Stories that revealed america. So, chris is the first guy ive had on this page with a phd in physics and he used a phd in physics to go into finance and when he had this job in finance, he had gone for a walk during the day and i will abridge the story because it is in the book. The walks got longer and longer and he ended up at hunts point it isnt as close to the financial district. And there he was exposed to what he called the back row of america. Drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes and convinced him that he needed to figure out what was going on across the country. So, from maine to bakersfield california, he traveled the country to talk to people and again come he wasnt doing the same sort of going around the country trip that a lot of people do. It was the drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes, the homeless, a formerly homeless, veterans, people who hated the immigrants and all of that. But then recently if you follow twitter, youll know that he has visited the most Afforda
We also welcome distinguished Board Members and selfless fund of middle east programs here at Atlantic Council john de blasio. Finally we welcome u. S. Government officials, private companies and nonprofits. I predict a rich and substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the stage. Open to everyone. This richins of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out of nabeel today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but simply for fun i will remind you can read his analysis of Foreign Affairs in the new york times, analysis for which he has thrice won the pulitzer prize. Tom is the author of several books and one of which was a textbook as an undergraduate. His full bio is available for you and is printed at. Let us turn to our man of the hour nabeel khoury. Hes a nonbrexit senior fellow fellow at the atlantic counsels christopher middle east are in addition to his work on our website you can read o
Being given and he wanted to warn the entire world about this his train theres the picture plowed under a highway bypass a train thankfully it skidded to a stop just before it hit the ship now we should tell you this National Mental Health Officials are advising all of us to look out for each other at this time im going to give you a number if youre watching us in the states this is the national u. S. Help hotline if you need help or know somebody who does Mental Health heres the number to call 180180662 help 180662 help meanwhile heres another breaking story that were following for you right now this one involves 2 cruise ships off the coast of florida that are said to have as many as a 1000 or more passengers. We dont know the exact number of them that are ill but it may be somewhere between 50. 100 at this point that are sick on the ship and some that have died still on the ship. At least one passenger who died has already been taken to the morgue state and local officials have been
The firms refusing to pay rent to stores while customers are told to stay home also ahead. The crew of a virus stricken a u. S. Warship captain. Publicly calling for the. Chain of command. Coming to you with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r. T. International alone welcome. First lets take you to the broader picture of where the world is right now with the coven. Billions of people are currently under some sort of locked on and the number of coronavirus cases still rises theres not more than 1200000 registered infections more than 67000 people have died glimmer of hope a quarter of a 1000000 people are recovered. Lets take you through some of the stories from the week that was regarding krone virus starting in israel which this week old communities abided by strict law. Rules but approved difficult there are more than 8000 known infections that are the spite intense Movement Restrictions one hot spot is an ultra
Reported in the u. S. Donald trump shifts the blame on t. V. Chinese officials saying they failed to share information about the outbreak. Thanks for joining us here on. The coronavirus pandemic has now taken over 10000 lives worldwide with more than 245000 people infected the death toll in italy in china meanwhile the World Health Organization has begun the 1st trials of a vaccine it says it will take at least 12 months for a vaccine to become available. Russias also started its own covert 900. 00 vaccine trials now its confirmed almost 200. 00 cases of the virus. Visited Moscows Sheremetyevo airport to see why that number of infected is so low. Welcome to sherry and thats in the airport where officials have invited us to reassure the russian public that they are doing Everything Possible to prevent the spread of the coup with 90 virus here in russia now personally i would have taken them at their word and left it at that but juicy cools i was here last a month ago when strict travel