People staying in their homes, no restaurants, no bars, no congregation. The United States has been very slow to that. Particularly, the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time, the cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. That is probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on Infectious Diseases and Global Health through my life and i have never seen anything like it. And i think americans should expect with the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Host even before this disease, if you look at what the federal government can do, based on our Federalist Society and based on the fact that we are 50 states and all of them have their own Health Protocols and etc. , what are the challenges, the roadblocks for t
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o
American hand posters some of the groups before us are chanting america is the biggest satan so there are very strong antiamerican sentiments here and as we speak right now were actually marching across the Hanging Bridge to warn the greens on the left side over there is where the American Embassy is located and thats where these people are headed the message that theyre trying to pass here is that the Popular Mobilization forces including the hezbollah brigades are a legitimate force they form part of the Iraqi Security force about the presence of the u. S. Here in iraq is that as a matter of course there has been a brigade as well as the pm have vowed to retaliate and they also want to a table a bill in parliament to expel foreign troops now the question is how will the government react to rewards for this show of force here and how will the iraqi streets react of course the months of antigovernment protests that we have seen one of the hallmarks is a big anti in rainy and sentiment
The guarantor countries of continuing to carry out all of their responsibilities in order to reach not a short term truce because they did not last but to reach a comprehensive cease fire many of the displaced families are trying to seek shelter and harkee but theyre not being allowed to cross the border Mohammed Atta reports now from d r. Most of these people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids on the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them im from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting. A toxin. On and strategic city that sits on the m 5 which assads forces are really keen to take from the rebels they have most of them come to the Turkish Border and to. Any of the city and for years to hold all the on the comps are also so they are mostly in the open something up mix shift comes you know depending on Turkish Charities giving them warm food but they do not offer