Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
All the sport john watson. Things are changing, it will get nervous waits for bolton and bury as cooler for the rest of the week and they try to secure deals by five it will get thundery. We will take a oclock tonight to secure their look at some lively storms further afield. Futures. Thanksjohn. Thanks susan. And susan powell has also coming up the two teenage sisters who rescued a man and a toddler all the weather susan. From drowning off the aberdeenshire coast with the help of a lilo. Things are going bump in the night we did notice that they started tonight, some thunderstorms and the going out deeper and then the man way as we lose our heat. We will started shouting for help as he was taking his breaths, look at storms in europe as well. He was up on top of the water. And then we realised also coming up the two teenage sisters he was in actual trouble. Who rescued a man and a toddler from drowning off the aberdeenshire coast with the help of a lilo. They started going out deeper
I am christian, i have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric artisan from George Washington university. I am delighted to see so many of you here. On this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today. So those welcome to all of those who are viewing at home i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar, and upcoming speakers, both the National History center, and the Wilson Center website, they have information on the theories. Washington history seminar of course, for those of you who are regulars are collaborative effort of two organizations the wilson history policy program and the National History center of the american historical associations, directed by professor kennedy who joins us here as well. We are currently in our ninth year, of holding the sessions, they run weekly during the seminar. We would like to tank our sponsors, the Lepage Center for history in the public interest. And George Washington universitys history
Situation in the gulf and how to ensure safe passage for ships off the coast of yemen and iran let me just emphasize that we dont believe war with iran is inevitable and we dont seek war with iran. What we seek is to terrorism from destabilizing and malign activities across the region and we believe the recent adjustments that weve made to our force posture have had some effect toward that end i still acknowledge that attacks by iranian proxies are occurring against the kingdom of saudi arabia from yemen and thats a problem that needs to be addressed. Well the United Nations has called outside the arabia and the United Arab Emirates for failing to honor their aid pledges to yemen both countries promised to give 750000000. 00 of humanitarian assistance at the u. N. A fundraiser in february but the u. N. Aid chief says only a small proportion of the money has been handed over in the past 6 months saudi arabia has given just over 120000000. 00 while the u. A. E. Paid nearly 200000000. 00
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