university of oxford. doctor previously was onct the faculty of the university before going on to trinity college at the university of torontosaint anthony's college. at the university of oxford. she is the author of war, how conflict shaped us which is published this past fall in her previous books include 1919 nixon in now, dangerous game in joining us as moderator this evening, professor of columbia law school, he's a leading extensive history of government service, he served in all three branches of government during six ministrations both republican and democratic including most recently in the intelligence program in the infrastructure of the national security council. our next program your questions can be submitted on your resume screen and you can use a q&a. our speakers will get to as many questions as time allows. it is my great pleasure to turn our stage over to tonight speaker. >> thank you luis and welcome. >> you say war is the worst organize of human activities, and the government is the most organized human activities because the relationship between the emergence of the state is one of the great strengths o

professor of history at the university of toronto previously on the faculty before going on as provost at trinity college at the university of toronto and that say into these college has university of oxford she is the author of war how conflict shape does. and those that ended piece. >> and professor of jurisprudence at columbia law school professor bother is a leading international there is too has an extensive history of government service. with the six administrations both republican and democratic. with those intelligence programs for critical infrastructure at the national security council. and with questions and answers and they can be submitted the q&a function on your zoom screen. we have disabled the chat function so please remember the q&a. we will get to as many questions as time allows. and now i turn it over to today's speakers. >> welcome margaret it's good to see you. >> thank you. so as a constitutional lawyer like me it is said that governments is the most organized of human activities. so that relationship is one of thet great strengths of this book. then need to mak

university of oxford. doctor margaret macmillan previously at the university before going on to serve at trinity college at the university of toronto and at saint anthony's college. at the university of oxford. she is the author of "war" and how it's conflict shaped us which is published this past fall in previous books include 1919, the war that ended peace, and out dangerous games. and turning up this moderating, professor at columbia law school. professor is a leading constitutional purist who has an extensive history of government service pretty serves in all three branches ofho government during six administrations. both republican and democratic including most s recently, the intelligence programs and critical infrastructure and senior director for strategic planning at the national security council. and this will last an hour and 15 minutes in the questions and answers and the questions can be submitted on your zoom screen and the q&a function. and also in the chat function so please do remember to use the q&a in our speakers will get to as many questions as time allows. and now it is my great pleasure to turn our virtual's

university of oxford. doctor previously was on the faculty of the university before going on to serve as provost of trinity college at the university of toronto and saint anthony college at the university of oxford. she is the author of war how it shaped us which is published this last phone or previous books in 1919 dangerous games and women. [inaudible] joining us as moderator this evening at columbia law school. as a leading constitutional to have an extensive history of government service. he serves in all three branches of government during six administrations both republican and democratic and most recently director of intelligence program director for critical infrastructure and senior director for strategic planning at the national security council. thus an hour including 15 minutes for questions and answers. questions can be submitted via the q&a function on your screen. so please do remember to use the q and a. our speakers will get to as many questions as time allows. i know it's my great pleasure to turn our virtual stage over too tonight speaker, thank you. >> thank you louisa welcome margaret lovely to see you. >> thank you. >>

. >> reporter: university of toronto professor, richard florida is studying the resurgence of america'sajor cities. he says many people who left just moved a few hours away. >> one of the things i think that's changing is cities are going to be less about a place to go to work and much more about a place to go to connect. >> reporter: this spring in manhattan, real estate brokers report the number of sales surging to the highest level in six years. howard lorber. >> isn't new york city dead? isn't new york city dead? and my answer consistently was no, it's not dead. it's in a coma, but people and cities come out of comas, hopefully. >> reporter: office vacancies are still high and cities are dealing with crime and affordability. but for joe and canal they've found something they can't get anywhere else. >> it's the spontaneous connections, the magic of having so many people in one geographical location. >> reporter: which why reports of the city's death may be greatly exaggerated. michael george, cbs news, new york. >>> and that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, t

. >> reporter: university of toronto professor richard florida is studying the resurgence of america's major cities. he says many people who left just moved a few hours away. >> one of the things i think that's changing our cities is, cities are going to be less about a place to go to work and much more about a place to go connect. >> reporter: this spring in manhattan real estate brokers report the number of sales surging to the highest level in six years. howard lorber of douglas eliman realty. >> everyone saying, "isn't new york city dead, isn't new york city dead?", and my answer was no, it's not dead. it's in a coma. but people and cities come out of comas. hopefully. >> reporter: office vacancies are still high and cities are dealing with challenges like crime and affordability. but for joe and kunal they found something in san francisco they say they can't get anywhere else. >> the value of any city is the sort of spontaneous connections that you can have living in t it is the magic of having so many people in one small geographical location. >> reporter: which is why reports of

joined by an author. margaret mcmillan. professor mcmillan is a professor of history at the university of toronto in an ameritas professor of international history and a former warden of st. anthony's college of university of oxford. and oxford is where she's joining us from today. good day, professor, how are you? very well, thanks. alright, so let's start with a book. you've written a lot of books about that, the 20th century, and then you wrote this one, which is a course about the 20th century, which is nobody's great wars, but it's actually a much more broad look at history on this one topic, a war. why did, why did you write it? i'm also curious. are you surprised at all by the response to it? well, the 2nd question is easy to answer. yes i am. it's something i've been thinking about for a long time, but i thought it will come out. it's the book that a few people might like be nice if it got some nice reviews, but i am, i am surprised. it's something i've been thinking about for a long time. if you do, history, war comes in and out of history a lot that has a huge impact on history. and i s

just a short time ago. hom, edmond salvi, a professor, professor of political science at the university of toronto. history shows that it's very clever when it comes to the top latasha negotiations between iran and the us inches are very high right now. so throwing accusations without any evidence might actually lead to an escalation on. nevertheless, it's an open secret that you on in israel have been engaged in a sort of like a shadow war in the past few years. and lately in the past few months, the 2 sides have been attacking each other as ships. but they don't think any sides at the moment, want war, never the future will really depend on whether iran will be able to reach a nuclear deal with the united states. the history has shown us that the re, these are actually very clever in sabotaging uranian negotiations with the americans. so. busy if, if in fact, these railways are behind these the red flag operations, then i think that will solve the situation and it might lead to a breakdown of the negotiations. now if the negotiations actually break down, then i think that would really escalate t

we are pleased to welcome margaret mcmillan professor of history at the university of toronto and emeritus professor of international history at the university of oxford doctor mcmillan previously before going on at provost at university college and saint anthony college at the university of oxford and the author that was published this past fall in including paris 1919 nixon and now. joining us as moderator this evening professor of jurisprudence at columbia law school. a leading constitutional theorist who has an extensive history of government service serving in all three branches of government joining six administrations republican and democratic including most recently the intelligence program for critical infrastructure for strategic planning at the national security council. the presentation will last for an hour and your questions could be submitted on your zoom screen. will ask as many questions as time allows. >> you say war is the most organized of human activities. as a constitutional lawyer like me it is said that governments are the most organized that relationship between mo

and john scott rawlton from citizen lab at the university of toronto, which has been analyzing pegasus on infected phones and exposing how it works for years. now. thank you all for joining us today on this for conversation. john, let me start with you because you and citizen lab were among the 1st i began reading years ago that were essentially warning that the fear that we all have that governments were potentially tracking us. what's happening? can you sketch what has been unfolding and what your principal concerns are? well, 1st of all, thanks for having me and for this great panel. one of the things that i think it's important for people to know is that the industry is not new. we're just learning about it because it's growing and the scale of harms that it's causing are growing as well. this is an industry that basically says to governments around the world, look, you want to hack. maybe you don't have that technology within your country. but you can do it if you have a big enough checkbook and companies like and so, but also companies with a like hacking team from italy before t

university of oxford. doctor mcmillian prettily was on the faculty before going on to serve as provost at trinity college at the university of toronto. she's the author of "war: how conflict shaped us" which was published this past fall and her previous books include paris 1919, nixon and mao, and women. joining us this moderator the cd is philip bobbitt, professor at columbia law school. professor bobbitt is a leading constitutional theorist who has an extensive history of government service. he served in all three brancheso of government during six administrations both republican and democratic, including most recently as a director of the intelligence program, senior director for critical infrastructure, and senior director for strategic planning at the national security council. to knights presentation last an hour and including 15 minutes for questions and answers. your questions can be submitted via the q&a function on your zoom screen. in the interest of simplicity we have disabled the chat function so please do remember to use the q&a. our speakers will get to have many questions as time allows. and now it is my great pleasu

university of england. she joins me live from toronto, canada. thanks so much for joining us.n to the story which i would like to get to. first, i would like to lean antonio your expertise. i want to start with your reaction of what we are seeing. quickly taking over so much of the country with so little resistance with the afghan armed forces. >> thank you for having me, kim, in your program. yes, it is quite surprising for all of us that the taliban could advance so fast at such a fast pace and reached the gates. which didn't leave time for afghan to process the whole situation. many have plans on leaving the country but could not execute those plans. the way that the taliban, the manner has the taliban advanced so fast raises a lot of questions. the afghan security forces appeared that there was no one among them toll fight the taliban in some areas. there has not been political wealth to fight the taliban particularly the north and west parts of the country and the manner that they hold peace process was handled both at the national and international level and has contribu

of us. because we were the generation that we grow up in toronto for century, we're open minded when school high school university and we pose a like a like a direct threat to them. when i asked what hope they had the future, they told me they can't look forward only back at the people they left behind and to focus on getting them to safety. lore about mentally odyssey ra, doha. tropical storm. henry is battering a stretch of the northeastern coast of the united states, just as are being done graded from a harken billions of people bracing for flash floods, violent winds, and passages. john henry has all story from the stones path in montauk in new york . on re rolled into rhode island on massive waves making a rare and raucous landfall and new england downgraded from a hurricane on sunday. unrestricted new york. before becoming the 1st tropical storm to land in the smallest state in 30 years, threatening the northeast coast of the us on re reserved the brent of its fury. for rhode island, snapping trees like twigs in kent, exploding electrical transformers in newport and battering in beaching boats in jamestown.

toronto to become aerospace what? >> aerospace engineers, yes. so they did their post-grad studies at queen's university in kingston, ontario. >> sean: that's crazy, both ofting thing? >> they are. it took them awhile to get there, let's just say that. they like to -- you know, i'm sure they're taking credit for all of it with all of their friends. i remember i was in the car, turning onto hollywood boulevard for the first time, they were with me, it was just such an incredible moment. because you know, the whole street had been cordoned off. it was all red carpet, hundreds of fans that were waiting outside for us. such an incredible moment. my parents were like caught up in it. and i was like -- you know, you didn't want me to do this, right? [ laughter ] you know that, right? >> sean: yeah, take that! >> and i love the mental gymnastics my parents have done and continue to do, because you know, my dad turns to me and he's like, you know, what we did made you stronger. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] what we did was we made you truly fight for what you wanted. [ laughter ] so, you're welcome, basically. >> sean: that's hilarious. i think the way --