Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our 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 i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Death by police last week. I live by the model. Numbers dont lie and in, the u. S. Georgias republican secretary of state officially certifies joe biden as the winner there. But Donald Trumps lawyers continue contesting results elsewhere and on paestum with all your support, barcelonas coach little cream and sympathizes with little missy of the argentine says hes angry at being the focus of negative attention at the club. Thank you for joining as the United Nations has called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government launched an offensive 2 weeks ago targeting the grace People Liberation front which governs a t. Grey region in the north. In the past hour ethiopian troops say they have taken the towns of about 100 kilometers away from the regional capital micheli, both sides of accuse each other of killing civilians in as strikes and indiscriminate attacks. The uns Refugee Agency says its her pairing
Russian evolutionary biologist claims that the pandemic currently paralyzing the globe can mutate into around 20000. 00 variants. I think its a blessing the corona virus is involved more slowly than all of them are a new virus and its still its a very quick process. Live from russias capital city around the clock welcome to our to international donald quarter with you this news hour turkeys president has once again lashed out at this french counterpart supposed anti islam stance stating emanuel macro needs a quote mental check or to ones words come as anger continues to build in the muslim world following a crackdown on suspected islamicists in france in response to the recent beheading of a teacher near paris. President macron has said he wont to announce the publication of those cartoons and that has spiked furious reaction from many muslim majority countries including from the president of turkey president who said twice over the weekend that he thought much kuan needed his Mental H
Affected areas. This is not a decision that has been taking lightly but it is and this is very precaution whats worrying scientists is that the new strain showing decreased sensitivity against antibodies meaning vaccines currently under development to treat covert 19 might not be able to stop it the World Health Organizations praised the decision saying denmark showed determination and courage despite the huge Economic Impact on mink farmers the move is likely to devastate the countrys pelt industry the w. H. O. Urged other countries to be vigilant especially where large numbers of animals are packed together but stress that coronavirus mutations occur often and dont always pose an increased risk to humans mutations are normal these types of changes in the virus are something that we have been tracking since the beginning and youve heard me say many times that w. H. O. Has a Global Laboratory network and we have a specific working group that is looking at the virus evolution and lookin
Class fears of a humanitarian disaster after a powerful Tropical Storm smashes into Central America. Well an undecided selection nation still on edge democratic challenger joe biden though is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in the battleground States Joe Biden has spoken in an address to the nation saying that he is convinced he will win the race now hes ahead in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far by then is projected to have one around 264 Electoral College votes trump meanwhile has 214 magic number of course is 207 sable biden needs to win in only one of those yellow undecided states to get over the line and become president of the United States has this report now from los angeles. Joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we dont have a final declaration. Of victory yet but the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race. By now leads donald trump in pennsylvania by a significant margin and a nar