crime posting on facebook that he was unhappy with a watershed in doing his attackers are alleged to be from a student body linked to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the winning of ami league at least 11 suspects have been arrested by the police and the Prime Minister has promised justice will be done. Justice for opera. Thats the rallying cry going up all over Bangladesh University in the capital dhaka. Thousands of students have been protesting to demand action after the violent killing of one of their classmates at the countrys leading engineering school. This is the dormitory ro