couple of weeks we are walking on what is still shuttered glass on the floor i'm joined now by ted scheiber who's unicef's regional director on his 1st visit here since the blast ted what we all your 1st impressions. look in terms of the scale i lived here during the civil war i'm half lebanese and the downtown areas are stored but this is just incredible you know you look up from the port you see buildings destroyed and each one of those apartments is a family with children that's been severely affected this is one of $121.00 schools not just the glass the structural damage luckily there were no strolled in in the school when the blast occurred and so where do you begin when the something on this scale how do you start getting kids back to school personally psychosocial support from the very beginning unicef or those partners was on the ground providing individual care and counseling to individual children making sure to when they were separated from families are unified finding with partners again solutions in terms of relocating families and need to be relocated now that that's done ther

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. >> tonight on booktv in prime time, david scheiber and john brennan discuss the history of russian interference in us elections and how to prevent it in the future. journalist lisa knapp only with a history of cable news and the rise of the 24 hour news cycle. princeton's julian l is or describes the political ascendancy of former speaker of the house newt gingrich. environmental progress founder michael schonberg are offered his thoughts on what he calls apocalyptic environmentalism. benjamin and dorothy roberts offered a thoughts on how some new technologies reinforce racial discrimination. that starts tonight at 7:00 pm eastern, for more information visit booktv.org or check your program guide. >> during a virtual event by the manhattan institute douglas murray, associate editor of the spectator talks about the impact of covid-19 on political discourse. here's a portion. >> my only expectation with this virus is it makes people double down on what they already thought. doesn't mean they will get much reach with it but as for instance there have been figures in the eu who always