With perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born and their talking with Andrew Solomon and before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to parry, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and to all of you for showing up. We are not able to host this event in our store space in our community as authors and readers is still here and we are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now, just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you and they can seat you are here though and you can see account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zumba screen. And there are a couple of functions we will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your resume window and one is an icon labeled chat with ones Speech Bubble and youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat and thats a great way to show yo
Chinese. To reduce their pollution in. The democratic republic of congos silent an outbreak of measles is proving more deadly. And for an. Immunization and vaccine. Welcome to the program. French president. Arrived at. A German Government retreat where the 2 leaders. A meeting the chancellor and the president are set to discuss how to further promote their proposal for a multibillion your company fund among other you members of the talks time just 2 days before germany is set to take over the e. U. Presidency last opportunity to define how european legacy therefore should have ties next year. Standing by for us in message back with a meeting east asia place is you know because bonded tons of brown tons mechelen mccraw meeting face to face for the 1st time in portugal and whats on their agenda today but of course you can say that they are meeting face to face is a sign of trust after their la paz meetings have been taking place on video a sign of closeness and also a sign that the coord
President trump called off military strikes against iran with just minutes to spare last night. He said the planes were in the air cocked and loaded and had three targets in their sights. But the president said he decided to halt the air strikes because too many people would have been killed. The attack was to be in retaliation for the shooting down of an american unmanned surveillance drone on thursday. In the volatile region which supplies a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace. The us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. The last time the us launched a significant military effort heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran, they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone, the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has no shortage of military assets in the region but the anticipated
You can watch on the cspan now video app or live on cspan. Org. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. We are funded by these television companies, including charter medications. It charter is proud to be one of the best internet providers. We are just getting started. Charter communication supports cspan as a publ service along with these other providers, giving you a front row seat to the micro c. The secretary of state delivers remarks on famine and conflict at the un Security Council. It focuses on russias drop black from the black Sea Grain Initiative. It allowed ukrainian grain and other food to be exported to developing companies countries. The 9392nd meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of International Peace and security, famine, and conflictinduced global Food Insecurity. The agenda is adopted. First, i wish to warmly welcome the distinguished ministers and other highlevel representatives. Your presen
[chimes] the 9392nd meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of International Peace and security, famine, and conflictinduced global Food Insecurity. The agenda is adopted. First, i wish to warmly welcome the distinguished ministers and other highlevel representatives. Your presence here today underscores the importance of the subject matter that is under discussion. In accordance with rule 37 of the councils provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representatives of algeria, argentina, armenia, australia, azerbaijan, bangladesh, belarus, the National State of bolivia, burkina faso, cambodia, chile, cuba, denmark, egypt, estonia, ethiopia, georgia, germany, guatemala, guyana, haiti, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, jordan, kenya, latvia, lebanon, liberia, liechtenstein, mexico, morocco, myanmar, the kingdom of the netherlands, nigeria, oman, pakistan, panama, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, the republ