At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Soldiers in afghanistan. And egypt says its dispute with ethiopia over its megaton project on the nile could lead to a conflict if the u. N. Fails to intervene. Into the program its the development hong kongs prodemocracy movement feared the most chinas top legislative body has unanimously approved a National Security law for the territory that may crush Political Freedoms acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with Foreign Forces could face a maximum sentence of life in jail now critics say itll be used to stamp out all forms of dissent it comes after months of mass unrest sparked by fear of chinas tightening grip on the whole cold legislation aims to cement beijings control over the 77 autonomous territory and reshape the future of. One of the worlds major financial sentence adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong but 1st lets cross over to beijing where katrina you is there forcing between or just talk us through the process in terms of what we
Chinas proposed security laws for hong kong described as the death knell to the territories autonomy. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now and donald trump steps up his battle with lockdown states claiming the country needs more prayer. We begin with serious accusations against brazils president gerry bowles an arrow a tape released by Brazils Supreme Court appears to show him threatening to fire Senior Police officers their bosses and even a minister to protect his family the 2 hour video of the Cabinet Meeting was released amid claims that bolton are was meddling in a criminal investigation of his son the allegation was made by a former Justice Minister morrow he resigned last month because of what he called political interference in the president bolton r. O. Denies the accusations. I will not white for him to my entire family just for fun or a friend of mine because i cant change someone from the security because it belongs to the stru
The outbreak has risen to 130. And g20 finance ministers and central bankers brace for the economic fallout. Lets take a look at the markets. We had u. S. Markets closing. Eaker on friday we have new zealand trading at the moment. Its looking weaker at the moment by two thirds of 1 . Half income declining to 185. 8 million. The yen is gaining a little bit of strength against the greenback over the past 24 hours. But the u. S. Dollar is still looking pretty strong. The World Health Organization says no new countries reported of the coronavirus. We have yvonne man in hong kong covering this story for us. South korea was among the nations performing during the search. What is the focus . , it seems that the focus is to prevent a Global Pandemic outside of china. To six. H toll rising total cases topping 600. As you mentioned a 20 fold increase in five days and half of those cases seem to be tied to this religious group where had infected all patients in a Psychiatric Hospital after attend
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