Welcome back to Paz de la World, I'm Tommy Vittor.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

Ben, good to see you all over there in Venice.

We have a very cool show for listeners today that spans multiple time zones and even multiple

continents that I'm excited about.

So the news portion of the show will be a little different.

We're going to skip the morbid coronavirus cases, death toll update because you can find

that in a lot of places.

Instead, we're going to focus on a lot of these coronavirus adjacent issues you're seeing

around the globe.

So for example, like 2019 was the year of the protester.

How do you keep up that momentum if you can't gather safely or in some cases legally?

What can we do about autocrats using the coronavirus to consolidate power and stifle

the press or even what do we do about our European allies who seem to be eagerly tossing aside

hard fought for online data privacy protections?

We'll also talk about how this virus is at least temporarily defeating traditional symbols

of American military might like aircraft carriers.

And then we have two interviews.

So I checked in with former US ambassador, Israel Dan Shapiro about the shocking news that

Blue and White Party chief Benny Gantz is going to form a coalition with Prime Minister

Beebe Netanyahu.

And then Ben, you just got off the phone with British Labour Party MP David Lamy.

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