Cheering. Well, the total Solar Eclipse swept from mazatlan in mexico up across several states in the us, including texas, and continued north up into canada, plunging Niagara Falls into darkness. It took about two and a half hours in total and thrilled the enormous crowds whod gathered in its path along the way. Our correspondent emma vardy is in dallas. Ahead vardy is in dallas. Of the day the expectations have ahead of the day the expectations have been low for many americans, because the forecast had shown a lot of clout along the path of the eclipse. It seemingly prayers were answered because the skies cleared to reveal a spectacular view of this rare site. The path of the eclipse first touchdown on land along the west coast of mexico. Modern Technology Meeting a phenomenon as old as the universe. As daylight return, the shadow of the moon swept into the united states. In indianapolis, it became a theatre to another display. The moon moving into perfect alignment with the earth. T
in london on wednesday morning. in the last hour, we re learned that he was accused of trying to gather information which might be useful to an enemy. and we understand that the enemy referred to is iran. we ve also learned that mr khalife was due to stand trial in november. so far, he remains at large, despite a country wide search, and additional security measures being put in place at ports and airports. more on that in a little, but now, let s look at some of the key questions arising from the escape. here s our analysis editor, ros atkins, who has been looking at the key questions arising from the escape. a terror suspect has escaped from prison. this is daniel khalife. he s accused of placing fake bombs at a military base while he was a soldier. and these are some of the questions we have about his escape. first of all, when did it happen? well, just before 8:00 on wednesday morning, from wandsworth prison in south west london, which is a category b prison category a
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin with the 114th congress. They were sworn in today. House republicans began this session with their largest majority in more than 80 years. John boehner was reelected to his third term as house speaker, despite some opposition from conservative republicans. In his opening remarks, he laid out an agenda for the coming year. This shared ritual is no passing formality. It is a frontier where words end and deeds begin. The pessimists dont see us crossing this jam. They say the division is wider than ever so gridlock will be greater. Fair enough. The skepticism of our government is healthy, and in our time, understandable. But one problem with saying it cannot be done, is that it already has been done. Or at least started. In the last congress, we passed a number of jobs bills with support from the majority and minority. We will begin work on this Common Ground, developing north american energy. Helping Small Businesses hire m
Negotiations, the law of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also the codirector of the hls brookings project on law and security and a member of the program on negotiations executive board. Benjamin wittes is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute and the editorinchief of law fair. And joining our that ares we have the jack n. And lillian r. Berkman professor of entrepreneurial legal studies and director of the Berkman Center for internet and society, and also professor jook Goldsmith Jack goldsmith, professor of law. I will hand it over to benjamin. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me, and thank you all for turning out. This is quite overwhelming. I want to gabby and i started out thinking we were writing a book about the governance of catastrophic risk, and rather to my surprise anyway though im not certain to gabbys we ended up writing a book that was as much a book of political theory as anything else which is odd for me because i actually had neve
The more we worked with this, the more we ended up with a puzzle, that i have to say having cowritten this book, im so not remotely sure i know the answer to, which is you know how do you govern the world in which so many of our working assumptions about why we have governance, how it works and what the role of the state in it is . Another going to sit here and say these arent true anymore. I think a lot of people have spent a lot of time saying the state is over. Theyve all been wrong. A lot of people spent a lot of time questioning whether the world is going to end and im not going to do that. I am going to see a lot of our assumptions about the way we govern our a little bit less true than they used to be. And the question of how what you replace them with becomes a real head scratcher. Song going to talk about one of those things and then turn it over to gabby who does the deep thinking relationship to talk about some of the others. The one i want to talk about is the relationship