Northern ethiopia. Thousands of people have fled the unrest and take grave region, raising fares of a refugee emergency. We are told that communications continue to be disrupted. There are also reports of inter in term an electrical Electricity Supply shortages, as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour and fuel are also being reported. Banks remain closed in the shortage of vailable. Cash is becoming much more acute. We urge governments in the neighboring countries to keep their borders open for people, forced to flee from their homes and u. N. H. Shores. Also asking if you open a thorough days to take steps to allow the agency to keep providing assistance to the safety, safety for refugees and internally displaced people who are in te great. He died in states is threatened more sanctions against chinese and hong kong officials over nearly all that disqualified for prodemocracy politicians. The group was dismissed from hong kong, such a sort of council. After china gave
Some parts of the great region that is the near the border. If you will be our hearts with a prayer on the sudan, hes talking about towns and cities like i guess, which has been the city and the nation. A glimpse which has got a lot of historical value to you, your pm then also areas not far away from the Editorial Board about the election day. And she got over as well as america, which is a crossing point into the sudan border. Rival factions in libya have agreed to hold elections within 18 months. The u. N. Has hailed the deal as a breakthrough. Both sides signed a cease fire agreement last month in geneva. European union is demanding china reverse, a new rule which is seen for hong kong, lawmakers, sex opposition, politicians in the city of resigned on mass in solidarity with the ruling. On wednesday, china passed a law allowing law makers to be bod, if they pose a National Security threat. The u. K. Says the move undermines hong kongs autonomy and does something to the Chinese Amba
Around europe. Lets take a closer look at 2 more examples. But in the finnish capital, helsinki is the nations 1st in the 0 waste restaurant. And the southern german city of crowd work leads the way in the fight against global warming. But 1st people who live in cities long for connection to nature and the concept of a bio field like architecture tries to satisfy this desire includes building with natural materials, bringing light into peoples homes as much as possible and connecting a buildings occupants with their natural surroundings. While the freebooter apartment complex in amsterdam was built, according to this principle, we went there to check it out and ask its residents if it improves their daily lives. Lloyd instead of concrete curves rather than hard edges, a style of architecture that loves life. The result is building according to the principles of buy a philip architecture jacket. More garcia now is the architect of the freebooter or booklet me here in the deck, city of a
School, i thought with us security and he is a fordham law great. Carol rosenberg will be talking to him about his book, she is an awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with the pulitzer center. She has been reporting in the u. S. , in the u. S. And at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened on january 11, 2002. She started with the miami herald were before that she was reporting from at least and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the robert f. Kennedy journalism award, the aba silver gavel award and she was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news and 2001. Let me tell you the format. Michel and carol will talk and then i will come back on and i will post some questions that have come from the audience. Give any questions please feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer the q a, and i will get as many as i can. Without further ado, michel, carol, take it away. Thank
Obtain. What you might see is a bit more bitesized approach to aspects of the trading agreements. To get a greater engagement in a more constructive engagement. You talked about the covid recession. We have had a second wave of covid coming across europe in the last couple months. Indicators of the economy show that is causing a double dip in many economies in terms of activity. Youhelpful you are are that we could have a fast recovery this time around and see that vshaped recovery people have talked about . I think the vaccine is going to be a very important story for the 2021. From the irish perspective we moved early on in the early the second wave, the Second Lowest interest in europe now. We are doing very well in terms of the downward trajectory of caseys. Of cases in hospital and icu. Somewhere at the end of this month we move out of what we call level 5. Our schools of state construction has stayed open. Our domestic economy. Our investment side is doing very well. Science and