The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
Commitment for live Senate Coverage starting in a moment howevewe will recd the presidt elect and have it later on the cspan networks. Live to the senate where they e planning to wk on a nomition for u. S. District court for the Southern District of mississippi. The president pro tempor the senate will come to order. Thchaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with the chaplain let us pray. Eterl redeemer, provide our laakers with your grace, mercy, and peace by your grace, may they forget the challenges behind them. By your mercy, may they reach for the opportunities that beckon. By yr peace, may they possess anquanimity of temperament during lifes fluctuating intricacies. Lord, give them a passion for truth and a reluctance to major minors. Use their exemplary lives to inspire people to live wh faith, purse, and power. Remind us all that though we may planned, you deterne what will finally happen. Amenray in your great name. The president pro tempore please joi me in the pledge
Imposed across europe as a surge in the coronavirus impacts life on the continent. While we begin with our breaking news out of france 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured its acar was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of nice says it will say a terrorist attack and called for a crackdown on what he describes as islam will fascism. What are the risks we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipe out islamofascism while david chase is joins us now on the line from nice david we understand it the french president is on the scene but just start us off with the attack is there any more that you can tell us of any
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Violence and global violence. So i would like to actually begin with the title itself, the violence inside us and the early portion of the book you take the reader through something of a short primer on both the biology and a history of violence. So i want to ask you why begin there . Why did you choose to begin with the nature of violence itself . Guest thank you so much for doing this and im really glad to be joining you to talk about this book. I start with this question of what kind of violence do we experience because for me it was the first real subject that i came upon when i began what would become the mission of my political career. While the book is mostly history of american violence and how we can overcome that history it also involves my own political story the shooting in connecticut in 2012. I had britain prodigious as a lawmaker beforehand but i never really had an emotional connection like i do now. And it was those days after sandy hook when i realized this would be m