deadlier. and the impact is most gravely felt among our children. children are dying. the number one cause of childhood death in america s guns? we are moving in the wrong direction. and the pattern is clear. morgan s, and we ll show you gun laws, equal more death. yeah, but i want to echo the congresswoman just said is true. the number leading cause of death of children in this country used to be, for years, all the fatalities, which would make sense. obviously, children are usually dying of illness or other things, it was car crashes. and then two things happened. a lot of faith all the numbers came down, almost cut in half. again, because of a set of regulations. technological improvements and car safety. drunk driving particularly, the way we police that and regulated that. and gun fatalities have gone
because they re so large? no. remember the base case. on average people lived to about age 30. then as energy came along, industrial revolution and the digital revolution and the understanding of biology, life has improved dramatically. childhood death went from about 10% before our foundation got going. now with our partners that we have it down to 5% globally, children died before the age of five. it used to be 10%. it s now 5. you cut it in half. exactly. that s 6 million children a year who survive that were not surviving as recently as 1990. i see incredible progress. yes, you can worry about nuclear war or pandemics, the ai takeover, polarization.
good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. and good morning from london. i m felicia taylor. it was a long time coming, but european leaders filly got there. shortly before 4:00 a.m. in brussels the announcement we d all been waiting for. european leaders struck a deal on the eurozone debt crisis. here are the key points. the agreement includes a compromise with private investors. holders of greek bonds have greed take a 50% write down on the value of those assets. also the effective strength of the bailout fund will be boosted to about a trillion euros. but european banks will be told to brace for further turmoil. the banks zill to increase their capital reserves to 9% to protect themselves against potential losses following those write downs or defaults that possibly could occur further down the line. at a press conference in the early hours of the morning in brussels, the european council president emphasized the need for tighter fiscal discipline within th