Together with other leaders. You know, the president talked about his thoughts on climate. The hosts the talking climate. What chance is there though, of any Real Movement toward Climate Action here . Well, Climate Change is a very important topic was on top of the agenda today. And its of course, very important from the european perspective. The leaders today talked about how important it is to reduce emissions, to use green energy and to choose economic models that are not only standing for growth, but also are sustainable is so great a word. So we can say, however, in the past, it was always difficult to find in the agreement here, and this was because of the lack of leadership. So now i think many leaders hope that it can change when, when they will Work Together with president elect joe biden. The other big topic was, of course, the same pandemic, particularly distribution of a vaccine. Have any agreements, any decisions been might well, we expect expect their leaders to sign a jo
Curiosity about how other people live think and work and it was always worth it yes im a citizen of the world. This is the story of a the story of the final year in the career of detail a man has shaped the german Cultural Landscape of the past decades like few others with his incredible ability to grasp the right moment. As head of the German National library as loued of palins Museum Island. As president of the institute but his last 12 months did not go as planned it was a traumatic year. The last official trip to africa after a long flight the president of the good to institute touched down in namibia a full my German Colony. History is everywhere in the capital into. The colossal Independence Museum tells the story of the long struggle for liberation from colonialism. The most recent chapter of that story is all about restitution returning cultural artifacts. The tribal leader hendrik that boy isnt a maybe a National Hero because of his resistance against german colonial rule. You
Policies and antiracist behavior. You are either with us and with the black community or you are against. There is no way you can straddle this. Allies in action. A bay area conversation. Thank you so very much for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news. Im dan ashley. Over the past several weeks, the issue of Race Relations shas exploded into the headlines, into the streets and into the national consciousness. It has. Instead of our 4 00 p. M. Newscast, well spent an hour engaging experts and you in an abc7 listens virtual town hall on allies and racism. This has been on the backs of our friends of color and it is time to step up. Well have a very frank conversation including questions from you. This is a very important onehour virtual town hall airing on tv. You might be watching it right now on youtube and facebook. Were glad youre here. If alliship is a new term for you, it is someone who cannot fully understand what oppression fels like but can tea that struggle as their
Harm than good. And Health Emergency in mexico and latin american countries stepped up measures to combat the outbreak. Welcome to the program more than 4000 people in the u. S. Have now died from corona virus the u. S. President is warning americans to prepare for a very painful 2 weeks the country saw its highest single day death toll with more than 800 deaths on tuesday White House Health experts say the virus could kill up to 240000 people but without Government Intervention the number could rise to 10 times that mike hanna has more from washington d. C. For the 1st time the task force presented its predictions of where this pandemic may be heading saying this could now be done because of a more detailed flow of information from across the country the Scientists Say the virus could kill between 100240000 americans but without efforts like social distancing Counter Measures like shutdowns the toll could go. They modeled the worst Case Scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what we
Into there let me ask you one more question about the kurdish the Syrian Kurdish decision to align themselves more closely with the americans now you obviously come from iraq and formally speaking the iraqi kurds are a separate entity but im pretty sure that youve been following the developments across the Syrian Border very closely do you know even what word the syrian kurds x. Picked a chanst when they aligned themselves with the panther gone back in 2015 of were they promised anything concrete no archer or nothing has been promised to them by the must because government when the. Foreign minister of love rule visited iraq on a visit to kurdistan and i met him and ive been. Really to initiate some kind of dialogue between the mosque goes on that as if this was before that. Because rebbe. They will have a Better Future were trying to reach some accommodation of the region is also a lot of voting much still it is acting or behaving in the old mentality of the baath regime unfortunately