And calls for a National Strike in better routes as pressure grows on the president to resign. A 3rd attempt to uphold a humanitarian ceasefire between azerbaijan and armenia has come into effect the 2 sides have been fighting over the disputed territory of new gonna come about but as during previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accused the other of violating that agreement this latest truce was mediated by the United States despite heavy fighting on sunday when it speak now talk one on one of the homemade she joins us live from an gets of it in azerbaijan how to by my count its been 5 hours now since that cease fire officially began from what youve been hearing so far is there any suggestion that things might be different this time around. Whether it does feel that things are different this time around there have. There has been sporadic shelling in both directions but by and large i would say compared to the one that was reaffirmed only less than 10 days ago and oc
Billionaires index. Raise 30 5ting to billion in hong kong and shanghai. Aviation in australia. Alice springs emerges as the ideal place to store passenger planes left idle by the coronavirus. Shery. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the preliminary thirdquarter gdp numbers and we are seeing the quarter on quarter the economy has grown 1. 9 , which is beating expectations of 1. 3 and this is also coming after its first recession since 2003. We saw a contraction of more than 3 in the previous Second Quarter. Youre on your, still a contraction of 1. 3 but its a much smaller contraction than was expected and it is also a contraction that has eased from the previous quarter. We have seen growth and strength when it comes to south koreas exports and manufacturing industries. Thirdquarter manufacturing actually growing 7. 6 quarter on quarter when you look at the details in the gdp numbers. We have seen the rebound in china. South koreas biggest trading partner helping i
Theres efforts to wrap it up. It will not get there when we first have first doses of vaccines. So the real issue is if that is locked up in advance which currently it is being still locked up by wealthy nations, the multilateral initiated by the time it gets the resources to compete will not have so the challenge we have is most of the vaccine manufacturing in these advanced purchasing agreement are in these large and merrily wealthy nations but not exclusively you if they are willing to play ball in sharon early doses the rest of the world will wake potentially months or a year or longer to receive the vaccine they need to protect their Health Workers and most vulnerable populations and that will leave a legacy that isnt just about thishad. It will undermine Global Cooperation on a host of other issues. If we cant cooperate in this situation on it sharing a vaccine, what hope do we have to cooperate on climate change, what hope do we have on otherproblems and with that ill stop and l
From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations report launch of the independent task force preparing for the next pandemic. Perforce we will be talking about the one we are currently experiencing. Im the host of Weekend Edition sunday. We have more than i think 760 registered for this virtual meeting. We will do our best to get to as many questions as we can. But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor at the American University and the former u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is franc
Those about to open but donald trump is up as well thats right surprising nominations in. So. Donald trump is one of the nominees but i think if were about to hear you know gross anderson just approaching the podium ok lets listen to this. Good morning. The need for International Solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever. Then we know committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 the World Food Program. For its efforts to combat hunger. For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas and for acting as a driving force in the efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The World Food Programme is the Worlds Largest humanitarian organization at this hunger and promoting Food Security. Last year the w u s p provided assistance to close to 1000000 people in 88 countries who are victims of acute Food Insecurity and. In 2015 eradicating hunger was adopted as one of Un Sustainable Developmen