Get my steps in. Thank you guys also much for coming. Thank you for coming to wasnt center through the snow, sleet, whenever it is doing and on star wars day. Really appreciate it. I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming you to the Woodrow Wilson center and a lunch of the book designing reality. Launch. My name is Elizabeth Newbury and of the director for the Gains Initiative here at the Wilson Center in the science and Technology Innovation program. This means when im not introducing world famous authors i Transit Research ideas into one most dynamic mediums we have public engagement, gains. As alan might agree, games are one of the best tools we have for translating complexity into an accessible, and there i say fun, format. Translating complexity something we specialize in here for the science and Technology Innovation program from diy bio labs and makers basis for help innovation to science fighting zika to cybersecurity laws for congressional staff. We specialize in being the bri
Chamber protesting against the speech. And turkey pounds killer dish militia positions in Northern Syria as Ground Troops are doing across the border. The pitch backed with it all rocket fire. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes the latest from the bundesliga run away leaders by munich didnt have everything that against bad agreement but its not for nothing the reigning champions highlights from that match and little. Hope of a ball welcome to you im under. Germanys social democrats say they want to read that go sit all key issues with unlove methods conservatives in forming a new government the left of center party already demanding concessions after voting to pursue formal Coalition Talks fifty six percent of delegates pushed through a yes vote at a Party Conference on sunday just a slim majority but its still a breakthrough as jim these two biggest Political Parties embrace the idea of another grand coalition. Was a tense moment for german politics yesterday with a narrow major
Between canada and the European Union which gives corporations from the other countries the right to sue your government if they dont like what youre doing. And so these companies if ttip is signed between europe and the United States, any municipality in the United States that privatizes their water, well, they have a very hard time changing their minds because these companies can sue for compensation. Its called investor state. So anyone who wants to learn more about that, please, please go to Public Citizen trade campaign. And i have a whole bunch of stuff in my book on the implications of these trade agreements on the right to go back to a public system once its been privatized. So its another ongoing struggle. And i dont have a crystal ball to see where it will come out, but common sense tells people its better to keep democratic control. Water is needed for life, we better keep democratic control of it at all times. And well make this the last question. Good evening. Im wondering
Other. It is a wonderful day. The past previous years it has been a bit damp and drizzly but today is a gorgeous day. And obviously i am taking part, wearing green. Even down to my shorts they are green, as well. Enjoy the rest of today. Thank you so much. There you go. People are here to have a good time. As you can see, the procession is well under way. We will have more later on. Lovely, see you later. Now the weather with simon. The weather i guess is helping things at the notting hill carnival. Temperatures across the south east potentially up to 29 celsius. It could be the hottest Late August Bank Holiday on record. You can hottest Late August Bank Holiday on record. You can see hottest Late August Bank Holiday on record. You can see the extent of the sunshine from south to east. Further north and west more clout and with that, outbreaks of rain across scotland and into Northern Ireland. It is moving further south. Getting brighter in the far north east. Hazy sunshine in wales an
Ladies anladies and gentlemen mikes what pimco ceo the Potomac Institute for policy studies, and is my privilege to welcome you all here today to a seminar on combating biological terrorism. Im proud to report that for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue. Unfortunately, the issue of bioterrorism has only grown worse over time. Its more threatening. It is probably more eminent, and certainly the tools we have for dealing with it are, as inadequate today as they were 20 years ago. Almost, also like 20 years ago, more and more the political people in the world are distracted by so many other threats from nuclear north korea, tehran, the ships run into each other in the pacific to Political Division in this country another, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by tear are seen more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forg