Good afternoon i am the president Bookings Institution is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating our brookings fellow release of his new book. Know your face. Roughly 104 year history we have taken powerful positions on issues of race and equality and civil rights these matters stand at the top since becoming president i have made this a president ial priority both personally and for the institution that only has there an obligation then to study these issues but also our responsibility of the organization as well that we examine race and policy not just because were capable of impact and committed to the cap public good but based on washington dc our Nations Capital as a city of politics but also great adversity and history of the roughly 700,000 residents that call the city home nearly half are black america. Walking past such sites as the Lincoln Memorial in the immortal words of doctor mlk i have a dream speech a wonderful place to live and work we at brooki
A surcharge of hundreds sometimes thousands of pounds to use the n. H. S. Themselves. Prime minister oh this is because food a great deal about this and i do accept i do understand the difficulties faced by our amazing n. H. S. Staff and like in my view the personal beneficiary of people whove come from carers who come from abroad and probably say my life as i know exactly the importance of what is on the other hand we must look at the realities that this is a a a Great National service its a National Institution it needs funding and those contributions actually help us to raise about 900000000 pounds and its very easy and very difficult in the current circumstances to find alternative sources so with Great Respect to the point he makes i do think that that is the right way forward only one day later the Prime Minister conceded the point others are warning there were 5 some extension to that since. National period many aspects of the mcgauchie a sense of being made more difficult and t
My name is Jaime Sanchez jr, i will be guiding the discussion this afternoon. This is a theme that is central to the idea of remaking american political history. This is not to say that no one has ever thought of or written about latinos in American History. Instead, it is about rethinking what political historians Pay Attention to. In an earlier panel, we asked an essential question. About the segregation of American History. There was a real barrier to what organizations and individuals are labeled as political or diplomatic actor actors. This panel seeks to shift the conversation as latinos being central forged in the fire of 19th century warfare, boosted by constant mass migration, latinos have been part and parcel of modern American Social fabric with over 150 years of history in the United States. Latinos have made an indelible mark on u. S. Politics. Early in the u. S. History of the southwest territories and the longstanding significant political organizations and the protest m
If you dont have one im Kemal Santa Maria this is the world news from aljazeera the 1st confirmed covert 900 deaths reported at an overcrowded ranger refugee camp in bangladesh farmers in zimbabwe described how coronaviruses into a vital cash crop tobacco. A week now since a black man named george floyd it died in Police Custody in minnesota and there is no sign of an end to the protests that followed against racism and Police Brutality in the u. S. President donald trump has threatened to deploy the army now if state governors dont end the violence already in washington d. C. Police forcibly cleared Peaceful Protesters near the white house so he could walk to a nearby church and start with this report from mike hanna. A peaceful protest outside the white house is dispersed forcibly by. Tear gas rubber coated steel bullets sense stun grenades are used to force the demonstrators further away a few minutes later the reason becomes clear in a display of pure political theater the presiden
Tackle the outbreak mike hanna has more from washington a number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for bowl medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the 8 picks of the epidemic hits which current projections show by the end of the month yet President Trump continues to insist that there are enough ventilators being supplied to the various states in fact he says that many odd being produced now so many that at some stage in the future the u. S. Could export a ventilators to countries in need were soon going to have more ventilators that we need were building thousands of ventilators right now takes a period of time to build and. And again nobody could have known a thing like this could happen were building thousands we will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe which we hope doesnt happe