Lasting change and benefits for minorities in this country and to try to close inequality gaps in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are going to discuss that. Render, hee mich
Everyone its a question of we or me what will it be i bring gulf in berlin this is the day. To serve superimposed upon a search the 96. 00. County. Number since the onset there. Were likely to lose another 250000 people. And were not in a good place cannot be travelling through solid. Diminish to the extent possible travel christmas is going to be a long one. Also coming up a report from a remote corner of russia where distance is no defense against the coronavirus but with a look at one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand that the death had really come. Down to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of our viewers around the world welcome we begin. On the day with statistics from the pandemic numbers that are usually attached to natural disasters or terror attacks not to a virus in the United States more than 2800 people died yesterday from coated 90 more than on any other day sin
A special session of the Un General Assembly focused on covert 19 it coincides with the release of a u. N. Study showing that over 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the pandemic. Firefighters in australia a struggling to contain massive wildfires devastating a unesco World Heritage site Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world the fires have been burning there now for 6 weeks and have already affected almost half the island. This is doubly news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website w dot com. Or. Or it goes without saying that in this pandemic no one is safe until everyone is safe and yet vaccine nationalism the race to be 1st in approving the vaccine if suddenly real what happens when nations race against each other hoping to beat the coronavirus with a virus usually wins in the United States almost 3000 people are dying every day from covert 19 more than 100000 hospitalizations
So for the first time in our countrys history latinos, the largest ethnic minority in electric with 32 million eligible voters and record numbers of latinos turning out to vote congressman hice numbers of latina and latinos weve seen in the previous election cycle. Both president ial donald trump and present elect joe biden benefited for the high turnout ofhe latino voters across the u. Yet the support that they received from this very diverse and complex electorate, and why, varied into parts of the country. Country. National the majority of latino mailing democratic, what a consistent levels are many different constituencies that cannot be so easilyy counted on by either party. Todays conversation will highlight how record levels of latino turnout and active the outcome of key races and [inaudible] the marquis battles instead. We are thrilled and acclaimed journalist and trusted voice in the Latino Community the moderate todays panel of experts. Together, they will explore critical a
In International Trade with the bertelsmann foundation. I asked him if saudi arabia was the right host for the event, despite its human rights record. Well, whether or not they are the right host. Probably not. But whats actually important is that the International Policy response to it has been lagging behind the challenge for quite some time. And its really important that the International Community gets its act together and steps up the measures that are taken against it and then make and its economic fallout. So i say its very important to talk, even if this meeting is hosted somewhat unsavory 1st christian, the summit starts, as you mention, as we hit a critical phase of the 19 pandemic. All of these economies represented need the vaccine to bounce back. How much more competition for access to the vaccine be part of these discussions . Whats really important is that b. Find a strategy to distribute the vaccine world. What if we dont manage to do this . Curb . It virus can come bac