Today and always. The freeman foundation. By jy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor this is bbc world news america reporting tonight from new york city. Protests in minnealis and across america is the killing of an unarmed black man. A fired Police Officer is charged over George Floyds death. New york city is on track to begin reopening. As the u. S. Mourns the 100,000 coronavirus victims, more steps are being taken to stop even more people dying. As unemployment in spain soars among the coronavirus crisis, the government approves a basic income for those hardest hit. For all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. A Police Officer seen on a video with his knee on jordan floyd George Floyds neck is charged with manslaughter and murder. This comes with a curfew in minneapolis tonight at the city erupted ain on thursday as de
Today and always. The freeman foundation. Byy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor this is bbc world news america reporting tonight from new york city. Protests in minnlis and across america is the killing of an unarmed black man. A fired Police Officer is charged over George Floyds death. New york city is on track to begin reopening. As the u. S. Mourns the 100,000 coronavirus victims, more steps are being taken to stop even more people dying. As unemployment in spain soars among the coronavirus crisis, the government approves a basic income for those hardest hit. For all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. A Police Officer seen on a video with his knee on jordan floyd George Floyds neck is charged with manslaughter and murder. This comes with a curfew in minneapolis tonight at the city erupted ain on thursday as demons
And the director of the center for strategy at the council and security. Last october, the skull cross Center Forward defense team reported on effective resilience and national strategy, lessons from the pandemic and the requirements for key medical infrastructure by distinguished fellow kramer. A Strategic Operational framework for effective resilience is the capacity to withstand shocks of a magnitude of a major pandemic, a strategic shot. Today, as President Biden confronts covid19, our report and recommendations on Health Security remain timeless. To discuss these issues i am , very pleased to welcome a variety of guests to our event. Our moderator will help frame the discussion. She will be followed by the report author, frank kramer cool present key findings. Jaclyn leavy, chris mcguire, on our Panel Moderated by the director of our former defense practice area, clementine starley. I would like to thanks speakers and the audience for joining us. In accordance with the legacy, it
People handled . Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so were talking about people who have moved from country to country. That is a large number. 3. 5 of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced persons and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries than at any time in history, we see these people on the move. Over half of them, over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria, afghanistan and south suzanne. South sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policy, obviously has to be policy for handling refugees, policy for migration, policy for immigration of people who are not refugees. The country still today, the at has the largest foreignborn population is the United
Well what is the problem . And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes to a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy. You have refugees and displaced persons, and you have the treatment and according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so you talk about people that have moved from country to country, that is a large number. There have been three and a half part of the global perception, but the bigger number is 70 million displaced persons, and if you think about, that we are living at a time when we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes. And you see these people on the move. Over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria afghanistan, and south sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policies, then theres obviously policies for handling refugees, policies for migration, poli