Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the region. And its always a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by Iraq Initiative and global initiative. Our Iraq Initiative is led by abbas kadhim, who will be our moderator. Its been a game changer having abbas working with us. Hes one of those rare individuals who unde
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Its been a day of violent Anti Government protest across iraq. Reports now say at least a0 people have been killed, after Security Forces used live rounds and tear gas against demonstrators. Eight died in the capital, baghdad, the rest in clashes in the south of the country. In the city of nasiria, the authorities have imposed a curfew. The protests, which began two weeks ago, have been against corruption, lack ofjobs and Economic Hardship, as Aleem Maqbool reports. Gunshots. Antigovernment demonstrators took to the streets of baghdad in their thousands. Surging towards the green zone. But as they did, they were met by tear gas and clashes with the police. The violence marked exactly one year of the current government. Another year filled with Economic Hardship for iraqis, spiralling unemployment, and poor provision of basic services. Already this month, nearly 200 protesters have been killed across the country in a brutal response by the state to the dem
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Its been a day of violent Anti Government protest across iraq. Reports now say at least a0 people have been killed, after Security Forces used live rounds and tear gas against demonstrators. Eight died in the capital, baghdad, the rest in clashes in the south of the country. In the city of nasiriya, the authorities have imposed a curfew. The protests, which began two weeks ago, have been against corruption, lack ofjobs and Economic Hardship, as Aleem Maqbool reports. Gunshots. Antigovernment demonstrators took to the streets of baghdad in their thousands. Surging towards the green zone. But as they did, they were met by tear gas and clashes with the police. The violence marked exactly one year of the current government. Another year filled with Economic Hardship for iraqis, spiralling unemployment, and poor provision of basic services. Already this month, nearly 200 protesters have been killed across the country in a brutal response by the state to the de
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President trump is traveling to dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas, today, the signs of dalby mesh shootings is we can. The president spoke to reporters outside the white house. Good morning, mr. President. Question for you, mr. President. So were going to dayton first and then were going to el paso and we will be meeting with first responders, law enforcement, some of the victims, and paying my respects and regards. Ill be going with the first lady, and its a terrific opportunity really to congratulate some of the police and law enforcement, the job they have was incredible. Really incredible. Mr. President , no doubt, i dont think anybody will argue, that at this time in a country for all of us from your heart, from your mind what you say to your critics that it is your rhetoric that is in bolding White Nationalism that is inspiring this anger. So my critics are political people are trying to make points turkey many cases they are running for president and their are very low in the pol