An abscessed the pace of the w. H. O. Says theres still time to change the trajectory of the pandemic. I merely said i must and welcome britains Prime Minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight covert 19 for stunts and told the british people the government is shutting nonessential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people thats a lesson that. From this evening i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do to stop the disease spreading between households. That is why people only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes. The basic necessities as infrequently as possible one form of exercise a day for example. With members of your household any medical need to provide care or to help a Vulnerable Person and travelling to and from work but only when this is absolutely necessary and cant be done from home. For more on that lets talk to the w. C. A lot of par
[inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second hearing of the u. S. China economic and security review commissions 2020 annual report cycle and thank you for joining us, especially to our witnesses for the time and effort that they have put in to the testimonies. Youre going to be treated to some really, really good things here today. Wed also like to thank the House Foreign Affairs committee for securing this room for our use today. Todays hearing examines chinas ability to project military power and influence beyond its shores. And the implications of these growing capabilities for u. S. Interests. In january, 2016, after communist Party General secretary and Central Military Commission Chairman xi jinping reorganized the Peoples Liberation army, this commission explored the push toward making the pla a force more capable of conducting Global Operations and i think commissi commissioner was the cochair for that, too. And four years later were exam
Takes years to do it, too. So we try to subsidize good working biographers. I mention this because the deadline for the next years fellowship is coming up january 6, so if any of you are biographers have no of people who would love to do a biography, go on our website. George packer is a staff writer at the atlantic and the author of the unwinding and enter history of new america which is the winner of the 2013 National Book award. His other nonfiction books include the assassin date american iraq a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and blood of the liberals, when of the 2001 robert f. Kennedy book award. Hes also the authohe is also to novels and a play, betrayed and the editor of a two volume edition of the essays of george orwell. Hes really one of the countries best working journalists today. With that introduction, im going to sit down and begin to have a conversation with George Packer and we will talk for about 30 minutes, 20, 25 minutes and then we will have time for questio
Recently shes presented her research at civil war roundtables and historical groups in california and across the nation including the National Museum of civil war medicine. Her first nonfiction history book released in spring 2019 call out the cadets takes a fresh look at the battle of new mark. In previous years shes published three historical Fiction Books in order to make details more accessible to audiences outside the history field, currently working on several Civil War Research projects including the citizens and armies in the virginia Shenandoah Valley. As you heard last night shes a crucial part of our team. She manages our website, she provides a lot of the content, she edits our work, edits some of our box and she has a fulltime job and she lives in california. We are grateful to sarah. [ applause ] good morning. I just want to say thank you to rob and dee an for inviting me to share this presentation. We kind of had a back room discussion about a year ago in how does new ma
Mike, youre looking at the buildup out of oakland. Yes, folks, look at this. Thats a lot more cars than we saw last time we took a look. The bay bridge toll plaza is just fine. We expect a light commute so do our partners at waze predicting smooth speeds at the limit for much of the morning. Its eastbound 80 at highway 4 an earlier crash reports of a car that hit the center divide, spun out and someone got out of the car and walked away so were worried about someone on the center divide, in the center divide. Ill track that, again up toward the carquinez bridge, your commute direction just fine you saw how light it was out of oakland and around the rest of the bay. Well talk about the crash. Ill let you know about any updates of skyline. Back to you. Live to capitol hill where lawmakers are on holiday break this Christmas Eve but not taking any breaks from the impending impeachment trial. Democrats are demanding documents from the white house and for witnesses to testify. Republicans a