Union. The son of libyas dictator Moammar Gadhafi among nine people sentenced to death on what the u. N. Describes as disturbing. Im in london where the computer programmers of the future are taking part in a hackathon. Not the end for the United States olympic bit and could be the beginning and will announce about the presidency. Well, starting this program with the news that turkish f16 fighter jets targeting in a place of a Mountain Area in the southeast and this is after the turkey president erdiwan who discussed this as impossible and we report in the south of turkey. Turkish f16 fighter jets dont have too far to fly to hit targets of the new enemy aisle just over the border in syria this was last week and dont have much further to go to target an old enemy, the separatist p. K. K. In Northern Iraq. Many kurds are angry and frustrated the turkish government seems to be equating the them from i. S. I. L. With the threat from the p. K. K. And mainly kurdish city in southeast turkey
To our kenyan election review, some weeks ago, we did a kenyan election preview and im not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass, which is maybe a good thing. Happy that we have a panel consisting of two distinctive journalists who have following the campaign and the election in kenya and going to introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy and im atenior advisor for africa ces i. S. I was ambassador in nairobi and i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in naomi in nairobi prior to this weeks election. I want to start with a few remarks to frame the discussion and then turn to our guests. You in this room know, last week, some 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect a president not to elect members of parliament, to elect and aors to 49 counties number of other office holders. By any standard and certainly by african standards, this was a onlykable event, if because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by because ofandidates, the passionat
Welcome to our kenyan election review. We did a kenyan election preview. I am not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass which is maybe a good thing. I will introduce, very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign in kenya and i will introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy, Senior Advisor for africa at csi us, ambassador in nairobi, i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in nairobi prior to this year at the election. I want to start with a few opening remarks to frame this mornings discussion and turn to our guests. As all of you in this room know, last week 15 million canyons went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard and certainly by african standards this was a remarkable event. If only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by dif
The continued building of our virginia class at the rate of two a year at some point will child finally with the ohio replacement program. In my view, we need to continue building those two virginia class submarines every year. The New York Times story thats been mentioned to you in the course of this morning is only the latest evidence of the increased emphasize of our adversaries on undersea warfare capability, not just the russians but the chinese. I think in the course of that, article 1 of the comment from one of our military leaders was we are back to in a sense the cold war competition undersea. I would like to know your views and, general richardson, if you want to comment, youre welcome to, whether this program continuing our building of two virginia class submarines every year with the ohio replacement are important, in fact, vital to our national defense. Yes, senator. I defer the numbers et cetera to the services responsible for that. But i can say personally i think we hav
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