Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research. Were pleased to be able to announce a fellow that will be joining us and add capacity to our team in answering questions in the relationship and as you see in todays discussions those are substantial. Challenges faced in europe are numerous from an upsurge in nationalism and populism to turmoil following the brexit decision and concerns after the financial crisis and great exit crisis, slow growt
China, turkey, or poland, pressure is rising on those who tell the facts. An alarming downward spiral. That is what we want to talk three guestsith who have been directly affected by declining press freedom. Meera jamal is a freelance journalism from during list journalist from pakistan. And loses contact with reality on the ground. Belongs to a bedoon family from kuwait. They are stateless. They fell through the cracks inn quaid became independent 1961. As a blogger, she says journalism under authoritarianism he comes the best tool for resistance. It is a pleasure to welcome andreas kluth. He is a germanamerican journalist or the economist. Every country gets the government it deserves and it also gets the press that it deserves. Freedom of the press is the first signal of freedom generally. Let me start out with you mr. Ball and ask you to tell us a bit about your personal story. You found yourself unable to work in your own country, in pakistan. The situation in pakistan is quite di
Affected, most particularly those the north of the blast. About 70 of the radioactive fallout from the chernobyl disaster landed in the region that is today southern belarus. Despite taking place 30 years ago, the people there are still suffering. The weather is sunny just like it was thirty years ago. Back then, inga vanzonok was a carefree young girl. Her father mikhail was a healthy young man. Both can clearly remember april 26 1986. There was a cloud of dust and sand. It was coming from chernobyl and drifting towards our city. When we saw it, we tried to flee. We hailed a taxi and drove off. But it was hopeless. The cloud was huge. We couldnt escape it. The radioactive dust cloud changed the vanzonoks life for ever. First, the doctors discovered that mikhail had stomach cancer. Now, 30 years later, his daughter has suddenly developed thyroid cancer. I never showed signs of radiation exposure, so i thought id be ok after this length of time. Now i realize that radioactivity causes a
Millions of people were affected, most particularly those the north of the blast. About 70 of the radioactive fallout from the chernobyl disaster landed in the region that is today southern belarus. Despite taking place 30 years ago, the people there are still suffering. The weather is sunny just like it was thirty years ago. Back then, inga vanzonok was a carefree young girl. Her father mikhail was a healthy young man. Both can clearly remember april 26 1986. There was a cloud of dust and sand. It was coming from chernobyl and drifting towards our city. When we saw it, we tried to flee. We hailed a taxi and drove off. But it was hopeless. The cloud was huge. We couldnt escape it. The radioactive dust cloud changed the vanzonoks life for ever. First, the doctors discovered that mikhail had stomach cancer. Now, 30 years later, his daughter has suddenly developed thyroid cancer. I never showed signs of radiation exposure, so i thought id be ok after this length of time. Now i realize tha
Good morning, you are taking a live look at mountainview this morning where the quick thinking of a passerby kept the house fire from spreading. You can see, will is still damage there. And katie utehs is on the scene. It is sun, march 16. I am claudine wong. I am mike mibach. Good morning, rosemary. Good morning to you. I will show you the beautiful shot as we say goodbye to saturday evening. There is the moon setting. The official set at 7 04. So saying goodbye. Sun will rise in the next 18 to 20 minutes or so. Look at low clouds and fog out there this morning. Minor changes for today. You saw what it is. We have patchy fog and this is the case for today. Along the coastline, a little cooler. We will have a near repeat from saturday. And we will have some 80s. In the warmest locations. We have an easterlily breeze from hayward and that westerly breeze and southwesterly breeze will be strengthening over the course of the afternoon. It will lead to a cool down along the coastline. 52 d