And, nigeria begins rolling back restrictions to get the biggest economy in africa back on track. Health officials warn the timing could not be worse. South koreas baseball fans are looking forward to the league restarting on tuesday even if they are only allowed to watch the games on television. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, ill come. Welcome. The race to develop a vaccine is underway. Today, led by the European Union, countries around the world pledged seven and a half billion euros to fund the fight against the virus. The European Union chief held the event as a victory for global cooperation. Todays fundraiser was just as notable for the noshows as the donations. We have more in this report. Lets start the pledging. The e. U. Kicked off its fundraising drive with one billion euros. Pledges were beamed in from across the globe. The kingdomom of saudi arabia has pledged 500 million. Pop icon madonna has made a lastminutee donati
Former Harvard Law School dean martha minow questions whether forgiveness can strengthen the american Justice System. She is interviewed i george, professor and former federal prosecutors paul butler. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. Ill after words programs are available as podcasts. Host full disclosure you and i go way back. He you were my law professor at harvard and you taught me family law. You were to go on from being a lowly assistant professor to a storied career not culminating but you were the dean of Harvard Law School. When i knew you you are my favorite law professor. Im not alone and that. In 2008 the junior senator from illinois was a man named barack obama and he said when i was at Harvard Law School i had a teacher who changed my life, martha minow. Guest its a delight to be here and i learned so much from you through the year so thank you for doingng that. Host i couldnt pa
We are on the curve right now and do we know where we are going . Hindsight is 20 20. We never know where we are on the curve until after it has been drawn. Reporter an Infectious Disease expert at Stanford University said making any prediction about how the virus will spread in the u. S. Is difficult. Because we are actually watching several different outbreaks at once. In new rochelle new york we know that is a very specific kind of outbreak. We get may be patterned that one. That has nothing to do with what is happening in seattle or santa clara or any other place. It is really hard to scale up a model that would take into account all the different scenarios across the country. Reporter she said italy makes for a problematic comparison with the united states. While our country has lagged in testing there is encouraging evidence at our hospitals. Even with lack of testing will probably be noticing lots more people that are sick. Reporter we have not seen a dramatic or overwhelming su
From other countrys militaries. Its about two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning. And, maam, im honored to be able to moderate you this morning, so as she just mentioned, were going to be talking about secretary james new book. Ive read it, ive listened to it. Its absolutely amazing. I will tell you today, thats what were going to talk about. So, maam, first and foremost, just to kind of break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story. Well, throughout my life, and as you heard, be i have been at this business of our National Security for actually closer to 40 years. Time goes by since that bio was written. Ive been always a civilian and i have worked in congress. Ive been in the pentagon for several tours and ive been in private industry. Always working on defense issues. As i was making my way up and trying to figure out my career next moves through the ups and downs of life, i would always look up to the people above me and
We will be talking about secretary james new book. I have read it and listened to it. That is what we are going to talk about. Maam, first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story . , i wore debra throughout my life i have been active in the business of our National Security closer to 40 years. I have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for my several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. While i was making my way up, i would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. And some men. I would wonder to myself about how their lives must be perfect. And how they were able to attain these high. And here was my life which had some successes but plenty of failures and i felt like a hot mess compared to these role models. I know now that was not true. That everybody has something. I wanted for the next generation of wom