The epicenter of the global outbreak but its now cautiously reopening with a virus seemingly under control restaurants bars and has sounds of welcome back their 1st customers since mid march. The World Health Organization says there have been worrying increases it of the virus across latin america including a spike in cases in brazil over the past 24 hours the country passed a milestone of 50000. 00 deaths on sunday but actually obrien has more. Brazils deep divisions playing out on the streets of its major cities with some marching in support of president. And opponents determined he should step down but. We are here in defense of democracy and asking for an aura to leave this president who asserts the peoples power and is committing atrocities does not deserve to govern our country. Protesters are angry at bolton hours response to the pandemic hes openly disagreed with advice from his own Health Ministry calling covered ellis who flew saying measures such as social distancing accosti
Why. This is bikini the room of an agent underwater volcano in the Marshall Islands with its necklace of 23 islands bikini is a place of beauty and silence and menace or. Look closely where the emerald. Suddenly folds into a vase black hole this is the crater of one of the greatest manmade explosions the Hydrogen Bomb they call profit. If a prize an entire island and poisoned almost everything and everyone. Has a plane flew low we seem to touch its deathly void. The Marshall Islands lie in the vast Pacific Ocean between the United States and asia captured from the japanese and while war 2 they have long been americas strategic secret its stepping stone to asia and china. 7 hips take position 3 miles off to stop are the shattering impact of the tomic. Warships was assembled in bikini. In order to blow them to bits. The decks of the 73 test ships anchored in Bikini Lagoon are steamed up the bridge activity at hand this product bamidele Program Designed to furnish data blast the banks of
News is that china itself is under threat. These american bases form a joint news been circling china with mrs obamas warships all the way from a straight through the pacific to asia and beyond. I mean if you were in beijing looking out stood on the tallest building in beijing and looked out at the Pacific Ocean youd see American Warships youd see guam is about to sink because theres so many missiles pointed at china you look up the korean see american armaments pointing at china youd see japan which is basically. Japans a glove over the american fist i think if i was chinese id have a little to worry about about american aggressiveness and we have china surrounded and were doing more all the time to try and keep it surrounded and deepen that containment of china. But china presents a fascinating case of a country that is independent doesnt have foreign bases on its territory. Growing very rapidly not as rapidly now as it did for 30 years but still the 2nd ranking economy in the world
Boundaries, that become beyond the nation and become cosmopolitan and an example was Nuclear Power play plant explosions. I was writing on cosmopolitanism and at this time the Fukushima Nuclear disaster happened. And that altered how i was going to talk about cosmopolitanism in my research and i did work on publications feeling with fukushima and helping with the 35th anniversary conference here with three mile island and it was just an uncanny coincidence that i find myself working at a campus location close to three mile island having studied fukushima so thank you everyone for being here. And i want to at this point introduce our keynote speaker, Arnie Gundersen. So Arnie Gundersen is the chief engineer and a member of the board of directors for the nonprofit fair winds energy education, founded by his wife, maggie. An Energy Advisory with more than 47 years of Nuclear Engineering experience, mr. Gundersen earned his bachelor of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from polytech in
Detention camps a plan has been drawn up at a joint African Union summit in ivory coast its not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back mainly to their home countries as reports from abidjan. Fred armisen of african and European Union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traffickers and urgently repatch rate anyone whos trapped there the fund it is on fire. There are women and children living in inhuman conditions we have agreed along with the e. U. And the un to set up a task force for repatriating at least three thousand eight hundred people the. Leaders say there are more than forty refugee camps in libya where people are bought and sold by those with little respect for human life. Well the leaders here have committed to helping refugees in libya there were very few do tells us exactly how and when they will repair create them and they were also very very bad the new tas