Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. Before i begin my remarks, i would just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing, with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way, and they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen, president of the brookings institution. We are very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. We are very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. He is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the Defense Department and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate and after
Africas largest lake is drying up threatening to devastate entire communities by generations to come. But a protest leaders in hong kong say 800000 people turned out for a mass march through the city on sunday theyre demanding greater protection of their democratic freedoms and human rights it is the culmination of 6 months of protests even though police approved the event they warned they would not tolerate a repeat of recent violent protests earlier they said they confiscated a handgun and ammunition in raids that resulted in several Arrests Police say the weapon would have been used in their words to create chaos during the rally way jim brown is live for us in hong kong so adrian we saw some impressive numbers of people out there earlier but apart from removing that controversial extradition bill which was kicked off these protests what what have the demonstrators achieved up to this point over the 6 months. Well i think possibly theyve achieved quite a lot they did manage to get t
That Coalition Says it will allow some flights out of some airport people who need medical treatment. And mexico demands urgent talks after President Trump says hes working to designate mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. With sport ill have the very latest for Wednesdays Champions League plus. Another upset at the top here in doha qatar saudi arabia are beaten by kuwait a team runs 87 points. And hes 19 people have been killed in a brutal rebel attack in the volatile eastern democratic republic of congo is amid growing anger at u. N. Peacekeepers for failing to protect civilians allied to Democratic Forces are believed to have carried out the door attack on a village near the city of theyve been blamed for. String of recent massacres around benny which sparked days of violent protests against the un and the army the un now says one of its peacekeepers killed one of the 6 protesters in recent days from Goma Catherine sori reports another tense day. There barrymore he door body of
A majority when are. You watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program now 1st we start with several countries speaking out against the resignation of bolivian president evo morales denouncing the event as a coup among them argentina cuba mexico venezuela and russia the bolivian opposition claims the police are currently seeking to detain morale us but the chief of Police Denies there is a warrant for his arrest. I do know from of the world in the bolivian people that a Police Official publicly said he was instructed to execute an illegal arrest warrant against me in addition violent groups assaulted my home this coup destroys the rule of law. These pictures youre seeing now purportedly show my office house which was vandalized his resignation falls and weeks of violent protests and pressure from the army to quit. Were now joined in the studio by our 2 thinkers donna for the details so lets begin at the beginning how di
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