Is now more popular than ever. And a president ial election in west africa mobbed by extremist violence. People are headed to the polls today, but a growing insurgency means many voters wont be able to cost their math and held welcome of the worlds wealthiest countries, wrapping up their online g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. The virtual gathering has been dominated by efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic. And the global recession. A draft declaration shows the biggest economies will pledge to pay for distribution of big 19. 00, vaccines and testing. So that poor countries left out Climate Change and the environment have emerged as a novel. As the summer draws to a close, u. S. President , donald trump defended his environmental record and justified his decision to pull out of the International Paris climate agreement. I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one sided, Paris Climate Accord, a very unfair act for the United States. The paris accord was not designed to sa
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
Been following the protests in hong kong. It does appear that most of the protesters have dispersed across a huge area around where we are which is where the march was meant to go ahead of course why buy into central france between one try a time square and caused by by also Victoria Park now we still have a Huge Police Presence on the streets and much as you can see behind me theyve pretty much cordoned off this whole area almost penina some of these protesters and and doing identification checks and arrests you can also confirm that 7 people have now been arrested under these new National Security laws clearly the police found that they were violating this legislation i want to example was a one man who was arrested he had half a 90 or certainly an item suggesting hong kong independence another person had a flag in a bag so when these people were arrested they were checked and they found these items that those particular people that will incur a large fine as a result of potentially
Developing space projects. Please welcome christian, the executive director, procurement council, u. S. Chamber of commerce. Good morning. And welcome to the u. S. Chamber of commerce and to launch the space economy, our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360 and ascent. We have been busy over the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and the orbit assurance, to opportunity aboard the iss and future gateway. And we even convened the need for greater use of space enabled surveillance of the water ways. The procurement and council has an ever expanding set of policy pursuits. Fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. Tom donohue wrote an article, he wrote, harnessing the economic expansion of space is no easy feat. It took years for the maritime system and nearly a hundred years for
Developing space projects. Please welcome Christian Zur of the Space Industry Council, us chamber of commerce. Good morning and thank you to the chamber of commerce, launching the space economy. Our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are team effort and we appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, one web, hawkeye 360, we have been busy in the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace to small satellite encryption and the orbit assurance, commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We convened a roundtable for the coast guard regarding the need for greater use of space surveillance in the arctic waterways. And Space Industry Council has an effort for policy pursuits. Fortunately we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo. And it sums up the chambers approach to the entire sector for which i will quote. Harnessing the potential of space will be no easy feat. It took