And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
Prime minister ill be ahmed appeared on television to condemn the attacks and urged calm. One dont want to sin as in manhattan the people of ethiopia have proved that its possible to remove dictators with a unified and democratic struggles in past years the people of ethiopia have with a unified voice showed that they will not accept governments that have the attitude of dictatorship. He said a high ranking military official general awesome a new sygate was behind the attacks and that he had used what he called mercenaries in my 10 hour day despite. Himself. Because. It so happens that the guy who is accused of looting the cool. He was in prison when he came to power for the school he was he tried at them to the queen. And he was in prison so. Security in the region trust him maybe hes in his loyalty there was an assassination attempt against the Prime Minister himself exactly a year ago 2 months after he came to power a grenade was thrown into a crowd of 10 in a large rally for abbey
A macit and trying to provoke iran for any kind of reaction but im sure the reaction from the iranian side as far as we see will be in the limited. Amount of just defending their territorial integrity rather than escalating or provoking thank you very much for sharing your insight with this say ed alley i love it from Science University and here in london and. Mosel ahead for you on the program why this chechen human rights activist released early from a russian jail one of a returning home to continue his campaign and chinas president departs pyongyang off to being feted by kim jong un joining a lavish 2 day state visit. Hello good to welcome back to International Weather forecasts we are going to be seeing thunderstorms across Central Europe and Eastern Europe as we go through the rest of the weekend the temperatures are fairly high we have plenty of moisture across the region and this is what were looking at particular here across the central area were talking about switzerland aust
A bit of confidence so far as the arena ministration is concerned at least of the civilian administration with iran its always difficult to know whos calling the shots at the moment it seems the civilians on the rouhani probably are in the background its the military guys and the intelligence guys and seem to be in the foreground of the time being in any event the you does have these channels and as i said im pretty sure that they will use them as best they possibly can over the next couple of weeks but i dont think you can say that the e. U. Holds the key it is a key player but it does not hold the key those keys distributed elsewhere and not least at the the white house good to talk to so many thanks indeed james more on that in brussels thank you. The World Food Program has suspended some operations in yemen after failing to Reach Agreement with the rebels on the stripping Food Supplies that decisions are expected to affect around 850000 people in the who think controlled capital sa
Up the block are attempting are attending rather than meeting territorial disputes in the South China Sea crisis and ocean waste are all being discussed. Has more from bank of. A wide range of issues will be discussed in the summit here at bangkok now one thing that is kind of a plank within the r. C. On rules if you will that there is non interference in other words a lot of issues can be discussed but they really wont attack or criticize the other nations leadership now that would be interesting because there are a lot of issues that need to be discussed that are sensitive particular when it comes to the range and myanmars handling of that situation we know that malaysia and indonesia are very pointed in their criticism outside of our sound itll be interesting to see what they say inside of the on so theyll be a summit and then a communique at the end of the day there are other issues like the trade tensions between the United States and china how that is impacting these 10 nations a