Doctors say they have cured a second baby born with h. I. V. The treatment providing hope that tens of thousands of infants could be cured world wi. And a little boy stealing the hearts of soccer fans around the world. The unexpected reaction when he ran on to a field after a game. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. There are no developments in the crisis in ukraine. Crimeas parliament voted to become a part of russia. The issue will be voted on by the people of crimea in a referendum to be held 10 days from now. It cams as e. U. Leaders meet in moscow. Russia says it will counter actions, by freezing assets. Secretary of state john kerry will hold a second round of talks with russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and the two will meet in rome. In ukraine a confront saying involving a senior United Nations official. Armed men threatened the u. N. Envoy at gun point. He was forced to leave a day after arriving. Phil ittner is in kiev. Good morning. Theres talk that the e.
Public service of private industry. We are cspan, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Supreme Court Justice and avid baseball from samuel alito took part in a recent discussion on baseball at the University Club of washington. The other speakers included usa today sports caused columnist Christine Brennan and you all of them spoke about the sports place in american society. This is a little over an hour. Good afternoon. As belle allen used to greet his audiences, hello, everyone, and how nice to see you. How wonderful it is to see you and wonderful to welcome you to the luncheon on the subject of baseball, americas game. Some people seem confused. They actually think pro football is americas game, but its not. Baseball is americas game. This is sponsored today in part by the boston red sox. I chair for the red sox. [applause] i chair
Rather than the end. There are real structural problems. Iwe will be living mean, im not an economic forecaster, but every thing i read suggest we will be living with unusually high levels of unemployment, a lot of pain from over indebtedness. Over a quarter of the country is on food stamps. It is not a great depression. We are not repricing exactly what happened in the 1930s. But it is a version of that. Read more of our conversation with Michael Lewis and other featured interviews from our footnotes and q a programs from 8 00 nowsundays at sundays at eight now available at your favorite bookseller. At a stall and american life. The discussion includes Justice Samuel alito and others. This is a little more than an hour. Good afternoon. As belle allen used to greet his audiences, hello, everyone, and how nice to see you. How wonderful it is to see you to wonderful to welcome you the luncheon on the subject of baseball, americas game. Ome people seem confused they actually think pro foo
Which are two American Public forums collectively of 70 years and more than 2200 programs presented in the Public Interest and the dialogue of democracy. This is our second washington event. If there are more that lie ahead, you will help us make that decision. In many ways, if you are going to do a literary series, this is one of the great duties in which to do it. Great cities in which to do it. There are a number of writers here today. Carroll, who did the great book on Clarence Darrow and tip oneill. He is right there. Hello, jack. Jane liddy did two of the books ever, one on Mickey Mantle, and the other on sandy koufax. And this levy is down ms. Levy is down here. [applause] and to every writer in the room, we want particularly to tell you how much we appreciate you and the art form in which you are engaged, because there are very few, if any, that are more important. I have several other introductions i would like to make. First, the former director of the federal bureau of inves
It sure is strengthened when you get others involved it in. I have not seen to that extent where its been used that way. I cant think of one. I can see where they are using it to attack people. One of the ones they released was 100,000 to go after the saudi ambassador here in the u. S. And washington. When you start to look at some of those, there is tremendous impact that these programs have. I am an intern here. I greatly enjoyed your talk. My question is, are american and other western Multinational Oil companies who are doing business in russia, like exxon, shell, are they affected by sanctions against russia . If so, how . Who is best on this . On what the actual effect has been . I dont know. I know the answer is yes, but the specifics of the answer we could handle better in the front row. We are allowed one free question to the audience here or one free answer. David knows. You want to pick that up . Go ahead, david. As has been noted, the sanctions in relation to the Russia Ukr