Education and the un has a step less than International Day to protect education from attack but how close make a difference on the ground what does it take to secure education in times of conflict this is in science too. Low welcome to the program. From afghanistan to me and and syria to nations in Africa School buildings are being bombed or used by groups in conflict zones students are missing out on schooling and teaches a threatened situation now worsened by the pandemic the u. N. Is particularly concerned about more than 75000000 young People Living in 35 crisis affected countries it says theyre in urgent need of educational support the world body recently adopted a resolution establishing september and 9 as the International Day to protect education from attack it aims to ensure schools remain safe and says governments should protect and increase funding for educational institutions and humanitarian emergencies that resolution was presented by qatar and cosponsored by 62 countrie
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The economy as early as next month. Almost 2 Million People have died worldwide. The imf and world bank prepare to meet amid the most down the worst downturn since the 1930s. The new reality of collapsed trade and mounting unemployment. Oily we are seeing reversing gains as much as a percent at one point in london. 25 , sames now down for wti. We had the reduction coming from opec and its allies are that would have been the sickest single largest in history. Goldman sachs but says it is insufficient. U. S. Futures gained at the open, reversing earlier prices. The nikkei futures also down 1 . We have markets closed on holidays including australia and new zealand. Global cases also affecting sentiment in the markets. Those cases rising towards 2 million with the United States the epicenter of you break after fatalities in the country surpassed italy. There are signs of optimism in the hotspots like new york. Lets bring in Sophie Kamaruddin with the latest. We have seen President Trump. A
Good evening, everyone and thank you all for joining us tonight. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore, i am delighted to welcome you all to tonights events, if we could take a moment before we began to silence our phones, i would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by cassie chambers whose honored her child hood in appalachia and the strong women who raised her preacher went on to earn a degree from harvard law and has worked extensively with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives with her husband. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to cassie. [applause] thank you all, first off i want to thank everyone for being here and coming out in the rain on a cold night, mean so much to have everyone from all the different stages in my life, it is wonderful to see you all here. I wanted to carmichaels for hosting this event, please, carmichael so, so much for this community, please purchase books if you want to have independent bookstores and use our dollars to do that. Please
Women who raised her and later went on to earn a degree from harvardd law and working extensively with Domestic Violence survivors here in kentuckye now lives in louisville with her husband. [applause] first off thank you for being here from all the different stages and phases of my life also thank you to carmichaels for hosting this event it does so much for our community please purchaseca books and have events like this and support them. So please at the end of tonight i will be signing them at the signing table. So what i want to do tonight is talk about why i wrote this book and what inspired me to write it and a little bit of an overview of how the book came to be and into the world. So anything thats on your mind this is a discussion and a dialogue i look forward so the first part of want to read so in kentucky that is one of the poorest counties in all of america the appellation a small county one of the highest poverty rates in america. Its hard for me to know which part of the