fall form event featuring northeastern president joseph aoun. thank you m.i.t. press for partnering with the alumni association to bring this event to come to pass and also a special welcome members of president aoun's senior team that are here this evening to make sure we treat him well. we are very happy to have you here. i am the ceo of the m.i.t. alumni association and i'm glad to say it first hello. it's my pleasure to begin the program tonight but first a few important details. please remember to silence your cell phones. your phones may be used as a question if you visit alq m. alum.m.i.t..edu/you a to ask questions of our speaker. we are filming this event so please note that during the q&a your face or voice may be live on air and if you choose to participate. finally a final note please join us after the forum for conversation and coffee and dessert in a reception area. given that we got together to celebrate the m.i.t. community and the publication of a new book it is fitting that president aoun's publisher and another m.i.t. alum herself amy brand a

and northeastern named aoun its president in 2006. he is an expert on global and experienceal education. and he has work opportunities around the world, and he shares many successes of the successes of the co-op program in the book. today northeastern students have work, conducted research in 131 countries and all seven continents. in 2011 aoun received the robert a mew award from mit which honors mit graduates from significant achievements in humanities, arts and social sciences field. he's one of seven university presidents honored by the carnegie association with a leadership award of $500,000 to advance his educational initiatives. which is remarkable and typical of his commitment. he pledged a matching grant to take this award further. after president aoun opens with his own remarks on his book. david rotman will take the helm and start a conversations to steer us through the works and questions. and we hope the audience will join in the discussion as well. david is editor of technology review, a science and business journalist,

given capital punishment hasn't taken place in lebanon since two thousand and four president michel aoun may struggle to find the political support he needs in order to carry out such a punishment. al-jazeera favors will pull salim is a senior vice president for policy and research at the middle east institute he joins us live now from washington d.c. sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera at the best of times lebanese politics are always a bit of a precarious balance these obviously haven't we the best of times for a couple of years at least the so what do you think that the conviction and potential execution of public seclusion of my due to the balance in lebanon. i do not think it will have much of an impact on the political balance actually. it was sort of starting a movement in two thousand and twelve to capitalize on events in syria and passions related to what was going on there and in a political sense he was posing a challenge to the traditional sunni leaders of lebanon hoping that he could you know rally the street and become a rival or become a leader in lebanon in th

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given capital punishment hasn't taken place in lebanon since two thousand and four president michel aoun may struggle to find the political support he needs in order to carry out such a punishment in al-jazeera beirut the head of the un's nuclear watchdog has raised alarm over the pace of north korea's nuclear weapons program earlier this month pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb in some of a series of ballistic missile launches we do not have the capacity to determine if it is a hydro bomb on not but it is oh yes that eld is much bigger than the previous one and it means that. north korea made a very rapid progress. combined with a lot other elements this is the new thread and this is the global threat. not more than a hundred thirty thousand people on the indonesian island of bali have been forced to leave their homes as fears grow over a rumbling volcano that could erupt at any time more than five hundred shelters have sprung up and many locals feel they might be needed for a long time has stepped past. for the balinese mound are gone is the center of their universe the highe

given capital punishment hasn't taken place in lebanon since two thousand and four president michel aoun may struggle to find the political support he needs in order to carry out such a punishment in al-jazeera. the u.s. defense secretary has made an unannounced trip to katter to discuss the gulf crisis jim mattis how talks with katherine's defense minister mohammad here as well as the emir shake her mother funny so to review the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut the platic and trade links with path on june the fifth accusing it of sponsoring terrorism kept her strongly denies all the charges against the. catalan authorities say they're working to ensure the spirited referendum on secession from spain will take place peacefully thousands of university students have marched through barcelona to protest against would they call an intensifying crackdown ahead of sunday's vote john hendren has more now from barcelona.

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they are aoun able to return home. martha maccallum and tonight the story is unfolding in all of florida and for tens of thousands of people across the southeast who are still doing battle with the hurricane named irma. look at this devastation. really today we really got a better look at it than we have had the entire time. there are residents who are irate, as you might imagine, because they really want to get in there and get home and see what they have got. >> right now we don't know where to go. [shouting] >> there is a gasoline shortage. we can't go to shelters. there is no gasoline. there is no gasoline anywhere. >> there is nothing open. i have no food. i have no water. >> martha: statistics are sobering at least 12 deaths blamed on this storm. dozens more deaths in the very hard hit caribbean. in the florida keys, fema estimates that 90% of the homes were damaged or destroyed, 90%. 94s thousand people are still in shelters. across the state more than 5 million have no power and it may take up to two weeks, we'

given capital punishment hasn't taken place in lebanon since two thousand and four president michel aoun may struggle to find the political support he needs in order to carry out such a punishment. al-jazeera. people in cambodia claim sugar about runs are grabbing their land and government groups been working to resolve longstanding accusations of exploitation evidence has been collected from three provinces it's going to end its investigation next week robert wright has travelled to co cong near the cambodian coast many people there say they've been waiting years for justice this was the route saying lim would take to her fields every day life back then with three hectares to farm was good for her and her family then one day this happened a ditch blocking her way she says her land had been grabbed by a powerful sugar cane fama. for years she and her family have survived on two dollars a day making charcoal. you can see how broken down my house. and i haven't been able to send the children to school it's ten years we've been like this it's so so difficult. at least they kept their homes

and right now, rescue aoun rid doing their best to sift through the rubble to rescue those who remain trapped. including, whether it comes back it the school, a 13 year old girl. >> they can hear her >> imagine as a parent all you can do is wait, the sign of the young teen's wiggle fingers, really became symbol of hope. thousands continue to search for survivors at this hour. >> that was scene at textile factory where workers were left burried beneath the rubble, rescue crews searching through the debris for survivors as onlooker show their support. fourteen people were rescued from that building, you can hear the applause, all around members co-rescue workers asking for silence, they have a signal, put their hands up, silence, listening for any sounds as they search for more missing. another major problem this morning. people have no where to goment many of the homes you see large buildings, suffered damage or completely collapsed. >> it is a difficult situation. fortunately, with a city this big, there weren't more buildings, but it is serious. we hope this because a lot of building