Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Leader Anwar Ibrahim pushes his case for becoming the new Prime Minister of malaysia. And the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalist say threatens a protected rain forest of hundreds of its animal species. Us President Donald Trump has been back outs with the crowds to fire up an Election Campaign that was interrupted by his covert 19 infection trump addressed supporters in the battleground state of florida without a mask a decision is democratic rival joe biden described as reckless aljazeera and a gallagher reports from miami. After a dramatic 2 weeks that seen President Donald Trump contract covert 19 and to the Walter Reed Medical Center and make an apparent speedy recovery hes now back on the campaign trail his 1st stop Central Florida where thousands gathered to welcome him back. Following the example of the president many in the crowd didnt wear masks and social distancing was nonexistent as Florida Governor on dissenters and to the rally he gave high fives to the crow
A reporter killed. From malaysias Prime Minister we report on a state election that could determine his future on the national stage. The conservative. Who could be the next u. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for ruth bader. And in sport the Boston Celtics are still alive in their n. B. A. Playoff series. 6. So that hes been in the job just 27. 00 days but the man chosen to be lebanons next Prime Minister has now resigned so to the country back to square one. For a new stable government says he simply hasnt been able to form a government of specialists in a country where power is shared between different. Sex the former ambassador to germany was named Prime Minister designate at the end of august and thats when the previous government resigned amid protests in the wake of that huge explosion at beirut port which of course killed 192 people and devastated the capital. Well my will soon measure as the efforts to form the government reached their fin
The viability of multilateralism has been thus put to the test. In this regard we highly value the extraordinary and significant roles undertaken by the United Nations and its secretary general mr antonio good terrors of this harnessing old means and measures to address this pandemic through accelerating action to provide universal access to vaccines and i ignore stick and therapeutic tools. With top priority given to the most vulnerable groups namely women children and the elderly all. Countries and societies that suffer from Armed Conflict induced humanitarian and refugee crises. I have always been a preoccupation for this long standing organization as the secretary general cold for silencing the guns in a global cease fire on march 23rd 2020. He announced it as an approach in 80 to address the root causes of conflict and to allow for tireless efforts to defeat the malady of war and to close ranks in our global fight against this pandemic while focusing on recovery in all its phases
Chinese at tick tock will be allowed to operate in the u. S. For now despite earlier concerns over National Security. Well the u. S. Has broken with all other permanent members of the u. N. Security council and declared socalled snapback sanctions on iran americas major allies britain france and germany of already written to the u. N. To say sanctions relief will remain this dispute is over the Iran Nuclear Deal which washington did pull out of 2 years ago so the other signatories say it no longer has the legal power to enforce any changes or diplomatic editor james bass has. Its a route that even pitted the u. S. Against some of its closest allies and its now over 5 years since the Iran Nuclear Deal was signed in vienna joining the negotiations the us team under the leadership of the then secretary of state john kerry devised a mechanism called snap back if iran breached its commitments all International Sanctions could snap back into place but thats not the way things played out the