A back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the votes follow the u. S. Elections on a. C. I. I. Also known as is one of brazils most popular politicians he was sworn in as president in 2003 and remain in office for 8 years. The former Labor Union Leader is known to have lifted millions of people out of poverty a champion of the poor in one of the most unequal countries in the world. Was imprisoned in 2018 accused of corruption and Money Laundering in the carwash investigation that saw dozens of politicians and businessmen imprisoned he was released after serving 590. 00 days on the grounds that he had been denied a due process. Hes come back in has not been overturned and faces aid of a case says the 74 year old former president talked. About president. The state of democracy in brazil and how hes planning to fight back the accusations against him. Thank you so much for joining us in brazil is now the epicenter of c
Plus is affected by these changes in our world. Theres no part of the covid crisis that hits close to home for a lot of people. Thank all of you who are following online. We would love for you to tweak along at hashed out axios events, and you can follow us on twitter at axios events. I would like to thank my events Team Colleagues who pulled this off, and Caitlin Owens who writes the daily axios vitals newsletter will be joining our conversation shortly. You can sign up for her newsletter. Thanks again to aarp. Lets plunge into earlier today i got to catch up with snort bill casey. Heres our conversation. Would like to thank arb for making this conversation possible. Our next guest is senator bob casey of pennsylvania coming to us one of the countrys most fascinating places, scranton. Senator casey a lawyer is on the finance committee and on my favorite named senate committee, help, Health Education live and pensions. Senator casey, thank you for joining this axios virtual event. Mike
Fantastic group of panelists beginning with Mike Petrilli and chester finn. How to educate an american was brainchild of mike and chester and today they will share with us their original inspiration behind the book and why it seems the more important now to revitalize k12 Civic Education. Joining us today is david bobb come present of the bill of Rights Institute. David has worked for 20 years to build strong Civic Education programs that engage the hearts and minds of young people. Previously david worked at Hillsdale College and is the author of a book on the vital role of humility in politics. Welcome, david. Also joining us is jonah goldberg, the chair and applied liberty of the American Enterprise institute and the editorinchief of dispatch, unlike me he has authored the chapter in how to educate an american. Finally Sarah Morgan Smith director faculty at the sender which seeks to restore and strengthen the capacity of the American People for constitutional selfgovernment. Thank y
A being blamed mass arrests have taken place as summer says it wont tolerate attempts to d. Stabilise the territory from within our forces reports from gaza. At a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policemen killed in tuesday nights attacks abroad for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says garza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction probably around the corner luck we heard who made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the Security Status is good daily life is berta the horrible. Garzas interior Ministry Says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. By day police were back. On duty with their colleagues who died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city a
The u. S. Military have to be focused on dealing with those as well as other unknown emerging threats in the future. Among the stories still ahead what facebook is doing to prevent meddling in next years u. S. President ial election. And we meet refugees and migrants forced to go home because a plan for help in mexico isnt working. Hello theyre mostly characterise much of the middle east however the house means an cloud showing up in a few hours into more southern sections of pakistan is this monsoon rains we could see some a shot thunderstorms as we go through thursday it could of course leave some localized flooding elsewhere its fairly dry still very hot in baghdad again for the next couple of days and by friday we could also see some showers working their way across areas of georgia armenia and eventually pushing on into azerbaijan but fairly pretty nice back here with a high of 24 degrees celsius further to the south the temperatures are high but also weve got a fairly high level