And Vice President of the Aspen Institute. Thank you so much for joining us. Today the global conclusive Growth Partnership which is a partnership between the Aspen Institute and the mexico city for inclusive growth is presenting an important conversation on entering the and effective Global Distribution of vaccine. This conversation is part of a a series, global inclusive recovery and rebuilding which was developed with the Aspen Institute and mastercard center, and were joining with the Innovators Group in this effort to present this presentation today. We are very honored that Elizabeth Cohen at cnn is leading this conversation. As reminderel you can submit questions when you register and were happy to get to this question as part off this conversation. Thank you all, and welcome, elizabeth. Peggy, thank you soeg much ad up so glad to be here with all of you wonderful panelists thatt we arerf going have with us. Nearly ten months into this outbreak covid19 is exposing deep inequitie
Sabotage diplomacy. Nationanal strike over Pension Reforms in brazil. We will be live in sao paulo. And in sport, the cricket world cup, guiding the host to winds. Welcome to the program. Our top story britain has joined the u. S. In accusing iran attacking two oil takers tankers in the gulf of oman. The United States released grainy video to back up its claim, but iran denies it is to blame. Stephanie decker has this report. Happened to the tankers in the gulf of oman . That depends on who you ask. An iranian tv video shows a norwegianowned tankerer on fir. U. S. Centralal command released on frfriday,early claiming it t shows Iranian Revolutionary guards removing an unexploded mind from the japaneseowned ship. The timesestamp according to americans shows it happened after the vessels crew has been rescued. Nothing is clear, but the message from the u. S. Administration is iran was behind it. It is the assessment of the United States government that the Islamic Republic of iran is res
A mechanism for deescalation so how close can you get to an Armed Conflict without actually having one can we expect to see a steady stream of attacks on ships and tankas in the gulf around the strait of hormuz to the point where it does disrupt shipping. Well i think there is a chance for a deescalation i think thats what President Trump and Prime Minister shinzo be discussed in tokyo but after President Trump returned to the United States his administration slapped new sanctions on iran on the petro Chemical Industry which is an extremely important industry for iran and that was after he had met with Prime Minister shinzo been missed this job he was planning for his mediation trip to iran so i think that step kind of ruined that phase of attempted mediation i think President Trump and the iranians do have a narrow common interest and that is in avoiding war both iran and trump do not want to war they do not want a Major Military escalation but iran does want some relief that is somet
It is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker for this seasons final washington history seminar. Director and oxford. He received his doctorate in history from Harvard University and is the author of the war ,hat brought peace to mexico world war ii and the consolidation of postrevolutionary state. Published by the university of new mexico press in 2014. Dr. Jones is timothy had positions at Harvard David Rockefeller Center for that american studies and the office of the historian of the state department where he coedited the Foreign Relations for the United States volumes covering u. S. Policy toward latin america during the next and, ford, and carter administration. Onay he will be speaking crimes against securities of a nation, world war ii, the cold war, and the evolution of mexicos antisubversion laws. Mr. Jones. Jones thank you very much indeed for the introduction of for all of you for being here. Its a pleasure to be back in washington. I did spend a very rewarding few
This shutdown business. Bu now what does this all mean for you . What can we expect from lawmakers now . We are checking in with Melanie Alnwick who is live at the federal news radio 15 00 a. M. Reporter 1500 am. Reporter its a media party, the big news is how is is the federal shutdown going togon affect all of these workers, off course, we want to come to the e source, to the federal news rateio 1500 am, and over here in the anchor spot is tom clemens, and his coanchor emily they are getting ready to go live on airo in a few minutes, tom, im asking you, what were you before the shutdown from federal workers, what their main concerns are. Concer they were a exre he apprehenh were hoping that this wouldntwo come, they are kind of resignede last week the unions were getting information from the administration and yesterday and friday, other employees wereees being told, you better be prepared, here is who going to have to work and here is who going to have to come to work, but then go t