Including the uk, france, germany, people came together in paris last year to sign a new Cyber Security agreement. All 28 members of the european union, 25 of 27 nato members, the us was missing, but progress is advancing. But address my wider point about other people missing. Frankly, in 2017, if i had been in a british hospital and had Computer Systems wiped out by a malware attack that came from north korea, it would be no great consolation to know that the scandinavians have signed up to a Geneva Convention for internet safety. What youre not telling me is, why we can continue to have any confidence in the security of our data, of our information flows, when we know there are people in north korea, russia, china, and a host of other countries committed to developing ever more sophisticated cyber warfare. But that is exactly the point. If youre going to defend the worlds democracies from the worlds authoritarian regimes, you start by building an alliance of the worlds democracies. I
Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to microsofts president , brad smith, on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. Remember the time when the internet was trumpeted as the tech tool that would deliver us a golden age of knowledge, freedom and democracy . Well, now we are in a darker, more cynical place. The digital revolution has generated fears about lost privacy, mass surveillance and systemic misinformation. Have the corporate titans of tech failed us . Well, my guest today is brad smith, president of microsoft. How do we ensure our astonishing technological advances are harnessed for good, not harm . Brad smith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, nice to be here. You have served an extraordinary amount of time at microsoft, the best part of three decades. You have seen the evolution of our attitudes towards Information Technology and the internet in particular. I have referred to the sort of great positivity, the optimism, in the early years. Would you agree that these
Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. In the bahamas, the long, underway. Hurricane dorian has practically flattened the islandll destruction. The death toll is expected to rise. The category five storm eventually weakened while moving up the atlantic coast. Dorian could have been a disaster for south carolina, especially charleston, a lowlying port city. Scientists say Climate Change is causing the sea level to rise there, which means more tidal flooding. Over the past 100 years, the sea level in charleston has risen one foot, and is predicted to rise more rapidly over the next five decades, anywhere between a footthis map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows how parts of the city could become inundated with water. As part of our ongoingie there are preparing for what could become charlestons biggest safety and economic jessica charleston, south carolina, a place developed around water, dependent on water, and now defending itself against wate
His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earns the trust and devotion of the armed services. His career began early at william mary. Not many known that he drove the Williamsburg James City School Bus when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts and that senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william mary in 1965, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys ranks to become its director. He served with president s of texas a m university from 20022006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense. As secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted president obamas request that he continue to lead in the cabinet, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s
Eli blog whether are are are it are [inaudible conversations] there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the 35th annual printer row litfest presented be near south Planning Board if want to give a special thank you to our sponsors for the generous support this year, especially win trust as our programming sponsor the robert r. Mccormick foundation, alpha food wings, the tribune, three l real estate and cspan booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv which he are live now. If theres time at the end of the discussion, for q awith the author issue ask you to line up at the microphone and speak speak microphone. And finally i ask that anyone here that is just got with us, please silence your cellphones. Nobody wants to be that person and then if youre going to take a photo, please turn off the flash. As a courtesy to the presenters please welcome daniel green, professor of history at northwestern university, and curator of americans and the holocaust, an exhi