Im Betsy Peterson the director of the American Folklife Center here at the library of congress and on behalf of the staff and everyone. I want to welcome you and i also for the record one and to be reflected that we do have pretty much a full house moving into standing room only so at any rate todays lecture the botkin series lecture series is it allows the American Folklife Center to do a couple of things it allows us to present the latest and the very best scholarship in folklore, ethna musicology, oral history cultural studies, and it also allows us to enhance our collections here at the American Folklife Center. All of these lectures are recorded videotaped and they become part of the permanent collections of the center in addition. The lectures are also posted as webcast so that people around the world can can hear what were talking about and listening to today and they will also be available for generations to come. So with that said let me ask you if you have a cell phone on rig
Gate. So far weve seen Construction Crews making minor tweaks to the fencing and Capitol Police say dont forget many changes. And as far as the police and the Security Posture remains at a steady state at this time. Were very thankful for our National Guard partnership. We do have National Guard on the campus, but the Security Postures at this time remains the same. The suspect, 25yearold noah green, he rammed his car into two officers and slammed into the barricade at the capitol. Green got out of the car and slashed one. Officers before being shot and killed by responding police. He was not on the police radar, appears he was a lone wolf with no connection to extremist groups. He indicated he followed the Nation Of Islam. He recently lost his job. A few years ago, Jewish Coalition called for the resignation of some democrats, with connection to Louis Farrakhan who once called hitler a good man. This morning, Construction Crews were seen fortifying the fencing around the capitol. In r
Standing room only so at any rate todays lecture the botkin series lecture series is it allows the American Folklife Center to do a couple of things it allows us to present the latest and the very best scholarship in folklore, ethna musicology, oral history cultural studies, and it also allows us to enhance our collections here at the American Folklife Center. All of these lectures are recorded videotaped and they become part of the permanent collections of the center in addition. The lectures are also posted as webcast so that people around the world can can hear what were talking about and listening to today and they will also be available for generations to come. So with that said let me ask you if you have a cell phone on right now. Please turn it off today. I have the pleasure of introducing folklores pravina shukla. Who is an associate professor in the department of folklore and at the musicology at Indiana University professor shukla received her ba in anthropology from the univ
Personnel in iraq. With. The target that we were you know we. Were. Being you. Shia militia. Connected to the strike she had returned see explains more now from washington we understand joe biden authorized this on thursday morning the attack took place 23 g. M. T. And we understand that biden had been presented with several options and its been reported that he picked the smallest target of all the options presented to him by the pens again and we have and that and that was this this facility which the u. S. Claims was used by quote iran backed militias on the border between syria and and iraq. There are fears that parts of Brazils Health system are on the verge of collapse the Health Minister says the country is facing a new phase of the corona virus pandemic with a strain of the virus that is now 3 times more contagious hong kong has started its Vaccination Campaign residents will be receiving the chinese made sign of which was approved by the citys government before trial results w
Such a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera the Biden Administration is defending action taken against saudi arabia for the murder of the journalist. It says it reserves the right to sanction crown Prince Mohammed bin salmond in the future the state department is urging saudi arabia to disband the unit involved into shelters murder we have urged saudi arabia to disband this group and then adopt institutional systemic reforms and controls to ensure that anti dissident activities and operations cease and cease completely we have made Crystal Clear and will continue to do so that the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi quinn 28 months ago remains an acceptable conduct at the same time our relationship with saudi arabia is important its important to us interests and it requires continued progress in reforms to ensure that this Important Partnership rests on strong fundamentals and continues to advance our shared objectives in the middle east. The United Nations secretary general s