Hope you had a grand weekend. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Hello to you. Dana good morning to you. We want to hear more about your weekend and americas best kept secret. I didnt give it away. I gave it a tease. Im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. The u. S. Navy was forced to react in what is being called as a blatant act of aggression. Military activists say the combined flotilla is, perhaps, the largest to approach u. S. Soil. They point out the maneuver was no mistake with moscow and beijing taking advantage of the Biden Administrations setbacks overseas. This is a very dangerous situation, and ive said since the beginning of the war in Eastern Europe between ukraine and russia the real danger of what the Biden Administration is blundering us towards is a closer union between the two great powers of the Urasian Land Mass which are russia and china. Its really the one thing that we cant allow to happen in terms of larger geopolitics. Bill sets us up live in the northwest bu
why have birth rates declined dramatically and how much does it matter? stephen shaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. let s start with a basic fact. the world s population is still rising. at some point later this century, it s going to get to about 9.7 billion. and we can see the immense strain that our planet is already under in terms of resources, in terms of fragile ecosystems. and yet you seem to be saying that we as a species need to focus on having more babies. why? well, just to be clear, the reason the world s population is still growing has got nothing to do with births. births peaked in the planet around ten years ago, at around 143 million. today, that s down to around 135. we re already past peak birth as a planet. so, why is, confusingly, this total population increasing? it s because, thankfully, people are living out their lives. people are not dying the way they would have done before particularly in poorer, less developed parts of the world
but now, data scientists and demographers, like my guest today, stephen shaw, say we re actually facing a disastrous spiral of de population. why have birth rates declined dramatically and how much does it matter? stephen shaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. let s start with a basic fact. the world s population is still rising. at some point later this century, it s going to get to about 9.7 billion. and we can see the immense strain that our planet is already under in terms of resources, in terms of fragile ecosystems. and yet you seem to be saying that we as a species need to focus on having more babies. why? well, just to be clear, the reason the world s population is still growing has got nothing to do with births. births peaked in the planet around ten years ago, at around 143 million. today, that s down to around 135. we re already past peak birth as a planet. so, why is, confusingly, this total population increasing? it s because, thankfully, people are
california and this is starting the process of closure for these families. quite frankly many of these folks felt like they never got closure from the biden administration. here s what s on tap today. later this afternoon, the congressman darrell issa from california will hold a bipartisan hearing near camp pendleton which is where the majority of these heroes came from. now, while this isn t an official congressional hearing, it will be the first opportunity for these families to come together and testify in a public forum. the 13 soldiers died in a suicide bombing at the entrance of kabul s airport as they helped to evacuate afghans. some of the parents felt their children never got acknowledged properly by the biden administration. the congressman says some of these men and women haven t received awards that they deserve. families are missing personal belongings and others really just want to know why it all
appreciate them. they are highly trained professionals and their job is d extremely dangerous given the level of violent criminality that exists into many areas of this country. natural law enforcement memorial fund reports the first line of duty since 1786, more than 22000 u.s. law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty. in 2018 alone, there have been 58866 assault against law enforcement officers resulting in 18000 injuries. on every 9/11, we honor those officers along with firefighters, emergency personnel and others who lost their lives heroic acts to say so poor souls in the pentagon and the towers and slaughtered. these incredible men and women haven t changed. they are the sameat patriotic self-sacrificing americans today as they were on that day and