Please call the phone line and make sure youre in a quiet location and that you mute any tvs, or radios. Item number one, call to order. role call . And we do have a quorum. Thank you. Well welcome to those who are watching this remotely. I hope you are all well at home. It imany are coping with lost js and keeping your family and children safe. Before we gip begin, i would lio thank the staff under the direction of bob beck who has kept the facility running and we appreciate your dedication and i know that several of you have had to be on site at the island on a regular basis. So bob, thank you in particular for your diligence. And also thank you one Treasure Island who has been coordinating with the San Francisco food bank for the delivery of free groceries for people who need it. Thank you to the staff and thank you to the San Francisco food bank and also, thank you to the School District for continuing to deliver meals to School Children on Treasure Island so they can eat three mea
Tv, Wake Forest University Professor John curley teaches a class on how the cold war infliei influenced and was influenced by photography. This is about an hour ten minutes. So last time we were talking about world war ii photography and the ways that photographers interacted with the cwar. We ended looking at this image last year. The Mushroom Cloud that emerged after the dropping of the atomic bomb on nagasaki. This image, of course, marks the end of world war ii. In many ways it marks the beginning of the cold war. Of course, nuclear dread and Nuclear Anxiety hovered over the conflict during the 1950s and 1960s and up through the 1980s to the end of the conflict. Its a fitting image to begin our class today. We will think a lot about photography during the cold war. Specifically, american photography during the cold war. This is a massive topic. One could imagine a course on the subject. General themes as well as case studies and in the meantime, along the way, talk about some advan
To bring you the latest news every hour of the day this is our National Award while come from myself and the whole team here in moscow well lets get started several countries declared an emergency on friday in response to the covert 900. 00 pandemic spain a joint neighboring european nations which is struggling with containment measures the u. S. Has limited travel from europe the restrictions also a fact military personnel thats according to the pentagon while donald trump has announced the u. S. Is stepping up its risk level response to unleash the full power of the federal government of the separate today i am officially declaring a National Emergency 2 very big words. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50000000000. 00 of. Very importantly for. A large amount of money for states and territories are loco that is in our shared flood against this disease and we heard from trump you speaking in the white house rose garden surrounded by mike pence and other officials exp
A very warm welcome to you which 2 pm here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International with me aaron its great to have you with us. And our top story Iraqi Security Officials Say a barrel of rockets has again hit a base housing u. S. And other Coalition Troops near baghdad is the 2nd attack on the facility this week on wednesday 2 American Service members and one british soldier were killed the u. S. Retaliated on friday with an strikes against an iranian linked group but 6 iraqis were killed in that operation because in baghdad say there will be consequences for relations with washington the u. S. Bombing of Government Security and civilian headquarters undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the Global Coalition of the pentagon claims it was targeting the iran backed qatar militia to take out 5 of the groups weapons storage facilities. In response to this attack on an iraqi base that hosts Coalition Forces supporting the iraqi fight against
A platform for our artists included some region so they can. Get out from the local exhibit into International Exhibition because theyre from iraq and from syria and the whole different regions know this is particularly from current stump region of iraq so the artist came from can somebody general for iraq we have 5 artists who contributed to participated in this Art Exhibition and it is sort of flexion all of them yes of denial repression of the Kurdish People into some preachers and under their hand of dictatorship saddam assam throughout his thrall in iraq and also reflected in the values that we believe in couldnt some region the valuable piece the valis of course existence and the value of empowerment of women. Flaw you mention in justice there i understand youre going to have a rally at the house of commons about the massacre the anniversary of which is on the 17th of march just to explain with an object a massacre was because obviously that was a time when the United States and