Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying rallies which were banned are now primitive as long as theyre peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day demand channel just resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it really about what the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the juicy of all types people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to compromise as much as possible i want to ask the protesters for a few things dont destroy government and private property dont do anything wrong and most importantly dont let there be fighting. Protesters in chile have held large demonstrations to mark one year since the start of the movement for change there demanding social reforms and a new constitution but the protests were marred by vandalism looting and vi
We have more than i think 760 registered for this meeting and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can during the period but now a little bit about this event. The independent Task Force Program began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to us Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. Once launched task forces are independent of cfr and are solely responsible for the content of their worth. And the task forceprograms 25th year cfr is launching its 78 Task Force Report and id like to welcome you to this discussion of the report and its called improving pandemic preparedness , lessons from covid19. A brief introduction of our panelists, we have cynthia burwell, cochair and president of American University and also former us secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, also cochair, assistant to president bush in Homeland Security and counterterrorism and is vice chairman on general counsel of vic
Live direct from our studios this is our 2 International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now a state Memorial Service has been held in paris wednesday night to commemorate a murdered history teacher french president addressed the ceremony declaring samuel a silent hero in the face of the republic the teacher was beheaded by jihadi extremists last week after showing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to his class. Reports from the french capital. A solemn ceremony at the paris on wednesday evening with about 400. 00 people in attendance to pay tribute to the slain teacher patty president paid his own tribute saying party had now become the face of the French Republic the face for the fight for freedom. Was murdered for the very reason the human body the value of the French Republic he was killed because islamists want to take our future and. They will not prevail samuel was a victim of lies and conspiracy theory. Of what we are on friday he became the face of the pub
A bid to stop the spread of the virus that. The Health Ministry in colombia announced. That 1000000 figure 30000 deaths you mentioned in the world to pass that grim milestone its the 3rd in latin america. A few days ago brazil the worst country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 10000000 people so 40 to 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world the u. S. Vice president s chief of staff mark short has tested positive for crying of our son is in quarantine hes the 2nd aide to mike pence to test positive this week pence has been in close contact with short but is reportedly in good health and tested negative on saturday. U. S. President ial candidates donald trump and Democrat Joe Biden its whoring battleground states as election day looms opinion polls are in the lead nationally but its heights a
Hello and welcome from everyone here in the newsroom lets go. Lets dive in and we are less than 2 weeks out from the u. S. Election and i was on to supply builds the 2 president ial hopefuls are set to face off in the final debate on thursday but theres been a slight tweak to the rules moderators will not be able to mute the microphones of the counter thats off to many of the previous event chaotic the choice of topics this time has also raised a few eyebrows as it wont include Foreign Policy and many say this will deny trump the chance to hit joe biden over the business dealings of his son hunter meanwhile republicans want twitter and facebook heads to testify before congress over alleged political bias that follows the proper forms taking down links to a New York Post article on Hunter Bidens business dealings in ukraine. Delves into that on a few other control the citys. It is often the case that those who trumpet loudest about being fair and unbiased arent at all but facebook reall