President of the National Press club. Im the former general manager of cbs radio network, now journalist in residence at university of maryland global campus and executive producer of the cal report public broadcasting series, moderated by journalist, marvin cal. We thank you for joining us today for our virtual headliner event with renowned ethologist and environmentalist, dr. Jane goodall, who will share her thoughts on the state of our world during the covid19 pandemic, the ongoing threats caused by climate change, and other topics that ultimately affect us all. Were honored to welcome dr. Goodall back to the National Press club, as she joins us virtually today from her family home in england. Dr. Goodall, welcome. Dr. Goodall well, thank you so much for inviting me, and hello to anybody whos listening or looking, or whatever. Michael there are a lot of people listening and looking virtually, so thank you. Were pleased to accept questions from our audience, especially from our journ
Left wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with the stolen art from africa. Stolen so start september 7th on d w. Aids tuberculosis and the plague some of the worst diseases came from animals. Than you coronavirus is just the latest. Scientists believe it originated in bats. And that it spread either directly to humans or via pangolin. But how exactly. If the virus is actually in. Food and we have no examples of where this virus has been transmitted as a food borne where someone has consumed a food product and the viruses can be killed like viruses other viruses as well can be killed if if the meat is cooked wildlife and the corona virus. Its not about pointing fingers but we need to know where the disease started with us or with our friends in the Animal Kingdom and how exactly do these diseases move between hosts scientists are trying to work that out but have to be careful not to make matters worse while in the field. Who. Are closest relatives in the Animal Kingdom are k
Middle of a pandemic students in india no choice but to take College Entrance exams despite safety concerns. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us protests have erupted in northern china over a new education policy that replaces mongolian as a medium of instruction with mandarin the you know mongolia also enormous region borders mongolia and russia ethnic mongolians comprise about 17 percent of its 25000000. 00 residents on monday before the start of the new Academic Year the local government announced schools would have to use new textbooks in mandarin the changes extend to 3 subjects literature politics and morality and history that will gradually be taught in mandan instead of mongolian the changes are typical in schools where mongolian is the principal language of instruction parents and students say this puts the future of the mongolian language at risk and is an attempt by beijing to promote the majority hun culture or the ethnic mongolian one. A rare scene in a mongo
They started playing and all this was very positive in the end of those days and it just gave me the feeling that these people in spite of all the hardships and the obstacles that they had to overcome were still very optimistic that a better life was ahead of them. Back then there was a lot of criticism of course at the time here in germany of opening the borders in hindsight do you think it was the right decision to really depends who you ask of course from our perspective on the ground back then it seemed the only right decision because of the humanitarian crisis we had there but to be fair afterwards we learned that the communication of the Different Countries was very basic to put it that way and we did think about our own reporting on the ground did we do the right thing were we to one sided but you know you have to remember we were down there and hungary and authorities were definitely playing games. The migrants always distributing leaflets that were exclusively in gary and that
For free you give us protesters demanding and choosing dictatorship countries exiled Opposition Leader calls for u. N. Support. And german prosecutors professor charge of the with the murders of 5 of her children investigators believe she was sedated and then to suffocated that. Im sure gal welcome to the program nato has called on moscow to cooperate fully with an investigation into the poisoning of russian dissidents alexei valmy the military alliance discussed the case at a special meeting missed in a valley seen here investigating corruption in siberia shortly before he was taken ill is in a medically induced coma in a. Spittal in Berlin Germany says it has evidence he was poisoned with a soviet era agent nato secretary general yes dont in but describe the case as a serious breach of International Law that demands an international response. Nato allies agree. Serious questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of ch