Slum life in mexico city may look humble but some are building their dreams. French president is calling for United International action to combat the group that calls itself the Islamic State or isil and they are hosting a conference in paris from representatives from 30 coun countries and has urgency for International Military assistance and isil fighters made significant gains in iraq and are a regional and even a global threat. Translator the struggle of the iraqi people against terrorists is our struggle as well and we have to act together and this is the purpose of the conference, we have to stand by iraqi authorities and there is not a moment to be lost. Translator we have to do everything to prevent the youth from being enrolled and break up recruitment channels and deprive isil of resources and punish all those linked to it. Translator we continue to ask for Airborne Operations to be carried out regularly against terrorist sites. We must not allow il to have sanctuarys and sei
Afghanistan. One doesnt listen to the other. No one has ever been able to tame afghanistan. Why do we think we can tame it . There are things we can do there with covert actions, drones, pet. I have no problem with that. To send our troops over there to get killed and not change anything, not so great. Host dr. Ben carsons book came out in 1990 followed by think big came out in 2000. Take the risk 2008, american the beautiful 2011. And theres a new book on the way. For the last three hours we have been talking with dr. Ben weve got more coverage of nonfiction books and the book industry every weekend on booktv, including in depth, live every month. A threehour look at one authors body of work with your question. Over the next few months, ben shapiro. October 6th, civil rights leader and democratic congressman from georgia, john lewis. And november 3rd, biographer kitty kelley. Along with our schedule, you can also see our programs anytime at booktv. Org and get the latest updates throu
Thank you to the forum for hosting us and all you for coming in all. I am the editor and we are the prod publishers of vijay new book the poorer nations i will briefly introduce him he will talk about his book for a bit. Then we have q a i will kick off with a few questions and we will turn over to you. Were hoping to wait for the microphone to get you since it will play on booktv on the cspan in the future. I get the feeling that a lot of people here know vijay but for those who dont just tell little bio of 39. He is a chair at the American University of beirut and formally for a long time that george did martha tear of south Asian Studies and the director of International Studies at the Kennedy College in connecticut. Are you going back to trinity . The author of more than one dozen but long dash books if you count those the only available in india. This year he published two books one we will not talk about but it is worth checking out called uncle swami called. It is about of south
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New alarm today. After a second patient has been positive in texas. The new patient is a Health Care Worker who helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the ebola patient who died last week. Procedures werent followed. Clearly, there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of ebola by carrying safety for patients. In dallas, texas, of course, with more on this breaking story. Tell us exactly what we know about this Health Care Worker who got infected, and who is it . Reporter well, alex, weve learned this Health Care Worker is a woman who in treating duncan had repeated close contact with him. Now, so far, shes not been able to identify specifically when this breach in protocol occur d occurred. She was 1 of 19 Health Care Workers being asked to selfmonitor signs or symptoms of possible exposure. She reported a fever on friday. Within 90 minutes, she was inside the hospital, in isolation and being tested. Those test results came b
The trust and a strengthening of the accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, thats a problem. And its my job as president to help solve it. Welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. That was president obama promising changes to policing in america. After the decision to not indict a Police Officer in the july death and after the unrest in ferguson missouri, after a grand jury there declined to charge Darren Wilson in the shooting of another black suspect, Michael Brown. The president announced monday the creation of a task force to come up with steps for quote, Building Public trust in Police Forces nationwide. It called on congress to fund 263 Million Community policing initiative including 75 million to equip Police Officers with body cameras. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist Dan Henninger, jason and columnist brett steve nz. Jason, lets