President Vladimir Putin and chinese president xi jinping highlights the rising tensions over russia and its war in ukraine at this years gathering. Both leaders sent their Foreign Ministers in their place. It marks first time xi has skipped the gathering. The event will highlight india Prime Minister Narendra Modis attempt as host to promote the country as a major global power and himself as dominant world leader ahead of a crucial election next year. Were looking at why the 620 gathering is so important, and how the decisions made in delhi this weekend can impact you and the rest of the world. But first, what is the 620 . The group of 20 is a block of the worlds 20 largest the group of 20 is a bloc of the worlds 20 largest economies that was formed two years after the 1997 Asian Financial crisis in response to thailand devaluing its currency and the resulting deep recession in much of east asia. Originally, the 620 was a forum for the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to d
And heres president Tayyip Erdogan of turkey arriving just a short time ago. But the absence of both russian president Vladimir Putin and chinese president xi jinping highlights the rising tensions over russia and its war in ukraine at this years gathering. Both leaders sent their Foreign Ministers in their place. Its the first time xi has missed the gathering. The event will highlight india Prime Minister Narendra Modis attempt as host to promote the country as a major global power, and himself as dominant world leader ahead of a crucial election next year. Were looking at why the 620 gathering is so important and how the decisions made in delhi this weekend can impact you and the rest of the world. But first, what is the 620 . The group of 20 is a bloc of the worlds 20 largest economies that was formed two years after the 1997 Asian Financial crisis in response to thailand devaluing its currency and the resulting deep recession in much of east asia. Originally, the 620 was a forum fo
We will make it through and stand together and be united. Host of course. Thank you for your time, congresswoman. A forum on us transit atlantic relations as european Foreign Policy experts talk about europes approach to russian aggression, trade, immigration and relations with the United States on these topics. The Brookings Institution is the host of this event. Thank you for joining us here. My name is bruce jones, Vice President of the Foreign Policy here at brookings and my pleasure to welcome you here today for todays event hosted by the Brookings Center on the United States and europe in collaboration with the robert. [inaudible] this event is part of our expanding partnership. This is a multi Year Research program and platform that will spur a range of new activities that will spur on debate not only on the relationships but on global issues the transatlantic partners can touch together and work on together. We are very grateful to bosch for the support of this initiative and w
Aircraft carrier vincent which is in striking range of north korea. Alex ortiz for cbs news, the united nations. And tillerson says the United States has given 1. 3 billion in aid to north korea and he says the u. S. Is willing to resume that aid once kim jongun begins to dismantle that nuclear program. On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Trump touched base with some of his most loyal supporters. He went to atlanta to speak at the annual convention of the National Rifle association. He declared an end to what he called an eightyear assault on the Second Amendment under president obama. You have a true friend and champion in the white house, no longer will federal agencies be coming after law abiding gun owners. As your president , i will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. A sitting president has spoken at an annual nra meeting since Ronald Reagan did it back 1983. Before he left for atlanta, the president signed another executive order,
Change. There is a difference between being out of the seat and in the seat. Take care. [inaudible] like i said, we are about to see a collapse in syria, iraq is falling apart. That is where we need to focus our intelligence efforts. [inaudible] groundskeeper, i think, at the white house. Carson . What are you meeting about today . Hello, how are you . I am well. We had a very productive meeting. He has really cool stuff in his office. All of these athletes who have given him this memorabilia. I guess it takes a champion to know what champion. We got down to more Serious Business and we spent time talking about china. A rising adversary. We talked about hacking. We talked about the opportunity the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset americas role in the world and how we are perceived in the world and i think it is why he is getting such fantastic people in his administration. The high quality