And borders china gets increasingly worried about a new wave of infections from outside. And will take years to greece where aid agencies say unsanitary conditions at a refugee camp are risking life. But we begin this hour in the United States where corona virus infection and fatality rates are rising fast and the countrys foremost Infectious Diseases expert is reminding americans of just how bad things will get dr anthony found she says there could be between 10200000 deaths in the United States and millions of cases his warning comes as the federal government considers rolling back some containment measures while in europe spain recorded another 838 deaths on saturday thats a new high its infection. However was low and in the u. K. Theres been 209. 00 deaths just in the past 24 hours raising the total to 2118. 00 and not long ago a cabinet minister said the u. K. Hasnt experienced such emergency measures since world war 2. Our Live Reporting Team spans 4 continents this news hour fra
Doha with all your sport the u. S. Womens Football Team the man 66000000 dollars in damages in the discrimination case trust me a male may see its back up to barcelona boss to blame the players for problems at the club. 18 years of war in afghanistan could end in a little more than a week an agreement that calls for a 7 day reduction of violence is now in effect and after that the taliban says it will sign a peace deal with america the u. S. Involvement in afghanistan began in 20011 month after the 911. 00 attacks washington watched our strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power. Or than 12000 american soldiers still in afghanistan thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spent more than one trillion dollars during its mission. Or when jordan joins us live from washington d. C. A lot resting on this reduction of violence do we know how it w
How many are from the boston area . Have any of outside of boston . Capitalist . How many people think they will invest in asia . [laughter] thats why you came. So you have two very distinguished authors here and individuals will introduce the briefly and then we will get back into the background in the conversation. And going to college at trinity then later did a number things the journalistic area started his own magazine worked at the Washington Post for many years is still a columnist and for his writing since he won the Pulitzer Prize now the robinson professor of Public Affairs at george mason and this is in addition to writing books. And to his right he lives in singapore and flew it all for this event more or less. [applause] he grew up in many places around the world and is a graduate of Georgetown University and then the phd at the London School of economics and has written many books of Global Affairs and now gives strategic advice and that to esquire magazine said not too
Of the National Book festival on booktv. Far across the indian ocean as frick but then retreat in order to focus on domestic Economic Issues and sort of border skirmishes, and that allowed for the european colonial powers, particularly portugal to move into the indian ocean space. But imagine degam na rounding the cape of good hope and seeing ming dynasty fleets in the indian ocean. How successful would the port fees portuguese explorer heards been and then their ottomans and so, the lessons that asians draw from those historical episodes that enable the rise of the west are that. A, they should not retreat from their now political commercial expansionism how to belton road and they should not be divided. They should not allow themselves to be divided and conquered and dont view europes success 0 are the west success as the product of great ingenuity but rather of luck. So, the transpacific partnership, tpp, would that have been a good thing for the u. S. To keep our foot in aches or h
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c