good evening, everyone. thank you very much, miss. and i want like to thank the carnegie for hosting me. as well as a publisher public affairs books. uh, you know, was approached in. early 2011 literally i think a couple of weeks after the beginning of the revolution to about the idea of writing a book about a series of events. that was literally just just underway and it was a bit of an issue trying to trying to come up with a book proposal because we had absolutely no idea how this was going to going to end, but i think the the end and as in the exit of qaddafi was reasonably reasonably clear to me. i thought the beginning was at least as far as the reproach mom between the us and the west and libya was a period in which i had had lived as a junior diplomat from 2004 to 2006 when the small group of us was sent to to tripoli to to basically lay the foundations for for what became the embassy i you know, i ve spent a lot of time in the middle east sometimes i wonder whether i
strike the feeling after boris johnson said that he would try to suspend parliament for several weeks now his argument is that it s a noble procedure to get ready for a queen s speech before laying out his legislative program the people here say it s a clear power grab trying to stop all of that from doing its job and to play to his bricks policies and avoiding a no deal price it now some of the organizers here are affiliated to the opposition labor party and senior labor figures are said it s clear what boris johnson is really base what is insured by the mechanism that is used and the dates that he s chosen is that it is almost impossible almost impossible to get legislation which would bind the government into asking for an extension but you ask why i don t trust and the reason i don t trust this man is because just recently he lied about whether he wanted to probe parliament he said he did. believe in such procedures he lied about the $350000000000.00 pounds that would be
though it remains unclear where or if it will make landfall. troops will join thousands of volunteers from across south america to battle wildfires in bolivia fires along the amazon has been burning out of control for weeks doubling in size since thursday or latin america and it s here in the c.n.n. has gone from san ignacio in eastern bolivia. soldiers arrive in sunday to help combat wildfires. settled by missionaries in the late 6900 is being converted into an operations center for the firefighting effort. night in the wildfires spreading out of control fanned by strong winds a prolonged drought and extremely high temperatures. and see how the animals in the forest are burning but we are proud to be able to help these soldiers are going off again to fight the fires but as you can see they re not very well equipped they don t look like firemen they don t have the equipment of firemen their boats have rubber soles that can easily melt in the flames and in the intense heat and
far we have observed that some of the longer term investment has the hard hit mostly from foreign investors because they don t want to place a plant and then it stopped then it s subject to a tariff but overall the consumption pattern suggest the tariffs resulted reduction consumption is relatively small it s mostly because of the domestic slowdown in income and expenditure and that s because a slowdown in consumption not really directly from the trade war some analysts are saying we re kind of 2 and a half or 3 years away from a global did a global slowdown anyway if this trade war between washington and beijing carries on getting worse might that. be in effect tipped over into being a global recession the likes of which we saw oh wait in 2 annoying. the global outlook is certainly getting more gloomy because of the prospect of both u.s. slowdown and the chinese economy slowdown that s exactly exacerbated by the trade war but trade war is only part of the reason so president
well equipped they don t look like firemen they don t have the equipment of firemen their boats have rubber soles that can easily melt in the flames and in the intense heat and they also don t have the proper masks to protect them from the sick smoke and from smoke inhalation. thousands of young volunteers are joining them coming. in to leave it out from ecuador. but i have never fought fires before but if you lose the nerves of steel and then this fire isn t just the believe your problem it s all of us because the tropical forest is fundamental to our survival. this part of eastern bolivia is cattle country nearly 2 months ago the government signed a decree authorizing ranchers to expand the grazing frontier using fire to clear the tropical forest cattle is good business says the mare. depressing and send the karine the presence of the leaders of the cattle ranchers didn t take into account the weather or the fact that a drought. makes it very dangerous to clear the land whi