2013-08-28 Global Talks

08/30/13 • 54 min

Global Talks: Today we are debating the US is ready to launch an attack on Syria;Tunisia classifies Ansa al-Sharia a terrorist group; Russia demands Belarus to release the head of a Russian potash company;Italy is struggling to reach consensus over a housing tax;India is to invest 30 billion US dollars in infrastructure projects and much more.

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2013-08-28 Extreme Weather

Panel discussion: It's been one of the hottest summers in many parts of China. Record temperatures have baked vast areas of the east with Shanghai hitting the 40-degree mark. We have also seen a drought in the southeast of China, floods in the southwest in Sichuan, more floods in Heilongjiang in the north east and even snow in Xinjiang in the middle of August. -Prof. Martin Beniston, Director, Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva. -Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. -Wu Changhua, Greater China Director of The Climate Group.

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2013-08-29 Civil Rights

Panel discussion: Events marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Washington have been taking place across America this week - culminating in a commemoration by the Lincoln Memorial and the Mall in DC on Wednesday. Of course, it was a march made famous and is still remembered for that Martin Luther King "I have a dream' line. But what is its relevance today? -Yohuru R. Williams, Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University -Brandon Blackburn-Dwyer, Editor in Chief at Quo Vadimus News