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
Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. There is breaking news out of texas this evening. Where a judge has ordered a hospital to remove life support from a brain dead woman. The hospital had refused because Marlise Munoz is pregnant. Anna werner is at the courthouse in fort worth for us this evening. Anna . Reporter scott, the state judge ruled the breathing st be turned off no later than monday afternoon. Family attorney heather king said this shortly after the ruling. This is the decision we sought. Theres nothing happy about today. This was a sad situation all the way around. We are relieved that eric munoz can now move forward with the process of burying his wife. Reporter Marlise Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when her husband eric found her unconscious in their kitchen on november 26. Two days later, the 33yearold was declared brain dead by doctors at John Peter Smith hospital. Her family wanted to disconnect the breathing machine, but the hospital refused citing a 1999 s
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