Denied bail and a former lawmaker fees into exile in the latest blows to the citys prodemocracy movement. And a really good beginning with the Coronavirus Crisis and the growing list of countries reporting soaring infection rates and deaths governments around the world are struggling to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country in the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of surprised 1000000 in iran the country is reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against fast tracking the process itself to the u. K. Authorized use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giant facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts
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Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
Latest from moving. Closer to some of the team members here in waiting in the hotel behind us including dr brawley just marian she said that shes feeling quite optimistic that the team is in good spirits and shes going to get to this is doing what it can but also she says that the public may need to temper its expectations this is only the very beginning of what is a deep dive into the origin of the war in a virus and to expect any conclusive finding in the next few weeks is unrealistic this could in fact take yes. The u. K. Is tightening Coronavirus Travel restrictions arrivals from 20 to red list countries will have to hotel koren team for 10 days its an effort to stop the influx of new strains of covert 19. Health authorities in the brazilian state of amazonas set up 2 field hospitals to handle a large number of coronavirus patients many seeking treatment from across the state have been sent to the regional capital mouse but its hospitals are already overwhelmed the new u. S. Secret
Some have called it the shadow pandemic violence against women and girls has increased during the coldest 1000. 00 outbreak so what should be done to protect the lives and ensure the safety in long term Recovery Plan this is inside story. Hello and welcome to this special edition of inside story in collaboration with the e. U. U. N. Spotlight initiative m 40 back to bowl it is one of the most persistent and widespread Human Rights Violations and it happens in every country around the world the abuse and exploitation of women and girls it comes in many forms including physical and Sexual Violence female genital mutilation and Child Marriage the long term effects on a severe on the survivors the families and communities violence against women and girls also signals progress towards gender Equality Sustainable Development peace and prosperity to confront the crisis to European Union and the United Nations joint forces 3 years ago to launch the spotlight initiative its goal is to end viole