What they say. I am pleased to introduce my first guest, the highest Health Official in the land. Alex azar has a breath of experience of both the public and private sectors. His key areas of focus include health care, research and innovation, all of which assume added significance in the coronavirus era. We had a really fantastic forum and it wouldnt be what it would be without you. Thank you bro being here. Let me start thank you for being here. Let me start off and ask you, we have had various discussions of coronavirus challenges from the frontline, what is going on in communities, the debate around school. What i am interested in right now are vaccines. There is a lot of confusion out there about we are going to do. Vaccines seem to be vital. Is there anything you can tell us about where we are addled that front, operation warp speed and your oversight and encouragement about a vaccine that is going to save us . Thank you for asking about lightspeed. The president commissioned us
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The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
In that direction but the mayor of san jose says no. We are joined now in san jose with the very latest. Damian. Reporter i should mention that a couple of hours ago San Jose Police announced new restrictions on police use of the socalled rubber bullets. Right now the protesters at city hall are marching through downtown and they will be back shortly. The demand is simple, defund and reform. A call for reform at a local department is now answering the call. The San Jose Police Department Just beened the use of rubber projectiles for the sole purpose of dispersing crowds and now can only use them when an officer is being attacked or there is an imminent threat to officers or protesters themselves. I absolutely think we need to do something overall. From the communities around the country and every Police Department in the country should be thinking about reform. There is one demand the mayor said is a nonstarter, the growing call to defund Police Departments. In San Francisco the mayor
A corona bell out deal with the German Government. And deep and illegally deported human Rights Groups accuse police in greece of physically assaulting migrants and then forcing them back into turkey. Im brian thomas great to have you with us today india and bangladesh are working to assess the damage left by one of the most violent storms in years cycling made landfall yesterday killing at least 22 people and leaving a trail of destruction in coastal communities and west bengals main city kolkata millions of people there are now without electricity and the coronavirus is hampering efforts to provide relief. In a last ditch official these bangladeshis are preparing for the worst. Filling sandbags with their bare hands they braved conditions brought on by one of the most powerful cyclons in decades. Meteorologists have dubbed it a super cyclon and as it headed inland it lived up to that name it sent water surging inland some 25 kilometers the damage compounded by winds of up to 185 kilo