Lit forces nearly a 1000000 civilians to flee a standoff between greece and turkey over migrants and refugees at the border is growing uncorrupt has deployed 1000. 00 special forces we report from the scene close under lockdown italy takes drastic measures close the schools and universities across the nation after the number of deaths from the quarter virus surpasses 100. On my lark its a pleasure to have you along everyone turkish president rich a thai air to wine and russian president Vladimir Putin are holding talks at the criminal the spiraling violence in northwestern syria or turkey and russia have troops on the ground there but theyre supporting opposing sides right. Supports the Syrian Government or turkey has backed rebels fighting the assad regime well as he arrived in a moscow earlier one priest which he called good relations with russia turkey once to agree to a cease fire during the meeting to ease the situation in the province recent weeks of escalating military action in
An excellent panel of experts are here as well. Reintegration in afghanistan. Id also like to we will all of you know joining us online. In the webcast and would note that you can also follow the conversation on twitter that u. S. Ip, hashtag cr. Sid ar. I would also like to encourage you to check out the podcast network. It will include this if it and many other compelling programs featuring leading voices on violent prevention and national security. Was founded five years ago by members of congress as an independent nonpartisan National Institute charged is vitally important litigating and resolving violent conflict. Since 2002 are Afghanistan Program has worked closely with the governments, Civil Society organizations of how others to prevent litigate violent conflict and more recently, to support the afghanistan Peace Process. It goes that went out staying, that there is considerable uncertainty during the last two weeks in terms of the Peace Process but while that remains true, wh
We recognize, we cant do it alone. This goes to the staffing issues. Theres going to be in National Guard component. Theres going to be another sector component to it. The dhs component to it. A Law Enforcement component so bringing the whole Community Together for response to Cyber Threats is a great lesson out of the ukraine. Two things i wanted to put a fine point on. One, the physical cyber convergence, the attack surface growing exponentially. When we Start Talking about the internet of things and the internet of everything, making security into the design of architecture becomes that much more important. Secure coding and the like. And i might note that one of the greatest deterrence and ive been an outspoken critic that we havent really articulated a cyber deterrence strategy and i think we in essence blame the victim. We blame entities rather than penalize and put pain and cost on the perpetrator but thats a longer conversation but maybe one of the best deterrence is the abilit
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration
That is the answer to everything. When donald trump talks about hes going to raise tariffs on people. But, quite honestly, its in the United States in a victim again. It is victimhood. That is all that is. It is not that we are not charging china for tariffs, it is not that we need to erect a barrier for trade, when used to be done is to use the constitution to free americas , the dreamers, entrepreneurs, the Small Businessman. [applause] get the government out of the way and let us create [applause] when i first heard donald trump say that he was going to make ,merica great again, i thought this guys ego never stops. There is no end to his ego. A president does not make America Great. A president stands as a sentinel between you and the bloated government and he is facing this way trying to hold them back. He is just like, keep going, keep going, you people stop. That is what the president does. He stops the bloated government from getting into your life. By applying the constitution.