Various various people you have members of the opposition members of a former members of the present. Government you have religious leaders you have street unionists are trying to get them all on the same table and 2 to a talking point is the main challenge for this delegation in other news afghanistans ministry of defense has confirmed it carried out an ass strike that killed at least 45. 00 people they say they were targeting members of the taliban in the Western Province of have rot and that civilians werent in the area but a district governor says at least they civilians are among the dead victoria funtown is a professor of peace studies at the American University of afghanistan she says the attack will impact future peace talks. The trust that has been built of between the different parties to the conflict broke and there has been no we ducked in violence in the past few weeks quite the contrary and so after a strike which was supposedly talk of taliban prisoners who had been rele
Following the situation from virginia she says the consulate closure will only worsen relations. The decision to close this consulate which happens to be the 1st consulate that the Chinese Government opened in the u. S. After it removed diplomatic ties with the United States back in 1979 the u. S. Has also been imposing sanctions on Chinese Government officials on students on businesspeople its trying to bring to the United States for trial the number 2 of way she is fighting extradition from canada to the United States as we speak the Chinese Government in turn has kicked out reporters has strongly surveilled people who have been working inside that country has closed off parts of the country westerners and to in particular to americans so you can only expect that this back and forth over tit for tat is going to continue and you can expect barbara to see the relationship between the 2 countries simply grow worse the British Government says it will open a special pass way to citizenshi
U. S. And china are escalating china is demanding the u. S. Close its consulate in the city of chengdu while the chinese consulate in houston ended its operation on friday just moments after the deadline to close a group of men thought to be federal agents entered the building they were seen prying open several doors but did not respond when challenged the u. S. Government accuses staff at the chinese consulate of espionage and darter theft allegations beijing says malicious slander china has retaliated by ordering the u. S. To close its consulates in the southwestern city of Chengdu Police blocked off the area as workers remove signs unclear when staff will have to vacate but a state run newspaper says the u. S. Was notified they have until monday as you cue the staff at the u. S. Consulate of meddling with its internal affairs trying to you has the latest from chengdu. China hasnt given any very very detailed response but it has said that beijing says that there are some people worki
This was a very difficult position for the president to make it was interesting that he talked about keeping Americans Health and safety is a top priority given that hes only recently started wearing a mask himself and his whole held rallies over the past few months but its a reflection i think of just how bad the situation is here in florida for him to actually cancel such a massive event and one that will be so personally important to the president i mean its pretty dire a very dark day for this state with a Record Number of deaths and for the past 2 weeks weve had at least 10000 new cases every single day that peaked around july the 12th with 15000 cases around 300000 tests have been carried out but the rest huge problems with the testing here in the Sunshine State people waiting for a 5 hours lining up to get those services and then waiting 10 days to 2 weeks to get the results the c. D. C. The centers for Disease Control recommends a 2 day turnaround that is not happening in this
School here in the audience. I hope you enjoy that and continue to participate in the event. We have an exciting panel today. Lets get started with some questions. Many of the questions were prepared in advance. Lets start with questions about news in the current year. Its only been a year since the president ial election. It is hard to remember when fake facebook wasnt part of fake news. no matter how bad it was for their candidate or how bad it was it allowed them to assume it was coming from a biased point of view and therefore they ignored it it has not been typical of american campaigns have a slightly different view. We focus on the elections and it figures a letter that moore versus the cost and my background in psychology in a lot of the research that incentives of how people believe what they want to believe and really smart people have access to all the news they should know Better Believe what they want to believe. People will believe what they want to believe. Certainly soc