And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis being the mayor of new york is called the second most difficult job in america. He just chronicled his life and times governing new yorks gorgeous mosaic. Id add you back on the program, sir. Glad to have you back on the program, sir. We will get straight to the text. There is a major race happening in the city of new york. Michael bloomberg got the city council to give him a third term. Herself in terms of being the next mayor, but one of those finalists got his start working for you. Tell me you have endorsed and take it away. I endorse Bill Thompson, the past controller. Mike bloomberg did pretty well. Lost by four or five points. But the mayor spent over 100 million. Billorsed him again, but one. He worked in our office in city hall and worked with bill lynch, known to many as a rumpled genius. It brought him along as he has done so many others. Bill is dead now and has his reward. But he has left quit
In 88, you may recall that jesse did better than any other second place candidate. Those persons that we got registered voted for me in 1989. It was a fourway race. The metropolitan transit authority. The most articulate and knowledgeable person i have ever encountered. The conventional wisdom was that we would not win. You have to get 40 to avoid a runoff. Election, general 9 11 has not yet occurred. A margin of only 50,000. To what do you attribute that . My response was always, why do you ask . The answer, i believe, is racism. We lost by about the same margin in 1990. In the book i mentioned racism, but that is not the total reason. In 1989 if have one a lot of white folks had not voted or me. Laterainly did not lose of the solely because black that did not vote for me. Well insm is alive and our country and certainly new york. It is not as bad as it once was. Dr. Kingsy that dream has not yet been realized and things are not what they need to be. But thank god would they are not w
Why theres yet again no winner for a major african award for leadership. Three foreign aid workers remain in captivity somewhere in Northern Syria tonight. Three were released after they were all abducted by an unoccupied group. Colleagues and friends at icrc headquarters in geneva had been waiting ally. When it came, it was bittersweet. Because some are still being held. Despite the abduction, the red cross insists its business as usual. This will not see us suspending our operations in syria. Even yesterday we were helping displaced people, in rural damascus. Despite this unfortunate incident were still going to work for the syrian people. Numerous armed groups are fighting the government as well as each other. Aid workers can unwittingly get caught up in the daily violence. Like this car bomb so powerful at least 12 of the victims were burned beyond recognition. The attack happened beyond the turkish border, field hospitals are swamped with the survivors many with serious injuries.
Their sleeves in doha, qatar, to address the challenges they share. They have rising Greenhouse Gas emissions, ice sheets melting rapidly and a warming planet. Ban kimoon urged them to speeds up negotiations on Climate Change. Delegates are deadlocked over finances, developing nations are calling on trializ liindustrial countries to stop global warning. A delegate from the Pacific Island nation of palau says Financial Support to protect the lives of people there is indispensable. We dont have the resources, and we are also being threatened by Climate Change. Financing is part of our survival. We need finances to survive. The delegates are running up against a deadline, the conference scheduled to end on friday. Now, the ministers come to the table with competing interests. They come from nations with a range of environmental and economic challenges. Nhk world has morerom doha. The meeting taking place this year in the oil rich qatar has entered the final stretch. Delegates are making t
A threat to the human race. The head of the United Nations urges countries to Work Together to tackle Climate Change. Environment ministers fro ound the world are rolling up their sleeves in doha, qatar, to address the challenges they share. They have rising Greenhouse Gas emissions, ice sheets melting rapidly and a warming planet. Ban kimoon urged them to speeds up negotiations on Climate Change. Delegates are deadlocked over finances, developing nations are calling on trializ liindustrial countries to stop global warning. A delegate from the Pacific Island nation of palau says Financial Support to protect the lives of people there is indispensable. We dont have the resources, and we are also being threatened by Climate Change. Financing is part of our survival. We need finances to survive. The delegates are running up against a deadline, the conference scheduled to end on friday. Now, the ministers come to the table with competing interests. They come from nations with a range of env