Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
And President Trump and Vice President pence putting the fullcourt press on those two Georgia Senate runoffs, the nypd says shooting and murder are soaring in a new push by some on the left to defend the police. Plus tensions rising on the border as a Trump Administration races to build as much portable as possible and while it still cant come im Jackie Deangelis and for elizabeth macdonald, the evening edit starts right now. While President Biden is filling key positions, he is reportedly feeling heavy pressure from progressives when it is in a party. Joining an outright 2020 Advisory Board member harmeet dhillon, great to see you tonight, lets start with whats happening, biden was speaking today and a reporter questioned him about this and basically saying there was not enough diversity in his cabinet and not enough black people in his cabinet. Your thoughts . Yes, i agree that the criticism from the left, there is talk about diversity, talk about women, quotas and various regards bu
And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to