there is an executive director of the international center for human rights and joins me now from toronto in canada good to have you with us on the program so what's the legal basis for holding me to say in detention just for international viewers who will not be aware of the full story. well you don't need to rely on the legal basis to challenge the education government of course it's against international law even shuns on chips or luck. taining turn ensuring and pretend journalist and actor is in jail is not acceptable this is a while a shot he migrates every human being has the right to really express himself very solid and it said journalists right to publish news and stories what is the point is admitting in a ship is against the law of course but it's a massive human race why elation and the government's a start this. is a high profile case but how many people like him journalists human rights advocates civil society a languishing in jail similar to that of egypt what's your understanding of the global numbers. well. educated almost bogged down shot on hundreds or $600.00 web sites

maria: george, you were working for a company called the international center of law practice i believeid, oomph going to quit. i'm going to work for donald trump. help him on his campaign. they said, wait, george, before you go anywhere, before you quit on us, we want to send you on a trip to rome which is so crazy. you're quitting a company and they're telling you wait, we want to pay for a trip for to you go to italy. when you went to italy they introduced you to a gentleman named joseph mifsud and mifsud told you what? >> that is not only having about the trip to rome i met joseph mifsud, is the epicenter of the entire russian collusion hoax, rome is the attorney which attorney general barr and john durham traveled to, to learn about this mysterious person that provided fake information to set me up to launch the criminal investigation. this is globespanning investigation. it resulted in one indictment and prison referral by john durham to the fbi attorney that was actually running my case, kevin clinesmith. that is why the trip i took to rome is so critical. it is part of the new c

or macao and you learn does china hope to make macau a replacement for hong kong as an international finance center and financial hub. well i don't think that there's any equivalence between hong kong and macau. and least of all i don't think that beijing wants to use macau as an example of reuniting taiwan because that taiwan port things are entirely different because a lot of the people who. buy one born 'd in taiwan and their little kind of empathy with the brain that but as far as the cow this concern and there is no comparison even though because. in per capita terms is the 2nd richest territory in the world does. a little less simple and is. twice as rich as all kong or the per capita basis but in terms of international look at activity in terms of being a vital center in terms of. being held up as a. metropolitan city there's simply no comparison so i don't think that beijing's. could be used at the example even though beijing could be satisfied with that how things are going because of the one country 2 system but the letter to the very very different struck from cheese steve saying nearly

let's now bring in our guests joining us from nairobi is jeremy heron he's a scientist at the international center of insect physiology and ecology in brussels martin the smatter physician and leader of the doctors without borders malaria working group out in kuala lumpur john fleming the asia pacific head of the regional health unit of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies welcome to you all john i'll start with you the red cross is the world's largest humanitarian network have you had to divert resources from things like malaria tb and a job to deal with cove it absolutely no. really all it is that it's operation. ration the international federation also. gauged and we for instance in the asia pacific region we had 38 national red cross presence. and every one of those $38.00. are engaged in. what works allocation activities in respect of all we also activities or so little. anomic programs. so there isn't much a major priority or. jeremy when you hear about resources being diverted what does it tell you are going to be the challenges in trying to bring down the ca

ofis also executive director the international vaccine access center. mossg the pandemic, dr. has been engaged in research to understand the impact of the pandemic on childhood vaccination programs and in communicating with the general public about the covid-19 vaccine. dr. rupali limaye is in the apartment of health, epidemiology, and health, behavior, and society at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. she is also director of behavioral and implementation science at the international vaccine access center. beeng covid-19, she has leading the communications work global grant to develop demand generation strategies to maximize covid-19 vaccine acceptance. questionsve time for following our panelist remarks. the procedure will be as follows. we will take questions submitted in advance of the briefing and some from the zoom shack. -- the zoom chat. if you have a question you can enter it addressed to all panelists. enter your name, media outlet, and question. we hope to cover as many as possible. participants will be muted during this briefing and it will be reco

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but that would be something that on the ground at the international service centers and the international mail facilities, for those personnel to determine what is manageable volumes depending on what the environment is like coming january 1st. and we will have to make day-to-day decisions on that based upon the volume of mail without aed or the volume of mail that is co- mingled. so, those are the issues that we will face, and that's one of the things that throughout our day-to-day conversations that we've had ramping up towards january 1st that we are finalizing. those details are what we can mitigate and what we can to mitigate and then we would communicated that through the united states postal service and if necessary, then it would be refused. a. >> we will come back for a second round and ask what you can tell the postal customers about the delivery, and the delays that they might expect. thank you. >> thank you, mr. carper. senator, are you prepared to speak now? >> yes, i am. thank you. >> you're up, thanks for joining us. >> thanks so much, chairman portman and ranking member ca

joined by former new york representative joe crowley during this event hosted by the meridian international center. this is an hour. ms. verstandig: thank you, thank you. i really appreciate it. it's an honor and privilege to be here. meridian has been very much a part of my personal and professional life and i very much appreciate the opportunity to be in dialogue with this distinguished group of panelists today who are both friends and colleagues and i think that group is very much representative of the things that you just laid out. both friends and colleagues. i think that group is very much representative of the scene you just laid out and they are the themes of this great democratic experience that we here in and they're the themes of this great democratic experience that we here in america undertake and have undertaken for the last 240 years. but it is a bipartisan group and if i can just add a p.s. on my personal bio, as everyone who knows me well, not only do i do national security and foreign policy, but having served and worked on the hill, and i have a very much, in my d.n.a., the esse

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heather connolly of the center for strategic and international studies in a moment. let's take a check of the markets first. gains. 500 narrowing its it was up 1% at the open. now it is up .2%. risk appetite waning for the pound as well. it is only up point 5% versus the u.s. dollar. it was up more earlier. opec cutting its demand forecast. crude oil is backing off. there is inchoate attempt at some risk appetite today with appetite today despite the selloff. michel barnier saying britain has made concessions on the level playing field and is looking for better terms on fisheries before a trade deal can be finalized. joining us, heather connolly, director of the europe program at the center for strategic and international studies. a private meeting of ambassadors and some eu parliamentarians. do we know what is in these concessions? heather: we don't. it appears the u.k. has talked about the creation of what is being called an evolution mechanism. that in essence is some type of rapid mechanism that both sides can use if they suggest one is deviating from the level p

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national council of the humanities, he's served as a senior scholar at the woodrow wilson international centeror scholars and the big thing, i have no friend who hasn't been intending to write a textbook of worth about the history of america, but i only have one who has done it, and it's recent and it's great and it's called land of hope, an invitation to the great american story. bill mcclay. >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. it's wonderful to be here. i'm going to talk about abraham lincoln, amazingly. but i want to tell a story about him that i think illustrates a point that we can then expand on a little bit. we all know that lincoln was a reader. he got most of his sense of the english language from reading shakespeare and the king james bible. he read evidently almost no history in his early days. the soul exception that we know of was mason williams' biography written in 1799 of george washington. it's a book few would read today and so certainly not for its accuracy. it is the book from which we get the fable about george washington chopping down the cherry tree and being unable

portuguese colony now a casino powerhouse the other hong kong a former british colony and an international financial center both returned to chinese rule in the late 1990 s. . but while hong kong pushed back against beijing's tightening control in the following years that with little opposition in macau macau has a large population with very strong mainland chinese attachment emotion the politically and culturally haven't set that in the reason years there are a minority of young people in macau who tend to support western style democracy and one of those is 29 year old sulu sue an opposition member of my cows legislative assembly who says gaining support for the fight for democracy is an uphill battle. china. started. while the british in hong kong instilled the idea of democracy in their final years the portuguese largely recognised china's sovereignty over macau. mainland china is crucial for the city's economy bestowing favorable policies boosting tourism and building major infrastructure projects like the $20000000000.00 hong kong macau zhu highbridge perhaps this is the most tangible symbol of the co

but that would be something on the ground, at the international service centers and international facilities to determine what is a manageable volume, depending on what the comeonment is like, january 1. we will have to make day-to-day decisions on that based on the volume of mail without aed or the volume of mail that is commingled. those are the issues we will face, and that is one of the things that, throughout our day-to-day conversations, that we have been ramping up towards january 1 that we are finalizing, details as to what we can mitigate and what we cannot mitigate, and then we would communicate that to the united states postal service. and, if necessary, that mail would be refused. ask you and let me a second round what you can tell postal service customers about mail delays. sen. portman: senator hassan, are you paired to speak now -- are you prepared to speak now. sen. hassan: i am. thank you so much chairman portman and ranking member carper. i've been grateful to work with both of you on the s.t.o.p. act. and i want to thank the witnesses for coming before the subcommittee tod

to be announced they might have forced a change of venue for the end of mint from the international conference center to the election commission headquarters because of their presence there but again what they expected at the end did not happen the other candidate was declared the winner and there was in fact a pin drop silence when the name of. a call for idol was pronounced by the election commission chairperson and then shortly after the huge crowd thinned out and then disappeared but not before one of the supporters told us that they would not accept this result and they will fight against it how they were going to do that he didn't say a lot of people now are watching to see what watching to hear and see what president former president john muhammad would say in his address is due to address. the nation according to his supporters and handlers are very shortly. reporting they're on to other news and us president elect joe biden has officially introduced his choice for defense secretary the retired army general lloyd austin the nominee to lead the pentagon joint biden in wilmington delaware if co

is the establishments and institutions actors that are involved you any to see are the international community center actually not ensuring the you know the safety net for government hence why we're seeing these the sort of attempts but also yes maybe's a penalising i guess i'm sorry i don't mean to interrupt you here we are starting to run out of times i want to get to side as well and pick up on a point you were making too because so i mean was talking about you know the responsibility of international actors the responsibility of the u.n. you know you've said many times dams international said many times that the international community must do more to ensure you know safety of the ring and also to make sure that the conditions are being created so that they can someday return to mean more in a safe and dignified manner are we any closer to seeing that happen. a cautionary note and i'm afraid we must also recognize the fact that bangladesh has been host to this 1000000 ruling the refugees for the last 3 years these refugees have been living in cramped conditions in the camps in cox's bazaar. it is

the director of the faculty of academic affairs and research at the kofi annan international peacekeeping training centercializes in west africa states and thus the hall region -- sahal region. from your bencic point, what is the state of democracyn the continent dust from your bandage, what is the state of democracy -- from your advantage, what is your perspective? >> some countries are showing stability, regular elections. some are beginning to have internal civil strife. at at times the kind of tension that is threatening the very progress that has been made since the early 1990's. you are seeing violence in other instances. and what we think is beginning to happen and be exposed is the fact that overconcentration on elections, instead of looking at the fundamental deep structural issues, is not a sustainable way of maintaining democracy. because you are beginning to see the underlying deep structural, whether socioeconomic issues or the struggle for resources which sometimes is weaponized through regional identities. also the struggling economies generally. all those and corruption of course. all tho

have them perhaps debating amongst ourselves about whether democracy should even be at the center of the international system. i look forward to today's discussion, and it is a pleasure to be here, especially the day after the u.s. presidential election was formally sealed. i turn it over to my colleague , carolyn for the next word. you, ambassador. i am visco croft center's chief of staff. my generation, the concept of american global leadership won't be defined by the past. it will depend on how americans step up to the most pressing issues and insidious threats. climate change, systemic racism, disinformation and a global pandemic writ large for this reason, we must redefine it. it must meet the demands of the modern world. it must be inclusive, amplifying voices and perspectives that have been sidelined for too long. and it must, without a shred of doubt restore american , alliances. our foundation will it -- will illuminate our future, but only if we follow those sacred promises. at the atlantic council, we believe that we are stronger for our allies and partners and it , is our mission to shape

administration congress.7th he was joined by joe crowley during this event hosted by the meridian international centerur. ms. verstandig: thank you, thank you. it's an honor and privilege to be here. meridian has been very much a part of my personal and professional life and i very much appreciate the opportunity to be in diae

is a massively important moret but the city is much than just being the financial center for europe. we run internationalglobal financial center and benefiting asiathe rise in markets in and in other emerging regions. david: thank you so much, great to have you with us. she is standard chartered head of europe and america research. still ahead, codec surges back, it's our stock of the hour and that is next. this is balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. shares of kodak are serving -- are surging today. they have been cleared of any wrongdoing in obtaining a government loan to produce chemicals to be used in pharmaceuticals. our colleague in london has the full story. rise of around 80% per kodak at the high, taking the shares at twice. the once photography giant turn pharmaceutical ingredient manufacture that transformation of the company is a big story. back in july, it was announced kodak had been awarded 706 he $5 million loan from the u.s. government to help with that transformation. it was awarded on the defense the dr

. >>> 500 doses of covid-19 vaccine were destroyed at a wisconsin medical center. internal review found someone at the hospital intentionally left the vaccine out at room temperature. that is against the guidelines. the employee has since been fired and law enforcement has been notified. >>> let's take you outside to san bruno mountain where you can see nbc bay area storm ranger. it is a clear day here the last day of 2020. but i believe rain is on the way for 2021. don't trust me. let's turn to vianey arana. am i right? is there rain on the way? >> you are correct. you have been listening to our forecast, chris chmura. we had that rain overnight. we'll be seeing more rain into the weekend. the rain has made its exit. great view over walnut creek. 53 degrees right now. let's take a look at how san francisco is doing. 55 degrees as well over san francisco and as equally beautiful in downtown san jose at about 52 degrees. i do want to remind folks if you are headed to the beach, you might want to head out there for a walk or something of that sort. please be careful, there sa