Thank you to the forum for hosting us and all you for coming in all. I am the editor and we are the prod publishers of vijay new book the poorer nations i will briefly introduce him he will talk about his book for a bit. Then we have q a i will kick off with a few questions and we will turn over to you. Were hoping to wait for the microphone to get you since it will play on booktv on the cspan in the future. I get the feeling that a lot of people here know vijay but for those who dont just tell little bio of 39. He is a chair at the American University of beirut and formally for a long time that george did martha tear of south Asian Studies and the director of International Studies at the Kennedy College in connecticut. Are you going back to trinity . The author of more than one dozen but long dash books if you count those the only available in india. This year he published two books one we will not talk about but it is worth checking out called uncle swami called. It is about of south
North does not understand the military . So the budget hearings required us of course, we dont talk about all of the sudans but i like teaching the course. The idea to give a government check there is extra responsibilities. And also one more project, a book giveaway . One time oneshot that we have a load of fox we collected a bunch of books have never been paid per truckload to go to a landfill. So lets do another and another. We just passed five 5 6 billionth book. Looked at the football field. Side to side with and that is about to tractor to there and it is a library and a box. Then we send items so some of the review books we dead and we believe we have the largest volunteer base contribution in the world that we can ship in expensive way. We have 4,048 contained but other organizations start at 16,000 because they use individuals. We bring them in and sort them out. And but to other countries . We have done 40 countries. Most african but you pakistan, tajikistan and south america
Anything just so we can. Help the local authorities are absent when it comes to Waste Management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach because we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and lead by example and he said he was too busy. Three years ago local residents forced the closure of what was then the main local dump garbage was left to mount up in the streets of beirut as Garbage Collection Services was simply suspended it. Heads up the Nature Conservation center at the American University of beirut she says the government lets the crisis happen despite repeated warnings it will happen again because we dont see from the government any plan to implement a sound Waste Management solution so it will happen in some cities but in some other cities where positive change has been already implementing it will not happen. These days Garbage Collection is once again working normally in beirut b
Hello. We are covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, the United States has now registered more than a million known cases of the coronavirus. That is roughly four times the second worst affected nation, spain. Here, the uk government says its significantly expanding access to testing to include all care home residents and staff not part of the official figures so far. Iag, the Parent Company of British Airways, has said the airline may make up to 12,000 workers redundant. Aid agencies are warning a lack of resources in conflict zones could spread the virus even further. And in france, all food shops will reopen from may 11, but bars and restaurants will remain closed. Much more on all that to come. But first, jane 0brien reports from new york as states across the us plan to lift some lockdown restrictions. A salute to the covid warriors the blue angels and the thunderbirds paying tribute to those on the frontlines of the battle against cor
Hello. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First the United States has now registered more than a million known cases of the coronavirus. Thats roughly four times the 2nd worst affected nation, spain. Here, the uk government says its significantly expanding access to testing to include all care home residents and staff, not part of the official figures so far. Iag, the Parent Company of british airways, has said the airline may make up to 12,000 workers redundant. Aid agencies are warning a lack of resources in conflict zones could spread the virus even further. And in france, all food shops will reopen from may the 11th, but bars and restaurants will remain closed. Much more on all that to come, but first jane 0brien reports from new york as states across the us plan to lift some lockdown restrictions. A salute to the covid warriors the blue angels and the thunderbirds paying tribute to those on the frontlines of the battle against coron