Wellness and health, there are many slices to the pie. Focusing on the Health Sector alone is not sufficient, one has to think about the economic sector and we talked about this, economy, education, the physical environment, climate. And also remembering social history and how that influences the way the people respond to current challenges. So the u. S. Proposed project under the Arctic Council was called reducing the incidence of suicide in indigenous groups, or rising sun. The context for this was remembering that as ive shown you in the first slides, theres an elevated risk of suicide in these remote rural arctic communities. We also are talking about communities with considerable Cultural Diversity and often very small populations. So the standard approaches that researchers tend to use to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions is quite challenging. What might be a way to get around some of those things . There are also important assumptions and those are that ef
But perhaps even more important is that i think we have an obligation to do that. I dont think we can shirk our responsibilities have that kind of strength of economic and military and having the kind of history and representing the kind of values that we do is an obligation on our part to continue to strive to play a leadership role in world affairs. Can we do it alone . No. Absolutely not. Its we dont have that power commensurate to what we talked about. But we should not want to. The various aspects, there is no possible way you will be able to deal with them except in partnership with other countries. We are entering into an era of mutuality an era of interdependence and i think if he does to take this new era very seriously and crew responsibility. I am confident really that under the circumstances we face today and provided that we continue to keep perfecting our own society and work closely with her friends around the world that we can continue to play the kind of strong leaders
Theres likely to be a runoff as no candidates across the two percent needed to avoid a second round. As the top stars are falling due to false bank at news from the start with new sanctions for moscow United States and other nations in the g seven have agreed to impose additional punitive measures on russia. In response to its actions in ukraine washington accuses the common and not following through with last weeks agreement to de escalate tensions in the east of the country. New sanctions could come as early as monday our washington correspondent book out there gives us a closer look. It will be targeting individuals and entropy. Well what about me than to prevent the people of the water at the others fall by the sink or tub after he was rushing back to the individuals in each country will decide and we already know that there will be split. Or even different individuals sanctioned by the European Union on one side of the state of the United States will be aiming at a so called prude
Concerned that we ought to address. I will follow the commissioners. Well mr. Chair unless were going to jet son the entire response and going and formulate a response based on what we think are the major policy questions that we want to talk about which i wouldnt have a problem with if we just jet residence the response we have in the draft i think that if we dont if we dont do that then unfortunately, theres a lot of language in here that i feel i have to take on and the commission should take on because theres a lot of that is simply inappropriate weve not put it out as a property draft and certainly i wouldnt want to adapt the rest of it without addressing some of the things ive got a half a dozen but. No, i appreciate that but i think were mandated to respond to the finding and to the representations and were mandated to do it by a certain date i believe did draft has been out for sometime and comments could have been made at this point but in order to get a final draft theres got
Plus, a breakthrough on benghazi. Will it end the political debate . There has been a tendency in this administration to treat this like a Law Enforcement matter, read them their rights and get them a lawyer. I hope theyre not doing that. Gwen on capitol hill new Republican Leaders step up to replace the old one forced to step down. But its not exactly a new guard. And at the white House Democrats struggle for a second term breakthrough. Covering the week, peter baker of the new york times, Michael Crowley of Time Magazine, janet hook of the wall street journal, and ed okeefe of the washington post. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nations capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by its one of the most Amazing Things we build and it doesnt even fly. We build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrows innovators. We build it raising roofs, preserving habitats and ser