Thank you good afternoon everyone for joining us for this book talk brick by brick building hopes and opportunity what a powerful title. Each word of the title has power within its own self and you will see that illuminated during the conversation today that karen will have with barbara. I am the managing director at the Aspen Institute its my pleasure to step in for my boss for the executive director and also Vice President at the Aspen Institute. And fortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to make it. But she was heavily involved in the planning of which we are honored to host this book talk because she knows karen has a very close friend for many many years. And if you know and you know their commitments are important to her. Only an emergency would have kept her from this. So thank you for being here i will not spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bio in front of you its important to get you into the conversation but i am honored to introdu
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Big one today. Manchester city 11 points of the top, and Manchester United behind city. Confidence is a strange thing in football sometimes. You can get performances and results likely had on wednesday night, and i know our boys will be up for it. 5. 30pm is the start of the game and the players decide who is going to win. The rest, of course, history is huge and the team, the quality of the players they have is always there, always has been there, and you have to try to beat them and we try today to speak a little bit with the players about what they are as a team and what they should do to win. Its semi finals day at he uk snooker championship in york, nigel bond had been rolling back the years this week, the 54 year old knocked out the World Champion judd trump, but his quarterfinal against last years runner up, mark allen, was a match too far. It went to a deciding frame. Allen will play stephen maguire. The three time winner john higgins, beaten 6 3 by the chinese teenager yan bin
Homeless problem, theyre losing Business People arent willing to dodge the garbage. Every single day people walk into my bar and had something that happened to them that made them feel unsafe or unclean on the streets. Every single day. And just a week ago, oracle announced its taking 60 million in business out of the city, moving its open World Convention to las vegas. Its a call to action. To mention oracle leaving San Francisco is a if we dont do something, were going to lose potentially more. We want to get in front of that. London breed has a new plan announcing street care sf. A plan full of new safety features, bathrooms and trash cans and more aimed to make shopping safer an cheener and more welcoming for businesses too. We have maybe lost one large convention, but that doesnt mean that there isnt someone ready to take their place. Reporter mayor breed did not get specific as to just what company will take the place of oracle open world. But she did say the plan is to immediate
Its time for click. Welcome to bbc news. Im maryam moshiri. This week, the programmers our top stories of the future. I felt like steve jobs. The us and iran carry out a prisoner swap in a rare sign the cities of the future. And the ugly politics of today. Of co operation between the two countries. The secret british documents leaked online but was russia trying to intefere in next weeks election . Anthonyjoshua regains his world heavyweight titles, beating andy ruiz the man who took them from him six months ago. Tonight was just about winning, and trusting my process. I know maybe i could have done more at times, but sometimes simplicity is genius. This thursday, the general election will give more than 45 Million People their chance to decide on the uks future. And tens of thousands of people is it the brexit election . Around the world spend the night is it the nhs election . Is it an election that will show new divisions that no longer lie along party lines. Well soon know. Amidst