The International Community to suspend them all while the Islamic Republic faces the west corona Virus Outbreak in the middle east joining me now via face time from gone is dr Samadi Torabi director of the research that Strategic Studies Institute sam thanks so much for coming on im going to ask 1st of all youre in quarantine how is the situation in go home even though obviously the United States has more coronavirus cases in absolute terms and obviously proportionately. Yes actually doing quite well it was the 1st place that the pandemic started in iran and also weve been pretty much you know south korean singing ourselves since the end of february so thank god the numbers are have come down and bombed and also as you might have heard in the media you know theres no panic buying you know everythings well stocked and people are going about their lives pretty normally except for the strike of course but theyre not congregating in public but thank god its common and going well and right
Writers festival. This is 45 minutes. Please welcome tim harford. [applause]. Thank you very much everyone. Host i dont believe in long preambles but i thought i should say a few words. I am well aware the many of you have no idea who i am printed as a thank you for showing up on the spirits of pure curiosity. It speaks very well of you. Even though its a really big name for the festival. I feel very honored to be amongst them. So who am i, few things. Already called the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it printed thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is im with radio. I chauffeur the media world service, fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how we think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray. They help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and malcolm. Read Cautionary Tales force all about things going wrong and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can
The first thing is i am well aware that many of you have no idea who i am. And so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you. I know there are some really, really big nays in the festival and i feel very honored to be amongst them. Thanks for coming. So who am i . A few things, i write column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times at the pink newspaper thats really good, i recommend it. [applause] thank you sir. The second thing is i present radio. I did a show for the Bbc World Service called 50 things amid the modern economy. I present a show for bbc all about numbers and how we think about numbers, how numbers sometimes lead us astray. Sometimes they help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell called cautionary tales. Which is all about things going wrong, sometimes in sideways and sometimes in amusing ways and what we can learn from them. So
The response that we will see from the west, it to the re election, the flat demand boots and do you think that the sentiments towards boots and in particular and russia will, will have a change for the best to as well. So i think coming yes, it will not change because they still have their agenda. They still, their agenda is to devise russia. You know, this is the agenda for many years already. And even today, when you read the european news ever, you did the thats news to german news and you had to make a big fuss out of fits. Thats like a you. Yeah. Enough. All the is a voting in germany and she put the name of for our deceased husband on it. And, and also they sets with a many embassies people waiting in line, hundreds of people. But now for rent at the end of the day that for instance, in the, in the netherlands, there was still 400. 00 people waiting to be voting and what, what are these people then they are russian People Living there. We still want to vote, but they end up the
Choice. We are forever equal with russia and among equals with 99. 56 percent of the vote is now counted. This looking pretty clear whos well in the election, but still the townsend continues to either have on the Electoral Commission for that official results earlier in the day or the on sunday i should say of correspondence or do ben sky was at the headquarters is keeping on developments of what wed be seeing here at the headquarters of the Central Election Commission just behind me is this. What we have seen as the voting was close to the regions of the screens going great. And then theyve been replaced by Something Else when not because these all surveillance cameras inside the places where people are boosting some 50000 to move. These have been in operation over the last 3 days to allow people to have a butare view of whats going on all across russias regions where people are voting not just posting. Of course, in the 11 time zones that russia has is expensive country, but also pe