is set to lose an area of forest around twice the size of gambia by 2035 according to the center for international forestry research. ebony trees which take hundreds of years to mature are disappearing fast cameroon's forests are cleared for palm oil rubber and cocoa plantations the cameroon based congo basin institute carries out research on ebony and other tree species in the region. then sound of blue leads the ebony project field work he's very aware of the threats that ebony trees face. probably the biggest threat to the survival of ebony is the destruction of forests because ebony is that dense forest trees that thrives in the undergrowth they can't grow in a plantation once the forest is removed the essence is lost it can't regenerate itself and agricultural land you go girls. in 2011 taylor guitars became the kohen of this ebony saw mill in yellow one day cameron's capital . the wood comes directly from the forest to the sawmill where the company processes it to make different parts of guitars and other musical instruments. only the best wood is used to make the instruments this means that

he serves as director of graduate programs at harvard's weatherhead center for international affairs and is cochair of harvard international global history seminar. he is coeditor of the global and international theories for cambridge university press. the volume "empires of war, 1911-1933." self-determination and the international origins of anti-colonial nationalism. will close our symposium with a lecture that explores how president wilson's ideas and convictions were formed, how they helped shape the 1919 peace settlement, and how that continues to impact us today. dr. manela: thank you. i want to thank laura, matt and camille. all of the staff. everybody who has kept us organized, on and well fed for two days. this is the second time, as you mentioned, that i have worked with this group. youre been amazed by intellectual engagements and by your organizational wizardry. i would like to take a moment to put our hands together and thank the people who brought a seer. -- think the people who brought us here. [applause] in december of 1918, u.s. president woodrow wilson arrived in bri

is a teacher at harvard university and serves as director of graduate programs at harvard center for international affairs and as cochair of the harvard international global history seminar. ands coeditor of the global international history theories for cambridge university press. volume on war, which reframes the history of the great war is a global war of empires in the wilsonian moment self-determination the international origins of anti-colonial nationalism. he will close our symposium with a lecture on how wilson's ideas and convictions were formed, how they shaped the peace settlement and that continues to impact us today. ladies endowment please join me erez manela.dr. [applause] prof. manela: thank you for that kind introduction. i wants to take a minute to thank the last speaker, to thank laura, matt, and all the rest of the staff at the world war i museum and memorial, including everybody who has kept us organized and well fed throughout these two days. it is the second time i have and i with this group have just been amazed by your intellectual engagement and your organizational wizardr

joining me is bonnie glaser, a senior advisor for asia at the center for strategic and internationaldies, a washington-based think tank. welcome back to the "newshour". so as we mentioned, we dont's have a lot of details, but what do we think the practical impact could when it comes to businesses or people, freedom of press in hong kong? >> well, it remains unclear, i think, as to how beijing is going to implement if law. it will likely lead to further erosion of rights and freedoms in the territory, possibly greater control over the media. the law will permit mainland security forces to operate in hong kong, and that could potentially result in new law enforcement organs that operate alongside those that already exist. we could see an implementation of china's patotic education that preaches chinese communist party-approved messages that essentially political indoctrination. the law could give new authority to remove opposition lawmakers or even prosecute them. there could be further erosion of hong kong's independent judicial system. >> reporter: what's behind this? why would presi

glaser a senior advisor for asia and director of the chinese power project at the center for strategic and international studies and from nottingham in the u.k. andreas fault a senior fellow at the university of nottingham asia research institute welcome to you all 1st of all to you what's gone wrong for china in the fallout from the coronavirus i mean lots of countries stumbled in their initial response why be wise china being so defensive. well it has and the story is or the narrative is that china donates 6 days and that this somehow is responsible for the pandemic that followed well i can say that i think it's just should be glad that it didn't happen in the united states i mean the origin there because otherwise we trump length for 2 and a half months it's clear that china feels under attack and you can understand why these constant allegations that they were there are hiding debts that they somehow wanted this pandemic chap and now it's got. trump is claiming that somehow this is part of a conspiracy to make sure that he was not reelected you know mixing these things up makes for politics but the

stephen morrison is the director of the global health policy center at the center for strategic and internationalth an american drug company to try and find this vaccine. why is the american government not involved? the us government has chosen increasingly to go it alone in its effo rts increasingly to go it alone in its efforts to advance vaccines and therapies and to not attend the meeting the eu called over 40 countries along to, including companies of private industry that was called on monday. nor did they attend a meeting hosted by the who shortly before that. there is an increasing sort of nationalist strain running through the proclamations about racing to get to the vaccine. there is a geostrategic competition with the chinese, and i think the chinese are behaving in a very similar manner. there's also this antipathy towards the who, which was first really manifested when president trump on april 14 announced he was suspending it to who because he is accusing who of being basically in bed with the chinese. all of these things are coming together in a way that is quite a sharp departure

on this let's speak to stephen morisson — director of global health policy at the center for strategic and internationalnk you forjoining us. why is the trump administration so hostile to the who? the president back in mid april decided to launch this assault upon who lumping it together with china, accusing the who of becoming basically a tool or an agent of disinformation by china. and that the us was going to suspend review assistance to who. it's a reflection ofan assistance to who. it's a reflection of an effort to deflect blame away from the catastrophe that to happen here in the united states. it's a projection of the china hocks power within the white house going after china harshly and then striking a blow against multilateralism. with this assault upon who. who is a relatively weak institution is a member state organisation and has no inspection authority, no ability to really push its member states around. it's a convenient foil. it's tied to the electoral campaign here in the united states which is fraught. and of course who does make mistakes. it can be more accountable and more transparent

let's discuss this further and bring in david said now he's a senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies and joins us via skype from kabul david so how significant then is this move by the taliban announcing this 3 day cease fire how much pressure well they under to make some kind of gesture as well it's very significant that the taliban had. to make any kind of gesture until all of the prisoners that they had demanded be removed. were actually pretty good that's not happened yet but they are going to get in announce this 3 day cease fire. it's a big step on the part of the problem on but they've been under huge pressure from all all parties including the government of god or the united states and others as well frankly that. is putting a lot of pressure on everybody it's happened. there are reports that soraya the deputy head of the taliban has been hospitalized expiate and rode with a group of iris and many other. senior leaders of the problem are not maybe coming down with the group and what they're facing pressure a lot of areas david some some observers will say it seems cyn

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etteine: that is jude blanch with the center for strategic and international studies.oming up, we want to turn our eyes to what is going on in florida. the spacex rocket is preparing to launch what is going to be the first manned launch from u.s. soil into space. the u.s. ended the space shuttle program and while back. it is also significant because it will be the first launch for me private company. there is some concern here about the weather and whether that launch is going to take lace or not. we will be back in a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: we have just heard that nasa has called off the rocket launch that was set to take off at 4:30 p.m. it would have been the first state mission -- first space mission from u.s. soil to take nasa astronauts into space in decades. the next times to launch our saturday and sunday, failing that. i looked at the weather at least for new york and it looks like it would be cloudy over the weekend. there are a lot of question marks over what happens next. romaine: a lot of anticipation for this. the president making a trip dow

the center for strategic and international studies hosted this event. >> hi, everyone.come to this discussion on disinformation and political warfare in the age of covid-19. . have two outstanding experts the senior vice president for europe, asia and the arctic. she is the director of the europe program and the author of two outstanding studies on aspects of what we are going to talk about today. have questions going to the link for this and you can ask questions. we will talk for group for 20 to 25 minutes and go to your questions. there is a component where you can ask questions. and the director of the transnational press object. let's get into the current situation with information disinformation and then we are going to get into a little bit of history of playing off of thomas's recent book active measures. we will look at the future. start with the present and moved to the past and then get into the future thomas, why don't we start with you. russian, chinese and u.s. activities today, how would you characterize what is going on around the kremlin? >> that is tou

for open society international. he's the senior counsel for the american center for law and justice in washington, d.c. which is the organization on whose behalf he final debriefing he's written many in landmark cases that the supreme court. and in support of the respondents of the alliance for the society international. he's the director of the robert media center the cato institute and the publisher of the supreme court review. part of the grand experiment. >> i just keep thinking of those words of justice holmes in defining the constitution. he said it is an experiment of life. >> and i have to say based on the arguments yesterday and today, i think experiment is going very well so let's be part of that position. walter, perhaps you can begin. we just heard a lawyer for the government or giving on behalf of the government. that was christopher michael assistant to the solicitor general. and he said that the case comes down to two basic propositions. first, the foreign recipients lacked the constitutional rights and cannot bring the constitutional claim. then he says that neither the respondents also

the center for strategic and international studies hosted the event. >> hi everyone and welcome to this discussion on disinformation and political warfare in the age of covid-19. i have two outstanding experts. thomas, professor of strategic studies and the author an outstanding recent book, i would strongly encourage you to buy it. active measures in secret history of disinformation and political warfare. and then heather conley, she's a senior vice president for in the arctic and cfi and the director of the program and author to outstanding studies on access to what we are going to talk about today. please, if you have questions no onto the link for this. and you can ask questions and we will talk as a group for about 20 - 25 minutes and then we will go to your questions. is a component on the link where you can ask questions. so please do that. i am the chair and director of the trans national press project. so let's get into first, the current situation with information and disinformation and then were going to get into a little bit of history critically playing off of thomases rece

russia life for most internationals will do center in moscow it's cover now and here for the next 30 minutes i do hope you stick around as well as to take us through the latest headlines 1st off and getting children back to school is seeing mixed results in. we can report today even education ministers held a video conference on monday to discuss the impacts of the outbreak and said that there hasn't been a significant increase in transmission in the 22 countries where classes have returned but worryingly a number of french schools have had a close again after only a few days open because of new infections reporting next than 1st officer from paris charlotte dubin ski. children had only just started to head back to school in france but after only one week of classes around 70 having to shut down once more as cases of covert 19 have been detected. it is probably a virus that was contracted before returning to school after exiting confinement but you will see what the analyses say. this is what many teachers and their unions had warned about they import the government to reopen schools

for open society international. he is the director of the robert leavy center for constitutional studies at the cato institute and the publisher of the cato supreme court review. ilya, thankah -- you for joining. >> happy to be part of this grand experiment. jeffrey: i am thinking of the words of justice holmes, on the constitution. it is an experiment as all of life is an experiment. based on the arguments today, the experiment is going very well. let's be part of that grant tradition. walter, you can begin. we just heard the lawyer for the government arguing on behalf of the government, that was assistant toichel, the u.s. solicitor general. he said the case comes down to two propositions. the first is that foreign recipient of aid lacked constitutional rights, they cannot bring a constitutional claim, and he said the respondents cannot bring a constitutional claim because any effect on their message is a product of their own choices, not of government coercion. can you unpack and summarize the core of the government's argument in this case? sure, and- walter: please let me know if i'm going too long. jeffrey: keep

the center for strategic and international studies hosted the event. >> hi everyone and welcome to this discussion on disinformation and political warfare in the age of covid-19. i have two outstanding experts. thomas, professor of strategic studies and the author an outstanding recent book, i would strongly encourage you to buy it. active measures in secret history of disinformation and political warfare. and then heather conley, she's a senior vice president for in the arctic and cfi and the director

province that is on my dowel is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says stronger international controls are needed to prevent similar situations they have been getting better and that the good space citizens. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would seoul and villages in china says its launch was actually going to be a new spaceport in hina an island that looks over the ocean so that's safer unfortunately there the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work so we're really at the point now where we need some stronger international controls on how this happens and more on that story and everything else that we have been covering do go and check out our website at www dot cold. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the european union is urging member states to start reopening their borders to help revive the continent's a summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as earl

that that is going to wrap it up here for us here at the kennedy spay spaes center and continue watching the live coverage until the astronauts reach the international space station and docking and hatch opening and arrival of be about and doug at the iss. dock scheduled for 10:29 eastern time. right after the broadcast, we'll turn it to jsc and hear from be about and doug during a down a fling the crew dragon from >> this is mission control, houston. moments away from bob and doug entering the international space station. shortly after they enter, we will conduct a welcome ceremony. there will be vips here. we are in a .3 -- 8.3 for both spacex and houston. copies.x all valves appear closed visually now. excellent to hear. >> houston copies. >> with that, endeavor welcome to the international space station. please come aboard. >> endeavor copies with pleasure. we will be there in the second. second --in a second. >> we have bamba -- bob behnken from spacex demo two mission entering the international space hurley.followed by doug >> station houston. we see you. a great-looking photograph. stand by. they will call you when we are ready for the event

from the kind of gosh i'm a space center in the southern part of the country nasa says japan's for age 11 game rocket is carrying experiments and supplies to the international space station . and next week 2 veteran nasa astronauts will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida on the inaugural flight on the space x. dragon space ship headed for the international space station it is a thrilling and important mission that could very well mark the beginning of a new chapter in space flight or to correspondent john how do you has more from miami. astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley arrived at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral florida this week as they gear up for their major mission to space they'll be the 1st astronauts to pilot the space x. dragon spacecraft for the scheduled takeoff may 27th from the same launch pad that the spatial atlantas blasted off from in 2011 closing out the shuttle program the demo 2 crew as they're called said they were excited and ready for the mission for hurley it's somewhat of a homecoming he was one of the 4 astronauts who arrived at the kennedy space center on july 4th 2011 for that final space shuttle fl

for a good morning cheer live from art international's world news center here in moscow is kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes with the latest round appreciate your company as we get them with a quick check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections no standard more than $4800000.00 teletubbies have topped 316000 now the number who recovered stands at more than $1800000.00 around the world. in some of today's developments britain's opposition labor party is demanding an investigation into coronavirus deaths an elderly care homes we should describe as mishandled about a quarter of the country's cobra fatalities have happened in residential facilities labour's deputy leader says people have been tragically let down they should be there should be some investigation into that and care stammers requested that because everything is tragic and we've had medical experts on to miss that we see that the virus into our care homes and the guidance wasn't there for care workers i think we've been tragically let down on friday it was revealed the number of care home residents in

center for global policy. in moscow alexei macof a middle east specialist at the russia international affairs council and in norman oklahoma in the u.s. it's joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and the editor of the syria comment gentlemen thank you for joining us for inside story bottom of the quote to start us off from robert ford who is a former u.s. ambassador to syria who once said of rami makhlouf frankly if he wasn't part of the family he'd probably be dead. but in bondi he's an extraordinary interesting figure isn't he running amok with so much power and then things just turned so quickly look around me whether people think that he is the most fish person in syria blah blah blah rami is just running the family money so he's just c.n.n. employee with a so far this would have been this way so way and medical media report mentioned that he on 6 percent of students economy basically what they reality is that bashar owns 60 percent and romney just running that show for. the other the former prime minister said listen see that when the government of syria tr

of the cyberspace solarium commission and the senior advisor for homeland security center for strategic and international studies. she was the under secretary for the department of homeland security national protection and programs director from 2011- 2011-2017. she previously served six years at the central intelligence agency as assistant general counsel and legislative advisor to the directors nonproliferation center. ms. spaulding. >> chairman johnson, ranking member peters and members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify here today. i i want to touch briefly on the areas that i think can and should be acted upon quickly. particularly given the vulnerabilities have been exposed by the pandemic. the first is strengthening dhs' cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, or cisa, as organization that i lead as the undersecretary that dhs is now call. thanks in no small measure to the work of this committee for which i am grateful. congress recognize cisa central role to reduce cyber risks and the commission strongly endorse this view. with malicious cyber actors targeted ho

for the homeless needs to be done. it has been organized by the san jose peace and justice center along with the raging grannies in the women's international women's league for peace and freedom. that caravan will begin at 3:00 p.m. in the parking lot of david's bridal near stevens creek and winchester boulevard. >> due to the holiday, most public transit agencies are running on a reduced sunday or holiday surface. >> caltrans is running on a standard holiday service. many will operate course service plan and bta will operate on a sunday schedule and buses will be on a holiday service but no service for the golden gate theory. crews are expected to finish the demolition of the pedestrian overpass in san francisco's western addition located at geary boulevard and steiner street. it is too steep to meet the current requirements to accommodate people with disabilities. traffic will be impacted and detours have been posted near geary boulevard. >>> a homeowner in pacifica as a warning for sabers after mountain iron showed up in his backyard. patrick monaghan caught the big cat on his home security camera at about midnight last thursday. monagh

past few hours he says of this if this act is passed it will be a disaster for hong kong remaining in international financial center and he says that the united states will be issuing an interesting response in the coming days when you're watching that very closely adrian brown there for us on the ground in hong kong thank you. well still ahead here on out as they are with many airports disaster we'll look at how some so-called travel bubbles could help a struggling industry get back on its forms. hello once again we've seen some flooding recently into miami some very heavy rain just around the far south east of the u.s. then we got this chain of storms rolling up across the great plains from texas through oklahoma all the way up into central parts of canada rashly some very very heavy rain notching over towards the midwest but it's a slow moving feature it's been lingering here for the past few days and it's going to not move too far east as in any great hari actually we're looking at to this system down towards surf lorida pushing up towards the middle lanty states south carolina could see some wet weather as we

for my foot on a. path to do this with the. company this wednesday live from artsy international world news center here in moscow it's kevin owen he was here for the next 30 minutes so we can stick around to take you through the headlines mostly talking about the latest on covert 19 and we'll start with the figures show way as we've done of late well confirmed infections around the world of note seated 3700000 the number of lives lost also could continues its troubling rise and is currently at more than 258000 but that said the number of people who have recovered from the illness is also soaring 1200000 people are well again. today here president putin set to cheer a meeting on possible ways to lift the lockdown here in russia a bit later the national non-working period runs currently till next monday that's made the 11th people here have been promised that restrictions might be if the situations improve by them but the country continues to see sharp daily rises in registered infections in fact russia is now the 5th most affected country around the world and has the highest rate of new infections in europe registered deaths tho

for the homeless. it was organized by the san jose peace and justice center along with the raging grandmas and the international league for peace and freedom. the caravan will begin at 3:00 this afternoon and the parking lot of david's bridal near stevens creek and winchester boulevard. >>> a homeowner and pacific as a warning for neighbors after a mountain lion showed up in his backyard. this is a big guy. patrick monahan caught the cat on the home security camera last night, he lives near calera creek part, he said it was hanging out in his backyard for four minutes before it took off. now he and his wife are a little bit concerned that the mountain lion is in the area. >> my wife gardens quite a bit. she is skittish because every time she hears a leaf russell, she jumps. it seems to be that it is only really an issue from dusk until dawn that these guys are out and going around. i will not go walking around the neighborhood late at night. >> monahan says he told the neighborhood about the mountain lion, so everyone can take note and take caution as well.t wild on saturday we told you about a male turkey name

the center for strategic and international studies said to satellite images show the facility had a nearbycture which can accommodate intercontinental ballistic missiles. senior foreignness affairs correspondent greg palkot is live with more. >> if we needed any more proof that kim jong un and his regime was alive and well, we just got it today. the csis think tank which revealed a brand-new missile base in north korea, just outside of the pyongyang capitals airport, just about a half hour drive from chairman kim's house in case he wants to check out anything. the author of the report told me it was unique and in satellite photographs it shows the location and the size that missile parts could be brought there, assembled, tested and launched. it could even handle the largest intercontinental ballistic missiles the regime has they have been proven to be able to strike mainlin mainland united . >> it shows us that they have -- they believe it is in strategic interest to have an icbm that can reach the united states and so far the talks whether they be public or private have not been able to

heinen province jonathan mcdowell is an astronomer add the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says stronger international controls are needed to prevent similar situations they have been getting better and that the good space citizens. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would seoul and villages in china so this launch was actually going to be a new story sports in high and an island the villages over the ocean so that's safer unfortunately they're the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work so we're really at the point now where we need some stronger international controls on how this happens and that is it for this news hour this stay with us i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news i hope you'll join me then by. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power developed into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver