We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
[inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. Welcome. Its a Beautiful Day in the start up with going to be a really exciting week. I want to say thank you to all of you for coming. Delighted to have you here. And let me just say last week we released a report in the armitage series and id like you to take a look at it but its looking at the next step we can take in strengthening its alliance. Its a remarkable accomplishment in these last years we have succeeded at a high point. Its really been remarkable whats been accomplished during his tenure and we are excited to have him here especially having a speech in front of the joint session of congress. Thats really rare so thats exciting time. We were very fortunate to have two ambassadors here in buster yamada and ambassador rahm emanuel. They have been working hard for the last three weeks. He said he was out running the marathon this weekend and that explains a lot why hes fit and trim. [laughter] but we are excited to have him he
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
From englands ashes tour game following an incident in a bar in perth. And coming up in half an hour, 100 women is in the brazilian city of rio dejaneiro, tackling the issue of sexism in sport. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is in iran, where hes pressing the authorities to release Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe and others with british iranian dual citizenship on humanitarian grounds. Mrs Zaghari Ratcliffe is serving a five year prison term on charges of spying and trying to overthrow the iranian government, which she denies. Adina campbell reports. A big day for the British Foreign secretary. Ahead of a highly anticipated meeting, borisjohnson greeted by his iranian counterpart, looked keen to get the discussions off to a quick start. Where the topic of the imprisonment of dual nationals will be high on the agenda. One of them is nazanin zaghair ratcliffe, seen here with her daughter, who she has been away from since being arrested in tehran 18