Local independent bookstore. Beautiful downtown coral gables. Maybe not so beautiful tonight but if you dont like the weather in florida, wait five minutes. We appreciate you being here, if anyone has a cell phone thats ringing please put that on silent. Also dont forget to go to a webpage. We will send you emails about everything that goes on at this location and other locations. I dont know if you been to Coconut Grove recently but we have a new story there. Another one with mentioning done at the adrian arst center we have on january 26 at 6 30 p. M. Isabel allende will be joining us you can buy tickets online at the our center. Org. Any number of wonderful events you can visit us here we do farm to table dinners, podcasts with a lot of others with our owner and founder you can only do that by accessing the webpage. We are very happy to see Christopher Knowlton with us, bubble in the sun the florida boom of the 1920s and hook braid on the Great Depression. So its our fault, right. I
Painting a very different version of the future and in school point to strike a guy has described a rival fans as idiots after being targeted at with the racist abuse the Money International walked off the pitch in protest at the train the game in portugals top division. For the 1st time in recent history china is considering a delay to its annual congress the years biggest political meeting as the country continues to grapple with you cases of further deaths due to the corona Virus Outbreak the numbers are huge take a look at this truck up by the John Hopkins University those red circles showed the extent of the outbreak in china alone nearly 2 files more infections were reported on sunday bringing the total on the mainland to over 70000 more than 1700. And 70 people have died so far globally which as military is sending hundreds of doctors and nurses to han the epicenter of the outbreak the World Health Organization is sending its own team of experts to beijing and to other chinese p
A different vision of the future. Now a new European Union efforts will be launched to enforce an arms embargo on libya which is being floated so much its been described by the u. N. As a joke it was announced after a meeting of e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels and earlier mission collapse last year after disagreements with italy the new mission is to involve air land and naval assets well Charles Stratford says in the libyan capital libyan city of misrata live to him after get some more details about that announcement from Donna Dominic kane who is in berlin for us the German Foreign minister must says this agreement has been reached what else did he have to say. One of the things the German Government has been really keen to stress is the need for the International Community to do more to try to bring the warring factions to project bring to the warring factions together to try to bring the conflict to an end certainly thats what that is the master the foreign minister was referri
International arms embargo isnt the only major problem affecting peace efforts in libya in the coming hours talks will resume here at the u. N. In geneva between 5 representatives of the internationally recognized government in tripoli and 5 from general have to decide to try and get a cease fire can you give us a readout of how they went the governments representative at the u. N. In new york libyan ambassador sunny told me the previous round of talks had been far from easy and theres a lot of issues that we dont need and together but there are some parts that as mentioned from the u. N. Led process that could be a breakthrough but im still. Have to be cautious because we noticed that there are certain elements that we look into in terms of the return of i. D. P. s the area and where the withdrawal areas are these are things that are still and good discussions and are not clear yet at the Munich Security Conference the u. N. Has except the special representative of libya made it clear
Mentioning down at the adrienne art center, we have on january 26 at 630 isabella yen they will be joining us and you can get tickets online thats at the art. Middledot org. As a number of wonderful events you can visit us here. Weighted dinners, podcasts with our authors you can only do that by accessing the webpage so please visit us there. We are very happy to have this evening with us mr. For christopher knowlton, the bubble in the sun the boom in the 20s so how brought on the depression. I thought there Something Else involved. Christopher is a former staff writer of the london chief the london magazine he spent 15 years the investment business. His previous book was a cattle kingdom and the hidden industry out in the west. Please give them a round welcome. [applause] thank you steve i appreciate that and really appreciate you all coming. Its nice to be back in coral gables. Seems like just yesterday i was here researching the career of George Merrick, who was the founder of coral