2013-08-30 Global Talks

09/03/13 • 36 min

Global Talks: Today we are debating the British government is defeated in a parliamentary vote on military intervention in Syria. The US and Switzerland reach an agreement over American tax dodgers; India is to sell US dollars to state oil firms in a bid to revive the rupee; and Saudi Arabia passes a landmark law that outlaws domestic abuse.

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2013-08-30 Public transport in big cities

Panel discussion: Wherever you are in the world, consider these questions. Have you ever used your city's public transport and then complained about it? It's too crowded, or too slow; or too expensive, too dirty, too smelly or it doesn't go near me, and so you drive?! Well, if you live in a big city, we've all said those things at one point or another. -Dong Shanfeng, General Manager of Bluepath City Consultanc -Hung Wing Tat, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University -Vukan R. Vuchic, Professor of City and Regional Planning from University of Pennsylvania

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2013-09-02 Impending war on Syria?

Panel discussion: Just how do you solve a problem like Syria? A murderous regime that has no qualms about dropping bombs on its own people ququeing for bread or in a school playground; a fractious, radicalised and violent opposition fighting group bent on revenge and sectarian strife, plus a political opposition that is not only exiled but also incoherent and ineffective. Had the chemical attacks near Damascus not happened the week before. -Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Associate professor at the University of Tehran -James. Gelvin, Professor of History at University of California at Los Angeles, -Teng Jianqun, Senior Researcher at China Institute of International Studies