Am paula im on the board of the Atlantic Council and vice chair of the center for strategy and security. Todays conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key Inflection Point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. Id like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the Atlantic Council of the advisory board, she initiat
Equitable and effective Global Distribution of vaccines. This conversation is part of a series, global inclusive recovery and rebuilding which was developed with the aspen into institute in word joining the global interveners group in this effort to present the presentation today, we are very honored that Elizabeth Cohen of cnn is leading the conversation and as a reminder and we are happy to get to the questions as part of the conversation. Thank you all and welcome elizabeth. Thank you so much im so glad to be here with all of these wonderful panelist that we are going to have with us, nearly ten months into the outbreak, covid19 is exposing equities and Healthcare Systems worldwide in hopes that the vaccines will really change things because right now this virus has killed more than a Million People worldwide and its infected more than 44 Million People, millions have been left without work and economy have been left many in terrible shape. , how do we ensure a Vaccine Development D
Todays conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key Inflection Point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. Id like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the Atlantic Council of the advisory board, she initiated a statement, over 100 former heads of states, prime ministers, Foreign Ministers among many others iss
Correspondent. Trevor shirley with the latest river. Hey good evening. Yeah, youre right a lot of news happening here in washington dc today. The president s doctors say he is responding to treatment but hes not out of the woods just yet weve also learned today that there is a growing number of people within the white house connected to the military who are now selfquarantining after possible exposure to covid19. 24 hours after leaving Walter Reed Medical Center President Trump remains at the white house today is doctors released an update which said the president feels no symptoms and his vital signs are stable but he remains under treatment. Doctors for Vice President mike pence also said he remains symptomfree and continues to test negative for the virus, but its not such good news for several of the president s top military advisers general mark milley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tested negative for the virus but is under quarantine after the vice commandant of the coast
Youre watching R T International coming to you straight from the russian capital 247 welcome to the program this hour. Moscow says that it fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that russian Opposition Leader and expand on it was poisoned by a nerve agent a spokesperson Dmitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue on wednesday berlin announced it had found traces of never choke on the volley meanwhile the president of belarus has claimed that the countrys Security Forces have intercepted a call which cast doubt on berlins poisoning allegations. We have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its all a full sophistication. Didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. The kremlin says it has no details on the claims as of yet and they have not been verified the german chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke about the c