Necessities. Welcome to the show. For the 1st time in history more people now live in urban areas than Rural Communities and population growth is expected to take place almost exclusively in the world cities and towns a fast pace of. Leading to a growing number of slums. Conditions and overcrowding make them much more vulnerable to the spread of a disease. Asia is home to the worlds largest. Stand some 2400000 residents have to contend with the scarcity of water and Gang Violence its followed by. East of mexico city and in mumbai. A 1000000 residents. 2 of the 5 largest slums are on the african continent in Nairobi Kenya and cape town south africa. People were expecting the virus would wipe out entire slums but it hasnt happened like that the indian slum of dharavi is being hailed as a model for containing the spread of covert 19 it was widely reported to have flattened the curve despite the lack of physical distancing and Contact Tracing officials admit not all deaths are probably reg
Whether i was on the staff for a candidate. I am really excited to talk about this today. I want to give you a little bit of history. President ial and Vice President ial general election debates have become a highlight of the campaign season. It is something we expect to happen. When was the first debate . Here is a trivia question. Historical trivia. Does anyone know . I will give you a hint. No one recognizes those people . [laughter] this is a false hint. That is lincoln and douglas. Those debates were when they were running for the senate. Bid illinois in 1858 in 1858. Is and in they had numerous debates. Kind of an odd situation. Two years later, they were on a Major Party Ticket against each other. The real first president ial debate was between kennedy and nixon in 1960. Richard nixon had been Vice President for eight years. Much better known than kennedy. Nixon had taken advantage of television. Believe it or not. He was known as a fierce debater. The Television Networks decid
Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin
Eddie was a very nice and very funny guy. He lost a long and difficult battle with cancer. He will be missed by many, and i know we all send our best to his family and friends. What a rotten year this has been. Every day its just another punch in the gut. But this morning our president woke up and tweeted feeling great so thats good news. He is all hopped up on dexamethasone right now. And to prove it he put out another im physically marvelous video today. I just left walter reed medical center, and its really something very special. The doctors, the nurses, the first responders. And i learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing thats for certain, dont let it dominate you. Jimmy right. Just run out there and breathe it all in. Be a man, will you . Typhoid donny made a trumpumphant return to the white house last night with a dramatic balcony scene that only an egomaniac on massive amounts of drugs would ever even think to stage. Which is why people, you know, take great pains to pr
Christiane there were no has tested positive for the coronavirus he has spent the past week with the Portuguese National team he was supposed to play. On wednesday night and drill it now they say. There are several one. Back on the campaign trail boasting bragging about testing negative for code 19 his democratic challenger joe biden is also on the attack with just 3 weeks to go until election day. Its good to have you with us we begin tonight with the pandemic here in Europe European Union countries have agreed to a common strategy. Restricting travel from coronavirus hotspots e. U. Ministers meeting in what some burg want a traffic light system showing regions as green orange or red depending on the number of corona virus cases the ministers have to avoid the kind of confusion that disrupted travel across the e. U. At the height of the initial outbreak earlier this year. Lets take this story now. She joins me from brussels good evening to youve barbara so talk us through these europe