And at 3 00 p. M. Eastern, thomas do dolby, author of the speed of sound, breaking barriers in technology. Senators ben cardin and mar cue rubio spoke at an Atlantic Council discussion on human rights abuses by the administration of russian parking light Vladimir Putin. After their remarks, a Prominent Russian dissident swho survived two poison assassination attempts. [ indiscernible chatter ] one, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Atlantic Council. Im paula dobriansky. Im on the executive committee of the Atlantic Council board, and i really want to commend the Councils Center for todays program, which is entitled the state of human rights in putins russi Russ Russ Russ russia. Todays forum is particularly timely. Russia has experienced the worst crackdown in human rights in decades, and we have three keynote speakers who will be up first and all of whom are making a difference in their own way. Theyre strong outspoken advocates for freedom
Council official until we talked out about it. And that is what happened. They ran it on the council and there was some coordination. Secretary kerry was involved in terms of some of the key meetings. I do think that the example i would agree with there was a special envoy for iran. His name was bill burns. He was in the system and he was not named. All of the authority he had the undersecretary for Political Affairs and also backing him up with a huge amount of senior attention. And i think that it was that model you have to look at. I just dont think that every situation in which the u. S. Can make a difference to have that kind of involvement for senior officials. But i think that it is a really important case. But we see this and other cases. One of the wording the workings that is in the paper is about just dont do something because the conversations as you should do it. You need to look at how to do it but there is a way of dealing with those issues through the double concept tha
Theres a shortage of people to do the labs. Is it so coming to eventually. Your beds. The staff, one of the inputs for the total package of defense. The facilities, the isolation centers, a whole bunch of things. In the chart i sent you yesterday, i set out the planned numbers and actual numbers for how were doing to scale. So, if i can draw your attention to the easiest place to start s is people to start, facilities to be in relax and lodgistics and consumers. The dark line shows where we are at the moment. So, we have 15, basically 1539 total beds and spaces in sierra leone. 750 are currently provided by the u. K. All of those are stuffed. Were opening another suite of those facilities over england the next few days and with each organization weve agreed on, there is a staffing, a populated staffing plan from the u. K. And syrierra leone. So, the issue is to make sure from all the sources, which includes the nhs, for the available facilities that staff, at the moment, that is okay e
So more than doubles. The International Panel on Climate Change has actually put more emphasis in this. If youre trying to hit a 550 target and you take ccs off the table, the cost goes up about 50 or really goes up between sort of 30 and 80 for 550. If you want to hit a 450 target the cost triples. Goes up between 200 and 400 . Thats a lot of money, and its just because in some markets coal with ccs is the cheap option. Not everywhere, maybe not in california, maybe not in arizona, but in a whole bunch of markets, in a whole bunch of places in the country and around the world, ccs with coal is the cheapest option for deep abatement, and if you get rid of that cheapest option, you have to replace it with something more costly or less efficient. The good news is weve made a lot of progress on this. This slide is actually a little old, but basically the lower two bars are stuff thats built and operating or will be operating soon because its being built. So right now were here at 2015, we
Policies toward syria in the fight against the militant group isis. Before heading to his holiday vacation, president obama held a year end News Conference this afternoon saying that sony erred in choosing not to air the including the president talking about the u. S. Response to north korea. Lets talk of the specifics of what we all know. We can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. It says Something Interesting about north korea that they decided to have the state mount an all out assault on a movie studio, because of a satirical movement, starring seth rogan. And james flaco. I love seth and i love james. But the notion that that was a threat to them . That gives you some consistency of the kind of regime were talking about here. They caused a lot of damage. And we will respond, we will respond proportionally and we will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Again, you can see all of todays News Conference by president obama any time on our website, cspan