kofi joins us this afternoon as is audio acceptance speech to today's american book award. >> hello, everyone. congratulations to all my fellow honorees are i would like to personally thank those responsible for sponsoring and sustaining the american book awards, for bestowing this honor and recognition of my work, the panopticon review. it is only people edifying and encouraging to the valley of one's work publicly acknowledge and supported and especially by one's peers. it must almost be acknowledged that the when a compass is anything worth doing alone. so in that spirit in recognition of that essential fact and both my work and my life i would like to share a few names of some individuals, many of whom i've been fortunate enough to actually known and worked with over many years who never failed to inspire me and grading the in fact, what i do and want. it is not possible to name everyone i would like to personally thank so i trust that those who i i know and valuable are not named here will know and appreciate that i feel deeply valued in and the work as well. so in that spirit i

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also, the director of the faculty of academic affairs and research at the kofi annan international peacekeepingg center who specializes 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

vaccine regardless of whether they've been infected by the virus or not patients who have suffered from kofi 1000 and know all too well how damaging the sickness can be even after they get better the road to recovery can be long and difficult. to get in is battling the long term effects of coated 9 tain when she became sick in march she had few symptoms but it's now devastated her life. confident tough a case of my own even came gravely ill months later in june. that at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine but things didn't improve i was extremely ill for many many weeks which turned into months and i never thought data . is what unleashed. piccy is one of 40 did survive as he is suffering from long term effects of the illness germany's baltic sea coast symptoms are being treated at a rehabilitation center. after the virus peggy felt burnt out she suffered from dizzy spells and chronic pain. the cognitive i'm showing in some cases i also had cognitive difficulties that my head wasn't functioning properly i couldn't hear had poor vision and couldn't follow conversations

one day in 1951 when katherine kofi o'brien's mother was a small child the cruelty man officially a child protection officer arrived at her family's camp and seized her and her 9 siblings these are children. they were sentenced in various industrial schools. like so many traveling families before and since the children were scattered in institutions across the country katherine's aunt died at 17 in colonia. we still don't know how she died. 2 of her uncles ended their days in sindh finian's mental hospital by the 950 s. ireland had the highest proportion of people in mental hospitals in the world more even than the u.s.s.r. on the stall in my grandmother cara. blind to poverty and never saying we've just are but 2 for children. she didn't even know where one doctor was buried. meanwhile katherine's traumatized mother married briefly and had catherine. but with a moment in an ounce of mental institutions katherine was sent to a succession of industrial schools where she experienced constant racist abuse and violence often at the hands of nuns i was torn in a bass. and i was scrubbed within

but kofi also stimulated a sense of resistance. it was me by the way up when my father worked for the german limas. and he told us how little by little he brought beings home to plant his own coffee. but on both of us got hit by liz. it's a traditional trait members of the akhi cooperation in out have already passed wash their freshly harvested coffee cherries. they then separate the business from the fruit. after being left to fend them for 24 hour as the beans are washed for a 2nd time to remove any remaining pulp. the good bright the miss sink to the bottom of the washing can now. move. on right cool for quality ones. and our me. then the beans i laid out to try. possible for apple does the president there always come times in which prices are low but in the good times 3 of that we've been able to pay off our debts and update our production facilities in both the sets improve the plantations the coverage today we have companeros who's plantations can rival the big ones while good was good food got good on the profits reaped from

florists occur there for us in laos thank you very much french president emanuel tested positive for kofi 19 the president's office says it's highly likely that mccrone caught the virus at a european council summit last week his diagnosis is fuelling alarm and exile 80 among many of the european union leaders many of them had close contact with at that summit he also hosted spain and portugal as leaders in paris last week excuse me this week they are both now in quarantine. affectionate squeeze that's how french president emanuel greeted officials and heads of government last week at the e.u. summit and how he welcomed portuguese prime minister antonio costa to the elysee palace on wednesday. but now that michael has tested positive for the corona virus those close contacts may wish they dodged his warm embrace. last night the president started to experience symptoms indicative of 19 he immediately isolated and took a p.c.r. test the results of which confirmed that he is positive for coping $1000.00. dollars as for everyone who test positive in this country to contact tracing began immedi

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kofi thank you so much for joining me on outfront there have been 2 attempts on your life l.z. the most recent by unknown shooters but the 1st by the taliban and your daughter witnessed both of those attacks u.s. envoys says this latest attack was meant to be rail the talks how much faith do you have that the taliban will uphold their word in any sort of agreement that his reach. you're right it's very very early to say that you know the taliban have actually changed views and perception towards some of the realities of afghanistan in particular 2 worlds 2 wars women and especially vocal woman but in the meantime i know that the taliban are not unfortunately the only group that contribute to violence there are isis in afghanistan or dies or other groups militia extremist groups. in talking with taliban what we're trying to do is at least many is the level of risk that afghanistan have is facing not only in terms of the number of people that they are losing lives but the opportunities that are being taken away from that country afghanistan is naturally on traditionally a very ri

we have not been short sadly of kofi cases this year so we've been able to get those numbers much much more quickly than we would normally. and when we're talking about this this vaccination program we're talking about a huge logistical challenge here and i understand even the hospitals where the injections the shots are being administered that is where the vaccine has to be mixed by pharmacists i mean that's that's see this very as a complicated process isn't it it is it is a very complicated process and having to keep the chain down to minus 80 like that is a real challenge but i think it's a challenge that we in europe are more than able to manage all of us in europe are very used to industries that rely on very cold temperatures medical of our trees. have. liquid nitrogen storage so we are used to handling these sorts of low temperatures and it's a challenge that i think all of us in europe will be have to rise to there was a new report that came out today from oxford university in astra zeneca they of course have been developing their own corona virus vaccine what do you say about

appreciate it ok let's go to john 1st you know people will obviously think of 2020 is the year of kofi. but i tend to think of it already in a lot of the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the of the social contract am i wrong about that no i think that's exactly right in in the various knockdowns that have afflicted the whole world and which that's not forget were inspired by communist china because the 1st lockdown was obviously in ruin it sells all sorts of basic rights have been. summerlee abrogates it including by government decree in other words not by. a duly voted law in the respective national register just this was the case in france for example where the original lockdown in march was not validated by the parliament until 5 days after it ended in divorce so all these rights the freedom of association 7 believe the freedom of religion the freedom of movement and. informally the freedom of expression. the 1st 3 were abolished formally the others the other the freedom expression informally all these vanished by government decree in spite of decades literally

appreciate it ok let's go to john 1st you know people will obviously think of 2020 as the year of kofi. but i tend to think of it already in a lot of the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the the social contract am i wrong about that no i think that's exactly right in in the various knockdowns that have afflicted the whole world and which that's not forget were inspired by communist china because the 1st lockdown was obviously in ruin it sells all sorts of basic rights have been. summerlee abrogates and including by government decree in other words not. a duly voted law in the respective national register just this was the.

1st countries to greenlight a vaccine and what pfizer colson historic moment in the fight against kofi. also on the program 3 pro-democracy activists saw sentence for their policies in last year's i'm calling protests the latest crackdown on dissent joshua warm ivan lamb and arguments child was jailed for between 7 and 13 and a half months. also shock in germany after a cop plows into a pedestrians in a shopping area a baby is a moan 5 people killed in pierce city center on tuesday police say the attack was intentional but that the driver's motives are unclear. i'm good as welcome to the program britain has approved the coronavirus vaccine by a pharmaceutical partners fires and bio and tech becoming the 1st country in the world to do so the u.k. government says the shot will be available across the country from next week the vaccine is the result of a collaboration between u.s. drug maker pfizer and german company biotech. it's still awaiting the regulatory approval across the rest of the world including the e.u. where it could be authorized within with. the british health minister wel

isolate and continue to walk remotely a shot at events king reports present my contested positive for kofi 19 the latest will lead to do you say that was because the lees a palace said that he present. with some mild symptoms so apparently he had a dry cough and a fever he will now self isolate as is the rule here in france for the next 7 days but he will of course continue to carry out his functions as the head of state but he will do so remotely now the fact he's tested positive. has many ramifications politically for ministers here in france and other individuals who have met him but also other european leaders we've heard in the last few hours that the belgian prime minister the portuguese prime minister and the spanish prime minister all had contact with mr mack on in the last few days and they will all now be self isolating we also heard that the president of the european council shall michel although he doesn't consider himself to have been a contact case he was at that european summit earlier this week with president mack on and he is also self isolating now this comes of course as

you being left behind, been ignored in the united states, spawns and does things have got worse with kofi 1000 on tactically, missing treatment. scaleup has been slow and prevention commodities. even basics such as condoms, have been difficult to get. but i think at the heart of this, there is a very clear wake up call to everybody that it demonstrates the need to invest in health and social protection, and the communities that really build resilience in our societies. and that's the thing that we must concentrate on, whether it's covered 19 or whether it's h. . i think, you know, we are just weeks away from the 1st vaccinations against 19. do you know why it is that there is still no sign of a vaccine or a cure for aids i v some 40 years after it was 1st diagnosed? yes. what it's, it's not this news because at 19 and i can only recognize also they are going investment in science and research. and i chimed in, ites that beauty has been a catalyst for so much of the development. so your piece again in south africa was talking about new developments that we're very excited by that developin

independently and critically and that's what we have seen in 2020 brits in concert in what is known as kofi 9 saying if you have a difference of opinion on the virus you have been demonized you have been vilified so you aren't used to being mentally ill you aren't use or endangering the lives of tens of millions of britons even people like dr hilary jones and professor newman ferguson broke the lock downs which states are often in the cold war now if that is not a concern for people then i submit to you they speed. who do not even have sink drain so between now you know george you and i you know we talked about the passing of the great stephen cohen here and i think all of us would agree and most of our audience if not all of our audience. think of stephen cohen as one of the great russianness of our time but how much time did he get on the airwaves preciously little though you have other people that have no idea where russia is fighting off on and on on twitter all the time george anyone who thinks because we're rapidly running on time here is that a lot of these elites they presume wars i

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now at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of people hospitalized with kofi 19 in the united states has reached 100000 an all time high as the pend them a concrete says the strain on health care systems there meanwhile greece has extended its nationwide lockdown for another week after slower than expected the klein in case numbers and italy will place strict limits on travel over the christmas and new year's holidays movements between regions will be banned altogether from december 21st and russian president vladimir putin has ordered voluntary mass vaccinations to start next week moscow says it sputnik vaccine is 95 percent effective. as a look now at some of the other stories i'm making the world headlines hundreds of immigrants from ethiopia have been airlifted to israel as part of a plan to bring 2000 ethiopians of jewish descent to the country they were welcomed by prime minister benjamin netanyahu but activists say the government should be doing even more to you reunite thousands of other if you can jews with family members already in israel. australian

and i'm concerned that as our hospitals fill that deaths will not simply be folks dying of kofi, butple dying of heart attacks and strokes because our hospitals are stressed and breaking. the time is now to hunker done and come together and start flattening the curve. all across the country. this is happening. this is different than in the spring where we saw this in new york and chicago and boston. this is all across the country, particularly in the midwest. >> doctor, thank you. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> i want you to take a look at this. this was a scene at a new jersey restaurant on thanksgiving eve. this was last week, okay. cases are skyrocketing in new jersey, and governor phil murphy is putting the mostly maskless partiers on blast writing, "we will not tolerate knucklehead behavior like this that puts people at risk." governor murphy himself was confronted for eating outdoors at a restaurant, though he wasn't violating any orders by doing so. now we all need to listen to governor murphy's advice, including the fellow democratic leaders. this is the case in point, o

people are being impacted as are the as a business in their countries but as you say a reminder that kofi 1000 is very much amongst us certainly here in france the french government has recently lifted restrictions but kept in place a nighttime curfew because so is the government the covert night in still circulating viruses still mung us this of course is proof of that tasha thank you very much. the u.s. has registered new records for deaths and infections in just one day more than 3500 americans died on wednesday and nearly 250000 new infections were reported as well the number of infections nationwide has now surpassed 17000000 since the pandemic began right now a panel of outside experts are deciding on whether to endorse the emergency use of mint berners coronavirus vaccine in africa several countries that are experiencing 2nd waves of the pandemic south africa has reported its highest new daily case rate since august and restrictions have been tightened in the democratic republic of congo as well in europe as we were just hearing germany's registered its highest number of new infect

what we have to remember is a year ago, sars kofi to did not exist.cation pathogen, development of a vaccine, testing of the vaccine as presented in the phase i, phase ii and efficacy trial which recently read out with very strong signals of efficacy are all incredibly encouraging and we have an effective vaccine. as you said, things being done this quickly means we do not have long-term data. we don't know if the immunity production last three months, six months, five years or ten years. a vaccine like measles, polio, smallpox last for decades. other vaccines like influenza, we received a shot every year. i think it's these kinds of data are talking about help inform us that at three months, the immunity, we will have to continue to follow this three months, six months, a year from now to ensure we understand the persistence of immunity and therefore what is likely for protection. arthel: the discoveries and develops far are extraordinary for sure. we are talking about moderna and pfizer to deliver vaccines. in the end, how many vaccines you think th

announce the details shortly when they conclude a video making a surge in the number of people dying from kofi 19th has forced them to take action soft lockdown imposed in early november failed to cut in fiction rights now the country faces hard choices as it goes into the holiday season for more i'm joined by our political correspondent hans brought hans the german federal and state leaders are meeting now to discuss the situation given the numbers we've just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain. yes indeed a hard locked on i think is a certainty the meeting is taking place more or less virtually in the building behind me the german chancellor angela merkel is there in person as are the chairman and the vice chairman of the conference of the regional leaders the 1616 regional states everyone else is participating by video link and the leaks from the document that they are discussing show that the knocked on is probably going to happen by wednesday there is some difference still whether this could be pushed back a little bit towards christmas what is also planned is that public consumpt