Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the world is struggling in different ways to cope with a coded 19 pandemic and governments are taking the heat for their actions and inactions well the coronavirus be a referendum on globalization. Cross talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow Dmitri Bobbitt hes a political analyst and editor in a semi internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos he is editor of politics 1st magazine our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was a preacher let me go to marcus 1st in london as this pandemic continues and there is no end in sight Different Countries are experiencing Different Levels of this pandemic and theres been pointed out by the media and by people around the world what actions work and what dont work but theres a much broader discussion that needs to be taken in that its the nature of globalization and how globalizatio
Irans government is facing growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of the ukrainian airliner on wednesday protests have been held across the country after the revolutionary guard said it mistakenly shot down the james killing 176 people at the Iranian Parliament has denied a cover up but told the military to take precautions to avoid further disasters it followed a briefing by military leaders on the crash the recent crisis with the us was prompted by the assassination of iranian tamada custom saw the body in iraq could house the media is in tehran in a push to ease those tensions hes the 1st leader to visit the iranian capital since all the body was killed in that us a to. On january 3rd to. Walk has this visit comes at a very critical time in the region weve agreed that the only solution is to fuse escalations among all parties and weve also agreed that dialogue and only dialogue is the only route to any solution to any crisis. Its got to dorset
Escudero thought she had 100. 00 euros but it turned out the journalists had the facts slightly wrong well have the full story for. Our next bicester thanks for joining us thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are gathering in the west bank city of bethlehem to Mark Christmas bethlehem is regarded by christians as the birthplace of jesus and each year a Midnight Mass is held in the church of the nativity senior officials from the Catholic Church will preside over the Christmas Eve festivities palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is also expected to attend. And for more on that were joined now by a journalist call in jerusalem sami can you walk us through whats going to be happening today. Yes well thats been a nice sunny day here in jerusalem thats in the house. Today they are good bits of pizza. From a convoy of the old city of jerusalem the tradition the convoy to see him of course through the military here checkpoint. Over there he was received by think its the congregations o
Than in 2016 . Rep. Davis when we were charge 115th congress, we worked invest artisan way to 400 into our Election Security issues working with d. H. S. To administrators to fight back Cyber Attacks and also giving money to our states that our state and local officials can work with d. H. S. In hand to insure the Election Security of every single election because i elieve the most secure elections are actually the ones held at the local level. Host whats the most issue as of to day . Rep. Davis there is a lot about issues when it comes to election infrastructure. We need to look at the next most way of voting is going to those new methods. We sat down with folks who are of a block what chain type voting to where you can do it on your phone. Ts been used in certain elections in West Virginia. Those are the types of nnovations that could make our elections even more secure, but we shouldnt just throw off the have like the democrats tried to do. Host mr. Starks, go ahead. This week the h
Im melissa chan youre watching d. W. News asia thank you for joining us the Investigation Continues into the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in the u. K. Prosecutors say they were victims of a global ring of human traffickers by now we know they came from asia we dont know much more you may remember that early reports said they might be chinese next they might be vietnamese asia is where much of modern slavery in the world takes place almost 25000000. 00 people in asia are victims of slavery thats 6 for every 1066 percent of them go into forced labor and india china and pakistan have the highest absolute numbers of slaves but Southeast Asia sees a lot of activity poor job. Prospects natural disasters and military conflicts there are all factors behind waves of displaced people and migrants for more we have rachel smith with the Human Trafficking foundation with us rachel tell us what you know about Human Trafficking to the u. K. From asia lets start with china thats where investig