we are also joined by michele goodwin, a professor of constitutional law and global health policy at georgetown university and the founding director of the center for biotechnology and global health policy. author of "policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood." she is joining us from marrakesh, morocco. we welcome you both to democracy now! megan, you were invited to yesterday's event, though you were not there. it is historic, believed to be the first of a vice president or president publicly toured through an abortion clinic. talk about it significance and the fact it is happening in minnesota. how important minnesota is when it comes to abortion rights in this country. >> thank you so much for having me. it was in historic day and historic visit and really an important opportunity to highlight the role minnesota place, especially in our region were an island of access -- we are surrounded by states that have either banned abortion or severely limited access to abortion -- and minnesota has gone in the opposite direction following the dobbs decision of district court judge

patrick boy is a defense and security analyst at the university of policies, also a former nato. on this, he says, russia does appear to have the upper hand of one. so, i think essentially, the, the momentum is lensky himself said. the russia has won the winter and i think the men's and the ship says to, to the russian forces on the ground, at least i'll give k was approved for that. they took that as high puff spots, and they took it known the last on the big question, natalie is, is there something brewing? um, in probably may ones the most starts to dry in the area of ukraine. so we'll have to wait and see. and i'm sure the ukrainians priorities are basically mon power rather short. the soldiers are exhausted because they don't have enough chips to rotate them. right. so they really need to get the mobilization of the next batch of, of uh, conscripts essentially sorted. i've and that takes time and takes time to train them up. and they've also got the issue of fortifications, which they need to prepare and better prepare than they have already there. they've been starting out s

of public policy. he received his phd in economics from the university of chicago as a renowned researcher and thought leader in health economics and policy, which impacts us today. thank you. >> thank you. chairman sanders, ranking member cassidy and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today about drug prices and assessment of medical technologies. my name is -- lakdawalla. i'm a professor at the u.s. eight-man school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences and usc price school of public policy. i'm also the director of research at the usc shafer center for health policy and economics. the opinions they offer are my own and don't represent the views of the university of southern california or shafer center. i would like to start with the story. in december of 1984, a young boy from indiana named ryan white was the most with a.i.d.s. . a result of a transfusion with infected blood. in the immediate wake of his passing in 1990, congress passed the ryan white care act ensuring affordable care for hiv a.i.d.s. patients. the value of this program was fully realized five years

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constitutional law of the belarusian state university , graduated from the faculty of law of the belarusian state university, completed an internship at the institute of constitutional legislative policypresident of belarus, raoul wallenberg institute, cooperates with the national center for legal information belarus. author of more than 90 scientific papers, awarded numerous commendations and certificates from the ministries of justice and education of belarus, scientific interests, state legal and international regulation, practice of implementation and protection of human rights and freedoms. alla vasilievna, 2 years ago the updated constitution came into force, we can often hear ourselves we say that there is a need to update the basic law of the country, why what? organization of society, the form of government in the state may even change. in the ninetieth year, a declaration on state sovereignty was adopted, which in the ninety-first year was given the status of a constitutional law and it existed as the highest normative legal act until the adoption of the constitution by the supreme council in 1994 . and the next changes were in 1996, and then in 2004, yes. they were of a ver

the lack of skills in university education has caused some business experts to oppose it, on the other hand , there are some who agree with the educational policiesties . i must say that business experts say. they say that the two fields of service and agriculture have succeeded in attracting young workers compared to other fields . the unemployment rate in the 13th government is very low . it is approaching the level of oecd countries. it has reached 6%, while in the fall of last year, this rate was 8.2%. during the winters , the participation rate during the corona period was very low. doing physical or informal work. continue the informal work you did during the corona period, however, the government has tried to recover the labor market in these two or three years after the corona virus and has tried to increase the participation rate . in the winter of last year , it was 405 tenths of percent, so my opinion is that our job market is now you are in a good position, we have only one problem that needs to be there. and that is the field of university graduates, where the government is trying to use the legal capacity of tabsare 18 or note d of

policy. the group of a few 100 march from zellerbach hall, the california hall claiming that the university's administration is selectively enforcing campus policies at the expense of jewish students. many students we spoke with say they feel less safe on campus. definitely uncomfortable. and it feels like an intimidation tactic for when shouting slogans that are promoting violence towards jews and to assume that really makes me not want like engage in central parts of campus 2 weeks ago, a pro palestine demonstration took place on campus and it took place against an event organized by jewish students at stellar block playhouse. >> forcing police to evacuate attendees along with an israeli speaker. the uc berkeley police department announcing last week that it was investigating those incidents as a hate crime. >> it is statement uc berkeley's vice chancellor says in part, quote, while we support the exercise of free speech rights, the campus also seeks to enforce its time place and manner restrictions for that reason, we have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protest

this uh un resolution and what it means uh first of all uh george muly senior research fellow global policy institute out of london metropolitan university out of budapest in sab shath author and west asia expert out of belfast thank you both for being with me starting off with. your perspective, let's start start from there, your thoughts about the passing of this resolution? well, obviously, it's a source of considerable embarrassment for israel, on the other hand, israel has had endure embarrassment such as this, and uh, it will do so again. it it did this of course back in 2016, during the last days of the obama administration, where again there was a security. resolution condemning israel settlements program, united states abstained, but relations between the israel in the us was soon restored. this is obviously um painful for israel. on the other hand, i think israel knows that there's an election uh coming up in the united states, the biden administration is obviously um in terrible uh straights with its own suh supporters, we saw that in the uh primary in michigan where there was such an enormous uncommitted vote, so i think one

we saw with the tragic death of lake and riley last week at the university of georgia, negligent immigration policieshreaten the safety of our community's pre-house republicans remain committed to passing hr to, by constantly communicating about this, showing the american people the tragedy and the crisis that is going on. this bill hr2, all the provisions within it, are the strongest border security the u.s. house has ever put together. it is passed time the administration takes real steps to end this crisis, rather than stage the photo ops we will see today. we have a great group of members. we will share their perspective with you. i will turn the mic over. >> thank you very much. we continue to see this biden administration completely give away our country. whether that is through small things like the sba programs that we are having to force through legislation. a bill that i am happy will be on the floor this week. to have an easy way to talk about the $200 million we have given away to fraudsters. two people from other countries taking advantage of our country, of a weak administration. we con

drew thompson, lee kuan yew school of public policy at the national university of singapore.iden and donald trump, are expected to clinch their party's nominations this week, for november's presidential election, and both men have been campaigning in the swing state of georgia. joe biden won it four years ago but with a majority of fewer than 12,000. now there's a fear among democrats, that african americans may be turning away from the party. gary o'donoghue, has more from the state's capital, atlanta. victory here in november could turn on just how many african americans decide to vote. are you going to vote this upcoming election? i wasn't looking at doing it. wasn't? 0k. it's an attitude voting advocates are trying to combat and they're finding frustration with the democrats on the doorstep. the republicans, they can say one thing and people will catch on to it, you know, and it is sticks. you know, and it sticks. and so i want us to have more one—liners. i do want more aggression. 88% of black voters supported joe biden in 2020. but some surveys show that as many as one

that by the way is busy to replace intensive care physician and the dean at pepperdine university of public policydgement, think you i want to play the soundbite. this is the former border patrol chief of the sector and he said this about this illegal nonillegal controversy. >> this was not the time to sit there and start apologizing, he has yet to apologize the border patrol agents and the most -- words patrol delrio, he liked the american people. for him to apologize to the murder suspect, that is just ridiculous. >> trace: you can see that biden is just trying to placate his base, you'll do anything he wants in the base want them to do and its day in and day out, and this is one of those examples. >> exactly right, trace. so many times during the state of the union he said one thing and that is being forced to backtrack on it. and for the people around him, like you just quoted one of his press secretary, you're really trying to catch spinning plates that are flying all over the place. it's definitely true, just as you said your comments before that illegal is illegal. these are the actual term

amy: michele goodwin, a professor of constitutional law and global health policy at georgetown universityand founding director of the center for biotechnology and global health policy. host of the ms. magazine podcast "on the issues with michele goodwin" and author of "policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood." in 2021, her guest essay for "the new york times" headlined "i was raped by my father. an abortion saved my life." i've asked, the state legislation in arizona speaks from the senate floor explaining why she is about to have an abortion. just back from that abortion, she will talk about why it was so important to take her personal agonizing decision public. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "all of the women" by allison russell. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we continue on the issue of reproductive rights, we are joined by democratic arizona state senator eva burch. last week, she made headlines when she made a speech on the floor of the arizona state senate where she share

the move went against the university's policy of blocking the gate. >> i hope is that when you have 3p0le marching through a gate, that then sends the message to the university enfor, standing idly by is not going to be a message for us as a community to stand idly by. >> demonstrators say they plan to march tomorrow morning starting at 1145 at zellerbach playhouse. they say they will sphead straight through sather gate, across campus. >> now, a spokesman for uc berkeley did release a statement on both of these protests. it reads in part. members of the campus administration are in contact with both the organizers of the existing protest at sather gate and those of the planned counter-protest the administration is aware of and is concerned about rising tensions on campus through dialog. we are seeking to reduce tensions so as to reduce the risk of conflict and violence on our campus. in regards to professor hannah's protest, the university saying, today the administration is committed to holds professor hassner in great esteem. and it is in conversation with him about his concerns. >> t

she also holds ahelor of arts in political science and fine arts and a master of public policy from the universitymaryland. joining secretary wormuth for this is our own alista ayres. dr. ayres is the first whom to serve as dean at tell cannot school of international affairs. she's an award-winning author with senior experience in the government, nonprofit and private sectors from 2013 to 2021 she was the senior fellow for india and south asia. deanes awarded numerous fellowships and has received honor awards for her work with the state department. she focuses on india's role in the world and the astralses wit. her book request "our time has come" was published by oxfo 2018 and was selected by the financial times for its 2018 politics list. dean ayres has worked as an interpreter for the national committee of the red cross. she received an m.b. harvard college and a degree from the university of chicago. she has held the trilateral jenld -- aagenda working group and the board of policy board of directors. this yearent for the arts democracy announced she will join the organization as a member of t

ramadan, it goes to the unconditional release of captives and unrestricted access to the desperately needed live saving age by thomas on the policy university of welcome to promising of the resolution aspects. when a sold balance is 0, that the great book was an agreement with israel, a full release of captives health in wisconsin. and the number of kind of students have died was trying to get food in news and gone. so they drowned and the see was trying to retrieve a that was adults into the wall. so you an agency for policy and refugees as the situation in northern gauze. that is beyond desperate set of goals. opposition? presidential candidates, bestardo joe, my fi is to when sundays election has main rival the boot and coalitions kind of that. i'm a do ball has conceded defeat. fi has 153.7 percent of the 90 percent of votes counted as an anti establishment. cons that chosen by the disqualified opposition needs. it was months. ok. both for release from prison just stays ahead of the vote . no password to my fi as address the media officer, his wife will, conceded defeat. maybe the committee by electing the president to synagogue. these

gate blocked for weeks by pro-palestinian and anti-israeli protesters, which is in violation of university policyat 630. it was broke in monterey county. that e farming community of pajaro. >> and now, a year later, many people there are still struggling to rebuild. ktvu is an reuben brings us their stories and the latest on the state funding that is coming their way in pajaro. >> even after a year devastation from the levee break remains fresh. there is still damage and there is still frustration. >ñ i feel sad, i feel like, they don't do nothing for us. like, are we living in in the middle of nowhere? >> this was the mexico meat market when the floodwaters hit. the only help they've received since then has come from family and savings. >> we don't have money, you know, to replace all the merchandise or to fix the building repairs to the levee itself are almost complete. >> meanwhile, the state of california has promised $20 million to the small town. tend to businesses and residents, another ten to community improvements. >> and it hasn't come. bureaucracy. i think that's what they call it. >>

vice president and we up the biden at the university of pennsylvania for global studies biden hall at the biden school at the university of delaware domestic policy finishing cancer. it was called cancer moonshot under. we called it the cancer initiative and we're we're involved he's doing real things. and then came and he again it goes back to being bullied. he saw those men and women coming out of the woods with tiki torches just like in nazi germany and he said i got to do it. so i look at myself in the mirror and turn away because i'm afraid i'm not going to be. and he believed and we believed that he was the right person at the right time for the right job. and we didn't we weren't like he didn't wake up in the morning wanted to help here hail to the chief and i sure as hell didn't want to wake up to that which i knew and was not disappoint it was going to be ugly, ugly, ugly. the way to get to joe was get to his family. and i said, you know, god and he said, well, i got to do it. and i said, okay then, you know, buckle up. i'm i'm with and it was very different. i hung up my what i said i hung up my spikes to use the sporting to put on comb

constitutional law of the belarusian state university, graduated from the faculty of law of the belarusian state university, completed an internship at the institute constitutional legislative policyropean university , the academy of management under the president of belarus, the raoul wallenberg institute, collaborates with the national center for legal information of belarus, author of more than 90 scientific papers, awarded numerous commendations, diplomas from the ministries of justice and education of belarus, scientific interests, state legal and international regulation, practice of implementation and protection of human rights and freedoms. the social structure of society changes, therefore, this is the normal course of history in any state. and our republic of belarus is no exception. in many countries , fundamentally new constitutional acts are adopted virtually from scratch, because these fundamental changes relate to the state structure, the territorial organization of society, and the form of government in the state may even change. in ninety. a declaration of state sovereignty was adopted, which in the ninety-first year was given the status of a constitutional law an

the in sold, but it's cost saving uh to seam and con, or the professor of health economics and policy, its sole national university school of public health enjoys this out also from so a professor could help you with this and i'll just share with thanks very much for your time. how much of this is about sort of sensible public health policy. i mean, the more doctors you have uh on uh, on cold will patients can be seen medical facilities will be well stocked. it seems a sensible move. well i think so because some, in terms of the number of doctors per capita, korea is the lowest from all the way you see the countries. but at the same time, korea is experiencing a very record aging of population. so there is some rapidly increasing demand. and youtube creation of healthcare services, while the 1st issue, it's a shortage of doctors. and furthermore, there's so some issues over the distribution of the doctors, so between over and rural, and between some of those small, profitable specialties versus less profitable specialties. so i think this, the increase in the number of doctors in korea has been a very urgent uh, h

policy. the group of a few 100 march from zellerbach hall. the california hall claiming that the university's administration is selectively enforcing campus policies. >> at the expense of jewish students, many students we spoke with say they feel less safe on campus. >> definitely uncomfortable. and it feels like an intimidation tactic for one there shouting slogans that are promoting violence towards jews as jewish. that really makes me not want it. engage in this central parts of campus 2 weeks ago, a pro palestine demonstration took place on campus and it took place against an event organized by jewish students at sellers block playhouse. >> forcing police to evacuate attendees along with an israeli speaker. the uc berkeley police department announcing last week that it was investigating those incidents as a hate crime. it is statement uc berkeley's vice chancellor says in part, quote, while we support the exercise of free speech rights, the campus also seeks to enforce its time place and manner restrictions for that reason, we have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolen

of public policy at home. i've been felicia university. you heard rosamond jordan's reporting this appears to be uh, this could be biden's way of putting pressure on benjamin netanyahu. several elements here, several things going on at the same time. a netanyahu rival, benny ganz is in the us. the us is dropping aid into the gaza strip. and at the same time, within the all of this and 36 hours, the us saying publicly the israel is on board or at least not saying no to him a ceasefire deal. do you read this is us pressure on israel while it has the pressure of news or the us in a position where they cannot the pressure is there a direct the the administration has already given his red light green the green light and then open check to go all the way at the administration. the nice space is not under direct special from that anyhow. but from those radio they'll be in the united states. so part of their conduct is to try and speak to these res nicely, which they have done. now i think they're trying to introduce measures of pressure on the att

of free zones , they take the students of saiq university, they take them, and different departments, i believe, should have a summary of these and make policies in the field of tuition. thank you, mr. taheri. how much? in your opinion, the status of azad university and other non-profit universities is the same market, their market is monopolistic , in your opinion, is it considered a competitive market? now , we did not have much disagreement regarding the doctor's orders . educational services means free university institutions and private ones loneliness did not determine the price. he also accepted this in the discussion about who should do this work, which we also agree on. i said that one of the pathologies in competitive councils is that the situation is more legal than technical. this is not the issue, you should go to the car now and see if the competition council is really functioning well or not. one of the indicators here where the monopoly market has been recognized is entry pricing or actually destroying the manufacturer or the consumer, which is really nothing. time for a balanced path and the necessary tools to deal with it the

economy of china's development and its foreign relations with the united states and the developing world particularly africa. he's been a visiting faculty member ating university and nyu. he was a policyalyst of the dress china economicu.s. china economic security review commission and a senior fellow for the american foreign policy council since 2006. before coming to notre dame in 2019 he was assistant professor of public affairs at the university of texas at austin. over to you. >> thank you. i appreciate the introduction. it's wonderful to be here with you today. and let me begin by saying the global initiative is transformative in that it is bringing together a top research university at notre dame with all of the benefits and all of the things that come with that to a top ashington think tank to the policy jobs that gave was mentioning in the speech, so it does for the growth of the interests of both of the institutions and i'm proud to work with dave to be part of it because it is with the cgs i that we are going to be engaging with people in the conference and going forward throughout the global south unit working on issues in the global south and that is fundamental to the sc

what do you think of the lawsuit filed against the ncaa and the university of georgia system for their policiesl, it seems like on this subject everybody right now is lawyering up, and it's unfortunate. our society has come to that. the moment you open the door to anyone who is biologically female and to be honest with you, it's nothing about discrimination against gender identity. it's rather -- it's so simple. it's just about anybody who developed biologically male has an unfair advantage in competition. and they really do have that. it's called, you know, just -- it's unfair to do something like this. well, the far left and especially right now in this lawsuit we are talking about what's happening in nassau county, i mean, everybody is getting involved. letitia james is involved. it's just -- honestly, it's getting out of hand. >> john: so this is over a law that was passed in the county which does not allow biological males as transgender women to compete on women's teams. it was put into law by the nassau county executive bruce blakeman, letitia james as you mentioned has threatened to fil

university's housing policy. protesters say the universities, pri students out of housing options near school and work. there's a of protests outside u c s f at 11, 30. and in francisco, the human services agency workers, they're going to be rallying today, urging the city to fill vacancies instead of contract. now. so currently hsa has a vacancy rate as high as 40%. the there are longer wait an application times or clients. it's more time of the city's most vulnerable populations, not getting food, housing, medical and other types of assistance that they need. workers also say the passage of proposition asked we'll make things worse as it's going to require workers to implement new processes policies without doing anything to fill vacancies or providing additional funding. the rally is on otis street at noon. developing news, a possible freeway shooting shutting down all westbound lanes of interstate 80 in the east bay. this happened last night. chp say the victim took themselves to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. the incident happened on mcbride avenue in san pablo see on your screen

justin joins us, professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan. if he is in the building you know he is on the show. ali velshi. my partner on all things economics and life. he is also the host of velshi saturday and sunday here on msnbc at 10:00 a.m. people were hoping and praying the fed would cut rates soon, but with an inflation report like this, what do you think? >> most investors and economists will tell us we are looking at june as the earliest possibility for a rate cut. the fed meets in march, but inflation is kind of flat lining. it is still much more moderate than it was at its peak in 2022. but it is not down to a level to give the fed the comfort it needs to make that move. so most economists think not this month, probably not at the next meeting in may. >> president biden has a ton to brag about when it comes to the economy. and the economic recovery. however, if your groceries are still really expensive, if your rent is super expensive, is that all people care about? >> there are two things to look at. your groceries will always be

of our podcasts on our free app. communications policy advocates discuss the universal service fund which subsidizes telephone service for low income customers. this is part of the policy summit in washington d.c. it's 30 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. if i could have your attention i know you are all enjoying your lunch. how is everyone doing? good? it's been a really great today so far. it's been f a great morning. a lot of great speakers and we are so happy everyone could be here. wen are very, very full. my name is lindsay i am an attorney and policy manager here at encompass and i'm here to introduce the next panel. so, the next panel will be reforming theg universal's favorite topic. it's an title reformingng the universal service fund, how to create a more effici stable fund. i would first like to introduce the economist is a principal at lore her recent study on the best path forward to stabilize the uss. and then following her have john of politico who will moderate a discussion as well as encompass to further discuss a way forward. so with that i will give the speech over. hello

the head of the foreign policy department , sergei lavrov, presented the university rector alexander a number of employees received ministry awards for high performance indicators. lavrov noted that. the diplomatic academy has firmly established itself among the country's leading educational scientific institutions. according to him, diplomats need to constantly improve their professionalism. in conditions where a multipolar world order continues to take shape, international relations are becoming more and more complex and unpredictable. he spoke about this in great detail in his recent speeches, including yesterday. interview, the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, and russian diplomats need to constantly learn, constantly improve themselves throughout their professional careers. in moscow they said goodbye to svetlana margunova, the ceremony took place in the church at the sklefosovsky institute of emergency medicine. burial will be at troekkurovskoye cemetery. svetlana margunova, a well-known and beloved tv presenter and announcer on central television, did not b

of the economy? former assistant treasury secretary for economic policy economist of the america first policy institute and economics professor at the university look at the polls, we can put some holes out how american real and they don't like bidenomics. they think it has failed, are they right? >> they are because if you look at how far american household budgets are going these days compared to what it was like four years ago, they they are working harder than ever get not getting anywhere near where they were before and that is because while we have seen inflation, it's not as if ice is gone down the price level so elevated compared to where was three years ago which that prices are about 10% higher than they were and what is disturbing about the most recent report that came out tonight is another month personal income went up less than inflation so once you inflation adjust, households our brother falling behind in that means they put more on credit and digging deeper into their savings accounts and that's why they are discouraged and they see they are not getting ahead. >> there's that old obama index, probably the only time i've credit

of the venue of the uc berkeley police department announced last week that it was investigating those incidents as hate picture. we want the university administration to enforce their policy part of this means calling out hate against jews, whether it's related to jewish. >> and special identity, whether it's related to jewish, religious or ethnic identity to call out heat against but more than that when there's a student or student organization that is violating policies such as protesting and blocking, say their gate to enforce the policy when the university administration doesn't enforce policy. that results in a hostile unsafe island campus >> in a statement from the uc berkeley's vice chancellor. they say in part, quote, while we support the exercise of free speech rights, the campus also seeks to enforce its time place and manner restrictions for that reason. we have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protests inside their gate that violates those restrictions. we're doing so following established protocols that seek to avoid the involvement of law enforcement to address nonviolent protest except as a last resort. so this group of protesters

ambassador tomat nato, and steve israel, former congressman of new york, the director of cornell university's institute of policyelcome to both of you. senator hutchinson, let's start with you on this. from the outside it certainly rook looks like it is a lot harder to get things done in washington these days. as somebody who knows their way around, what do you think? >> oh, becky, that's the understatement of the year. we've watched this back and forth, of course the house and senate have very small margins. the democrats on the senateside and the house on the house republicans. it means that you've got to work across the aisle and that is very difficult to do with these small margins. it's tough. that's for sure, but i was pleased to see that there is now some funding coming forward to fund this cycle that we're in now, halfway in already. so hopefully they do fund the government. i know republicans are trying very hard to hold the line on spending and start whittling down that debt, which we know, and also take care of some of the over regulation of business that is beginning to really hurt our tech companies

wilmington, north carolina, professor sarah crabs is found, the end director of the technology policy institute at cornell university and the whole of the book, social media and international relations in fort lauderdale. don't horn was acting executive deputy chief information officer for new york. quit band tick tock on, state issued phones used by executive agency employees and in london. chung chain. quang is a senior analyst with the internet. paul dementia, lawrence on china is a global network of legislatures focusing on china. policy. chunk chain is a self, a hong kong, dissident living in exile. great to have you all on the program. well, we all know or at least know about take talk. it's a nice downloaded app in the world, mostly. i think people know it full lips. let's say video, silly videos, people don't sing, don't. how important and how influential is this app? its 6th street only influential. you know, if you, if you look at the history of it and, and how often people actually use the app and then goes into things like purchased things just because it tells them to it shows you that it has to break c

he is a former pentagon official, now a seniorfellow at the lee kuan yew school of public policy at the national universityy go down in the history books for what hasn't happened. xijinping is not going to give a final speech today to close the session. the premier didn't have a press conference, which is unusual and has been precedent for many years. we haven't had a new foreign minister announced or any other personnel moves. and i think also, importantly, we haven't seen any significant economic proposals that would dramatically change the current economic dynamic, which is facing significant headwinds. so this is really a very status quo npc. ok, let's take those first two things you mentioned together. no speech by xijinping and no press conference by li xiang. what do you put that down to? so obviously, the tenor and approach for the communist party and the government of china is changing. they�* re less accountable to the people and to the media. there is obviously, i think, also a major shift in the communist party's consolidation of control underxijinping. so the party really leads in all things,

are joined by rami khouri, a palestinian american journalist and a senior public policy fellow at the american university ofeirut. his most recent piece for al jazeera is headlined "watching the watchdogs: biden, u.s. media and arab-american political power." rami, welcome back. we want to talk about gaza in a minute, but let's begin with lebanon and what is happening with the attacks between israel and lebanon. if you can talk about the significance. are we talking about and escalation into regional war? what is happening on the border? >> we're definitely witnessing and escalation that has been going on since the beginning of the current phase of fighting in gaza in early october. it has picked up a lot in the last two weeks. the israeli's have made it very clear in public statements openly they want to not destroy hezbollah, but reduce its power or neutralize it as a possible military force threaten them. they see hezbollah, correctly, very closely linked to iran and sees iran, i'm not so sure correctly, as a threat. the israelis get talking about we had to do something about hezbollah, putting willing t

. >> demonstrators say the university failed to respond. 2 instances of anti-semitic violence on campus. they also say the university to selectively enforcing campus policiesthe expense of jewish students. >> when there's a student or student organization that is violating policies such as protesting and blocking, say their gate to enforce the policy when the university administration doesn't force policy that results in a hostile unsafe island campus >> 2 weeks ago, a pro-palestinian demonstration took place on campus, forced police to evacuate attendees. and those in israeli at that event who couldn't speak a statement from uc berkeley's vice chancellor says the school is trying to end protests that violate campus rules by using established protocols and only involving law enforcement as a last resort. >> meanwhile, the u.s. department of education now investigating uc berkeley for possible discrimination ties to the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. the investigation comes following allegations that the university violated title 6 civil rights act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color and national origin in programs

demonstrators say the university failed to response to instances of anti-semitic violence on campus and they say the university is selectively enforcing campus policies at the expense of jewish students. >> when there's a student or student organization that is violating policies such as protesting and blocking, say their gate to enforce the policy when the university administration doesn't enforce policy. that results in a hostile unsafe island campus just 2 weeks jewish students were not able to have a rally that they wanted in a speaker. >> because a pro palestinian demonstration happen and that forced police to evacuate all the attendees and the israeli speaker who was there for that event, a statement from uc berkeley's vice chancellor says the school's trying to end protests to violate campus rules by using established protocols and only involving law enforcement as a last resort. >> 7.40, is the time and local animal shelters are. bursting at the seams. they've received more dogs than they have requests for adoptions. you can see in the video here, some of the dogs that are available. these are perfectly healthy dogs that unfortunately may hav

meanwhile, happening today, university of california students, workers and tenants plan to protest on campus over the university's housing policyversity has priced students out of housing options for school and work. there will be a protest outside ucsf at 11, 30 this morning. >> san francisco human service agency workers are going to rally today. they're urging the city to build vacancies instead of contracting out to have those vacancies filled. >> and they want the city to stop imposing unfunded mandates right now the h has a vacancy rate as high as 40%. so that means longer wait times for clients and longer application times. and that's more time that the city's most vulnerable populations are not getting food, housing, medical help and other assistance they need. workers say the passage of proposition f will make things worse. it will require workers to implement new processes and enforce policies without doing anything to fill the vacancies or provide additional funding the rally is on otis street at noon today. >> it's some 41. and still ahead on kron morning news, this new drug is leading to a decrease in st ives in san