The World Health Organization has predicted that the ebola virus will infect 20,000 people in west afterwhat by november afterwhat by November Africa by november. The president of liberia spoke about whats being done to fight the disease in her country where an estimated 1500 people have died. She spoke by internet at a Georgetown University conference on ebola. After her remarks, a Panel Discussed the diseases Economic Impact in the african countries affected. Morning, everybody. [inaudible] director of the program here at georgetown and a longtime economic adviser to president sir i have sir leaf and others in the government of liberia, and i think we are ready to go. I know we have a connection. There we are. Good afternoon, madam president. Thank you very much for taking the time to be with us here this morning in georgetown. We have a crowd of a couple of hundred people here that are very appreciative of you taking the time to join us today. So, first, i just want to thank you for
Well, i think the court by citing loving in windsor thinks that there is not much difference between marriage by a samesex couple and marriage by an interracial couple. They didnt decide the case but they cited it. The trend is certainly in that direction. I think the court its different from saying what loving stands for. Isnt the answer to my question about what happened in 1968 pretty obvious because we have baker in 1973. I think that lawrence, excuse me, that Justice Kennedy tells us something about how the court may be viewing these cases. I think what he is saying and i think you see it in lawrence and you see it in windsor. The court is saying that back decades ago, certain practices were accepted. Now we understand more about these things and we now understand that these are now going to be framed as discriminatory. We didnt know anything about samesex couples back at the at the time of loving. These were hiding because their conduct was criminalized. I think to say that this
Part. People across this house have been saying its got to be done in the neighborhood, weve got to engage the region. If we say im sorry, this has nothing to do with us, were not going to intervene, it surely means we have less moral authority to say we want you to play your part as well. Finally mr. Speaker, we should pride ourselves on our traditions of internationalism because that is when britain is at its best. Being internationalists and not withdrawing from the concerns of the world. Mr. Speakerer, i want to Say Something about the underlying reasons for wariness and i think we should confront it directly. That is the 2003 war in iraq. I understand why some who are in this house at the time will wonder if this is a repeat of that experience. In my view it is not and it is worth setting out why. First, as the Prime Minister said, this case is about supporting a democratic say the. It is not about overturning an existing regime and seeking to build a new one from the rubble, much
Hearings, there are many experts who would contend the complexity of the geopolitics that led to the u. S. Retreat from europe created an opening for putin and the ukraine. Clearly we must closely coordinate with our european friends for the sanctions against russia to work but i think without any doubt we can all agree on one point and that is that the United States must take the lead. I believe the administration the legislation passed with unanimous consent in both houses of congress. It authorized the president to provide much needed military and humanitarian aid to ukraine and imposes additional sanctions against russia. This legislation was necessary in december. And it is certainly necessary today. Now, we all want a diplomatic solution. But this can only come about when at the cost of continuing to ravage ukraine is simply too high. Providing nonlethal equipment like night vision goggles is all well and good. Giving ukrainians the ability to see russians coming, but not the wea
At peace. Which is why all of the things that were talking about here, whether it is allied reassurance and making sure that where we do have treaty commitments, which is to the nato allies, that every millimeter of space is defended, but also to help strengthen and provide more resilience, Political Security and economic to all of the countries in the periphery. Earlier in Vladimir Putins aggression against ukraine i heard a number of Administration Officials saying we were trying to offer an offramp to Vladimir Putin. Does anybody on the panel here believe that Vladimir Putin is looking for an offramp . Hes simply looking for on ramps strategically pausing and looking for the next on ramp. Anybody want to dispute that . I didnt think i dont know they would call it an offramp. I think there was a point early in the crisis where he arguably was. I think as admiral pandolfe said hes trying to keep ukraine out of the west and keep it in a destabilized situation. Whether he seeks to go fu