Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Welcome to. Its good to have you with us. Images such as these ones behind me out of trigger in the back of the hearts and minds in hong kong and across the border on the chinese mainland depending on how you look at it its either a struggle for democracy or a dangerous riot that battle of perception is also being waged online and social media giants and facebook have revealed that the Chinese Government isnt fighting fair. These posts such as these on social media. Groups and individuals in the prodemocracy movement. Has also spent over 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisement from state run media facebook has also taken action it has also closed a number of. We also a correspondent in hong kong if the chinese propaganda is having any effect on the protest movement. Propaganda. On sunday these protests still can gather an enormous crowd they still do have broad support here we say 1700000 people on the streets and one of the really. Defining features of this protest movement is
Transparent and prevented the creation of rents and sons who were taking the countrys economy in lala , the marriage loan limit was shortened by the bank central announced the reduction of 100,000 people in the queue to receive marriage loans. The signing of the largest contract for the purchase of renewable electricity with a capacity of more than 1,300 megawatts. Flood victims in a league of 5 thousand the minister of health of this country has predicted that the number of victims will increase to 10,000 people. He wrote that on the eve of the month of october, stationery will be offered with a 20 discount. The goal of meeting the needs of industries, iranian experts succeeded in producing carbon dioxide, this factory alone provides 35 of the countrys needs, from which american and european experts and the end of american domination in the world, just two days of news tonight for signs and indicators of americas decline the former superpower of the world what is it in the name of all
News. Vicki our top storyor other top story we are falling right now is out of the east bay where police found a human torso near the bay bridge. Kron4s and kermit as liven oakland for us tonight would be tough on investigation. Then . Dan kerman . He was taking photos of the old bay bridge and the city skyline. He discovered a torso. Reporter at this point they believe the body has been in the water for one month for a little longer and once to shore several days ago. What we do believe that it is a young male. Reporter as to whether foul play was involved, early indication is there was not since there was no trauma to the torso, which raises several other questions. We do not know if this is a missing persons case or is possible suicide . Reporter now, we are not ruling anything out of the facility into foul play but likely not. They will run dna on this torso to identify who it was. Kron4 movekron4news vicki kron4 first told you about this story with a mobile push alert at 148 this
But we dont know theyre identity, there was a swarm of police and s. W. A. T. Out here at 8 00 a. M. Outside this 3. 65 Million Dollar house. I woke up because there were officers speaking in english and then switched to mandarin. There was an investigation in front of my house. Reporter for weeks the family looked for the family of two. One night he went to meet the mother of his two girls and then last week his phone was found in a park. Last week an officer found his body in a remote area. I spoke with keiths mother on the phone and as you can imagine this week has been a whirl wind of emotions for her. At this point shes just worried about her grandchildren, we believe were in the house when the s. W. A. T. Team came in and arrested the mother this morning. Thanks, kate, we know youll keep us updated and well check back but in a bit. In this case, i covered the case and spoke with tiffany lee on the phone. That time she told me and she was with a group searching the area. They put