About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading or refugees who are being moved to an island that aids groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army denies. Peter stammered with the sport says the Asian Champions League teams begin reaching the last 16 its childs play for so ill have all the details in the next hour. Where we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve facts scenes but in some parts of the worlds the picture is getting worse with case numbers on the rise so as winter approaches no since the start of the pandemic there have been more than 64. 00 a 1000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000. 00 deaths well the u. N. General assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic here in his Opening Statements secretarygeneral antonio good terrorists emphasize that governments must be united in their response. For the 1st time since 145 and world is confr
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
No evidence of fraud has emerged and anger and clashes on the streets of perus capital leave. Orders of the abruptly ousted former president protest against the interim government. 2 people died and dozens have been injured. Welcome to the program 15 countries in the Asia Pacific Region have signed the Worlds Largest trade deal in terms of g. D. P. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership includes 10 Southeast Asian nations, along with china, japan, south korea, new zealand and australia, and many in asia are now hoping the deal will help the pandemic head economies get back on track. Putting the ink on the Worlds Largest Free Trade Agreement in a virtual signing ceremony. Money. The deal was sealed on the sidelines of the summit, hosted by vietnam. The agreement brings together 15 asia pacific countries with a population of more than 2000000000. People accounting for some 30 percent of the global economy. And the partnership was nearly a decade in the making. It includes china,
To the situation could be spiraling out of control, is a growing conflict of a date is a coup, not a coup. The people continue to protest after congress summarily the corruption busting president who is not affiliated to any of the parties, calling it an athame held welcome us President Donald Trump has made his 1st statement in public since last weeks president ial election. He did not concede to joe biden on, becoming u. S. President elect. Instead, he gave an update on u. S. Efforts to develop a vaccine against 19. The closest to admitting defeat in the election was when he said time will till which administration will be in the white house in january, thanks also to the us t. V. Networks. Projected biden had won the state of georgia and North Carolina has gone to trump. That would give bob 360 votes in the Electoral College and trump 200 and theres you to washington correspondent out of the cell. It was following trumps press conference. We asked him what we should make of trumps 1
With ilwad elman from somalia, a peace activist whos dedicated to improving the lives of millions of imperishable country in 1991, the civil war broke out in somalia and its estimated that half a 1000000 people have been killed since then. A large part of the somali population has been living in poverty and fear for decades. Militants have taken control of several areas, especially in southern somalia, killing and extorting money from the rural population. Ilwad elman has made it her mission to help victims of the war in her home country. And she is using the power of nature and sports to bring much needed healing. Using the ocean to heal from trauma is new to many in somalia. But its just one way ilwad elman helps, former child soldiers and rape survivors overcome their trauma. She calls it a combination of yoga and mogadishu. The therapy aims to break down walls of silence and heal sweating it out in yoga mat and then asking people to draw comparisons between challenging, challenging