Through climate performance by 2050. A storm makes landfall packing winds of 75 kilometeters per hours. S. And china moves to track cell phone users triggering new privacy fears. A new law requires everyone registering new sim cars 24 tim cards to first submit to a facial scan. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers, welcome. Two weeks to save the future. That is how many are describing the u. N. Climate change Conference Starting today in madrid. Delegates from 200 countries have begun to weeks of meetings amid a growing sense of crisis. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres is calling for bold action, warning the world risks passing the point of no return. Negotiators have been tasked with ironing out the rules for implanting that historic 2015 paris climate agreement implanting implementing, and which countries agreed to limit Global Warming to under two degrees celsius from the average of preindustrial times. The United States is also represented. President donald trump has pulled
During a speech at the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. After he spoke, china policy experts talked about chinas Regional Power. And president xi jing pings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookings. It is my pleasure to welcome you here. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones. Its a pleasure to invite you to our event. Im delighted to welcome randy back to brookings. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research. And while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randal schreiber was appointed on jan 8th, 2018, prove lees having served for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china, taiwan, hong kong and aus tailia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of also served as an active duty Nav
Its been around for a long time and computers didnt cause it. But when people die because of a tweet, there has to be a tech solution. Expanding the marketplace of ideas is all well and good to welcome you to brookings this morning. I see lots of old friends in the audience and its a pleasure to invite you to the event with randall schriver. Weve been fortunate to engage him over the past decade. While hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and, randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randall schriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense on january 8, 2018. Previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered, china, taiwan, hong kong, and australia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state and also served as an active duty Naval Intelligence officer. Beyond his government car
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. There is quite a lot of going on in the markets. It is what is happening with crude oil, 59. 21. That is nymex. Brent is much higher. We have to look at some of the prices at nymex. It is having a huge impact across the board. We are seeing stocks relate to oil price as well. If we have a look at the airlines that have been impacted. Lets get that board up, ryanair down 2. 7 . Bp worried about possible shortages. We will have a lot more on the story. A lot more on the barranco attack. Get to thets bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana would begin with Boris Johnson. A law would stop him from forcing through a no deal brexit. We have been told he will reject any deadline extension. Ahead of the Prime Ministers first negotiations today with European Commission president. Over to hong kong, this we can protesters set fire to a subway station. Police hit back with tear grass and Water Cannons. It is now into its four
I am jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i am delighted to be here. It is august, which means that congress and the president are on vacation. But todays topic is not on vacation and will not be, at least through the 2020 election. So the Wilson Center is not putting off of the conversation. That being said, disinformation is hardly any problem. A new problem. In the midst of the cold war, the u. S. And the soviet union both tried to influence narratives on other parts of the globe. For example, a new article published by the Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program look at translated russian documents related to operation denver. A campaign in the 1980s not to spread the lie that h. I. V. Was created as a result of the pentagons biological weapons research. So, disinformation was not invented in 2016 and is sadly unlikely to be buried in 2020, but today, we delve into the context. And we have the right moderator and speakers to do that. Our first panel, whi