Nationwide lockdown there, with the second wave hitting the nation hard, 38,000 fresh infections. Thousands filled the streets to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister, protesting the signing of a controversial peace deal. For the next 15 days at least, friendss second covid19 lock down will remain firmly in place. The Prime Minister address to the nation earlier, to say that his government will not be caving to pressure and saying it would be irresponsible to relax current measures. He has also painted a grim picture by telling his fellow countrymen and women that one in four deaths nationwide is currently due to the coronavirus. Someone is admitted to hospital every 30 seconds. He said of the situation worsens in the days ahead, further measures could be brought in. Lets take a quick listen to the french Prime Minister. [speaking french] host the latest figures from French Health officials show that 33,100 ebony to make cases 33,172 new cases have been confirmed. A little earl
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
And he was assistant to president obama and Deputy National security adviser to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama. And now senior Foreign Policy adviser to the biden and great to have tony blimpingen. And jerry is executive editor of the wall street jourm and writes a column which i read and all of us should read. Jerry has had an extraordinary career and for the journal. He covered the white house at the end of the Reagan Administration and Bush Administration and interviewed every american president and part of a team at the wall street journal that won the pull iter prize and book coming out on august 25, we should have seen it coming about the conservative moment and will be coming out. And sure to have jerry tony here. Welcome to both of you. Lets start with the scenario. Joe biden walked out of the white house in january of 2017 as Vice President. Lets say perhaps he walks back into the white house of january 2021 as president. How will the wo
We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that it is taking place, what transparency would we find, given there was not much transparency out of china in some critical early days and weeks, how would you assess the threat of a pandemic coming from the african continent . Can i start . Sure. Im confident that should such a pandemic start in africa we would have tremendous cooperation. I look back on the situation with ebola in west africa wher
Intelligence Committee Heard from former ambassadors and diplomatic officials. House committee on intelligence, first remote hearing. Before we proceed to where were topic today, the impact of the covid19 pandemic in Subsaharan Africa, i want to address some housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. Urged tonts are inrain from presenting compliance with House Resolution 965 and resolutions for remote proceedings. Like many of you, i would have preferred to hold this in person in washington, d. C. , but because of the threat of covid19 we remain serious and widespread and are proceeding remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff, and the public. I was hoping that todays hearing would be bipartisan. Unfortunately, our republican colleagues have decided not to dissipate. I hope they will not to participate. I hope they will join us in the future and im committed to continuing our work notwithstanding the pandemic, and both sides o