Im a republican im a journalist of the Bureau Investigative journalism and you are in the. Life of me ok and im really going to what would you do if telling the truth meant defying your government today we meet the whistleblower who tried to stop the iraq war so share your thoughts on the matter you can tweet us and leave your comments and i live chat and you might be in the stream as well. In the lead up to the 2003 iraq war catherine got uncovered a plot by the United States to spy on the United Nations the goal was to uncover information about holdout delegates of the u. N. Security council in an attempt to force their support for a war guns largely overlooked story is the subject of a new film official secrets have a look. Maybe you can take this country to. Let me take you turn to the face value. You had nothing to do. Never believe this could you. Do you want to risk it all. Every country biggest demonstration in human history. It would be no wonder at the trial of the people whe
They will probably already promised to do seems to me pretty commonsensical thing to go for and in practical terms do you think this award for i can well boost to now or give new impetus to these efforts internationally to achieve a nuclear ban yes i do think so i dont know that this will be the thing which finally generates success for that for them and fought for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it that the first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a Nuclear Free World so that no its already achieving that effect of greater coverage and greater consciousness. Dan smith a director of the Stockholm International Peace Research institute thank you very much for joining us thank you my pleasure. Well on social media lots of reactions to the announcement already a director general with the European Commission stefano months or v. C. Writes congratulations i c
Polish you play with. Nobel judges chose i can as the risk of atomic war for breaking out rises for the first time in a generation. Also coming up catalonia scuppered its president carlos wisdom on will address the Regional Parliament on tuesday thats after spains highest court barred catalan lawmakers from meeting on monday to debate the regions independence. Im sumi some misconduct to have you with us a committee and also has awarded the two thousand and seventeen Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons also known as i can the Nobel Committee weighed up nominations for two hundred fifteen individuals and one hundred three organizations in the end they chose icann for reviving efforts to prohibit Nuclear Weapons at a time of renewed global tensions. Price is a tribute to everyone everybody working for disarmament we have focused on the i can because we feel the norwegian Nobel Committee that they have taken a leading role in really vice tonight seein
Robert rubin, henry paulson, and tim geithner took part in this to global conference in beverly hills, moderated by Facebook Operations officer sheryl sandberg, who worked in the Clinton Administration era treasury department. This is an hour. Lets start our Luncheon Panel on the Global Economy. And we are delighted and honored to have a truly exceptional moderator for this Wonderful Group of former u. S. Treasury secretaries. Sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer of facebook, founder of leanin. Org, a Global Community empowering women to achieve their ambitions, the author of the bestseller lean in women, work, and the will to lead. She was president of Global Online sales and operations at google. We are delighted to have her, to have our panelists and you are in for a very enjoyable hour. So here they are. All yours. Sandberg thank you. Thank you. [applause] i am delighted to be here. Great to have a chance to moderate this panel of three such extraordinary man. And there are
A long time you took a test and you are tracked into that. You dont want a system where your future is determined for you buy a test. We want one where you have an interest or ability to do something, that takes you away from a traditional college, you should be able to do that. We see that within school choice. There are scarred Charter Schools where he can learn everything right down to underwater welding, which i dont have any experience with, but i understand it is pretty lucrative. You can get lots of valuable skills. Skills that cannot be easily outsourced. There is Something Else important which is that we have a lot of money going into Higher Education. By all indications, it is not translating into more learning. There is inflation the arms race and amenities and buildings. I think it is hard to make the argument we need more money. Maybe we needed better targeted. We need to allow people to choose what they think is best for them even before college. I agree with all of that.