Central africa is not just a region of military interest. Its also rich in gold and diamond reserves along with businessmen ready to exploit them. This man for example on the left. He appears in footage shot in 2014 at a security meeting in the oval. That day he was handed what was clearly a confidential map. He refused our requests to film it and with good reason. I dont really have a clue if it was the map was addressed to the colonel of the American Armed forces. Im not saying mark feels some this is mark pearson. Apparently hes a cultural advisor. But what would a cultural advisor be doing and. That goes and why entrust a cultural advisor with an American Military map. 4 years later i looked into who mark pearson really was. Before following the American Military into the area he was employed by jim diamonds a multinational diamond operation. It boasts turnover of some 300000000 euros with mines and prospecting projects all over africa including one in the Central African republic.
Their platforms to help fight for social and racial equality. Well catch up with members of the Players Coalition who have spent years successfully lobbying lawmakers to enact reforms, ranging from voting rihts to juvenile detention. And inside jobs. On this unofficial last weekend of summer, well explore how many are falling back into a bit of normalcy. From states opening Indoor Dining to schools overseas and the workplace of the future. See how designers and scientists are helping figure out our return to work. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Lets just try and get through this one weekend and social distance, wash your hands, and were rounding the turn. Reporter a key model is forecasting there will be 410,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By january. I keep saying over and over again weve got to be very careful, particularly as we enter this Holiday Weekend. Reporter the president is suggesting that former chief of staff jo
Good evening and welcome, both newcomers and repeat offenders, if you look around here, you notice the great many ponderous and intangible books out there in the world. That being the case, its always refreshing to find whose impact in the portion to the Tipping Point is one of those books, from time to time, usually its quite unexpected, work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain, one strong spray with a passages to clean up, suddenly we can finally grasp things around us that weve always been looking at, we drop the enter gp and more sharply, it can be rather intoxicating, once again this is that kind of book. One of the delights i find of the Tipping Point is that malcolm asked the kind of question that a child might ask, the kind of question that is on the tip of her brain like the name on the tip of the tongue. Often we find it hard to focus on, not despite a bit but because of it. In the question he asks to hear is that one once weve heard asked, why didnt anybody thi
Over a lockdown measures. Good afternoon and welcome to the program this is our team for National Coming to live from the russian capital new york local news update. Beller us has entered a 10th day of protests against its president whos accused of rigging the recent election although demonstrations were initially mourned by a heavy handed Police Response they are now largely peaceful factories across the country are striking in support of the opposition many of vowed to stay off the shop floor until its demands are met heres what mondays protest in minsk looked like. Oh. Ok ok. On monday night thousands gathered outside a detention facility in the center of miss demanding the release of Political Prisoners among them barred president ial candidate viktor barber you cover and the husband of the opposition leaders. People also gathered at another jail were many who were arrested during the 1st night of unrest are still being held. Much of the public anger in belarus is directed against
He really knows biography. So when i heard that shelby was establishing a biography center in leons honor i thought perfect. So its a great thought pleasure to be here giving a lecture on him this evening. I have to share this pleasure with a team of researchers who have helpedme on all my books. Thereare rather small team actually. In fact, it consists of only one person. She writes her own books of course but she always finds time to help me with mine. Id like to say thank you to the only person ive everbeen able to trust with my research , the whole team, my wife. [applause] the aspect of biography i want to talk about this evening is something that in my opinion is seldom talked about when we talk about biography. Giving the reader a sense of place. By a sense of place i mean letting the reader see in his minds eye the physical setting in which a books action is occurring. Letting the reader see clearly enough so he feels as if he was there in that place while the action is occurri