By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention today offered new reassurances that ebola does not pose a great risk to americans. Here in the u. S. I remain quite confident we will not have a widespread outbreak. We will stop it in its tracks, because weve got Infection Control in hospitals and Public Health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms. In africa the story is different. Sreenivasan the c. D. C. Has investigated more than 100 ebola scares in 33 states in just the first four days of this month. Meanwhile, an nbc news came
His countrys pollution problems. Hello unicef is warning that a war in yemen is driving an already impoverished country to disaster. They have gun targeting Houthi Rebels there and the death toll continues to mount. Dozens of people have reported by been killed in clashes in aden. For days the southern port city has seen intense fighting increase. Water and food is in short supply. Human Rights Groups say that outies have detact and detained activists and journalists across the country in the last 48 hours. We are more on the fall out the fight is halving on the people of yemen. [ gunfire ] after days of heavy fighting, many parts of aden have been destroyed. Homes and shops lie in ruins. Civilians are also being killed. Houthi rebels along with fighters loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh infiltrate near the citys port. These are forces loyal to president ed ay, and theyre putting up a fierce battle. Its really difficult to keep up the water and food supply. Otherwise everything is going down
Freedom fighters. Preuss, welcome back bruce, welcome back to the Wilson Center. Congratulations on this accomplishment. Lets begin with some context. Anonymous soldiers begins as world war i was drawing to a close and the british have conquered jerusalem. In palestine in the 1920s, 1930s the british fail repeatedly to reconcile competing arab and jewish demands. It was the british mandate destined to fail . Before i i answer that if i could just think the Wilson Center for this event. If i. If i can i can say unequivocally if it were not for the Wilson Center this book would not be possible. I really want to thank the previous president , lee hamilton current president , jane harman the library. This is a huge treasure here the wisdom of the United States congress, which is not something you here often come in creating the Wilson Center in making it a tremendous resource for scholars but also a resource to discuss i think cuttingedge policy issues and my old friend rob not just for hi
It comes in. There are a number of places affected. You see the red on your screen, the delta, diablo range under red flag warning until saturday morning at 7 00. We have gusty winds. 30 in vacaville. We have gusts to 50 in the higher terrain. We have very dangerous conditions. More on that in a bit. A disturbing story out of san francisco. An employee crashed into a car while driving on a suspended license. 4 weeks ago christine was run over while sun bathing. We have coverage of the story you will see on kron4. The public works is asking why it was in the dark as to the employees license status until after the crash happened. The employee collided with a vehicle at theintersection of ceasear chavez. Either the dmv didnt report it or the license was lost. The employee didnt tell a supervisor the license was suspended. There was break down whether it was from the dmv or a glitch at the public work department. We want to make sure it doesnt happen again. Reporter the City Employee is st
For the last two decades has shn that china has no ability to observe the rule of law in many aspects including the ipr, the wto, the manipulation of currency, no reciprocal [inaudible] the protection of its own market and many other problems. Thats different between communism and democracy. Thank you very much. So im asking you which of us all of you, how to move toward so that china can observe the rule of law, so we can develop a better trust, and we can have a more stable and peace ful regional and Global Development especially in the southeast china sea and maam, this is a lot of questions. Thank you. Just one, the rule of law. Thank you. Whether china will become a democracy, that reminds me of a book that Francisco Cook yam ma wrote fukuyama with the end of the cold war. Basically, what he said in the book is democracy prevails with the collapse of the former soviet union. But what we saw today was, you know, so many chaos in young democracies like thailand, turkey, ukraine, egy