Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c
Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Measures and the slowing of a surge in new cases of covert 19 votes to gave all women a period products for free becoming the 1st night in the world to do so. Only yes, welcome to the program u. S. President elect. Joe biden has introduced 6 key members of his cabinet and each has decades of experience in their particular field. He said diplomacy and multilateralism are back and his new team will lead by example. The transition to a Biden White House is picking up speed after President Trump cleared the way for a transfer of power. 3 weeks after the election, the trumpet ministration has finally given president elect joe biden, the green light to begin the transition process. President donald trump personally directed his administration to cooperate in the handover, but he has yet to officially concede defeat. Instead, he pardoned it took in the white house rose garden as part of a thanksgiving tradition. I hear back grant you and he also used the opportunity to remind americans what h
Say that the number of refugees who arrive to this camp alone are much more than they were expecting. And the numbers are in the hundreds and not the dozens as initially when the composite, when the camp opened nearly 3 weeks ago, the numbers of those who are arriving were about 50 to 60 per day. But that is, that has gone up to 2 to 300 per day, and thats in the camp. By the time they were operated straight in. And they say more arrive overnight and in the late hours and then they registered the next day. So the figures have been rising. In other developments if you withdraw 3 of its to ground soldiers from a u. N. Peacekeeping mission in south sudan. Its done the same in somalia, where several, 100 to ground soldiers serving in a peacekeeping force would dissolve. President elect joe biden says the United States will be ready to lead again once he takes office in january. Biden made the pledge as he formally introduced some members of his proposed capitals, including stuff who served
48 after the event. Let me say a few words about our speaker. now in his second tm of te u. S. Civil rights commissions book the moral foundation of economic behavior was nominated for the highest book prize in his latest book which is the subject of our talk today is on why culture matters most. This is an extremely important book given the political and cultural crisis that we now find ourselves in here in america. Think about it, the institutions that are supposed to hand down the great cultural inheritance of western civilization, the civilization upon which the United States faced are failing miserably at the respective tasks in education, media, the arts, business, politics. Its hard to think of an Important Institution in America Today that takes seriously the virtues and the ideals that make it possible it requires a trust, high trust society. Many would argue that this is the one type of society we do not now have. We seem to be educating the next generation intellectually, mo