Right in. And we leave the program with the International Monetary funds announcement that the Global Economic downturn due to the corona virus pandemic will be worse than initial estimates. So compared to the april and Economic Outlook we are projecting a depot downtown in 2020 and a snow to company in 2021 to growth to 2020 is projected at minus 4 point one percent which is 1 point one percent is points below our april focused now this reflects the fact that in the 1st tough economic outcomes came in somewhat worse than we had anticipated and because there is no medical see you should we are expecting social distancing to persist for more for a long time into the 2nd half. And downgrading the growth forecasts for 2021 the i. M. F. Expects a growth rate of 5. 4 percent instead of earlier estimates of 5. 8 percent the fund is predicting an 8 percent contraction in the United States. Gates in 2020 while the eurozone economy will decline by 10. 2 percent brazil will take a 9 point one pe
Years the words the expression assad must go has been the us mantra our official policy has been to push for regime change as well as the removal of president Bashar Al Assad why well because hes been accused of using chemical weapons by the only independent arbiters in the syrian war a group thats called the White Helmets. But heres the problem with that bit closer look as revealed that the White Helmets are really not so independent they may be arbiters but theyre not independent and to the accusations of chemical weapons usage. That too did not really hold up to scrutiny in fact look at that video right there you see that it said to purport victims being treated from a chemical attack guess what a b. B. C. Producer on the scene later came forward after the 28 team video was shot to reveal that this is fake that scene is staged to make it look like a hospital scene after a chemical attack that apparently never really happened. See the problem all along for the United States is credib
World im watching the i robot. Boy a Mission Member of the political wiles wrote fire this week in this kind of like weird footnote to everything going over like you know google ads and conservatives being censored on major on google and all these social media platforms its fascinating to see all this plays out but really to me its just kind of 2 sides being really loud over a problem that but its not really that much of a problem no i absolutely agree i think that you know an argument of censorship specifically with some of these large tech giant platforms youre seeing members of both sides of the aisle be extremely frustrated in trying to get their message across from what you said earlier theres a little bit of upset around just how much people are able to say in these Comment Sections but we also know that the Comment Section is where stability goes to die the Comment Section of anything so the expectation that youre probably going to see something negative is always pretty high an
Protests. 3 years since the blockade of qatar by its neighbors we look at how the dispute continues online. All creatures great and small we look at the role biodiversity plays on our planet and the unprecedented threat its now facing. Im going to get your skill with the sports including. And so on and i will do better and i will be part of the solution and if our star quarterback drew brees say shes another apology after being criticized by fellow athletes for his comments on u. S. Race protests. Some breaking news out of libya where its Deputy Defense minister says Government Troops have taken control of top thats the last stronghold a wall of. In western libya about 65 kilometers from the capital tripoli on friday the un recognized government announced it had regained full control of tripoli heartens forces still hold a large swathes of territory in the east and the south of the country. Sami harmonies the editor in chief of the online Magazine International interest is joining us n
Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at