A weak economy which is left some saying theyre struggling to meet basic needs the Prime Minister has canceled fridays Cabinet Meeting and is expected to deliver a speech addressing the protests well jamal horseman is a journalist and former and its english she says the protests are a result of something that she was born in over. The timing of these measures and these new taxation methods that have been implemented couldnt have been at the worst time for the government and they were it was very audacious of them to bring this up the day after massive forest fires were destroying big swaths of land in the country and the whole people were feeling that the government was negligent and led to this and then the next day they come and lay these taxes on them so it was. Just this accumulation of things and and also we have to look back at the Prime Minister a couple of weeks ago having a big controversy with spending 16000000 dollars on this sub mysterious. Model while he fired all his staf
Football do you think you a fan have to take time to collect all the facts and then just sell it how to act or print. And a deal to stop the u. K. From crashing out of the European Union could now be in reach talks are underway in brussels at this very hour but time is running out. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome tonight the United States is trying diplomacy hoping to broker a ceasefire in Northern Syria between turkey and the kurds u. S. Vice president mike pence and u. S. Secretary of state mike pump aoe head to turkey on wednesday the u. S. Has already slapped economic sanctions on turkey for the assault on the kurds but the decision by. U. S. President trying to withdraw military forces from syria that decision has left a vacuum Syrian Government forces have moved into the area as part of their deal with the kurds to thwart the turkish led assault and syrias ally russia is also moving to fill the void that was left by th
In washington really thinks that erdogan was going to go put it on harms way american troops which had been keeping their presence there very small contingent had been keeping this from happening so the president obviously feeling defensive but you just saw him there and over the last couple of days hes been trying to create this narrative and he came out he said with the cease fire pause he said its a great day for civilization i solved it sounded as if he thought he had solved the conflict between the turks between turkey and the kurds obviously thats not what this does and weve seen a lot of criticism people coming out and saying what the president did twice now is he told to turkey to involve it to go after the kurds and theyre saying that was a slap in the face of the kurds and theyre saying that he did it again with this agreement to the cease fire basically giving turkey everything they want so a couple of things in that brief roundtable with the media i think its important to p
Racicist chants. Probably one of the most appalling that cytosine and foototball. A deal to stop the u. K. From crashing out of the eu could now be in reach. Talks are underway in brussels. Time is running out. Brent welcome to our viewers. Tonight, the United States is trying diplomacy hoping to broker a ceasefire in Northern Syria between turkey and the kurds. Mike pence and mike pompeo had to turkey on wednesday. The u. S. Has already slapped economic sanctions on turkey for the assault on the kurds. The decision by President Trump to withdraw military forces from syria, that decision has left a vacuum. Syrian Government Forces have moved into the area as are their deal to thwart the turkish led assault. It syrias ally, russia is also moving to fill the void that was left by those departing u. S. Troops. The syrian town pounded by turkish artillery across the border. A week into tururkeys offensiv, fighting still rages. Turkish babaed syriann malicious are attacking kurdish fighters
Have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then were going to go to two colleag